Before this week is lost to LSU-Alabama hype, let’s pause to remember the weekend that was and reflect on some of the things that we learned:
8 Things We Learned This Weekend (Including a Doppelgänger For Andrew Luck That Doesn’t Suck)
October 31, 2011 By 4 Comments
Fantasy Football Week 7 Stock Report: Cutler, Hardesty, Murray UP; MJD, McGahee, Lloyd DOWN
October 22, 2011 By 2 Comments
It looks like this is the week of the missing quarterback as owners have to deal with the bye weeks of Ryan Fitzpatrick, Tom Brady, Eli Manning and Michael Vick. This is a turning point of the season for a lot of teams and fantasy owners alike. Those who are 5-1 feel good, while the 1-5’s may have chalked the season up as a loss already, and those who are 3-3 are biting their nails like LeBron James. (I wonder how he would do as a fantasy tight-end…)
Staying on the topic of quarterbacks, this week we will see some newcomers who will be thrust into the starting role. Though you shouldn’t hold your breath waiting for Christian Ponder to make headlines in Minnesota, we’ve got other names to know for you in this week’s Stock Report.
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Fantasy Football Week 6 Start Em Sit Em Picks and Player Projections for Hillis, Hernandez, Dez, Stevie J, and more
October 10, 2011 By 106 Comments
Is 2011 going to be the highest scoring fantasy season of all time? All signs indicate that it could be. Last season, seven players finished the season with more than 270 points (ESPN Standard Scoring). After four weeks this season, a staggering 18 players were on pace to beat that mark…and nine of them were QBs.
Like I said at the beginning of the season, gone are the days of fantasy rule by the RBs. Of those 18 players, only 5 are RBs…simply a staggering thought to anyone living in 2006 or before.
Fantasy Football Week 5 Start Em, Sit Em: Start/Sit Picks, Player Projections, and Week 5 Lineup Advice
October 4, 2011 By 106 Comments
Injuries!
Andre Johnson is gone. Ben Roethlisberger is banged up. Miles Austin is on the mend. Marques Colston is back, but when will he get on track?
With the bye weeks now here, the time has come when fantasy leagues are truly won and lost. If you drafted well, and got a little lucky, you should be near the top of the standings. But nobody can ever completely escape the injury bug. Managing your lineup properly when byes and injuries attack is what separates the good owners from the great ones.
So let’s look at the Week Five games and decide who to start and who to sit this week.
13 Things We Learned This Weekend
October 4, 2011 By 1 Comment
The Tinley children are on Fall Break, so we’re spending the week vacationing on Perdido Key. I was without Internet access until yesterday, when I successfully guessed the password for a wireless router in a neighboring condo. A word of advice: If you’re in Florida and your wireless password is “sunshine,” you’re inviting anyone who can pick up your signal to use your Internet.
Anyway, here are some things we learned this week:
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Monday Night Football Preview and Prediction: Indianapolis Colts at Tampa Bay Buccaneers
October 3, 2011 By 1 Comment
The 0-3 Indianapolis Colts will face the 2-1 Tampa Bay Buccaneers for your Week 4 Monday Night Football entertainment. The Buccaneers beat the Atlanta Falcons in Week 3, while the Colts struggle to pull themselves together and make something happen without Peyton Manning.
Beating a Dead Horse: Colts Fans Are The Worst
February 8, 2010 By 18 Comments
Before the Super Bowl on Sunday, I became aware of the rumor that many a Colts fan were concerned about the upcoming snowstorm; and more specifically, whether or not it would affect their Super Bowl parade.
As it turns out, it will be twenty-eight degrees and snowy in Indianapolis today, with a zero percent chance of fandom. A parade, by definition, is unlikely.
After living in Indy from 2003 to 2009, I realized two things:
1) That John Cougar Mellencamp is not nearly as popular or talented as Hoosiers think; and
2) The Colts have the worst fans in football. Their display of “appreciation” yesterday further proved it.
Line of the Day (Week? Month? Year?) From Jason Whitlock
December 30, 2009 By 1 Comment
The excerpt that follows is, unquestionably, the line of the day today in sports writing. It might be the line of the week…the month…or perhaps even the year. But lest hyperbole get the best of me and defeat the genius of time and perspective, I’ll stick with simply calling it the line of the day.
Either way, it is equal parts perfect analogy and terrifically funny.
And it involves mocking Curtis Painter. Brilliant!
Rich Rodriguez Sucks – Toledo Beats Michigan in the Big House
October 11, 2008 By 10 Comments
It is only 2:40 on Saturday, with plenty of interesting games still to come, and the upsets are already pouring in.
Let’s begin with the most obvious statement of today:Â Rich Rodriguez sucks.
Toledo upset Rich Rodriguez and Michigan in the Big House. I think I heard that this makes Toledo the first MAC team to beat Michigan. So, in the last two years Michigan has been defeated by Appalachian State and by Toledo at the Big House. What is that KVB always says? Michigan sucks? Muck Fichigan? Let’s take a quick trip down memory lane and relive Michigan’s pathetic performance last year, in light of their continued patheticness this year.
Purdue: Curtis Painter for Heisman?
August 14, 2008 By 15 Comments
by Jerod Morris
This morning while sitting on the throne and taking care of business (I ate a huge meal at Chili’s
last night…fyi) I read something in the Sporting News that made me want grab the plunger and plunge the wooden handle into my eye socket: Curtis Painter, senior quarterback at Purdue, has an official Heisman Trophy campaign.
What? Really?
The only reason I tell you that I was near a toilet while reading this story is that my first reaction should have been to dump the entire magazine into the crapper and flush immediately. Unfortunately, as if passing a car wreck on the side of the road, I simply could not resist the urge to read on.
Apparently, Purdue has invested money in creating DVDs and calendars entitled “Painting a Masterpiece†that promote Curtis Painter’s storied career at Purdue University. It includes all of his big game performances, clutch TD passes against top-ranked teams, and the leadership qualities he has displayed in leading Purdue to Big Ten titles and BCS appearances.
If you did not get smacked in the face with the sarcasm of that last statement, you’re a moron. If that were actually true, Purdue promoting Painter’s big game performances, it would be a pretty short DVD. The only one “painting a masterpiece†in this story is me while I was taking the Browns to the Super Bowl as I was reading. [Read more...]
