2011 NFL Mock Draft

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Thursday Lunch Special: 2011 NBA Playoffs Bracket!

By Will Robinson

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The NBA Playoffs are amongst us, so it’s time to have another bracket challenge! Why you may say? Why not! Below will be a picture of the bracket and our form you will submit in the comments section. The scoring for the rounds will be as follows:

Thursday Lunch: MLS Week 5 Picks

Current Year’s Record
Evan: 18-20
Kyle: 16-22
Nick: 13-25
Will: 14-24

	CHI at POR	SEA at PHI	DCU at TFC	Chivas at VAN	SKC at CLB	SJ at NY	LA at CHI	FCD at POR
Evan	POR	PHI	DCU	VAN	SKC	NY	DRAW	DRAW
Kyle	POR	DRAW	DCU	VAN	DRAW	DRAW	LA	FCD
Nick	POR	SEA	DCU	Chivas	SKC	SJ	LA	POR
Will	POR	PHI	DCU	VAN	SKC	DRAW	DRAW	FCD

	NE at HOU
Evan	HOU
Kyle	HOU
Nick	HOU
Will	HOU

Wednesday Lunch: The Top 10 Sacramento Kings

By Will Robinson

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Last night, some fantastic news broke out. Chris Webber, one of the best basketball players during the late 90s and early 2000s, announced that he had formed a group in an effort to try to purchase the Sacramento Kings with the purpose of keeping them in Sacramento. I was ecstatic. If Webber, one of the, if not the greatest King during the Sacramento era, somehow manages to push the ongoing charge in trying to keep the team in town, he would be the River City Saint. I even said on Twitter and on my Facebook, that there should be a pure gold statue of Webber erected in his honor. Hell, there should a statue of him anyways. This sparked some jokes and such, but it prompted an idea for a BLOG post: Who are the top 10 Kings of the Sacramento era? Well, ladies and gentlemen, here is the DEFINITIVE TSL Top 10 Sacramento-era Kings. Just for some criteria: I’m looking at people who were in Sacramento for at least three years.
 

Monday Lunch: The Legend of Keyser Söze

By Evan Ream


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After recently re-reading The Book of Basketball by Bill Simmons (a must read for any sports fan), I studied his Keyser Söze chapter closely. In this chapter, Simmons chooses the ten best teams of all time (number one was the 86 Celtics) in the NBA. Each of these teams were great because they could and would go “Keyser Söze” on opponents; not just beat them, but also humiliating them in the process. I believe we are seeing the first ever “Keyser Söze” team in MLS this year: Real Salt Lake.
 
MLS has a very short history and thus very few dominating teams. For me to claim that we are seeing the first “Keyser Söze” team this year, we must first look back at each previous year.
 

Thursday Lunch: MLS Week 4 Picks

Current Year’s Record
Evan: 12-16
Kyle: 12-16
Nick: 9-19
Will: 10-18

	COL at FCD	CHI at SEA	NY at PHI	RSL at NE	LA at DCU	CLB at Chivas	TFC at SJ	VAN at HOU
Evan	COL	SEA	DRAW	RSL	DRAW	DRAW	SJ	HOU
Kyle	COL	SEA	DRAW	RSL	DCU	DRAW	SJ	HOU
Nick	COL	SEA	NY	RSL	LA	CLB	SJ	DRAW
Will	COL	DRAW	DRAW	RSL	LA	DRAW	SJ	HOU

	LA at TFC	COL at RSL
Evan	LA	RSL
Kyle	LA	DRAW
Nick	LA	RSL
Will	LA	RSL

Wednesday Lunch: The SACK Lunch’s Guide to Booing Etiquette

By Nick Gallaudet

MLB’s 2011 Opening Weekend is in the books, and as usual with sports, it was accompanied by a flurry of mixed emotions ranging from euphoria to frustration to disappointment. As an A’s fan, I experienced all these emotions on Opening Day: euphoria with Josh Willingham’s 1^st inning homerun, frustration with the A’s defense as a whole (five errors in the season opener!?!?!), and disappointment as I watched Felix Hernandez become the A’s daddy. One thing I noticed watching that game, however, was that the A’s fans at the game had no problem expressing their emotions. I heard more boos at that game than I have ever heard at an A’s game, and this is coming from a guy who watches over 100 A’s games a year. The two instances in which I was embarrassed as a baseball fan to hear boos were when former Athletic Jack Cust stepped in the batter’s box for the Mariners and when A’s 3^rd baseman Kevin Kouzmanoff made back-to-back errors in the top of the 4^th. I didn’t think either of those instances called for boos, so I am going to take it upon myself, here and now, to give you the SACK Lunch Guide to Booing Etiquette.

 

 

Tuesday Lunch: Recap of Vancouver vs. Sporting KC

By Kyle Mohr

Vancouver’s second ever MLS home game picked up right where the Whitecaps left off with an entertaining game, complete with an improbable comeback deep in stoppage time that proved to be enough for Vancouver to salvage a tie. The second MLS game at Empire Field featured six goals again so be sure to see if the streak continues tomorrow (April 6) when the Whitecaps take on the Revs. And now, a few notes on how the Vancouver - Kansas City game played out:

 

Monday Lunch: MLS, Where Does your Team Stand?

By Evan Ream

 

After three games for most teams (though two to four for some), I feel like there is a decent enough sample size to assess each team’s chances of winning MLS Cup as well as the Supporter’s Shield. I have therefore divided up all the teams into these four categories:

 

Friday Lunch: MLS Week 3 Picks

Current Year’s Record
Evan: 10-9
Kyle: 8-11
Nick: 6-13
Will: 8-11

	FCD at CLB	Chivas at TFC	KC at VAN	POR at NE	HOU at NY	PHI at LA	SEA at SJ	DCU at COL
Evan	FCD	TFC	KC	NE	DRAW	DRAW	SJ	COL
Kyle	FCD	DRAW	KC	NE	NY	LA	DRAW	DRAW
Nick	CLB	TFC	KC	POR	NY	LA	SEA	DRAW
Will	FCD	TFC	DRAW	NE	NY	DRAW	SJ	COL

	VAN at NE
Evan	VAN
Kyle	DRAW
Nick	DRAW
Will	NE