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College bowl season is here! As you know, that’s fake enthusiasm on my part. The ridiculously unnecessary number of bowls is one of the primary reasons why I hate college football so much. Consider: there are 34 bowl games, which means 68 teams go to a bowl. That’s the same number that go to the NCAA Basketball Tournament.
Well, this week’s NFL games have certainly taken a little bit of a turn, haven’t they? To call the news about Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher “shocking” would be quite an understatement. Until the tragedy, which will put a very dark cloud over all of Sunday’s games, we were positioned for a pretty good Sunday of December football.
Today we lost one of the most influential men in the history of professional sports. Marvin Miller, the longtime head of the MLBPA, passed away at the age of 95. Miller’s impact on baseball, and professional sports as a whole, is immeasurable.
The Baseball Hall of Fame ballot was mailed out today, and this year’s vote is going to be one of the most interesting in recent memory. That’s because Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens are eligible for the first time. The Steroid Era players are going to complicate the vote and probably lead to a very crowded ballot for years to come.
Teams you Love to Hate By guest blogger Joe Brackets I saw somewhere earlier this week that, in general, casual fans have been more interested in college football this year than usual. Why? The reason is pretty clear. Notre Dame. …
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Amazingly, we managed to go a few weeks without any news on the conference realignment front. Some of us were actually stupid enough to think it might be over. Or at least cool down a little. Especially now that there’s going to be a college football playoff. Silly us. Today the Big Ten, who started this mess in the first place, got in on the act, adding Maryland and Rutgers to become the Big 14. And so Round II (or is this III? Maybe IV?) begins.
College basketball season started this weekend. Most of the top teams have already played their first games, which probably makes this post seem late for some of you, but I don’t think that’s the case at all. With a few exceptions, the first game for most top teams is essentially a glorified exhibition game. The season doesn’t really get going until the Thanksgiving tournaments, and conference play in most leagues doesn’t begin until January.
Now that we’ve reached the halfway point, we can start to look at the NFL “if the playoffs started today…” scenarios and there won’t be 6,000 ties for the wild card spots. The only reason I’m bringing this up is because if the season ended today, the Colts wouldn’t just be a playoff team, they’d be playing the Broncos in a wild card game. It would be Peyton Manning vs. the Colts (and Andrew Luck) in the first round of the playoffs. Who said the NFL gods didn’t have a sense of humor?
While watching the Chiefs-Chargers game on Thursday night, I decided something. The Kansas City Chiefs are bad. Really bad. I’m not surprised they haven’t had a lead all season. Frankly, I’m surprised they managed to get a win. As ridiculous as it was when Steve Spurrier said that Alabama could beat an NFL team, I think Alabama would at least give the Chiefs a game. Anyway, since the NFL for some reason decided that a Chiefs-Chargers game was worthy of a national audience, I (like 95 percent of America) have started this week 1-0. As for the rest of the picks…
