This Is Why There Are Sports Blogs
Correspondence from 1974 between an attorney who is a Cleveland Browns season ticket holder and the response turns out to be 100% pure awesome. If it’s not genuine, it ought to be.
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Fantasy Football Woes
It’s time to hang ’em up. Our league is quarterback driven. This week our options for quarterback were: Aaron RodgersKyle OrtonDonovan McNabbTarvaris JacksonJimmy Clausen What’s worse, we had to pick two of those by Thursday. Of these, it’s a guarantee… Continue Reading
Celibate World Cup
It’s still twelve years in the future, but I can’t understand how the World Cup in Qatar could possibly be a success. I’m already baffled that a sport whose biggest fans come from Western Europe and South America — none… Continue Reading
Men Sometimes Lie About Sex, You Know
A breaking political “sex scandal” on Gawker.com is an article written by an anonymous (or barely-so) man who claims to have had what he calls a “one-night stand” with Christine O’Donnell is not one that I would credit. The fact… Continue Reading
I Second That Motion By The Bears Fan (UPDATED)
The NFL isn’t supposed to be broadcasting games of grown men playing tag. NFL football is about tackling. It is a contact sport, at its root a contest of strength and power. To be sure, there is much enjoyment to… Continue Reading
Good Message, Good News
Dexter McCluster, an early prospect for NFL rookie of the year, is to be praised for offering his time and his new-found fame to get the word out in this PSA: I heartily agree with the message, even if laws… Continue Reading
Seventeen Penalties
Turns out, when you spot the home team 152 yards on seventeen different penalties, it’s quite difficult to win a professional football game. Hopefully Green Bay can remember this interesting statistical factoid next week. Chicago, not Green Bay, joins the… Continue Reading
Gaius Appuleius Diocles: The Best Paid Athlete Ever
It’s always a little bit dangerous to compare ancient economics to modern ones. But if one takes what a typical blue-collar worker (say, a butcher) makes in a year as the index, the second-century Roman charioteer Gaius Appuleius Diocles earned… Continue Reading
My Strength Of Schedule Assessment
I think I’m done making fun of the sports media for its all-Favre-all-the-time coverage. I’m also pretty much not bitter about Favre this year — he’s obviously on his swan song and frankly, I’m cheering for the old guy. Except… Continue Reading
ASTN Fantasy Projections On The Only Player Who Matters
[Intro Music.] HOST: Welcome back to the All Sports Talk Network, for this week’s Fantasy Bulletin. Today, we’re talking Favre. Which is kind of like the last eighteen hours of our programming yesterday, only we’ve got some actual statistics generated… Continue Reading