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....
by Mario Mergola | Nov 12, 2025
That was a good week. If we compare it to what we had experienced over the prior two weeks, then it was probably a bit of a disappointment. The reality is that the prior two weeks were both extraordinary and unsustainable. If anything, they were unsustainable because...
by Mario Mergola | Nov 5, 2025
I’m going to let you in on a little secret. I made a slight change to my schedule this year and made a conscious effort to trim down how much I am writing for a given pick. Halfway through the year, the results have been quite good. But, let me be clear. As...
by Mario Mergola | Oct 29, 2025
That was nice. Even though I wrote that we should not expect a better week because of how much more ‘normal’ it seemed, we had one of our best in the history of this website. That, in itself, is abnormal. As I often write after weeks with an outstanding...
