Archive for the ‘Sports’ Category

I woke up late today hoping to catch the Patriots-Jets game on TV, but the people in charge of my television seemed to have other ideas. To start with, there was only one early game on today: the Colts-Vikings game on CBS. For the late games, Fox got to show the Seahawks-49ers game, and CBS [...]

I was all set to publish my newest post - my annual one where I predict the super-bowl teams and winner, when I read the newest Bill Simmons article on ESPN. My super bowl pick was, and is, New England over Atlanta. That’s right; I’m telling you the Atlanta Falcons are going to make the [...]

I’ve been a pretty enthusiastic fantasy football player for the past couple of years, and I can understand how other sports might see fantasy games as a way of boosting their ratings. I can see how the whole fantasy sports thing would fit especially well with a stats-heavy game like baseball, but I can also [...]

First, the NFL cracked down on touchdown celebrations. Then, they complained when players kept finding new and entertaining ways to have fun despite their rules. Terrel Owens pulled a Sharpie out of his sock, autographed the ball, and threw it into the crowd, and they updated the rules to prevent that kind of thing in [...]

This past year, when I played fantasy football, we ran our league on CBS SportsLine. The site was nice enough; they had some down-time, but everybody does when it comes to fantasy football. Evidently, fantasy football is one of the more difficult things to host reliably. CBS was pretty up front about it, though, and [...]

I just read one of the craziest articles I’ve ever read from a mainstream site, and I’m not sure what it says about me that it makes me want to book a trip back to Sin City. It sounds like the all-star weekend was absolutely insane, even for Vegas, which makes me jealous that I [...]

Back in high school, on the day before a homecoming game, our cheerleaders hung up a sign that said something like, “Go Bengals! Beat the Warriors tonigt!” You probably noticed the problem, of course: they left an “h” out of the word “tonight.” The cheerleading coach also happened to be my U.S. government teacher, and [...]

There’s a rule in football that I just don’t understand. Let’s say you have team looking at 2nd-and-3, and that team’s running back takes the ball close to a first down. After the play is over, the running back spikes the ball in a defender’s face or does something else to get an Unsportsmanlike Conduct [...]

Well, this year’s fantasy football regular season is over, and once again I find myself on top of things. For the second straight year, I’ve won my division in fantasy football, and this time I did it with the best overall record. I was also 26 points away from having the most overall points scored [...]

I think that every sports team should be forced to pick a city to associate itself with. None of this picking a State nonsense, much less the whole, “let’s pick an entire region to represent.” Not only that, but I think teams should be forced to use the name of the city they’re actually in [...]