February 3, 2012
by Dan Bilicki In: Football, Picks
It’s the finale of the football season. It’s the biggest game in the world – well, maybe just North America, but you get the point. It’s the Super Bowl.
This year’s game is a rematch of a classic from just four years ago, when – I’m sure you’ve heard by now – the New York Giants [...]
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January 30, 2012
by Dan Bilicki In: Football, Ice Hockey
For something that was supposed to be a showcase of the league’s talent, what NHL all-star game viewers got on Sunday was a load of half-assed crap.
I understand that players are not going to go out in an exhibition game with the same intensity as a game against a division rival, but this was pathetic.
Every [...]
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January 25, 2012
by Dan Bilicki In: Ice Hockey
When it comes to the NHL all-star, I really couldn’t care less. Even with their dynamite idea to have the stars themselves divide up the teams, I still wasn’t interested in watching their mid-season spectacle. I did thoroughly enjoy watch Phil Kessel be picked last a year ago in Carolina, but that’s something else.
There’s maybe [...]
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January 23, 2012
by Dan Bilicki In: Football, Picks
My uneducated guess is that late on Sunday afternoon, in the Baltimore area and in the living rooms of Ravens fans everywhere, the name Billy Cundiff was probably shortened into a very similar sounding swear.
Later in the evening, across the country, San Francisco residents and 49ers fans were probably attaching a few nasty adjectives to [...]
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January 20, 2012
by Dan Bilicki In: Football, Picks
It’s the second biggest day on the football calendar this Sunday, so let’s not mince words and just get to the picks.
NEW ENGLAND -7 over Baltimore
Let’s face it; there is no team that can cover the Patriots two amazing tight ends. If there was one, it could have been the Ravens of a few years [...]
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January 18, 2012
by Dan Bilicki In: Basketball
Are you sick of the NBA yet? Because I sure am.
Look at the amount of low-scoring games that are taking place night after night and look at how many injuries are being accrued. How many all-stars have are currently hurt right now? By my off-hand count, at least four: Chris Paul, Dwyane Wade, Al Horford [...]
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January 16, 2012
by Dan Bilicki In: Football, Picks
This weekend in the NFL playoffs, no fewer than three massive bandwagons drove off the proverbial cliff and into the pit of elimination. That’s a lot of fair-weather fans that now have to decide on a new team to support for a couple of weeks, or just stop following the playoffs – but we know [...]
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January 13, 2012
by Dan Bilicki In: Football, Picks
There are two big stats at play this week for picking NFL division round playoffs games – and I’m going to ignore both of them. Sure, that may seem unwise, but streaks, like rules, are made to be broken.
First, since this version of NFL playoff format started, over 70% of home teams won their divisional [...]
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January 9, 2012
by Dan Bilicki In: Football, Picks
Can a team like the Denver Broncos use the oh-so-powerful idiom of “nobody believes in us,” when it has become clear that most of the world might be rooting for their quarterback?
Tim Tebow and the Denver Broncos did it again on Sunday, stunning the heavily-favoured Pittsburgh Steelers in overtime and advancing to the next round [...]
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January 7, 2012
by Dan Bilicki In: Football, Picks
Looking at the slate for wild card weekend, I couldn’t be more disappointed. There are really only 1.5 games out four that I truly want to watch: Saints-Lions and the second half of Giant-Falcons.
Let’s face it, unless you’re a huge fan of the teams in the AFC or a defensive nut, these two games will [...]
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