2010 Predictions

Best part of a new year? Making predictions for the new year. Let's go.

Pro Sports

NBA

· Lakers will repeat as NBA champions.

· The Nets will have succeeded in their mission of getting the number 1 pick in this year's draft.

o They use this pick to land Kentucky guard John Wall, who leaves after one season.

o LeBron puts on a media show, flirting with a number of teams before finally signing with the New Jersey Nets.

· The Knicks do succeed in landing a superstar though, either Wade, Bosh or Amare.

· Brandon Jennings deserves to be Rookie of the Year, but Tyreke Evans wins it, partly because the NBA doesn't want players beating the system by skipping college and by play ball overseas.

NFL

· Hard to picture the Colts or Saints losing, so they'll play in the Super Bowl.

o Manning uses his experience to defeat the Saints.

· Drew Brees wins the MVP award.

· Tim Tebow takes the Colt Brennan route in the pros: irrelevancy.

College Sports

· WSU Basketball will sneak into the NCAA tournament by finishing fourth in the Pac-10, and Klay Thompson is an All-American honorable mention - seriously.

· WSU Football improves noticeably, but the Pac-10 remains too strong for us to squeeze out a bowl game.

o We win 4 games, including the most important one of the season: Apple Cup!

· UH Football makes it to the Hawaii Bowl and the university and ESPN breathes a sign of relief.

Technology

· More people will own Android phones than they will own iPhone's since Android offers the same features, but on every network - and that's awesome.

· We will see our first successful tablet PC's, including one from Apple.

o This product will destroy any life we've seen from e-book readers like the Nook or Kindle.

· Google Chrome will pass Firefox and come close to surpassing Internet Explorer in market share.

· Bing will close in on Google with search by buying search space on major sites.

· Expect sites like Twitter and Hulu to join others like Pandora and ESPN in offering some content or features to paid users only.

Entertainment

· Tiger Woods appears publicly on some talk show, then gets back to winning Majors.

· A sequel to Avatar is announced late in the year when the Blu-Ray is released.

· Oh, and Iron Man 2 is epic and blows the original out of the water.

Politics

· Health care reform of some sort passes, but it's just a shell of the original vision carried by Obama.

· Sarah Palin reveals something controversial about her personal life to gain the media and public's attention to remain on the radar for a 2012 run against Obama.

· US occupation in countries like Afghanistan and Iraq continues, perhaps even increases, despite any peace-oriented statements by Obama. Osama remains elusive.

Of course, all of this is biased and unfounded speculation. Happy 2010 everyone!