It’s big doings in the Big East as the two clubs that are tied for first place, the Pittsburg Panthers (11-2 Big East, 24- 4 overall) and the Georgetown Hoyas (11- 2 Big East, 21- 5 overall) meet at 2 pm today. When the two teams met on January 13 of this year the Panthers beat the Hoyas 74- 69. That was Georgetown’s last loss. Continue reading “NCAA Hoop– #10 Pittsburgh Vs. #12 Georgetown”
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The Cleveland Browns won a coin flip this morning, giving them the right to select ahead of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the 2007 NFL draft. Both clubs had identical records of 4-12 last year. The normal deciding factor determining draft order if both clubs have identical records, is opponents winning percentage, which just happened to be a tie as well. Tampa Bay GM Bruce Allen called heads and the coin landed tails, hasn’t Allen ever head the saying “tails never fails”?
Tampa Bay will now select 4th in the draft, while Cleveland gets to select 3rd via the coin toss win. Remember to visit Maddux sports for 2007 NFL draft coverage including mock drafts, team needs, and player rankings.
The Texas Longhorns (10- 3 Big 12, 20- 7 overall) are rated 19th in the AP Coaches Poll and 20th in the ESPN/USA Poll and are in third place in their conference, Number six Kansas (11- 2 Big 12, 24- 4 overall) and number eight Texas A&M (11-2 Big 12, 23- 4 overall) are just ahead of the Longhorns. Continue reading “NCAA Basketball– Are the Longhorns Long Shots?”
The NBA trade deadline has come and gone and none of the big ones came through. Jason Kidd, Vince Carter, Mike Bibby and Pau Gasol and others all stay put. And that means that the NBA landscape will stay the same.
Continue reading “Biggest Trade– NBA Trade Deadline for NCAA Basketball”
Dennis Johnson, who will forever be remembered by Celtics fans and many other basketball enthusiasts, died of cardiac arrest yesterday. There’s an irony that Johnson, know as DJ, died during the NBA trade deadline since many consider the trade Boston made for Johnson was, as former Boston teammate Danny Ainge, now the Celtics’ executive director of basketball operations noted to ESPN, “one of the greatest Celtic acquisitions of all time.â€? Continue reading “NBA– Dennis Johnson Dies Suddenly”
With the NBA trade deadline coming to a close today at 3:00 eastern and pretty much being a bust due to no big moves happening, no better time than now to announce this weeks Top 25 Mid Major Poll that we released to readers on Monday. For those of you that haven’t followed the Maddux Sports mid major poll before it spotlights underrated teams from conferences that don’t get a lot of pub from the media. Do to the growing interest of the Maddux Sports mid major poll, instead of releasing the weekly rankings through other means, we have now decided to strictly post the top 25 mid major basketball teams on our blog each week.
The Michigan State Spartans (7- 6 Big Ten, 20- 8 overall) knocked off the AP-Coaches’ Poll number one team and the ESPN-USA Poll number two team—the Wisconsin Badgers (12- 2 Big Ten, 26- 3 overall) —last night. At home, the Spartans took over the game in the second half and won by a nine-point margin—64- 55. In turn boasting their tournament resume, capping off a another winning college basketball pick for maddux’s premium members, as well as grabbing some momentum for the Big 10 Tournament, which is on the horizon. Continue reading “Spartans Spear Badgers”
The rumors abound regarding potential NBA trade as the deadline of February 22 at 3 pm ET is less than one day away. There are major problems involved in any big NBA trade. Salary cap restrictions, exceptions and exemptions help make scenarios extremely complicated, huge salaries don’t help and a paucity of big name talent makes things tight. If you’re looking to do something a lot more simple than trying to understand all of the ramifications of any of the potential team-altering trades then why don’t you do your 2006 taxes (long form) while taking the test for Mensa and studying quantum physics. Continue reading “NBA Trade Deadline Approaching No Kidd(ing)”
The Dallas Mavericks have lost nine games and won 44 (830%). In the Southwest Division of the NBA West Conference, they are nine games up on the second place San Antonio Spurs. As a comparison, the team with the second most wins in the NBA is the Pacific Division’s Phoenix Suns. The Suns are 39 and 13 (750%), putting them about 4.5 games behind the Mavs. Continue reading “Dallas is Mav-e-lous!”
The Louisville Cardinals (9-4 Big East, 19- 8 overall) and Vanderbilt Commodores (8- 4 SEC- East, 24- 3 overall) are nationally ranked at twenty and seventeen respectively. The Cards are in third-place in the Big East and Vandy is in second in the SEC-East. The big deal for Louisville is that they beat both Pittsburgh (11-2 Big East, 24- 4 overall) and Marquette (9- 5 Big East, 22- 7 overall) in one week and for Vanderbilt is that over the weeks they have knocked off numerous top-25 clubs, including the then number one Florida Gators. Continue reading “Louisville and Vanderbilt Make the Top-25 AP this Week!”
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