Alex Kreitman - Stealing signs

Every year the NFL Draft is made into a bigger deal than half of the championships in sports.

There is more unnecessary coverage of the draft than coverage of the NHL’s Stanley Cup Finals, the College World Series and the Women’s Final Four. That fact is sad.

I change the channel every time they start talking on ESPN about who’s going to pick who in the draft. Who cares? Why with all the speculation?

I care about who my favorite tram drafts obviously, I’m not saying that, but why would I want to hear hours and hours of television debate, speculating something that’s almost impossible to predict.

There is no way anyone can tell who a team is going to pick with the 20^th selection in the first round. And in this year’s draft no one even knows who’s going to go No. 1 overall. So why waste everyone’s time by guessing. It’s just stupid.

Tell me what teams need and what positions they are looking into because that is useful information. But don’t tell me who’s going where and in what round, it’s just foolish.

There are plenty of other sports going on and things to talk about, why talk about the NFL Draft. It’s not a game, a controversy, or anything really. It’s just teams picking players in order. I usually don’t even watch the actual draft. There isn’t really anything exciting going on. It’s just more pointless analysis and discussion. I bet if someone went through after the draft and amazed the analysis, they’d find that most of what was said was inaccurate, therefore a waste of time.

Just a thought.

The 16 teams that will fight for an NBA title are set in stone. The only thing left to be determined is seeding in the Western Conference, but with the Golden State Warriors losing Monday night to Phoenix, they were eliminated and secured the eighth spot for Denver.

I’m actually excited about the NBA playoffs this year pretty much because the Boston Celtics are in it again. With the Celtics missing out the last few years I really haven’t cared much for the playoffs, but now I have reason to watch again. The Celtics have the best record in the NBA and will open with the Atlanta Hawks, whom they swept 3-0 during the regular season. I better clear off a week in June for the finals.

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