In addition to the
sorrow on Derby day at Eight Belles’s passing, and the work that’s being
done on many fronts to make horse racing safer, the excitement towards the
Preakness builds. The looming question is: Is Big Brown the freak horse
for whom we’ve waited and hoped these many years? Does he have what it
takes to be a Triple Crown winner?....
more
Sports gambling has become increasingly popular over the past
few years. With the soaring popularity of online gambling as well as online
betting, sports betting has never been easier, or more straightforward. All you
need is the internet. The internet allows gambling on many different levels from
playing games like roulette and blackjack, to betting on your favorite sport.
With so many places to bet and gamble on the internet you are sure to find
something to suit you individual needs.
Sports Video
The
End of Dodgertown This marks the end of
a Dodgers era, the Dodgers will be moving spring training closer to home
next year bringing an end to a rite of spring that many have fond
memories of, and others revile. We take a look back at the history at
the end of Dodgertown
Thinking
Out Loud By: Ted Fleming, Tampa Bay Sports Net
Thinking Out Loud: The Legend of Carnac Ted Keeps
Growing I have to give all due credit to my radio co-host, Althea Pashman, for
without her I would not know how much I am ahead of the curve.
Over the years I have written things
others have touched on days or weeks later. You take a little pride in
knowing you had an idea first. In recent times I have syndicated my columns
to preserve what has now become more commonplace....
more
Thinking
Out Loud By: Ted Fleming, Tampa Bay Sports Net
Thinking
Out Loud: Rays' Missing A Beat On In-house Fun
When I first heard the Rays' director of Event Productions' John Franzone
had left the team after the 2007 season my first question was, "How are they
going to replace him." They haven't.....
more
NHL
Insider
By: Althea Pashman
NHL Insider: 2007-2008
NHL Award Finalists Each year the Professional Hockey Writers’ Association plays
homage to the many players that have excelled during the course
of the season under the lights with a spectacular awards show in
Toronto, Canada.
On June 12th, Martin
Brodeur, Sidney Crosby, Henrik Lundqvist and a handful of others are once
again award finalists. The three mentioned are no strangers to receiving
awards. Last year, Brodeur and Crosby were finalists for the Hart Trophy,
which Crosby won and Brodeur and Lundqvist were finalists for the Vezina
Trophy, which Brodeur went on to win.....
more
Speaking
of Sports
By: Ted Fleming
Speaking of Sports: The Kentucky
Derby: For Whom Eight Belles Toll I am so far removed from the racing scene that I could not tell you a
sire or dam of any horse. Not even of the great or near great, thoroughbred
or standard bred. I still follow but more from the periphery.
It has been more than a generation
since we have seen a super horse win all three legs of the Triple Crown and
Saturday afternoon we may have witnessed a legitimate threat to that drought
in just his fourth race.
The 19th Hole: A Great
Weekend of Golf No Tiger? No Lorena?
That sounds like the recipe for an awful
weekend of professional golf. It sounds
like there would be little reason to
check out golf, what, with the NFL Draft
on television. (I watched a lot of it.
Why did my team, the Green Bay Packers,
pick two QBs? Bromm gets hurt too much,
and Matt Flynn? Really? I digress.)
It turned out, though, that this was a
great weekend for the sport.... more
Upon
Further Review
By: Matt Yoder
Welcome to the latest edition of "Upon
Further Review"... the draft reaction edition!
·Atlanta takes Matt Ryan thus putting a merciful end to the
Michael Vick era. Goodbye Michael, good luck finding a job in the NFL.....
MLB Insider: Nothing
Could Be Finer Than Knowing you have a $14.5 million dollar man in the bullpen
to help you – especially when he’s not doing it as a starter.
What are the odds that Barry Zito will find his way out of
troubles coming out of the bullpen anytime soon?....
more
Thinking
Out Loud: The Wacky World of the Steinbrenner’s
By: Ted Fleming, Tampa Bay Sports Net
Answer me this? How am I to explain
Hank Steinbrenner to my grandchildren?
It's bad enough that I raised a son
who became a Yankee fan - it was a Mets' household until I moved to Florida
to join BaysBall Nation, and the so-called smart one of the twins went to
the dark side (of New York blue) - but what's up with the new mouth of the
north?
It appears for all all intents and
purposes the little Hankie has all of his father's mouth but not the sense
of his brother Hal, the Quiet Man, a dozen years his junior.
Not one month into the season the
team's co-chairman effectively called his new manager an idiot....
more
The
Armchair Quarterback
By: Hezron Joseph
The Armchair QB: A Way To Adjust The BCS Playoff
I took careful note of some of the positive things about the selection
process. They have a committee that selects the teams based on a set of
criteria. They have a “true playoff” in the form of the tournament and the
team that can win six games is crowned the champion. Could this format work
in college football. I believe it can and in the following article, I will
explain how this can be done.....
more
A
Fan Speaks Out By: Darrell Horwitz
“The Heckler” on a Fan Speaks Out: Ben Wallace and Aaron Gray Interview And the man in the
middle is Ben Wallace and Aaron Gray. So far Wallace is not playing like the
guy who cost the team $60 million to pry him away from Detroit. Gray, while
looking like a possible option in the pre-season, has does nothing but
gather splinters since the season started. In this interview, Wallace
comments on the teams’ chances to make the finals and what he did to improve
in the off-season. Gray explains the difference in the pro game compared to
college and if he regrets staying an extra year in college....
