Fantasy Football 2013: Quarterbacks
Overview More than other fantasy sports, individual league formats can cause a drastic difference in how you should draft for your league. The two most important factors are scoring system and the amount of positions you need to draft for in your league. As such, make sure you review and understand your leagues scoring system and how many players you need to start at each position before you draft. Nevertheless, I have found...
Baseball July Progress Report NL
NL East 1. Atlanta Braves (63-45) The Braves have great pitching and a +101 run differential. They are the class of the division with no other team in the division over .500. As such, the Braves are running away with it. Tim Hudson is a huge loss because he is the veteran leader of the starting rotation. Nevertheless, they have plenty of talented young pitchers that can step up. Brandon Beachy was one of the best young pitchers...
The Rise and Fall of Alex Rodriguez
Alex Rodriguez, also known as AROD, should be enjoying admiration for his accolades at this point of his career. Instead, he is facing the biggest scrutiny of his career for his involvement with performance enhancement drugs (“PEDs”). In 2009, he admitted to using steroids only after his name was leaked as positive for steroids as part of confidential drugs tests in 2003. However, he was still in the prime of his career and had plenty...
NFL Offseason: Minority Report (NFC East)
This is it. I’m watching the Hall of Fame game as I’m writing this. The only other sport that I’m willing to watch more meaningless games than football is soccer. My sports fandom ranks as follows: 1. US Men’s Soccer Team, 2. Dallas Cowboys, 3. Orlando Magic, 4. Detroit Red Wings. Yes, I was a front-runner as a kid in the 90′s, but for all those teams except maybe the Red Wings cause they’re...
Gold Cup Final: U.S. and Their Complete Form
U.S. Beat Panama 1-0 No Jurgen. Holden falls to injury within 20 minutes of the game starting. Donovan doesn’t seem to be on today. Not sure if Corona is really ready to make a huge impact. Our goalie looks timid. These were my early stray observations on the final match of the Gold Cup Tournament. But there was one more stray observation that trumped them all. We are playing systematic possession soccer. As my buddy...
Worth the Wait: Murray and Bartoli Wimbledon Champs
The 2013 Wimbledon was historic. It will be remembered for Andy Murray winning as the first time in 77 years a British male has had the title and the most top seeds in the Open Era losing in the early rounds of the tournament on the Men’s and Women’s Draw. Top players who failed to reach the quarterfinals and their ranks going into Wimbledon included Serena Williams (1), Roger Federer (3), Rafael Nadal (5), Maria Sharapova (3),...