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Not exactly how the season was supposed to play out. Then again, it almost never does.

A month and a half into the 2013 Major League Baseball season, few teams stand where they were predicted to be at year’s end. Checkout available MLB futures odds to see just how things line up as of right now. Heck, some MLB squads could not be playing more completely opposite to their predictions, with even entire divisions–the AL East, anyone?–flipped top to bottom.
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Three British players have recently been picked up by NFL teams.

NFL Watch Out, the British Are Coming!

The news that three British players have been picked up either in the NFL Draft or through free agency has a lot of “American” Football and live online betting fans talking this side of the pond. While there have been three British Super Bowl winners in the past, none have been superstars, with kicker Lawrence Tynes the most well-recognized after kicking the New York Giants to two Super Bowls.
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March of the Mid-Majors in the NCAA Tournament — what’s next?

Editor’s Notes: This is a repost from CollegeStats.org

The Future of the Tournament

Quick: name your favorite thing about March Madness. Buzzer beaters, come-from-behind wins, coaching drama, or office pool victories are all great choices. But if you answered “a little team nobody’s ever heard of beating a powerhouse,” go cut that net down; you won.

Mid-majors — those Bucknells, Creightons, and Murray States that field men’s college basketball teams in conferences other than the six well-knowns like the SEC and ACC— have been putting the madness in March for years, defying their low seeds and providing America with scores of underdogs to root for and pages of bracket busters to bank on. And it’s a good thing, too: imagine how boring the tournament would be if the higher seed always won. (Luckily the odds of that happening in a given year are 1 in 35,360,000,000.)

2013 has the potential to be the group’s biggest year yet, with mid-majors securing impressive seeds and knocking off perennial Sweet 16 entrants. We’re taking a look back at how mid-majors scrapped their way to being one of the most exciting features of sports.

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Today’s drama at the Master epitomizes what makes sports so compelling.

Why I Love Sports

“I don’t watch much golf even though I enjoy playing the sport, but the Masters playoff between Adam Scott & Angel Cabrera was pretty special.”

So went my Facebook post (and Tweet) at the end of the Masters this afternoon. It is entirely true. While I keep an eye on PGA results and I do enjoy playing, I do not watch much golf on TV. Yet I did catch the end of the tournament today, and the 18th hole for Adam Scott and Angel Cabrera and subsequent playoff were the quintessential example of everything I love about sports.
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Baseball’s Opening Day has come and gone, and while it is time to celebrate baseball, let us lament a lost tradition.

Play Ball!

It’s the most wonderful time of the year…

Baseball is back!

Can’t say how many people I saw yesterday wearing their team’s gear for Opening Day…and how many times I was asked about baseball scores by people seeing me in my hat and shirt. At least in Los Angeles, love of the game appears to be burning strongly.
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