THE WEEKEND EDITION This is the weekend where we all start to adjust to what our lives will be after the Super Bowl next Sunday. It’s also the weekend the NHL has its All-Star game and coming up by early afternoon on Saturday, TheSportsNotebook will post a complete report on how things are shaking out […]
Has anyone noticed that Marquette is right on the heels of Syracuse in the Big East race? Not only that, but that the Golden Eagles are the only team within a game of the frontrunning Orange? Marquette has quietly rattled off six straight wins, including a come-from-behind effort at Villanova on Saturday. When Georgetown was […]
The NBA’s Eastern Conference is marked by a steep drop-off after the top six teams, creating a tight race among mediocre teams for the final two playoff berths. And situated right in between well-publicized Eastern teams in Boston and New York, are small-market hubs in Milwaukee and Cleveland. Each team is coming off a big […]
The NHL All-Star Game takes place in Ottawa on Sunday (4 PM ET, NBC), so today the TheSportsNotebook takes a complete look at the NHL playoff picture. Teams are broken into three categories—the elite contenders, solid playoff teams and fighting for survival. THE ELITE CONTENDERS While anything is possible in the hockey playoffs, more so […]
The Road To The Triple Crown continues here at TheSportsNotebook this weekend, as hopefuls for the Kentucky Derby show up in sunny Florida at Gulfstream Park for Sunday’s Holy Bull Stakes (4:45 PM ET). Unlike last week’s Lecomte Stakes, which got the road to Churchill Downs started in earnest, the Holy Bull won’t be a […]
With this being the first no-football weekend since August, that means it’s time for the NBA to slowly start taking over Sundays, a trend that will hit full steam after the Super Bowl. ABC is striking quickly this week with Chicago-Miami (3:30 PM ET, ABC) set to highlight the Sunday card. Through an unpredictable year, […]
Here is a conference by conference summary of what’s going down in college basketball this weekend… BIG EAST: Syracuse’s loss last Saturday at Notre Dame has opened this race up, with several teams just one back of the Orange. One of them is Marquette, putting together an under-the-radar 17-4 season and going to Villanova today […]
We’ve had five days to digest the results of Championship Sunday—or if you’re a fan in Baltimore and San Francisco, to regurgitate them back up. And a question remains—was the Ravens’ 23-20 loss in New England the most gut-wrenching conference championship game loss in the Super Bowl era of NFL playoff history?
I can already hear the shouts in San Francisco, who say it wasn’t even the most gut-wrenching loss of January 22, 2012, much less the 46-year history of the Super Bowl era. But I think Baltimore fans get the nod in the agony department for these reasons
Murray State is the last unbeaten team in college basketball, as the Racers bring a 20-0 record into Saturday night’s game against Eastern Illinois. Who are these guys? Can they make it the rest of the regular season and through the conference tournament unbeaten? And if so, where do they fit among the national powers? […]
The Indiana Pacers got a tough 95-90 win in Chicago last night, and pulled to within 2 ½ games of the Bulls in the NBA’s Central Division. The Pacers are a team getting some love as a darkhorse this year in the East, while Chicago joins Miami as the top-heavy favorites to be in the […]
The Big Ten race is competitive top-to-bottom and that means the middle of the conference offers intrigue. Wisconsin, Indiana and Purdue all have three or four conference losses apiece. All three have pretty good overall records. Based on current record, they fall into the class of teams that are going to be ‘tweeners—right in between […]
When the Los Angeles Clippers traded for Chris Paul just before the season began it was supposed to be a sign that a new rivalry was coming to Hollywood and the Clips could now stand toe-to-toe with their crosstown rivals at the Staples Center. When this sort of hype happens it usually results in the […]
