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How Come Nobody's Hyping Up This Super Bowl?
Through the first 33 years of my life, I have never witnessed a Super Bowl in which my favorite team was participating. As such, the build up to the game, for me, has always been more "casual interest" and less "intense anticipation." Don't get me wrong. I love the Super Bowl. It's hard to beat...
How Much Media Love Is Too Much?
At every training camp for years now, we have heard all the reasons why the Texans were going to be bad. How they would never be able to compete in their own division. How they were a snake bit team on the road to nowhere. How they would struggle to win 4 games. But not anymore. No, we have entered...
Polling GSoM: Based on their stats Guard A or Guard B?
It's time for another blind taste test. For today's edition we'll be looking at two different guards in the association. Both swapped teams this past season. Neither puts up superstar numbers, yet one of the guards is billed as a savior and in my book over-hyped like Darko Milicic pre-2004 NBA...
Replace CC and Ben? No problem.
When you read the 2009 NL Central previews, just about everyone sees the Brewers taking a big hit with the departure of CC Sabathia and Ben Sheets, in some cases dropping us to 5th place in the division. But will the dropoff from 2008 to 2009 be that bad? I'm not so sure. In looking over last...
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