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The New York Yankees will win the 2009 World Series.

Joe Mauer should win the 2009 American League MVP.

Plaxico Burress' jail sentence was not appropriate.

Houston Texans will win the 2009 AFC South.

Philadelphia Eagles will win the 2009 NFC East.

Seattle Seahawks will win the 2009 NFC West. I'm not terribly confident in this pick.

San Diego Chargers will win the 2009 AFC West.

New Orleans Saints will win the 2009 NFC South.

New England Patriots will win the 2009 AFC East.

Baltimore Ravens will win the 2009 AFC North. Baltimore will win because of Flacco this year, not in spite of him.

Chicago Bears will win the 2009 NFC North. Cutler is enough to make a 1-2 win difference between last year (9-7) and this year (10+ wins). That should be enough to win, but it's a tough division.

The New York Yankees have a positive impact on Major League Baseball.

Larry Fitzgerald should not be the first wide receiver taken in 2009 fantasy football drafts. Moss

Adrian Peterson should be the first running back chosen in 2009 fantasy football drafts. Owners are going to over think themselves and try to get clever by choosing Turner or MJD. Don't do it.

Drew Brees should be the first quarterback chosen in 2009 fantasy football drafts. Mainly because the Saints play an easier schedule than Brees' AFC counterparts, Manning and Brady.

I have never run a marathon.

Golf should be an Olympic sport. How will Tiger play? He's always been rubbish when playing for anything other than individual achievements.

I do not like running on a treadmill. My runs always end after about 20 minutes b/c its so boring.

Chicago should host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games.

The NFL should change its overtime format. How is it that the deciding factor for something as critical as ball possession is a coin toss. How does that survive generations of rule changes and logical progression designed to take any and all luck out of the game?

Home-field advantage in the World Series should be awarded to the team whose league wins the All-Star Game. I can see why so many players and managers hate this rule. It takes a team's regular season performance out of contention and replaces it with the popularity contest that results from allowing fans to vote on All Stars. All that said, I'm not a player and I'm not a manager and my team, the Yankees, play in the league that's won the game for the last five years so it's most likely to benefit my interests. So if for one night only a game that I'm watching is more entertaining because of this rule, color me selfish, it's what I prefer.

Tiger Woods will not win the 2009 U.S. Open. The field, baby.

The entire list of 104 players who tested positive for steroids in 2003 should be made public. One way or the other the significant names will be known. Better to get it over with all at once because the alternative is that each time a name inevitably gets leaked, it will give baseball more bad press to remind everyone of the sport's filth.

Tiger Woods is more dominant at golf than Roger Federer is at tennis. An impossible debate, but really fun to participate in regardless. Couple years ago, when he was in the middle of his 4.5-year streak as tennis' top player, I'd perhaps side differently. But Woods gets my vote because golf is a more challenging sport to consistently win at than tennis - Since '97, just 18 winners (29%) have accounted for 62 Grand Slam tennis tournaments - and he's been dominating the game for a longer time. Considering who he was/is chasing, the speed at which he established himself as perhaps the sport's GOAT is astonishing. He's also never once had a competitive rivalry despite efforts to create one with Phil Mickelson. Federer's 4-year run will go down as one of sports greatest runs of dominance, but over the span of a career, it's not enough.

Los Angeles Lakers will win the 2009 NBA finals. If Magic force Kobe's teammates to takeover, as they did so successfully with Lebron in the Eastern Conference Championships, any combination of Gasol, Ariza or Odom will step up and do what Moe Williams, Delonte West and Zydrunas Ilgauskas could not.

The NFL should allow Michael Vick to play in the 2009 season.

The NFL should consider playing the Super Bowl outside of the U.S. God forbid, we make any attempt to nurture understanding between U.S. sports fanaticism and that of the rest of world's (cricket, soccer, etc.).

Management is more responsible for the proliferation of steroid use in Major League Baseball. This isn't Nam. This is baseball. There are rules here. Someone needs to regulate and enforce. But now that testing is in place, and severe penalties for using, no one is more to blame than the player who gets caught.

U.S. horse racing should have a centralized authority. This seems like a no-brainer. I'm not looking for sweeping uniformity, just some kind of a body that has to ability to say 'this isn't right for the sport'

NASCAR should not enforce the double yellow line rule at the end of a race. 395 out of 400 laps is strict enough. Let em loose at the end.

Car racing is a sport. this isn't saying much though.

The New York Yankees would not be better off without Alex Rodriguez. What I've read is that his absence has quieted down the locker room and no one has missed them. In the short-term, this will improve the team's chemistry. That would be nice. But there's no question that without his production in the field and at the place, this team suffers more than it benefits. In the long-term, they'd miss him. Ideally, ARod comes back in mid-May a little bit humbled and is a modest presence off the field and he lets his stats speak for him.

Who will win the 2009 AL Central? Chicago White Sox

Who will win the 2009 NL West? Los Angeles Dodgers Like @bfisch implied, where Manny goes, so goes the team he happens to be playing on. Look it up. Statistically speaking, he'll go down as one of the most valuable MLB'ers of all time.

Who should win the 2009 NBA MVP Award? LeBron James he's arrived.

Who will win the 2009 NL East? Mets de New York

Tiger Woods will win the 2009 Masters. Last time I picked against him - the 2008 U.S. Open - he burned me in one of the most impressive major wins of all time. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt for this one.

Le cyclisme est l'épreuve la plus importante d'un triathlon pour le succès. based on what everyone tells me and a little bit from personal experience.

Who will win the 2009 NL Central? Chicago Cubs Zambrano will be fun to watch this year. Bonus would to see Milton Bradley climb the Wrigley vine and attack a fan.

Which team benefits the most from the Jay Cutler trade? Chicago Bears The way the NFL works - Super Bowl one year, losing record the next - I think it's as important as possible to get the best player in a trade like this. And when that player plays the most important position on the team, it's even more true. Who knows what becomes of the first round picks in 2009 and 2010, but we DO know what Kyle Orton is and we DO know what Jay Cutler is. Cutler is a player who, before the '08 season Sports Illustrated ranked in terms of raw talent as the most talented young QB in the league. Bears need to find a big target at receiver, but don't sleep on TE Greg Olson either.