News from October 2009

Phillies Miscues Gives The Dodgers Game 2 of NLCS

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To make sure they would leave Los Angeles with a split in this best-of-seven National League Championship Series, the Dodgers needed a little help. They got it, but not from a place they expected.
Like Matt Holiday’s dropped fly ball in the NLDS, the Dodgers won Game 2 when Andre Ethier coaxed a bases-loaded, two-out walk [...]

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Phillies Take Game One of NLCS

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The Phillies were able to take game one of the best of seven with the Dodgers last night in a pitching duel/offensive outburst. In a game that was pegged as a great pitching matchup between Clayton Kershaw of the Dodgers and Cole Hamels of the Phillies, it lived up to its billing until the fifth [...]

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So Far, Henne Making The Most Of His Opportunity

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A starting quarterback, a former first-round draft pick of an AFC East team, goes down with an early-season injury, and a young kid from The University of Michigan steps in and unexpectedly starts winning big games.
Sound familiar?
Certainly, after a mere two NFL starts, no in his or her right football mind would equate Chad Henne [...]

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AFC South Wrap Up Week 5

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Indianapolis 31 Tennessee 9
Code Blue turned into Code Red in Nashville Sunday night. The game started well for the Titans as they played the Colts close. The crowd was into the game but when they had the chance to swing the momentum their way they kicked a field goal on fourth and one. This was [...]

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Lopez May Have Spoiled Plans but Prevails to Keep His Title

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New York – Juan Manuel Lopez the WBO junior featherweight champion from Caguas, Puerto Rico and WBA featherweight champion Yuriorkis Gamboa of Cuba defended their respective titles in separate bouts on the “Island Warriors” “Latin Fury 12” pay-per-view show at the WaMu Theatre at Madison Square Garden Saturday evening. The fighters did what they [...]

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Fantasy Fixx Week 5

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Week Five in the NFL
We are always in search of knowledge and more importantly that all important commodity information. If you are planning on setting a winning fantasy football lineup for week 5, then you better be in the know and certain which players are going to perform this week.
Now that we are a quarter [...]

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Boxing Notebook

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Top Rank promoter Bob Arum is already looking at plans for a major boxing card at Madison Square Garden next June on the eve of the National Puerto Rican Day Parade That is where his WBO welterweight champion, Miguel Cotto, is expected to be again, assuming Cotto is successful in his title defense against [...]

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Fantasy Favorite Five

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Jacksonville Jaguar’s Quarterback David Garrard looked great Sunday against the Tennessee Titans this past weekend. Hopefully that momentum will carry across country to Seattle where he will face a depleted Seahawk’s secondary. Seattle has been terrible at stopping the run so they should concentrate on holding Maurice Jones-Drew in check.  If they do focus on [...]

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Favorite Five of the Week

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HONRABLE MENTION
Nice job by the NFL and its players and coaches with all of the pink equipment being worn on Sunday and Monday night to help fight breast cancer. All football lovers enjoy the type of the stuff listed below, but a cause like that is the type of stuff that really matters, and kudos [...]

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NFC South Recap

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New Orleans 24 New York Jets 10
When rookie QB Mark Sanchez took the field he was looking to keep his team undefeated. Well reality set in as well as mistakes and the kid turned out to be human after all. Darren Sharper picked off two Sanchez passes, returning one 99-yards for a touchdown, to help [...]

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