James Quizon

The highly-anticipated Kobe Bryant’s return happened Sunday night at the Staples Center against the Toronto Raptors and it was overhyped to say the least. The Black Mamba wasn’t himself (or was) in the 104-to-96 loss to Toronto finishing with just 9 points on 2-of-9 shooting and also had 8 turnovers.

Forget about the rest of the teams in the East, only two teams, the Miami Heat and Indiana Pacers will challenge for the conference crown. The defending champions Heat (16-5) visit the league-best Pacers (18-3) Tuesday night in what could be a preview of the East Finals this season.

In what was arguably the most exciting episode in the fourth season of The Walking Dead, the body count rose and the main characters dropped like flies.

Veteran free agent Stephen Jackson is returning to the NBA after signing a contract with the Los Angeles Clippers on Monday.

With their division rivals winning Sunday night the Dallas Cowboys have no choice but to respond with a Monday Night Football victory against the Chicago Bears if they want to stay in the hunt for the division title.

Cats are dogs by 5.5 points at home? The books are severely underrating Charlotte here. The Warriors are the better team but these cats should challenge them all the way.

Two hundred forty days after the first major injury of his career, Kobe Bryant will be back in uniform when the Los Angeles Lakers host the Toronto Raptors on Sunday night at the Staples center.

Kobe Bryant who? According to Lakers head coach Mike D’Antoni he’ll limit Bryant to just less than 20 minutes. With Kobe back of course, D’Antoni won’t be making the decisions. This is a Raps team that was destroyed by Bryant countless times before so this is the perfect comeback game for the Black Mamba and his torn Achilles.

A day after beating the defending Western Conference champions San Antonio Spurs, the Indiana Pacers bring league-best record against yet another powerhouse team from the conference in the Oklahoma City Thunder, which have yet to lose at home this season.

Twenty-eight-year-old Simon Bradley from San Diego, California, would rather watch the Black Mamba return from play after missing the last few months because of a torn Achilles surgery, rather than start the new life with his future wife.

No team is hotter in the NFL than the Carolina Panthers which has won eight games in a row. The Cam Newton-led squad visits the New Orleans Saints which have yet to lose at home in the 2013 NFL regular season.

Finally one of New York’s teams will be getting a W! The Knicks look to snap a nine-game losing streak while the Nets want some consistency too—Brooklyn isn’t faring any better over their rivals losing eight of their last 10 games.

While waiting for the family movie “Frozen” to start in a Florida cinema, the audience— kids, toddlers and their shocked parents alike—got the surprise of their (young) lives when sexually graphic clips appeared in what was apparently a mistaken insertion during a delay in the showing of the feature film.

From a provisional list of 22 races for the new season of Formula One Racing, the final calendar for 2014 was released by the Federation Internationale de l'Automobilea (FIA), the governing body for the most prestigious racing event in the world.

It’s not the Super Bowl, but it sure is still football. Two teams with the ugliest record in the 2013 NFL regular season meet on Thursday Night Football when the Houston Texans visit the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Criticisms of the Portland Trail Blazers’ good start in the 2013-2014 NBA regular season were ripe in the early part of 2013 when they raced to a 12-2 record against seemingly weaker teams. They stopped these critics on their tracks after beating the league’s top team in the Indiana Pacers on Monday.

Leave it to Bob Arum to mince no words when talking about anything boxing. The Top Rank Promotions head said that both Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. have to agree to fight each other because they owe it to the sport to make the biggest fight in history.

The NBA’s 21st game in Mexico will feature the San Antonio Spurs and Minnesota Timberwolves. This should feel like the home game for the Texas team, who owns one of the league’s best records at 15-3 and will be playing in Mexico City for the fifth time in franchise history. The Timberwolves will be strutting their stuff for the first time south of the border.

With still lots of games to play in the NBL regular season, even the teams outside the Finals picture still have a chance to go all the way—and their backers can win way more money if they do.

With four weeks to go in the NFL regular season, it appears we have already separated the Super Bowl contenders from the pretenders. Nevertheless, don’t tell that to a slew of teams who are still hoping for a playoff spot and are still mathematically probable to join the cast of postseason teams:

This is not what the Toronto Raptors planned entering the 2013-2014 NBA regular season. After 16 games, the Canadian franchise is four games below 0.500, and on Tuesday they look to avoid their longest losing streak of the season when they visit the Golden State Warriors, a team which is also struggling having lost five of their last seven games.

Already mired in a disappointing start to the 2013-2014 NBA regular season, the Brooklyn Nets will be missing the services of veteran forward Paul Pierce because of a non-displaced fracture of the third metacarpal in his right hand. The injury will likely to cause him to miss at least two weeks and at most, a month.

We did not expect the New Orleans Pelicans to win straight-up nor did we expect game against the Chicago Bulls to go (way) over, but we’ll take it since it helped us improve our NBA prediction win-loss to 14-5 overall after Monday’s average day picks where we hit six of ten picks—no thanks to Indiana Pacers loss to the Trail Blazers which went way over the total too.

Alabama suffered a stunning 34-to-28 defeat against bitter rivals Auburn on Saturday. It was so stunning and so bitter that one Alabama fan killed a friend over the result in a horrible fatal shooting incident in Hoover, Alabama.

The “People’s Choice Awards 2014”, airing 8th January 2014 will cap the year with a bang after a season filled with great films, music, TV series and even greater men and women behind them.

Up to an 8-3 record for the year and we've already made our picks in the Orlando Magic-Washington Wizards game; time for the wagers for the rest of the NBA Monday schedule.

Washington’s franchise player is starting to turn the corner on his way to being a superstar while his team, the Wizards are starting to turn it around having won four of their last five games and have climbed the East rankings. They are just 8-9 for the season but still good enough for fifth-best in the weak conference.

The Indiana Pacers were pegged as one of the top contenders for this season after a successful campaign last year. Not much hype was given to the Portland Trail Blazers but they own one of the best records in the league so far in the 2013-2014 NBA regular season.

Somebody teach Serge Vorobyov that there are better ways to spend thousands of dollars to promote his own website.