The California Golden Bears (4-0, 1-0 Pac-10) will travel to Oregon to meet the Ducks (4-0, 1-0 Pac-10) in a very intriguing early conference battle.  Currently, the Ducks are a 4.5 favorite, but this game seems to be up in the air for anyone.  The Golden Bears have looked sensational early, jumping out of the gate with a 45-31 win over Tennessee in the opening game of the season.  The score in that one was a lot closer then the actual game.  In the second game of the year and the first road game of the year they traveled to Colorado State and beat them 34-28.  In their two games since then, both at home, they put up 42 and 45 points each in taking care of LA Tech and Arizona.  Golden Bears quarterback Nathan Longshore has looked great early, completing 63.3 percent of his passes, with 5 TD’s and just two interceptions.  Running back Justin Forsett has looked even better, averaging 5.7 yards per carry and scoring seven touchdowns.  Also, Wide Receiver Lavelle Hawkings has already made 25 catches for two touchdowns this season.

However, Oregon hasn’t been a slouch themselves, and at home at Auzten stadium, where the stands literally rock, they are tough to beat.  Oregon has already put up 50 points in two games this season, and those were their last two games.  Much of that can be attributed to quarterback Dennis Dixon who has thrown for 11 touchdowns and zero interceptions.  Also, running back Jonathan Stewart is averaging a wowing 7.7 yards per carry.  Oregon hasn’t even been close to tested this year.  Their closest victory was a 55-31 shellacking of Stanford in Stanford.   They also manhandled Michigan 39-7 at the Big House, as the stadium is known at Michigan. 

Both of these teams want to win to keep pace with Pac-10 front runner University of Southern California.  They both get their chance at USC later in the year, but they first have to take care of business here.  I expect a very exciting game, featuring great offenses on both sides of the ball.  The only time the Golden Bears have remotely struggled this year was in the already mentioned Colorado State game.  On that note I am picking Oregon by the slimmest of margins with the fact in mind that with both of these offenses the game could potentially end up one sided in either teams favor.

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On paper the Southern Mississippi Golden Eagles- Boise State Broncos game looks like a fairly even match-up.  In reality, bookies have enlisted Boise State as a 10-point favorite.  Both teams are 2-1 this season and offensively have scored almost the same amount of points (90 for Boise State, 82 for the Golden Eagles).  On the defensive side the Broncos looks to have their biggest advantage, giving up only 45 points this season while the Golden Eagles have given up 45.  But, if you take a look at all of the major statistics, which include total yards, passing yards, rushing yards, and points scored, you will see that both teams are right around the same mark.  Boise State is slightly ahead in all of these categories, but not by enough to warrant thoughts of a blow out.  So, why are the Broncos 10 point favorites?

For starters, this game it as home on the blue turf of the Broncos.  Boise State has been virtually unbeatable on their home turf, winning 53 of 55 of their last games held at Bronco Stadium.  You can also argue that the Broncos have looked better against relative opponents, despite both teams sporting the same record.  The Broncos lone loss came 24-10 to the Washington Huskies, in Washington State.  The Golden Eagles loss came to Tennessee, in Tennessee 39-19.  While it’s always tough to play in Tennessee, the Volunteers have slipped a bit this year, so maybe the bookies are also considering the play of the Golden Eagles in this game.  Also, last week Southern Mississippi struggled at East Carolina, winning 28-21, while Boise State beat an underrated Wyoming team 24-14 at home. 

Early in the season Boise State fans were concerned with the slow start of running back Ian Johnson, but lately his game has improved.  For the year he is now average 4.7 yards per carry and had three touchdowns.  Bronco quarterback Taylor Tharp has also appeared to pick up the slack completing 60.4 percent of his passes with 3 TD’s and 3 interceptions.   The Golden Eagles also have some offensive weapons as well in QB Jeremy Young and wide receiver Chris Johnson, but I think the home field advantage will just be what takes it for Boise State.  My guess (and I emphasize guess) is the Broncos will win by just about the predicted 10 point spread. 

