AC's Sportswriters, Experts and Clowns: Tackling Today's Hot Sport Topics

This is the second in a series of articles in which four Associated Content producers give their take on topical sports questions. You can see the initial entry here. Please use the comments box at the end to rate the responses to each questions. Give the CP who gave the best answer four points, the next best three and so on. Then we can tally up the votes and see who is an Expert and who is a Clown. Here is our panel:

Zac Wassink would get 28 points for spelling his name in the game SCRABBLE. He hopes his opinions will score just as many points with our readers.

Nick Meyer brings some Detroit Muscle to our group. Be careful about disagreeing with him or you might find yourself at the bottom of Lake Michigan.

It's been a long time since we had a famous Jake in the sports world and Jake Emen is hoping to fill the void. As a boxing fan, he hopes his sports writing career follows the path laid out by Jake LaMotta, rather than the trail blazed by Jake Plummer.

And you all know me. Hello, I'm Johnny Cash.

This week we're having a Merv Griffin-style theme for our panel. We are in the heart of the NFL season and two teams, the Indianapolis Colts and the New England Patriots, have separated themselves from the pack. So, each of our three questions this week will deal with those teams in some regard.

What are the chances that some other team than New England or Indianapolis wins the Super Bowl and which other team has the best chance besides those two?

Meyer: I'd put the chances of someone besides those two winning at about 35%. I would pick San Diego as the next-best candidate if not for the Norv Turner factor.

So I'm going with Pittsburgh, a team that's been a bit overlooked this year after the coaching change. Mike Tomlin has them playing intense, physical football again and Ben Roethlisberger is looking good in an opened-up offense.

In the NFC, Dallas is looking like the best team but it's a wide-open (read: not very good) conference. The NFC winner has a very slight chance of winning the Super Bowl.