Thanks Super Bowl – now February gets to piss us off even more than usual.
The month that lingers on like a BBQ stain on a white T has just become even more onerous because all we have is a great game (the greatest game?) to look back upon – and little to look forward to.
Early Odds have already been released for the 2010 Superbowl Champion. Check in already at betED.com Sportsbook & Casino, for odds and future lines for Superbowl XLIV…
A suckage disclosure: Before getting going on this annual tradition of choosing the Super Bowl champeen, I should mention that I picked the Steelers to finish second in the AFC North behind the Cleveland Browns. As for the Cardinals, they also were supposed to be runners up in the NFC West behind the (ahem) Seattle Seahawks.
One day after Peyton Manning was named the NFL’s MVP, the league let him down with a toss of a coin.
It has been a long-time rule that tied NFL playoff games end in overtime with the first score. After Saturday, that rule has got a lotta folks all upset like.
San Diego took the ball after regulation and then proceeded to march down the field and score on their first possession of overtime allowing the Chargers to move on. The Colts were sent home without the league’s MVP having the opportunity to touch the football.
On the morning of September 15th, 2008, the news from Wall Street was disastrous. Later dubbed as another “Black Monday” by the media, John McCain insisted in a speech that same morning that “the fundamentals of our economy are strong.”
With those seven little words his run for the American Presidency effectively was over.
Is this typical of these guys or what? For the first time in a long time the PGA tour had a tougher than usual decision to make when it came to naming the player of the year for 2008.
And they blew it.
The most famous person in the world right now is the new American President, Barack Obama, but just a few days before Election Day, it was another young man of mixed ethnicity, Tiger Woods.
A co-inky-dink you think? Not really as it was athletes like Tiger who helped pave the way for America to get over itself and elect a visible minority to the White House.
The Tennessee Titans are now the top ranked team in the NFL – and they attained that lofty status by taking the week off.
Welcome to the National Floccinaucinihilipilification League.
Floccinau-what? With 29 letters and 12 syllables, “floccinaucinihilipilification” is the longest non-technical word in the English dictionary and it is defined as “the act of describing something as worthless, or making something to be worthless by depreciation.”
Oct 7th, 2008 – Keeping an Eye on the NHL
The NHL, struggling to get a foothold back in the North American sports marketplace, opened up their new season over the weekend in that local hockey hotbed, Sweden.
Yes, it’s looking like it could be another one of those years for the NHL.
Oct 7th, 2008 – betED.com Press Release – Bet the NLCS and ALCS at betED.com
Who plays who in the 2008 World Series will be determined when the NLCS and ALCS get underway Thursday and Friday.
Let’s say you are one of those rare individuals who still have a job.
That means, almost no matter how hard you try, probably for you watching baseball is over for this year.
Week 3 Betting Odds For NFL Football from betED.com Online Sportsbook & Casino.
Yes -150
No +120
One second you are everybody’s Super Bowl favorite. The next you are not even picked to come out of your division.
Things happen fast in the NFL.
Upping the Ante
Remember how bad you felt last September? What was usually the best time of year to be a sports fan, suddenly there was this great shadow cast over the NFL where many considered the luster of the national obsession to be permanently dulled due to the nastiness of the news.
The Milwaukee Brewers play the second of a four-game set against the San Diego Padres on Friday, hoping to cushion their lead atop the National League Wild Card standings (8:05 pm ET). The Padres will start Josh Geer. The righthander is 1-0 with a 3.60 ERA. The Brew Crew will counter with ace lefty CC Sabathia, who is 15-8 with a 2.82 ERA.
