Tonight on News, Notes and Rumors

Tonight on News, Notes and Rumors

Evan Silva

Evan Silva of NBC Sports/PFT joins us to preview this week in the NFL.

Doug Upstone of Sports-Watch.com joins us to talk about the big college games and point spreads.

Tony Williams of Metro New York

Paper joins us to talk about the NFL.

Tim Bielik Browns and OSU beat writer for Loraine Morning Journal joins us to talk Buckeyes.

Samantha Bunten joins us to talk Browns.

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Tonight on the radio version of News, Notes and Rumors

 Daren Gantt of NBC Sports/PFT joins us to talk about week 2 in the NFL.

Cleveland sports legend Bob Karlovec joins us to talk about the Browns loss to the Bengals.

And I will read my latest editorial about the Browns from FryingPanSports.com.

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Bill Smith is a former coach of several semi-pro teams, has officiated both football and basketball, done color on radio for college football and basketball and has scouted talent. He edits https://fryingpansports.com and was a senior writer for .  He has also published several novels on and a non-fiction work at http://www.merriam-press.com/.

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Bowl Championship Series RIP

The College Presidents’ Oversight Committee has approved a four team seeded playoff.  It is WAY overdue.

It is hard to understand why it took the ivy covered college presidents so long to realize their dream of squeezing more money out of the sport of football.  Any form of playoff would automatically generate a lot more money than the BcS ever did.  While this plan is a major step forward, I still have a lot of questions.

My first question is why did this take so long?  We hear that the Bowl system had to be protected.  Who among us did not shed a tear when the Poulan Weedeater Bowl went belly up?  I have more to say about the Bowls later.  But when a team must only win 6 games to qualify, how important can the bowl be?

Then there was the argument that a playoff would negatively impact the student-athletes.  But those same educators have no issues with the basketball players missing 3 weeks of school for the NCAA basketball championships.  And those require teams to visit 3 different cities.

 

Second it will not start until the 2014.  WHY?  Because none of the supporters of the BcS can … Read more at FryingPanSports

Tonight on the radio version of News, Notes and Rumors

Evan Silva of NBC Sport/Pro Football Talk and Rotoworld joins us at 6:20 PM EDT to talk about this week in fantasy  football.

Then at 7:20 we have NFL Draft talk with Eric Galko National Scout for Optimum Scouting.com.  We are
doing a preview of the Offensive top prospects and who has pushed their way into the top prospect status by their on-field performance.  I highly recommend this site for draft information.

Tomorrow Arthur Arkush the Titans beat writer for Pro Football Weekly joins me to preview the Browns Titans game on Sunday.

PFW is one of the oldest and most respected publications and web sites for NFL news and rumors.

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What a Sports weekend!

Boston falls to Orlando: I predicted this when Boston had a 3-2 lead in the series. One reaction I could not resist is that the team is not built around the Big 3—it is built around the Big 2.5. Without Kevin Garnett, the team is way too limited offensively and has a huge hole in the d as well. The team is aging and already in salary cap hell. There isn’t any way out of that for the Celts. They will get old together. If, and it is not a given, KG comes back at or close to 100%, they will be in the playoffs for another year or two. But they will not be able to get to the finals again without finding a mid range exception superstar. Orlando and Cleveland are likely to be playing in the East finals for the next several years as long as they are healthy.

LA handles the upstart Rockets easily in game 7: The Lakers jumped off to a quick start against Houston in game 7 and never looked back. The bad sign for them is that the Rockets forced them to game 7 without their superstar center Yao Ming and his … Read more at FryingPanSports