The Glass Eye Special: The Fall of Rome
November 9, 2011 at 5:34 AM by Dave Glass · Leave a Comment
There are a lot of issues up for debate in the world today, and while sports are ‘the toy department’, there are a lot of debatable issues in sports as well – the BCS, the concept of amateur athletics, instant replay…the list is endless. Within the ranks of collegiate athletics, there are plenty of reasons to believe that the system is straining...
Read More...The Glass Eye: MLB Awards Preview
November 7, 2011 at 6:01 AM by Dave Glass · Leave a Comment
I was going to review the first half of the NFL season this week, but frankly the team I want to review the most, the Steelers, are still quite an enigma in many ways – I want to see what happens this week against the Ravens. Also, with the bye weeks several teams haven’t actually played half their schedule yet, so we’ll get to that next week. This...
Read More...The Glass Eye: Bold Statements
October 29, 2011 at 6:00 AM by Dave Glass · Leave a Comment
We’re nearing a sort of ‘dead period’ in sports, after the World Series but before the bowls and the NFL’s stretch run – time for a look around the sporting world, and to spice it up I thought I’d make a few bold statements, and try to explain my reasoning. We’ll start with baseball: Albert Pujols is on the verge of a serious decline unless...
Read More...The Glass Eye: World Series Preview
October 19, 2011 at 7:53 AM by Jay Siegel · Leave a Comment
This has been one weird playoff season – the National League champion Cardinals saw their starting pitchers allow 19 runs in 24 innings in the NLCS, and average four innings per start – yet they won in six games. The AL champs, the Texas Rangers, allowed a staggering 13 home runs in six games – and gave them up to a Detroit team that ranked mid-pack...
Read More...The Glass Eye: National League Championship Series Preview
October 9, 2011 at 12:22 PM by Dave Glass · Leave a Comment
The National League division series matchups were both filled with drama – Arizona overcame a 2-0 series deficit and scored in the 9th inning of Game Five before finally bowing out, and the Cards -Phillies series was a back-and-forth affair culminated by an all-time classic pitcher’s duel in Game Five (I told you if that series went five games I...
Read More...The Glass Eye: American League Championship Series Preview
October 8, 2011 at 6:13 AM by Dave Glass · Leave a Comment
Well, the Texas-Tampa series played out exactly like I thought it would…but the Detroit-NY series was a stunner, not because of the outcome as much as all the crazy things that happened during the series. We’ll preview the AL today, while the NL preview will come out Sunday. Detroit vs. Texas Stats: Most of the relevant stats are the same as in my...
Read More...The Glass Eye: NHL Preview
October 7, 2011 at 6:22 AM by Dave Glass · Leave a Comment
Time to drop the puck! The NHL season kicked off Thursday evening, and Pittsburgh gets an immediate test – they visit the defending Western conference champs, the Vancouver Canucks. We’ll take a closer look at Pittsburgh’s chances in 2011-12, but let’s start with a very quick rundown of the Western Conference…we’ll look at the Eastern contenders...
Read More...The Glass Eye: MLB Division Series Preview
September 30, 2011 at 6:22 AM by Dave Glass · Leave a Comment
I’ve watched baseball for a long time and plan to watch for much longer, but I’m not sure I’ll EVER see as crazy a finish to a season as we saw Wednesday night – two extra-inning games, a seven-run comeback, two walk-off hits…culminated by Evan Longoria’s walk-off HR only minutes after the Red Sox had lost. Nate Silver of fivethirtyeight.com...
Read More...The Glass Eye: MLB Predictions Revisited
September 16, 2011 at 6:08 AM by Dave Glass · Leave a Comment
I’m big on accountability, so I like to review my own prediction columns and see how well/poorly I fared. With the baseball season nearly over and almost all of the playoff spots decided, now seems like a good time to briefly look back, see where I went right and wrong, and analyze the big misses. Let’s start in the AL. You can find my AL Preview...
Read More...The Glass Eye: NFL Preview Part 3 – The Favorites
September 9, 2011 at 5:16 AM by Dave Glass · Leave a Comment
(Editor’s note – article was completed before Thursday night Packer-Saint game and before news of Peyton Manning’s surgery was released) Welcome to the last installment of our annual NFL preview! Click here for Part 1 and here for part 2. Before we start, one quick alteration to last week – I had the Colts listed at #13, I’m moving them down to...
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