First Annual Karma Squad
Wikipedia defines karma as "the effects of all deeds actively create past, present, and future experiences, thus making one responsible for one's own life, and the pain and joy it brings to him/her and others." John Lennon believed in the idea of "Instant Karma", which refers to a more immediate concept of accountability for your actions. Basically, what comes around, [read more...]
NFC South Offensive Lines: Looking For A Few Good Linemen
This could be the weakest division of linemen in the conference. With all four teams ranking in the second half of the conference, three in the lower third, there is much work to be done. But with strong offensive coaching from Jon Gruden in Tampa Bay and Sean Payton in New Orleans there is hope these units can produce. Carolina Panthers [read more...]
ESPN-ing Blackness
(This is written in reaction to a general feeling of what I consider to be a "defeatist malaise" among people who would want to see truly diverse voices in mainstream media (MSM)…) Jemele Hill recently wrote a commentary about the NFL and it's new emphasis on stopping "gang sign" among its players. Beyond its initial two sentences, the piece wavers between [read more...]
Your Fantasy Football Start’em Sit’em and Sleepers for Week 11
I can’t believe that we are a week away from Thanksgiving already. Where does the time go? Hopefully many of you are either in position for your leagues playoffs or are hanging tough. Keep your nose to the grindstone because there are always a few guys that jump onto the fantasy radar screen this time of year. With that said, lets [read more...]
Your Fantasy Football Start’em Sit’em and Sleepers for Week 10
Can you feel the tension build every time you’re deciding on who to put into your starting line-up? Me too my friend. That could only mean one thing; it is crunch time. It’s that time of the year where the championship money is within your grasp and the yearlong bragging rights are on the line. Your fantasy football league playoffs are [read more...]
10 Things We Learned About the NFL This Season
Just like that, another NFL season has come and gone. Sorry, the Pro Bowl doesn't count since yours truly is currently an alternate at safety in the NFC right now. The excruciating dead period between the end of football and the beginning of baseball is upon us, and since I'll never make it to April writing nothing but Winter Olympics and [read more...]
Hart Surgery: The Politics of Football
There are two giant events taking place this week, the Super Bowl and the New Hampshire Primary. In terms of media coverage, the two events strike me as exceedingly similar. Both consist of media types scrambling desperately to spin straw into gold, hoping something remotely abnormal will happen to report on but usually coming up empty. Generally, both usually fail to provide much in [read more...]
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Website Poll
Poker sites for US players are somewhat hard to come by these days. Aside from the big ones, PokerStars and Full Tilt, mainly smaller, fairly unknown sites are available to Americans. It s a good idea to read a poker room review before you sign up with a site you don t know very much about.
