by Mario Mergola | Dec 24, 2025
There is still time — two weeks, to be exact — for the regular season to adjust our final standings, but we have to be quite proud of what we have achieved this year. The irony is that almost all of the next 32 games is will be meaningless. Plenty of the...
by Mario Mergola | Dec 17, 2025
As we enter the home stretch of the regular season, we will shift our focus slightly toward what lies ahead for each squad. Specifically, it is important to know the clinching scenarios for teams closing in on playoff berths. That does not mean those clinching...
by Mario Mergola | Dec 10, 2025
It’s the final quarter of the regular season which means that, in addition to teams making a push for playoff berths, we also have cleared all bye weeks. For the next four weeks, every team will be in action, and that gives us a wider range from which to choose....
by Mario Mergola | Dec 3, 2025
We are about to enter the final month or so of the regular season, and it has been quite good to us to this point. Of course, the goal is to finish strong. This is, however, the time of year when we see teams make their final pushes toward a playoff spot. Conversely,...
by Mario Mergola | Nov 26, 2025
As always, I want to start this article by thanking you, the reader, for so much dedication over the years. I have said it many times, and I will say it forever: you have no idea who will actually read your writing. You have, and I sincerely thank you for that. On the...
by Mario Mergola | Nov 19, 2025
Whenever I wait to write the introduction to a column until I am finished with the entire set of picks, it’s because I want to see if there is a theme to follow. That’s what I did here, and the theme is one of the ones we seek on most weeks. Perception....
