 Author ArchiveAug 08 Last week we started (with RotoNation) our Best Fantasy Football Team Name contest. Impressive list of entries. The finalists are below, and you can vote for your favorite three. Feel free to check out all the entries here.
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Mar 31 Ramifications of Ignorance: Basketball Coaching EditionCollege Basketball, Ignorance, NBA 18 Comments »
As the NCAA tournament is winding down, now seems like a good time to discuss one of those coaching moves that is widely believed to be “smart,” but on further examination, may actually be really stupid and just another way for coaches to cover their backsides (like punting on fourth-and-short, but that’s another rant for another day). I’m talking about the decision nearly ALL coaches make to sit their best players when they’re in foul trouble. The is particularly popular when players pick up a second foul late in the first half to avoid the dreaded third foul or midway through the second half when they pick up their fourth. Inevitably, the other team goes on a run (that’s what happens when your best player in on your bench) and by the time you get your stud back in, it’s too little, too late. Mar 31
Mar 31
Johan Santana throws too many change-ups. No wonder he’s had a terrible career. (Shea Nation) Lesbian basketball fans are great for business! (St. Petersburg Times) How did Joe Torre manage to get himself a nice, cushy job in Los Angeles? (Sports Plus by Steve Kallas) Ask Celtics’ owner Wyc Grousbeck anything you want. (Hoopshype – its in the middle column) Find out how to date Adriana Lima. She’s a bit of a prude–she doesn’t like it when you hit on her girlfriends. (Style.com) President Bill Clinton also got three out of four Final Four teams correct. (OrbitCast) 80-year old war veteran busts a teenage mugger. How do you ever live that down? (CBS5.com) He can’t hit anymore, but Luis Gonzalez has a future in the Nanny Arts (Miami Herald) This is still Derrick Eckardt from RotoNation taking you through the afternoon, while TBL is away for the day. Feel free to email me at derrick@rotonation.com. Mar 31
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Agent Zero doesn’t need all those zeros at the end of his paycheck. (Washington Post) German engineering: Drink beer and fight cancer at the same time. (National Pub Crawl) The debate has been settled, here are the Top 50 hottest student bodies in the country. It’s all about the Pac-10. (PopCrunch) Teddy Roosevelt stopped for a chat with a couple of Braves last night. (Let Teddy Win) John Calipari calls out UCLA and says they suck, sort of. (Gutty Little Bruins) Obama goes three for four with his NCAA bracket Final Four (BarackObama.com) Scientists ruin another thing. Apparently, Dimaggio’s 56-game hitting streak isn’t all that hard to do. (NY Times) Dec 13 George Mitchell is still talking (pushing 50 minutes here, we could have sworn we just saw Jeremy Schapp dozing off), but after quickly scanning the document, we’ve got some questions that hopefully you can answer. We’ve got to run to the dentist, scoop up an X-Mas present or two, and then try to crash an IMAX showing of I Am Legend, but we’ll be reading your comments on our phone. If we get denied at the movie, we will be at a midnight showing. The questions … Supposedly, players write checks to clubhouse attendants all the time. But if a guy is giving you drugs, and you’re writing him checks, don’t you realize, ‘hey, I’m leaving a paper trail?’ Is this stupidity or arrogance? Or both? Either way, anytime you have a drug dealer stop by to drop off weed or crack or heroin, make sure to cut him a check. How in the name of Rick Reilly is Sammy Sosa not listed here? How do they have a smoking gun for so many players … but not Roger Clemens? Are Mark Prior and Kerry Wood really stealth, or are they clean? Maybe it’s just us, but we couldn’t find one current Red Sox player on the list. Oh, that’s not really a question, more of a statement. What can teams do if they just traded for a cheater, or signed one to a big money deal? Gagne, Tejada, Guillen, LoDuca … We won’t even ask if fans care because, frankly, they won’t. The sheeple will still buy tickets, go to games, and pad the owners’ pockets with money. Dec 13
(Brief aside: Strangely, this is the most interested we’ve been about baseball in a long, long time.) Andy Pettite –
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Good Morning, TBL is off investigating the true cause of Kaz Matsui’s injury today, so this is Derrick Eckardt from 
George Mitchell has spoken – well, he’s still speaking – but we just went through that 300-page monster and quickly jotted down names we recognized (there were plenty we had never heard of). Albert Pujols is NOT on the list, and we didn’t see Johnny Damon, either. It’s pretty neat to see the list, but there aren’t any shockers. We made a few pithy comments, feel free to laugh or not.