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NFL Picks Week Thirteen: So let's talk about that Giants-Packers game
Many of you (three or four) read about my emotional response to this season's Northwestern football campaign in one of my more depressing posts in a long while. It was so depressing, in fact, that it...
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NFL Picks Week Fourteen: Is this the best franchise name change ever?
Some of you may or may not remember back in the ancient year of 1994 when the New Jersey (now Brooklyn) Nets toyed with idea of changing its name to something a little more New Jerseyan. Sure, there...
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NFL Picks Week Fifteen: Yeah, I didn't see that coming either
Some time after David Wilson's final touchdown run in the fourth quarter gave the Giants a 52-27 lead, I thought to myself, "Wow, I can't remember the last time I saw the Giants score 50 points." There...
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An overdue ode to R.A. Dickey
This June, my sister and I went to Citi Field for one of the games I foolishly bought in my five-game season package and saw the greatest pitching performance I had ever seen in person by a Met. It was...
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NFL Picks Week Sixteen: On the road again for Team No. 50
After last week's totally superb performance against the Atlanta Falcons, the Giants are somehow still in position to make the playoffs if they simply run the table. Given some of the flops they've had...
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NFL Pricks Week Seventeen: So it's come down to this
Ok, before we get into the ins and outs of all of this, let's get one thing straight. In all likelihood, the New York Giants will not be making the playoffs this season. Considering this team was in...
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Ripping the 64-year-old monkey off your back
Bowl games are completely meaningless. For many they are a sign of college football's rich tradition and the greatness of scholar athletes competing simply for the love of the game in sport's purest...
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There's football this weekend! And it just might be interesting!
Ladies and gentlemen, if you're like me -- and if you're lucky, you are -- you love playoff football. In fact, when the Giants decided to go belly up for no real reason whatsoever this December, part...
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Oh, holy crap, it's 2013 already?
I'm not sure what reason all of you have for coming here to read this blog -- really, I'm not -- but I do know that it must be something, whether its the spot-on NFL predictions (almost .500 this...
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Hallelujah, hockey is back! Oh and there's football.
As I watched the puck drop between the Devils and Islanders last night to start the long-awaited NHL season I realized just how much I missed watching my team and watching hockey in general. In many...
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So can we talk about how much I missed hockey?
Yes, yes, yes, I know none of you are really going to be as excited about this as I am when all the attention focused on the American sports world right now has to do with the first annual Har-bowl...
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I am an irrational person, or why I can't enjoy Silver Linings Playbook
I like the New York Giants. You all know this. I am not quiet about it. Consequently, I do not like the Philadelphia Eagles. I am not quiet about this either. In fact, when people ask me what the major...
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Oh hey, there's a football game on Sunday night
I had a dream Friday morning that I was up close and watching the Giants in the Super Bowl this Sunday. It was exciting, exhilerating and I didn't want to wake up lest I spoil the fun. There were a few...
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The next trip is officially on the docket, and it's a big one
First, I should acknowledge a shameful lack of recapping what was a, uh, bizarre Super Bowl last Sunday. Suffice it to say I always figured the biggest television event of the year would run a little...
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This is no longer the Madison Square Garden I grew up with
The older I get the more I notice or am affected by the passage of time. This brings about many signs that maybe, just maybe, my childhood might be long gone and never coming back. I can look at my...
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It's the Chicago Blackhawks' world. We're all just living in it.
I like the Chicago Blackhawks. Anyone who knows me knows I was once an intern with the organization and knows that, as a result, they hold a soft spot in my heart. They're not my favorite team,...
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The City of Angels and the Staples Center Trifecta
I attended a small stand up comedy show in the East Village last night and one of the comedians had a set involving his experiences as a high school basketball player in Philadelphia. Apparently,...
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I'm throwing my bracket out with the chametz
Hello, dear friends. I know it's been a while, and I will be honest, a lot has happened since we last spoke, but I will try my best to cover all (read: some, not much) of it in this super special...
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180 Days of Pain: A 2013 Major League Baseball Preview
I shouldn't really say "pain" per se. That might be misleading. As I lined out on a friend's blog yesterday, the New York Mets' 2013 season does have an air of anticipation and optimism about it...
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I forgot that these words could be put on paper in this order
Ladies and gentlemen, the New York Knicks have won the Atlantic Division Championship.Yeah, I know. It sounds weird, right? In my rational, probability-driven point of view I know that it was probably...
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