Who do you think will win the big one this Sunday?

In case you’ve been living under a rock lately, the 2008 World Series of Poker main event final table is ON this Sunday as the final nine players remaining, now dubbed as the ‘’November Nine'’ will play it out to determine who’ll be the 2008 WSOP champion.

One of the final nine participants this Sunday will be Peter Eastgate. Eastgate could become the youngest professional poker champion in the history of the World Series of Poker and yes, history could be made then.

If he achieves this enormous feat, he would surpass the victory celebrated by Phil Hellmuth when he became champion at 24 years old dating back in 1989. Eastgate was just three years old during that time.

Hailing from Odense, he has an association with Ladbrokes Poker though has been wearing PokerStars gear and is primarily an online player.

Peter Eastgate is regarded as one of the top Internet pros in Denmark, where he specializes in short-handed and heads-up high limit cash games ($200/$400 levels). He has had a couple of promising offline showings recently however, most notably finishing 9th in the 2007 Irish Open for…

It’s this Friday and being a Piston fan like myself, I’m keeping my fingers crossed that the former league MVP finally plays for my team.

And in case you’ve been living under a rock, the Pistons and the Nuggets engineered the first blockbuster trade of the 2008-09 NBA basketball season after the Pistons traded Chauncey Billups and Antonio McDyess to the Nuggets for Allen Iverson.

And since both Billups and McDyess hasn’t even started taking their physicals yet, Allen Iverson can’t suit up for his new team until they do and complete it since the NBA has this rule that players who were traded between two teams will OFFICIALLY be available for their new teams at the same time.

That means, the Detroit Pistons can’t take advantage of having a player like Allen Iverson on the court yet until their former players in Denver complete the mandatory physical.

And since Denver Nuggets head coach George Karl already said that their new players will be taking their physicals some time this week, Iverson could be playing for the Pistons in New Jersey against the Nets.

Until then, we will continue to hope that nabbing Iverson was the right way to go for the 313 because if it all explodes on Joe Dumars’ face, letting a guy like Chauncey Billups go would be the worst thing he has done since drafting Darko Milicic right after LeBron…

OKAY, the Presidential Elections are over. Time to talk about what really matters in America. Football.

Week 10 of the 2008-09 NFL football season starts early this week because starting this November 6, football comes early every Thursday night until the second to the last week of the season. And after nine weeks of football, we learned that Rex Grossman can still throw it perfectly on a good day, no one can still figure out this Titans perfection thing and Byron Leftwich can still play in the NFL. How about that?

And in case you missed the first paragraph, YES, Week 10 starts on a Thursday night with the Denver Broncos visiting the Cleveland Browns. These two teams have been struggling lately. The Browns have become the second worst team in the AFC North at 3-5 while the Broncos, even with a dismal 4-4 stand, are lucky enough to still lead an abysmal AFC West group that features the 3-5 Chargers, the 2-6 Raiders and the 1-7 Chiefs. Egad.

And just because the Browns may have given up on this season already when they elected to start Brady Quinn, we’re picking the Denver Broncos by three.

Next, the St. Louis Rams will try to regain some momentum after giving their new coach a couple of wins only to lose the next two games when they face the New York Jets. Having won two of three games under coach Jim Haslett, another victory would…

It’s election day.

And while most of you probably could care less who will you be voting for, (especially if you’re a Dallas Cowboys fan still reeling over Romo’s injury…) the U.S. Presidential election begins with two choices, an aging version of George W. Bush and a black guy trying to fool us into thinking that he likes Snoop Dogg.

And for those of you who didn’t get that, that’s John McCain and Barack Obama. McCain is the aging Republican who will probably just continue hating on other countries, keeping oil prices ridiculously expensive in the process once he becomes President, while the other one is Obama, the black Democrat who continues to promote ‘’change'’ by probably having guys like Ice Cube and Michael Jordan under his Cabinet once he gets elected.

Choosing the lesser evil is probably the right way to go if you’re looking to vote one guy over the other to become the next U.S. President. So what are the difference between these two jackoffs? Let’s start with what they plan to do with the faltering economy shall we?

As a Republican, John McCain is in favor of lowering taxes and cutting government spending. Obama on the other hand, wants to increase government revenue by rescinding Bush’s tax cuts on wealthy Americans and of course, finally ending the war in Iraq.

McCain’s economic plan calls for extending the Bush Administration’s tax cuts, eliminating the Alternative Minimum Tax and…

No, this dude is not representing the Democrat nor the Republican party on election night.

And no, he’s not going after any presidential seat whatsoever either. What this guy wants to have is that shiny WSOP bracelet at the end of the 2008 World Series of Poker main event final table. And in case you didn’t get it yet, yes, the countdown for the WSOP continues.

And yes, Ivan Demidov is one of the final nine players, dubbed as the ‘’November Nine‘’ who will sit in the final table all looking to claim the big one. In Demidov’s case, he’s looking for his first bracelet with 24,400,000 in chips.

And it doesn’t matter to him too if he’s 2,000,000 behind chip leader, Dennis Phillips.

STILL, Ivan Demidov is tagged as a 4 to 1 favorite by several bookmakers to win the 2008 WSOP. The 27-year-old Demidov from Moscow came in a respectable 11th place at the 2008 39th Annual World Series of Poker, winning nearly $40,0000.

He also has a final-table finish in a 2006 Russian Poker Championship event as well as a third-place finish in the $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em evening event during the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic in 2007.

