Thursday, January 10, 2019

Saints quarterback Drew Brees will turn 40 years old on Tuesday


The NFL playoffs will continue this weekend with the Divisional Round of games set to be played on Saturday and Sunday. On the AFC side of the bracket, I look for Kansas City to beat the Indianapolis Colts on Saturday and for the Patriots to beat the Chargers on Sunday. On the NFC side, I look for the Rams to beat the Cowboys on Saturday and for the Saints to beat the Eagles on Sunday.

New Orleans is the No. 1 seed in the NFC, and they are my pick to win it all. They’ll have to win two more games to the get to the Super Bowl, which will be played Feb. 3 in Atlanta.

Saints quarterback Drew Brees will turn 40 this coming Tuesday, and I figure he’ll likely retire if the Saints win it all this year. He’s had a heck of a career, and there’s no better way to finish than when you’re on top.

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Before you know it, it’ll be baseball season again. Out of curiosity, I looked earlier this week and discovered that as of Monday, we had 79 days left until Opening Day. This year, Major League Baseball will play its Opening Day slate of games on March 28. It’ll be here before you know it.

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High school basketball is back in full swing now that the holidays are over and we’ve flipped the calendar over to January. Hillcrest’s varsity boys picked up where they left off and are continuing to steamroll opponents. I watched them against J.F. Shields on Friday night, and I was impressed by how much bigger Hillcrest’s team was compared to Shields.

Prior to the start of that game, I watched Hillcrest’s girls win their first game of the year. Hillcrest’s girls have improved a lot this season, and it showed on Friday night. Instead of giving up, they continued to play hard and beat Shields in their own house.

Hillcrest’s girls may be young, but you wouldn’t know it by the way they played on Friday. And Shields doesn’t have a bad team. They are a traditional power in 1A girls basketball and were among the teams nominated for the 1A girls poll on Dec. 19.

Sparta’s varsity girls are also continuing to roll right on along. They stumbled against a pair of ranked teams as December came to a close, but they rebounded on Friday night by beating Meadowview badly. If nothing changes, I’ll be shocked if Sparta doesn’t win their region this season.

Like Hillcrest’s girls, Sparta’s varsity boys are also continuing to improve. Jace Daniels is their biggest weapon this season, recording more double doubles this season than I’ve seen in a long, long time. I also look for the Warriors to make some noise when it comes to region tournament time.

As odd as it sounds, we’ve got less than a month of regular season high school basketball left. Hillcrest and Sparta will both wrap up their regular season schedules on Feb. 1, which is just about three weeks away.

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