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[MLS] Q&A with New York Red Bulls Midfielder Carl Robinson

By Chris Osburn • Apr 14th, 2010 • Category: Cover Story, Sports

Carl Robinson is a 33 year old soccer (football) player from Wales. He played in the English Premier League (for Portsmouth and Sunderland) and proudly wears his national colors as a member of the Welsh national team. In 2007, he made the jump from England to the MLS when he joined then expansion team Toronto [...]



[MLB] 2010 Season Preview: The AL

By Chris Osburn • Apr 2nd, 2010 • Category: Sports

American League East: Divisional Run-Down: The New York Yankees ended last season by winning the World Series. Since then, they’ve changed around their outfield by adding Curtis Granderson and subtracting Melky Cabrera and Hideki Matsui. They also upgraded their rotation with the addition of Javier Vasquez. They are definitely the team to beat in the [...]



[Sports] The Week in Sports #19: NCAA Hockey Surprise.

By Chris Osburn • Mar 29th, 2010 • Category: At Play, Sports

Rochester Institute of Technology: I doubt that name strikes  fear into any sports fans out there. That is unless they are fans of division one hockey and have been paying any attention to the NCAA tournament (Yes, other NCAA tournaments are being played). This program, only in its fifth year at D-1, will play in [...]



[PGA] The Tiger Woods Effect

By Brian Bresnan • Mar 20th, 2010 • Category: Cover Story, Sports

Tiger Woods will end his indefinite hiatus from the PGA TOUR at this year’s Masters Tournament at Augusta National.  It marks the first tournament that the world’s greatest golfer will play in since the unraveling of his private life to the tabloid and national media after his Thanksgiving night accident. How does it change the [...]



The Week In Sports #18: Olympic Hockey Surprise.

By Chris Osburn • Feb 27th, 2010 • Category: At Play, Sports

Heading into the Olympics, the United States men’s hockey team didn’t really get a lot of respect. The Yanks were ranked far below the likes of Canada, Russia and Sweden and just below Finland and the Czech Republic. With a very young and inexperienced squad, not much was expected from this group by the hockey [...]



[SPORTS] NCAA Lacrosse Preview 2010

By Chris Osburn • Feb 11th, 2010 • Category: Sports

A lot of fanfare is made about the beginning of NCAA basketball and football seasons in the summer and fall respectively. Often overlooked by mainstream audiences are sports like Hockey, Baseball and lacrosse. Baseball and Hockey are pretty much only shown to a national audience during their respective post season tournaments. But college lacrosse (as of [...]



[NFL] Super Bowl XLIV Preview

By Chris Osburn • Feb 4th, 2010 • Category: At Play, Sports

New Orleans Saints (15-3) Vs. Indianapolis Colts (16-2) Time: Sunday at 6:25 PM EST on CBS How they match up: This is a dream match up for the avid football fan. These teams stack up so well on paper that (for once) there doesn’t seem to be an overwhelming favorite. The obvious pick is the [...]



The Week In Sports #17: happy trails, Kurt Warner.

By Chris Osburn • Jan 30th, 2010 • Category: At Play, Sports

Happy trails to Kurt Warner. One of the greatest and most overlooked quarterbacks in NFL history retired this week. Warner was not even drafted in 1994 after completing his senior season at Northern Iowa. He was signed as a free agent by the Green Bay Packers, but was cut from the team in training camp. [...]



[NFL] Conference Championship Weekend 2010

By Chris Osburn • Jan 20th, 2010 • Category: At Play, Sports

Remember when everyone was talking about how the Jets backed into the playoffs? They needed to win their last two games and somehow got lucky enough to face two teams that had already clinched spots in the postseason. Indianapolis coach Jim Caldwell took out most of his starters with Indy holding a 15-10 lead in [...]



The Week In Sports #16: Big Mac, Gilbert Arenas and lacrosse.

By Chris Osburn • Jan 16th, 2010 • Category: At Play, Sports

Oh, Mark Mcgwire. You did steroids, you say? I guess you just figured that it was your turn to come clean. Do you have a book coming out or something? What about that tearful speech in front of the Grand Jury where you said you had no knowledge of steroid usage in baseball? You claim [...]