more
A
Fan Speaks Out By: Darrell Horwitz
"The Heckler" on a Fan Speaks
Out:
Jim Hendry Interview - 2007 With the Cubs on the
brink of the playoffs, Jim Hendry wears the hero crown again. But the last
two years, with the team a big disappointment, he wore the goat horns,
asking why he didn’t do more to improve the club. In this interview, he
addresses the issue if his hands were tied by Andy MacPhail, just what
Alfonso Soriano was promised when the Cubs signed him, his thoughts on Lou
Piniella, and what player surprised him this year....
more
This is my response to Jesse Jackson writing into the Chicago
Tribune and saying that Barry Bonds’ achievements should not be
minimized
In last weeks Other Views column, the Rev. Jesse Jackson
conveniently failed to examine all of the facts before
asking the readers to pay homage to the feat Barry Bonds is
about to accomplish. He constantly referred to the pre-1947
era, but Bonds is about to pass Hank Aaron’s record, not
Babe Ruth...more
NFL Power
Rankings: Final 2007 Regular Season Rankings
Really right now, it's New England's world and we’re just
living in it. Someone may knock them off, but until they do, we all bow down
to the kings of the NFL. They either stomp you, or you can play a perfect
game against them as the Giants did and they come from behind if necessary.
Either way, they win...more
Tony Parker swished a crucial jumper with 50 seconds on the clock. Manu Ginobili followed with four key free throws, essentially booking the San Antonio Spurs a date in the Western Conference finals.
The top two teams in the East battle for the right to represent their conference in the NBA Finals, as the top-seeded Boston Celtics and second-seeded Detroit Pistons square off tonight at TD Banknorth Garden ...
Jon Lester became the first pitcher this season to throw a no-hitter. The no-hitter by the 24-year-old cancer survivor is the 18th in Boston Red Sox h ...
The Detroit Red Wings aren't really going to blow this - are they? Just a few days ago, the Red Wings were still in a span of being undefeated for almost a month, owning the NHL's longest postseason winning ...
Federal investigators will seek to question 104 Major League Baseball players who failed steroid tests in 2003, according to the New York Times.
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NBA
Roundup
NBA First Round Playoff Preview and
Predictions
It's playoff time! It all comes down to this as sixteen teams battle it out for
the most coveted of NBA hardware - the Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy. The
storylines abound as the Celtics try to continue their amazing turnaround with a
run at the trophy, the Suns get their arch nemesis Spurs in the first round,
only this time they think Shaq is the difference maker, and the surprising
Hornets try to keep their young team going and Kobe leads the Lakers against
Iverson and Anthony....more
After 1,230
regular-season contests, the stage is finally set for the second season. In the
Eastern Conference, the match-ups are: Bruins vs. Habs, Senators vs. Penguins,
Flyers vs. Capitals and Rangers vs. Devils. In the West, the Predators face the
Red Wings, the Flames square off against the Sharks, the Avs meet with the Wild
and the Stars tackle the Ducks. Who will hoist Lord Stanley's cup. Over the next
what will seem like a year, we will find out...more
The 2008 Major League Baseball season is
officially underway, and it is ironic that an obscure statistician from Kansas
is making the news, one who was ridiculed for many years. Today he is a chief
decision-maker for the world champion Boston Red Sox, having gaining notoriety
throughout professional sports - and acceptance to his metrics continues to
grow...
The man who has been the Green
Bay Packers' starting
quarterback for all but three
games of the last 16 seasons,
the only quarterback an entire
generation of football fans even
remember quarterbacking the
Packers, is retiring...more
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Is
Tiger Woods Cheating? By: Rafael
Moret
Recently Tiger has been roaring, dominating the PGA as if he was invincible.
First it was the British Open, then the Buick Open followed by the PGA
Championship , The Bridgestone Invitational and finally the Deutsche Bank
Championship . What's going on here? Where is every one else? It's not as if
Tiger is first and the same other guy is second every week. It's always someone
new. So what is it?...more
NBA Age Limit - A Blessing in
Disguise
The 2007 NBA draft class was the most hyped and highly covered
of any draft class in the last five years and maybe even this
decade - and 9 of the 10 first picks were still teenagers.
Something very profound has occurred in the NBA in the past two
years due in large part to the new rule that disallows any high
school student from entering the NBA draft until they are 19
years old...more
He Said, She Said
By: Michael Larson and Althea Pashman
No, he said that… no
she said that… Well, here’s what they both had to say on the various topics
occurring in and around the world of sports these past few weeks. This week Mike and Althea
give their 2-cents on Michael
Vick, the Tour de France and
more in...
He Said, She
Said
The
Savant
It's time to make it legal Steroids,
Doping, Gambling, Dog Fighting,
and everything else. American
sports fans have lived through a
few months of hell and some of
it needs to be fixed. How to do
that? Legalize it.
A few weeks ago we talked about the case against Michael Vick.
Since then, sports in general have suffered through some of the
worst scandals in the shortest time. Point shaving, dog
fighting, blood doping, its an epidemic at this point and its
time someone does something...more
Upon
Further Review
MLB
Insider
The
Armchair Quarterback
In
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