The Glass Eye: Clearfield Wrestling Preview
December 10, 2011 at 6:15 AM by Dave Glass · Leave a Comment
The Bison wrestling team has enjoyed tremendous success over the past decade and particularly over the last six seasons, but 2011-12 unquestionably shapes up as a rebuilding year. However, there is some returning talent – Clearfield returns two district champs in Christian Stone and Nolan Barger, and Dylan Graham also had a strong 2010-11 campaign. The rest of the lineup is extremely inexperienced,...
Read More...The Glass Eye: Giving Thanks in 2011
November 22, 2011 at 5:49 AM by Dave Glass · Leave a Comment
It’s time for the annual ‘thanks’ column – for the past few years, I review some things in the sports world that I’m thankful for, and then spend some time going ‘off the field’ with some real-world thanks. In some ways this year’s column is going to look a lot like last year’s (hard to believe that column is a year old already – how time flies!), so let’s get right to it. -A...
Read More...The Glass Eye: The NFL at Mid-Season
November 18, 2011 at 6:11 AM by Dave Glass · Leave a Comment
At last, we get to our midseason NFL review. We’ll review my preseason picks, look at the top surprises and disappointments thus far, and take a quick stab at figuring out who will make the playoffs. Let’s start in the NFC. NFC West Biggest surprise: San Francisco (record 8-1; my prediction: 6-10). The 49ers are the surprise of the entire league, and with a 5-game lead in the division and five...
Read More...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 under the weight of corruption – the allegations...
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 week, we’ll briefly preview baseball’s major...
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 he makes a major adjustment. I’m a HUGE Pujols...
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 in home runs during the season – yet they,...
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 thought Carpenter would win). Those series set...
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 division preview a week ago, which I linked above...
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 in more depth. WESTERN CONFERENCE 15.) Edmonton...
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