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Ok we will start with of course I know this is a United Football League team, but they are showing how one goes about building a championship organization. Given the win now at all cost moves by the Minnesota Vikings and other pro sports teams the Locos are going about their business in a very […]

The NBA is kind of all over the place right now with labor strife, and the idea that some of the North America franchises should be contracted. If the plan is to move into Europe, which is probably a good move, contraction is ridiculous. These teams should be relocated to Europe in enough numbers that […]

For two Coaches the hot seat has got to be burning them up. I am very surprised that neither Wade Phillips and Brad Childress have been fired yet. Of course the key word in that sentence is yet. There is no doubt regime change will come to both Dallas and Minnesota sooner rather than later. […]

The race that stops the nation, the 150th running of the Melbourne Cup runs at 3pm AEST (9pm PDT), but if you can’t get to a television, or you’re outside of Australia, you can watch the Melbourne Cup online. There’s a variety of options available to watch the Melbourne Cup online, hopefully one of these […]

When I first read the report that Denver Broncos owner Pat Bowlen stated that his head coach, Josh McDaniels, is safe for the remainder of the season. He went on to say that he is safe for 2011 as well. I am not surprised as much that Bowlen felt the need to say that, but […]

As I sit here stewing knowing that I cannot watch my Detroit Lions play a 1 PM game against the Washington Redskins, I came across an article about the frequency of NFL blackouts in the 2010 season. For those that do not know if a NFL game is not sold out three days before the […]

It is a little harder to argue for contraction in the NBA where the attendance figures for all 30 teams do not have as wide a margin as they do say in the NHL. Using last season’s attendance figures the Chicago Bulls drew 849,760 fans or 20,725 on average. The New Jersey Nets who were […]

The Big 10 (12) Conference has painted themselves into a pretty tricky corner. By deciding to divide up their conference by means other than ya know geography, the conference is having trouble coming up with names for its two divisions. North, South, East or West will simply not work since the divisions are all a […]

Ok let us start with this; a Head Coach’s job is to put his team in the best position to win the game each and every week. He has to put all other considerations out of his head and choose which is better move to help his team win the game. That leaves Chilly with […]

Game One of the 2010 World Series featuring the Texas Rangers and San Francisco Giants failed to draw a very large audience. Of course we kind of knew that was going to happen as anyone living east of the Mississippi River has little to no interest in watching these two teams duel for the world […]

We all know that the NBA has its own labor issues; we also know that of course NBA Commissioner David Stern will always argue that the sky is falling. I don’t think things are quite that bad, sure they need more cost assurance and more folks coming to see all 30 NBA team but this […]

Many people out there think the Detroit Tigers will be big players in the free agent market this coming off season. In cruising around the blogosphere today I saw a number of discussions about what the Tigers may spend, what they feel they can spend, and what they really should spend on payroll in 2011. […]

Only two big surprises this week, the Browns beat the Saints and the Raiders blow out the Broncos. Other than that things went as many thought they would. With that said here are my week 8 NFL power rankings: Jets (even from last week)- They look like the best team right now Steelers (+1)- Big […]

File this one under the most obvious headline ever. However, I am starting to wonder if we can call the people running the Buffalo Bills NFL professionals at all. I mean last winter I was writing about how they lacked the personnel to run the 3-4 defense. Yet they tried to shoe horn that defense […]

The might be the dumbest headline I have ever written in my sports writing career. Currently the Detroit Tigers have only one legitimate outfielder on their roster, CF Austin Jackson. They have a hole in right, and it looks like the plan might be to platoon a couple of younger players in left. They also […]

Not what you were expecting with your sports coverage? Perhaps not, but it certainly offers at least some comedy value. (via NextRound)

I know, I know that contraction is the ugliest word we can use to talk about sports, but in the case of the NHL I think we have to at least consider it. There are a number of teams out there struggling to draw crowds, and there are a number of big market clubs that […]

Dallas Cowboys starting QB Tony Romo broke his collar bone and while he does not need surgery he is still going to be out six to eight weeks. Since the Cowboys are already past their bye week, and at 1-5 they are falling behind the rest of the teams in the NFC East. What was […]

