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Sunday, April 5th is opening day of major league baseball. It starts with the Atlanta Braves and the Philadelphia Phillies. The Phillies are coming off a World Series season last year and are hoping to get back to the big game. The Braves are hoping they have put a good enough team this year to get in to the playoffs and have a shot to get further.

The Phillies got rid of Pat Burrell during the off season, but other than that their team is pretty much the same. The still have big bats with Chase Utley and Ryan Howard. The pitching is pretty much the same and Jamie Moyer is one year older. The know what it takes to win and with that it might be enough to get into the playoffs and back to the world series.

The Atlanta Braves seem to always have a different team every year. Its like they can’t keep a player more than a year or two before getting rid of them(except Chipper Jones). But this year they have added some pitching that they needed to even think about getting to the playoffs let alone the World Series. Derek Lowe and Javier Vasquez are great additions to a struggling pitching staff and with Tim Hudson out they really needed pitching and they got it.

This should be a great opening day match up. Enjoy the game!

Every year the North Carolina Tarheels put a great team out on the court and every year they have a team that could win the NCAA championship, but some years they don’t and some they do, so is this year one of those years they do? Or will it be like last year and be a year they don’t?

I have a feeling that this year the tarheels will win the NCAA championship. I think they have the best team in college basketball. They brought back a lot of players that were there last year when they got knocked out of the final four by Kansas and I think they learned from that and want to prove they can win the NCAA championship.

UNC has a great team and it starts with Ty Lawson. He is a great point guard and really knows how that team works. He can score and is great at giving the ball up at the right time. He plays good defense which in returns can spark offense.

Now as good as I think Ty Lawson is I think Tyler Hansbrough offers a lot more to the team. He’s a great scorer and can rebound. But he brings something to the team that is important in rallying the team when down and that’s PASSION. Hansbrough is the most passionate player in college basketball or at least he shows it the most.

They Tarheels have other good players that are important to the team. Danny Green and Wayne Ellington are great shooters from behind the arc and can hit big shoots. Ed Davis is a great young player that will become great when hansbrough leaves and he’s in the hole by himself.

So I think this year is the year that the tarheels get the job done. If they don’t I think it will be a big let down to all the UNC fans.