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Archive for March, 2010

Wes Johnson Is Ready To Lead ‘Cuse Into the Dance

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

Get your dancing shoes on. We're just hours away from the opening round games of the 2010 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. There's a slate of good games to kick off the action today. One team who has to wait until Friday to play is the #1 seed in the West ...

Was Signing Julius Peppers The Answer in Chicago?

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

The most coveted defensive free agent this off-season was defensive end, Julius Peppers.  It didn’t take the Chicago Bears a long time to pull the trigger on Peppers as they signed him to a six-year $91.5 million contract just minutes into the free agency period.  The addition of Peppers will ...

Nolan Ryan On Retaining Ron Washington: “I understand people are critical of the decision we made, but I felt like we made it for the right reasons.”

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington admitted on Wednesday to using cocaine during the 2009 season. Seems a bit odd that this story would surface now for several reasons. Firstly, many might wonder why Washington wasn't fired effective immediately when the Rangers ownership and top brass learned of his cocaine use ...

Coach K Takes his “Old School” Duke Team to the Dance

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

Duke enters the NCAA Tournament as a one seed that won the ACC regular season and conference tournament and includes two All-ACC First Team players in Jon Scheyer and Kyle Singler and a Second Team player in Nolan Smith (three "S's" - which one is Super, Scintillating and Sensational?). Those ...

Johnny Miller Reacts To Tiger’s Decisions To Return At Augusta

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

The wait is over. The speculation about when Tiger Woods will return to the PGA Tour can finally be put to rest now that Woods has announced that he'll make his return at Augusta National for this year's Masters. The whole world will be watching when Tiger finally tees it ...

John Daly In Trouble for Defending Himself

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

John Daly has been in the news a lot lately defending himself for what happened with a columnist from the Florida-Times Union.  Daly was angry at Garry Smits for making his 500-page PGA Tour file public so he decided to post Smits’ cell phone number on his personal Twitter page ...

Georgetown is Just One of the Teams in the Loaded Midwest Region This Year

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

Georgetown is a very difficult team to figure out heading into the tournament.  The Hoyas started out the season as good as anybody and looked like they had the makings of a National Championship team.  They beat Duke, Washington, Butler, Villanova and even knocked off the regular season Big East ...

Ruben Amaro Jr. Likes What He Sees From the Phillies This Spring

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

What can you say about the Philadelphia Phillies heading into the 2010 season other than it's World Series or bust for them again this year. The Phillies returned to the Fall Classic last year after winning their first championship since 1983 the year before in '08. With just about everybody ...

Notre Dame Looks To Have Turned The Corner At The Right Time

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

Just three weeks ago, Notre Dame was on its way out of the NCAA Tournament.  Their future looked bleak after Luke Harangody was sidelined for a couple of games with a knee injury.  Initially, the Fighting Irish feared for the worst and thought that he would be out for the ...

Steve Alford Has New Mexico Ready to Dance

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

He may be toiling much more anonymously these days, but something tells me that New Mexico head coach Steve Alford is enjoying living and coaching under much less scrutiny compared to when he was at Iowa and constantly linked to taking over at Indiana. Alford has New Mexico back in ...