Archive for March, 2010

Understanding Stanford Routt’s First Round Tender

Posted: 25th March 2010 by Jarrod Lumpkins in NFL
So the weirdest tender in the league was a first and third round tender placed on Standford Routt. Clearly last season Routt was burned for touchdown and big play, after touchdown and big play. What has not been made clear is why he was tendered so high. The club has not commented on any reasoning to any tendered players. Coach cable and Al Davis have to have something ...

Addressing the Josh Beckett To the Yankees in 2011 Rumors

Posted: 25th March 2010 by Doug Rush in MLB
One of the best things about being a Yankees Featured Columnist here on Bleacher Report is being able to bring up and address certain rumors that float around. This will be another story pertaining to one of those rumors currently floating around, which now will be addressed by me, and I'm sure will be addressed amongst the Yankees B/R community here as well. I'm looking forward to it. Lately, a certain big-named ...

Stat Trick: New York Rangers 5, New York Islanders 0

Posted: 25th March 2010 by Eric Hornick in NHL
Marian Gaborik scored two goals and added an assist as the Rangers dominated from start to finish and defeated the Isles 5-0 at Madison Square Garden .  The Isles have been shutout in two straight games, tying the club record.  On to the trick: 1. The Rangers scored three times in the first 8:30.  Artem Ansimov and Gaborik scored even strength goals in the first six minutes.  Michael Del ...
It doesn't come as a surprise to me to hear that Al Davis and the Oakland Raiders are considering potential quarterback Donovan McNabb.  With the speculation already proving high a day into the so called "story," Oakland have greased up their very eager fingers in anticipation of signing the once Super Bowl-leading quarterback. In his time with Philadelphia, Donovan McNabb experienced a wide range of emotions and feelings that could have ...
I have heard so much about this coming draft relating to the Seahawks and who they should draft. Well, here is my question to you, my fellow Seahawk fans. What will we do if the big five are already drafted? When I say the big five, I mean QB Sam Bradford, DT Ndamukong Suh, DT Gerald McCoy, S Eric Berry, and LT Russell Okung. Well, what would the Seattle Seahawks organization do? Many people have ...

Breaking Bad Hab-Its: Buffalo Beats Montreal in Shootout

Posted: 24th March 2010 by Spencer Timkey in NHL
Excuse me, Dr. Frankenstein? Could you make a trip to HSBC Arena and screw the heads back on every Buffalo Sabre except Ryan Miller? Right from Andrei Kostitsyn's goal at 19:19 of the first period, this game looked to be over. The Montreal Canadiens, in a brutal dog-fight to stay in the playoff picture, came in to HSBC Arena like a pack of hungry wolves. Buffalo looked like a fat-and-happy grandfather after a Thanksgiving feast. The Sabres seemed slow and ...
I come at this with a bias; this I admit willingly. You see, I am a Tampa Bay Rays fan. I would love nothing more than to see the Evil Empire crumble and fall and watch Hank Steinbrenner go off his meds and give his best "like father, like son." Every year I hope that the "aging" Yankees finally, well, show their age.  Every year people wonder when these three players' stars will begin to dim. The ...
Once a proud franchise that spent much of the early part of the last decade as contenders in the American League West, once a franchise that was hailed all across the world of baseball as a club that practiced the once revolutionary method of "Moneyball" under the direction of general manager Billy Beane, once a franchise that fans could count on to challenge the New York Yankees for American League ...

New York Rangers, Please Don’t Tank the Rest of the Season

Posted: 24th March 2010 by Frank Castaldi in NHL
That's right, I said it: Don't tank to finish the season. Think about what I'm saying here for a minute. What is tanking? It's when a team totally blows it, and fails to succeed. They falter when they need to perform most, and ultimately lose the goal they set out to achieve. For most teams, tanking would be blowing the last stretch of the season and slipping out of a playoff spot ...

Six Pitfalls of NBA Management, Part Two: Overpaying Free Agents

Posted: 24th March 2010 by Buy The Clippers in NBA
This is Part Two in a six-part series dedicated to the Six Pitfalls of NBA Management. For Part One, go to my main page or www.buytheclippers.com.  Fans of bad NBA teams, perpetually bad teams, will try to tell you their plight is a result of plain old bad luck.  This six part series explains: I don't agree. Instead, I see six things that perpetually bad franchises do that make them perpetually bad franchises.  ...