Headlines for June, 2004

Georgia’s Fate Rests On the Biggest Dawgs

Sports-Central.org ADVERTISEMENT <a href="http://media.fastclick.net/w/click.here?sid=16506&m=8&c=1" target="_top"><img src="http://media.fastclick.net/w/get.media?sid=16506&m=8&tp=10&d=s&c=1" width=300 height=600 border=1></a> Expectations surrounding the 2004 Georgia Bulldogs are running high as the season's opening kick-off approaches, and not just in Athens. National publications and prognosticators see Georgia (along with USC and Oklahoma) as the favorites to win the National Championship. Unfortunately for fans of the Bulldogs, these national prognosticators might be falling prey to [read more...]

NASCAR, Caviar

Forget for the moment that this is the fastest growing sport in the country; one that sponsors drool over, and fans will sit and self-marinate for hours prior to. Overlook that its loyalists are a ridiculously sought after demographic, and not just for advertisers, but for politicians. Disregard everything, and realize this: they are hot for NASCAR in Seattle. Seattle is hot [read more...]

Astros in Honeymoon Period of Beltran Trade

I don't pretend to know everything about baseball. OK, yes I do, but nobody really believes it, including me, so often times I have to go look stuff up. Despite all of the ridiculously useless baseball minutiae I have crammed into my head, probably in the slots where remembering to bring home dinner ought to be, I still have to use [read more...]

The Beltran Sweepstakes’ Unlikely Winner

Sports-Central.org ADVERTISEMENT <a href="http://media.fastclick.net/w/click.here?sid=16506&m=8&c=1" target="_top"><img src="http://media.fastclick.net/w/get.media?sid=16506&m=8&tp=10&d=s&c=1" width=300 height=600 border=1></a> Here I was, all set to go off on a rampage about how Jason Schmidt was the pitcher you had no idea about, and Gerry Hunsicker pulls off what is so far the deal of the season, acquiring the Kansas City Royals sensational five-tool centerfielder Carlos Beltran. And if the term five-tool doesn't [read more...]

Magic Made a Mistake in Selecting Dwight Howard

ADVERTISEMENT <a href="http://media.fastclick.net/w/click.here?sid=16506&m=8&c=1" target="_top"><img src="http://media.fastclick.net/w/get.media?sid=16506&m=8&tp=10&d=s&c=1" width=300 height=600 border=1></a> They should have heeded the example of the Chicago Bulls. The Orlando Magic, with the first overall selection in the 2004 NBA Draft, took Dwight Howard. It was a mistake. By now their decision to overlook Emeka Okafor is well-publicized, and everyone is pointing out what a tremendous risk they took taking a high-schooler, and rebuilding [read more...]

The Human Factor….Where Do Stats End and Players Begin?

BaseballOutsider.com ADVERTISEMENT <a href="http://media.fastclick.net/w/click.here?sid=16506&m=8&c=1" target="_top"><img src="http://media.fastclick.net/w/get.media?sid=16506&m=8&tp=10&d=s&c=1" width=300 height=600 border=1></a> From its inception, baseball has been a game of numbers. To a degree unknown in any other professional sport, statistics play an integral part in Major League ball. Or minor league ball, for that matter. From the moment you first come to the attention of the scouts, your every on-field accomplishment is totaled, [read more...]

Undeserving Media Hype of the Lakers, Tiger Woods; NBA Draft Goes MLB Style

ADVERTISEMENT <a href="http://media.fastclick.net/w/click.here?sid=16506&m=8&c=1" target="_top"><img src="http://media.fastclick.net/w/get.media?sid=16506&m=8&tp=10&d=s&c=1" width=300 height=600 border=1></a> Did the Detroit Pistons win the NBA title or did the Los Angeles Lakers lose it? Judging by the media’s frenzied fascination with Showtime, the Pistons have been one of the most underappreciated and underpublicized championship teams in recent memory. I realize that the NBA isn’t going to sell a billion-dollar broadcasting package to the [read more...]

Ben Affleck’s Poker Title is a Great Sports Story

Sometimes here at the Chicago Sports Review we get some flak for talking about things that aren’t really sporting in nature—especially when we focus on entertainment, politics, and the like. So sometimes when there’s a real sports story that crosses over into those areas, we jump at the chance to go after it. If you consider poker a sport, as we [read more...]

BALCO Black Hole: Tim Montgomery Names Barry Bonds in Bombshell Accusation

That giant sucking sound has been identified. And if that the black hole at the center of the banned substance universe is able to swallow such a remarkable world class talent such as Tim Montgomery, much less his girlfriend, Marion Jones, the BALCO cosmos could reveal a lot. Astronomers have never been able to assume what lies at the other [read more...]

NBA Draft Has Become a Casino

ADVERTISEMENT <a href="http://media.fastclick.net/w/click.here?sid=16506&m=8&c=1" target="_top"><img src="http://media.fastclick.net/w/get.media?sid=16506&m=8&tp=10&d=s&c=1" width=300 height=600 border=1></a> A sure thing? No more than your pocket queens. This is the modern draft, and to maintain modern nomenclature, strategery in the NBA Draft truly has become a travishamockery. In other words, this is gambling. Vegas flavor abounds. Finally, the NBA Draft, like its counterparts in every other major sports league, has dissolved into a crap-shoot, or [read more...]

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Where do you stand on Bill Belichick and videogate?
	He's a cheater who should be punished, and this tarnishes his legacy.
	Sure, he's technically cheating, but everybody is doing it and the effect is minimal.
	Belichick didn't do anything wrong, Mangini is just a bitter, snitching, loser.
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