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SCOTT JACOBS
It’s not surprising that Jacksonville finally decided to cut ties with long-time Head Coach Jack Del Rio. What caught our attention was the timing. In the midst of a forgettable 3-8 season, the Jaguars shocked the NFL world to its core by not only canning Del Rio, but by [...]

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MITCH BLATT
James Wolfe sent me an email about his latest book How to Rig the NCAA Tournament for Fun and Profit, and I thought it might be an interesting book to review just as the college basketball season started. The premise is that a frustrated referee decides to expose the NCAA’s corruption in a scandal [...]

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Guest Post
As with breaking into any male-dominated field, women who’ve aspired to become sportscasters have been forced to endure sexism, chauvinism, and a glass ceiling that has prevented many of them from reaching their full potential. Even still, they’ve come a long way in a relatively short period of [...]

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Baseball avoided any chance of a lockout with their new CBA, but they continue to neglact the problems that most hurt the sport
CHRIS KNEPLEY
In case you missed it, last week, MLB commissioner Bud Selig took time from his busy offseason schedule of kicking puppies and harvesting the organs of unborn children to announce that MLB [...]

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MIKE KAYE
Season: 112-56 (67%)  /  Last Week: 13-2 (86%)  /  Scott’s Pick: 3-7-1 (0-0-1)
How was everyone’s Thanksgiving? We are back yet again in the playground of pick-ology, where I am coming off quite the week. The big news made by the Jaguars will likely gather the headlines, but the real show in the AFC [...]

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Now that the NBA lockout is over its time to remember the players we have been dying to see play at the next level.
SHANE SMITH
With the completion of the NBA lockout it is FINALLY time for professional basketball again. Everyone will be excited to see an intensified version of free agency, ala: the NFL lockout, [...]

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SCOTT JACOBS
As of this very moment, there is labor peace at last in the National Basketball Association.  The NBA and NBAPA managed to salvage their season with productive Black Friday talks, and today held a press conference to announce what NBA fans have been waiting for way too long — that a tentative agreement has [...]

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CHRIS KNEPLEY
The NBA lockout has now resulted in the cancellation of professional basketball games until at least December 15th and with the players now filing antitrust lawsuits against the owners, it seems that the NBA season is in real jeopardy of not taking place at all.
Of course, missing an entire season would not only be [...]

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