My morsels for today:
NBA: Don’t crown the Cleveland Cavaliers champions of the Eastern Conference just yet. The Atlanta Hawks are a dangerous team, especially at home, where they’re 31-10 this season. The Cavaliers will win the series against the Hawks, but it will be in six games.
NBA: The Boston Celtics can’t have much left in the tank after their marathon series against the Chicago Bulls. Give me the Orlando Magic to beat the Celtics in six games.
NBA: Denver Nuggets Vice President of Basketball Operations Mark Warkentien was named the league’s Executive of the Year. What executive WOULDN’T have made the Chauncey Billips-for-Allen Iverson trade?
MLB: I know it’s early, but can you believe the Toronto Blue Jays (18-9), Kansas City Royals (14-11) and Seattle Mariners (15-10) are the American League division leaders on May 4?
MLB: Brandon Inge of the Detroit Tigers is an early candidate for the American League’s Comeback Player of the Year. He’s reached base in all 24 Detroit games, and his glove work has been exceptional.
MLB: Another guy who is coming off the scrap heap is San Francisco Giants pitcher Barry Zito. He’s allowed just three earned runs in 20 1/3 innings in his last three starts with four walks and 11 strikeouts.
MLB: The Los Angeles Dodgers have won a franchise record 10 straight home games to open the season and that’s great, but look who they’ve beaten. They’ve swept the San Francisco Giants (12-11), Colorado Rockies (9-14) and San Diego Padres (11-14).
NFL: So is No. 1 draft pick Matthew Stafford the next Joe Flacco or Matt Ryan … or Vince Young?
NHL: The Carolina Hurricanes’ 3-0 win Sunday over the Boston Bruins was much more surprising than the Anaheim Ducks’ 4-3 triple-overtime win over the Detroit Red Wings. Why? Anaheim has now won five straight playoff OT games against the Red Wings.
MEDIA: Memo to ESPN: Do we have to get a dose of University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow in the off-season, too?
See you Tuesday!
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Good stuff Steve, the standings do appear to be up-side down in the AL, but it's a loooooong season. Agree with you on the NBA picks...Cleveland may be more vulnerable than people give credit for. Anyone would have destroyed a Pistons team that packed it in with 10 games left in the regular season...they dropped from a 4 seed to nearly out of the playoffs. I am hardly impressed by that sweep. As for Boston, don't count them out. If KG comes back at any point, everything changes. "Anything's Possibooooooooo!!!!" --KG
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