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NFC Championship Preview

Friday, January 16th, 2009

The Battle of the Birds is set to take place Sunday 3pm EST in Glendale, AZ. Early indications out of Phoenix are that the Philadelphia Eagles fans have showed up en masse to soak up some sun and reak havoc on the fair-weather Cardinals fans. The way the playoffs have been going so far this [...]

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NFL Playoffs Expert Picks

Saturday, January 10th, 2009

 
Here are the MG Sports Talk staff’s expert picks for this weekend’s NFL playoff games. Think you know more than we do? Leave your picks on the comment board. Results will be posted Monday morning.
Moneyball Matt: Tennesse, Carolina, Philadelphia, (too nervous to pick)
G $: Baltimore, Carolina, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh
Cov: Baltimore, Arizona, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh
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NFL Playoffs Preview: Steelers-Chargers

Saturday, January 10th, 2009

Encinitas, CA - This week, the all-knowing sages of football have crowned the Pittsburgh Steelers victorious before either team steps foot onto frosty Heinz Field—surely on Sunday sanity will be restored and the universe will return to its natural order. So they think. The San Diego Super-Chargers have momentum and a lot of it. No [...]

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NFL Playoffs Preview: Giants-Eagles

Saturday, January 10th, 2009

Rochester, NY - Yes, Sunday’s game is one in which the Giants’ lose “home field” advantage (Meadowlands: only 90 miles from Philly) but it’s also one of the best rivalries around and promises to be a great one. This will be a game that playoff football is all about. Cold weather, teams that hate each [...]

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I have finally had enough. Life BEFORE in the MIDDLE and AFTER football games used to be so much more informative and reasonable, but these damn pregame, halftime and postgame shows have gotten absolutely ridiculous and seem to be an extension of the game. I understand completely understand the capital gains made through commercials and [...]

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AFC Wild Card Preview

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

San Diego Chargers
A lot of people have been griping that an 8-8 Chargers team made the playoff while the highly qualified 11-5 Patriots are sitting at home this January, but in reality the Patriots have no one to blame but themselves. Losing at home to the Jets and Dolphins, and getting pounded in San Diego [...]

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Expert Picks : NFL Wild Card Games

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

“Zero hour is upon us. Let us seize the day.”
That’s right, folks…its time for the NFL Playoffs. We’ve waited all year. We’ve endured a wild season…from the Jets’ collapse, to the Colts’ uprising…from the Lions’ winless season, to the Dolphins unprecedented return to the playoffs after a 1 win season…football fans have seen it all. And [...]

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Jets Fire Mangini After Late Season Collapse

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

Antonelli/Daily News
East Rutherford, NJ - Eric Mangini was fired on Monday but Woody Johnson forgot to include the other two stooges, Mike Tannenbaum and Brett Favre.   The New York Jets collapse can very easily be placed on one man, and that man is  Mangini.  Although GM Tannenbaum and Favre had just as much to do [...]

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WVU & Pat White Win 4 Straight

Monday, December 29th, 2008

                                                              
Yea, I know…it’s only the Meineke Car Care Bowl but it’s also the 4th consecutive bowl win for the West Virginia Mountaineers,  most notably quarterback Pat White. Saturday’s 31-30 shootout victory against North Carolina in the Tarheels‘ own backyard does more than save Mountaineer fans the embarrasment of a 5 loss season, it puts [...]

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Teixeira signs with Yankees

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

 
Whoa! (Joey Lawrence). The Yankees are having a historic off season, signing the likes of C.C. Sabathia, Nick Swisher and A.J.Burnett. But today, the New York Yankees solidified their offseason dominance by signing free agent first baseman Mark Teixeira in principle for 8 years, 180 million dollars.
 Teixeira, who was being pursued by the Angels, Red Sox, [...]

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Colts vs. Jaguars Vegas Line

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

Here’s the MG Line for tonight’s NFL Network Thursday night AFC South matchup in Jacksonville:
Indianapolis Colts vs. Jacksonville Jaguars
Vegas line: Indianapolis -6, Over/Under 44
Gerame’s pick: Indianapolis 28 Jaguars 16 
Matt’s pick:  Indianapolis 35 Jaguars 21
Cov’s pick: Indianapolis 27 - Jaguars 10
 Leave your picks on the comment board. Results will be posted tomorrow…

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SEC Big East Invitational: Desperation surfaces

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

In a dispicable effort to ride the coattails of the ACC Big Ten Challenge and its enormous success, the SEC and Big East conferences have teamed up with the anti-Christ of media (aka ESPN and its affiliates) to feed to the masses a so-called basketball “competition” between the 2 conferences. Instead of giving the fans [...]

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