State of the NFL

The 2016 NFL season kicked off 3 weeks ago and its as exciting as ever.  We've had a bunch of good games so far.  We have football in LA and rookie quarterbacks, two starting in the NFC east Carson Wentz with the Eagles and Dak Prescott with the Cowboys.  As for the Giants and new coach Ben McAdoo they have spent a lot of money to improve. Victor Cruz is back after not playing in two years, and had a big catch in week 1.  Jason Pierre-Paul has also had more surgery and is 100% back from his fireworks accident.  The Secondary has been improved, I like to defense and Eli has some nice weapons to throw to from Cruze to Beckham to Shepard (rookie) to Vereen and the rest.  With two teams in the NFC East playing rookie QB's and the Redskins still playing cousins if the Giants can stay healthy I think their the class of the division.  The Cowboys always seem to choke but are good on paper, the Eagles will go as far as their rookie QB takes them and the Redskins are the Redskins to they have that big time QB.  Eli has to stay healthy and remarkably he has he has not missed a game in years.  New York Giants- 9-7, New York Jets 8-8        

State of Boxing

Boxing is a niche sport and I guess it always has.  From Fraiser to Ali to Mayweather, Alaverez and GGG, boxing is great when the right matchup gets put together.  Unfortunatunaly individual states and promoters run the industry.  While there is a World Boxing Organization individual states still have to grant fighters there boxing license's.  Due to the fact that there's not one over reaching boxing authority, it's up to individual promoters to get fights made.  Since the promoters who work for the fighters are making the fights, their not always going to make the best matchup's.  Fighters often take easy fights for the money, I'll give you the fact that sometimes it's hard to draw up the contract with the other guys so they may take an easier fight in the interim, for example Mayweather v Pacquaio. Alaverez is supposed to fight triple G in what should be a epic bout but either their afraid of each other or can't work out the contract details.  Their is not one dominant fighter like Ali but their are a bunch of maybe less famous guys and we need them to fight each other.  Without the best fighters fighting each other boxing is going to die, oh and they have to be healthy as well.  The Sport of boxing has lost some fans to the MMA but we want to get them back with some good fights.              

Expanded MLB Roster (40 man rosters)

Even year in the month of September, baseball active rosters can expand from the normal 25 men to 40.  In theory this is a good idea but not in the final month of the season.  Right in time for most teams most important games, teams are brining up kids, they have ten bullpen pitchers and specialists off the bench, not to mention the games take longer to play.  Many people me included don't think you should be able to play all 40 men on a given night, have sort of a taxi squad where the manager would have to designate 25 of the 40 players who are going to be eligible that night.  Teams need more help in April, the first month of the season than September the last month where teams are making playoff runs.