With the Patriots’ last-second 30-27 win over Drew Brees and the supercharged Saints offense in week six, it’s easy to look at the Patriots and say they are back on track. Don’t get me wrong - the Patriots have been playing in some very tough and gritty football games, however...
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Monthly Archives: October 2013
Week 7 Thursday Night Picks
Welcome to the La Sportsa Nostra weekly NFL picks page. Every week we will pick the winners of that upcoming week’s NFL games. We’ve added Adam “Cheech” Richichi to our Thursday and Sunday picks for all the sports bettors out there. The rest of the crew is just picking the...
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Boston: Big Beards, Bigger Night.
Last night, Jim Leyland decided to take a chance and get a little creative with his lineup, a chance that paid off for the Tigers in a big way. Though Boston’s pitcher, Jake Peavy, struggled to get his pitching down, I believe it was Leyland’s shuffling of players that heated...
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Sorta Power Rankings Week 3
Every week the writers of La Sportsa Nostra will get together and come up with our parody of the NFL power rankings. This page came about from us looking at some other NFL power rankings and laughing hysterically at what other sites have for NFL teams from 1-10. They are...
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Dodgers Deliver Another Dramatic Performance in the Fight to the World Series
Hollywood has a new contender for best dramatic performance: the Los Angeles Dodgers. On Tuesday, Don Mattingly’s team managed to look nothing short of defeated as the St. Louis Cardinals trampled the Dodgers on their home field in Game 4 of the National League Championship Series. But yesterday, when they...
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Potential Good News for Knicks Fans.
I am a pessimistic New York Knicks fan. This is why after the series loss to the Indiana Pacers in the second round of last year’s playoffs, I wasn’t even upset. There was no reason for me to be upset, I had predicted at the beginning of last season that...
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No Love in the City of Brotherly Love
The question looms large: are the Philadelphia Flyers a playoff team? On paper they have an enviable roster of forwards, boasting some of the finest depth upfront of any team in the league. Sure, they have a few defensemen that are a little long in the tooth - veterans like...
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Benzema is a good option, but not the right option for Arsenal.
The worst part of being a fan of one of the original Big 4 (Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester United) is your team is always tied to every player currently playing the sport. When there is a lull in the leagues for international breaks or winter breaks, then the rumor mills...
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Dwight Howard - The Gift That Keeps On GIFing.
In the world of “slow news day at ESPN,” this article was recently posted: http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/9834281/dwight-howard-houston-rockets-upset-tobias-harris-orlando-magic-wears-no-12-jersey Let me spare you the wasted minutes and under-stimulated brain cells. Dwight Howard, formerly of the Orlando Magic (where he never won a title, got his coach fired, demanded a trade, flip-flopped on that, re-signed...
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Rivers and Chargers happy to be at .500 heading to JAX.
The Indianapolis Colts have had a great season so far in 2013. They were barely favored in Monday night’s game in SD, and some analysts even went as far as to mention that the Colts “were focused on next week” in reference to the Broncos and Peyton Manning back in...
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