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What appeared to be a highly attractive Monday night football game at the beginning of the season now looks a little dryer as we see it will pit a 1-1 Titans squad against a struggling 0-2 Saints team. To be fair, the Titans have played well in both games, including losing 22-20 last week to defending Super Bowl champions Indianapolis Colts. The Titans had the ball with 1:38 seconds left and down by two, but couldn’t get anything after it. But if you ask any coach in the league, they would have been happy with a chance to win on the last drive of the game. While Titans fans would like to see more out of the quarterback Vince Young, they also realizes he usually finds a way to keep his team in the game. His accuracy has already improved this year, hovering at just above 62 percent. Also, the rushing duo of Chris Brown and Lendale White has been solid, but they have scored only one touchdown.

The Saints are a team that shocked the football world last year coming out of nowhere to advance to the NFC championship game. This year though, they are getting blown out left and right. A loss against the Colts seems acceptable, but to travel to Tampa and get beat by them has left a sour taste in many fans mouth. The Saints are hoping that a little home cooking will be enough to get Drew Brees and Reggie Bush on track. It’s hard to explain the Saints sudden decline because their team hasn’t seemed to change much between this year and last year. The offense is surely due for an explosion soon, and that’s why the bookies have installed the Saints as an early 4.5 point favorite. This is a hard game to pick because on paper it looks like the Saints offense should blow the Titans defense away, but then you see the Colts were only able to score 22 on the Titans, and struggled mightily in the process. I will pick the “underdog” in the game. I think Vince Young and company will use a combination of power football and finesse to sneak by the Saints by a field goal or less.

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“The old ball coach,” Steve Spurrier has really shown he can coach a college football team. After successful years at the University of Florida, followed by not so successful years as the Washington Redskins coach, he has his South Carolina Gamecocks undefeated and ready to roar against the LSU Tigers. However, the LSU squad is playing incredibly inspired football, allowing only one touchdown in three games and averaging about 46 points per game, including over 40 points in all of their outings. Their “toughest” challenge of the year so far was when Virginia Tech came to town. By the end of the first half LSU had a 24-0 game, and for all intents and purposes the game was over. The Tigers have followed up that performance with a 44-0 performance, led by first time starting quarterback Ryan Perrilloux (304 yards passing and three touchdowns.)

South Carolina’s most impressive win came two weeks ago at Georgia in a 16-12 victory. The Gamecocks were slight underdogs in this game, but as you can imagine they will be huge underdogs in this one. The current line has LSU as 16.5 point favorites. South Carolina will need to play better offense if they even hope to have a prayer against the number two rated team in the country. They did put up 38 points last week, but that was against unheralded South Carolina State. Quarterback Blake Mitchell has been steady, but hasn’t been overpowering throwing for 321 yards and three touchdowns in the early season. South Carolina is a hard team to get a grasp on, because one week they look average and the next week they are beating Georgia at Georgia.

My guess here is that the speed, power, and overall better talent at key positions with put LSU over in this one. If the Gamecocks defense can find away to slow down the rushing tandem of Jacob Hester and Keiland Williams they might have a shot, but with LSU playing at home, on top of the other things mentioned, I like LSU to win this one by 20 points, at least.

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As many sports fans remember last year, the Miami Hurricanes got into an on field brawl with Florida International University. Last week the two teams met again, but this time all was well as Miami went on to win 23-9. A week before that though, Miami got shellacked at Oklahoma, going down 51-13 in their biggest loss in school history. Their task isn’t much better this Thursday as they host 20th ranked Texas A&M, who is looking to go 4-0 in the early season.

The Aggies haven’t exactly had the toughest schedule this year, defeating Montana State, Fresno State, and UL Monroe. The Fresno State game is an early candidate for game of the year, finishing 47-45 in triple overtime. The problem with that though, is that the Aggies weren’t expected to have much trouble with a team like Fresno State, and they were playing at home. However, it seems every team, no matter how good, has a game or two like that a year where they have to fight tooth and nail to get the victory. Also, the important thing is they got the victory.

The last time the Aggies started consecutive seasons 4-0 their coach was Bear Bryant, way back in the 1940’s. I expect Bear to be matched in this game. The Aggies offense, led by quarterback Stephen McGee and running back Mike Goodson will be too much for the young Miami squad. Miami doesn’t appear to have the speed or talent they have had in the past, and I think the A&M squad will beat Miami here by the 10-17 point range, way more then the three points they are currently favored.

