With the NBA lockout in full swing it gives me some time to debate a few things about the game. I thought it would be a good time to start a series of articles on a subject that can sometimes stir up a bit of trouble. That is, ranking recently retired players, or soon to [...]
Archive for July, 2011
CFB’s 2011 Dirty Dozen Preview Part 9: Ranking the Conferences
Its now only 39 days until the first Saturday in the College Football season kicks off, but its never to early to start looking forward to what should be, as always, another terrific college football season. Last year saw Auburn come from the depths of nowhere to win the BCS National Championship game, led by [...]
The Best (Remaining) Defensive Free Agents
James Caughlin IT’S FINALLY OVER! The NFL owners and players have agreed to a new CBA that lasts for an unprecedented 10 years without any chance of an opt out clause & I for one could not be happier. As a personal aside however, working off the timelines being thrown out last week I thought [...]
Smart Tennis Scheduling: Not Mardy Fish
Yeshayahu Ginsburg The one aspect of the tennis season that gets less press than it probably should is the schedule. Players complain all the time that the season is too long or that certain events are too close together. Players need time to rest and practice to be able to compete at the highest levels [...]
Four with Air to Let Out, Mailbag
Binyamin Zomberg There would be no Allan Trammell commemorative T-shirt that day. The Detroit icon – he and Whitaker had filled the middle of the infield for 18 years – was retiring at the end of the year, and the family had accordingly planned for a day at the ballpark. But no one had realized [...]
Mike Slive Drops Oversigning Bomb at SEC Media Days
Yeshayahu Ginsburg People across the country have been against the concept of oversigning for half a century now, at least. According to his autobiography, it was one of the reasons that Bobby Dodd pulled Georgia Tech out of the SEC almost 50 years ago. Recently, thanks to web sites like oversigning.com and more national attention [...]
Getting Ready for the NFL! Best Offensive Free Agents Available
James Caughlin After a painful 4 plus months waiting for the damn lockout to be over and done with, it would appear that the owners and players have collectively removed their heads from their rectums and reached the point where the league year will be starting in a week. With that in mind, it’s time [...]
Skybet PDC World Matchplay Darts Day 3 Predictions and Bets
Day 2 of the World Matchplay started off with the same kind of excitement that we had day 1, with Paul Nicholson needing to go to 12-10 to defeat a very game Colin Osbourne, needing 5 or 6 match darts to finally seal the deal. However, after that, it was beatdown city, as Mark Walsh [...]
What is Wrong With Andy Roddick?
Yeshayahu Ginsburg Every tennis fan, even those who only marginally follow the sport during the Slam seasons, has to have noticed Andy Roddick’s decline by now. He has been the face of American tennis for so long and would most likely have had a career that would put him on the list of all-time greats [...]
Skybet PDC World Matchplay Darts Day 2 Predictions and Bets
Well, it was one hell of an opening day of the Skybet World Matchplay, if not a profitable one for myself. I made a terrible call with Terry Jenkins, who got ran 10-3 and never had a chance, I made a good call with van der Voort, who won 10-7 in a sloppy game that [...]
