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Why the NHL Postseason Crushes the NBA Playoffs

By Guest Blogger Rob Yunich: With the NHL and NBA playoffs beginning next week, here’s a look at how they compare: NAMES: The Stanley Cup drips with history, starting with its namesake – Lord Stanley of Preston. The trophy itself dates back to 1892 (making it the oldest among the four major sports) and has the name…

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Drive for the Putt, Putt for the Dough

By Guest Blogger Kyle Howard: This weekend marks the super bowl of the golfing world, The Masters. The Masters is one of the most prestigeous and traditional tournments in the sporting world. Many questions surround this years Masters, but the most important one any golfing activist is asking themselves is Can Tiger win again? Tiger…

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National League Preview

By Guest Blogger Kyle Howard: As the baseball season is underway, there's already lots of questions to think about. Will a team take down the heavily favored Phillies? Do the Giants have what it takes to make it back to the World Series? Will Cubs finally end their World Series drought of 102 years and…

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Atlanta Hawks: How to NOT Run a NBA Franchise

By Guest Blogger Geoff Nelowet: The Atlanta Hawks sit at 44-32 after tonight’s win over the Boston Celtics. Their record is good for fifth in the Eastern Conference. They’re a physical, defensive-minded team, and they’re coming off the heels of a major in-season trade that upgraded their starting point guard. Sounds like a good situation,…

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American League Preview

By Guest Blogger Brian Murphy: Besides the fact that most of the baseball cities in the Mid-Atlantic and East Coast have been succumb to downpours and even snow, it is almost April and it’s beginning to look a lot like baseball season. Teams are wrapping up spring training in their sunny southern ballparks and ready to get the…

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One Shining Moment

By Guest Blogger Rob Yunich: Teams outside of college basketball's power conferences have started to shift the sport's focus to new places. When Butler nearly won the NCAA title last year, many people said it was a fluke and that it wouldn't happen again anytime soon. But when the final four begins on Saturday, not…

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MLB Previews & Predictions

By Guest Blogger Kyle Howard: The season is about ready to begin! Many offseason publicity and free agency moves make this year in the MLB very interesting. Crawford to the Red Sox, Cliff Lee back to the Phillies, Werth to the Nationals, and Rafeal Soriano are only some of the new faces, in new places from this…

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Sweet Sixteen Predictions: Southwest Region

By Guest Blogger Brian Murphy: The final two games of the Southwest Bracket will occur on Friday, March 25. The top-seeded Jayhawks of Kansas have the easiest draw of any other top seed left in the bracket. They match up against one of the two Cinderella squads from Richmond that are in the Southwest bracket. …

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Sweet Sixteen Predictions: East Region

By Guest Blogger Kyle Howard: After arguably the most erratic 3 rounds of College Basketball, we have 16 teams left. Cinderella stories are still in the works for teams like Richmond, VCU, Butler, Florida St. and to my surprise Marquette. Having covered the East Region of the bracket, I wasn’t sure of how well Marquette was…

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March Still Full of Madness, But Not as Much as Advertised

By Guest Blogger Rob Yunich: The wait for the 2011 NCAA men’s basketball tournament to restart is almost over. And while the approximately 90-hour wait between theend of the third round and the start of the Sweet 16 seems endless, it in fact leaves plenty of time for analysis. In this case, it’s time to…

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