Merry Christmas from the Staff

The staff at FreshSportsDaily.com would like to extend a heartfelt Merry Christmas to all seven of our readers and their families. We hope Santa brings you everything you asked for!

Separated at Birth 12/24/09

By FreshSportsDaily.com Wire Services

We're all looking forward to when NASA once again visits Coach Popovich's face.

The Death of the Spurs Dynasty

By MAX CUSTARD, FreshSportsDaily.com Wire Services

When anyone mentioned true NBA title contenders for the past 10 years, the San Antonio Spurs always came up. The familiar mantra has been "the Spurs are the Spurs. They'll always be there." Much like their closest NFL counterpart, the New England Patriots, there is a tightly-held belief that San Antonio will, at the very least, get to the conference championship annually.



Just as every dynasty must inevitably fall, Wednesday night's loss to an undermanned Portland Trailblazers squad might be the moment that we point to in the near future as the end of the Spurs' run of excellence.



I hate to be an alarmist, but in 30 years of watching basketball I have never seen a team dress only six players and be competitive, let alone win, an NBA game on the road as the Blazers did Wednesday. Without diminishing what an incredible accomplishment it was for Portland to win that game, it is completely inexcusable for coach Gregg Popovich to have allowed his team to show up so blatantly flat and unprepared to play.



While it may still be too early in the season to be writing obituaries, I have a gut feeling that we will not see a Tim Duncan-led Spurs team win another NBA Championship ever again. NBA champions just do not lose games to 6-man squads that do not even feature their best player.

NFL Christmas Day Stone-Cold Lock

By DARREN BONTRAGER, FreshSportsDaily.com Betting Guru



Last Week's Picks: 2-2

San Diego Chargers -3 at Tennessee Titans

The Pick: Take Tennessee +3



The Christmas Day NFL match up they're giving us this year feels like a playoff game. This is a nice game...a really nice game - if you have the NFL Network. If not, then please trudge your ass through the snow to the bar that spent the money for a satellite dish. Hopefully you can find one that's open Christmas night. Anyone reading this blog is definitely spending Christmas alone, so it's not like your "family" will be angry that you spent Christmas at the bar drunk out of your mind, yelling at the television while watching the game you dropped twenty bucks on. On to the analysis...

• The Chargers have won nine straight. They're bound to lose.


• Two years ago, the Chargers won in overtime at Tennessee in a very rough game. Several players were hurt, and four players were fined. These types of rivalries tend to produce close, fairly low-scoring games.


• The Titans have lost two starting defenders to season-ending injuries - linebacker and team leader in tackles Keith Bulluck and linebacker David Thornton. Philip Rivers and Antonio Gates might rip up that depleted Titan linebacking core. However...


• San Diego has to travel to Tennessee on a short week after a big win against Cincinnati. I smell a letdown. Or is that my feet? I really should shower more often.

When you take these factors, the advice from my magic 8-ball, and the voices in my head into consideration, I say take the 3 points and Tennessee. And when you're at the bar, remember "beer before hard, you're in the yard...hard before beer, you're in the clear."



*This information is for entertainment purposes only

Brad Childress Has So Much Love to Give

By MAX CUSTARD, FreshSportsDaily.com Wire Services

Can someone please get Brad Childress a Ricola or some of that throat spray stuff? Every time he speaks, I expect to him to tell me how much he wants to make love while Barry White plays in the background. And I thought Dikembe Mutombo had a deep voice...damn! After Brett Favre gets Childress canned, at least he'll have a bright future as the bass singer in a Doo-Wop group.

California Missile Launch Photo

From 2009-12-04

Here is a missile launch over California which turned out to be a test.

California Missile Launch Photo

From 2009-12-04

Here is a missile launch over California which turned out to be a test.