CBI Prediction Show!!!

 

Unfortunately, this isn’t Sportscenter and I don’t have  the resources to do a fancy intro.  Although, many would agree, the College Basketball Invitational doesn’t deserve a fancy intro.  One might be asking yourself, why do I care about the CBI?  Well, I know it doesn’t have the sex appeal that the NCAA Tourny does, and to tell the truth, there is very little out there is as much fun as the NCAA Tournament.  And I know its not quite the tournament that the NIT puts on, but the CBI’s goal is to compete with the NIT. But here you go, here is the Seattlesportsblog official predictions for the CBI Tourny. 

 First the Bracket.  For those who want to take a look, print it out and fill one out.  Check it out here.  For those who just want the CBI website, here you go.  As you may see, the website has a lovely picture of our favorite turnover machine, Justin Dentmon.

 The Teams -

• Bradley
• Brown
• Cincinnati
• Houston
• Miami (Ohio)
• Nevada
• Ohio
• Old Dominion
• Richmond
• Rider
• Tulsa
• Utah
• UTEP
• Valparaiso
• Virginia
• Washington

These are the 16 teams that accepted the bid’s for this tournament.  As you can easily see, there are some decent teams in this field.  Although, not a lot of big names (Washington ,Virginia, and Cincinnati are the only big conferences schools), but teams like Nevada, Old Dominion, Utah have all been forces in the NCAA tournament in the past.

Save our Sonics letter to the Owners.

This is just a link.  But a very important one, especially for those who want to keep the Sonics in Seattle.

 Here is a letter from the Save our Sonics organization to the owners for the NBA teams.

http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/sonics/index.html#022607

The best starting rotation in baseball? How about Seattle?

I know the world revolves around New York.  New York has to be the best and greatest at everything, yatta yatta yatta.  But here in Seattle, we have a saying, “New York Sucks!”.  I know you cannot wear those shirts at Safeco field, but who cares.  I am here to tell you, that the Seattle Mariners has the best rotation in baseball.  Not the New York Yankees, or Mets (even with Santana) or even those babies in Boston (waaa waaa, the patriots lost, get over it!)  The best is in the west, and to be more exact, the pacific northwest.

A Seattle Team Gets a Barry! Wait, Brent Barry?

I don’t care about the NBA. I’m 6′2, but I’m White, large, and can’t dunk. Sure, I can set screens and grab rebounds, but if Shaq and I ran a race, we would finish in a tie.

In the past few weeks, there’s been a mass exodus from the Eastern Division where the rest of the country finally gets their collective heads out of their collective asses and realizes there’s an opposite coast to this country. Maybe the other teams are just bowing out to “The Boston 3″ (Where the two new acquisitions were from the west) and giving their talent away, but guys have been coming to the West in droves. There was Gasol to the Lakers, Shaq to the Suns, Kidd to the Mavericks (after he held out until the Writer’s Strike was over), and I guess Bibby didn’t get the message and went east. So, what did our amazing Sonics do to compete?

Seattle Sports Legend – Shawn Kemp

I am starting a new section.  Seattle Sports Legends.  For the first edition, we will be reliving one of Seattle’s favorite stars (before all the kids and drugs) – the Reign Man himself.  Shawn Kemp.

First and foremost, this isnt about the Shawn Kemp outside of the court.  We are all aware of his legal problems.  (If not you can see them here.)  I am here to pay tribute to the amazing basketball player that help define Seattle sports during the glory years of the Seattle Supersonics. 

The Beginning 

Shawn Kemp was drafted by the Seattle Supersonics (1st round, 17th pick) in 1989.  Although, he started only 1 game his rookie year, it was easy to note that his impact was going to big.  His 2nd year in the league is when this future superstar hit it big.  He was promoted to starter during the middle of the season and from there became of force to reckon with.  During the ‘90-’91 season he averaged 15 points, 8 rebounds, and finished runner up in the slam dunk compition.

F*ck. F*ck, F*ck, F*ck!

