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IT HAD TO HAPPEN

The big fat elephant in the room is finally becoming visible for everyone to see.  We’ve all known that the elephant was there, for all these years, but no one ever wanted to talk about it, until the FBI got involved.  Now the milk has been spilt and there is no putting it back in the bottle. Few sports fans …

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by Bobby Goodspeed on April 30th, 2019 Leave a comment »

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PRO BASKETBALL HIGH JINKS MOVES TO ROUND TWO

Now we are getting down to the real nitty-gritty part of the playoffs.  The first rounds went pretty much as expected as the match-ups were fairly one sided to begin with, not so for the second round. Now we get to the cream of the crop.  Now there are only 8 teams left in competition for the 2019 NBA Championship. …

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by Bobby Goodspeed on April 29th, 2019 Leave a comment »

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ROUND TWO OF THE STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS

Let’s face it.  Round one of this year’s Stanley Cup Playoffs didn’t go exactly as the ‘experts’ predicted.  Bettors who bet the dogs generally did well, especially those lucky few who bet the Columbus Blue Jackets to beat the league leading Tampa Bay Lightning. Even better if they picked Columbus to win in four. So now the Blue Jackets will …

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by Bobby Goodspeed on April 27th, 2019 Leave a comment »

CHURCHILL DOWNS

THE 2019 KENTUCKY DERBY PRIMER

The noble sport of horse racing reaches its peak each spring time on the first Saturday in May with the running of the annual Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, far and away the sports’ most glamorous and publicized event of the year. Best of all, the Kentucky Derby is just the beginning of a series of three …

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by Bobby Goodspeed on April 26th, 2019 Leave a comment »

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2019 NBA PLAYOFF MERRY-GO-ROUND

Here we go again.  The top 16 teams of the NBA square off in a 6 week long annual festival of professional basketball in the USA called ‘The Playoffs’. Although basketball is now played almost worldwide at the professional level, the National Basketball Association Playoffs are considered to be the games in which the best team in the world is …

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by Bobby Goodspeed on April 22nd, 2019 Leave a comment »

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STADIUM FOOD ARRIVES AT THE CUTTING EDGE

Remember back in the old days when ‘going out to the ball park’ meant eating hotdogs, popcorn and cotton candy.  You couldn’t even get a cold beer at most ball parks.  Sporting events were sort of like camping trips where everyone dressed up warmly and fans often resorted to bringing their own food and beverages, especially ‘beverages’.     Stadiums were mostly cold grey …

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by Bobby Goodspeed on April 20th, 2019 Leave a comment »

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DRAFTING FOR THE FUTURE

It’s time once again for the annual National Football League Draft of eligible players coming out of colleges and universities from across the United States and around the world.  This year the ceremony will take place in Nashville, Tennessee on April 25-27, where 111 pro football hopefuls, the largest number of applicants ever, have announced their intentions to throw their …

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by Bobby Goodspeed on April 19th, 2019 Leave a comment »

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FIRE ON THE BAYOU

In the aftermath of the suspension of LSU head basketball coach Will Wade right before the SEC tournament, Joe Alleva, who served as athletic director for the Tigers for the past eleven years, will step down from the AD job at LSU to take up a position as ‘special assistant’ to LSU’s president F. King Alexander going forward. Alleva has …

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by Bobby Goodspeed on April 18th, 2019 Leave a comment »

AUGUSTA, GEORGIA - APRIL 14: Tiger Woods of the United States celebrates after sinking his putt to win during the final round of the Masters at Augusta National Golf Club on April 14, 2019 in Augusta, Georgia. (Photo by Andrew Redington/Getty Images)

TIGER ROARS

There were 25,000 fans crowded around the greens and most of them were there to try and catch a glimpse of just one particular golfer at the 2019 Masters Tournament in Augusta, Georgia, that would be four time Masters winner and overwhelming crowd favorite Tiger Woods. Stepping onto the lush campus at Augusta National after not having won a PGA …

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by Bobby Goodspeed on April 17th, 2019 Leave a comment »

STANLEY CUP 19

HARD AS A HOCKEY PUCK

The Stanly Cup Playoffs are once again underway. Our fastest, hardest hitting and most brutal popular team sport takes to the ice to determine which is the best team in the National Hockey League for 2019, and the competition is tight as always.  Of the 31 teams in the NHL, only the top 16 are still in competition for North …

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by Bobby Goodspeed on April 16th, 2019 Leave a comment »