Perhaps not, at least not at this point. With the season opening up tomorrow night, I suppose I had better post my own preseason top 25 list. This list is intended to reflect which teams are better, not necessarily which teams are likely to be highly-ranked at the end of the year. For that reason, […]
Category: Football
Friday Notes: August 24, 2007
My site’s been down most of the morning, but hopefully it will stay up long enough for me to crank out this post. Start your timers now. Today is my buddy Jace’s birthday. He’s 23 today, and if he tells me he feels any different because he’s 23, he’s probably lying. I certainly didn’t. Other […]
From the "certifiably insane sports gamer" department
I don’t mean to imply by the headline that I’m a great sports gamer. I love them, but I regularly subject myself to beatings at the hands of more talented human opposition. Still, with Madden 08 coming out, and in order to prove that I’m completely insane, I decided to compile the list of player ratings […]
The annual post about why my fantasy football team should win
I had the first of my two fantasy drafts on Saturday night, and everything went basically as planned. It’s an 8-team league mostly made up of friends from church, and this is the league’s second year. This year, we decided to make it a keeper league, with a maximum six players (out of 20) retained from year […]
Friday Notes: August 17, 2007
Hamilton County schools started this week, so I’m spending more and more of my time sitting in traffic. I actually bothered to change the CDs in my car for the first time in probably a month or two, so I guess I’ve been pretty bored with the increase in traffic. Anyhow, I do have a […]
Is this the darkest time in sports history?
This post started out as a comment on ME’s open thread today (where he mentioned Mike Vick), but it developed into a coherent-enough thought that I figured I’d post it here. Last night during supper, I was watching a discussion on ESPN between Jim Rome and Stephen A. Smith about this being the darkest time […]
Solving the monster of interleague play and MLB competitive imbalance
I was planning on writing about something else today, but I ran across a great article by Studes at THT about interleague play. He concludes that if anyone should have a beef with the schedule makers this year, it’s the Braves, who faced four tough teams: the Red Sox twice, the Tigers, the Indians, and the […]
An interesting new draft proposal
I don’t post a whole lot of thoughts on football, since it’s probably #3 on my list of favorite sports behind baseball and basketball, but it’s too hard to pass up a comment on this excellent post by Doug Drinen at the Pro-football-reference blog. Recent studies have shown that, because of the amount of money […]
Book Review: The Blind Side
Years ago, offensive linemen were a commodity in the NFL. They were essentially interchangeable parts until the New York Giants drafted a player named Lawrence Taylor. LT’s rise, and the need of other teams to stop him, led the left tackle position to prominence, placing value on the players who protect the quarterback’s “blind side.” Soon […]
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