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Everyone remembers that feeling on the first day of school. Rolling up in that brand-new collared shirt and the impossibly clean shoes. Not thinking, but knowing that, yeah, this is going to be my year. There was something reassuring about seeing eve...

The big questions and bold predictions for Round 2 of the NHL playoffs.

As I write this, we stand about seven hours from the start of the 2013 NFL draft, and all anyone seems to know is that, really, no one knows jack. Last year, any drama that normally comes with the early parts of Round 1 was gone long before Roger Goo...

Our picks and predictions for the coming blockbuster season.

With only three games left in the season, by now you should know that betting on college basketball is borderline insane. But, on the off chance you're still throwing money at an unpredictable sport that's in the midst of one of its most unpredictabl...

It's Opening Day, and there is no better way to wrap up our look at the baseball season than by making a few educated guesses.

The Sweet 16 continues tonight with another slate of intriguing games that promise to be unpredictable. Luckily for all you gamblers out there, I'm here to guarantee that the following five things will happen: 1. Florida will destroy Florida Gulf ...

The Sweet 16 gets under way tonight, and if the first weekend of tournament action is any indication of what's to come, we're in for a treat. Every year, it seems the NCAA tournament gets more unpredictable, which is why I've taken it upon myself to ...

Before I offer up five predictions for Friday's games, let's look at how my predictions for Thursday turned out. Both Butler-Bucknell and Arizona-Belmont will be decided on the final play Butler won by 12 and Arizona won by 17. Then again, these ...

The NCAA tournament is finally here! Who's ready to lose money gambling, find out that the person in your office who knows the least about sports still knows more than you do, and complain that your school's coach can't "win the big one" after your t...

Oscar Meteorology There's always an element of fatalism with making Oscar predictions. You actually hope you're wrong. You want to be right because people conflate educated awards-guessing with expertise. But when you have to sit and watch more tha...

Mays and I did this with the NFL, and I managed to spoil Cabin in the Woods and wrongly assert that Michael Vick would play all 16 games for the Eagles. We're blinding you with science over here. Same rules as before: I say something, Mays argues whe...

Has there ever been a college basketball season quite this crazy?

It's a Mumford World So, Joe Frazier beat Muhammad Ali. The Grammys did their job. Order has been maintained. What happens next? Here are my predictions: Babel will return to the top of the albums chart next week. Jay Pharoah's inevitable yellow sui...

We sent special Grantland correspondent Bobby Bottleservice to New Orleans to report on the scene around the Super Bowl. Upon arrival, he immediately stopped answering our phone calls, but we finally tracked him down and asked if he would at least of...

One of the unfortunate realities of sportswriting is that you're often compelled to make bold predictions, only to suffer all the indignities that follow. Only a true masochist makes predictions, because when you're wrong — and you're always go...