For some fantasy baseball players, it’s really simple. You can’t ever give up on a first round pick such as Hanley Ramirez or Albert Pujols without the player suffering a substantial injury, and you can easily jettison fliers who haven’t panned out. What separates an average owner from a consistent winner is the ability to [...]
Archive for May, 2011
NHL Conference Finals Predictions
I’m a day late, I know. Thanks to Bryan to posting his thoughts yesterday to cover me, but I’ll get mine up here now. For the record, I did comment on Bryan’s post before the Bruins/Lightning with my predictions for the series, but I’ll give my reasoning here.Eastern Conference Final: 3 Boston Bruins versus 5 [...]
French Open Preview: Favorites, Dark Horses, and Bad Bets
Yeshayahu Ginsburg The 2011 French Open is just one short week away and we are going to gear up by looking at the players who think will go far and those who are expected to go far but won’t. Rafael Nadal has won five of the last six French Opens, with Roger Federer taking the [...]
NBA Eastern Conference Finals Preview: Chicago vs. Miami
The Eastern Conference Finals are set and the top two seeds will square off for the right to play for the NBA Finals. The Chicago Bulls will look to continue their unexpected ride from this offseason to the #1 seed while Miami is merely doing what they were not only expected, but supposedly destined to [...]
NHL Conference Finals Preview
With the dropping of the puck in Boston tonight, the conference finals will start in the NHL playoffs and with our NHL writer perhaps on sabbatical, I know all you passionate NHL readers out there would be irate at the thought of no conference finals coverage before the series starts. In the East, the 3rd-seeded [...]
Lleyton Hewitt: Respecting a Great Career
Yeshayahu Ginsburg Lleyton Hewitt surged into the tennis spotlight in 1998 when, ranked #550 in the world and not even seventeen years old yet, he won an ATP World Tour tournament in Adelaide. From there, his career took off. Hewitt is a 2-time Grand Slam champion, winning the 2001 US Open and Wimbledon in 2002. [...]
The Top Ten and Topics That Trend
THE TOP TEN 1. Philadelphia Phillies (23-12) – The Phillies continue to prove strong starting pitching is enough to compete in this league, at least for now. They need to get healthy offensively and fast. Last night, Roy Halladay allowed six hits and two runs and lost to Josh Johnson and the Marlins. The Phillies [...]
Premier League: All Time Champs
While Tottenham continues to choke away their chances at European football and the bottom feeders of the Premier League refuse to get out of the relegation zone; Manchester United, and this hurts me to say, showed total class in what it takes to become true champions. Under the pressures of European competition and having a [...]
James’s First (Hopefully) Annual NFL Draft Awards
James Caughlin With the 2011 NFL Draft in the books, I thought I would compliment Seth’s recap last week by handing out my awards for the year. They are split into two categories, team and individual and they all fit into a specific genre from there. As it is the first year of these awards [...]
Is Ferrer Finally Ready to Challenge Nadal at the French?
Yeshayahu Ginsburg If we had to choose one player who looks better on clay than anyone else right now (except Rafa, obviously) it would have to be Nadal’s fellow Spaniard David Ferrer. Ferrer has at times been a top 10 player in the past and has not been outside of the top 20 since 2005. [...]
