February 2009 – Important Events

This is something new that I’m going to try to do each month. I will give each date and list important events, games and/or something in sports history that have happened on that date. I will do my best to provide at least one thing for each day. If I forget anything feel free to [...]

The Ineptitude of the Cardinals Franchise

I’m talking about the football team. The current Arizona Cardinals. The former Chicago and St. Louis Cardinals. Not the baseball team Albert Pujols plays for now.
Anyway, this is a paragraph straight from the latest Sports Illustrated, which has an article about those Super Bowl-bound Cardinals. I had to post this. It’s like 10 stats of [...]

NFL Fines

I don’t actually have anything to write about, but I just stumbled across this article that I found very interesting and entertaining and thought I’d share it with the WaB readers. Here’s the link:
http://www.faniq.com/blog/NFL-Fines-Dwight-Freeney-And-Darnell-Dockett-20000-Each-Blog-17569
Have a good Super Bowl weekend! And Go Vols!

Why It Is So Hard To Watch Big 10 Basketball

Watching Big Ten basketball is tough. I’m not saying all the teams are bad. I think Michigan State is pretty darn good. It’s just that the games are boring. Really boring. Thursday night the sporting world got a great example of that: Minnesota 59, Illinois 36. The score was 22-16 at the half.
How could anybody [...]

My Field of 65 Prediction

This is pretty early considering Selection Sunday isn’t for another month and a half, but I thought I’d put up a prediction just for kicks. I’m listing the teams along with what seeding I think they’ll have. Let me know what you think in a comment.

Super Bowl XLIII

Hello again everybody, I’d like to welcome myself back seeing how it’s been about 12 days since my last post. I’d also like to say that the Steelers are clearly the better team and deserve the Super Bowl win more, but I want the Cardinals to win. I like a lot of the players on [...]

Stat of the Day (Rebounds)

I can’t imagine this has happened very often.
On Monday night, Oklahoma’s Blake Griffin – right now the top prospect for this summer’s NBA Draft – out-rebounded the entire Oklahoma State team. Griffin ripped down 19 rebounds by himself while the Cowboys only managed 16 collectively. The Sooners won the game 89-81 to improve to 20-1 [...]

WaB Is Moving Up

First off, Weller has returned from his Montana skiing sabbatical, so his posts will be back soon.  I know you’re all excited for that.  I’m sure he missed you as much as you missed him.
Second, the newest member to our team, Jet, has taken on a new gig.  He’s become the fantasy baseball writer for [...]

USA-Sweden Friendly

The United States Men’s National Soccer Team kicked off their 2009 schedule with a 3-2 victory over Sweden yesterday in Carson, California.  Sacha Kljestan scored all three goals for the Americans, the first three in his career.
The game was missing the big stars like Landon Donovan and Clint Dempsey, but it gave a chance for [...]

More NFL Coaching Updates

Within the last 24 hours three important coaching changes have been made.  First and most important, the Kansas City Chiefs fired Herm Edwards today after a tumultuous three years.  He ended with a 15-33 record overall, including 6-26 over the last two years.  I know many Chiefs fans who wanted Herm gone after last year, [...]