The LA Lakers took down the Oklahoma City Thunder in 6 games winning  the series 4-2

The Dallas Mavericks where shown the door by the San Antonio Spurs in 6 games loosing 4-2

The Phoenix Suns beat the Portland Trail Blazers in game 6 also winning the series 4-2

The Denver Nuggets went home loosing game 6 and the series 4-2 to the Utah Jazz

The Cleveland Cavaliers defeated the Chicago Bulls in just 5 games with the series 4-1

The Charlotte Bobcats had no chance against the Orlando Magic getting swept 4 games to 0

Milwaukee Bucks have to go home early as the Atlanta Hawks won in game 7 and the series 4-3

The Miami Heat will not move to the next round as the Boston Celtics take them down in game 5 winning 4-1

Now that the first round is over and the conference semifinals are under way we will bring you more scores and stats as the NBA Playoffs continue.

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Merlin Olsen

drafted my the Los Angeles Rams in the first round.  Olsen stayed with the Rams for 15 years only missing close to 2 games.  By 1963 along with Deacon Jones, Rosey Grier, and Lamar Lundy this defensive line became known as the “Fearsome Foursome“.  He was selected into the Pro Bowl 14 times in his career and into the Pro Football Hall Of Fame in 19

82 and is still listed as one of the top 100 players of all time.

Merlin Olsen was also known as a TV actor.  Playing roles on the hit  TV show Little House on the Prairie and Father Murphy.  Also after leaving the NFL he was a broadcaster, and spokesman for many years.

After a strong fight with cancer, mesothelioma, he died on March 11, 2010 at the age of 69.  Olsen was married and had three children, Kelly, Jill, and Nathan as well as four grandchildren.

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The Winter Olympics for 2010 are just about one month away and the USA Hockey Team Roster is out and the players are ready.  We are going to give you a run-down of the Hockey Players that are rostered for this years Olympic team.  The list came out on January 1st of 2010 and this list has the players in order by name and age.

Goaltenders:

• Tim Thomas, 35 (Boston Bruins)
• Ryan Miller, 29 (Buffalo Sabres)
• Jonathan Quick, 24 (Los Angeles Kings)

Alternate Candidate:
- Craig Anderson (Colorado)

Defense:

• Brian Rafalski, 36 (Detroit Red Wings)
• Ryan Suter, 25 (Nashville Predators)
• Paul Martin 28 (New Jersey Devils)
• Mike Komisarek, 28 (Toronto Maple Leafs)
• Erik Johnson, 21 (St. Louis Blues)
• Brooks Orpik, 29 (Pittsburgh Pittsburgh)
• Jack Johnson, 23 (Los Angeles Kings)

Alternate Candidates:
- Matt Niskanen (Dallas)
- Ron Hainsey (Atlanta)
- Alex Goligoski (Pittsburgh)
- Matt Carle (Philadelphia)
- Rob Scuderi (Los Angeles)

Forwards:

• Zach Parise, 25 (New Jersey Devils)
• Chris Drury, 32 (New York Rangers)
• Dustin Brown, 25 (Los Angeles Kings)
• Jamie Langenbrunner, 34 (New Jersey Devils)
• Paul Stastny, 24 (Colorado Avalanche)
• David Backes, 25 (St. Louis Blues)
• Patrick Kane, 21 (Chicago Blackhawks)
• Phil Kessel, 22 (Toronto Maple Leafs)
• Ryan Kesler, 25 (Vancouver Canucks)
• Bobby Ryan, 22 (Anaheim Ducks)
• Joe Pavelski, 25 (San Jose Sharks)
• Ryan Malone, 31 (Tampa Bay Lightning)
• Ryan Callahan, 24 (New York Rangers)

Alternate Candidates:
- Jason Pominville (Sabres)
- David Booth (Panthers)
- Scott Gomez (Canadiens)
- T.J. Oshie (Blues)
- Brian Gionta (Canadiens)

So what do you think?  Let us know in the comments sections below.  Who would you have called to place on the USA Hockey Team in 2010?  You have to have a opinion on this right?

