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College Basketball

Breaking Down The Final Four

by Trevor Freeman

For the first time ever, all four top seeds made it to the Final Four.  The only plus to this in my opinion is that it should shut up everybody who claims the current tournament system does not reward the best regular season teams.  That is because the four teams remaining were without a doubt the best four teams during this year’s college basketball season.  Outside of Kansas who had an epic tussle with Davidson in the Elite Eight, they all romped their way into this Final Four with convincing wins in the Regional Finals and Semifinals.  We have four bluebloods attending this event as UCLA, North Carolina, Kansas and Memphis represent the college basketball elite.  Without further ado, let’s breakdown the matchups.

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NBA General

Translating the NBA for your Girlfriend

Have you ever tried to get your girlfriend or wife to watch a basketball game with you on T.V.?  You would swear you were pulling teeth, right?  Well, I had to sit through a “Desperate Housewives” marathon, along with “The Hills”.  The only redeeming factor is that they have some good looking chicks on there.  I don’t get why basketball is so foreign to some women.  It has world class athletes, drama, and is a relatively easy sport.  My girlfriend is the worst at trying to speak metaphorically.  She makes me more confused than when I start sometimes.  Recently, she tried to explain “D-H” to me using metaphors that I can’t honestly even remember.  I looked at her the same cocked-head way a dog looks at something strange.  She challenged me to describe the NBA to her in terms she would understand.  So I did.  I thought I would share.

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College Football

Yes Virginia- There is a Santa Claus and We Can Still Play Just as Good as We Used To…

This is a true story. The names of the teams, the place and date have been intentionally left out to preclude the possibility of our team trophy being taken away because of the negligible contribution of two old men.

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MLB General

2008 MLB Preview and Predictions

        Baseball is upon us.  It’s spring, and with the weather and the bats getting warm, America’s pastime enters stage right.  Even though the season starts out hundreds of miles across seas, the smell of a new baseball season is strong.  After the most horrific off-season in the history of Major league Baseball, which included steroid scandal after steroid scandal, baseball is primed for a rejuvenating April.  This season will surely offer no more Bonds, or at least until some desperate team tries to sell some extra hundred tickets, no more Clemens pitching in the minors in early July, and no more steroids.  Baseball has somewhat taken big strides towards a future beyond the overpowering drug.  After the Mitchell Report uncovered those responsible and strenuous team testings, the league for the most part has been squeezed dry of all poisonous juice.  With young talent like Ryan Braun, Ryan Howard, Prince Fielder, and B.J Upton, baseball has inducted the new class of perennial superstars.  We have A-Rod in a Yankees uniform for at least 10 more years, we have the best pitcher in the AL moving to best offense in the NL, and we have baseball looking greater than ever.  Deals like Bedard to the Mariners and Santana to the Mets surely mixes up the power houses in each league, but it delivers a hint towards the MLB’s new look.
         

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Edmonton Oilers

Playoffs a Real Possibility for Hockey Fans in Edmonton

Playoffs?  Who cares about the playoffs in Edmonton?  Heck their season ended a month ago when they were 14th in the Western Conference.  Why are they so excited?  Don’t they know they’re seven points back of the eighth spot entering play on Tuesday?  Don’t they know that the team is on pace to break the NHL record for man games lost due to injury?  Don’t they have any brains, these Oilers players?  Are they taking the crack?  Why are they playing hockey right now when they should be watching Seinfeld reruns?

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MLB General

AL East To Be Dogfight

by Matt Wells

So, baseball is around the corner, as we all know.  We’ve got our fantasy baseball teams lined up and we’re wearing our team colors to work, school, etc. (I’m not, but I know some die-hard baseball fans who will).

Just like at the beginning of every season, we all make predictions.  A-Rod will hit such-and-such amount of homers, Johan Santana will get __ wins in his new Flushing digs, Team X will finish with 80+ wins, etc.  There is one thing that I know for sure, though.  This year, the American League East will be a dogfight.

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New York Mets

Tim Marchman: The Journalist….The Crack-Addict

Intervention; it’s my new favorite TV show on A&E. For those of you unfamiliar with the show, go to the website and watch an episode, but for the sake of today’s intervention and the spirit of saving time, here’s how they describe the show:

“The Intervention Television series profiles people whose dependence on drugs and alcohol or other compulsive behavior has brought them to a point of personal crisis and estranged them from their friends and loved ones. Each Intervention episode ends with a surprise intervention that is staged by the family and friends of the alcohol of drug addict, and which is conducted by one of four Intervention specialists.”

Each episode begins with the addict introducing him or herself in front of the camera, spelling his or her name, and telling the audience what his or her addiction is. So let’s roll the tape of today’s special episode…

“My name is Tim…T-I-M. And I’m addicted to crack-cocaine.”

This is Tim’s story.

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MLB General

MLB Goes to Harlem Seeking Welfare

It is bad enough that much of MLB’s revenues come by way of the very taxpayers it seeks to disenfranchise, and namely the African-American communities in the inner cities. However, now they are after even more. Read on to find out what.

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College Basketball

The Madness Has Arrived

by Trevor Freeman

Jalapeno Poppers.  Glass Slippers.  Yuengling.  Bryce Drew.  Chili Cheese Nachos.  Harold Arcenaux.  Chicken Wings.  Rumeal Robinson.  Budweiser.  Bill Raftery.  Mozzarella Sticks.  Bracket Busters.  Tequila.  Jeff Fryar.  Are you filling out your bracket right now?  Is today the most unproductive Monday you have had in weeks?  Don’t be concerned.  It is that way for everybody.  It was an excruciating wait between now and the end of the Super Bowl, but it is finally here.  Ladies and Gentleman……….the Madness has arrived.

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Green Bay Packers

But what about Brett Fav-ruh?

The day has finally come. It is time to say goodbye to everyone’s favorite fun-lovin’, gun-slingin’, Wrangler wearin’, 5’o clock shadow-havin’, burger eatin’, just another regular guy like you or me (except for the money, rugged good looks, and talent) quarterback. The announcement came early Monday morning around 7:30am Eastern Time: Brett Favre is officially retiring… probably.

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