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LeBron James Reaches The 20,000 Point Club

The 20,000 point club in the NBA has a pretty exclusive membership.  As a matter of fact, only 12 guys in the history of the league have ever qualified to join.  It is not an easy task by any means.  Every young basketball player just coming into the pros holds the members of the 20K Club in awesome reverence. On …

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by admin on January 22nd, 2013 Leave a comment »

Big Bucks Draw Underclassmen To NFL Draft

At least 36 NCAA Collegiate athletes will be foregoing their senior year of college and opt for the upcoming NFL Draft.  School ties are strong and loyalty to team mates can be over powering for young athletes causing some of them to resist the temptation of leaving the university a year early to play pro football. Some, but not all.  …

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by admin on January 18th, 2013 Leave a comment »

Broncos Fall To The Ravens In Double Overtime Action

On a bitterly cold Saturday afternoon, the Baltimore Ravens traveled up to the Mile High City of Denver to take on Peyton Manning and his Denver Broncos.  At game time the spread showed Denver favored by 9.5 points with an over  & under of 46.  The altitude in Denver is always a factor for teams unaccustomed to it Trindon Holliday …

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by admin on January 17th, 2013 Leave a comment »

Heads Roll As Black Monday Fell On New Year’s Eve

By 2 PM EST eleven (11) NFL Head Coaches and General Managers were out of work…..at least temporarily.  The Merry-Go-Round has begun. Now let us see who moves on and who goes home. After 4 straight losing seasons without making the playoffs at all, Head Coach Norv Turner and General Manager A.J. Smith were both fired on New Year’s Eve …

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by admin on January 14th, 2013 Leave a comment »

“This Will Be My Last Ride” – Ray Lewis To Retire

Ray Lewis is widely considered to be one of the best linebackers in NFL history. Linebackers in general are a pretty tough bunch of guys and Ray Lewis is one of the toughest ever. He was drafted in the first round in 1996 by the Baltimore Ravens and has remained with the Ravens throughout his entire NFL career. Now, after …

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by admin on January 12th, 2013 Leave a comment »

Drew Brees Aims At A 5000 Yard Season

In the entire history of the NFL, only Drew Brees of the New Orleans Saints has passed for over 5,000 yards in one season. Not Peyton Manning, not Bret Favre, not even Dan Marino ever topped 5,000 yards.  Brees did it in 2011 with 5,476 and he looks poised to break the 5K mark once again.  Going into week 17, …

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by admin on January 10th, 2013 Leave a comment »

MLB Commish Retiring, Again

Bud Selig has been the commissioner of Major League Baseball for about as long as most of us care to remember.  Now, after 20 years at the helm, he is hinting that he may be retiring after the 2014…..hinting.  Las Vegas line makers are probably scratching their heads trying to figure out the futures spread on this one. Remember that …

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by admin on January 9th, 2013 Leave a comment »

Against All Odds, Chuck Pagano Is Back On The Field

Two dozen big tuff NFL football players and two sexy cheerleaders shaved their heads a few weeks ago in sympathy for their head coach.  These folks aren’t the types to go around shaving their heads for just anybody.  Indianapolis Colts Head Coach Chuck Pagano must be a very special person indeed to inspire such loyalty.  He was diagnosed with acute …

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by admin on January 4th, 2013 Leave a comment »

Passing On The Torch At Notre Dame

Following in the steps of some of the greatest coaches in college football history cannot be all that easy.  I mean, all of that tradition can get pretty heavy, right? A little advice from those who came before you would be nice now and then, correct?  Wouldn’t it be nice to have as your advisor someone who had your job …

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by admin on January 3rd, 2013 Leave a comment »

Congratulations Johnny Manziel, NCAA FB Player Of The Year

This was the year of Johnny Football.  He and his new friend Manti Te’o were hands down the countries two favorite players.  Te’o & Manziel were one & two in the Heisman competition with Johnny finally taking the Trophy and Manti carrying off just about everything else including the Butkus and the Lombardi Awards.  After the ceremony, Manziel went on …

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by admin on January 1st, 2013 Leave a comment »