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Should the Patrots Draft Tim Tebow? posted on 04/09/2010

For football fans another very exciting time is coming up soon.  The NFL Draft is mere weeks away and for many this begins another exciting NFL season.  This is when teams address needs that were evident last season or try to fill holes left by a retirement, trade, or losing a player to free agency.  This is when hope springs eternal and every team is destined for Super Bowl glory.  This is also the time of year when fans get to first guess (before their teams drafts) and then second guess (after their teams has drafted) the players that are available this year. 

This year like every other year there are many players with whom it seems there is no doubt about their abilities and whether a team should draft them.  People are not trying to decide if Bradford should go in the first round, but where.  The same could be said of Suh, Gerald McCoy, and Eric Berry.  These are not players that are being discussed because their abilities are questionable, but because they can't be questioned.  These are players that if your team had a pick and they were available you would be on your knees begging and pleading for your team to pick them.  Rams fans may be doing that right now.  Please, pick Sam Bradford, please! Tampa Bay fans are hoping that Suh or McCoy are available, but will be happy with Berry.  Then you have the curious case of Tim Tebow.

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Sox Begin 2010 posted on 04/09/2010

I have folded up the Tom Brady jersey and put it away.  I have set aside the Kevin Garnett jersey until i take it out for the Celtics playoff push.  It is time now to don the jersey of your favorite Red Sox players and get ready for another exciting Major League Baseball season.  Spring is finally here.  I have to hand it to Major League Baseball.  I think that this year they got it right.  They didn't ship the World Series winners overseas to play in Japan or China or somewhere and they didn't open the season with Royals vs Tigers or some other match-up without much appeal.  This year the season began on Easter Sunday with a match-up between the defending World Series champion New York Yankees and their arch rival the Boston Red Sox.  This is, hands down, the best rivalry in sports.  The series didn't go the way I wanted it to, but we did get our first win against the Yankees under our belt and the games were well played for the most part.  Hey, when you think about it last year the Sox won the first 8 games against the Yankees only to lose 9 out of the next 10 so maybe losing 2 out of the first 3 ain't bad.

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Play Like A Champion Today posted on 05/03/2009

     As a fan of the Boston Red Sox living in enemy territory it was hard for me to see my boys come down here to Florida and lay an egg like they did.  They had just recently had an 11 game win streak snapped and then started a new one before proceeding to lose 3 out of 4 to the then last place Rays.  Growing up I watched a lot of Notre DameFighting Irish football games as my Dad was a big fan.  I still watch a lot of Fighting Irish football games come to think of it, but I'll eleborate more on that elsewhere. 

     As most everyone that watches college football knows they have a sign on the way out of their locker room that they slap as they charge out onto that football field.  That sign reads 'Play Like A Champion Today'.  I know for many these may seem like empty words considering the state of Notre Dame football lately, but I feel there is something to that simple phrase.  How can you ever expect to be a champion if you don't go out on that field and play like one.  Right now the Boston Red Sox and for that matter the Boston Celtics are not playing like champions.  They are playing like a bunch of guys who are glad that they are making a lot of money doing something that we all probably did for free growing up.  It would be like me getting paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for belching the alphabet (if anyone knows of an opening for that let me know, I'm in for that).  Champions don't get beaten the way the Red Sox got beaten this weekend. 

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