This is a dark time for fantasy footballers. Bye weeks are wreaking their unholy havoc on our best-laid plans, stripping our team of the depth you worked so hard to secure during your fake football drafts. Woe is us. There are six teams on their bye weeks this coming Sunday and Monday – the most […]
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When Justin Verlander takes the mound baseball fans know they are in for a pitching treat. Tuesday night was like an early Halloween for Detroit fans. Verlander tricked New York hitters all night as the Tigers went on to win 2-1 while taking a three games to zero lead in the ALCS. For my money
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Game one of the NLCS between the St. Louis Cardinals and the San Francisco Giants came and went. It left yet one more Jerk in its wake. Madison Bumgarner got the nod from the Giants and lasted all of 73 pitches. Bumgarner’s performace was a prelude to San Francisco’s 6-4 game one loss. In 3.2
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Most of you reading this have watched a lot of baseball. Perhaps you’ve been a fan of the game for a few years, a decade, or maybe several decades. You’ve seen a lot of bad baseball and you’ve seen a lot of good baseball. You’ve cheered, jeered, howled and booed at the TV screen or
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It’s unsure which loss was bigger for the New York Yankees, Game 1 or Derek Jeter. Rarely anymore does a Major League basball team name a captain. If anyone, ever, in the history of baseball fit that bill, it was Derek Jeter. Last night he fractured his ankle while fielding a ground ball off the
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The pain on Derek Jeter’s face said it all. It looked like he just saw Medusa as his whole body went stone-stiff with pain. His little toss while lying on his stomach to second base was the dying ember of his season. The Yankees lost game one of the ALCS 6-4 to the Detroit Tigers,
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Tonight the Detroit Tigers play in Game 1 of their second ALCS in two years, this time against the New York Yankees. Doug Fister will match up against Andy Pettitte. If the Yankees win the series, it will be their 41st pennant win. If the Tigers win, it will be their 11th. According to an
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Drew Storen invited the St. Louis Cardinals to dinner. On the menu: meatballs. When Adam Wainwright dug the Cardinals in a 6-0 hole after two innings, all seemed swell in the nation’s capitol. Before the game was over, Adam Wainwright already sealed the deal. The Nationals and Cardinals not were competing at any juncture during Wainwright’s
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