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NFL Week 8 Picks Against the Spread
Many of the league’s teams will be halfway through the regular season after this week, and we got here fast. If it feels like you don’t really know which teams are good or bad yet, it’s because we don’t. An incredible 21 of the league’s 32 teams are within one game above or below .500, and each week, the underdogs continue to show up.
Brandon AndersonPublished 7 years ago in UnbalancedIt's Time For LeBron To Hand The Crown Off To Giannis
For years, people have been trying to remove LeBron James as the league’s best player. Ever since he uttered the words, “not five, not six, not seven...” people have stormed the castle as they tried to find a possible suitor. The Anthony Davis believers have fallen quiet, as the extremely talented center has only carried his team to over 40 wins once in his career. Numerous stars looked like potential candidates, but simply haven’t been able to reach LeBron’s greatness. Some argue Kevin Durant did it last year, but those are just his burner accounts fighting the good fight for him.
Dan O'SheaPublished 7 years ago in UnbalancedThe Man... The Myth... The Legend: What Makes Saquon Barkley So Great
Heading into this weekend's game against the Penn State Nittany Lions, the Ohio State Buckeyes probably have one thing on their minds more than any other, and that’s stopping Saquon Barkley. Although the Buckeyes are quite fond of dominant ball carriers, Ezekiel Elliott and Carlos Hyde just to name a few, this go-around they’ll be tasked with slowing one down as opposed to helping one eat up turf. Penn State's “Big Back,” in ability and sheer physical size, won’t be that easy to slow down though. This will be for many reasons, but mostly because he is just that elite, and illustrates it every time he is on the field. Just like the elite backs before him and that now play on Sundays, he has special traits that make it inevitable that whenever he touches the ball, something good is bound to happen. What are those traits you might ask? I thought you never would.
Kenneth WilsonPublished 7 years ago in UnbalancedASAP, Future, Young Thug Sound Super-Incredible On 'Super Slimey'
On Oct. 20, 2017, Future and Young Thug blessed the hip-hop community with a joint project titled Super Slimey. The 13-track mixtape (or album or whatever it is) is 99 percent Thug and Future, with Offset being the lone artist featured. Southside, Wheezy, and London On Da Track are just a few of the producers that worked on the project.
Zach CroninPublished 7 years ago in UnbalancedKen Giles Is Losing It
If you're an Astros fan, odds are Ken Giles nearly put you into a coma or gave you a heart attack during Game 2 on Wednesday night. Regardless, everything worked out for Houston in the end, and the Astros came out on top of one of the greatest World Series games ever.
Owen McGrattanPublished 7 years ago in UnbalancedPower Breaking Ball Proves McCullers Jr. Could Be the Future of the Astros' Rotation
Lance McCullers Jr. has been absolutely outstanding for the Astros this postseason. The 24-year-old has thrown 13 innings in the playoffs with a 2.08 ERA. This was highlighted by his amazing performance out of the bullpen in Game 7 against the Yankees, where he shut down a powerful New York lineup for four innings in a rare relief role.
Quinn AllenPublished 7 years ago in UnbalancedAnthony Bennett Revelations Show Some NBA Front Offices Are Not Doing Their Job Properly
On Wednesday, The Athletic’s Jason Lloyd published online an excerpt from his new book, The Blueprint: LeBron James, Cleveland’s Deliverance, and the Making of the Modern NBA.
Myles StedmanPublished 7 years ago in UnbalancedAs Phoenix Enters a Tumultuous and Uncertain Rebuild, Is It Time to Take a Leaf out of Philadelphia’s Book?
The walls around the Phoenix Suns’ organization crashed down last week, when they started the 2017-18 NBA season 0-3 with two 40-point losses, and the firing of Head Coach Earl Watson.
Myles StedmanPublished 7 years ago in UnbalancedEvander Kane is Better Than You Thought
As the NHL celebrates its centennial, it could be argued that the league is more stacked with stars than ever before. With names like Crosby, Ovechkin, Price, Burns, Toews, Stamkos, Matthews, McDavid... has there ever been an era in the NHL where more big names all share the ice? You'd be hard-pressed to find it. Even in the 80s, when Gretzky and Lemieux ruled the ice, there simply weren't as many players in the league to see such an abundance of meteoric superstars across the game. As a result, some players get lost in the shuffle. Such is the story of Evander Kane.
Kyle VandenbergPublished 7 years ago in UnbalancedAre The L.A. Chargers A New Team?
Over the past week, the Los Angeles Chargers have not looked like the same team that was taking the field the first few weeks of the season. Outside of just the fact that they have managed to string together a few wins in a row, the team looks as if they were somehow reinvigorated on both sides of the ball. Some would say that it is just the bumps of an NFL season, leading them to believe that the Chargers were eventually going to get here after weathering an early adjustment period. Some are still in shock of what they are seeing, and it has them and many others asking, “Are the Chargers a new team?"
Kenneth WilsonPublished 7 years ago in UnbalancedTop Five Young Stars in the NBA
Whose got next can mean a lot of things. In the NBA, it has come to mean which player is next up to accelerate their career and take it to the next level.
Kyle Jordan FergusonPublished 7 years ago in UnbalancedThe Value of Rest
If you're reading this, then you probably know that on Tuesday night, the Dodgers and Astros commenced the World Series. Everyone has their own theory as to who's going to win and why. And, as is always the case when two teams go into a series on different lengths of rest, the amount of rest each team has had since their last game features prominently in many theories. A recent article on Unbalanced opined that the extra days off enjoyed by the Dodgers will give them an advantage. Meanwhile, at an earlier stage in the playoffs, at least one television broadcaster expounded during a telecast the notion that extra days off throw a team off its rhythm and give an advantage to its competitor.
Robert GregoryPublished 7 years ago in Unbalanced