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After seven months of baseball played, we are now finally down to two teams that will square off for the richest prize in the sport. The Yankees won the American League Championship by defeating the Los Angeles Angels and have advanced to the 2009 World Series. They will now take on the Philadelphia Phillies, who are the defending World Series Champions as well as the National League Champions. Both teams had very ...
A rain delay forced Game Six from Saturday to Sunday night. There was no rain in the Bronx on Sunday, only a cold chill that absolutely nobody in New York was feeling. The Yankees and Angels came into Sunday night playing in Game Six of the ALCS, both teams with different agendas. For the Angels, a win would guarantee a Game Seven on Monday night and a chance to pull off an ...

NFL Predictions: Week Seven

Posted: 22nd October 2009 by Doug Rush in NFL
We will be entering Week Seven of the NFL Season and teams are slowly starting to break away from the pack and emerge as early contenders. The Colts and Broncos are the top two teams in the AFC and are still undefeated. The same thing goes for the Saints and the Vikings in the NFC also being undefeated. Some teams really suffered some tough losses that put them back further than they ...

NFL Top 10 Power Rankings Through Week Six

Posted: 20th October 2009 by Doug Rush in NFL
Week Six had a lot of strange games with some strange outcomes. For instance, the Jets racked up over 300 yards of rushing yards against the Bills and held Terrell Owens to three catches for 13 yardsùboth numbers usually coming when a team wins by something like a 35-7 score. Only, Mark Sanchez threw five interceptions and the Jets missed a dozen opportunities to win the game in overtime, which allowed ...
The first road game for the Yankees in the 2009 Playoffs was taking on the red-hot Minnesota Twins. After three games of dominating pitching and late-inning clutch hitting, the Yankees disposed of Minnesota in a series sweep and moved on in the playoffs. Starting on Friday, the Yankees will take on the Los Angeles Angels in the American League Championship Series. The Angels are no strangers to the Yankees in the playoffs, and ...

Top 10 NFL Power Rankings: Week 6

Posted: 13th October 2009 by Doug Rush in NFL
Week Five of the NFL season was anything but boring. We saw a bunch of close games go into overtime and we saw a couple upsets. These weren't just little upsets that didn't effect the top of the NFL, these were monumental upsets that could change the way a team believes in themselves the rest of 2009. For the fans in Denver and Cincinnati, they didn't have much hope going into September of ...
This is what we have waited for all year long. The 162 games. The day games, the night games, the winning streaks, the losing streaks, the walk-off wins, the pitching duels, the pies in the face, the grind, the blood, sweat, and tears. This is what eight teams have worked for since April. After a dramatic finish in the 163rd game of the MLB season between the Twins and Tigers that saw ...

NFL Top 10 Power Rankings Through Week Four

Posted: 6th October 2009 by Doug Rush in NFL
In possibly the most anticipated meeting in the history of Monday Night Football, the teacher out-performed the student. Brett Favre's Minnesota Vikings defeated Aaron Rodgers' Green Bay Packers, giving round one of the grudge match to Favre. The defending Super Bowl Champions, the Pittsburgh Steelers, got back on track, and also back to .500 with a dominating performance on offense with a 38-28 victory over the Chargers, who look to be ...

The Road To 11: Will 2009 Be The Year For the Yankees?

Posted: 5th October 2009 by Doug Rush in MLB
The Yankees won 103 games in the 2009 regular season and are back in the playoffs after an absence from postseason baseball in 2008. The last time the Yankees were the number one seed in 2006, they were ousted by the Detroit Tigers in four games in the American League Division Series. The last time the Yankees were in the World Series was in 2003, where they were virtually exhausted and ...

NFL Predictions: Week Four

Posted: 30th September 2009 by Doug Rush in NFL
Week Four has quite a few good looking showdowns on Sunday. But it has a great big one on Monday night, a showdown that has been brewing for almost a year now. Whether you call it a grudge match, or call it teacher against student, or call it a rivalry game: You're right. I'll get to that game a little later. Last week, I had a great week going 14-2. My only losses ...