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A great series just got better! How do you top the first 5 games of a great series? How about TRIPLE OVERTIME in game 6! Another amazing game. My only fear now is that there is no way game 7 could possibly live up to the first 6 games of the series.

5 games in the books – 3 have gone to OT and it’s between two iconic franchises – it doesn’t get much better than this….especially in the first round. From a sports handicappers point-of-view our picks in this series have been to look at the underdog as every game seems destined to come down to [...]

He will officially be the #1 draft pick on Saturday around 4pm ET but Matthew Stafford has already signed for $41.7 guaranteed! The contract could be worth up to $78 million! As usual, staggering numbers for players who have never thrown a pass in the NFL. He can thank, in part, the 2008 draft class [...]

Sorry, this is not another mock draft. Don’t worry, there are about 4 million or so on the web you can look at. I suppose by pure mathematics with so many out there one of these mock drafts might actually be pretty close to accurate. One of many problems is trades. The mock drafts can’t [...]

Here’s a shocker….Chris Carpenter is hurt. After elbow and shoulder injuries kept the super talented right-handed 2005 Cy Young Award winner on the shelf for most of ’08 and ’07 Chris Carpenter made it only 10 innings into the 2009 season. However, it should be noted they were 10 scoreless innings. So this brings up [...]