Feb 28th, 2011 by Bill Burt posted in Burt Talks Sports
Admit it, the Boston Celtics appear to be in a funk after their trading of Kendrick Perkins to the Oklahoma Thunder. Newly acquired Jeff Green looks like a fish out of water and center Nenad Krstic. In essence, it does feel like a great deal right now,…
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Feb 16th, 2011 by Bill Burt posted in Burt Talks Sports
We trusted Bill Belichick on this one when he decided to trade Richard Seymour to Oakland two seasons ago. Seymour was getting old and he wanted to be paid like a superstar. The rumblings we got from Foxboro was that Seymour was good, but not great any…
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Feb 10th, 2011 by Bill Burt posted in Burt Talks Sports
If you’ve got 30 minutes to kill, check out this thorough look at graduation rates at all of the major Div. 1 schools for football, basketball and baseball, and then a look at totals for all student-athletes. They break it down, first, by confere…
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Feb 9th, 2011 by Bill Burt posted in Burt Talks Sports
It has already begun. See below. Good luck: Registration for the opportunity to purchase tickets in the 2011 Random Drawings presented by MasterCard begins today, Wednesday, February 9, at noon online at redsox.com. Fans may register for the chance to …
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Feb 8th, 2011 by Bill Burt posted in Burt Talks Sports
Word on the basketball street is that Los Angeles Lakers are close to making a deal with the Denver Nuggets. The Lakers would get eventual free agent Carmelo Anthony and the Nuggets would get oft-injured, but young center Andrew Bynum. Personally, I li…
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Feb 3rd, 2011 by Bill Burt posted in Burt Talks Sports
Eagle-Tribune Pro Football Writers Bill Burt and Hector Longo will be hosting their first-ever Super Bowl Spectacular today, from 2 p.m.-5 p.m. on WCCM-AM radio 1110. Special guests like New York Giant Zak DeOssie and former Patriots great Steve Grogan…
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Jan 23rd, 2011 by Bill Burt posted in Burt Talks Sports
We may want to put this guy at the top of the NFL heap in terms of NFL quarterbacks. He’s that good, particularly when it counts the most. I write a column in Monday’s Eagle-Tribune sports on this very subject. Also, the odds are out and th…
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Jan 23rd, 2011 by Bill Burt posted in Burt Talks Sports
AFC Championship, N.Y. Jets at Pittsburgh: How could a guy pick the Jets to score six points and lose by five-plus touchdowns one week pick those same Jets to beat the Steelers in Pittsburgh? Because. The Jets showed me something against the Patriots, …
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Jan 18th, 2011 by Bill Burt posted in Burt Talks Sports
The Patriots announced the signing of seven free agents, all practice squad members at the end of this season, including Andover’s Buddy Farnham. Farnham, 6-foot and 185 pounds, was originally signed by the Patriots as a rookie free agent out of …
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Jan 18th, 2011 by Bill Burt posted in Burt Talks Sports
It isn’t often I will side with the Jets when it comes to the Patriots, but in this instance I am J-E-T-S Jets! Jets! Jets. A few Patriots after the game, particuarly Deion Branch, alluded to a few of the Jets as being classless after their celeb…
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Jan 17th, 2011 by Bill Burt posted in Burt Talks Sports
Here’s the silver lining from yesterday’s misery at Gillette Stadium: The Patriots got a slightly better draft pick. We pretty much knew a few weeks ago that the Patriots would be getting three of the first 33 draft picks (Oakland’s f…
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Jan 17th, 2011 by Bill Burt posted in Burt Talks Sports
OK, so I hung around the Jets Bart Scott for too long Sunday afternoon, here are some great snippets from him that you may have seen or missed after the Jets knocked off the Pats, 28-14. On the visit by Dennis Byrd to the team on Saturday … “Just t…
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Jan 14th, 2011 by Bill Burt posted in Burt Talks Sports
This comes from the Weather Channel: Baltimore Ravens @ Pittsburgh Steelers Saturday, 4:30 p.m. ET, Heinz Field – Pittsburgh, PA Gametime Weather Index: 6 High 33° F; Low 20° F, 70% Chance of precipitation. Weather factors: Light snow is expect…
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Jan 13th, 2011 by Bill Burt posted in Burt Talks Sports
Call is humor. Patriots wide receiver Wes Welker was among three players interviewed this morning and it was probably more than a coincidence that he used one particular word about fvie times. The word? Foot. The Gresh and Zo show on the Sports Hub, 98…
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Jan 13th, 2011 by Bill Burt posted in Burt Talks Sports
This is all over the Internet, worth a chuckle … Peyton Manning, after living a full life, died. When he got to heaven, God was showing him around. They came to a modest little house with a faded Colts flag in the window. “This house is you…
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