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Wow, simply put wow. For once in my life I am thrilled to say that I get the New Jersey Net games on my cable services. Why because I was lucky enough to flip the channels and land on YES at the start of the 4th quarter. If you haven't seen the highlights yet, go to the Suns official site . Steve Nash = Point Guard of My Dreams Nash was always good for the Mavericks but watching him on the Suns he does every single thing on the offensive end as a point guard that I wished I could have done. Let me list the ways: 1) First off he has excellent handle, he has every dribble in the book and I you almost never see him mishandle a dribble. Last night on one pick and roll the Nets defended it by severely hedging the screen, Nash handled this by splitting the defense, but not with a normal dribble instead he dribbled it several feet in front of him giving him the opportunity to sprint to the ball and gain extra speed, it was like a soccer player dribbling the ball far away so he could ...

A Little Holiday Spirit for Ya

Throw all the cliches out there Hell Hath Frozen Over, When Pigs Fly, etc. only during these times would you ever think that these ludicrous contracts being thrown around Major League Baseball would happen. Every day goes by this major league offseason and seemingly a new ridiculous illogical contract is being thrown around, and thus far none have come from the New York Yankees. Has the world been flipped upside down? Here's a listing of some of the biggest albatross free agent contracts. Poor Little Red Sox Financial Issues The Red Sox brass complained during the middle of the season that they could not hang with the money machine Evil Empire and come the first week of Decemeber the Red Sox have shelled out two big contracts and completely blew the Yankees bid for Japanese star Daisuke Matsuzaka out of the water. Julio Lugo - I don't think this deal is that bad 36 million for 4 years, but it has to be said that he is making much more money than Jose Reyes, who should have hi...

So who's pumped up for the Brown Steeler thriller tonight, anyone, anyone, guess not? One way or another the Thursday Night forces the picks to come on Thursday. One thing I'm seeing as a theme this week is I absolutely love a bunch of these road marginal favorites with playoff hopes. Call me crazy but when a team has playoff motivation versus a team looking forward to the draft I'm on board. 5. Tennessee Titans (+ 1 1/2) at Houston Texans The Texans threw for a total of 32 yards last week, and won, huh? Just in case you haven't noticed the Titans in the past 7 weeks have turned into one of the best teams in the NFL knocking off the Giants and the Colts in back to back weeks. I think Vince plays very well in his homecoming and will have a ton of desire to show the citizens of Houston that the organization was stupid for not drafting him. 4. New England Patriots (-3 1/2) at Miami Dolphins Last week they didn't cover the massive spread cause they didn't show ...

Nothing says completely biased more than looking at the nice spreadsheet provided by the folks at the USA today showing where these coaches laid their votes. Michigan vs. Florida Debate When looking at who voted who #2 it's easy to decipher that there is a natural bias between the schools in the northern half of the continent and those in the southern half which almost exclusively voted for Florida #2. Ron Zook - The Zooker decided to part with party lines and side with his former employee even though his team routinely gets destroyed by every other squad in the Big 10, but hey he did recruit Chris Leak and the rest of the little used Junior and Senior class of Florida and therefore if they win its almost as if he won a National Title. Mack Brown - Vetoed the South and went with Michigan, why, probably cause his team got trampled by OSU at home and Michigan played them well in Ohio. Jim Tressel - Obviously its already been said that Tressel took the weasel's way out and did...

The JD Drew Signing by Theo and his boys made no sense at all. And thus I had to do a little undercover investigating, which led to the true story, it's all Scalabrine's fault. Characters: JD = JD Drew, currently in contract with the Devil. Devil = Scott Boras, only capable of whispering evil words into the ear of clients. Ned = Ned Colletti, current GM of the Dodgers. Scalls = Brian Scalabrine, in allegiance with the Devil, master Weed cultivator. Ainge = Danny Ainge, current Celtics GM sucker for the Gange. Eppy = Theo Epstein, currently under the Devil's spell. Sometime in late October: Devil: JD, you do not want 34 million, you want more, more, more. I can get you more JD, more. JD: More, I like more, you sure you can get me more. Mmmm More is better than a good Chicken Salad. Devil: [Mumbles] Uh Chicken Salad, ok. Yes More shall I call the Dodgers and inform them of our greed. JD: More, More, More. Devil: I'll take that as a yes. [Snickers] November 9th Devil: N...

With the news yesterday of Schiano's decision to reject the Miami job, I got to thinking about how there are so many reasons I agree with his refusal. And how I think he has a legitimate chance to turn Rutgers into a perennial Big East contender. State of New Jersey Being the state university has defined advantages in the recruiting area. With an increased profile the university will start bringing pride to the inhabitants of the area and will in result have kids in the area growing up wanting to play for that squad. Before Schiano I doubt any little kid grew up imagining himself in a Rutgers Scarlet Knights uniform. In some states this doesn't matter, there will never be enough talent in Connecticut for UConn to be competitive without searching around the area, but there is in New Jersey. Every year there are a couple of teams from Jersey on the National High School Rankings , in addition there is no college university in the area for kids from NYC to admire locally. If ...