Archive for September, 2009
Detroit Tigers: One of the Best Teams Money Could Buy?
Posted: 29th September 2009 by Josh Levitt in MLB
Are the Tigers one of the 10 best teams that money could buy? Jon Heyman think so:
10T. Detroit Tigers, $119 million. They've got a few high salaries (Magglio Ordonez at $18.9 million, for example), but they also have a formidable team. As evidenced by their liberal draft strategy, they are always willing to pay for untested talent. Rick Porcello's a great deal, even with him being close to the highest-paid ...
Colts: How Losing Freeney Will Effect The Defense In Upcoming Weeks
Posted: 29th September 2009 by Eddie Garrison in NFL
The Indianapolis Colts found out what they feared might be the news on their all pro defensive end Dwight Freeney. Doctors are expecting Freeney to miss two to three weeks with a strained quadriceps they reported on Tuesday morning.
In the past, Freeney has been known as of somewhat of a fast healer. But if the doctors are correct, the defensive end would miss the Colts' next two games against the ...
Welcome to the Week Three edition of the Cubicle GM NFL Power Rankings. Every Tuesday you can look forward to our composite rankings, as well as a bit of brief insight and analysis about each of the 32 teams.
The rankings are determined by simply taking the average of each of the contributors here at The Cube. For Week Three, we have rankings from five members of the Cubicle GM team, ...
This thorough analysis and statistical evaluation of every player and team in the NFL is part of a broader endeavor with FOXSports.com's Fantasy Football.
Each regular season game is simulated 10,001 times.á This allows us to account for every player and statistical interaction in an NFL game.á Rosters and depth charts are as up-to-date and accurate as possible as of Tuesday of each week. Information on scoring appears at the bottom ...
L.A. Lakers’ Andrew Bynum Faces Make or Break Year
Posted: 29th September 2009 by Malcolm Martin in NBA
Remember 2005?Ah yes.áA year that Lakers fans have tried in vain to forget for so long, in which a lack of a true center (Kwame Brown was our starter) along with the flight ofáa coachá(Rudy Tomjanovich) before the All-Star break led to a 34-48 record.
It was good forálast in the Pacific Division, 12th in the Western Conference.
The Lakers missedáthe playoffs for only the fifth time in franchise history.On the bright ...
The Schottey Six: Most Surprising Players of 2009
Posted: 29th September 2009 by Michael Schottey in NFL
Every year, hundreds of pundits, commentators and analysts get paid millions of dollars to predict the NFL season. It starts with draft analysts and goes all the way up to fantasy football gurus and Las Vegas odds setters.
It is a world, a strange world, where accuracy is never gauged. None of those prognosticators get a single dime to be right or lose a penny when they are wrong.
It's ...
Not the Same Old Bengals: Comeback Victory Over Steelers Gives Cincy Fans Hope
Posted: 29th September 2009 by John Phythyon in NFL
On a breezy afternoon at Paul Brown Stadium, every Bengals fan could feel it slipping away. A promising 1-1 start was morphing into what promising starts in Cincinnati nearly always doùanother disappointing season.
Hines Ward, a guy not exactly renowned for being respectful of other teams in their parks, was saying on the field what everyone in the sports world was thinking: ôSame old Bengals.ö
The defense, which had been so brilliant ...
Terrell Owens and the Media: Who’s Goading Who?
Posted: 29th September 2009 by Christopher Leone in NFL
Love him or hate him, Terrell Owens is one of the most prominent players in the National Football League. Number 81 is known for being a big-play wide receiver, from stints in San Francisco, Philadelphia, and Dallas, to today, when he suits up for the Buffalo Bills.
The occasional hands of stone aside, Owens has a history of making big plays. He has the third-longest streak of consecutive games with a ...
NFL Week Four Power Rankings by WhatIfSports.com
Posted: 29th September 2009 by WhatIfSports.com in NFL
WhatIfSports.com utilizes its NFL football simulation technology to present the most comprehensive, deterministic, and unbiased ranking of all 32 teams.
We simulated every possible matchup in the NFL 100 times and used the winning percentages from those nearly 50,000 games to evaluate every team.
All 32 teams are ranked below with their average points for and against from the simulated games. All rosters and depth charts are up-to-date as of Monday night ...
After Dwight Freeney heard "a pop" in Sunday night's action against the Arizona Cardinals, the Indianapolis Colts were fearing the worst.
Thankfully, though, they will only be without their star defensive end for 2-3 weeks.
Still, the loss of Freeney with two matchups against solid offenses raises an issue for the Colts: Can they stop both the Seahawks and Titans with Robert Mathis handling double-teams?
Seattle boasts a new-and-improved running game that has ...