MLB Coverage: American League Championship Series Ships Back To Boston
TheSportsNotebook’s MLB coverage looks back on the middle trio of the ALCS and ahead to the weekend’s conclusion in Fenway Park.
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College Football Coverage: Week 8 TV Games
After a couple weeks marked by several good matchups, but nothing really spectacular, college football Week 8 has two big-time battles set for Saturday. An ACC showdown will decide the conference favorite and have national title implications. And on the opposite coast is a Pac-12 game that will likely have repercussions on the BCS bowl picture, and may yet impact the national championship race.
NBA Pacific Division Preview
TheSportsNotebook.com’s march to the opening of the NBA season on October 29 has begun, and today we’ll take a look at the Pacific Division. We’ll go over each team’s starting lineup and measure them against the NBA win futures–the Over/Under win totals–posted in Las Vegas.
MLB Coverage: National League Championship Series Returns To St. Louis
TheSportsNotebook’s MLB coverage reviews the three games from Los Angeles, and then looks ahead to Friday night, and possibly Saturday night in St. Louis…
NFL Analysis: Week 7 TV Schedule & Moneylines
TheSportsNotebook’s NFL analysis runs through all the games of Week 7, starting with the four national games most people will see.
The NFL moneylines are in parentheses next to each team, the odds for each winning the game outright
NBA Atlantic Division Preview
We’ll look at the basics of each team’s lineup and how they might fare against their number in the NBA win futures posted in Las Vegas. Today’s focus will be an Atlantic Division preview.
Big Ten Bowl Projections
…there’s angling for possible at-large spots to the BCS, to good New Year’s Day bowl games and to bowl eligibility itself. TheSportsNotebook’s college football coverage will touch on some key overview points and then make some Big Ten bowl projections.
American League Championship Series History: Where Does The Ortiz Grand Slam Fit?
The question TheSportsNotebook poses and seeks to answer is this–where, in the tapestry of American League Championship Series history, does the grand slam of Ortiz rank in the pantheon of big home runs?
NFL Analysis: Week 6 Wrap-Up
An epic finish in Foxboro presaged a similar drama in baseball, the Packers grind out a big win, the Seahawks and Broncos win fairly ugly and the Chiefs stay undefeated. TheSportsNotebook’s NFL analysis rips through the notable takeaways from the NFL Week 6 games…
MLB Coverage: Detroit Starters & Clutch Ortiz Set Up Great ALCS Ahead
The American League Championship Series is tied up at a game apiece as the Boston Red Sox and Detroit Tigers take a day off and head to the Motor City where the series will resume on Tuesday afternoon. We’ve seen two no-hit bids and an epic grand slam. You get the feeling that the fun is just getting cranked up in this fight between the AL’s top seed (Boston ) and the AL’s preseason betting line favorite (Detroit)
MLB Coverage: St. Louis In Command As NLCS Heads To Los Angeles
The National League Championship Series resumes Monday night in Los Angeles, with the St. Louis Cardinals holding a 2-0 series advantage over the Dodgers. The Cards are assured two things–of at least bringing the series back to their home on the banks of Mississippi River. And that their rotation ace, Adam Wainwright, can now pitch them into the World Series with his starts in Game 3 and a possible Game 7.
Post-Week 7 BCS Bowl Projections
As we update the BCS bowl projections following the results of Week 7 it seems that both nothing has changed and that everything has changed. The actual matchups that are projected have changed very little, but the landscape has changed dramatically in a way that seems poised to eventually seep up to the surface. The four most notable developments would be the following…