Sure, this is his first World Series of Poker event but…

They have to, that is if they still have plans to keep pace with the surging G-Men from New York City.

Ah, the NFC East. After eight weeks into the 2008-09 NFL football season, that division is still arguably the best division in football today. From first to last, all four teams in this division are all legitimate title contenders and at this point, there’s only one way to go to survive there, simply be better than the rest.

As of press time, the Washington Redskins are the second best team in the NFC East, behind only to the defending Super Bowl champions, New York Giants. The Redskins hold a one-game advantage over the 5-3 Eagles while their rivals from Dallas are still in contention at 5-4.

And thanks to division rivals Philly and Dallas stumbling somewhat lately, the Washington Redskins managed to pad their lead further over the aforementioned teams, thanks primarily to the two-game winning streak they managed to ride on after beating the 3-5 Browns and the still winless Lions.

Unfortunately, the level of competition will go up a notch with the Pittsburgh Steelers about to test the mettle of this team on Monday Night Football. The West Coast offense has done wonders for this Redskins team so far and…

Yes, the countdown for that final table in the WSOP continues.

We are merely a few more days away from the 2008 World Series of Poker main event final table as we continue to give ya’ll the final nine participants, all hoping to win the 2008 WSOP bracelet when it’s all said and done.

This time we have David ‘’Chino'’ Rheem. Rheem may not have the most chips going into the 2008 WSOP main event this November but he is arguably the most well-known player among the November Nine group at the final table.

The 28-year-old professional poker player has won over $700,000 in live tournament earnings since he first hit the World Series of Poker circuit in 2005. He already has 5 WSOP wins to his name and finished 2nd in the 2006 $1,000 No Limit Texas Hold’Em Re-Buy event.

The World Series of Poker is not the only place Rheem has taken the prize. He has also won three Bellagio Cups and made it the final table of the 2005 EPT grand final, finishing in 3rd place and earning $10,219. David Rheem qualified for the 2008 WSOP by playing at the online poker room, PokerStars.

However, Rheem’s stellar performance has been scrutinized heavily about past criminal convictions that he was…

Um… Kobe, then maybe LeBron.

Of course, that’s a given. But for all of you who are still confused on who to draft in your fantasy basketball leagues with the 2008-09 NBA basketball season finally here, we’ve provided a short list for you.

These rankings are based on 9-category leagues (points, assists, rebounds, steals, blocks, three-pointers made, turnovers, FG percentage and FT percentage).

First of the list is LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers. King James can be selected anywhere in the top 3 and you could easily justify the pick. Nothing changed in Cleveland, so expect James to do what he has done since his rookie season, dominate.

Add the fact that LeBron James is still an ultimate triple double threat. Last year, he averaged 30 ppg, 7.9 rpg and 7.2 apg. Though his free throw percentages can still be considered a weakness, he’s insanely awesome in everything else. LeBron’s your guy and he doesn’t even have to win games to win in fantasy leagues, OBVIOUSLY.

Next up is the leader of the New Orleans Hornets, Chris Paul. Many people…

Week 10 continues with probably our favorite team to watch this year, the Crimson Tide.

Yep, out of all the teams to watch this 2008 NCAA college football season, the Alabama Crimson Tide is probably the most interesting one. And as long as Nick Saban, the same guy who bamboozled the Dolphins a few years ago when he shockingly left them for college pigskin, is running things, nothing is always as it seems.

Nick Saban had the Alabama Crimson Tide in excellent shape heading into November last season, having turned the team from an afterthought to an SEC contender in his first year on the job. Saban’s team, though, couldn’t end its struggles in the season’s final month. With a spot in the BCS championship game now within their grasp, the second-ranked Crimson Tide will have considerably higher stakes at play during their slate this November, starting this Saturday with a game against Arkansas State.

Alabama (8-0, 5-0 SEC) was standing at 6-2 and ranked No.17 at the end of last October, an impressive climb in Saban’s first season in Tuscaloosa after he inherited a program coming off a 6-7 finish in 2006. The Crimson Tide lost all four of their games in November, including an ugly 21-14 defeat at home to Louisiana-Monroe, a member of the Sun Belt conference.

The Arkansas State Red Wolves on the other hand, have beaten the only BCS conference opponent they’ve played this season, topping Texas A&M 18-14 in their Aug. 30 season opener. Although the Red Wolves may have trouble stopping the rush…

Happy Halloween people!

Now that THAT is out of the way, the 2008-09 NFL football season continues this Sunday with Week 9. And after eight weeks into the season, we learned that the Brees can be strong in England, the Bengals can’t do anything right and the Titans, yes, the Titans, could be for real.

But before we jump on the Titans bandwagon, there are still quite a few teams other than Tennessee surprising us every single week. Like the Buffalo Bills, despite losing to the Dolphins last week, STILL lead the AFC East at 5-2. Can the Bills win the division? They host New York Jets in a key divisional match up Sunday. A win here will definitely put them closer from winning the AFC East title.

The New York Jets have already lost three straight meetings with Buffalo. And although Brett Favre continues to have stellar performances late in his career, the Bills are just too focused to let a team from New York steal a win from them at home.

Buffalo Bills by three.

Next, the Jacksonville Jaguars will look to win their fifth straight win over the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday at Paul Brown Stadium. The Jacksonville Jaguars have gone through a somewhat disappointing first half to the season so far, but back-to-back games against teams that are currently winless could help put them back on the right track. They have the 0-7 Lions after the 0-8 Bengals this Sunday and yes…