The Week in Sports
This is the worst time of the year. Sports wise, not my life. Pitchers and Catchers don’t report for a few more weeks. The Super Bowl is still 2 weeks away. NCAA basketball hasn’t started getting exciting for me yet. College football is done. I haven’t been in favor of a 18 week season in the NFL but maybe it has it’s merits. If they kept 4 preseason games and then added 2 extra weeks at the end it would almost get me by until baseball season. Here’s hoping.
I’m a Tom Brady fan. I’m not ashamed to admit that. It was hard to see him struggle against the Jets. Especially since the Jets had been talking so much smack.
I’m really excited for the Packers to be in the Super Bowl. Not just cause I like watching them but because I’m living in the state as one of the particpiatns. I’ve never gotten to experience this. Unfortantely, I’m stuck on this side of the state. I think the farther west you go in Wisconsin the less die hard the fans are. Too many Vikings fans over here. At least I have my good buddy Ford to hang out with who is a die hard fan. Go Packers.
My Angels lost another one of my favorite players this week. Mike Napoli was traded to the Blue Jays and then a few days later traded to the Rangers. The Rangers of all teams. I loved watching this dude swing the bat. His uppercut, 2 handed swing was like a giant cutting down a huge tree. Mike, you will be missed.
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Bold Prediction of the Week
Celtics will lose to the Blazers on Thursday night
Previous Predictions:
TCU over Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl: Correct
Stanford over UConn women in basketball: Correct
Seahawks over Saints in playoffs: Correct
St. Johns over Syracuse in men’s basketball: Incorrect
Top 5 Players in the Super Bowl
1. Ben Roethlisberger
2. Aaron Rodgers
3. Troy Polamalu
4. James Harrison
5. Clay Matthews
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Life is about Timing
The Week in Sports
I read this week that Marshawn Lynch’s run against the Saints made the ground shake. A seismic monitoring station located about 100 yards west of the stadium registered seismic activity during Lynch's run. That’s was a crazy run with some really bad tackling.
The National Championship game was so boring for the first 3 quarters that I kept thinking, “This can’t be for the National Championship. I know I said it last week but I would love to see TCU play Auburn this week. Even if nothing was on the line I think it would be a great game.
Side note to the game. Raiders. Please draft Casey Matthews, who by the way is my new favorite college football player.
I’m always a little bitter when players I picked up in fantasy, who didn’t do a lot for me during the season have great playoff games. Thanks Lynch and James Starks.
Since the Cavaliers played the Heat on December 2nd the Cavs have gone 1-19 while the Heat have gone 18-1. I know I shouldn’t enjoy it this much but I kind of like to see a team completely self destruct sometimes. The Cavs are just awful. They were almost doubled up last night by the Lakers. They scored 55 points. 55! They only had 2 players score in double figures and one of them was named Alonzo Glee. Listen to the +/- on their starters. -46, -29, -35, -43 and -57. For those that don’t know what that stat is for. It denotes team's net points while the player is on the court. They are so bad and I for some reason I am loving the misery they are in. I’m sorry for all my friend that are Cavs fans. There’s always room on the Lakers bandwagon.
Confidence Picks
Mike and Mike have started giving their confidence picks each week for the playoffs. How much confidence they have in each team's head coach, running game and defense. This is keeping in mind the opponent they are playing as well. I've decided to add quarterback to this list as well. They then tally up all the scores to see who should win in each head to head match up. Lower scored are better.
Coaching
1. Patriots
2. Steelers
3. Packers
4. Falcons
5. Seahawks
6. Bears
7. Ravens
8. Jets
Rushing Offense
1. Bears
2. Jets
3. Falcons
4. Steelers
5. Packers
6. Ravens
7. Patriots
8. Seattle
Defense
1. Bears
2. Patriots
3. Packers
4. Ravens
5. Steelers
6. Jets
7. Falcons
8. Seattle
Quarterback
1. Patriots
2. Packers
3. Falcons
4. Steelers
5. Bears
6. Ravens
7. Seahawks
8. Jets
Confidence Scores
Patriots:11 Jets:24
Steelers:15 Ravens:23
Packers:13 Falcons:17
Bears:13 Seahawks:28
Bold Prediction of the Week
#4 Syracuse will lose to St. Johns in Men’s Basketball
Top 5 Raiders of All-Time
1. Tim Brown
2. Fred Biletnikoff
3. Art Shell
4. Willie Brown
5. Jack Tatum
I read this week that Marshawn Lynch’s run against the Saints made the ground shake. A seismic monitoring station located about 100 yards west of the stadium registered seismic activity during Lynch's run. That’s was a crazy run with some really bad tackling.
The National Championship game was so boring for the first 3 quarters that I kept thinking, “This can’t be for the National Championship. I know I said it last week but I would love to see TCU play Auburn this week. Even if nothing was on the line I think it would be a great game.
Side note to the game. Raiders. Please draft Casey Matthews, who by the way is my new favorite college football player.
I’m always a little bitter when players I picked up in fantasy, who didn’t do a lot for me during the season have great playoff games. Thanks Lynch and James Starks.
Since the Cavaliers played the Heat on December 2nd the Cavs have gone 1-19 while the Heat have gone 18-1. I know I shouldn’t enjoy it this much but I kind of like to see a team completely self destruct sometimes. The Cavs are just awful. They were almost doubled up last night by the Lakers. They scored 55 points. 55! They only had 2 players score in double figures and one of them was named Alonzo Glee. Listen to the +/- on their starters. -46, -29, -35, -43 and -57. For those that don’t know what that stat is for. It denotes team's net points while the player is on the court. They are so bad and I for some reason I am loving the misery they are in. I’m sorry for all my friend that are Cavs fans. There’s always room on the Lakers bandwagon.
