By Paul Schmidt After a mediocre Thursday saw me essentially break even, I vow that Friday will be better. Or not. Either way this will be the quick pick edition of this spot, mainly because I have a young child teething and barely slept last night. I’m not sure if I’m even writing this right now or [...]

By Paul M. Banks MILWAUKEE- Orlando “Tubby” Smith is entering his second NCAA Tournament (and third year) as the leader of the Minnesota Golden Gophers. Despite reaching the second round on 14 prior occasions during his career, he has to win a tourney game with the Gophs. Is this the year? On Sunday a reporter asked how the team [...]

By: Melissa S. Wollering When a race track is half of one mile, you get a kink in your neck just from watching cars go round-and-round in a tiny circle. But Bristol—the World’s Fastest Half Mile—has a rich history in stock car racing and is hosting the Food City 500 this Sunday. The past three spring Bristol [...]

By Paul M. Banks We know that 99.99999999999999999999999999% of the jobs posted on Monster.com or Career Builder.com are either a.) filled 6 months ago b.) thinly veiled pyramid schemes attempting to entice you c.) never existed in the first place d.) a black hole in which all submitted resumes will just vanish after never even seeing human [...]

By Peter Christian We’ve expanded the field to 65 Douchey entities this year, which means only one thing: Play-in game. Yep, you read that right. Of course, I lobbied and begged and pleaded to get the play-in game in my bracket just because I had the perfect matchup of awful that would fit perfectly into a Douchebracket [...]

This week at The Sports Bank we posed ourselves some NCAA Tournament related “Yearbook Questions” to figure out two things: A) Just how much we enjoy being smart asses and B) well, there really is no B), we just wanted to share our smart ass comments with you in a little bit different format. The Coaches Coach most [...]

Welcome to the non- smart ass portion of the picks segment. This is pretty straight forward, we pick our Final Four teams, National Championship match-up and end result. We also try and pretend we know what we’re doing too. So far? Mixed results. Please check out our resident expert David Kay’s picks as he breaks down each region ( Midwest, <a [...]

By Paul Schmidt The most wonderful gambling time of the year is finally here!! It’s the NCAA tournament! Consider this your official betting guide, with times, lines and who you should be betting on. Now, kids, this isn’t legal here in the Midwest; when I say gambling, of COURSE I mean just for entertainment purposes. For example, a friend of [...]

Big Ben Roethlisberger’s off the field issues continue to grow. TMZ has learned Georgia law enforcement officers have contacted the lawyer for a woman who made a sexual assault claim last year against Ben Roethlisberger . The Georgia Bureau of Investigation — which is currently investigating Ben for an alleged sexual assault earlier this month — contacted Cal Dunlap , the attorney for [...]

By Paul M. Banks It’s that time of year again! The 2nd annual douchebracket; which is exactly what it sounds like, a tournament of douchitude. In last year’s inaugural event, my regional finalist, “Notre Dame fans with no genuine school affiliation” routed Rachel Nichols in the title game. The earlier rounds were much more exciting as Alex [...]

By: David Kay Synopsis I hate this bracket. HATE IT! I don’t want to pick any of these teams to be in the Final Four. I think West Virginia, Ohio State, Kansas State, and Georgetown would all be better options than any of these 17 squads. I think if any regional is going absolutely explode people’s [...]

By: David Kay Synopsis With mid-majors New Mexico and Temple as two of the top five seeds, this regional looks a little weak. Kentucky is the most talented team in the country with four future lottery picks on their roster but can they put it all together to make a tournament run? #2 West Virginia is [...]

By Paul M. Banks I’ve seen and heard a ton of unique names during the couple decades I’ve been watching the NCAA Tournament. God Shamgod, Paris London, and Majestic Mapp quickly come to mind. But my all-time favorite is former Maryland Terrapin Exree Hipp. That just rules, plain and simple. And ever since America was introduced to Mr. [...]

By: David Kay The NBA Draft class of 2010 will start to sort itself out during the next couple of weeks as college underclassmen decide whether or not to enter the draft. Here is David Kay’s latest mock draft with team needs taken into consideration. Click on the players name for a full scouting report.  Click here [...]

By: David Kay The NBA Draft class of 2010 will start to sort itself out during the next couple of weeks as college underclassmen decide whether or not to enter the draft. Here is David Kay’s latest mock draft with team needs taken into consideration. Click on the players name for a full scouting report. Click here for [...]

By Paul M. Banks Last fall, I had an exclusive with Nick Roach , a Northwestern alum who started at Linebacker for much of the Bears 2009 season. And now, as you get ready to fill out your brackets for March Madness, I’d like to pass on a very important message from him. On January 4th 2010, 7 year old Slade [...]

By Mike Gallagher So begins the most exciting sports event of the year. Yeah, there’s the Super Bowl, the MLB playoffs, the BCS, but none compares to an event like this. There’s simply nothing else like it. The closest thing there is to the NCAA tournament is the World Cup, which happens to be this summer, but it still [...]

By Paul M. Banks You all saw Alexander Ovechkin’s big hit on Chicago Blackhawk s defenseman Brian Campbell. You all discussed whther you thought it was a clean hit, a cheap shot, or something designated by a term residing in a grey area somewhere. To quote “Fletch”…”how gray? charcoal!” But enough about the past, when is “Soupy” returning? Well, [...]

By Paul M. Banks and Peter Christian Look for our 3rd round of our NFL Mock Draft later this week. To see the Second Round of this Mock Draft go here NFL Team Needs listing NFL Draft Big Board As always, you can check out my College Football and NFL blogs on the Washington Times.com by clicking the hyperlinked text. For our NBA Mock Draft click here [...]

By Paul M. Banks For round 1 click here And check back later this week for our round 3! Click on the following highlighted/bold phrases to read our: NFL Team Needs listing NFL Draft Big Board As always, you can check out my College Football and NFL blogs on the Washington Times.com by clicking the hyperlinked text. For our NBA Mock Draft click here Team Player Position School 33. St. Louis [...]