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An early season match-up pits the number one school in the country against a squad that has a great tradition of winning themselves.  But, Nebraska will have to show up big time if they have any chance of being USC, who looks to be stacked.  Playing at home will help the Cornhuskers, who on game day bring 81,000 of their closest friends to cheer them on at Memorial Stadium.

Nebraska opened the season with a beautiful offensive explosion, scoring 52 a decent Nevada Wolf Pack squad.  However, this past week they failed to live up to those expectations and needed to hold on to defeat Wake Forest (0-2) by a score of 20-17.  If the offense shows up they have a chance to make this a shootout.  Running back Marlon Lucky already has 323 yards this season, including 233 against the Wolf Pack.  USC on the other hand has only played one game, a 38-10 win at Idaho.  The Trojans started slow, but a 17 point 3^rd quarter put the game clearly out of reach.  There are high expectations for the Trojans this year.  In years past they always seem to lose a winnable game late in the season win they perhaps start to tire.  But, being only the second game of the year, and having a week off, I like USC in this one.  USC are ten point favorites in this one, but I expect them to win by a little more.  I like something around 28-14 for a final.

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Game: #4 West Virginia Mountaineers (2-0) vs. Maryland Terrapins (2-0)

The West Virginia Mountaineers will endure an early season test when they visit the Maryland Terrapins on Thursday.  While the Mountaineers are currently 16 point favorites, the Terrapins are always a tough team to play at home at Byrd stadium in College Park, Maryland.  The question is, will home field advantage be enough to down the best tandem in college football of quarterback Pat White and running back Steve Slaton?

My guess is no.  While it’s true that West Virginia had some early problems against Marshall in the first half of that game, they rebounded well in the second half and I expect that to continue into this game.  Slaton is averaging over six yards per carry, and has already scored five touchdowns.  White is averaging an astounding 8.2 yards per carry, as a quarterback.  Maryland will have to rely on the rushing of senior Keon Lattimore who has five rushing TD’s already, but have came against 1-AA school Villanova, and Florida International.  While Maryland’s defense is tough, it seems to be a notch below where they were in the years past, and that spell trouble for fans of the Terps.  I think this could be close early, which West Virginia pulling away late and a final score of 45-21.

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For the first time in the history of both organizations, a Pride champion will fight a UFC champion.  Pride light-heavyweight champion Dan Henderson will square off against UFC light heavyweight champion Quinton “Rampage” Jackson in front of a capacity crowd and London, England and free to American viewers on September 8^th, and 9 pm on SPIKE television.  The event will also feature the return of considerably one of the best fighters in MMA history, trying to make a comeback after an unexpected first round loss.

Dan “Hollywood” Henderson is the only fighter in Pride history to win both the middleweight and light heavyweight championships.  He has also gained quite a reputation for some of the legends he has beat in the progress of compiling a career record of 22 wins, including 10 knockouts, on just five losses.  His first big win came way back in 2000 in just his ninth professional fight.  He beat highly regarded Renato Sorbal by majority decision, and announced his arrival on the scene.  Henderson, who is considered one of the best strikers in the world, along with his challenger this night, would go on to have even greater success.  After losing to the great Wanderlei Silva in 2000 when he was still a relatively new comer to the game, he made up for that fight in his last outing when he knocked out Silva this past February in the third round, and in the process picked up the light heavyweight championship.  Even in the loss in 2000 he gained a lot of respect in the eyes of many and he showed he gained in losing by beating a handful of Pride’s top competitors, including Renzo Gracie, Murilo Rua, Kazuo Misaki, and another MMA legend, Victor Belfort.  This will be Henderson’s first fight since his systematic beat down of Silva, and he is on a two fight winning streak.  Hollywood is 10-2 since 2003. 

