NFL Draft Overhyped

The NFL draft is a bit much considering that most of these guys are going to be bit players for some years and a lot of the top picks can be out of the league faster than some of the 5th or 6th rounders.  The only thing interesting is watching a guy like Brady Quinn [...]

Weekend Wrap

Busy sports weekend…NHL and NBA playoffs, the Draft, Boston v. Yanks P.2…
Playoffs…
The NHL is double OT central with three games this weekend going the distance and then some…
The Rangers and Sabres have played two great games with a double OT game today.  The story of the series is the spectacular goaltending on both sides.  Lundqvist [...]

This could get good…Sabres/Rangers Game 2

Buffalo and New York play a terrific game Friday night.  The Rangers were answering the Sabres with a tough defense and shot happy offense.  The game was filled with good checking, talented skating and tremendous team efforts.  For the first two periods the Rangers had the game in hand.  Almost instantly in the third, Chris Drury [...]

Yankees reaching milestones in ‘07

The milestones are not ones to write home about but they are notes for concern.  The Yankees are on the longest losing streak (6) since 1995 and they are four games under .500 for the first time since May of that same year.  Phil Hughes pitched as well as he could – impressive but not lights out [...]

NHL Update

Detroit was shut out yesterday in Hockeytown.  San Jose didn’t play a pretty game but they netted two goals in 24-seconds to silence the crowd early.  The Red Wings managed 34 shots but Nabokov, the Shark’s goalie, wouldn’t bend.  The other key point in the game was that the Sharks only had 5 giveaways while Detroit had [...]

Bloody sock…painted?

Gary Thorne claims that Doug Mirabelli told him that Schilling’s bloody sock was actually paint.  Thing is paint stays red, blood turns brown over time and even looking at pictures of the sock in game convinces me that it is blood…unless they used watercolors.  But, does this really matter?  It doesn’t change the outcome like a corked bat or steroids.  [...]

NHL News

The favorites were impressive on the first day of round 2.  The Sabres handled the Rangers 5-2, encouraged by the comments of NY coach Tom Renney.  No question Buffalo is the best team in the playoffs but they need hold on to the grit they had Wednesday.  The Rangers will fight hard to even this up [...]

NBA Playoff update

Everyone seems shocked that the Bulls took the first two games of the series against Miami.  Two things to remember are that until the last day of the regular season, the Bulls were the number two seed and Dwyane Wade is injured.  Chicago is motivated to prove that they are one of the best teams in [...]

Baseball Homerun News

Barry Bonds wants A-rod to break his HR record…saying that he wants the contract-motivated star to hit 100 homers this year.  This may be a feeble attempt to deflect some steroid talk about Bonds breaking Hank Aaron’s record this year.
In other related home run news, Ken Griffey Jr. passed Reggie Jackson on the list and [...]

Yankees Search for Pitching

The Yankees lost again, this time 10-8 to Tampa Bay.  A-rod hit two more home runs but the offense is not the problem for the Yankees.  The lack of pitching is getting them down.  The good thing is that the calendar reads April and the young guns are getting their feet wet now instead of [...]