Miracle Covers Winning at Sports

Here are my final four picks at this moment, obviously forsaking the fact that we don’t know actual brackets yet
Syracuse
Mich St
Kentucky
Texas
Leave a comment if you want to make your own four picks and throw money on things.

“To all the people watching, I can never thank you enough for your kindness to me and I’ll think about it for the rest of my life. All I ask of you is one thing: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism- it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere.
Nobody in life gets [...]

I am going to start keeping a record of picks I like.  They will be broken down by a variety of classifications (sport, confidence in pick, underdog, road, etc.) depending on how much effort I put into this thing.  This will be Day 1
Grizzlies (-1.5) @ Detroit – Two units
Bulls (+5.5) @ Oklahoma – One [...]

Allen took Indy and Minnesota to clinch the picks contest last week. Pat had the Jets and Saints.

From Pinnacle
NY Jets @ Indianapolis -7.5
Minnesota @ New Orleans -3.5
Standings are a few posts down. Email your picks by 3pm Sunday and I’ll post an update Sunday night/Monday morning.

Lots of inspiration this week…
Follow-ups and excerpts from the Marvin Harrison story.
Jason Fagone also wrote an awesome story on Tim Tebow a few months back.
All these humanizing details tend to take the edge off the fact that Tebow’s entire role-model persona doesn’t work unless he can convey that, fundamentally, he’s better than you: stronger, more [...]

Only two still in it to win it. Blame Norv.
Standings

Word to your mothers, the three articles below are looooooooooong. Awesome stuff though and as good as anything I could ever hope to write. Print and read.
36 hours with the Atlanta Hawks by Lang Whitaker.
“This team has a chance to do something special if you believe in each other,” Woodson said. “If you [...]

So I have posted on this site the game where you try to guess the line.  Now I am popping a big ol’ cherry and doing this for the NBA.  The results could very well prove comedic.  I have been watching more NBA this year than I normally do so let’s see how much of [...]

From Pinnacle this morning:
Saturday
Arizona @ New Orleans -7
Baltimore @ Indianapolis -6.5
Sunday
Dallas @ Minnesota -2.5
NY Jets @ San Diego -7
Picks due by 4pm Saturday. Post in comments and/or email to me or Sean.