For 2006, I make the following calls:
1--The Indianapolis Colts will win the Super Bowl
2--The Detroit Red Wings will win the Stanley Cup
3--The New York Yankees will win the World Series
4--The Detroit Pistons will win the NBA Championship
5--Duke will win the NCAA Basketball Tournament
6--The University of Illinois will win the Big Ten in mens basketball (regular season)
7--Tiger Woods will win the Masters
8--I will break 11 hours for an Ironman
9--Canada will repeat its Gold Medal in Olympic Hockey
10--Michelle Kwan will finally win a Gold Medal in the Olympic Games
11--Germany will win the World Cup
12--A Discovery Channel rider will finish on the podium at the Tour de France
13--The Democratic Party will retake the House of Representatives
14--Both expansion franchises in the Pick 'em Pool will qualify for the playoffs
15--The Democratic Party will retake the U.S. Senate
16--Jim Doyle will be re-elected Governor of Wisconsin
17--Rod Blajoievich will not be re-elected Governor of Illinois
18--Governor Doyle's veto of the conceal and carry bill will survive the override attempt
19--Nancy Pelosi will be chosen as the first female Speaker of the House in U.S. history
20--Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will be elected the next President of Mexico
21--Saddam Hussein will be alive on December 31, 2006
22--Iran will put a nuclear power plant onstream
23--"Jerry Springer: The Opera" will outpace all other Broadway ticket sales for at least one month
24--Hybrid car sales in the U.S. will increase by over 20%
25--The Department of Homeland Security will relax the stringency of its policy that requires Americans to have a passport (or some other travel document) in order to return to the U.S.
26--Senator Rick Santorum will lose in November
27--Congressman Tom Delay will not resume his Majority Leader post
28--Wisconsin will amend its constitution to ban gay marriage
29--The Chinese Yuan will be 'repegged' to less than 7.8 per U.S. dollar
30--Theories about the possible death of Osama bin Laden will increase in number as no Western intelligence network will validate the authenticity of any tapes that might claim to be him
31--Sam Alito will be approved by the U.S. Senate
32--There will not be a bird flu pandemic
33--Gordon Brown will become the next British Prime Minister
34--Cuba will participate in the World Baseball Classic
35--USC will win another national title in football
36--"Walk the Line" will win Best Picture at the Oscars
37--Philip Seymour Hoffman will win Best Actor
38--Microsoft Vista sales will not meet Microsoft expectations
39--"The Da Vinci Code" (movie version) will be significantly better than the poorly written book version
40--Congress will not pass a bill allowing for personal accounts to be created for Social Security assets
41--At least one world record for a distance longer than 400 meters will be removed as a result of after-the-fact discovered doping
42--Either Christopher or one of Tony's children will die in the upcoming season of 'The Sopranos'
43--OK, this time I mean it: Ken Lay will be found guilty!
44--General Motors will declare bankruptcy
45--Katie Couric will become a network news anchor
46--I will stretch out my spine on our new inversion table with modest consistency.