Major League Baseball Season Preview & Tickets

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NBA Trade Deadline Looms

With the NBA trade deadline just days away, many names will be shuffled about with very little action expected. But it is the possibilities that wet the imagination. Names on the trading front include Jason Kidd, Chris Webber, Lamar Odom, Bobby Jackson, Gary Payton, Carlos Boozer, Baron Davis, Michael Redd, Peja Stojakavic, Latrell Sprewell and Ray Allen.

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King of the Dunk

As we approach the NBA’s All Star weekend the fans are left wondering whether designated NBA savior LeBron James will go for the hat trick (that’s the closest we will come to hockey this year) and participate in the NBA Slam Dunk Contest. LeBron is already slated to play in Friday’s Rookie game and will start in Sunday’s All Star game.

Saturday will mark the 29 anniversary of the Slam Dunk contest. The first dunk-off took place in Denver as well as Julius “Dr. J” Erving defeated David Thompson in the finals. The Doctor secured victory with the infamous foul line dunk. The same move has been completed twice more by Michael “Air” Jordan in the 1980s and Brent “Bones” Barry in the 1990s. And both times the result was the Dunk Trophy.

Entering this years dunk contest is a relatively anonymous group of players. Backups and rookies have replaced the star power that the dunk contest once retained. No longer are first team All Star’s Jordan and Dominique “The Human Highlight Film” Wilkins competing for the championship but rather Chris Andersen and Josh Smith. No Spud Webb but a J.R. Smith. The lone star in the group is Amare Stoudemire who does remind us of a young Shawn Kemp in All Star form.

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Bash Brother Bashes Brother

Canseco and McGuire were the most feared one-two punch of the late 80s and early 90s. But now the former Bash Brothers are at odds as Canseco plan to release his biography on Monday, February 14, 2005.

Canseco covers a wide range of topics but most notably names names. Canseco claims that he taught McGuire, Jason Giambi, Ivan “Pudge” Rodriguez, Rafael Palmeiro, and Juan Gonzalez how to inject steroids. Furthermore, Canseco states that President George W. Bush, a former part owner of the Texas Rangers, was well aware of the steroid use on his team.

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Who Will Win the Super Bowl

We are mere hours away from the 39th edition of the Super Bowl. There is so much riding on this game and so many questions being tossed around:

Will Terrell Owens play?

Are the New England Patriots a dynasty?

Is Tom Brady an all-time great?

Is this the Patriots last run as they will lose offensive coordinator Charlie Weis and defensive coordinator Romeo Crennel after the season?

Has Freddie Mitchell got as much press as possible for a player who only caught 22 passes during the regular season?

Will Paul McCartney one up Janet Jackson now that Michael Powell is stepping down from his position at the FCC?

And of course, who will win Super Bowl XXXIX?

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Ranking Brady

Being placed in comparison with your childhood sports hero is an accomplishment all by itself. If your sports hero happens to be the greatest to ever play the game, it becomes that much more of an accomplishment.

On Sunday, Tom Brady hopes to join a very limited club of three quarterbacks that have led their team to at least three Super Bowl championships. Leading the way is Joe Montana who won four Super Bowls in nine seasons. Like many of Brady’s generation, it was Joe who was poster-ized on our walls and emulated in our driveways. Brady had that poster and now is emulating in football’s biggest game.

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Tiger Woods Wins - The PGA Tour Preview

Much has been made of Tiger Woods inability to win recently. It has been two years since Tiger won a Major, a year and half since he won a stroke play tournament and just plain not the Tiger of old. Critics are even pointing to Tiger’s win last weekend in the Buick Invitational as un-Tiger-esque.

Yet that appears to be far from the truth. Tiger overcame a two shot deficit with just six holes to play. When Tigers closest competitors could not break par on Sunday, Tiger shot a 68. And while Tiger’s second shot on the 72nd hole can be best described as amateur-ish as it fell 20 yards short and 20 yards right, lucky breaks have always been a part of golf.

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