Jake The Sports Guy

07/09/2025

In honor of the first NFL Sunday, here are my 2025-26 NFL season predictions! I believe Josh Allen finally takes the Bills to the promised land and gets them over the hump to a Super Bowl victory.

There are so many teams you could convince me that are playoff teams but after many iterations this is what I finally landed on. So excited for this season! Bring on football!

30/04/2025

Week 6 Ryder Cup Standings according to TUGR.org:

Team USA 🇺🇸
1. Scottie Scheffler
2. Collin Morikawa
3. Xander Schauffele
4. Bryson DeChambeau
5. Justin Thomas
6. Russell Henley⬆️
7. Patrick Cantlay ⬇️
8. Luke Clanton
9. Denny McCarthy
10. Keegan Bradley ⏫
11. Akshay Bhatia ⬇️
12. Sam Burns ⬆️
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13. JJ Spaun ⏫
14. Maverick McNealy ⬆️

Team Europe 🇪🇺
1. Rory McIlroy 🇬🇧
2. Jon Rahm 🇪🇸
3. Tommy Fleetwood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ⬆️
4. Ludvig Åberg 🇸🇪 ⬇️
5. Tyrrell Hatton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
6. Shane Lowry 🇮🇪
7. Sepp Straka 🇦🇹 ⬆️
8. Aaron Rai 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ⏫
9. Viktor Hovland 🇳🇴 ⏫
10. Sergio Garcia 🇪🇸 ⏬
11. Alex Noren 🇸🇪 ⏬
12. Robert McIntyre 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ⬆️
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13. David Puig 🇪🇸 ⬆️
14. Justin Rose 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ⬆️

Another win for Jaoquin Niemann at LIV Golf Mexico City clinches his automatic qualifying spot for the US Open in June. The first LIV exemption ever! Just two more weeks until Major #2!

Golf Schedule this week:
PGA Tour: CJ Cup Byron Nelson (TPC Craig Ranch)
LIV Golf League: Korea (Jack Nicklaus Golf Club)
DPWT: Off Week
Asian Tour: Maekyung Open (Namseoul Country Club, South Korea)

23/04/2025

Week 5 of Ryder Cup Standings according to TUGR.org

Team USA 🇺🇸
1. Scottie Scheffler
2. Collin Morikawa
3. Xander Schauffele
4. Bryson DeChambeau
5. Justin Thomas ⬆️
6. Patrick Cantlay ⬇️
7. Russell Henley
8. Luke Clanton ⬆️
9. Denny McCarthy ⬇️
10. Akshay Bhatia
11. Wyndham Clark
12. Sam Burns
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13. Keegan Bradley
14. JT Poston ⬆️

Team Europe 🇪🇺
1. Rory McIlroy 🇬🇧
2. Jon Rahm 🇪🇸
3. Ludvig Åberg 🇸🇪
4. Tommy Fleetwood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
5. Tyrrell Hatton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
6. Shane Lowry 🇮🇪
7. Sergio Garcia 🇪🇸
8. Sepp Straka 🇦🇹
9. Alex Noren 🇸🇪
10. Aaron Rai 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
11. Viktor Hovland 🇳🇴
12. Paul Casey 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ⬆️
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13. Robert McIntyre 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ⬇️
14. David Puig 🇪🇸

Justin Thomas back in the winners circle after a long drought with an exciting finish at the RBC! Not much movement in the standings but an important event for LIV this week as there is only one more event left before the US Open automatic qualifying spot is finalized which currently would go to Joaquin Niemann.

Golf Schedule this week:
PGA Tour: Zurich Classic of New Orleans (TPC Louisiana)
LIV Golf League: Mexico City (Club de Golf Chapultepec)
DPWT: Hainan Classic (Hainan Island, China)
Asian Tour: Off Week

16/04/2025

Week 4 of Ryder Cup Standings per TUGR.org:

Team USA 🇺🇸
1. Scottie Scheffler
2. Collin Morikawa
3. Xander Schauffele
4. Bryson DeChambeau ⬆️
5. Patrick Cantlay ⬇️
6. Justin Thomas
7. Russell Henley
8. Denny McCarthy ⬆️
9. Luke Clanton ⬆️
10. Akshay Bhatia ⏬
11. Wyndham Clark
12. Sam Burns
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13. Keegan Bradley
14. Brooks Koepka ⬆️

Team Europe 🇪🇺
1. Rory McIlroy 🇬🇧 ⬆️
2. Jon Rahm 🇪🇸 ⬇️
3. Ludvig Åberg 🇸🇪
4. Tommy Fleetwood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
5. Tyrrell Hatton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
6. Shane Lowry 🇮🇪 ⬆️
7. Sergio Garcia 🇪🇸 ⬇️
8. Sepp Straka 🇦🇹
9. Alex Noren 🇸🇪
10. Aaron Rai 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
11. Viktor Hovland 🇳🇴 ⬆️
12. Robert McIntyre 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ⬇️
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13. Paul Casey 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
14. David Puig 🇪🇸 ⬆️

A historic week for golf as Rory McIlroy completes the career grand slam. One of the most entertaining and drama filled Sundays in recent memory at the Masters probably since Tiger’s win in ‘19. Great start to majors season and for golf as a whole to have basically the Super Bowl of golf be so fun to watch. Next up, PGA Championship in 4 weeks!

