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The New MLB Replay Rules Are Set

Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig announced recently that the long awaited expanded instant replay review system will actually go into effect when MLB gets underway in March. There will be a few trial runs during the Spring Training season but all MLB games will employ the new system for the 2014 season and into the foreseeable future. The biggest …

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by admin on January 21st, 2014 Leave a comment »

Any Given Monday

Dr. James Andrews is the foremost sports medicine doctors in the world today. No matter who they are or even where they are, if a top athlete is hurt he will most likely seek out Dr. Andrews to fix him up and put him back into action again. Why?  Good question. Probably, like in most other cases, because it works.  …

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by admin on January 20th, 2014 Leave a comment »

$765 Million Settlement For Former NFL Players

After many years of debate and speculation, the NFL Players Association has announced acceptance of a $765,000,000 settlement from the league in compensation for the thousands of concussion related injuries incurred by former professional football players. Actually, the $765 million falls far short of what the players association was seeking as settlement. There are now literally thousands of claims by …

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by admin on January 18th, 2014 Leave a comment »

Brady And Manning Set For 15th Matchup

In an ironic historical note, the first time that Peyton Manning faced the New England Patriots was way back in September 2001 when the Patriots beat Manning and the Indianapolis Colts 44-13. Manning got off to an inglorious start by throwing two pick-sixes but the really ironic part is that this was also Tom Brady’s first start replacing the injured …

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by admin on January 17th, 2014 Leave a comment »

Stargazing In The Big Leagues Part 2

As the 2014 major league baseball season draws near let’s take a quick look at some of the biggest names in the sport and what they are up to. Read Part 1. Robinson Cano was named for baseball legend Jackie Robinson.  He has been a baseball guy all of his life and has spent the past nine seasons playing second …

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by admin on January 16th, 2014 Leave a comment »

Stargazing In The Big Leagues Part 1

It’s almost time for the boys of summer to take the field once again and we take the opportunity to see what’s up with several of the brightest stars on the baseball diamond for 2014.  The Los Angeles Dodgers have made a deal with manager Don Mattingly based mostly on his ability to manage one of the most eclectic and …

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by admin on January 15th, 2014 Leave a comment »

Is An Eight Team NCAA Football Playoff Series Viable?

And so we come to the end of the BCS era. Thank goodness! Let’s hope that whatever they come up with next is a little easier to follow, or make sense of. It is a bit worrisome that the same guys who were in charge of the BCS process will also be ram-rodding the new system. We can only sit …

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by admin on January 14th, 2014 Leave a comment »

Bulls Make Trades With Eyes On The Future

On the surface the latest deal between the Chicago Bulls and the Cleveland Cavaliers seems to be a bit daft. They trade for a well known player in the person of Andrew Bynum and then waive him the next day. Plus, they trade away Luol Deng who is arguably one of the most productive players in the NBA today. Why …

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by admin on January 13th, 2014 Leave a comment »

Tebow, Saban & Johnny Football At BCS Championship

ESPN brought out a stellar cast of color commentators for the final BCS Championship Game on January 6th in Pasadena. Tim Tebow got an excellent kick start to his upcoming broadcasting career with the new SEC Network when he sat in with Lee Corso and the ESPN College GameDay team for a bit of color commentary before kickoff of the …

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by admin on January 9th, 2014 Leave a comment »

Changing The NFL Playoff Structure

For some time now there has been an ongoing discussion on whether to expand the NFL Playoff structure to 14 or even 16 teams. Season after season there seems to be one or two teams that everyone agrees should have been in the playoffs, but just didn’t make it under the current system. In the past ten years we have …

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by admin on January 8th, 2014 Leave a comment »