In the last two weeks one of the most storied college football programs in history has been shot down by the Air Force and sunk by the almighty Navy. The Air Force beat Notre Dame, 41-24, Saturday afternoon in South Bend. A week earlier, the Fighting Irish lost to the Naval Academy, 46-44, at home in triple overtime. [...]
All the talk surrounding NASCAR’s Chase to the Championship is between teammates and friends, Jimmie Johnson and Jeff Gordon. With two races to go, Johnson leads Gordon by 30 points as the two Hendrick drivers are fighting for NASCAR supremacy in 2007. Clint Bowyer enters Sunday’s Checker Auto Parts 500 at Phoenix International Speedway 181 [...]
One of the better games Sunday takes place at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh where the Steelers welcome the suprising Cleveland Browns. This is quite the litmus test for the Browns, riding the franchise’s first three-game winning streak since 2001. Blitzburgh. The Browns were blown out 34-7 by the Steelers in the season opener, when they committed [...]
The NFC race for home field advantage will heat up in the second half of the NFL season. The team that gains home field advantage in the NFC will be the clear cut favorite to represent the NFC in Super Bowl XLII in Phoenix in February. NFC East Champion: #1 Seed Dallas (projected record 13-3). It [...]
It’s the midpoint of the season and everyone is starting to look ahead to the playoffs. A lot can change between now and the end of the regular season, but here is a look at who will be in and who will be out and what the playoff picture might look like in January. AFC [...]
Things are starting to get interesting in the National Football League heading into week 10 of the season. The top two teams flip-flop this week in the Hookscenter Power Poll after New England came from behind to beat the Indianapolis Colts 24-20 Sunday in the RCA Dome. Even though the AFC remains the superior conference [...]
The Chase was made for Jimmie Johnson and thats bad news for the Rainbow Warrior, Jeff Gordon, who is looking for his 5th Nextel Cup championship. Johnson has heated up the past several years when the calendar gets late in the year and nobody has come close to matching Johnson’s success during that period of [...]
The New England Patriots rallied from a 10-point deficit with 9:47 left in the fourth quarter to beat the Indianapolis Colts, 24-20, in front of a record crowd at the RCA Dome in downtown Indy. The Colts (7-1) missed a golden opportunity to gain the upper hand in the race for home-field advantage in the [...]
Herm Edwards insists the schedule makers didn’t cut his Chiefs a break by scheduling Green Bay six days after it traveled to Denver, but he’s wrong. They did. The Packers will have a tough time pulling this one off after going to overtime Monday night. It’s hard enough to win in Arrowhead Stadium, but to [...]
Everyone agrees that Sunday’s Colts-Patriots showdown is like a midseason championship game. With two unbeaten teams at this stage of the season, the NFL hasn’t had a regular-season game quite like this one. But ultimately will it be meaningful? There is a chance it might. Although the goal to gain a tie-breaking edge for a [...]
