Archive for March, 2010
2010 NFL Draft: Green Bay Packers Analysis and Predictions
Posted: 19th March 2010 by Ryan Cook in NFL
The Green Bay Packers aren't the most intelligent team when it comes to drafting, but given their recent performance in April, it's safe to say that Ted Thompson can recruit the best of talent when he puts his mind to it.
This year Green Bay don't have the luxury of high picks to work with, but they do however have the likely chance of picking up a player that happens to ...
Should David Carr be in the Driver’s Seat for San Francisco 49ers?
Posted: 19th March 2010 by Patrick Goulding II in NFL
There has certainly been a lot of talk about the departure of GM Scott McCloughan in San Francisco over the last couple of days.
With the draft just weeks away, questions have been raised over who will lead the 49ers draft process and what the team’s direction will be going forward? Speculation is plentiful; answers (or even good theories) are few.
Like Coach Singletary fielding questions last summer during Crabtree-gate, ...
San Jose Sharks Get Jump on Playoffs, Start Choking Now
Posted: 19th March 2010 by MJ Kasprzak in NHL
The Sharks are widely recognized as the most talented team in the league, and their regular season record over the past three seasons (best in the league) reflects it.
The Sharks are also widely recognized as the biggest chokers once the playoffs start. We can debate whether they should be labeled the biggest, but it is indisputable they have choked, something I have outlined definitively before.
It has come (in order) from ...
No matter who the Baltimore Ravens draft, sign, or otherwise add from here on out, WR Anquan Boldin will be the biggest get this team has for the 2010 squad. Baltimore has never, ever had a decent receiving corps. Sure, they have had the ever-solid Derrick Mason at the end of his career, and he is still performing well for them (though no longer at a No. 1 level). ...
2010 Fantasy Baseball League: Five-Tool Studs Up and Running, Come and Get Yours
Posted: 19th March 2010 by Ash Marshall in MLB
Ah, fantasy baseball. Where real life combines with make belief in a beautiful fusion of mixed allegiances and sporting know-how with bragging rights on the line.
It's just 15 sleeps to Opening Day, and if you want to pit your baseball wits against some of the best in the business, here's your chance.
Over the next six months, I'll be running my own fantasy baseball league, providing weekly updates here on Bleacher ...
Washington Redskins in Free Agency: The Deafening Sound of Silence
Posted: 19th March 2010 by Jack Gorman in NFL
“Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.” — Hunter S. Thompson You know things have gotten strange when a team makes headlines for what it’s not doing. Indeed, the Washington Redskins are under new management. Its approach to free agency this season—judicious and restrained—has been nothing short of a breath of fresh air. Rumors abounded about what prizes the Redskins would be after at the start of ...
Fantasy Baseball Is Alive and Well for Kansas City Royals Fans
Posted: 19th March 2010 by James Adkins in MLB
When many non-sports fans think of Kansas City, they often think of it as a "cow-town" where people still live on farms, and as a home to some of the country's best barbecue.
At least they have the barbecue part correct!
Baseball fans around the country know Kansas City as home to one of baseball's most beautiful ballparks in Kaufmann Stadium, and the home to a once-proud Royals franchise in the midst of a resurrection.
With ...
Buyer Beware: Five Draft Prospects The Vikings Should Avoid
Posted: 19th March 2010 by David Kindervater in NFL
The Minnesota Vikings haven't been all that active in free agency signings this offseason, opting instead to look to the 2010 NFL Draft to add some depth their roster. Naturally, the organization does a tremendous amount of research on the available talent entering the NFL every year, but each incoming player comes with a fair amount of risk. Here are a few that, while being tempting prospects, might also ...
Pittsburgh Steelers Expect To Open at Home, But Against Whom?
Posted: 19th March 2010 by Chris G. in NFL
The end of the week brought breaking news for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
No, it was not another free agent signing—and thank goodness, it was not a new Ben Roethlisberger story.
Instead, the Steelers announced that they do not expect to open up the NFL season in New Orleans.
“We won’t be playing in New Orleans,” team President Art Rooney II said on Thursday. “We have to be home that weekend because of the ...
2010 NFL Free Agency: Miami Dolphins, Arizona Cardinals Trade Linebackers
Posted: 19th March 2010 by Paul Preibisius in NFL
The Arizona Cardinals and Miami Dolphins have now come to accords with players who spent 2009 on the other’s team.
Miami gets the benefit of unloading Joey Porter, an aging dissident who no longer appeared to fit into the team’s long-term plans, while adding Karlos Dansby, a stud run-stuffer in the middle who is in his prime at age 28.
Arizona augments the loss inside with Porter's pass-rushing boost to the outside—and ...