Tailgate Crashers is kind of in a state of limbo right now and we want your help.
In the last year or 2, we’ve lost a lot of writers and have become directionless. Management knows this and is ready to do something.
I want to know what you like about the site and what [...]

For the first time in six seasons, NASCAR will be displaying a brand new television coverage layout for the upcoming 2007 Season. After six years of FOX and NBC/TNT coverage, a new player arrives on the market in the form of ABC and its subsidiary, ESPN. While ABC and the ESPN family of [...]

I touched on this a bit last week and the Boston fans didn’t really appreciate it, but I have to expand on it. The New York Yankees went into Fenway Park last Friday with a tenuous, at best, 1.5 game lead on the Boston Red Sox. Four days and five games later, the [...]

It’s no secret that I am a huge Yankee fan. Diehard, as they say, which is a stupid title in and of itself, but whatever. But I am here to make a plea to the good people of Boston and more specifically, Red Sox fans.
This season the Yankees lost a good portion of their team [...]

At long last the career of Andre Agassi has come to an end. It’s hard to parallel careers from era to era, but as far as the metal racquet era goes, Andre was the poster boy. One could argue with great success that Andre was able to hammer down the final nail in the coffin [...]

After going 15-8 with the spread on the first full weekend of games (not including the yet to be completed FSU/Miami game) I was debating whether I should brag about the 15 wins or tackle my 8 losses. Obviously I decided to go with none of the above and chose to just discuss some Week [...]

American “football” (covered very nicely by our own Nick Pomazak) starts up next week, but we all know you came here for some commentary on REAL football…
International Friendly: Brazil vs Argentina
Brazil (4-4-2): Gomes, Cicinho (Maicon 66), Lucio, Juan, Gilberto, Elano (Julio Baptista 73), Gilberto Silva, Edmilson (Cearense 69), Daniel Carvalho (Kaka 59), Fred (Vagner Love [...]

Yeah, I know, it’s week two and there was no picks column from week one. I blame Daniels for not thinking of this in time. Either way, over the next 16 weeks the good folks here at IP have entrusted me, Mike Hulse, with picking every single NFL game. My qualifications for [...]

[Ed. Note - This column is only partially complete, with the remaining section coming at a later time. In other words, count your blessings that I actually posted this bad boy.]

Steve Price, Inside Pulse Sports
September 14th, 2006
Well, the streak of consecutive weeks posting columns ended at one after a lengthy summer run, so it’s [...]

MIDWEEK UPDATE
- I neglected to post as promised yesterday. Honestly, I was at work until 7 PM, didn’t get home until 8, and had nothing to say and even less will to live. We left off at halftime of the second MNF game late Monday Night, and it was second verse same as the first. [...]

I’d say I am switching things up this week but switching things up would require me actually having a concrete format. We are just days away from the launch of V3 and I really don’t see any reason to stick to something now. I promise you once the blog format is in full [...]

WEEK ONE PICKS!!
If you read my prediction for Thursday’s Steelers/Dolphins game, you’ll know I’m batting 1000. Everything happened just the way I said it would. The Dolphins lost because they couldn’t keep Willie Parker under 100 yards, and they couldn’t stop the Steelers from busting a big pass play. I’m expecting to go at least [...]

The format of this website is changing significantly in about a week, when IP V3 starts up. What you will get from me during this NFL season is probably something new every day during the football season.
The format of V3 means I will have to tighten things up a little, and my postings [...]

Howdy Sports fans,
Here I am for this special mid-week edition of The Real Football Rant and Chant to give you all the results from Wednesday’s European Championship Qualifiers. Well, let’s not hang around here’s the results:

European Championship Qualifying
Group A
Azerbaijan 1 – 1 Kazakhstan
Armenia 0 – 1 Belgium
Finland 1 – 1 Portugal
Poland 1 – 1 [...]

Before I begin things today I’d like to thank Eric Szulczewski for plugging me in his column last week. I’ve been reading Eric for years now and he is someone who I think very highly of so for him to shout me out was pretty cool. I sent him an email regarding a [...]