Brad Childress is having a very bad week. His team got embarrassed by a division rival on Sunday Night Football, the deal with the devil he cut for QB Brett Favre is looking less and less smart every day, and he took an opportunity to call out his Hall of Fame QB, the league, and […]

Denny Hamlin won the NASCAR Sprint Cup series race at Martinsville, Virginia today. It was Denny’s 7th won of the year, but more importantly he gained points on point’s leader Jimmie Johnson and not trails the #48 team by just 6 points. That makes the Chase for the Sprint Cup a likely four person affair, […]

UFC 121: Lesnar vs. Velasquez saw the Ultimate Fighting Championship head West to Anaheim, California Saturday night with a headline fight for the heavyweight world championship. As always, if you don’t want to know the results, scroll straight to the video. Top of the card say Brock Lesnar take on Cain Velasquez for the Heavyweight […]

26-year-old swimming star Fran Crippen died during a race in the United Arab Emirates today after losing consciousness during the event. Crippen was found in the water after a lengthy search prompted by a teammate’s concerns. Some details surrounding the circumstances that lead to Crippen’s death seem to be in dispute, and it has been […]

Outgoing Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty seems to have a more favorable impression that the Minnesota Vikings will get a new stadium built in Minnesota then I. I do not share his optimism as the tide as turned on the publicly funded stadiums who then get little in return. I blame Jeff Loria and the Florida […]

The House of cards that has been Richard Petty Motor Sports looks to be collapsing. RPM released Kasey Kahne over an incident last Saturday night, but that may not be the whole reason, they may have owned him a lot of money and gave him his freedom in exchange for letting that money slide. This […]

Kasey Kahne has been released from Richard Petty Motorsports following an ugly incident last week at Charlotte Motor Speedway where Kasey refused to finish the race. This is a pretty ugly story that gets a lot more complicated given the financial situation at Richard Petty Motorsports that will be discussed in a later post. For […]

The Pac 10 will announce tomorrow how their new 12 team conference will be divided up by conference, and the school presidents and Chancellors will vote on a plan to give USC and UCLA a bigger piece of conference revenue pie. This is a little complicated, but I don’t really like the idea of one […]

Yet another Pittsburg Drama Queen. A day after getting a 75k fine from the NFL for two helmet to helmet hits versus the Cleveland Browns last Sunday James Harrison cried to his head coach got excused from practice , threatened to retire, and had his agent give a ‘We are very serious’ statement. Go ahead […]

Finally someone outside of Detroit took it upon himself to verbally assassinate the moron that is Matt Millen. Mike Florio, the man behind proffootballtalk.com, went on Boston radio yesterday to respond to the helmet on helmet hit crisis. Of course he took the chance to respond to some things that Matt “the moron” Millen had […]

As things go in the 2010 season, week six was pretty much what we expected it to be. Sure there were still a few surprise losses, but as far as power rankings go things are starting to sort themselves out. With that being said here is my week seven NFL power rankings: Jets (even from […]

First it was a change from Vice President of Football Operations to a consultant, now Bill Parcells has cleared out his office at the Miami Dolphins and may be looking to exercise his option to leave the team and still get his full paycheck. This of course is more fallout from the sale of that […]

In the end this decision or contest was such a no brainer that well let us focus on the positive. Omaha, Nebraska will host the second ever UFL Championship game on Saturday November 27th. To determine the second ever UFL Champion. The UFL will say that many factors went into this decision, but in my […]

Finally one of the uglier chapters in recent sports business history is at an end. The city of Glendale, Arizona has agreed to a new lease on jobing.com arena for the Phoenix Coyotes. Now the NHL, who brought the team out of bankruptcy, can find a new owner for the team and the word is […]

Say what you will about the 81-81 2010 version of the Detroit Tigers. While we wait for the post season plan to come together we can definitely say that they have one piece of the puzzle. That piece is first baseman Miguel Cabrera who also happens to be their clean up hitter. For this team […]

Ok I guess it is the time for all of us to start bitching, the first 2010 BCS rankings have been released, and in what is becoming a familiar story Boise State seems to be getting the shaft. Before we go any further here are the top ten in the BCS rankings: Oklahoma Oregon Boise […]

