NBA Eastern Conference Semis: Picks, Analysis
Exhale, Toronto: the Raptors have won a seven-game playoff series. It wasn’t easy — and did you really think it would be? — but it’s a bottom-line business, and the Raptors survived. Now, a date…
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Ace of the Boston Red Sox – Rick Porcello?
What is going on with the Boston Red Sox’s $217 million free-agent starting pitcher? Actually, nothing is wrong. It just so happens that right now, he doesn’t even look like the staff ace. Enter Rick…
2016 NFL Mock Draft
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, isn’t it? That is, if you’re a football-starved fan needing your NFL fix as the calendar turns to spring. With that in mind, Robert Waugh provides DraftAmerica…
NHL Second Round Playoff Predictions
So, the second round of the NHL playoffs will begin before the first one is over. That sounds about right. But while Nashville-Anaheim remains undecided, we’ll get a head start on our second round picks….
Baseball Blog: Week 3
Three weeks of the baseball season are in the books, and basically we still know nothing. Well, almost nothing. If there’s one thing (I think) I’ve learned, it’s that it’s easier to denigrate teams in…
MLB Divisional Power Rankings: AL West Fading
It’s not logical to jump to conclusions on April 20 about any teams in baseball. However, even just a few weeks into the 2016 season, it’s becoming evident that several divisions are not up to…
Baseball Blog: 2 Weeks Down, 24 Still to Go
Have we really learned any more in the baseball season’s second week than we did on the first? You can essentially set your watch to a team that starts out scorching taking a mild step…
2016 MLB Preview: Is Parity Here to Stay?
There is a chance that the 2016 Major League Baseball season is as unpredictable as the weather has been this winter. The good news in that is, well, that means that the season will be…
MLB ’16 Comeback Candidates: Chicago White Sox
This installment of Comeback Candidates can now officially take into account one more Chicago transaction: the bizarre retirement of Adam LaRoche. The flap is yet another negative for a White Sox club that has not…
MLB ’16 Comeback Candidates: Baltimore Orioles
We roll on with another AL East team, the Baltimore Orioles. It got ugly towards the end of 2015, including a three-game sweep in Boston in which the O’s didn’t score a single run. They…