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Jackson Free Press Pro Football Pick-Em Challenge: My Week 1 NFL Picks
The first week of the Jackson Free Press Pro Football Pick-Em game is this week. Instead of a deeply involved/time consuming league like fantasy football, pick-em is just as it sounds...
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NFL Predictions 2011: New Orleans Saints Preview and Prediction
he last time we saw the New Orleans Saints play in a meaningful NFL game it was at Seattle on Wild Card weekend of the NFL Playoffs. New Orleans was the defending Super Bowl champions and got sent out of the playoffs against a 7-9 football team...
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2011 Big East Football Preview and Prediction
As discussed in the ACC Atlantic and Coastal preview and prediction, the Big East gets banged on nationally for being a weak conference. A look at the numbers shows that is not totally true...
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2011 Big-12 Preview and Prediction (possibly the Last One Ever)
Last summer it looked like the Big 12 would fall apart and there wouldn’t even be a 2011 Big 12 preview and prediction. The whole Big 12 hinged on what the Texas Longhorns would do...
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2011 ACC Coastal Division Preview and Prediction
JFP Sports has already discussed the ACC Atlantic division . Now it is time to move on to the Coastal division...
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2011 ACC Atlantic Division Preview and Prediction
Everyone loves to bang on the Big East as a conference. Not that they shouldn't bang on the Big East but when it comes BCS games there is a conference worse than the Big East...
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Women's World Cup 2011: US Women on the Verge of Ending a 12-Year Drought
Twelve years. It has been 12 years since over 90,000 people filled the Rose Bowl in Pasadena to watch an epic battle between the United States and China...
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Coaches on The Hot Seat in College Football in 2010
September 2 marks the start of the 2010 college football season and, as always, there are plenty reasons to be excited. The usual suspects will be in the national championship race this season...
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Is Jeremiah Masoli Taking His Talents To Oxford a Good Or Bad Thing?
This college football offseason has been wild. Since Alabama won the National Championship, headlines over conference expansion and the role of agents have been on the forefront...
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2010 College Football Pre-Season Top 25
It seems that the start of the 2010 college football season is just around the corner. As all the conference media days wrap up, thoughts turn toward two things: the start of practice and who will be in the opening top 25 poll...
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2010 College Football Heisman Contenders, Part Three: Pac-10 and SEC
The start of college football is right around the corner. The countdown to kickoff begins with the SEC media days in Hoover, Alabama. The football media has now turned its attention to the other BCS conferences...
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Who Is To Blame in College Football, the Agents or the Athletes?
(Special shout-out to my good friend and college roommate Brian McFarland, who informed me student researchers do not get paid for their work) The discussion of agents in college ...
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2010 College Football Heisman Contenders, Part Two: Big Ten and Big East
The start of college football is right around the corner. The countdown to kickoff begins with the SEC media days in Hoover, Alabama...
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2010 College Football Heisman Contenders, Part One: ACC and Big-12
The start of college football is right around the corner. The countdown to kickoff begins with the SEC's media days in Hoover, Alabama. It is time to start discussing players to watch for the Heisman Trophy...
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Making the Case for an NFL Team To Sign Terrell Owens
Normally, I do not do this, but as the opening of NFL training camps approaches and fans are looking for players that can help their team, I decided this might change some minds...
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Floyd Mayweather Jr. Plays Chicken and Ducks Manny Pacquiao
The sport of boxing better be ready for some fowl language. As of July 17, boxing’s golden goose, Floyd Mayweather Jr. has decided to play chicken and duck Manny Pacquiao...
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George Steinbrenner Passes Away At 80 But Leaves A Lasting Legacy In MLB
In the same week, the New York Yankees have suffered two heart breaking losses. The first to pass away was long time public address announcer Bob Sheppard, at 99 years old...
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Despicable Me: The LeBron James Story Just Will Not Die
I know writing this will lead to some backlash, but I do not perceive a player leaving and an angry owner and fans to be a race issue. The hoopla surrounding Lebron James is a story that just won’t go away...
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After "The Decision", ESPN Spends the Next Day Defending LeBron James
It is nearly noon in the central time zone of the United States and one thing is clear. ESPN, after their show with LeBron James, is doing everything they can to defend him...
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LeBron James Choses Miami, Now The Anti-LeBron Backlash Begins
LeBron James has made his decision and he chose the Miami Heat. Now in earnest the LeBron backlash can begin. In the history of sports perhaps no athlete has destroyed their image in just eight days, barring being arrested...
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Netherlands-Spain: 2010 FIFA World Cup Final Preview and Prediction
How fitting is the 2010 FIFA World Cup Final? Here is a look at just some of the firsts in this 2010 World Cup: France and Italy are the first finalist from a previous World Cup to ...
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Remembering Steve McNair; One Year After His Death
As sports fans, we never truly know our heroes. Even when we get to meet them off the field, we never truly get a chance to meet the real them...
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The Final Eight Battle For The Title In The 2010 FIFA World Cup
ro Thirty-two teams traveled to South Africa with one goal. That goal was winning the 2010 FIFA World Cup. For twenty-four of those teams the dream is dead but eight teams are still alive to host the trophy on July 11th ...
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2010 NBA Free Agency: The Summer Of LeBron—Preview and Predictions
After all the speculation and hype, at 12:01 ET the much heralded 2010 NBA free agent period begins. The best free agent class in NBA history and perhaps the best free agent class in any sport, can begin talking to teams...
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2014 in Brazil More Important For U.S. Soccer After 2010 World Cup Success
Nearly everyone seems to be patting the United States Men’s National Soccer team on the back after their run to the knockout stage in South Africa. After their flop in Germany four year earlier this might seem the right thing to do...
