Top 5 ways to make soccer more exciting

Our Top 5 for last weeks show was the top 5 ways to make soccer more exciting. Unlike last show I seemed to take this a bit more seriously than Loren did. To hear our thoughts on each you can listen to the April 23rd podcast here.

Derek's top 5:
5. More refs
4. An injured player is out of the game
3. Penalties for flopping
2. Core group of fans
1. No ties

Loren's top 5:
5. Decrease the size of the field
4. Widen the goal
3. Power plays
2. Continue play after a goal
1. Multi-Ball!

Derek

Read the rest of this post...

Top 5 Signature moves of NBA players

Our Top 5 for last weeks show was the top 5 Signature moves of NBA players. Now this could be both active and inactive players. Loren seemed to take this a bit more seriously than I did. To hear our thoughts on each you can listen to the April 9th podcast here.

Derek's top 5:
5. Malone’s elbows and Stocken’s grabbing
4. The Dream shake
3. Sabas behind the back pass in the lane/no jump one handed rebound.
2. Magloire’s no look dunks
1. Jordan’s tongue

Loren's
5. Shaq's Drop step and seal
4. Jordan's fadaway
3. Allen Iverson's Crossover
2. The Dream shake
1. Kareem's Sky hook

Derek

Read the rest of this post...

Blazers could get the #3 seed

Philipp a friend of the show has his own thoughts on how the West will finish out this season. I'm sure Blazers fan will be happy.

Derek

According to my calculations, the best the blazers can do is the 3rd seed according to the tie breakers. I think I understand the tie breakers but here is my scenario in which the blazers face the Mavs with home court advantage. The following games have to be won in that order with in order to have this scenario take place.

#1 seed – Lakers (56-26)
#2 seed – Jazz (52-30) – Wins tie breaker vs Suns due to head to head, Wins tie breaker vs Blazers due to head to head.
#3 seed – Blazers (52-30) – Wins tie break vs Suns due to head to head, Co-Division camps again :)
#4 seed – Spurs (51-31) – Guaranteed top 4 seed due to Division winner, Wins tie breaker vs Mavs due to head to head
#5 seed – Suns (52-30) – Has better record than Spurs so has homecourt advantage
#6 seed – Mavs (51-31) – Wins tie break vs Nuggets due to head to head
#7 seed – Nuggets (51-31)
#8 seed – Thunder (50-32)

Yup it’s going to happen.

Read the rest of this post...

Opening day

Opening day in Baseball seems to mean so much more than in any other sport. I'm not sure why, technically it should seem to mean the least since they play so many more games than any of the other major sports. I think there are two reasons why opening day holds that special place in our hearts.

1. Plain old long standing tradition.
2. Daytime games ie. skipping work.

Anyway there's not much you can learn from opening day. Sure Pujols hit two home runs yesterday, but that doesn't mean he'll have 324 for the season, sure the Yankees lost their first game but that doesn't mean they won't win their division, heck even the Pirates won big yesterday but that doesn't mean they'll be anywhere but a last place team at the end of the season.

So while opening day may be fun and exciting and the beginning of Spring, it doesn't really reflect what the new season will bring. Of course it does provide us with plays such as Mark Buehrle's.

Derek

Read the rest of this post...