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Week 10 will showcase a battle of quarterbacks when Tom Brady and the New England Patriots travel to Indianapolis to take on Peyton Manning and the Colts. Can the Pats end the Colts unbeaten streak? It will definitely be the game of the week. Lot’s of football this week with only two teams...
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Week 9 is always an exciting week as teams gear up for the second half of the season and the fight for the playoffs become even more intense. My choice for game of the week is the Dallas Cowboys at the Philadlphi Eagles. These two exciting teams should put on a great show in Philly. Teams with...
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We are halfway through the 2009 season and Week 8 hosts three of the best NFC match ups all year. The Philadelphia Eagles play host to rival New York Giants, the Arizona Cardinals get a home game against the Carolina Panthers and, the New Orleans Saints will square off against the Atlanta Falcons...
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Week 7 is here and we are one third of the way through the season. Three of the remaining four unbeaten teams – Indianapolis (5-0), Minnesota (6-0) and New Orleans (5-0) – will be in action this week. Denver (6-0) has a bye in Week 7 after a 34-23 win at San Diego on Monday night. The...
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Week 6 is here and there a couple of great games on the schedule. Looking back to 2008 Week 6, the Dallas Cowboys lost starting quarterback Tony Romo to a fractured left pinkie, forcing Romo to miss the next four games and quite possibly ruining the Cowboys playoff hopes, as they dropped 3 of 4...
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Week four is packed with some of the most exciting games of the first half. My pick for best game of the week is a three-way tie between the Jets at the Saints, Chargers at the Steelers and the Green Bay Packers at the Minnesota Vikings. Brett Favre had a big week four in 2008; throwing six...
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Week two is always interesting as teams have that first game under their belt. Week one losers will be hungry for a win before the season gets away from them, and week one winners will be on the prowl to improve their records to 2-0. My pick for best game of the week is a tie between the...
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Are you ready for some football? The 2009-10 NFL season kicks off on Thursday night, Sept. 10 with the defending Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers hosting the Tennessee Titans and ends on Sunday night when Jay Cutler makes his Chicago Bears debut at the rival Green Bay Packers.
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HOW MANY OF YOU THINK THAT IT WAS THE RIGHT CALL FOR MICHAEL VICK TO GET A SECOND CHANCE AT RETURNING TO THE NFL? & WHY? YOUR THOUGHTS PLEASE!
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By Matthew Martz
The AFC North will once again prove to be one the tougher divisions in the 2009-10 NFL campaign. Here I breakdown the teams to exposing their strengths, weakness’ and odds
to win their division.
The Pittsburgh Steelers -225
Still hung-over from a Super Bowl party last...
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Another NFL draft has -- mercifully -- come to an end. As expected, Georgia quarterback Matthew Stafford was sentenced to six years with the Detroit Lions, a team that finished 0-16 in 2008. Fortunately, for Stafford he will be paid $78 million dollars for his time and emotional distress. Members...
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There are rumors in Los Angeles that a sparkling new $800M stadium may be rising and there are several NFL team willing to relocate to the nation’s second-largest sports market.
Billionaire developer Edward P. Roski, partial owner of the Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Kings, wants to...
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Let’s look back at some of the best and worst of the 2008 NFL Season As we do, consider these unlikely developments: An 8-8 team won its division. An 11-5 squad missed the playoffs entirely. Two teams with rookie quarterbacks and first-year coaches advanced to the postseason, and a 9-7 team...
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The Cardinals franchise has been the laughingstock of the NFL for decades, but this team is one win from bringing home a Super Bowl Campionship. Like them or not its because of them that this years Super Bowl is already proving to be better than another year that involves the New England...
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As a red and white sea of confetti dropped from the stadium rooftop in Glendale, Arizona, as “We are the Champions” rang through the public address system, and players gathered on the field to celebrate the first ever Super Bowl appearance in Cardinals franchise history. Arizona WR...
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O Heavenly Father. Forgive me for I have sinned.
I didn’t watch a single college football bowl game until the Rose Bowl. That’s right, I missed 30 games of basically anticlimactic football.
I apparently have an obligation, as a sports writer, to spend the bowl season plastered to my...
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So how important is legally changing your name? Is it to become the be-all of pop culture bad-assness? Who are some of sports most famous players who have changed their names? Was the overall effect positive or negative for their careers, or did it make absolutely no difference whatsoever?...
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Since when has soccer been more American? Multi-million dollar contracts, league suspensions, banning fans from coming to matches indefinitely following racially charged insults, and steroids scandals. Does it get any more American than that?
With headlines that rival other major American...
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Fourteen weeks into the 2008-09 season and the Raiders continue their downward spiral. At 3-9, one can only be thankful that you are not a Detroit Lions fan.
Who said Christmas doesn’t come early? According to the latest CBS Sports line Playoff tracker. The...
