Top 10 Things I'm Afraid of Week 1 in the NFL

#1: That Russell Wilson single handedly beats the Arizona Cardinals by putting up 300 passing yards with 2 TD's and has another rushing TD.

#2: That his counterpart, John Skelton, throws 2 INT's and loses a fumble.

#3) That Willis McGahee lays an egg against the Pittsburgh Steelers.

#4) That the afore mentioned Pittsburgh Steelers officially end Peyton Manning's career. Officially.

#5) That any of my starting WR's in Fantasy Football pull a Victor Cruz and suddenly forget how to catch.

#6) That RGIII lights up the Saints a la Russell Wilson. OK, actually, that would be fun to see.

#7) That Jamaal Charles slips on a First-Down yard marker tears his ACL and thus ends my Fantasy Football season.

#8) That Pete Carroll draws up a game plan well enough to defeat my Arizona Cardiinals.

#9) That Marshawn Lynch goes Beast Mode and defeats my Arizona Cardinals.

#10) That Ronnie Brown runs the Wildcat well enough for the San Diego Chargers on Monday Night that he scores 3 TDs and is on my Fantasy bench.

ASU and USA Ballin'

Thursday Night, Arizona State's Basketball program will be in full view and it's not even the college basketball season. In the Olymic Games, the United States take on Nigeria in what is sure to be a blow out. But there is one reason to watch as two competitors have incredible respect for eachother and are even alma mater. Nigeria's Ike Diogu and USA's James Harden both are Sun Devils and may even guard eachother at some point.

Go Devils!

To D'Backs or not to D'Backs?

Here we go D'Backs, Here we go!

Ice, Cactus and Palm Trees

Strange days indeed. Tomorrow night marks the start of the NHL Western Conference Finals and stage is set for some great hockey. In the desert. And Hollywood. Who would've thunk it.

I don't even consider myself a hockey fan, but I've been drawn to this year's playoffs. The story of the Phoenix Coyotes is remarkable. From near bankruptcy, to being owned by the NHL, almost being moved out of Glendale and so on. Now they have a chance to shock the world and make it to the NHL Stanley Cup Finals. That is what they call the NHL Finals, right?

The LA Kings share similar, rise from the ashes, Phoenix-like, story. Their push at the end of the regular season got them into the playoffs, where they ho hum, just simply destroyed both the #1 and #2 seeds in the Western Conference. 

I encourage you, even if you are not a hockey fan (like me), to watch this series. It is going to be fun.

And go Coyotes. White out, baby!

The Bryce Harper Show

My boy TBone runs the DC, 202, 703 area. But there is a new cat in town and his name is Bryce. Mr. Harper single handeledly beat my AZ D'Backs on Wednesday night with T in attendance. I asked him to write a post about it. He respectfully declined. Shame.

What he would have said was B. Harper owned the D'Backs, with a 3/4, 2 run, 1 RBI performance. He also tried to score from second base on a routine ground out by one of his team-mates. That's called balls. And confidence. At 19. Sick.

So how does Harp follow that up? How about a game winning double the next night, also against the D'Backs. He's now batting .375 with 3 RBI in just 4 games. And he's made incredible plays defensively, throwing 300ft, no bounce, darts to homeplate to nearly retire baserunners.

He's batting 3rd in the line-up in his 4th ever big league game. Dude is legit. TBone is proud.