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Now that the calendar has flipped to 2013, it’s time to start looking ahead to some of the major international sporting events we have in store. There are World Championships in the Summer Olympic sports, as well as the announcement of the 2020 Olympic host city.
Well kids, we’ve reached the final week of the 2012 NFL season. As Week 17 dawns, 10 of the 12 playoff spots are clinched, as are six of the eight divisions. But that doesn’t mean we’ve got a boring slate of games in store for Sunday. Just the opposite, actually. We’ve got Cowboys-Redskins for the NFC East title on Sunday night, among others. Of course, we’ve got some meaningless duds like Jaguars-Texans, too. That’s why I’m breaking this week’s picks into three categories: Games That Really Matter, Games That Somewhat Matter, and Games That Don’t Matter.
Among the things I received for Christmas this year was the new Sports Illustrated book “Football’s Greatest.” It had a bunch of Top 10 lists ranking all kids of football-related things, from the best uniforms and games to coaches and rivalries. The book also featured the panel’s Top 10 list of all-time bests at each position. Along with the obvious Hall of Famers, there were a bunch of active players included as well. And that got me thinking: Who are the greatest players in the NFL right now?
For starters, how did the Kansas City Chiefs, who will likely end up with the No. 1 pick, end up with five Pro Bowlers, while the Atlanta Falcons, the No. 1 seed in the NFC, have only three? The “experts” can make any excuse/explanation they want as to why the worst team in the league has two more Pro Bowlers than the best team in the league. None of them are going to matter. It’s a complete joke, and the NFL should be utterly embarrassed about it. One Chief, maybe two, fine. But five? And you can’t blame this on Chiefs fans stuffing the ballot box
It’s weird to sit here on a Saturday night watching Monday Night Football, but I also have to say that it’s nice to have the late-season Saturday night game back. The NFL always used to do that, and I didn’t realize how much I missed it. Anyway, the reason there’s a Saturday night game instead of a Monday night game this week is because Monday’s Christmas Eve, and, as a part of the TV deal, the NFL agrees not to play a night game on Christmas Eve or during the day on Christmas. As a result, we got a special Saturday night treat. (There was no Thursday night game because they don’t want to have two teams with extra rest in Week 17.)
NFL Week 15 Picks Outside of the playoffs, I can’t remember there ever being an NFL weekend this good this late in the season. There are six games this week between teams with winning records. That’s 12 of the 15 …
Happy 12/12/12 everybody. I was just going to let the coolness of this awesome date that’s never going to happen again in our lifetime come and go, but I’ve seen so many lists celebrating the day and the number that I couldn’t resist. I considered a number of different ways to go about it. There was the Top 12 active
So much stuff has happened in the sports world in the past couple of days that I had trouble coming up with a topic to blog about. Today alone there were newsworthy headlines in baseball, football and college basketball. It’s been a while since I’ve done a multi-topic blog, and today seems like as good a day as any, especially with everything that’s been going on.
After a crazy Week 13 where we saw four teams clinch playoff berths, Week 14 shapes up as being highly uneventful. The only teams that can clinch this week are Baltimore and San Francisco, and the 49ers need to win and have about five different teams to lose, so, they’re most likely going to have to wait until next week.
When Baseball’s annual Winter Meetings started, I was expecting a flurry of activity. After all, that’s usually what happens, as free agents meet with GMs and decide where they’re going to play. And there’s always at least one big trade. Then all the other dominos begin to fall
