I’ve been there – you’re going into Turkey Day, locked in the heat of a lethal fake football playoff battle with your buddy or coworker or college friend who snuck his way into your keeper league and has proven a genuine douche bag over the first 11 weeks of the NFL season. You’re ready to […]
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After declining the Yankees qualifying offer, Nick Swisher joins a long list of above-average outfielders looking for obscenely inflated payouts and costing their new team a first-round pick. Swisher reportedly went into the off-season looking for a Jayson Werth-esque $120+ million deal. The problem is, when Werth signed he was basically the only good outfielder available. Swisher liky
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You may remember Vick Ballard from his role as Neo from “The Matrix” during his inhuman dive into the end zone against the Titans in Week 8. The dude contorted his body and scored the most incomprehensible touchdown of the year. He showed a lot on that run, including a little wiggle and surprising acceleration for
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Last season, Brandon McCarthy was finally showing fans why he was such a highly touted pitching prospect, until his cranium was turned into a piñata by a blistering line drive off the bat of Angels shortstop Erick Aybar. McCarthy has finally recovered from the baseball-off- the-noggin incident and should be a prime free agent target for teams
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Injuries are a beautiful thing in fantasy basketball. Not simply because they open up opportunities for new faces but because so many fantasy owners will drop perennial All-Stars at the first hint of injury. Five games later, the soreness has subsided and you have a bunch of serious fantasy producers out there for the taking.
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Ryan Dempster may be one of the most interesting free agent pitchers of 2012. Despite pitching 200+ innings and having an ERA under 4.00 in four of the past five years, Dempster will likely be at best the Plan B option for teams who miss out on the prime free agent pitching talent this off
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While the 2012-2013 NBA season is still in its infantile stage, people have already taken to making their cocksure predictions. Something that up to this point hasn’t served the Lakers fans (or the Knicks doubters) well. Predictions are usually just whims based off of loyalties or passions and rarely take into account analysis and careful
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B.J. Upton is one of the most complicated players to value in the majors. Though he has been around for eight seasons, it is still difficult to gauge which B.J. Upton you will get in any given year. Will he be the B.J. that hits 11 homers or 25+? Will he drive in 50 or 80?
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