This just screams to the fact that ESPN needs the NHL, and much much more.
Next month, the MLB draft will be broadcast, the first of 50 rounds, on ESPN2. With the great popularity of the NFL draft, its must have struck a chord with the network who is sure to get more than one […]

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And ran a 4.4 40 yard dash?
With the NFL draft now complete, it takes me to an interesting dialogue that it a fierce debate in the war rooms of really almost all major sports: old school vs new school and how much stock can you put into what you see? Anyone who has read […]

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Look, I know I already wrote this guy’s career off a while back, but I was really hoping that Oakland would come to their senses and not pull a “Mario Williams”. But since they did go ahead and totally pooch the draft, the numbers guy in me instantly went running to see if I […]

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I know they have test anxiety, so certainly the same principle applies to the NFL draft. Given one of the top five picks in the draft, and you are sitting in a position to be remembered in the bylines of the NFL history books forever: either as the GM who drafted the future Pro […]

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Or something like that.
Last Friday I took part in Awful Announcing’s “Complete Sports Bloggers Mock Draft Version 1.0″, and drafted on behalf of the Texans. I ended up taking Miami tight end Greg Olsen, because I think that in general you can really mess with a defensive coordinator’s head if you can go into […]

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Damn, check out the big mouth on Brady, who in an interview, decided to tell people that he can rebuild any team.. pretty much a direct reference to the top three picks in the draft: Oakland, Detroit and Cleveland… all who could probably use a QB.
Brady Quinn already has taken a down-and-out football […]

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Okay, so its draft time too… so what.
Well, here I am, its about 15 minutes until the draft for Show and Tell with Sean Salisbury, the fantasy baseball league for sports bloggers. I said I would be live blogging the draft, and I know someone had to think to themselves “why would I want […]

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And I’m putting together my battle plans today and tomorrow. There’s nothing like procrastination.
One More Dying Quail gunning for a team of foreign born players sounded like a good idea, so I thought I’d copy the idea of having a unique strategy for the draft… but not his strategy. So the wheels are […]

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Because Matt Millen just crapped his pants.
Anybody else take note that Calvin Johnson ran a 4.31 40-yard dash in borrowed shoes? You know right now in Detroit they are cooking up a way to make this pick look good. Brady Quinn also showed off a bit, putting up 225lbs 25 times. So […]

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