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The entire Raiders franchise as well as Al “Da Rat” Davis is in the beginning stages of rigormortis. The last 5½ seasons Oakland has won 21 games. Oakland last won a Super Bowl in 1984 and last made the playoffs in 2003.
The Oakland Raiders currently sit atop the NFL with a...
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When one thinks of football, there are a few things that come to mind. Ass slapping, inside penetration, and a hot receiver. The new Lingerie Football League (LFL) should bring a new perspective to those common football terms.
Looking like a game that might be played out on Hugh Hefner's...
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Before I get started. I need to mention. When spell checking my articles for mistakes, the suggested replacement word for “Kiffin” is “Coffin” Could this have been a sign?
Al came in early for this press conference today and perhaps he was cranky...
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This past Sunday there are a couple of surprising winners and losers in the NFL. Let’s begin with a dominating performance by the Miami Dolphins on the road against the New England Patriots. The last time New England lost a regular season game was December 10, 2006 against the Dolphins....
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Whether it’s major league sports or your little brothers Pop Warner football league, everyone these days seem to be tough on many of our sports officials. Some that are top paid professionals, and many who do not receive any indulgences for their service, and worse yet a lack of respect...
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It has been 2 years since Monday Night Football has been in Oakland, and 252 days since the Raiders have played a regular season football game. The McAfee Coliseum in Oakland, CA, will be rocking tonight as the Raiders kick off their 2008-2009 NFL regular season against long-time AFC...
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With a reluctant concession to the process of picking the nation's next commander in chief and the leader of the free world, (except on Sunday afternoons and Monday nights and sometimes Thursday nights too), the NFL decided to start the Giants-Redskins game 90 minutes early tonight to...
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If you mention the Dallas Cowboys in almost any circle, you are sure to get a heated discussion. They are probably one of the most loved or hated teams in the NFL. While the Cowboys have had their share of glory days, they have also had more than their share of criminal behavior and thuggery,...
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I am a long time Oakland Raiders fan. Yes it is true. Through the good years and through the not so good years, I keep coming back for more. I suppose in the hopes that one day Al Davis' "Commitment to Excellence" will once again bring glory to the Raider Nation. A time when the...
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We've seen NFL players celebrate a touchdown by pulling a sharpie from their sock to autograph a ball, but don't think they'll be tagging the advertising hoardings anytime soon.
From the Los Angeles Times yesterday:
The NFL, concerned that some players might celebrate by flashing the hand...
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I wouldn't shed too many tears for Stockdale High product David Carr, cut by the Carolina Panthers on Wednesday. When it comes to NFL quarterbacks, it's a seller's market out there and Carr should be able to find employment, albeit probably as a No. 3, maybe a No. 2 at a place like Atlanta...
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It's early Sunday morning and I'm still in the office. I was looking over the TV listings on zap2it.com and I realized that this is quite possibly one of the worst Sundays for watching sports.
I guess I could watch college basketball but after 20 straight weeks of NFL, no ACC matchup can hold...
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If you aren't into sports, stop here. Go find another post with the political mumbo jumbo you so love to get wound up about. This is about a different kind of fantasy world, but just as full of Armchair Quarterbacks!
I really wasn't into football at all. I didn't even know who was who...
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I've had my share of humble pie the last few weeks. Just once, I'd like for someone else to be humbled by my prowess at picking winners. But it probably won't happen this week.
There's plenty of hyperbole being tossed around this week in the national media about the Patriots-Colts game, but...
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We bid adieu to two experts this week. Prep writer Brad Riddell and college writer Mason Kelley are both leaving The Californian for greener pastures, sunnier beaches and dare I say, more money. Folks, let me just say it's the nature of the industry.
Quality, young reporters tend to...
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Our barnyard colleague, Jester, proved exactly what we thought could and ultimately would happen when we dreamed up the idea of having him make picks in our Beat the Experts contest.
After flirting with the Mendoza line for correct picks in previous weeks, the buck got out of his rut --...
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After two miserable weeks I was ready to call it a career. You can ask my wife. She actually thought she was going to make my picks last week because I was so down on myself. Well, I redeemed myself as an expert with a 12-3 finish. That was the best finish among the panel, and only two...
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I had a bad week. Actually our panel of 7 sports experts and a goat had a bad week. We gave away 33 bumper stickers and Haddad did a few free oil changes courtesy of our ineptness at picking winners in Week 2. Good for you, bad for us.
Anyway, here's my picks for Week 3:
Bakersfield at...
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We're less than four days from the first games of Beat the Experts. Make sure you register, it's free, and top prize is a LG 32-inch LCD intergrated HDTV from Urner's. Plus, you'd earn bragging rights for a full season around Bakersfield.
Each week, I'll make my selections public on this blog,...
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The Associated Press
A month after he was released by the Houston Texans, David Carr agreed Friday to a two-year deal to play for the Carolina Panthers.
Carr, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2002 draft, will serve as Jake Delhomme's backup.
"It's a case where we were obviously...
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