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The New York Yankees will win the 2009 World Series.

Major League Baseball should use instant replay to review umpires' decisions. Yes, but-- I agree with @ohsarah. It is needed for critical calls such as "in-park" homeruns, but to have it on demand, for any and every call that someone wants to dispute, would be more than rediculous. Actually, having it all will take a lot out of what makes baseball STILL the most "romantic" (not in the "love" sense) of American games: "The old ball game..."

Plaxico Burress' jail sentence was appropriate.

Derek Jeter should win the 2009 American League MVP.

New York Giants will win the 2009 NFC East.

Pittsburgh Steelers will win the 2009 AFC North.

Jacksonville Jaguars will win the 2009 AFC South.

Kansas City Chiefs will win the 2009 AFC West.

Seattle Seahawks will win the 2009 NFC West.

Green Bay Packers will win the 2009 NFC North.

It is not appropriate to put Kobe Bryant on the same level as Michael Jordan.

Home-field advantage in the World Series should not be awarded to the team whose league wins the All-Star Game. No, no, a thousand times NO! Actually, I am no longer a rabid sports fan--there are too many teams and players in all major league sports, particularly baseball, which has historically been my favourite sport--so this is not a personally vital issue. Having said that, by WS time, the players and teams have all busted their rear bumbers to get into whatever play-off position they occupy, and the team that produced the most, should receive HFA. If I am a ball player, and my team has achieved the best record, it should get the advantage.

The stationary bike provides the best aerobic workout from a stationary machine. Certainly this is choice which is very personal. As one who has worked out, weight training and aerobics, for over twenty years, and having been a trainer myself, I have to say the bike, but I know, from people with whom I worked/trained, that it very much depends on technique, on how the individual utilises the equipment, as to how effective a given machine is. Further, a given person's musculo-skeletal build can be a major factor.

Tiger Woods will not be as dominant in his return to the PGA Tour.

Tiger Woods will not win the 2009 U.S. Open.

The entire list of 104 players who tested positive for steroids in 2003 should be made public.

Sammy Sosa should be voted into the Hall of Fame. One of the reasons I am not nerely the sports fan I was as a child is the decline in public standards for the personal integrity of individual star athletes. Having said that, it must be recognised that many of the legendary greats in baseball, basketball, football, et alia, were less than heroic in the personal lives. I suspect that if steroids had been casually obtainable, many star players whose careers extended up into and through the sixties and seventies would have taken them. I do not advocate steroid use, or any "mechanical" cheating either, such as the "corked bat" incident in Sosa's career. However, either major league athletes are going to be held to a rigid standard, far greater than that to which we hold ourselves, or they are not; we cannot have it both ways. Just as with politicians, I prefer the former, but it is not going to happen. Sosa is just as eligible as many of the others inducted over the years.

Roger Federer is more dominant at tennis than Tiger Woods is at golf. There is no choice for Mel Brooks!

Trophy hunting should be illegal. Though the vast majority of average-citizen hunters who keep a trophy head, in fact take the kill with them for the meat to be consumed, there are not only those few who hunt only for the trophy, but much worse, those who slay and leave the kill to largely rot. There are already laws against that, and forest rangers are adamant in their enforcement.

LeBron James is a better basketball player than Kobe Bryant.

Orlando Magic will win the 2009 NBA Finals.

Sabermetrics is an effective way to evaluate baseball talent. If taken with other evaluation mechanisms, yes. If statistics can be used to support the theory of human-fostered global warming--and they are--they can certainly be used to support baseball talent evaluation.

The NFL should not consider playing the Super Bowl outside of the U.S. Though the left-stream media would have us believe that it is out of fashion to be proud of America, and to retain American things, the NFL (the "N" standing for NATIONAL--hello!) should not have the Super Bowl played outside of the country which invented American football.

The horse-racing industry should ban steroids. Of course! What is good for the gander is good for the--uh, I must mean, what is good for the sports superstar--is good for the equine sports superstar.

Car racing is a sport. Actually, car racing, as in NASCAR, and Formula 1, is a physically gruelling sport. Check out the metabolic condition of a race car driver at the end of, say, the Daytona 500, or Leman.

New York Yankees will win the 2009 AL East.

Recreational skiers should not be required to wear helmets.

Sponsors should not drop Michael Phelps as their celebrity spokesman.

Players are more responsible for the proliferation of steroid use in Major League Baseball.

The overall effects of running are both beneficial and harmful.

O.J. Simpson should be removed from the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Roger Clemens should be voted into the Hall of Fame.

Team USA will win the 2008 Ryder Cup.

New York Giants will win the 2008 NFC East.

Seattle Seahawks will win the 2008 NFC West.

The New York Jets will make the playoffs as a result of the Brett Favre acquisition.

Pittsburgh Steelers will win the 2008 AFC North.

Jacksonville Jaguars will win the 2008 AFC South.

Denver Broncos will win the 2008 AFC West.

New York Jets will win the 2008 AFC East.