(Untitled)- October 31, 2003 The Pipeline NBA Primer Man, is it NBA season already It only seems like it was four months ago that we were all sitting back and not watching the Spurs beat the Nets. Well, it&146;s that time again, and if you ask me, this is the most intriguing NBA season in at least two years. I mean, look at the story lines&133; Kobe It pretty much stands to reason when one of THE stars of the league is actively facing life in prison at worst, and severely tarnishing a budding legend at best, that it&146;s.http://blogs.salon.com/0001739/categories/sportsPipeline/2003/10/31.html#a587 (Untitled)- October 30, 2003 The Seer Sees: Week 9 of the NFL The Seer is rolling with a 57-40 record, good for a 58.8% winning percentage against the spread. What will Week 9 bring Giants Jets, Giants by 1.5 The Jets are getting better each week, while the Giants may have saved their season last week against the Vikings. The Giants were an offensive dynamo outside the Red Zone last week, but Kerry Collins played like a stiff down by the endzones. This will be a very close game between two teams fighting.http://blogs.salon.com/0001739/categories/sportsPipeline/2003/10/30.html#a585 (Untitled)- October 23, 2003 The Seer Sees: Week 8 of the NFL Well, here we are, almost halfway through and sporting a deity-like 49-34 record against the spread, good for 59.0%. The goal, of course, was 58%, and although some are pushing the Seer to admit that he undersold his prodigious prognositication powers, we here at the Pipeline know it's a long season, and that one week's 10-4 can just as easily be a 4-10 if the breaks work the other way. But there are doubters. Some have asked where the Seer gets his..http://blogs.salon.com/0001739/categories/sportsPipeline/2003/10/23.html#a575 (Untitled)- October 21, 2003 It's So Easy Being The Seer No, stop it. Please, you're embarassing me. Aw, shucks. OK, I admit it. I'm really good at picking NFL games. The Seer now stands at an otherworldly 49-34 mark against the spread, good for a 59.0% winning percentage. I know, I know. "They" said it couldn't be done. "They" said I wouldn't stick with it. "They" were all wrong. Yes, the Seer only won last night's ChiefsRaiders game by a foot or so, but sometimes you..http://blogs.salon.com/0001739/categories/sportsPipeline/2003/10/21.html#a566 (Untitled)- October 20, 2003 Talent Glut The Dallas Mavericks have traded for Antoine Walker from the Celtics. In total, they sent Raef LaFrentz, Jiri Welsch and Chris Mills to Boston for Walker and Tony Delk. The Mavs now sport a lineup of Steve Nash, Michael Finley, Antawn Jamison, Antoine Walker and Dirk Nowitzki. I think they're going to implode. Clearly, this is a move borne of a desire (desperation) to keep up with the Lakers and the Wolves. It's not going to work. There is such a thing.http://blogs.salon.com/0001739/categories/sportsPipeline/2003/10/20.html#a565 (Untitled)- October 20, 2003 The Seer Cannot Be Stopped! Even the Seer didn't think it was going to be this easy, and yet, it really has been easy. A slick 9-4 performance yesterday puts the Seer at a high-water mark of 48-34, good for a heady 58.5% winning percentage against the spread. The best part of all of this is that the proof is in the pudding, date-stamped and ready for scrutiny by the skeptics, not that there are any left. We learned a few things yesterday. First, we learned that the Vikings' defense..http://blogs.salon.com/0001739/categories/sportsPipeline/2003/10/20.html#a563 (Untitled)- October 17, 2003 Chicken Little The only curse the Red Sox had to deal with last night was being cursed with an idiot for a manager. Grady Little stuck to his guns with his lineup, a move which proved to be fruitful once the Red Sox hitters came alive in Game 6. He stayed the course in Game 7, and why wouldn't he He's got a great-hitting team, and there ain't a whole lot on the bench. But staying with hitters isn't the same as staying with a fragile pitcher who already looks like he's got a...http://blogs.salon.com/0001739/categories/sportsPipeline/2003/10/17.html#a558 (Untitled)- October 16, 2003 Daunte Culpepper Returns To Action Against The Broncos The Seer Sees: Week 7 of the NFL The Seer now stands at 39-30, good for a 56.5% winning percentage. Not only that, but the Seer is trending upward. One curious thing, though, about this exercise: It only works if the Seer picks all the games. While each week will present one or two games that are, in the view of the Seer, Locks, most games are really just an exercise in educated hunches. The Seer knows enough to...http://blogs.salon.com/0001739/categories/sportsPipeline/2003/10/16.html#a555 (Untitled)- October 15, 2003 Epilogue on "the fan" Should this matter There is a story in the Sun Times when indicates that the fan who went for the ball last night already had a game ball, thrown to him by Moises Alou earlier in the game! Yeah...that would matter to me if I was a Cubs fan. This guy already had a ball, and now he's going for another onehttp://blogs.salon.com/0001739/categories/sportsPipeline/2003/10/15.html#a554 (Untitled)- October 15, 2003 Something Crazy Happened Must Be The Postseason... Is there some kind of law that says that every damn baseball game played in October has to have something crazy happen in it Is FOX scripting these games Truth is truly stranger than fiction, and last night's CubsMarlins game is a monumental testament to that fact. We all know the backstory: The Cubs have a long history of futility and near-misses. They last played in the World Series in 1945, a series which they...http://blogs.salon.com/0001739/categories/sportsPipeline/2003/10/15.html#a552 |