James Caughlin The AFC West is never a dull division with something strange always happening. Each team is constantly surrounded by some sort of drama be it a position battle, off field drama, crazy coaching or insane ownership, this division provides fans with something to talk about. This year they are set to play the [...]
Archive for August, 2011
CFB’s 2011 Dirty Dozen Preview Part 12: Season Predictions Part 1
Its now only days away until the first Saturday in the College Football season kicks off and we’re set to begin 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 dominance of transfer QB [...]
Hold Your Breath, Pittsburgh. How Long Will Crosby Be Out?
Everyone knew that Sidney Crosby’s concussion was serious. And with the new awareness of concussions in the sports world, Crosby and the Penguins were doing the right thing and taking things slowly. It seemed as though Crosby was progressing along well, but maybe that’s because people were taking the “no news is good news” approach. [...]
It Can Only Get Better Right? The NFC West in 2011
James Caughlin The NFC West made history in 2010, just not for the right reasons, it was the first time a team clinched a playoff berth, won a division title and won a playoff game with a sub-.500 record. That team was the Seattle Seahawks in coach Pete Carroll’s first season at the helm, sure [...]
The Top 5 SGs in the NBA
By Cole Zwicker and Jason Glover What we have here is the unofficial Top 5 list for the NBA’s shooting guard position. These rankings are not for life time achievement and they certainly are not a prediction of the future, rather we are ranking the top five shooting guards in the NBA based on the [...]
US Open Draw Analysis
Well, for the fourth straight Grand Slam this year, Federer and Djokovic are on the same side of the draw. There are always complaints about draw fixing, and the seemingly too-high percentage of times that Federer and Nadal are on different sides of the draw after they were no longer #s 1 and 2 in [...]
Fantasy Football: Board of 200
Binyamin Zomberg Continuing our two week long fantasy football fest is our Board of 200. Post below how off/delusional I might be, and I’ll enjoy responding to your comments. This list will be updated once before kickoff and every other week during the regular season. Until then, Happy Ranking! Board Of 200 Rankings (NOTE: The [...]
Fantasy Football Introduction
Binyamin Zomberg ‘This is my moment‘– the moment we’ve all been waiting for. The National Football League owners ended their lockout ceremoniously several weeks ago, and America’s #1 sport seems to have improbably become more popular. Every time I turn on the television, commercials about how “Football is Back” fill the advertising space. Heck, free [...]
US Open Preview: Favorites, Dark Horses, and Bad Bets
Well, the story of the 2011 season so far, on both hard courts and everywhere, has been the utter domination by Novak Djokovic. Djokovic is close to on pace to eclipse John McEnroe’s 1984 82-3 season. He probably won’t play enough to equal Federer’s 95 wins in 2006, but should be well ahead of that [...]
Moving on from 2010: The AFC North
James Caughlin Let’s be honest, there’s a lot of talent in this division and it looks like overall it will be stronger this year. The Steelers and Ravens represent the class of the division while the Cleveland Browns can only get better and the Bengals can’t get any worse. Pittsburgh Steelers 2010: 12-4, AFC North [...]
