Here are Burney's Picks For This Week's Start of The 2010 State Tournament:

D1

Royal Oak

Royal Oak

Berkley

Warren Mott

Warren Cousino

Warren De La Salle

Pick – The host-Ravens and red-hot Berkley Bears could both end up pulling the upset over the defending state champs, Warren De La Salle, but Burney just doesn't have the guts to predict it. DE LA SIZZLE DOUSES THE COMPS UPSET BID and RETURNS TO MACOMB CTY W/ TITLE IN HAND

Troy Athens

Troy Athens

Rochester

Utica Eisenhower

Utica

Pick – The HIGHLY-ACCLAIMED (BY BURNEY AT THE VERY LEAST) PITCHING ROTATION OF Alex Harrison, Alex Riopelle, and Ira Land will carry the Red Hawks to the title. ATHENS DOES A VICTORY DANCE ON ITS HOME FIELD

RH Adams

RH Adams

Lake Orion

Oxford

Stoney Creek

Romeo

Pick – EXTRA, EXTRA, A BURNEY SUPERSONIC UPSET SPECIAL: I just have a feeling after all the ups and downs the Dragons of Lake Orion HAVE EXPERIENCED THE BASEBALL GODS WILL BLESS THEM W/ A LITTLE  POETIC JUSTICE  and LET THEM PREVAIL over the host-Highlanders in taking the DISTRICT CROWN

Birmingham Seaholm

Birmingham Seaholm

Birmingham Groves

Birmingham Brother Rice

Southfield-Lathrup

West Bloomfield

Pick – Rice has put things together late in the season and will ride the momentum of its upset-win over Divine Child in the CHSL title game AT THE COPA LAST WEEK through districts and into regionals.  JIMMY PICKENS, TOMMY BARRETT, AND PAT MACKENZIE MAKE IT THREE DISTRICT MEDALS IN A ROW FOR THEIR VARSITY JACKETS

Waterford Kettering

Waterford Kettering

Waterford Mott

AH Avondale

Pontiac

Pick – Avondale has Brian Portelli and Taylor Drabek, the rest of the district draw does not…..SIMPLE AS PIE, ENOUGH SAID! YELLOW JACKETS WIN, YELLOW JACKETS WIN!!!

Milford

Milford

Clarkston

Fenton

Hartland

Holly

Pick – Tyler Scarlett brings home his third district championship trophy this school year and Clarkston continues its magical season with yet another banner-raising ceremony . GET BUSY MY MAIN MAN, T-SCAR!

Lakeland

Lakeland

WL Central

WL Western

WL Northern

South Lyom

Pick – WL Central finished the regular season on a losing streak, now Burney thinks the Vikings are going to end the weekend on a win-streak……aka…..hoisting the district championship trophy over their heads in celebration!

Northville

Northville

Farmington

FH Harrison

North Farmington

Novi

Novi Detroit Catholic Central

Pick – The phrase "collision course" best describes what the squads at Farmington and Novi are heading for. This is the toughest call of the day for Burney. That said, I'm going to go with the team playing the best late in the season and that is the Wildcats. I've said it before, and now I'm saying it again…MEMO TO BURNEY'S HOMEBOYS FROM NOVI= C YA IN CEREAL CITY IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS!

D2

Warren Fitzgerald

Warren Fitzgerald

Ferndale

Hazel Park

MH Lamphere

Birmingham DCD

Pick – REALLY? COME ON, EVERY ONE KNOWS THERE IS NO WAY BURNEY WOULD PICK AGAINST HIS HOMEBOYS FROM LAMPHERE…… I mean THA KOZ, THE G MAN, senior Paul "The Shot Caller" Lobur…is there really any question?  THE RAMS IN A WALK!

Pontiac NDP

Pontiac NDP

BH Andover

BH Lahser

OL St. Mary's

BH Cranbrook

Pick – Eaglets of St. Mary's fly away with the district title. Most-Likely Upset Scenario: Host-NDP and/or Cranbrook could end up playing spoiler

D3

Clawson

Clawson

MH Madison

MH Bishop Foley

Mt. Clemens

New Haven

Warren Collegiate

Pick – Bishop Foley is a grizzled squad with a number of grit-it-out wins and narrow-losses under its belt and that will pay dividends in the state tourney….NOTE TO THE VENTURES: CAN U SAY C YA IN DA CREEK aka THE BATTLE CRIZZLE..aka…. BATTLE CREEK FOR THE FINAL FOUR!  

D4

MC Marine Cardinal Mooney

MC Marine Cardinal Mooney

AH Oakland Christian

RH Lutheran NW

WOLL

Pick –  Miscovich, Novak, Massel, Berkseth…etc…..SENIOR STUD ALERT will EQUAL DISTRICT TITLE!

Southfield Christian

Southfield Christian

Novi Franklin Road Christian

West Bloomfield Jewish Academy

Pick – Host-Eagles swoop down on the comp and make away with the Golden Ticket…aka the district championship trophy!

GPW University Liggett

GPW University Liggett

SH Parkway Christian

RO Shrine

BH Roeper

Warren Macomb

Pick – All due respect to the Shriners, the Liggett Knights are on an inspired-win streak due to the recent release of the Russell Crowe/Ridley Scott remake of "Robin Hood" and like Crowe's surging acting career, there doesn't appear to be any end in sight