February 3, 2012

The big pick for the big game

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 [...]

January 30, 2012

You call that a spectacle, NHL?

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 [...]

January 23, 2012

Baltimore and San Fran get their scapegoats

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 [...]

January 20, 2012

Who’s going to the Super Bowl?

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 [...]

January 16, 2012

NFL bandwagons crash and burn

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 [...]

January 13, 2012

NFL playoff picks: Round 2

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 [...]

January 9, 2012

From ‘nobody’ to ‘everybody’ in 60* minutes

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 [...]

January 7, 2012

NFL wild card wackness

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 [...]

December 31, 2011

The NFL goes right down to the wire

by Dan Bilicki In: Football, Picks

As a Cowboys fan, I hate the fact that the team’s season is coming down to the final game of it all. Especially against the Giants, who just came back in the fourth quarter to beat the Cowboys in Dallas in Week 14 thanks to a blocked field goal.
You just get the feeling that in [...]

December 23, 2011

Some merry Xmas NFL picks

by Dan Bilicki In: Football, Picks

The NFL has bestowed upon us the greatest early Christmas gift that they could possibly think of: A full slate of games on Christmas eve! It wouldn’t have been smart to jam pack a Sunday full of games when everybody is sitting down with their families. At least when the NBA does it, they’re back-to-back-to-back [...]

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