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Week 3 College Football Predictions: Big 12
No one really knows what the future holds for the Big 12 (currently minus two, and perhaps in full implosion mode soon), but in the present, the conference bears just as much watching on the field as it does off of it, with players like Landry Jones, Robert Griffin III, Justin Blackmon, and Cyrus Gray. [...]
Week 3 College Football Predictions: Big East
While the suits at Pittsburgh and Syracuse are busy trying to make their move to the ACC, the football teams from both of those schools are busy with a couple of tough non-conference road games this weekend. While the Big East digests the potential loss of two of their top basketball programs, you can digest [...]
Week 3 College Football Predictions: Big 10
While a number of conferences, like the SEC and Pac-12, have already started conference play or will do so this weekend, the new-look Big Ten doesn’t begin conference play for another couple of weeks. But the non-conference portion of the Big Ten’s slate has already had a number of intriguing, quality matchups, and there are [...]
Week 3 College Football Predictions: ACC – Top teams tangle in Tallahassee
The season is still young, but that doesn’t mean that a game can’t have national title implications. Saturday, Doak Campbell Stadium will host one such game, as #1 Oklahoma comes to Tallahassee to take on #5 FSU in a showdown that has received no shortage of hype over the last several months. A win for [...]
Week 3 College Football Predictions: SEC – Fierce rivals face off in Starkville and Gainesville
Conference action kicked off in the SEC last weekend, with last season’s division champions, Abuurn and South Carolina, starting conference play on a winning note by coming out on top in shootouts against Mississippi State and Georgia respectively. This week brings a couple of notable conference tilts as well. Tonight, Mississippi State hosts LSU, looking [...]
UEFA Champions League Group Stage Preview
One of the greatest competitions in all of sport, the UEFA Champions League, resumes again in earnest today as the eight-group, 32-team group stage gets underway. Last season, Barcelona and Manchester United met in the final for the second time in three seasons, and as they did in Rome in 2009, Barca came out on [...]
Stosur shelves past with stunning US Open success
Seemingly somewhat lost in Serena Williams’ latest US Open temper tantrum (if you could call it that) is who actually won the final, the way in which she won, and how significant it is for her career. Were it not for Serena’s controversial confrontation with chair umpire Eva Asderaki in the second set of Sunday’s [...]