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The Minnesota Vikings and the New Orleans Saints will represent the NFC Conference this year at 6:40 pm on Sunday.  Favre vs. Brees, as it looks like in this game.  With last weeks scores of 45 and 34 for these teams.  The balls will be flying the whole game and look for Rice the Wide Receiver for Minnesota to be catching everything that comes his way.

The pointspreads on the the games this Sunday look like this:

Indianapolis Colts giving 7 1/2 to the New York Jets.

New Orleans Saints getting 3 1/2 points from the Minnesota Vikings.

Who has the best chance to get to the big game?  Leave your comments and let us know who you think has the best game to win.

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Here is the line up for the games in the Divisional Round that you will be watching this weekend.

Saturday, January 16th, 2010 at 4:30 pm ET the Arizona Cardinals and the New Orleans Saints match up in New Orleans.

On the same day at 8:15 pm ET the Baltimore Ravens will meet the Indianapolis Colts in Indy.

Sunday, January 17th, 2010 at 1:00 pm ET the Dallas Cowboys travel to Minnesota to take on the Vikings.

On that same Sunday, at 4:30 pm ET watch the New York Jets go to see the San Diego Chargers in San Diego California.

We will try to bring you all of the scores and some highlights after the games are over and see what the next match-ups will be.

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McAllister has been out of football for just about a years time.  In a closed practice at the Saints suburban training field the start running back participated not too long ago.  “I’m speechless,” McAllister said. “I don’t know that there are words to describe this feeling. I do know that we have some unfinished business that we started a few years ago and we want to finish the deal.”  The coach of the New Orleans Saints, Sean Payton said that they first talked about making McAllister and unofficial guest captain just a few weeks ago.

Deuce McAllister has 55 total touchdowns and 49 of them are rushing TD’s.  That with a total of 6,096 career rushing yards has made for an outstanding career.  Standing 6 foot 1 inch and 230 pounds, McAllister all makes for a above average pass-blocker as well. Back in 2005, he got his first major injury, he tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee.  Then in 2007 he went through the same injury but in the left knee this time.  He did manage to play hurt in the 2008 season after have minor cleanup operations and fluid drained form his left knee on a regular basis.  Working on his own in Jackson, Miss. and as well with Dr. James Andrews, and orthopedic surgeon in Florida, since the Saints released him last February to get back into top shape.

We will have to see what the Saints have to offer now that they have Deuce McAllister back in the line-up.  Maybe this is just what they need to make a great team even better?

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On New Year’s day Patrick Kane saw one of the young kid’s skate out onto the ice when the announcement of the Olympic team was going on.  He noticed that one young girl was wearing his USA Hockey Jersey.  At that moment he ran to Brandon Faber the Blackhawks PR man and let him know about finding this young girl and getting the Jersey signed.

“I was trying to make the situation for her and her family even better than it already was,” Kane said. “It might help the reputation, but I wasn’t thinking about that when I went up to Brandon.”

“I think it was really cool,” Kane, only 21, said. “It really makes you feel good. It seems like she was pretty excited in her letter that we were able to get it done. I thought it was a real easy gesture that I could pull off for the girl, just sign the jersey for her and do the right thing.”

In my opinion it seem that he was just trying to do something great for a young hockey fan. If only more of the pro. NHL players, and any other sport, would do this more often then they might get a little more from the fans.  I understand that many of the professional sports players give a lot, but sometimes its the small things that might get them noticed even more.

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Sunday January 10th, 2010 the Ravens and the Patriots will meet in the AFC Wild Card playoff game.  New England has a record of 10-6 in the win loss column and the Baltimore Ravens are 9-7.  With the game being played in New England the Patriots find themselves with the upper hand with an 8-0 record at home.  The Ravens have not done that well on the road this season at only 3-5 so that could be the down fall from the start.

Here are some offensive stats form both of the teams playing in the AFC Wild Card game today for you to chew on.

The defensive stats all look to be in the Patriots favor.

Tom Brady and Joe Flacco will be going at it hard today to get just one step closer to the Super Bowl.  The game starts at 1:00 pm est. so have the TV on and get ready for some football.

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