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Can you name the last Brewer to win the NL MVP award?
The answer is no one.
That is because the Brew Crew has not had an MVP award winner since Robin Yount in 1989 when they were a member of the American League. They have their first NL MVP award winner this year in Ryan Braun.
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Jake Plummer said in a radio interview that he wished Tim Tebow would curb his references about Jesus Christ.
Ok, just take religion out of it. Or better yet, pretend Plummer is saying this about your personal religious beliefs. What gives Plummer the right to tell Tebow to knock it off? Plummer gave up playing so he could sit in his van down by the river and fish while sporting an awful mustache.
Plummer’s opinion means zilch to me.
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Every week in the NFL there are painful hits, collisions, and falls. Below are animated GIFs of two of the most painful-looking tackles from Week 11.
My question to you: which way of getting tackled would hurt more?
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It did not receive much publicity at the time, but Congress recently slipped through a law requiring anyone who maintains a sports blog to post at least one Tim Tebow-related item every single day. It’s true. Look it up.
Luckily, I recently stumbled upon two relatively entertaining videos that will fill today’s Tebow quota.
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Jon will have the overall Week 12 start/sit post ready to go for tomorrow morning, but with three games on Thanksgiving Thursday I thought it might be helpful to do a special start/sit column for those games.
So in this post I’ll do just that, providing analysis and recommendations for the key players you need to decide on before Turkey Day.
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The number one reason why the Cowboys will win the division is simple: schedule.
The Cowboys final opponents are Miami, Arizona, New York, Tampa Bay, Philadelphia and New York again.
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I am not a diehard hockey fan like some people. I prefer NFL and NBA. However, if the NBA doesn’t have a season, I will be tuning in to the NHL.
I watch when I can, but when Sidney Crosby is on the ice, I make more of a point to tune in.
And after dealing with the effects of a concussion since January 5th, Crosby will finally be back on the ice tonight.
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Can you believe we’re only 3 days from Thanksgiving?
Maybe it’s the unseasonably warm weather here in Ohio, or the absence of NBA games that were supposed to have already started, or that I haven’t heard a whole lot about this year’s Black Friday mega-deals, but it sure seems like Turkey Day snuck up on me this year.
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Earlier today I posted the Suck For Luck Power Rankings for Week 12.
Included in this post was a discussion of the awful Washington Redskins, who placed 4th in this week’s rankings despite nearly beating the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday.
And embedded in this discussion of the awful Redskins was the following animated GIF that shows one of the Redskins coaches performing one of the most WTF play or formation calls in NFL history. I thought it deserved its own post.
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Reports are breaking out all across Twitter, and confirmed via the Detroit Free Press, that Justin Verlander has been named AL MVP, thus becoming the first pitcher since Dennis Eckersley in 1992 to win both the MVP and Cy Young awards in the same season.
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One of the big stories coming out of Sunday’s games, in addition to Jay Cutler’s injury, was the injury to Adrian Peterson that forced the league’s best running back to miss most of Minnesota’s loss to Oakland (which surely induced many more crocodile tears).
Fortunately, it sounds like Peterson avoided any serious damage to one of the appendages that helps him run all day.
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For once, Andrew Luck is not the toast of the college quarterback world.
Combine Stanford’s loss to Oregon two weekend ago with Luck’s pedestrian numbers against Cal on Saturday (20-30, 257 yards, 2 TDs, 1 INT in a 31-28 win), and then mix in superlative performances by Baylor’s Robert Griffin III and USC’s Matt Barkley this past Saturday, and Luck doesn’t seem luck such a clear-cut #1 prospect any more, now does he?
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With bye weeks now a thing of the past, fantasy owners have one less thing to worry about as the playoff push begins. However, it’s also a great time to start looking ahead to identify guys who can help you during the fantasy playoffs and to pick them up while you can.
This week we’ll look at not only guys who can help in the short-term but also those who may pay dividends when it matters most.
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Just after watching the Chicago Bears’ solid win over the San Diego Chargers to extend their winning streak to five and keep playoff hopes alive, I see tweets that say Jay Cutler has broken his right hand thumb.
At first I didn’t worry too much. Cutler seemed like he wasn’t in pain, he didn’t mention it bothering him during the post game interview, and it didn’t seem to affect his game play. Besides, Matthew Stafford is playing with a messed up throwing hand, so I assumed Cutler would have no problem dealing with the injury himself.
Not 10 minutes later do I see news coming out that his injury will likely need surgery, forcing Cutler to sit out for at least the regular season with hopes of returning in the playoffs if the Bears do make it in.
And just like that my heart sank, and I remember why sports suck sometimes.
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Happy Muppets week.
Last week, I was critical of the Disney Channel Original Movie Geek Charming. A few hours after the article posted, I got an e-mail notification that someone named Robin Palmer was following me on Twitter. It turns out that Robin Palmer wrote the novel, Geek Charming, on which the movie was based.
So now I feel bad. For what it’s worth, my wife, Ashlee, enjoyed Geek Charming and was upset that I panned it.
Anyway. Here’s what we learned this weekend.
