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October 31, 2008

The beginning

by Dan Bilicki In: Basketball

It’s only been a few days and games into the NBA season put there’s already been enough to write a post about, notes style.
 
So should the Blazers just replace Oden’s name in the locker room with Sam Bowie’s? The old man just cannot stay on the court. Now he’s out for 2-4 weeks? I’m feeling [...]

October 30, 2008

The longest game ever

by Dan Bilicki In: Baseball

It was a game that finished about 50 hours after it started and it only lasted 9 innings. It took so long the Tampa Bay Rays were kicked out of the hotel rooms and had to drive to Dover to sleep in beds. And even though they had to wait that long to see how [...]

October 29, 2008

NBA preview spectacular

by Dan Bilicki In: Basketball, Picks

With Mother Nature being nice enough to shut down the World Series for the second night in a row, the NBA’s opening night got about as much attention as it possibly could have this time of the year. While the Celtics raised their championship banner — and Paul Pierce cried like wuss — it signaled [...]

October 28, 2008

A cup o’ tea

by Dan Bilicki In: Football, Picks

It’s pretty easy to see that this year’s London Bowl was far superior to last season’s slop-fest. But anytime you matchup two teams that have electric offences and suspect defences, well the crowds will roar as they regret putting more money on the “Over” line. But what you really have to take away from the [...]

October 27, 2008

As certain as you can get

by Dan Bilicki In: Baseball

After blowing out the Rays last night, even getting a home run from their starting pitcher Joe Blanton, Tampa Bay doesn’t look like it has any hope of bringing the World Series back home for Games 6 or 7. Especially not with Cole Hamels starting tonight for the Phillies. The National League advantage and overall [...]

October 26, 2008

Catching up with baseball

by Dan Bilicki In: Baseball, Basketball, Football, Hockey

I know I completely missed out on writing about Games 1 and 2 of the World Series but this just happens to be one of the busiest times of the sports year.  With the NFL really gearing up, the NBA set to launch plus the NHL underway and making bad decisions, it  can be hard [...]

October 25, 2008

Is it Week 8 already?

by Dan Bilicki In: Football, Picks

Just when I thought that there couldn’t be a worse playoff system than the one that the NBA and NHL use — where over half the teams make the post-season — I found the worst (and dumbest ) system yet. The CFL really outshines everyone when it comes to bad post-season systems. In the CFL, [...]

October 23, 2008

What’s wrong with the NHL: Oct. ‘08.. 2

by Dan Bilicki In: Hockey

It didn’t even take a month of hockey for me to be forced into writing another What’s wrong with the NHL column. How sad it that? I’ve got two issues with the league right now and while, on the surface, one of them might actually turn out to be profitable, the underlying principle of it [...]

October 22, 2008

A Series for the World

by Dan Bilicki In: Baseball, Picks

With Major League Baseball’s championship, the World Series, starting tonight in humble St. Petersburg, what better time would there be to breakdown the teams and give a prediction or two?
Starting pitchers: Cole Hamels is the best pitcher in this series and that shouldn’t even be debated. Behind him in Philadelphia’s rotation is sometimes good Brett [...]

October 21, 2008

Big trouble

by Dan Bilicki In: Football, Picks

By now, you should have realized that there’s something wrong with the Dallas Cowboys. I’m willing to give some credit to the St. Louis Rams, who looked better than they have all season (not saying much). They’ve played a lot better since Scott Linehan was fired and Jim Haslett stepped in. Somehow, the defence is [...]

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