Golf Schedule this week:
PGA Tour: RBC Heritage (Elevated Event)
Corales Puntacana Championship
LIV: Off Week
DPWT: Volvo China Open
Asian Tour: Off Week

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14/04/2025

Did this last year and correctly picked the NBA champion (even though they were the heavy favorites). Here is the list of teams that meet the criteria to win the NBA Championship in 2025.

Criteria is that you must be in the top 15 in offensive and defensive rating. Only the ‘04 Pistons were below that line and they were 16th in offense. Here are the teams that qualify:

Offense/Defense

West
Thunder 3/1
Rockets 12/5
Clippers 15/3
Timberwolves 8/6
Grizzlies 6/11

East
Cavaliers 1/8
Celtics 2/4
Knicks 5/13
Pacers 9/14
Bucks 10/12
Pistons 14/10

Some things to note too, Golden State has been the #1 defense since the All Star break (Jimmy Butler trade) and the Clippers have been top 5 in offense and defense in that same time frame (healthy Kawhi).

On paper, the Finals should be Celtics-Thunder which I believe are the two best teams in each of their respective conferences.

However, I’m buying the Clippers hype and I think they make the Finals if they can stay healthy which is a huge IF. Boston should be there to represent the East again barring injury and the favorites to repeat.

It’s going to be an exciting playoffs! Who do you think is going to win the Finals in 2025? Comment your prediction below!

02/04/2025

Week 2 update of Ryder Cup teams according to TUGR:

Team USA 🇺🇸
1. Scottie Scheffler
2. Collin Morikawa
3. Xander Schauffele
4. Patrick Cantlay
5. Justin Thomas
6. Russell Henley
7. Bryson DeChambeau
8. Akshay Bhatia
9. Luke Clanton
10. Denny McCarthy
11. Keegan Bradley
12. Sam Burns
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13. Tony Finau
14. JJ Spaun

Team Europe 🇪🇺
1. Rory McIlroy 🇬🇧
2. Jon Rahm 🇪🇸
3. Ludvig Åberg 🇸🇪
4. Tommy Fleetwood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
5. Tyrrell Hatton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
6. Shane Lowry 🇮🇪
7. Sepp Straka 🇦🇹
8. Sergio Garcia 🇪🇸 🔼
9. Aaron Rai 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🔽
10. Robert McIntyre 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
11. Alex Noren 🇸🇪
12. Paul Casey 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
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13. Viktor Hovland 🇳🇴
14. Laurie Canter 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

We are one week from the biggest week in golf! Many will be fine tuning to gear up for the most coveted prize in the sport. LIV Golf’s first US event of their season and hopefuls will head to TPC San Antonio to try to scoop up the last spot at Augusta.

Schedule this week (Notables):
PGAT: Valero Texas Open (Cantlay, Akshay, Spieth)
LIV: Miami @ Trump National Doral (Rahm, Bryson, Sergio)
DPWT: Off Week
Asian Tour: Off Week

26/03/2025

A fun exercise for me as we are getting ever so close to Masters week is to compare the current Ryder Cup standings to my favorite ranking system for professional golfer, TUGR.org, as we are only 6 months out! The majors will definitely change things in the coming months but here’s the 12 “best” players accoording to TUGR for each team as of the end of March.

Team USA 🇺🇸
1. Scottie Scheffler
2. Collin Morikawa
3. Xander Schauffele
4. Patrick Cantlay
5. Justin Thomas
6. Russell Henley
7. Bryson DeChambeau
8. Akshay Bhatia
9. Luke Clanton
10. Denny McCarthy
11. Keegan Bradley
12. Sam Burns
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13. Tony Finau
14. JJ Spaun

Team Europe 🇪🇺
1. Rory McIlroy 🇬🇧
2. Jon Rahm 🇪🇸
3. Ludvig Åberg 🇸🇪
4. Tommy Fleetwood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
5. Tyrrell Hatton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
6. Shane Lowry 🇮🇪
7. Sepp Straka 🇦🇹
8. Aaron Rai 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
9. Sergio Garcia 🇪🇸
10. Robert McIntyre 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
11. Alex Noren 🇸🇪
12. Paul Casey 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
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13. Viktor Hovland 🇳🇴
14. Laurie Canter 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Quick Take: I love Team Europe. On paper, this is a rout. For Team USA, very top heavy. The captain’s picks are going to be interesting unless some bigger names find better form over the coming months in order to make the decisions easier for Keegan Bradley who could very well be a player-captain at Bethpage.

Golf Schedule this week (Notables):
PGAT: Texas Children’s Houston Open (Rory, Scottie)
LIV: Off Week
DPWT: Hero Indian Open
Asian Tour: Off Week