There’s a lot of championship hardware getting ready to be handed out in what’s going to be the most action-packed weekend of sports until we get baseball and football running in tandem in fall. It really got started last night in Las Vegas, when the Washington Capitals ended the hockey season by clinching the Stanley […]
The Colorado Rockies have never been the easiest team to try and evaluate. The high altitude that makes for an offense-heavy home environment always inflates batting numbers and depresses pitching ones. That’s why, as this Rockies team stays in a packed NL West race, a couple numbers in particular jump out—Colorado is 21-14 on the […]
Scoring runs is not something that one thinks should be a problem for the Arizona Diamondbacks. Not with hitter-friendly Chase Field as their home and that hot desert weather that’s conducive for getting hitters in a good groove. But that’s exactly what’s been the problem for the D-Backs so far in 2018 and it stands […]
We’re coming to the end of the period on the sports calendar that I think of simply as “The Rites of Spring.” The two-month long saga where the NHL and NBA playoffs are running simultaneously. Even though, as a fan, my first love is baseball, hockey and hoops are always at the lead in my […]
The Oakland A’s are a franchise that has gone in cycles during the tenure of club president Billy Beane. They produced consistent contenders from 1999-2006, then had to tear it down and rebuild given the constraints of the small market. From 2012-14, the A’s had another nice run. They’ve spent the last three years in […]
The Seattle Mariners are the fly in the ointment for a lot of American League teams right now. At 37-22 and with a one-game lead in the AL West, they’ve prevented Houston from turning the next four months into one long coronation run. By joining the Astros, Yankees and Red Sox atop the American League, […]
The Finals for both the Stanley Cup and the NBA go in prime-time this weekend, on Saturday and Sunday respectively. The French Open is starting to pick up steam as it heads towards next weekend’s finals. And the NCAA Baseball Tournament starts on Friday at 16 regional sites across the country. Here’s a look at […]
There’s one team in the National League that’s on a pace to win 100 games this season and it’s not any of the usual suspects, from the Dodgers to the Cubs or the Nationals. Nope, it’s the Milwaukee Brewers who are setting the tone in the NL. The Brewers have a win percentage of .632 […]
How big of an underdog are the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Finals? The betting odds say they’re a 6-1 longshot to beat the Golden State Warriors. By comparison, the Chicago Cubs are 5-1 to reach the World Series. Let’s put that in perspective—the best basketball player in the world is giving a lesser chance […]
The Chicago Cubs are 3-for-3 under manager Joe Maddon when it comes to at least making the National League Championship Series and there’s every expectation that this year’s Cub team will make it four in a row in the NLCS—if not more. Chicago, in spite of being 3 ½ games behind the Milwaukee Brewers in […]
The St. Louis Cardinals have missed the playoffs each of the last two years and that’s just not something that happens very often. In fact, only once in the 21st century, have the Cardinals finished out of the money in two straight years (2007-08) and never in the new millennium have they missed October baseball […]
The Vegas Golden Knights and Washington Capitals have very different histories, the expansion Golden Knights just beginning and the Capitals a long and torturous existence. What they have in common is this—neither have won a Stanley Cup or even so much as one game in the Finals. A feel-good story is coming out of the […]