Confidence Picks
Mike and Mike have started giving their confidence picks each week for the playoffs. How much confidence they have in each team's head coach, running game and defense. This is keeping in mind the opponent they are playing as well. I've decided to add quarterback to this list as well. They then tally up all the scores to see who should win in each head to head match up. Lower scored are better.
Coaching
1. Patriots
2. Steelers
3. Packers
4. Falcons
5. Seahawks
6. Bears
7. Ravens
8. Jets
Rushing Offense
1. Bears
2. Jets
3. Falcons
4. Steelers
5. Packers
6. Ravens
7. Patriots
8. Seattle
Defense
1. Bears
2. Patriots
3. Packers
4. Ravens
5. Steelers
6. Jets
7. Falcons
8. Seattle
Quarterback
1. Patriots
2. Packers
3. Falcons
4. Steelers
5. Bears
6. Ravens
7. Seahawks
8. Jets
Confidence Scores
Patriots:11 Jets:24
Steelers:15 Ravens:23
Packers:13 Falcons:17
Bears:13 Seahawks:28
Bold Prediction of the Week
#4 Syracuse will lose to St. Johns in Men’s Basketball
Top 5 Raiders of All-Time
1. Tim Brown
2. Fred Biletnikoff
3. Art Shell
4. Willie Brown
5. Jack Tatum
Friday, January 7, 2011
"If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out."
The Week in Sports
Al Davis did it again. I’m speechless.
I think the BSC Championship will be really exciting. Even more exciting would be if the winner had to play TCU the next week for the real college football championship. That probably wouldn’t bring in any money and would water down the bowls though.
This past weekend my friend Corey put together a sports trivia competition for myself and a bunch of other people. I believe I know quite a bit about sports trivia and I teamed up with my buddy Topher who knows more than I do. The 2 of us couldn’t hold a candle to our friend Tyler Thrune. This man not only knows sports trivia he is a walking dictionary of sports trivia. Congratulations to Tyler and his brilliance with all things sports.
This past weekend I correctly predicted 2 upsets in the world of sports. The Connecticut women losing to Stanford and TCU beating Wisconsin. I’ve decided to make this a weekly section of Spa Sports. I may fall flat on my face with some of these but I am determined to be bold and confident.
Bold Prediction of the Week
Seahawks will beat the Saints
Top 5 Favorite Baseball Players
1. Bo Jackson
2. Ricky Henderson
3. Darin Erstad
4. Dan Gladden
5. Troy Percival
Predictions
Congrats to Topher for taking the NFL predictions win on Spa Sports. Topher ended up predicting 71% of his picks correctly. Timmy came in 2nd at 66%, followed by Ford at 64%. I bring up the rear at 62%. Thank you to the other 3 guys for their help this year with these predictions. It was a lot of fun.
To round out the predictions for the year I have given my predictions for the playoffs as well as my Super Bowl winner.
Wild Card Games
Seattle over New Orleans
Colts over Jets
Ravens over Kansas City
Philadelphia over Green Bay
Divisional Games
Philadelphia over Bears
Falcons over Seattle
Patriots over Ravens
Steelers over Colts
AFC Championship
Patriots over Steelers
NFL Championship
Falcons over Eagles
Super Bowl
Patriots over Falcons 38-35
Al Davis did it again. I’m speechless.
I think the BSC Championship will be really exciting. Even more exciting would be if the winner had to play TCU the next week for the real college football championship. That probably wouldn’t bring in any money and would water down the bowls though.
This past weekend my friend Corey put together a sports trivia competition for myself and a bunch of other people. I believe I know quite a bit about sports trivia and I teamed up with my buddy Topher who knows more than I do. The 2 of us couldn’t hold a candle to our friend Tyler Thrune. This man not only knows sports trivia he is a walking dictionary of sports trivia. Congratulations to Tyler and his brilliance with all things sports.
This past weekend I correctly predicted 2 upsets in the world of sports. The Connecticut women losing to Stanford and TCU beating Wisconsin. I’ve decided to make this a weekly section of Spa Sports. I may fall flat on my face with some of these but I am determined to be bold and confident.
Bold Prediction of the Week
Seahawks will beat the Saints
Top 5 Favorite Baseball Players
1. Bo Jackson
2. Ricky Henderson
3. Darin Erstad
4. Dan Gladden
5. Troy Percival
Predictions
Congrats to Topher for taking the NFL predictions win on Spa Sports. Topher ended up predicting 71% of his picks correctly. Timmy came in 2nd at 66%, followed by Ford at 64%. I bring up the rear at 62%. Thank you to the other 3 guys for their help this year with these predictions. It was a lot of fun.
To round out the predictions for the year I have given my predictions for the playoffs as well as my Super Bowl winner.
Wild Card Games
Seattle over New Orleans
Colts over Jets
Ravens over Kansas City
Philadelphia over Green Bay
Divisional Games
Philadelphia over Bears
Falcons over Seattle
Patriots over Ravens
Steelers over Colts
AFC Championship
Patriots over Steelers
NFL Championship
Falcons over Eagles
Super Bowl
Patriots over Falcons 38-35
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