The Boston College Eagles will be looking for their first conference win of the season when they take on the Clemson Tigers in an ACC-Atlantic Division matchup this upcoming Saturday afternoon. The game is slated to kick-off at 3 p.m. and it will be available on ESPN3.com.
The Connecticut Huskies open-up their conference play in the Big East against the West Virginia Mountaineers this upcoming Saturday afternoon at Mountaineers Field in Morgantown. Kick-off is scheduled for 12 p.m. and the game will be available on ESPN3.com.
The St. Louis Blues have settled in as that perennially hyped team of youngsters, projected to break out every year but never doing so. They had a cup of coffee in the 2009 playoffs, when they were swept by Vancouver in four games, but haven’t sniffed the postseason since. It’s time to ask, once again: this is the year?
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After winning the Stanley Cup in 2009-10, the Chicago Blackhawks crawled into the eighth playoff seed on the final day of the 2010-11 regular season. We all understood why they regressed; totally maxed out with their salary cap, they traded away half their team.
Sigh. Do I really have to write a new Detroit Red Wings preview?
I should just use a template. Nothing changes. Two years ago or one year ago, the Red Wings had an ageless wonder on “D” in Nicklas Lidstrom, two of the game’s best all-around players in Pavel Datsyuk and Nicklas Lidstrom, a bonecrushing hitter in Niklas Kronwall, and a rising star goaltender in Jimmy Howard. Guess what?
Arguably, there was no busier team this offseason than the Florida Panthers in terms of sheer volume. General manager Dale Tallon got busy, acquiring Jose Theodore, Brian Campbell, Ed Jovanovski, Scottie Upshall, Tomas Kopecky, Tomas Fleischmann, Kris Versteeg and Sean Bergenheim.
Nobody was expecting the Indianapolis Colts to put up such a strong fight against the Pittsburgh Steelers in a game that ended with a game-ending field goal in the dying seconds to cost the home side on Sunday Night Football.
Preview: Dover is the third race of the ten-race Chase for the Sprint Cup, the first two having been won by Tony Stewart, who now leads the point standings. Although he’s won twice at Dover in 25 starts, Stewart’s two wins here came back-to-back in 2000, and Dover has not been a great track for him recently.
The Saints (2-1) are the highest scoring team in the league and while the Jaguars (1-2) rank dead last in the NFL in passing yards per game they do have a solid defense. NFL lines have the Saints as 6.5-point away favorites with a total of 44.5
Does it need to be said that the Colts really miss Peyton Manning? No didn’t think so, but still without the 4-time MVP Indy ranks rank 28th in points (15.3 per game), 29th in total offense (254.0 yards) and 27th in passing yards per game (164.0 yards).
Arkansas (3-1) suffered their first loss of the season last week to an Alabama team that has one of the best defenses in the nation and this Saturday in a non conference match up they must shift gears to face a Texas A&M (2-1) team that ranks 25th in the nation in scoring and has the nation’s 19th ranked passing offense.
This game features one of the best duel-threat QB’s in the county in Baylor’s (3-0) Robert Griffin facing a Kansas State (3-0) defense that ranks 6th in the nation. NCAAF lines have the visiting Bears as a 3.5-point favorite with a total of 63.5.
The Sooners (3-0) won last week, but their D did not look great, which is why they dropped to #2 in the AP poll after being in the top spot since the pre-season. They have the chance to move to 4-0 on the season and while Ball State (3-1) is not a football powerhouse they have won 3 of their first 4 games.
Last season in Texas’ (3-0) disastrous 7-loss season head coach Mack Brown said that the home loss to Iowa State was the “lowest point” of the season and they can get some revenge against a Cyclones (3-0) team that has won 2 straight games against teams from BCS conferences.
The Battle of Ontario features two team that are both coming off wins from last week – the Tiger-Cats were very impressive in their 55-36 beat down of Calgary in Moncton and the Argos were less impressive in their uninspiring 25-24 win versus Winnipeg in a game that a late single point on a missed field goal was the difference.
