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Predictions for 2011

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by printdust, Dec 21, 2010.

  1. Brad Guire

    Brad Guire Member

    The new sweet tea, right? That stuff is righteous for fast-food tea.

    Anyway, I'll get back to you when Art Bell has his annual prediction show this weekend.
     
  2. three_bags_full

    three_bags_full Well-Known Member

    I'll return from Afghanistan by mid-February and begin training to fly a newer model helicopter by the fall, in preparation for a late-2012 trip back.
     
  3. Matt1735

    Matt1735 Well-Known Member

    I hope our 2012 predictions thread includes not having to go back.
     
  4. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    San Jose Sharks will continue to underachieve.
     
  5. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    Patriots destroy <insert NFC team here> in the Super Bowl.

    The NFL lockout will wipe out half the season.

    Newspapers' death spiral slows, only because smaller papers can't cut any more jobs and still put out editions.

    Attendance at sporting events will decline, as NOLU predicted. But that means TV ratings continue to climb.

    Tiger does not win a major.

    Manchester United wins the Premier League; Barca takes the Champions League.

    Twitter becomes entrenched as the go-to source for breaking news alerts.

    Facebook changes its design, and it causes lots of people to complain.

    iPad growth explodes after a price drop. And they become ubiquitous in press boxes.

    I win my age group in a mountain bike race and spend most of my spare time chasing a 2-year-old around the house.
     
  6. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    Nebraska fails to finish above .500 in Big Tweleven play.

    Winter Classic has to be postponed, Bettman gets lambasted in press.

    Tiger Woods remarries.

    Memphis Grizzlies announce plans to move.
     
  7. YGBFKM

    YGBFKM Guest

    You shut your mouth!
     
  8. Brad Guire

    Brad Guire Member

    I predict a shortened NFL season due to lockout: 12 regular-season games plus the playoffs.
     
  9. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    Is there a 2010 predictions thread we can dig up?
     
  10. Suicide Squeezer

    Suicide Squeezer Active Member

    And here we go:

    "The Back to the Future" trilogy will air on The Golf Channel.

    A major newspaper in a major market will cease or announce plans to cease its daily print publication in favor of a digital-only platform.

    Philadelphia will lose its first playoff game. The Bears will, somehow, advance to the NFC Championship Game where they will, somehow, beat New Orleans ... again. Pittsburgh shuts down Brady in the AFC Championship. The Steelers top Chicago in 'NORTH TEXAS' - 27-19.

    "The Office" gets canceled.

    The UConn women lose before the end of February.

    San Antonio clips Boston 4-2 in the NBA Finals. The Miami Heat fall in the first round of the playoffs, to Atlanta.

    Penguins and Red Wings meet for third time in four years in the Stanley Cup Final. Pens win 4-1.

    Terrelle Pryor goes pro. Cam Newton doesn't.

    Baseball goes pretty much according to plan. Phillies dominate in all facets. Yanks/BoSox duke it out all season. Tampa drops off bigtime.

    The labor strife in the NFL doesn't get resolved until late July/early August after teams are supposed to go to camp. The 18-game sked doesn't happen, at all, at least not now. Regular 16-game season continues as planned with abbreviated preseason.

    Matt Flynn gets hurt in camp. Aaron Rodgers gets hurt in the Packers' opener and is done for the year. Brett Favre returns to Green Bay. This time, it really is the end.

    "The Replacements" will continue to be in the early morning rotation on TBS. Shane Falco will continue to be my favorite fictional athlete of all time.
     
  11. JackReacher

    JackReacher Well-Known Member

    http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/75343/
     
  12. Oscar Gamble

    Oscar Gamble New Member

    *White Sox win the AL Central and advance to the ALCS where they lose in 6 games.

    *The lemmings still flock to Wrigley (3+ million) while the Cubs win 71 games

    *Blackhawks fail to make the Stanley Cup playoffs

    *Bears lose their first playoff game

    *Bulls lose in the 2nd round of the NBA playoffs

    *Clueless Cubs management hire either Joe Morgan or Ronnie 'Woo-Woo' Wickers as Ron Santo's replacement in the WGN radio booth.

    *In his retrial, Blago is convicted on 8 additional charges.

    *For at least another year, Canadian hockey fans will be watching two US-based NHL teams playing in the final for Lord Stanley's Cup.

    *With Comcast's takeover of NBC, The Office jumps the shark as Steve Carrell's Michael Scott character is replaced by Ricky Gervais' David Brent as the new branch manager of Dunder-Mifflin-Sabre. Stephen Merchant joins him as head writer trying to revive the U.S. version of the show. Gervais is paid over $1 million an episode. While the change initially draws great press and ratings, the series is canceled after the 2011 season.

    *A spinoff from TLC - Bristol Palin's Arizona, runs three episodes before it's pulled from the network. Rush & Hannity organize a boycott of TLC's advertizers blaming the 'lame stream media' for the poor ratings of the show.

    *Another year will go by with neither AT&T U-verse nor DishTV adding the MLB Network to their channel lineups which continues to make them an afterthought by true baseball fans.

    *Apple stock will pass the $400 a share level before October 2011.

    *Gasoline prices peak at over $4.00 a gallon this summer.

    *Rahm Emanuel is elected mayor of Chicago. He quickly learns than Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan controls all the power in Illinois politics.

    *Sarah Palin waits until the last minute possible before declining to run for president in 2012. The money is too good being a talking head on FoxNews and paid speeches to give it up for certain defeat in the general election.

    *Virgina McCaskey dies leaving the Chicago Bears ownership in turmoil. Half the McCaskey clan end up wanting to sell. Andrew McKenna and Pat Ryan, the minority owners, end up purchasing the team.

    *Oney Guillen continues to 'tweet' about White Sox business until Kenny Williams convinces one of his own sons to do the same. Two days after the Williams' son tweets about White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen, Oney's twitter account is closed.

    *In the next round of job cuts at the Chicago Tribune, a major columnist (non-Sports) will be one of the casualties. The Tribune will then raise the price of the paper again and on one Sunday will have a sports section all of 5 pages in length.
     
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