If you haven’t been paying attention (and thanks to ESPN, most like you haven’t), Eric Bedard from the Orioles has been traded to my Seattle Mariners for five players including pimp prospects Adam Jones and Chris Tillman, plus stud George Sherrill and two other minor leaguers. Don’t get me wrong I like Bedard, especially as a left handed number 1 starter. I just don’t believe that we need to sell the farm for this guy.

For years, the Mariners have been straddling against two philosophies of how to create a baseball team. First, do what the Yankees do and sign high priced free agents and try and win now. The other way is to do that the A’s do and keep bringing up guys through the system and build toward the future. This have been a very successful way to manufacture successful teams (See: Rockies, Indians, Diamondbacks, Oakland (half of the time), Twins, Milwaukee (this past year)). In 2004, the Mariners lost a million games (note: that’s called a hyperbole) so they rightfully brought up young guys from the minors to get some big league experience.

Bavasi, in all of his wisdom, tried to do both philosophies at the same time. He brought up guys as well as traded for older players, trying to both compete and have younger guys. There was pressure to win now (which I don’t understand, we’re not in New York and winning’s a new thing for Seattle teams) as well as use guys from our system. Everything was botched, and Bavasi went out to try and improve the team at the cost of the future.

Golf News? On a Sports Page?

Hi, I’m Robby. Being a friend of Matt’s, I was able to fandangle my way to write for his blog. If you like my stuff, go to my movie blog: mnoss.wordpress.com. Sometimes Matt writes there as well. If I let him…

But, I have some exciting news today; exciting if you like golf. The PGA has decided to have the 2015 US Open in Tacoma’s new Chambers Bay golf course. Yeah, that classic golf course that everyone and their father has played that opened up last year. Wait a sec: Tacoma, last year? At least by 2015, the citizens of Tacoma get rid of the famous “Aroma of Tacoma.” We don’t need to see Tiger Woods barfing on the 7th tee.

Letter of Intent Day. Or LOI for those who speak College Football. Lets see how our Dawgs did.

This is probably the most exciting/over-hyped day in College football.  This is the day were we look over and decide by high school stats, how good a bunch of 18 year old kids are and how well they will do in college.

But outside of that, who cares!  Lets take a look at this years class for our Washington Huskies.

First and foremost, our overall ranking.

scout.com – 14th overall in the nation

rivals.com – 25th overall in the nation

Although – they may to two different numbers, most agree with Tyrone Willingham is bringing in a great class.  Scout.com has this years class 3rd in the Pac-10 only behind USC and UCLA.  We can compare it to Wazzu’s ranking, which is worst in the pac-10 by both websites.  (75 and 87 overall respectively). 

Gems of the class -

Kavario Middleton(TE) - Heavily recruited by LSU and other major program, he stayed home in Washington to play with Tyrone Willingham and our Washington Huskies.  He recently told KJR-AM that he will indeed be playing TE at the University of Washington.  This kid is blessed with everything except the ability to walk on water (Which in fact only Jake Locker can do).  Here is a clip of him, being compared to some trash player that choose Notre Dame…ewww

Bulls end Sonics three game winning streak

The sonics had a brief view of what a successful basketball team looked like.  Until the Bulls came to town.

The Sonics, who rode into yesterday games with a 3 game winning streak, saw it snapped by the Chicago Bulls, 118-108.  The Bulls were led by Joe Smith and his 25 points.  The supes were led by Wally-world himself, with 21 and our stellar rookie sensation out of the University of Texas, Kevin Durant, dropped 20.

This winning streak was fun while it lasted, especially losing 35 of our previous 44 games.  All isn’t lost though, it could be worse, this brief winning streak the sonics went on, created some breathing room from being in the cellar of the Northwest conference, as the anemic Timberwolves sit at 10-37.

The sonics next game at Sacramento.

A final in Pullman

Cougars lose to Stanford in OT.   Stanford took it to the Washington schools this weekend, beatin both UW and WSU.

Most importantly this should knock off all those annoying cougar fans off their high horse.  And if Washington beats Cal in 30 minutes, Washington will be 4-5 in the Pac-10 while Washington State is 5-4 at the mid way point.