Ten Observations/ Predictions from the Sports World

Please read the following observations/ predictions from the world of sports. You’re welcome for the clarity.

The Indianapolis Colts are 0-3 in the NFL pre-season. This gives them four wins versus 21 losses dating back to 2005. This proves the pre-season records mean nothing because the Colts have averaged 13 wins over the same regular seasons. Oh, and they won a Super Bowl.

Nick Saban will eventually leave the University of Alabama for another coaching job.

The NFL is the king of sports, and college football rules the south, but high school football is the best value for the Everyfan.

No American male will advance to the semis-finals of the 2010 U. S Open.

Pitcher Andy Petite is the key to the New York Yankees post-season and Roger Clemens federal indictment for his role in the performance enhancing drug saga.

The World Basketball Championships are currently under way in Turkey. You may not have known this, or even cared. This lack of story proves that the “Lebron James Decision” was good for the NBA in the vein of “any publicity is good publicity.”

Major League Baseball is on a roll right now. Clemens’ issues with telling the truth and letting guys inject drugs into his backside, has a fantastic reality television feel that is attractive to mainstream viewers and readers. Also, there are great story lines emerging as the play-offs approach. Small market and small budget teams like San Diego and Tampa Bay are leading their divisions. And lastly, The Yankees are still relevant.

Golf’s Ryder Cup is the premier all-star contest in professional sports. Tiger Woods is the world’s best golfer. Still, he has been fighting to make the U. S. Ryder Cup team. (He will make it). Golfers are the only athletes care so much about these exhibitions. That’s why we should be interested.

The NFL will go to an eighteen team schedule next season. Rosters will expand. Teams will carry four quarterbacks. Some teams will take this opportunity to “carry” an unconventional or “Wildcat” quarterback.

Every guy driving a Smart Car has a beard? It’s true. This may not be related all that closely to sports, but it is true. Think about it.

Go West, Young Man

Ten Quick Bullet Points (Pun Intended) on Lane Kiffin jolting the Tennessee Nation


1. The Trojans are a better for Lane Kiffin. USC is a much higher profile job. Recruiting, which is a strength of Kiffin’s, will be much simpler in So Cal. The Pac-10 is a much easier conference to win, with less competition and no championship game. Finally, Kiffin has been on the west coast since graduating high school.

2. Kiffin is the best USC could do. The had already been turned by better names such as Mike Riley and Jack del Rio. Hell, in a lot of ways he is Washington coach Steve Sarkisian “lite,” with a more Hollywood friendly name recognition.

3. Tennessee will not go as outside the box with their next hire. They got burned by Kiffin. He left, taking his Daddy and Ed Orgeron with him, after only fourteen months. UT only won seven games in his lone season and faces possible recruiting violations. Three players were arrested on gun charges exactly two months ago. The Vols need stability.

4. Somewhere, Phillip Fulmer is saying, "You ran me out for this?

5. Tennessee fans have to keep changing their drawers, or at least flip them inside out, every couple of hours.


6. In Seattle, Pete Carroll is very happy. The Kiffin hiring has taken all the focus off his rapid exodus to the Seattle Seahawks.





7. In Knoxville, Bruce Pearl is jumping for joy. Kiffin’s departure, coupled with the basketball Vols upset of No. 1 Kansas, means the December gun and marijuana “incident” involving the four hoopsters at the convenience store parking lot virtually disappears.

8. Georgia defensive coach Rodney Garner is contemplating a change of address. Garner, a former UT assistant, is an outstanding recruiter and holds the title of Assistant Head Coach at Georgia. He wasn’t seriously considered for the indefinitely vacant defensive coordinator job by Mark Richt and may not be head coaching stock. Still, no matter what the title, he would be invaluable helping Tennessee hold on to the current recruiting class (currently ranked sixth in the country by Rivals and Scouts.com).

9. In Lubbock, new Texas Tech coach Tommy Tuberville is pissed.



10. Frankly, my dear, Nick Saban doesn’t give a damn. And, why should he? As much as it may hurt the Volunteer nation, their place in the SEC hierarchy is simply middle of the pack while their traditionally biggest rival reigns national champion.