Reese was ridiculed after his '09 free agent signings failed, but not many people saw that coming. Santana should easily rebound from an injury plagued season last year.Santana has some of the best control and command for a pitcher. Badly.And yet, Ben Gordon scored the 10-millionth NBA point.The Pistons lit their fire with a five-game winning streak, and then hosed it down until it was a distant memory. It would be nice, especially for the pitchers since the Dome was a notorious graveyard for would-be home runs. 
His strikeout-to-walk ratio was 12.67, and his WHIP (runners allowed per inning) was 0.628. He was also a 29thround selection. Pat Lehman was another late-round find for the Nationals. This offense with Jennings, Driver, Finley, is every bit as talented and explosive as its Arizona counterparts.Head coach Mike McCarthy may not be utterincompetent. They cannot be coughing up the ball, especially if Cleveland has home-court advantage in the playoffs. This former first round draft pick stayed with the Giants to save his career, mature and learn from the offensive minded Tom Coughlin.Carr signed a one-year, $2.1 million contract in February of 2009. "That child is going to be a star one day!" Everyone can't be destined for the same thing.

These guys played well, just not quite as good as I thought they were going to be. The Gators and the Tide did not, however, have a regular season match up scheduled against each other, resulting in a much harder regular season schedule for LSU. Similarly, in the Big Ten having a bye versus Penn State or Ohio State would certainly be preferable to a bye over, say, Indiana.Times have changed however. The NCAA football schedule is now 12 games . This means that the original rationale to split into two divisions and have a championship game is no longer valid. You can play the other 11 teams in your division, and still schedule an out of conference game.I propose that the conferences should do this; play ALL of the other teams in your conference. Get rid of the playoff games and, in the Big Ten, the floating byes.What would be the positive benefits to this?Greatly increase the quality of regular season games.Playing conference opponents is certainly more desirable from a fan and ticket buyer perspective than watching Big State U. He's 6'4", 215 pounds and may be the best Nicklaus athlete since his grandfather.Jack doesn't play much these days. Had he attempted early in his career, before the titles andcomparisons to Jordan, James could have tried his luck and chalked a loss up to a rookie mistake, orblamed it on nervesgetting the better of a 19-year-old boy.But now he's 25 and considered a veteran in the league. Why would Carroll leave USC unless he KNOWS they are about to get nailed.