In no other league do players get overhyped and over-analyzed like the NBA Draft, and this year’s class is hard pan proof. It’s always easy to get excited about an influx of fresh faces and fresh talent in the NBA, but it’s no secret that the 2009 draft is a class that nobody is excited about. The reason is two-fold. First, nobody cares about any player not named “Blake Griffin”, who has already … [Read more...]
Are the Kansas City Chiefs Better?
Out with the Old and in with the New, but will the Kansas City Chiefs be any better in '09? Last year the Chiefs started out horrible and ended up horrible. There was just no way of getting out of their 2-14 season (8-8 against the spread), in which Brodie Croyle, who had been anointed the "quarterback of the future," went down with an injury, and Tyler Thigpen wound up being the quarterback. … [Read more...]
Favre Playing Hard Ball with Vikings
We are at the unchanged old cock-and-bull story with Brett Favre. He gave Green Bay headaches by buzzing and hawing about his unfinished retirement. Then New York promptly gave Brett Favre the door after he threw for 3,472 passing yards with 22 touchdowns and an equivalent number of interceptions. There is an even more beseeching fear in the waltz around that the North Star State and Brett … [Read more...]
Pocono 500 Preview
Jimmie Johnson is looking for back-to-back victories Sunday June 14, 2009 when NASCAR drivers start their engines upon Long Pond, Pennsylvania for the Pocono 500. Best known for caution flags, lead changes and crashes, the Pocono 500 is over a 3 turn track. The average lead change in a typical race at Pocono is 19. There’s also been an average of 7.4 caution flags for every 30.3 laps since … [Read more...]