Thursday was a fantastic day of baseball in the MLB playoffs, with three great games, one epic performance and two teams moving into the League Championship Series. Let’s look back on a day that saw Detroit & San Francisco advance, Justin Verlander dominate and baseball in the Beltway find a way to live for Friday.
The AFC West race isn’t blowing anyone’s doors off with its brilliance to this point in the season, but Monday Night Football features one of the more significant games of the first six weeks when Denver pays a visit to San Diego.
The Broncos might be 2-3, but their games with Houston, Atlanta and New England are behind them. San Diego might be 3-2, but the wins are Oakland, Tennessee and Kansas City. With these two teams looking like the only real contenders in a watered-down division, Monday Night in San Diego will be significant.
The Red River Rivalry renews on Saturday when Texas plays Oklahoma at their traditional neutral site venue in the old Cotton Bowl. The Longhorns and Sooners each come in with an air of desperation, as both have dropped conference games, to West Virginia and Kansas State respectively. There’s no room for error if either team […]
Comebacks were the story of the day in the MLB playoffs yesterday. The Oakland A’s were three outs from going home before they rallied to beat Detroit. The New York Yankees trailed in the ninth inning, before making what will surely be one of the most celebrated pinch-hit decisions in baseball history and then winning a 12-inning game over Baltimore. And the San Francisco Giants won their second straight elimination game on the road and forced a decisive fifth game in Cincinnati.
We’ll run down all four games from yesterday, including St. Louis’ win over Washington, and look ahead to another quartet today…
The New England Patriots have looked like a different team so far this season—maybe not one that will pile up 13 regular season wins again—but one more capable of winning tough games and not nearly as dependent on Tom Brady to carry them. That’s how they look through five games, and just how solid this new-look is will get a big test on Sunday in Seattle.
Boise State fell off the national radar after their season-opening loss to Michigan State, and sits at #24 in the AP poll coming into Saturday. But don’t write off the Broncos chances for busting the BCS just yet. If they win out, they’d have a very reasonable chance of rising into the Top 12 of the BCS rankings, a status that would make them an automatic qualifier.
If you wanted to watch hitting, then Tuesday night in the MLB playoffs wasn’t for you. There were a combined 16 hits in the two games, and 15 of them were singles. But no one in San Francisco or Oakland was complaining, as the Giants beat the Reds, the A’s beat the Tigers and both teams averted sweeps in Game 3 of their respective Division Series matchups. Let’s look back on Tuesday and ahead to Wednesday’s all-day quadruple header…
The NFC North has been turned on its head, with the results from NFL Week 5 pushing the divisional revolution further along. Minnesota is rolling at 4-1, Green Bay is flailing at 2-3 and what looked to be the toughest division in football at the start of the year is at least the most surprising.
Two teams with very different recent pedigrees—the St. Louis Cardinals & the Baltimore Orioles stared death in the face on Monday—at least for all practical purposes—as they took the field for Game 2 of their respective Game 2s in the Division Series of the MLB playoffs—and each came up with a win for the home crowd that knotted things up at a game apiece. Let’s look back on the keys to Monday’s games, and ahead to Tuesday…
The ACC was rattled to its foundations in college football Week 6, and it wasn’t just the seismic upset that N.C. State hung on Florida State. The league’s powers-that-be had a rough Saturday and an up-and-comer in Durham might end up being the beneficiary.
So much for the concern about the letting the lower-seeded teams play the first two games of the Division Series at home, a setup that presumably favored underdogs getting out to 2-0 series leads before having to take their act on the road. While it worked that way for Detroit, the rest of the series—indeed, the entire playoffs, including Friday’s wild-card games—have been marked by road winners. Let’s recap Sunday in the MLB playoffs and look ahead to the two game set for Monday night…
It was a tough Saturday night if you were a baseball fan in the Bay Area, as both Oakland and San Francisco fell behind in their respective Division Series games against Detroit and Cincinnati. Let’s look back on Saturday and ahead to what will be a full-throttled four-game run on Sunday in the MLB playoffs…