Week 14: One Victory in Hand, Four More to Go
So my new strategy of picking only games I feel rather confident in is working out quite well thus far. If you include Thursday’s spot-on pick of the Chiefs, that’s 5-1 since the start of…
NFL Week 14: A Thursday Night Pick, and a Parody
Welcome to Week 14, when the weather is bad and the football is supposed to be good. What a way to kick off the slate, with one of the biggest games the Raiders-Chiefs rivalry has…
Lucky Week 13: Picking to Bounce Back
Okay, so instead of picking every single game every week, I figured it would be better for everyone if I narrowed it down to a few games I felt (relatively) confident in. So here goes for…
NFL Week 12 Picks: Post-Turkey Madness
How about this “start” to the season? I use the air quotes because my first slate of game picks didn’t occur until Week 11, but I’ve arrived in style. While I took Turkey Day off from…
Room for one more… NFL Pick
I’m back in business. In my first week picking NFL games in a rather-uninspiring manner, I went 9-4… against the spread, that is. So, playing with house money, I might as well round out the…
NFL Week 11 Picks: I Need TNF Redemption
And now you see why I have come to dread picking NFL games. Picking against the spread is hard, but it is the real way to pick. What credibility do you get saying the Patriots are…
Watered-down NFL game picks: I’m baaack..!
Thursday Night Football is here — are you excited?! I’m not. But that won’t stop me from making a game pick — which will be followed by a full slate of picks for Sunday and…
Seahawks flip the script on the Patriots
I don’t use the term “script” loosely, either. This is the NFL after all, a league with plummeting ratings that needs to squeeze every ounce of drama out of every oversaturated primetime game that it…
Snubs Galore Among MLB Awards Finalists
Let me start off with this disclaimer: I am not a member of the BBWAA nor do I play one on television. But I pride myself on my knowledge of baseball, and, therefore, feel quite…
Final Thoughts on a Wild, Wacky World Series
It wasn’t going to be easy to end a 108-year drought. So naturally, the Chicago Cubs and their fans had to endure some scary bouts of deja vu before finally, finally, FINALLY locking down their…