Read the arguments from Sports Geek and Loyal Homer about which games they believe are the best of THIS weekend. View This Pollsurvey software This weekend the NFL is featuring several very important divisional matchups that may go a long way in determining which teams will or w will not make the playoffs this season. As Loyal Homer points out, one such matchup takes place between the Dallas Cowboys and the Philadelphia Eagles. This should be an outstanding game in the NFC East! I, however... Read Full Story

Read the arguments by Sports Geek and Bleacher Fan about which games they believe will be the best games of THIS weekend. View This Pollsurvey software It is finally Friday, and with no postseason baseball most sports fans across the country are focusing solely on football this weekend. There are some decent games in college this week, including an important one down in Tuscaloosa. There are a handful of exciting matchups in the NFL, too, scattered across the dial. But the matchup that I b... Read Full Story

Read the arguments from Loyal Homer and Bleacher Fan about which games they believe is the best game of THIS weekend. View This Pollsurvey software When the 2009 NFL season began virtually anyone associated with the NFL, or familiar with the concept of American football, predicted that the Pittsburgh Steelers – last season’s Super Bowl championship team – was going to going to have a good season. No surprise. The team started the year slowly but is beginning to round into form with a recor... Read Full Story

Read Sports Geek’s argument and Loyal Homer’s arguments about which was the most pivotal coaching decision of the 2009 World Series. View This Pollopinion New York Yankees’ manager Joe Girardi has taken a lot of criticism this year for being a micro-manager in how he led the Yankees through the 2009 season. Look who is laughing now! In a twist of ironic fate, it was Girardi’s critical analysis, combined with a lack of critical analysis by his World Series counterpart, Philadelphia Phillies m... Read Full Story

Read the arguments from Loyal Homer and Bleacher Fan about what they believe was the most pivotal managerial decision in the 2009 World Series View This Pollopinion Game four of the 2009 World Series in Philadelphia was the scene of THE moment – THE decision – that changed the course of the series and ultimately set the New York Yankees on a course to victory. Philadelphia Phillies manager Charlie Manuel is a great baseball manager. Great. I am using the word great. Over the course of his ma... Read Full Story

Read the arguments from Sports Geek and Bleacher Fan about what they believe was the most pivotal managerial decision of the 2009 World Series. View This Pollopinion The New York Yankees, much like the Dallas Cowboys, are just one of those teams people love to hate. The list of reasons why is long. But, as much as it pains me to write it, congratulations to the New York Yankees for winning a 27th World Series. The Yankees deserved it because they were the best team. I do not think there is a... Read Full Story

Read the debate intro, Sports Geek’s argument, and Bleacher Fan’s argument. View This Pollpolls I think we can all agree that retiring a player’s jersey is the ultimate compliment a team can give to a retired player. I stated in the intro, and Sports Geek and Bleacher Fan both reiterated in their arguments that retiring a jersey is quite the honor and is not to be taken lightly. As Bleacher Fan wrote, retiring a jersey is a team matter. It is not a league matter. Tim Hardaway having his je... Read Full Story

Read the arguments from Sports Geek and Bleacher Fan about when it is the right time for a team to retire a player’s jersey. View This Pollpolls The writers at The Sports Debates were having a production meeting recently hashing out possible debate ideas when Sports Geek came across a story that caught our attention. The Miami Heat recently retired the jersey of former star player Tim Hardaway, who played with the team from 1996-2001. Hardaway broke into the league with the Golden State Wa... Read Full Story

Read the debate intro and Bleacher Fan’s argument that a team should be able to retire a player’s jersey whenever it wishes. View This Pollpolls There are few honors in sports that exceed the impact of having a jersey retired with a team. The principle behind the honor is to reward a player for prolonged outstanding service to an organization. Usually the player being honored also assumes other burdens of stardom like media attention, marketing focus, etc. The principles behind jersey reti... Read Full Story

Read the debate intro and Sports Geek’s argument that there should be a minimum number of years that an athlete plays for a team before that team can retire the player’s number. View This Pollpolls There are many different awards designed around recognizing an athlete’s performance during a season. There are League MVP awards, All Star selections, awards for being the best in a position, scoring awards; the list goes on and on. There are only two awards dedicated to honoring a player’s leg... Read Full Story