Riding the Pine…Power Rankings
Here are the most updated power rankings. Records and stats are thru games played Monday, September 4.
- Record is based of wins and losses (on pace for is winning pct times 162).
- Pythagorean is based off Bill James’s theory for record by runs (scored and allowed). The standard deviation for [...]

I’m practicing for what’s to come
Pre-season sucks
As my summer has dwindled the only thing to look forward to now is the beginning of the new NHL season which is only about a month away. Until then, some pre-season action will have to do. Unfortunately, the pre-season has hardly done anything to make people look forward [...]

The other day, while eating lunch, I saw a middle aged Mexican man wearing a Buff Bagwell WCW t-shirt. Then, in the evening at the gym, I saw a heavy set Asian guy wearing an X-Pac t-shirt. You tell me what the odds of seeing people wearing a Buff Bagwell shirt and an X-Pac shirt [...]

Howdy sports fans,
Yes this is late and yes I’m very, very sorry but it couldn’t be helped. Why? Well because nearly all my Saturday and Sunday was taken watching football or playing table football or reading a biography of Jose Mourinho so I simply had no time to write IPSports best (and only) football column. [...]

Finally, opening weekend has arrived. No more hype, no more lists; just football. There are a mixed bag of games this weekend, ranging from great to good to downright inhumane. With Tropical Storm Ernesto looking like it will not only turn back into a hurricane but also potentially be hitting Gainesville, FL [...]

NFL NEWS
- It’s official. The Bills will start JP Losman at quarterback in Week One. This decision is sure to add fuel to the raging debate over whether Losman or Shaun King is the greatest quarterback ever to come out of Tulane University.
- Did you take a flier on Curtis Martin in the late rounds of your [...]

I’m late because of the 2.5 hours I spent in traffic yesterday. Last thing I felt like doing when I got home after dealing with the Thruway on a Sunday night was writing.
Daniels goes all wah-wah-wah over the fact that Yankers Stadium will be biting the dust. Yeah, it is a shame, [...]

Howdy sports fans,
This is the second regular The Real Football Rant and Chant (yeah I’m surprised to see me here too) as not even my computer dying on me could stop me bringing this column to you. However, the computer problems really made it a slog to get this column finished, so you’ll have to [...]

Let it go
This may be more directed to my co-workers, but enough with the cheap owner comments about the Cardinals. It’s the “in” thing right now. Everyone that makes one of these comments, just remember:
A. Baseball is a business. You wouldn’t put your business in financial trouble just to be the [...]

Dedicated to Patrick N. and the good citizens of Korea (both sides)
Run away child found

Well then, Evgeni Malkin returned after disappearing into thin air by showing up at the Kings BEAUTIFUL practice facility in El Segundo. Inside Pulse had reported that Malkin was in Los Angeles on Thursday but no one believed that until [...]

Unrelated Chatter: Today was the first day of classes and a time honored tradition was upheld; a serious lack of hot girls in my class. For those of you who are unaware, I attend the University of Florida, which is basically hot girl heaven. You would think that by sheer accident that [...]

How’s it going football perverts? A happy Maddenoliday to all.
MADDENOLIDAY
Yes, I got Madden 07 yesterday. Making it even better was that the release date not only coincided with the release of the new Simpsons DVD set, which contains the 96-97 season, my favorite ever, but it also coincided with the first day of my vacation [...]

This has been said many times before, but it has to be said again. There are three ballparks in baseball that should never be replaced: Wrigley Field, Fenway Park, and Yankee Stadium. On August 16th, 2006, ground was broken to replace one of those three. Michael “I killed Giuliani’s plan for publicly [...]

Howdy sports fans,
My name is Will Cooling and this is The REAL Football Rant and Chant, from now on the place to be every Monday if you want the low down on the latest football action. In this jam packed first column of the season we have all the results from the English professional game [...]

What’s up football fiends? We’re already coming up on the halfway mark of the exhibition season, and soon, soon my friends, we shall have the real thing. On Monday, I reviewed the Friday portion of Week 1 of the Ex Games, today, I’ve got the Sunday and Monday portion. But first, this week’s NFL [...]