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Monday night’s game in SoCal will be played by two teams that have postseason designs, but neither of which have yet clinched a playoff berth. The L.A. Kings are looking like a foregone conclusion for playoff hockey, but it’s all hands on deck until they clinch.
Opening Day is finally here, and baseball nuts everywhere are rejoicing. There are a ton of tasty match-ups on the Opening Day slate; one in southern Florida should offer some great pitching and maybe even a couple of moonshots.
The Philly 76ers are taking the concept of “tanking” to the extreme. The Sixers are mired in a historically long losing streak, dropping 26 consecutive ballgames.
We’re getting down to the nitty-gritty of the NCAA basketball tournament, this weekend’s games will determine who will play in the coveted Final Four in The House that Jerry Built (Cowboys Stadium, Arlington TX) on April 5.
If one of these clubs has been a wee bit underwhelming this season (Chicago), then Ottawa is definitely, totally, all the way there. The Senators surprised everyone pleasantly last season with their performance, but they have come back to Earth in a big way in 2013-14.
The Spurs – pretty much the model for a professional sports franchise – are winners of 15 straight. With their trip to the foot of the Rocky Mountains on Friday night, there’s no reason why that win streak shouldn’t be extended.
As recently as a couple of months ago, the NHL’s Metropolitan division was the undisputed laughing stock of the league. Aside from the Pittsburgh Penguins, all the division’s other teams were playing horrendously.
These two teams are like that kid that gets accepted into his or her first choice of college; once that acceptance letter is retrieved out of your mailbox, it’s party time and to hell with the consequences.
The book is closed on the first and second rounds of NCAA Tournament play after some characteristic upsets: #14 seed Mercer over #3 Duke; #12 Stephen F. Austin over #5 Virginia Commonwealth; #12 Harvard over #5 Cincinnati; #12 North Dakota State beating #5 Oklahoma. Some bracket-busters to be sure.
It’s everybody’s favorite ritual of early springtime: March Madness! The play-in games go this Tuesday and then we are launched into NCAA Tournament frenzy in earnest.
Any thin veneer of hope the Cleveland Cavaliers had of making the NBA Playoffs likely just vanished with the news that star guard Kyrie Irving is out indefinitely with a biceps strain injury.
Tuesday night’s Blackhawks-Flyers game is a story of two teams on different trajectories; one mired in mediocrity and one surging along. A win for the home team would keep that trend going – much to the chagrin of people in the Windy City.
The Los Angeles Kings had a tough start to the 2013-14 season, and then for a while they were once again looking like the class of the Western Conference – the team that won the Stanley Cup in 2012.
Louisville’s Russ Smith and Connecticut’s Shabazz Napier have had plenty of glorified moments in their collegiate careers; Saturday presents a chance for one of them to put an exclamation point on their senior seasons as the two of conference’s elite guards get an opportunity to go head-to-head.
These two teams have been NBA superpowers for most the 21st Century to this point, which is high praise and remarkable consistency for two Western Conference ballclubs. Injuries to the Lakers’s aging trio of stars have seen L.A. finally take a back seat, but those darn Spurs just keep on moseying along in southern Texas.
The Blackhawks have been one of the most consistent teams in hockey since they quenched their Sahara Desert-sized Cup drought in the spring of 2010; perhaps that’s why it’s so maddening that Chicago is showing such inconsistency of late.
