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For those of you new to Swami, a little background, and to the seasoned vets, get your Swami game faces on.

The most anticipated event since the end of the lock out. What is the Swami?

It’s our weekly pickem game. It’s extremely easy to play. You just pick the winners of each game and utilize the tiebreaker. [...]

What a game! We’ll be back with more shortly, but the Cowboys won their home opener against a fiesty Redskins team, 18-16. Behind six field goals from rookie Dan Bailey and a stout defense that stiffened when they had to, Dallas has now moved into first place in the division.

Tony Romo had to battle a horrible performance by his offensive line [...]

The following video (via our own Ryan Lambert) appears to show Wayne Simmonds(notes) of the Philadelphia Flyers using a homophobic slur and directing it at Sean Avery(notes) of the New York Rangers, who was in full pest mode during the teams’ Monday night NHL preseason game.

SEE VIDEO/MORE… [...]

Well, that didn’t take long. On the same day he was reportedly set to be let go by the Chicago White Sox – and current Florida Marlins manager Jack McKeon announced he’d retire – Ozzie Guillen is reportedly headed south to become the first manager of the Miami Marlins.

ESPN Chicago has reported that Guillen [...]

1. Tom Brady, New England at Oakland
2. Aaron Rodgers, Green Bay vs Denver
3. Phillip Rivers, San Diego vs Miami
4. Drew Brees, New Orleans at Jacksonville
5. Matthew Stafford, Detroit at Dallas
6. Ryan Fitzpatrick, Buffalo at Cincinnati
7. Rex Grossman, Washington at St. Louis
8. Matt Ryan, Atlanta at Seattle [...]

Former world featherweight champion Barry McGuigan believes it is still too early for the currently unified World Boxing Association Super and International Boxing Federation Light Welterweight Champion, Amir Khan, to take on a world title fight with the undefeated American legend, Floyd Mayweather. The Bolton’s finest Amir ‘King’ Khan is keen to have a mega [...]

Players like James Harden, John Wall and DeMarcus Cousins all showed tremendous potential last season. With another full season of experience under their belts, they look to be among the next group of players to breakout in the 2011-2012 NBA season.

While the NBA already compiles All-NBA Defensive, All-NBA and All-Rookie teams [...]

Don’t You Forget About Me

Tim Hightower rebounded from a mediocre first week with the Washington Redskins to explode against the Arizona Cardinals, his former team, last week. He ran for 96 yards on 20 carries, most of which happened in the first half of the Redskins 22-21 victory. His backup, rookie Roy Helu, piled up an additional 74 yards on just 10 attempts. [...]

Three years ago, Mike Locksley was hired to turn around New Mexico’s increasingly depressing football program. Long-time head coach Rocky Long had managed a record somewhere near .500 from 1998 to 2008, but he was fired after a four-win 2008 season despite going 9-4 the year before.
Three years later, Locksley has been one of the, [...]

Hello everyone and welcome to today’s “The Stack” with me, Nathan Stacken. What another aweesome, wild week of football we saw yesterday. Many great games. Some pretty big upsets. Picks yesterday were decent, going 9-6. We’ll get to tonight’s pick in a little bit. Now here’s a little reaction from all of Sunday’s games.

Buffalo 34 New England 31 [...]