Tag: NFL

Road Trip: Phoenix

Big boys weekend and with our google-doc based fantasy basketball draft taking up almost all of my free time I haven’t been able to blog it.  Until now.  That’s right, folks-it’s update time.  And sorry, I’m too much of an emotional wreck to write anything about the Dodgers…I just can’t do it.  I have opinions [...]

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 [...]

Am I Ready For Some Football?

Hank: Are you ready? BG: What’s that Hank? Hank: I said ARE YOU READY? BG: Ready for what Hank? Hank: Blah blah blah blah blah gonna get it kick started blah blah blah blah blah! So yes, friends–it’s that time again.  That time of the year when we all get together and cheer on our [...]

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 [...]

Pat Tillman, brother leave pro sports to “make a difference” in army

Tribune, The (San Luis Obispo, CA) – Thursday, July 10, 2003 Author: Brian Milne The Tribune It may be hard for some to believe, but there are certain rules to this profession we call sports writing. Avoid cliches like the plague. Stay away from excessive adverbs and those annoying, maddening and often bothersome adjectives. Steer [...]