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Your Complete 2010 FBS prediction
The start of college football season is just a few days away. Everybody wants to be the best, but when it ends in December (for all practical purposes), we won’t know who is the best...
Written by Rodd Cayton about over 2 years ago 176 reads 6 comments
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Blueprint For a Better NBA
Blueprint For a Better NBA While we're waiting for the NBA Finals to continue, I'd like to make a few suggestions that would make the game more entertaining, and would awaken all the dormant ABA fans who aren't into "tame" basketball...
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2010 FIFA World Cup Predictions: World Cup's a Tossup, But Here's a Guess
It's the world's most popular sport, and this is the time when TVs from the North Pole to the South Pole are turned to the same program. That's the World Cup, and in America that means casual fans start paying attention to real football...
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The NBA Finals Will Be Classic
Here we go again. The Los Angeles Lakers and the Boston Celtics will scrap for the NBA championship. The Boston fans are excited about it, because they view the Larry O'Brien Trophy as their birthright...
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SB VL Prediction Calls For Second Mardi Gras
Usually, my first prediction for the upcoming NFL season is made in April, but this year, the schedule was released later than usual, meaning my “April prediction” is now ...
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Draft Analysis: LeFevour Overlooked, Tebow a Reach
Dan LeFevour had better work hard to back me up. Before the NFL Draft, I had the former Central Michigan star pegged as a first-round pick, and the third quarterback taken...
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Rams Hoping To Strike QB Gold In Draft
The NFL, that bastion of sameness, is trying something new by moving the start of its annual player draft from Saturday midday (Eastern) to Thursday night this year. The St. Louis rams would like new results, such as not picking first in 2011...
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Celebs and Power Brokers to Have Best Seats For Cup Finals
It's spring, and that can mean several things, but the most pertinent on this day is figuring out who's best at the number-one winter team sport. The National Hockey league plans to inscribe a new name on the Stanley Cup, and somebody's gotta win it...
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Anyone But Connecticut Is an Upset In Women's Tourney
Ladies First? Not when it comes to NCAA Division I basketball. The men's bracket was announced Sunday, while the women's pairings came out a day later...
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You'll be mad if you hate classic Final Four matchups
It's March and I'm mad ... About the possibilities when it comes to the Men's NCAA Division I basketball tourney. There are 64 squads with dreams -- some realistic, some not -- of cutting down nets in Indianapolis three weekends hence...
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Some Need To Wear White After Labor Day
I’m in a mood to start some stuff. College football has a lot of great traditions, and some pretty dumb ones. The NCAA’s Rule 1-4, Article 3 basically says the home team wears dark jerseys, the visitors white...
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Predicted Super Bowl Matchup Ain't Bad
To understand the future, one must understand the past. With that in mind, I now revisit my September prediction of how the NFL season would pan out. I picked eight of the 12 playoff teams, but didn’t get a single seeding right...
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Which Governor Will Hoist the Lombardi?
In April, right after the 2009 NFL schedule was released, I looked it over, predicted the winner of all 256 regular-season games, and came to the conclusion that the New England Patriots would defeat the New york Giants in Super Bowl XLIV...
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D-1 Crystal Ball Doesn't See a Champion
The Florida Gators will not win the national championship in football this year. Nor will the Texas Longhorns. Or the USC Trojans. Or the unbeaten Penn State Nittany Lions. It'll be up to the writers to stop the "Curse of Joe Paterno...
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NBA Should Bring Back Draft Lottery Drama
The Los Angeles Clippers have the first pick in the upcoming NBA Draft. Not that they haven't earned it, but hearing about it afterward sort of takes away some of the potential excitement of the moment...
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Draft Recap: Why Al Davis Will Get a Christmas Card From Across The Bay
I blame it all on Tyson Jackson. The soon-to-be-hyperwealthy erstwhile LSU Defensive end grabbed the attention of the Kansas City Chiefs Saturday, thoroughly messing up my mock draft...
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NFL Mock Draft: Earmuffs For Stafford, a Raincoat For Sanchez
The NFL Draft is the day that hope triumphs over reality. The league's worst teams start the rebuilding process, hoping to pick up superstars who'll take them places...
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Here's Who Not to Pick for Super Bowl XLIV
It's never too early, as far as I'm concerned, to talk football. I mean, NFL football. While just about everyone else is thinking about the draft, I've decided to tackle something else first—my April prediction...
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Cavs Will Be East Champs
This is when basketball season gets interesting. In the NBA, most teams make the playoffs, and then there are the Clippers.The Cleveland Cavaliers went 66-16 during the regular season, clinching home court advantage for as long as they remain alive...
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Is Byron Leftwich the Answer in Tampa Bay?
There's a question every National Football League coach, owner, and general manager needs to ask himself about this time every year. "Do we have a Super Bowl quarterback?" If the answer is "yes," concern yourself with other matters...
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Ice Oracle Predicts NHL Playoff Outcome
The NHL Playoffs, which have less to do with the regular season than the postseason of any other major sport, are upon us.The four-round march to the Stanley Cup boasts several compelling teams, but only one will drink from the valued silver chalice...
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Heart and Head Predict Same Baseball Outcome
Let me start off by saying I'm a New York Yankees fan.Which wouldn't be a problem, if the Yankees were terrible, or if I expected them to be terrible.For the NFL season, I had no problem predicted my Pewter Pirates would go 5-11...
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ESPN Changed Sports Media, For Good Or Ill
ESPN: Can't live with it; can't live without it. From the late 70s until my family finally got cable in '86, finding out about what happened in sports meant either watching an event and hoping ...
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Sweet 16 Lacks Compelling Entry
Is it just me, or has all the excitement been sucked out of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament?Usually, there's at least one interesting underdog in the Sweet 16, like a Davidson ...
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Time To Rewrite NCAA Tourney Rules
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