Kings Look to Spoil Red Wings Playoff Aspirations
It has been 21 years since the NHL world was talking about the Detroit Red Wings not being a part of the Stanley Cup Playoffs but the possibility exists that the impressive streak of post season appearances could be coming to an end.
The Pros move to TPC Louisiana this week and the Zurich Classic of New Orleans. Last year, Jason Dufner and Ernie Els finished minus 19 before their playoff – you can go low here. Greens are fairly easy to hit but course management is critical on this Pete Dye designed course.
Flyers in Unfamiliar Spoiler Role Versus Bruins
There aren’t a whole lot of people that thought the Philadelphia Flyers would enter the final week of the Regular Season with nothing to play for except for jobs for next season but that is exactly where this team stands with four games left.
The Diamondbacks are hanging in there pretty well considering they are dealing with some injuries after pretty low expectations coming into the season.
So much for prevailing thought. The Celtics went into this series feeling that they had a pretty good shot at taking out the No. 2-seed Knicks.
Besides and Act of Congress, an Act of God or the Stanford band marching onto the court whenever the Heat have the ball, what will it take for the Milwaukee Bucks to make this series even remotely competitive?
The Nuggets won Game 1 of this Western Conference series with a late layup from 37-year old PG Andre Miller, who put in a great performance.
Desperate Coyotes Face Equally Desperate Wings in Crucial Clash
Two teams with absolutely zero room for error meet in the Motor City Monday night with their playoff lives on the line. Both the Phoenix Coyotes and the Detroit Red Wings are currently on the outside of the Western Conference playoff picture looking in – losing is not an option.
I am not really sure how they are doing it but the New York Yankees are hanging in there despite missing several key members of their everyday lineup.
So much for the playoffs providing the Bulls with a fresh start. The 17-point beatdown that the Brooklyn Nets applied to Chicago on Saturday night in Game 1 of their playoff series was just a continuation of the struggles that the Bulls experienced over the final few weeks of the regular season.
The Nationals fashion themsleves an elite team but after losing the series opener to the Mets are closer to the middle than the top of the National League East. They opened the series with Stephen Strasburg on the hill but the Mets weren’t shy in welcoming him to the Big Apple.
This is a big series for the Diamondbacks as they look to close ground on the surprising Rockies at the top of the division.
The Yankees are coming off a loss and the Blue Jays are coming off a win, but New York is still over .500 and is 2nd place in the AL East. The Yankees are 2.5 games back of the hot Red Sox in the division with the Blue Jays 4.5 games back.
The Yankees beat the Diamondbacks in Game 1 of this interleague series and they have won 2 straight overall.
This week NASCAR’s Sprint Cup series will make its first stop of the season at Kansas Speedway for the running of the STP 400. Sunday’s race is set to get underway at 1 p.m. and it will be broadcast nationally on FOX.
Detroit is sitting at the top of a bunchy American League Central right now.
They won the opener of their series against Seattle last night pushing their road record to over .500 for the season.
