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Written by Nick Shlain
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Thursday, 04 January 2007 |
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Its playoff time and that means I have to start my quest for an 11-0 playoff run on my game picks. I’m very confident in the picks this week and I see a 4-0 start coming.
Now, I’m about to sound like a salesmen. This is one of the easiest weeks in playoff football handicapping history. Seriously, if you go by the rules of playoff gambling, there’s no way you can lose. The number one rule: Never back a crappy quarterback on the road.
 Avoid Playoff Chokers
Here’s the kicker, there are three crappy quarterbacks on the road this week. These are locks. Trent Green, Tony Romo, and Eli “Hayseed” Manning all go on the road and they're all going down.
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Written by Nick Shlain
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Monday, 01 January 2007 |
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Former Michigan State Head Coach Nick Saban is in the news again. He’s in the news because the University of Alabama won’t let him say no. Now, he’s faced with a tough decision. He can go back to college, take the money, and deem his two year stay in the NFL (record of 15-17) a failure or stay in Miami and stick it out in the league he’s waited his entire career to coach in.
 Saban at LSU
According to the Palm Beach Post report, the contract will more than double the guaranteed money that's left on Saban's agreement with the Dolphins (approximately $15 million) and will make him the highest-paid coach in college football.
The deal, including coach's shows, endorsements, camps and other outside income, could be worth from $40-$50 million and would include a $5 million signing bonus. The length of the contract is uncertain, but is rumored to be 8-10 years.
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Written by Nick Shlain
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Saturday, 30 December 2006 |
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For some strange reason, I don’t like writing columns about firing currently employed people. I don’t know why. I guess I have heart, unlike the New York Giants.
 Fi-re Cough-lin!
There are a lot of reasons why he should be fired, let me start with the Christmas Eve debacle that was sold to New York fans as a football game. It wasn’t a football game; it was a disgrace to everything that Giants late owner Wellington Mara stood for. It was a debacle.
They quit. How can a coach not get a team up for a game like that? Your at home, fighting for your playoff lives (somehow they still are), just got some injured players back (although Michael Strahan was heard from) and it was the last home game of Tiki Barber’s career. How does a team come out emotionally flat for a game like that? Why did they show up with I-75 eyes for this game?
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Written by Nick Shlain
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Wednesday, 20 December 2006 |
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It didn’t really dawn on me that Allen Iverson would be traded until they cleaned out his locker the other day.  Allen Iverson Now, it is time to say goodbye. Goodbye to an icon. Goodbye to his professional roots. Goodbye to the memories. This is the cocky kid who crossed Michael Jordan during his rookie year. This is the same guy that carried a team to the NBA Finals only five years ago. This is, also, the same guy who likes to talk about “practice.” An anonymous opposing assistant coach in college once said, “I’ve seen a rodeo and all that, but I’ve never seen anything like that Iverson kid.” He was the number one pick in the draft and rookie of the year. He’s always been good and he’s always been a winner.
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Wednesday, 20 December 2006 |
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The theme of this baseball off-season has to be “plenty of dollars, not much sense.” This fits perfectly because  Sox are Dealing The Utterly Absurd The Boston Red Sox spending $51.1 million to negotiate with Daisuke Matsuzaka. The story of how they settled on $51.1 million: first they were going to do $50 million, then they were worried some team would do $51 million
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