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For Wilfork and Mayo, 2012 May Be Their Best Year Yet

By ⋅ December 13, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

The Houston game on Monday night was, in a way, a coming out party for the Patriots defense. Facing their toughest offense since Peyton Manning came to town, the defense looked aggressive, energetic, and eager to prove they could hold anyone – even the #2 ranked offense in the NFL – down when they play [...]

Jerod Mayo’s Tackling Anchors Patriots Defense

By ⋅ December 3, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

If you can only do one thing in the NFL, make sure you do it fantastically. Chicago’s Devin Hester is almost exclusively a punt-returner, but he’s the best punt-returner there’s ever been. Dallas’ Dan Bailey is just a place-kicker, but he’s only missed once in a season in which seven of the Cowboys’ 11 games [...]

Fantasy Sports: I Don’t Get It!

By ⋅ March 2, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments

I love watching sports. Baseball, basketball, football, hockey, definitely. I love pro and college sports. I also like more archaic sports, such as beach or indoor volleyball. I’ll watch certain kinds of combat sports, such as the World Combat League on Vs., and I’ve even been known to watch a horse race or two. I [...]

Defending the Fans After NBA All-Star Game Vote

By ⋅ January 29, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

To the outsider, there are several oddities to this year’s NBA All-Star Game. Most notably: Kevin Garnett and Allen Iverson as starters. There are certainly some decent arguments against their selections. The most obvious one is that both players have missed significant playing time due either to injury (Garnett) or not actually being a starter [...]

Favre Returns to the NFL…Again

By ⋅ August 20, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

Brett Favre announced on Tuesday that he would be returning to the NFL, signing a $25 million, two-year contract with the Minnesota Vikings. After last season, he announced that he would retire from the NFL in February, but he obviously cannot stay away from either the lure of football or money. At this point in [...]

Female Sox “Fans” Need to Know Their Place

By ⋅ April 14, 2009 ⋅ 14 comments

Uh-oh! Hot button topic on the horizon! Let the record show that I am not aiming this rant at every female Red Sox fan. The demographic that I am taking a no holds barred, blatant shot at are the females who root for the Red Sox, but are not full-blooded fans. Yes, you may have [...]

Should There Be a DH in the NL?

By ⋅ March 23, 2009 ⋅ 3 comments

In January, World Series hero Pat Burrell left the National League to sign with the Tampa Bay Rays of the American League to be their everyday designated hitter. At 32, Pat Burrell still presents a power threat in any lineup, but his defense in left field has grown suspect in recent years. In 2008, for [...]

A Letter to Matt Millen

By ⋅ January 5, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Dear Matt, I am writing to you because you have managed to do something remarkable. You took a once semi-proud franchise and ran them into the ground. You took an enthusiastic fan base and made them more concerned about the Pistons and Red Wings than the Lions, in a country where that is very hard [...]

How the Red Sox Handled Manny Ramirez

By ⋅ November 24, 2008 ⋅ One comment

There never ceases to be drama around Manny Ramirez. The newest revelation is that after Manny refused to play two games, the Boston Red Sox had drafted up and submitted an official letter of intent to suspend Ramirez. We already knew of the displeasure that had been in the organization because Manny refused to play [...]

Yankees, Mets Quiet in October

By ⋅ October 6, 2008 ⋅ One comment

This year has provided a rare occurrence for New York: both baseball teams did not make the playoffs. Now, despite the recent increased competitiveness of the Mets, their fans are more used to failure than Yankees fans are. So for their fans, switching focus to something else in October or watching the Yankees would not [...]

Ed Hochuli Mistake: No Cause for Concern

By ⋅ September 23, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

Ed Hochuli made a pretty big mistake in Week 2, one that might’ve cost the San Diego Chargers their first win on the season. For those who don’t know what I’m referring to, in the San Diego-Denver Week 2 game, Denver was on offense and Jay Cutler received the snap, went to throw the football [...]

Was the Hit on Tom Brady Dirty?

By ⋅ September 15, 2008 ⋅ 4 comments

Because the Boston sports messiah went down to a major knee injury from a hit from the opposing team, we have had a silly question proposed. We already know the NFL ruled the hit legal, which is a ruling I agree with. But was Bernard Pollard’s intent to injure Tom Brady. In my opinion, if [...]

Will the Yankees Make the Playoffs?

By ⋅ September 1, 2008 ⋅ One comment

What are you talking about? You must be kidding me. We know the team is going to go 24-2 in the last month of the season. Cano’s going to hit .700, Pavano’s going to start 20 games during the month and win 19 of them (and then explode in the 20th, we all know he’s [...]

Spygate and BALCO Case Are Similar

By ⋅ June 17, 2008 ⋅ One comment

I know this commentary on the topic is much behind the time, but it’s still important to note the similarities in how sportscasters and the general populace have reacted. Spygate, BALCO and the Tim Donaghy betting scandal all have a lot of similarities with a league having loose regulations to the point that people took [...]

MLB: Speeding Up Games, Good or Bad?

By ⋅ June 8, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

In late May, Major League Baseball asked its teams to reinforce rules that pertain to speeding up the games. A nine-inning game in 2008 is averaging 2 hours, 51 minutes, 42 seconds. Just five years ago, games were 5 1/2 minutes shorter than they are today. Many people view longer games as a growing epidemic [...]

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