AL wild card preview: It's youth against experience when Astros meet Yankees They're both surprises when you think about it. Nobody expected the young and re-tooled Houston Astros to make the postseason this year. In a couple years? Sure. But 2015 is ahead of the schedule. Likewise, the New York Yankees weren't a popular postseason pick, not with their aging lineup and injury concerns … [Read more...]
NFL Spreads Week 5: Best Picks Against the Spread – Sports Interaction
NFL Spreads Week 5: Best Picks Against the Spread - Sports Interaction Believe it or not, we’re a quarter of the way through the NFL season. Check out the early odds for Week 5. All the best parts of football – the hits, the great passing plays, the passion on the field – really have very little to do with the “foot” part of the sport.The kicking game has been a peripheral aspect of the game on … [Read more...]
Matchday Wrap Up: Monday Morning Manager – WK8
Matchday Wrap Up: Monday Morning Manager - WK8 It was quite a whirlwind weekend in the Premier League. The number of talking points is really rather impressive with a solid chance that you may have missed the significance of some of what went on. Here’s a quick (yeah, right) review of what went on in case you missed it: 1) David Silva for MVP – There are a number of factors that could have … [Read more...]
Zack Kassian accident shows ‘a lack of character,’ says Canadiens GM
Zack Kassian accident shows 'a lack of character,' says Canadiens GM Montreal Canadiens GM Marc Bergevin didn’t mince words when talking about forward Zack Kassian, and the car accident that will sideline him for an undetermined amount of time. Meeting with the media on Monday, Bergevin revealed that Kassian broke his nose and left foot in a Sunday morning accident. [Yahoo Fantasy Hockey: … [Read more...]
BDL’s 2015-16 NBA Season Previews: Atlanta Hawks
BDL's 2015-16 NBA Season Previews: Atlanta Hawks Quite possibly the feeliest-goodliest story of the NBA’s 2014-15 season (Non-Riley Curry Div.), the Atlanta Hawks stormed out to its best campaign since moving to the state of Georgia. The team’s 60-win season came off a rather tumultuous offseason, however, as the relatively minor embarrassment behind making the playoffs in 2013-14 as a … [Read more...]
Week 6 college football odds, lines: Oklahoma, FSU favorites over rivals – CBSSports.com
Week 6 college football odds, lines: Oklahoma, FSU favorites over rivals - CBSSports.com Welcome once again to Monday Morning Oddsmaker, your weekly first look at the Vegas lines for the coming weekend's action in college football. At a glance, Week 6 doesn't seem to offer half the excitement of Week 5 ... but maybe that's just what Week 6 wants us to think. All lines courtesy of our friends at … [Read more...]
Former UFC title-holder Jon Jones briefly breaks social media silence
Former UFC title-holder Jon Jones briefly breaks social media silence The highly competitive showdown that saw Daniel Cormier retain his light heavyweight title against Alexander Gustafsson on Saturday night at UFC 192 had many MMA fans gushing over the entertaining bout on social media, including one who had a vested interest in the outcome. Jon “Bones” Jones, who was embroiled in a heated … [Read more...]
J.B. Holmes is playing in the Presidents Cup instead of his planned video games
J.B. Holmes is playing in the Presidents Cup instead of his planned video games J.B. Holmes had big plans for his PGA Tour offseason, namely avoiding golf and vegging in front of the TV. Then Jim Furyk got a wrist contusion and announced late last week that he couldn't play in the Presidents Cup, leading U.S. captain Jay Haas to pick Holmes, who finished 12th in the points standings, with … [Read more...]
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones downgrades Brandon Weeden to ‘limited’
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones downgrades Brandon Weeden to 'limited' It only took a fortnight for Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones to downgrade Brandon Weeden from the most "gifted passer" in football history to merely a "limited" quarterback who isn't a difference-maker. Two days after Weeden completed all seven of his passes to finish off a 20-10 win over the NFC East rival Philadelphia … [Read more...]
Stephen A. Smith responds to Kevin Durant: ‘You don’t want to make an enemy out of me’
Stephen A. Smith responds to Kevin Durant: 'You don’t want to make an enemy out of me' You had to know this was coming. Last week, Kevin Durant responded to reports that the Los Angeles Lakers are his "primary objective and landing spot" should he choose not to re-sign with the Oklahoma City Thunder this summer by saying that the generator of those reports — ESPN commentator Stephen A. Smith … [Read more...]