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College Football – USC vs Stanford Predictions
The first big game of the Pac-12 this season comes in the form of #14 ranked USC coming to play against #13 Stanford at Palo Alto, with a lot of focus on the previous animosity between the two head coaches and the very interesting match-up we’re bound to see between the Trojans pass rush and the Cardinal rebuilding offensive line.
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Royals Over Yankees – No Offense Means No Playoffs as Well
The Yankees are at a stage where every loss could mean the end of their playoff hopes. That’s “perfect” in terms of timing for them to return to their offensive woes and get shutout by the Kansas City Royals and James Sheilds, pulling off a 1-0 win to solidify their place on top of the AL Central.
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18 Best Memes of the Seattle Seahawks Beating the Green Bay Packers
Despite putting on a bruising performance to beat the Green Bay Packers 36-16, the defending Super Bowl champions Seattle Seahawks are the ones mostly made fun of in the day-after memes, with too many people focused on the Seahawks seemingly gaining too many fans too quickly. The focus should be something else: How badly the […]
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Roger Federer – Not Giving Up on the US Open Title
For a moment there all seemed lost for Roger Federer, but he managed to come back from losing the first two sets against Gael Monfils and reach the US Open semifinal for the first time in three years. Marin Cilic is next, and there’s probably a Novak Djokovic battle waiting for him in the potential final. However, the world’s greatest living Tennis player is still on the right path to make it an 18th Grand Slam victory.
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The Problem of Having Lionel Messi
Is Lionel Messi actually making his teams, Barcelona and Argentina from time to time, worse, by simply being out there on the pitch? Is he so good that he hurts the flow of the game? Not necessarily, but there are times that make you wonder about the necessity of such a big star and the downside of having someone so good, who knows he is that good, on your team.
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Pitchers That Have Won the MVP
No one is talking about Clayton Kershaw of the Los Angeles Dodgers winning the Cy Young award in the NL for a third time. It’s about the National League MVP. While it’s not longer very common to see pitchers winning the award, it’s not like it’s never happened before.
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Team USA – Going According to Plan
A 5-0 start in the group stage, no injuries to be worried about. The rest? It’s all fixable. Beating Ukraine 95-71 put the USA through to the round of 16 in the Basketball World Cup, not letting another slow start worry them as James Harden led the team in what seemed to be the first time in this tournament that the perimeter players were more dominant than those in the paint.
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Yankees Over Red Sox – Barely Alive in the Playoff Race
The chase for a postseason spot by the New York Yankees continues, coming off their series against the Boston Red Sox with two consecutive wins, including a 5-4 victory to clinch it thanks to two ninth-inning home runs from Mark Teixeira and Chase Headley, countering the big hitting of David Ortiz earlier in the game.
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Seahawks Over Packers – How a Champion Should Start a Season
The scariest thing about the Seattle Seahawks opening the 2014 NFL season with a 36-16 win over the Green Bay Packers? This could be just the beginning, and they’re only going to get better – be it Russell Wilson hardly making any mistakes at quarterback, Marshawn Lynch being virtually unstoppable or Percy Harvin showing just how dangerous he is when he’s healthy enough to start the season.
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Los Angeles Lakers – Jeremy Lin & Kobe Bryant Have Very Different Motivations
Every player, almost every new season, has something to prove. But that something? It differs from subject to subject, and maybe the two most important players this season for the Los Angeles Lakers, Jeremy Lin and Kobe Bryant, have a different set of goals going into the 2014-2015 NBA season.