Wednesday, March 30, 2011

A Small Baltimore Orioles Preview

Major League Baseball begins officially tomorrow. No more spring training. No more playing in front of retirees in Florida and Arizona. And there might not be a team more looking forward to this than the Baltimore Orioles.

You could practically say the Orioles 2011 season started August 2nd, 2010. That was the day Buck Showalter took the reigns of a team that was worse than a doormat for the American League.
 
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

The Case for Derrick Rose as MVP

If you haven't paid attention to the NBA in a few weeks, sports writers and MVP voter-type people are salivating over Derrick Rose as the presumptive NBA MVP. Common sense says it looks like a good thing. He's averaging just south of 25 points per game, about eight assists per game, and is the best player on a team that has had two players miss significant time with injuries. But does that tell the whole story?


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