http://www.yardbarker.com/rss/user/aschiano Recent Yardbarker Articles: aschiano en-us Here are the up to date odds to win the 2008 Super Bowl according to Intertops.com. Fri, 10 Aug 2007 01:03:52 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/22961 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/22961 Everyone knows that Barry Bond's elbow protector gives him an advantage by allowing him to lean over the plate without fear of being hit. Michael Witte of Editor and Publisher says that is not the only advantage of the armor. Read more... Thu, 09 Aug 2007 12:54:10 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/22855 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/22855 Despite the fact that NHL salaries seem to be out of control, franchises are worth more now than ever before. The NHL's salary cap has risen to $50.3-million a team, an increase of $11-million in just two years. This is bad for the owners, right? Wrong. The only thing that is skyrocketing faster than NHL salaries, is NHL franchise values. Read more... Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:46:53 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/22740 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/22740 Dustin Penner: five years, $21.5 million. Pavel Datsyuk: seven years, $47 million. Patrice Bergeron: five years, $23.75 million. It's easy to point to these contracts and conclude the the NHL's CBA contract is not working the way the owners had expected. However, Allan Muir argues otherwise in his piece in SI. Read more... Wed, 08 Aug 2007 13:27:29 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/22705 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/22705 This sure looks like a video of WWE announcers reading off a script. Its possible that they are looking at an off-screen monitor, but it doesn't look like it. You be the judge. See the video... Wed, 08 Aug 2007 13:04:17 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/22702 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/22702 Both the NHL and Versus have options to opt out of their current rights deal. If either party opts out of the contract, or if NBC decides not to renew after the 07-08 season, that would open the door for the NHL to return to ESPN. Read more... Wed, 08 Aug 2007 13:02:49 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/22701 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/22701 NBC will be presenting 3,600 hours of coverage of the 2008 Olympics. Interestingly, they will be offering approximately 2,200 total hours of live streaming broadband video coverage on NBCOlympics.com. That's 2,200 more hours we can goof off at work. Read more... Wed, 08 Aug 2007 13:00:40 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/22700 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/22700 Forbes has published a study in which they determined the fastest growing brands in sports. According to Forbes, the fastest growing brands in each sport are as follows. Read more... Wed, 08 Aug 2007 12:58:16 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/22699 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/22699 After a 10-year partnership, Tiger Woods and American Express have parted ways. Woods' second of two five year deals ended recently. Woods and AMEX decided not to sign another deal, thus ending the partnership. Read more... Wed, 08 Aug 2007 12:55:22 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/22698 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/22698 During the month of May, over 37% of ESPN's SportsCenter was devoted to covering MLB. The NBA playoffs took up 25% of the coverage. The NHL playoffs: less than 5 percent. Even the NFL offseason received more coverage than the NHL at 7%. Read more... Wed, 08 Aug 2007 02:00:28 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/22655 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/22655 The ratings for ESPN's coverage Sunday night of Tom Glavine's 300th victory have been released. Read more... Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:35:03 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/22642 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/22642 The baseball Alex Rodriguez hit for his 500th home run may be worth as much as $100,000. Rodriguez is the youngest player to ever reach this milestone, and is a certain future Hall of Famer. The Yankees media relations director so far has been unsuccessful in his negotiations to get the ball back for Alex. His first offer included memorabilia from high-profile Yankees. If the ball is valued at $100,000, one of those Yankees better be named Ruth or Gehrig. Read more... Tue, 07 Aug 2007 13:07:12 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/22565 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/22565 ATP officials are investigating suspicious betting over No. 3 ranked Nikolay Davydenko's defeat to 87th-ranked Martin Vassallo Arguello last week. Betting on the match was 10 times the usual amount, at around $7 million. Vassallo Arguello was heavily backed, and won when Davydenko, coincidentally, left with an injury in the third set. Sun, 05 Aug 2007 17:10:37 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/22316 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/22316 The Manchester United has signed its newest star, Rhain Davis of Australia. In case you haven't heard. Rhain is 9 years old. It is believed there is no truth to the rumor that the United has also signed their first fetus to play in their upcoming preemie league. If you haven't seen Rhain's video, you have to check it out. Sun, 05 Aug 2007 17:09:11 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/22315 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/22315 The rise in popularity of MMA is undeniable. The drop in popularity of boxing is undeniable. But are the two linked, and if so, can MMA's rise lead to the fall of boxing? Sun, 05 Aug 2007 17:03:32 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/22314 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/22314