MLB Power Rankings: Week 8

For our version of the MLB Power Rankings, we gathered our entire staff and told them to rank the teams of the MLB in order from best to worst based on overall record, current streaks, and how much of a threat they look to be for October. After everyone handed in their lists, the numbers…

UFC 187 Reaction

(UFC) By Brandon Zachman @BrandonZachman First off, MAN! What could have been…If it wasn’t for Jon Jones’ lack of brain cells, UFC 187 would’ve been the best card on paper since UFC 100. In what has been an all too re-occurring theme in the company, you new it was too good for that card to…

Why College Gunslingers Don’t Pan Out in the NFL

Last week, Connor Halliday became the latest hidden gem to retire from professional football before making his first appearance. It may not seem like a big deal to those that weren’t too close to college football last season, but Halliday was a spectacle in Pullman, Washington. He threw for nearly 4,000 yards with the Washington…

#TBT: Total Bust Thursday, Vol. 11

It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for yet another edition of Total Bust Thursday. That’s right.  It’s Barack and Dave approved.  Speaking of David Letterman, did you know that this comedy icon is also the owner of an Indy Racing League team?  Letterman, who signed off as the long-time host of The Late Show last night,…

NCAA Lacrosse Championship Weekend Preview: Here Comes the Big Ten

69 Division 1 teams. 10 automatic berths, 8 at-large bids.  Only 4 teams left: Maryland, Johns Hopkins, Notre Dame, and Denver. As Sports Vision writer Julian Coltre once said, lacrosse is one of the fastest growing sports in America.  It’s entertaining, you’ve got your hard hits here and there, sudden death overtime, and a team’s…

Hearts of a Lion: Marty St. Louis & Tyler Johnson

As the old cliche goes, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, and in the case of the National Hockey League, no one fit that bill more than Martin St. Louis. The NHLer was passed over by every team in the league, and ultimately went undrafted until the Calgary Flames gave him a shot. Even…

Five Reasons Why American Pharaoh Will Not Win The Triple Crown

Here we are, once again.  After torrential downpours and furlongs of slop, American Pharaoh trounced the competition to take the Preakness by a whopping seven lengths.  Now, for the second straight year, all eyes will be on Belmont Park, as yet another colt attempts to become the first horse since 1978 to win horse racing’s…

2015 NBA Mock Draft 1.0

Selection Josh Levin Anthony Santaniello Minnesota Timberwolves Karl-Anthony Towns, C- Kentucky Jahlil Okafor, C- Duke Los Angeles Lakers Jahlil Okafor, C- Duke Karl-Anthony Towns, C- Kentucky Philadelphia 76ers D’Angelo Russell, PG- Ohio State D’Angelo Russell, PG- Ohio State New York Knicks Emmanuel Mudiay, PG- Guangdong Emmanuel Mudiay, PG- Guangdong Orlando Magic Justise Winslow, SF- Duke…

The Flyers, NCAA both need Hakstol to succeed

@r_joyce34 If it walks like a hockey coach, talks like a hockey coach and looks like a hockey coach, can he be an NHL coach? For better or worse, the Flyers will find out after their (somewhat surprising) hiring of Dave Hakstol as their new head man. Hakstol, with no prior NHL experience of any…

WWE Payback Review

Well another PPV is in the books. Payback gave us a little bit of everything (in this case, that’s not a good thing). It gave us some great matches, and some not so great matches. What did I think of Payback? Guess you’ll have to read my review to find out (I know, I’m excited…