The Nationals have been playing some good ball going 7-3 in their last 10. That has pulled them even with Atlanta for first place in the NL East as they continue their road trip against the best in the Majors Giants.
The 2014 NCAA football season is filled with intrigue because it’s the inaugural year that a playoff format will pit the country’s four best teams together to see who emerges as National Champion.
While the current buzz is about World Cup soccer, football fans of the pro and college ranks are starting to salivate, as summer means that football talk and projections are heating up.
Rangers Face Virtual Must-Win – Host Kings in Game 3 Monday Night
A few more bounces and some calls from the referees and the New York Rangers could be returning home tied or even up 2-0 in the Stanley Cup Final series with the Los Angeles Kings.
Given the political history of the USSR Russia is a relative newbie on the international soccer scene. They have only qualified twice before in the USA (1994) and in Korea/Japan (2002).
Los Angeles has done well on the road this season, and will hope that it can use its trip to Cincinnati to close the gap in the NL West, when they face the Reds in the first of a four-game series that begins on Monday night.
Chile and Australia kick off their World Cup 2014 campaign June 13 – each team looking for the second qualifying spot in Group B – the #1 spot has all but been conceded to the Spanish who are the class of the Group.
Perhaps the biggest match in Group A takes place June 13 when Mexico takes on Cameroon to determine which team could join Brazil in the knock-out stage of World Cup 2014. Mexico, Cameroon and Croatia will likely be in a heated battle for the second qualifying spot in Group A.
The World Cup kicks off this week when the host country Brazil opens the tournament with a match against one of the two teams that will be fighting for the second spot in Group A and a place in the knock-out stage of the tournament – Croatia.
The two teams that met in the 2010 World Cup Final meet on day 2 of World Cup 2014 when the defending Champs Spain takes on the Netherlands, a team that figures to be battling just to move on past the Group stage this year.
The San Antonio Spurs host the Miami Heat on Sunday evening in the second game of the NBA Finals. The Spurs claimed the opener in the series, just as they did a year ago, and look to take an early stranglehold on the series with a second consecutive win on their home court.
NFL.com’s Adam Schein recently wrote the following about the 2014 NFC South:
“I get paid to have an opinion. That’s how I make a living. The words “I don’t know” usually don’t fly in my world. However, I’m asking for an exception.
Nigeria has qualified for the World Cup 4 times before and twice advanced past the group stage. Amazingly in three of the four times they have found themselves in the same group as Argentina.
Game one was pretty close until the Heat just couldn’t keep up in the fourth quarter. Certainly depth is a factor when that happens and we all knew that Miami was the team for whom that might be a real problem in this series.
Qualifying out of Asia is not as tough as some other regions but Iran has only made three previous World Cup appearances.
Horse Racing’s Triple Crown comes to a close this Saturday at Belmont Park when the 146th running of the Belmont Stakes is contested.
