Playoff Fantasy Football Start’em Sit’em and Sleepers for Week 16

Well here you are, mere days from what you’ve been lusting over for months now. Your fantasy football championship isn’t far off now. You just have to make a few more good decision and its yours. Well lets see if we can’t help you make a few of those decisions. Let’s get to it. Start’em if you got’em Jamal Lewis RB (CLE) - [read more...]

Playoff Fantasy Football Start’em Sit’em and Sleepers for Week 14

If you are reading this weeks edition of the fantasy football start’em sit’em, congratulations. You have made it to the post season and are that much closer to your ultimate goal. Whether its more cash or good old fashioned bragging rights, you are almost there. But, before we get ahead of ourselves, we have some business to take care of, here [read more...]

Your Fantasy Football Start’em Sit’em and Sleepers for Week 6

This week is a little tricky due to the fact that there are a whopping six teams on bye. But, I do think there are some definite starts, sits and sleepers. Before I start, here’s a little reminder of how I have things set up. I still list two players who I think deserve a start and two players that [read more...]

Human Element in Athletes Hard to Ignore

If regular access to professional athletes is one of the supposed "thrilling" aspects of being paid to write about sports, perhaps the most certain thing a scribe could relay to any fan when the barstool conversations take place is this: They are a lot like you and me. Bode Miller drinks beer. Ozzie Guillen makes statements he immediately regrets,and my tape [read more...]

Hart Surgery: Breaking Down the Boo

When Rafael Palmeiro made his first appearance at the plate after serving his suspension for steroids, I expected to hear the boos and catcalls normally reserved for athletes who screw up. With steroids such a hot-button issue, I figured the PA Announcer would have a hard time even getting his name out over the razzes and huzzahs. Imagine my surprise when [read more...]

Helping Friends or Failing to Curb the Posse?

For the second time in five years, a Baltimore Ravens superstar is in trouble with the law, both times in Atlanta. Raven running back Jamal Lewis is now facing federal charges that he tried to help a childhood friend buy cocaine in the summer of 2000.Lewis, who grew up in the Atlanta area, pleaded not guilty to the charges, which [read more...]