The Las Vegas Locos beat the Sacramento Mountain Lions 26-3 to improve to 3-1 and stay tied with the Omaha Nighthawks on top of the UFL standings. However their third win came at a terrible price. QB Tim Rattay ruptured his Achilles Tendon and has been placed on IR by the team effectively ending his […]

Sure it may still be a little early, but this year’s Heisman race really seemed to be between a bunch of QB’s. Of course that was until today when nearly all of the front runners took themselves right out of consideration. Now it seems the Heisman race is wide open with a QB named Cam […]

It looks like the Seattle Mariners are set to hire former Cleveland Indians Manger Eric Wedge to lead the rebuilding effort for their club. Now I have never been a big fan of retread hires, nor am I sold on Wedge as the best candidate for this job, but some of his record cannot be […]

This is now official the University of Michigan Wolverines will face the Alabama Crimson Tide at Cowboys Stadium as the schools’ season opener to the 2012 CFB season. What a great match up. Think about it the Tide, great football team versus the Wolverines with QB Denard Robinson as a senior. Come one this match […]

When Lou Piniella first announced that he was stepping down as manger of the Cubs I though Cubs legend Ryne Sandberg was a lock for this position. I mean this organization has been grooming him as a manger for the last few years, but we have to remember that the organization has been sold in […]

I am not hip in any sense of the word, so I don’t know what Mr. Sean Combs is calling himself these days, but to me he will always be Puffy, so I guess that is what I will call him. Apparently Puffy was busy on Twitter recently when he went out of his way […]

TJ Lavin, the Real World/Road Rules Challenge host and BMX star is in a medically induced coma in critical condition after an incident in Las Vegas last night at the Dew Tour Championships. ESPN describes the accident: Lavin was attempting a nac nac combination over the second set of the dirt course, and failed to […]

A number of NFL teams, through their NFLPA player reps have voted to decertify the NFLPA. It is the Union’s last nuclear strike option to prevent the NFL and the owners from locking out the union come 2011. To understand what all of this means we have to sort through a number of complex legal […]

Nate Burleson got under the skin of the stuffy shirts that run the National Football League. First, during pre game warm ups he lifted up his jersey to reveal a t shirt that said, “What up Doe.” Then after scoring a touchdown he punted the ball into the crowd received a 15 yard penalty and […]

Five new NASCAR personalities will be introduced into the NASCAR Hall of Fame next May. Here is a quick look at them and there accomplishments: Bud Moore, Team owner- 2 cup championships and 63 wins as an owner, and introduced NASCAR to the small block V-8 engines in the 1970’s Ned Jarrett, Driver, broadcaster- two […]

I was reading a post on profootballtalk.com about NFL Head Coaches on the hot seat. Florio and his boys had Mike Singletary, John Fox, Eric Mangini, Brad Childress, and Chan Gailey as the coaches with the hottest seats. While their seats are likely a little bit warm I disagree with this list. First and foremost […]

Wow, what a weird and wild NFL week. The ups and the downs make it hard on my stomach, but prove why the NFL is king. Any team can win in any contest. It is crazy, and the 1972 Miami Dolphins can pop the corks on the champagne as their unbeaten record will last another […]

Week Six was a pretty brutal affair. Alabama goes down to South Carolina by two touchdowns. Michigan gets exposed as a one man gang, and the USA Today Coaches Poll and AP poll look pretty similar. On top of that word leaked that the first BCS ranking may have Boise State as the #1 team […]

The next step for the Players Union and the NFL looks to be a collusion charge. Now I am not a lawyer, and I don’t even play one on TV, but this will be a legal case made by circumstantial evidence. The NFLPA will have to show a Judge enough circumstantial things to prove that […]

There have been Joe Theismann buying the Florida Tuskers rumors for over a month now, and the United Football League was very slow to acknowledge that development or respond to progress on what was taking place behind the scenes. Why I am sure we can all understand the public is not the best place to […]

Sometimes it is really tough to be a Detroit Lions fan. They have been awful for a really long time now, and the main man responsible for the recent futility was Matt Millen. So it surprised me to no end to see Millen as the color analyst for the big Michigan- Michigan State rivalry game […]