Amare Stoudemire has never been shy about telling you exactly how he feels about anything that happens to pop into his mind, so it was hardly a surprise when the Knicks’ veteran big went off on former coach Mike D’Antoni just as he was returning to the lineup in New York.
What’s happened to the Timberwolves?
Just two weeks ago they were living large and enjoying the spoils of a 14-9 record. Four wins in a row had moved them into second place (behind Oklahoma City) in the Northwest Division, and with Ricky Rubio’s return on the horizon, things were finally looking up for the franchise.
Headline: Storyline Central – Colts Take on Ravens in Wild Card Weekend
The Indianapolis Colts continue their improbable season on Sunday when they head to Baltimore to take on a Ravens team that will in all likelihood be playing their last game with their emotional, spiritual and uber-talented leader – Ray Lewis who has hinted at retirement after this season. But the storylines don’s top there. How’s this for an incestual relationship between the two teams?
Headline: Rookies Rise – Wilson and the Seahawks Take on Griffin III and the Redskins Wild Card Sunday
On paper, Sunday’s showdown between the Seattle Seahawks and the Washington Redskins could be the best game of the Wild Card Weekend. You have two rookie quarterbacks, terrific running games and two teams that have won seven of their last eight games going head to head.
Headline: Packers Host Vikings in First NFC Wild Card – Will AP Do It Again?
The first of the NFC Wild Card games goes this Saturday from Lambeau Field and features a rematch of a scintillating Week 17 game in which the Vikings qualified for the postseason with a 37-34 win. While the Vikings come into Saturday’s matchup as arguably the hotter of the two teams, there is no doubt which is the better all around squad.
The best two teams in the playoffs (Denver, New England) may reside in the AFC. That’s what the pre-playoff chatter says, anyway.
Cincinnati is looking to avenge last year’s playoff loss against Houston. The Bengals are looking good while Houston has dropped in the AFC standings big time on the last day of the season. Can they recover?
The 1984 Bears these teams ain’t. Nor are they the 1972 Dolphins.
They are 12 teams that all feel they can win the Super Bowl about a month from now, if for no other reasons than the other 11 are so eminently capable of not winning it.
Both Texas A&M and Oklahoma ended the season hot winning 5 straight games and these teams are old rivals from in the Big 12. Johnny Manziel won the Heisman for the Aggies this season and became the first ever freshman to do so.
The Oregon Ducks and the Kansas State Wildcats will meet Jan. 3 in what might be the most highly anticipated bowl game outside of the BCS Championship. At one point it was presumed that this was going to be the national title game, but with both teams falling on the same day in November, they now find themselves facing off in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl.
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The Friars are not starting their Big East season from a good place. They have lost their last two games to Boston College and Brown. Both losses were on the road which is where they will be again, unfortunately it is as Louisville the 4th ranked team in the country.
The air is out of the balloon and the Golden State Warriors won’t get a crack at breaking the Clippers’ long winning streak.
The way the Los Angeles Lakers look at it, 2013 is the second start of the season. So much for 2012 and the bizarre first 30 games, and especially good-bye to that four-game losing streak in early December when LAL fell to 9-14 and everyone was wondering if this might be the end of the line for Kobe Bryant and his backup singers.
