2 Brothers will be squaring off as Peyton Manning will be going head-to-head with his younger brother Eli on Sunday night as the Colts take on the Giants in Week one NFL football action. This ESPN TV game will be the first time in pro football league history that sibling quarterbacks have lined up opposite each other.
Baseball’s Triple Crown is earned by the player who leads the league in homeruns, batting average and RBI in a given year. No one has won the Triple Crown in baseball since Boston’s Carl Yastrzemski (44 HR, .329 BA, 121 RBI) did it in 1967 and Baltimore’s Frank Robinson (49 HR, .316 BA, 122 RBI) achieved that same honor the year before. In over 120 years of professional baseball it’s only been done 15 times.
It’s decided that the Mets will win the NL East. The rest, including the Wild Card, is up in the air. No less than 8 NL clubs still have a decent chance of winning the Wild Card.
At the beginning of the 2006 baseball season, many pundits said that the Wild Card in the AL would come out of the Central Division. Although no one predicted that the Tigers would be in contention, forget about leading the division, many did foresee two of the three clubs presently in contention in the hunt—the White Sox and the Twins. (more…)
The odds are posted for the big contest this week between the number one Buckeyes and the number two Longhorns with most handicappers making the home team 2.5-point favorites and a few making them 3-point favorites. Three-points are normally given for the home field advantage, which means this contest is seen as being about as tight as it can get.
This morning the associated press released the second set of college football rankings for the season. In a shocking surprise the Texas Longhorns and USC Trojans jumped over Notre Dame to claim the 2nd and 3rd spots respectfully. Ohio State fresh off a beating of Northern Illinois remained number 1 in the poll.
What this now means is when Ohio State and Texas square off on Saturday night, it will be the first regular season meeting between the number 1 and 2 ranked teams since 1996. This game will also be the earliest game ever played between the top two AP poll teams in the history of college football. Maddux Sports will probably be making a college football pick on this game so stay tuned to the website for more winning selections.
Bowmans Sportsbook has just announced the 5th Annual World Handicapping Challenge is back and its bigger than ever. The 2006 NFL season opens up on Thursday and Bowmans free to enter NFL handicapping contest is now open for registration. This year Bowmans is offering its largest payout structure ever footing a $25,000 cash prize for the first place winner.
Michael Bush, a candidate for this year’s Heisman Trophy, carried the ball 17 times and ran for 128 yards and scored 3 TDs in his first game this season as the 13th-ranked Cardinals hammered Kentucky, 59-28. But in the third quarter Bush was tackled by Kentucky LB Wesley Woodyard, breaking his tibia and fibula and ending the top draft pick’s senior season.
The Boston Red Sox, who lost 21 of 30 games in August and have seen their chance of winning either the AL East or the AL Wild Card disappear, have had numerous key players go down, including Captain Jason Varitek, slugger David Ortiz and closer Jonathan Papelbon. But the news that rookie starting pitcher John Lester has lymphoma left everyone stunned and considering a lot more than the game of baseball.
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The number 2 ranked Irish of Notre Dame had to fight hard to get by the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, 14-10. QB Brady Quinn found himself under a lot of pressure throughout much of the game. A tough Tech defense proved that the powerful ND offense could be checked. But a slimmed down Notre Dame defense was up to the task, managing to hold off repeated forays by the Tech combo of QB Reggie Ball and WR Calvin Johnson (7 rec. 111 yds, 1 TD). ND RB Darius Walker had 99 yards on 22 carries and scored 1 TD.
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