Quinton “Rampage” Jackson is one of the most colorful personalities in the world of sports today.  Prior to his fight with then UFC champion Chuck Liddell, Jackson would tell anyone that would listen that he would make short work of Liddell.  Liddell, along with most UFC experts laughed Jackson off, after all nobody had ever made Liddell look less that adequate inside of an octagon.  Well, on May 26^th of this year, Jackson looked like a profit.  He came into the ring, and just 1:53 into the very first round Jackson had his hand raised in victory as Liddell was left wondering what had just hit him.  While UFC 71 will go down as a nightmare for Liddell, it goes down as the day Rampage announced his arrival on a world stage.  Maybe we shouldn’t have been so shocked, after all Jackson had quite an impressive resume heading into that fight.  With a career record of 27 and 6, with 13 big wins by KO, he too, much like Henderson, has beat many highly respectable fighters.  This will only be Jackson’s third fight in the UFC, so he too made much of his early noise in Pride.  For starters, Jackson had also beat Liddell in Pride, but Liddell never looked fully comfortable in a ring, how Pride fights in.  Jackson also beat Murilo Rua, just like Henderson.  The one thing on paper that Henderson has going for him is that he beat Silva, and Jackson lost to him twice, both times by KO’s.  Jackson doesn’t seem like the kind that remembers the past so much, and by all accounts Jackson is currently in his prime.  One other factor that should be considered is Jackson’s tendency to get a little too carried away in the ring.  In just his second fight in Pride he was disqualified when he kneed opponent Daijiro Matsui directly in the groin.  To be fair this happened back in 2001 and Jackson hasn’t had a problem as of late, it is always a possibility with the unpredictable nature of Rampage.  

Islandcasino.com currently has Jackson at -150, making him a slight favorite.  However the fight turns out, it is sure to be entertaining for as long as it lasts.

Making his comeback after losing his second fight in UFC is Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic.  Fight fans are curious to see if Filipovic will be able to bounce back after getting his head bounced off the foot of Gabriel Gonzaga.  The winner of that fight earned the shot to fight heavyweight champion Randy Couture.  Couture later made short work of Gonzaga, ending the fight by TKO in round three after controlling all of the early action.  “Cro Cop” would love to get an opportunity to fight Couture, and the process will start when he takes on Frenchmen Cheick Kongo.  Filipovic is currently more than a 4 to 1 favorite.

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On August 11^th the 16^th season of the English Premier League began with 20 teams looking to win one of the most respected championships in any sport in the world. Despite Americans not wanting to believe it, soccer is the most watched sport in the world, and the English Premier League is the most watched soccer league in the world. In it’s 15 completed seasons only four teams have won the title, with Manchester United leading the way with nine. For those who are unsure of how teams even get to compete in the English Premier League, the following is a quick rundown.

The English Premier League was originally compiled from the top teams in the regular Football League. The top four teams in the English Premier League qualify for the UEFA Champions League. For American fans it may be easier to compare the Champions League to American Football’s playoffs where the winner is declared the Super Bowl champion. Each year teams from the lesser league have a chance to make it to the Premier League, something many other leagues don’t offer. Also, the pressure to perform is highlighted, because one year you can be in the top league in England and the next year you can be brought down a notch.

Speaking of a team that was on top of the league, but has struggled early in the new season is last year’s champion Manchester United. They have only won one game, while drawing two and losing one in their first four games of the season. Their only win came during their last match when they beat Tottenham 1-0 on August 26^th. With each team scheduled to play every other team twice there is still a long way in the season to go, but you can expected that Manchester United was hoping to get off to a much better start on their march to a tenth league title.

Currently atop the standings is Chelsea who has three wins and one draw. Chelsea has won two league titles, and looks primed to make it three. In their last outing they defeated Portsmouth Aut 25^th, 1-0. Last year Chelsea finished second to Manchester United after being within striking distance the entire season. If Chelsea can win this year it will be their third title in four years.

Another team that is off to a good start early in the year, and just one point behind Chelsea is Manchester City. Manchester City has won three games and lost one. Their last game was their lone loss, a 1-0 nail biter to Arsenal, who is tied for third place. Last year Manchester City finished 13^th, and is already looking to be on their way to beating that standing by a long shot.

It’s still too early to tell who will be dominating by the end of the season, but it appears that there may be a changing of the guard since Manchester United is off to a slow start. Chelsea has shown some dominance in the past few years, and they are more than willing to regain top form. A number of other teams are also off to good starts and hope to maintain their level of play as the season continues.

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