Sports Bytes - December 31, 2010

Week 17 Predictions

• Atlanta over Carolina
• Pittsburgh over Cleveland
• Detroit over Minnesota
• Oakland over Kansas City
• New England over Miami
• New Orleans over Tampa
• NY Jets over Buffalo
• Baltimore over Cincinnati
• San Diego over Denver
• Green Bay over Chicago
• Indianapolis over Tennessee
• Philadelphia over Dallas
• San Francisco over Arizona
• NY Giants over Washington
• Jacksonville over Houston
• St. Louis over Seattle

It would be wise for Philadelphia to sit Michael Vick this week and play Kevin Kolb exclusively . . .

It is supposed to be rainy in NY on Sunday, so I would limit Mark Sanchez to only one-half of football regardless of the score at half-time . . .

Jaguars QB David Garrard is done for the season--and by 8:00 pm ET on Sunday so should his team. Thanks to back-to-back losses the Jaguars' playoff chances rest on a victory over Houston, and a Titans upset of the Colts. Not likely . . .

Green Bay would beat Chicago this week even if the Bears had something to play for . . .

The names Mark McGwire and Rafael Palmeiro should not be mentioned in the same sentence with the words "Hall of Fame" . . .

Get well soon, Harmon Killebrew . . .

Our condolences to Angelo Dundee, whose wife passed away this week . . .

Boxing lost one of its toughest fighters on Tuesday with the passing of Bennie Briscoe. Briscoe won 66 bouts in his career, and he fought a Hall of Fame list of opponents, including Marvin Hagler, Carlos Monzon, Emile Griffith, Eddie Mustafa Muhammad, and Vito Antuofermo. Hall of Fame promoter Russell Peltz refers to Briscoe as " one of the best [fighters] never to win a world title (when world titles meant something) and the man who presided over the last Golden Age of Boxing in Philadelphia (the 1970s)" . . .

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