GREAT THEATRE - ON ICE                                                                               2/23/10
Hope you watched the US versus Canada Olympic hockey game. It was great theatre for a non-medal contest. I was rooting for the Americans. Oops, the Canadians are Americans too. Well I was rooting for the US against the mighty Hockey Giant known as Canada.
 
Even casual watchers would know [...]

PLAY BALLSKI                                                                                                      2/16/10
Finally, the catchers and pitchers report this Thursday so baseball is right around the corner. Who will be the first player to get injured, despite being in ‘the best shape of his life’? Who will hit the first clutch home run now that Jason Bay is gone? What pitcher will develop ‘a tired [...]

ONE BAD PASS                                                                                                        2/9/10
The Colts were moving downfield ready to tie the game, like so many other comebacks this year, with the laser-like accuracy of Peyton Manning. And then Tracy Porter read the formation, cut in front of Reggie Wayne’s route and was off to the end zone for the clinching score. One bad pass. [...]

BOSOX                                                                                                                       2/2/10
Happy Groundhog Day! If you think I’m waiting until spring training to write about our beloved Red Sox, you’re nuts. I can’t wait. Besebol been berry berry good to me. Red Sox been berry berry good to me and other BoSox fans (since at least 2004).
So here are a couple items that I culled [...]

THE AFC/NFC CHAMPIONSHIPS                                                                     1/26/10
As bad as last week’s games were, Sunday’s championship contests were competitive and close (until about 9 minutes left in the 4th quarter of the Indy game).
 
The Colts and Saints, my selections, were the winners. Their Super Bowl matchup projects to being a high scoring shootout with the last gunslinger standing the [...]

HUMDRUM STUMBLEBUMS LEAD TO DOLDRUMS            JANUARY 19, 2010                      As a Patriots fan, there isn’t much to cheer about in the NFL playoffs. The one team I wanted to lose, the New York (really New Jersey) Jets, parlayed a good defense, tough running and the generosity of the grounded Lightning Bolts (Nate Kaeding, Philip Rivers) to [...]

DISAPPOINTING                                                                             JANUARY 12, 2010
It was disappointing to see the Patriots allow a touchdown on the first play from scrimmage. The Ravens’ Ray Rice went 83 yards untouched.
 
It was disappointing to see Matt Light give up a strip/sack by Terrell Suggs on the Patriots very first possession. Tom Brady coughed up the ball and the Ravens [...]

WINNING WITHOUT WELKER                                                                          1/5/10
Just when I though it was safe to blog, Wes Welker suffers one of those injuries that kick you in the pit of the stomach. These 2009 Patriots were going to be hard pressed to succeed in the playoffs and climb the hill to the Super Bowl. And that was before losing [...]

The five Heisman finalists are announced. Stanford RB Toby Gerhart, Texas QB Colt McCoy, Nebraska DT Ndamukong Suh, previous winner Florida QB Tim Tebow, and Alabama RB Mark Ingram will be at the Downtown Athletic Club for the ESPN broadcast of the 2009 Heisman Trophy Award.
An ever bigger story for bettors is that it’s [...]

THUD!                                                                                              DECEMBER 1, 2009
That thud you just heard is the sound of the Patriots not just failing to perform on the stage of Monday Night Football, but falling off of it.
 
That thud you heard is the hopes of the Patriot faithful for a Super Bowl, which just hit the floor like some punch drunk palooka.
 
That [...]