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The West Coast Sucks, and I Blame the Swine Flu

What is going on with the West Coast sports scene?
Two weeks ago we were talking about a WCBias.com-sponsored Freeway Series … but instead of L.A. vs. L.A. (of Anaheim, Orange County, Southern Cali., California, West Coast …), we’ve got New York vs. Philly?!
Wow. Who woulda thought there wouldn’t be any Left Coast love in this [...]

All these injuries make my head hurt, again

Injuries are killing me, literally.
Donavan McNabb, Matt Cassel, LaDainian Tomlinson, all sidelined this week on my fantasy football squad, which begs the question: why did I give in and play this season?
But all those injuries are just the tip of the neck-pain iceberg this week, considering I was rear ended at a stoplight on the [...]

WordCamp, USC, Kobe, IHOP & No NFL … Gotta love L.A.

So Ryantific and I spent the weekend at WordCamp L.A., trying to improve this blog for our West Coast peeps, and in the process, missed nearly the entire opening weekend of the NFL.
But since L.A. doesn’t have a team, who cares, right?
Think again … L.A.’s got USC, and when you got them Trojans, what more [...]

What East Coast Bias? Not so stoked on college football

Today is one of those days you’re supposed to be stoked to have HDTV … but if you live on the West Coast, you better get that stoke elsewhere.
Now I’m not going to Mike Gundy (more on him later) and go on some rant about an East Coast Bias in the media. I’m no conspiracy [...]

Help pick my lame fantasy name

With a 2-year-old taking up most of my time on the weekends, and another one on the way, I’m seriously considering retiring from fantasy football this year.
Then again, I could just pull a Brett “Flip-Flop” Favre and find myself starring in one of the three fantasy drafts my friends are talking me into this weekend.
But, [...]

MY HERO

Well, the dog days of summer are here, and there hasn’t been a whole lot that’s inspired me to post of late.
So on Saturday, I decided to bail on the A-town second-hand smoke – courtesy the Santa Barbara/Cruz wildfires – and hit the beach with my new GoPro Hero waterproof digital camera.
As our dozen dedicated [...]

WCBias.com’s Second Annual All-Steroid Team

In honor of the latest members of the MLB’s PEDebacle, roid-ragin’ WCBias.com presents its new and “better enhanced” All-Steroid Team.
(Don’t forget to compare this list to last year’s first-ballot Hall of Shame class.)
The second edition consists of the who’s who of players linked to performance-enhancing drugs, according to a rash of media reports, the latest [...]

Big Papi? Big freaking deal*

Shocking news out of the East Coast: Big Papi is a Big Cheat!
Who would have thought big ol’ David Ortiz tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in 2003 – just in time to lead the Boston Red Sox to their first World Series in a trillion years?
Who’s next, Albert Pujols? No way! LeBron James? You’re crazy. [...]

Dirty Sanchez

“Absolutely filthy.”
That’s how ESPN’s Baseball Tonight crew described Jonathan Sanchez’s no-hitter tonight.
And while we don’t write about the San Francisco Giants that often on The Bias, we had to give a tip of the hat to Sanchez, a kid who was 2-8 coming in to this start and wouldn’t even be on the bump if [...]

And today’s favorite to win the NBA title is …

The Fourth of July might be gone, but the fireworks remain in the NBA.
Yeah, that’s such a lame AP-style lead. I would’ve gone with something like, “You can’t spell Fourth of July Weekend without W-T-F,” but that would upset the wifey when this blog post gets RSS’d into her Facebook page. Oops. Hopefully that didn’t [...]