NFL Picks Week 3 — Can Ravens Finish the Job at Arrowhead This Time Around?
Alright, so now it’s Week 3, which means I should have a little more of a feel for this 2019 NFL season. We’ll find out, because I’m going to pick my first games of the…
2019 NFL Picks: The Nightmare Could Continue
You know by now how I feel about the NFL, and that’s before we get into how Roger Goodell has soiled most of the good things about it and how players are more at risk…
NBA Finals: A Bay Area Threepeat or Oh, Canada?
Once again, apologies for the late arrival to the party. It didn’t affect me with my NHL Stanley Cup prediction, so I’m thinking I might be okay here. Let’s look now at the first NBA…
Stanley Cup Preview: Lucky 13 For Beantown?
And so it is – another DraftAmerica prediction comes to fruition! Well, I suppose that’s not entirely true, because the Stanley Cup has yet to be played, but we have the matchup I expected. No,…
These are Baseball’s 6 Most Underrated Players
One of the things I love about baseball, despite its relative predictability in terms of the top teams, is how many great players there actually are that fly under the radar. Because teams like the…
NHL Conference Finals: Familiar Cities to Clash in Stanley Cup?
Okay, my apologies for being a couple days late here. To make up for it, I will take what now represents a bigger leap of faith on one of my picks. After all, I have…
Yanks’ Recent Run Proof Burden of Expectations is Real
If you watched the early weeks of the MLB season, it seemed pretty obvious that the New York Yankees were suffering from two things: the toll of injuries to star players and the weight of…
NHL Second Round: Surprised? Not Me
I recently had a friend who isn’t a big sports fan tell me something about sports that stuck in my mind: “Beware the narrative.” I pondered that for a moment. Actually, quite a few moments,…
The 2019 NFL Schedule is Here! (My way)
And so here it is. (For the master schedule, click HERE. For color-coded, team-by-team schedules, click HERE. Please note: If you are using a mobile device, the formatting may be skewed). Days, weeks, and months…
Keep Your Bracket Fever – It’s NHL Playoffs Time!
Just when you thought March Madness — er, April Madness, really — was behind us, it’s time for another two months of (slowly) busted brackets. That’s right, the NHL playoffs are here, which means two…