Odds to Win the 2009 MLB World Series
The Major League Baseball season is about to begin, and it might not come as a big surprise, but the New York Yankees are an 11/4 favorite to win the World Series.
The second favorite to win are the Chicago Cubs at 11/2. Rounding out the top five are the Boston Red Sox 15/2, Philadelphia Phillies 17/2, and tied at 10-1 are the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Mets.
The Pittsburgh Pirates round out the field in 30th, AKA dead last at 150/1 odds on winning (more. . .)
NASCAR’s Buschs will be tamed at Martinsville
Last week wasn’t exactly a great week for our NASCAR Sprint Cup preview at Bristol as the five drivers we had to watch, well one didn’t even finish the race, a couple probably shouldn’t have and well….well, let’s just focus on this week, where we don’t think a Busch will win.
Martinsville is another short track, but has a different look from Bristol. It’s a little bit shorter and has shorter straightaways. There’s a lot of strategy in the turns here.
One guy who has seemed to (more. . .)
2009 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament First Round Results
Well the first round of March Madness is over now. It was full of some exciting games as always. It also had quite a few upsets as it often does.
The biggest shocker of the round was #4 Wake Forest getting beat around by the team that has to be considered the Cinderella of the first round, #13 Cleveland State. They are now 2-0 in the first round of the tournament all-time, having only ever made it one other time in 1986 and upsetting their opponent (more. . .)
NASCAR goes short track
After a week off, the NASCAR Sprint Cup series heads to the short track of Bristol in a race that has extra importance with it setting the top 35, which determines the automatic qualifiers for each week’s races.
We’ve already briefly explored who is where on that list, so now lets focus on Bristol and who will be the person to beat.
A lot of drivers tell you that at Daytona and Talladega they know a big wreck is coming, and the key is to stay out (more. . .)
Is your bracket ready?
Okay. The NCAA men’s basketball tournament starts in one day, March Madness is here and you haven’t got your bracket ready yet. Is it time to panic? Yes. But that’s okay, because really it doesn’t matter if you put one minute or one day trying to figure out who is going to win the NCAA Tournament, you have just about as good as as a shot at winning your office pool.
Here’s some handy tips I can offer.
To start with the obvious: Go ahead and move all the No. (more. . .)
2009 NCAA Men’s March Madness Brackets
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2009 NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball March Madness Tournament
The brackets are now filled. There are a few surprises, and even more that was not surprising. The biggest thing that is NOT a surprise the system is flawed and favors the “power conferences”.
The top conferences were:
7 teams – ACC, Big East, and Big Ten
6 teams – Big 12, Pac 10
Some of the bubbles that got burst were; San Diego State, Saint Mary’s, Creighton, Virginia Tech, and Penn State.
The Midwest will play the West, while (more. . .)
NFL Star Donte Stallworth Kills Pedestrian with His Bentley
Donte Stallworth, a wide receiver with the Cleveland Browns, hit and killed a pedestrian with his Bentley at about 7AM ET in Miami, Florida on Saturday morning.
He was driving on a busy street that links Miami and Miami Beach when he hit 59-year-old Mario Reyes. Reyes was taken to a nearby trauma center and pronounced dead about an hour later. Reyes was near a crosswalk, but it is unclear whether or not he was crossing the busy road legally.
Police tested Stallworth to see if he (more. . .)
2009 NCAA March Madness Men’s Basketball Tournament Schedule and Locales of Games
March Madness is upon us! It’s time for one of the most exciting periods in all of sports. The NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament – 65 teams battle over a span of 27 days in 13 different locales. On April 6th one team emerges as the National Champion with bragging right for one year’s time until a new champion is crown next Aprild 5th in Indianapolis.
NCAA March Madness Probable #1 seed Team Logos
Madness kicks of this evening at 6PM ET when the live televised Selection Show (more. . .)
No Bay Area Sports?
Avid sports fans already know most of what I am going to say here, as there isn’t much new news here.
Still, it looks like in a matter of years, the San Francisco-Oakland area could down to just one major outdoor sports team.
First Major League Soccer’s Quakes moved to Houston and found great success there.
A little over two years ago, the NFLs 49ers wanted to build a home in Santa Clara. That move got delayed (mainly by the work of some major political players), but is still a work in progress.
The Raiders (more. . .)
Off week for NASCAR
First off, welcome to the NASCAR review/preview at sportswrapup.com. This started at our older site prosportswrap.com, so if you’d like to review some older posts, they can be found there. Every week we have a slight recap of the last race and recap the week ahead. The plan is to eventually have a short recap the Sunday of the race, or the Monday after and then on Wednesday preview the next race.
There isn’t a NASCAR Sprint Cup race this coming week, so we’ll look instead (more. . .)
Owens goes to Buffalo
Sorry for the delay in this, but well, we just had trouble believing it ourselves. We thought it was just a bad dream we had when we lost that hour of sleep last night, but it looks like it’s real. The NFL’s Terrell Owens is now in Buffalo.
Word is Buffalo fans have met this move with mixed reactions. The reactions were along these lines: Wait, we still have a team? Does Jim Kelly still play? Thurman Thomas?
Okay, in all seriousness, the decision by Buffalo to (more. . .)
Sources say Cowboys release Terrell Owens
Three straight 1000-yard seasons and double digit touchdowns. A name the entire world knows. And in the middle of the night, reports were flying that the Dallas Cowboys have released wide receiver Terrell Owens.
The Cowboys website has a report citing other reports, but don’t confirm or deny the reports.
The reports the Cowboys cite come from ESPN, where “sources” have told ESPN Owens is gone.
No reason not to believe the reports. This has kind of been stirring for weeks, if not months, ever since reports broke (more. . .)
