Week 13 MLB Injury Report: Clay Buchholz, Jose Reyes, Bryce Harper
Unlike most weeks, today’s injury report actually features a lot of guys coming back rather than hitting the DL. Of course, in the cases of Franklin Gutierrez and Brian Roberts, a comeback simply means a temporary break from their true home – the disabled list. Let’s take a look at who’s getting set to come […]
Doc Rivers Takes Talents To Clipperland; What It Means For Lob City And The Celtics Legacy
TD Garden has looked more like a rodeo than a basketball arena after days of anxious wrangling and jockeying. Looking to pick up the pieces of a fallen era, the Los Angeles Clippers have landed their primary target, the top-5 active coach Doc Rivers. The deal went from unexpected to dead, to stalled, to reanimated […]
Picking the 2013 National League All-Star Game Starters
With Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game just around the corner, here’s a look at my picks for the starters for the National League. Check back tomorrow for my American League roster. Yadier Molina (Catcher): Molina is a pretty simple pick. The Cardinals’ backstop doesn’t have a ton of power, but his .353 batting average leads […]
Fantasy Football: Running Back Receiving Efficiency
If you’ve been following C.D. Carter (@CDCarter13) and I (and you should be) on the Twitter Machine recently, you know that the both of us are scratching the surface on Fantasy Points Per Route Run (FPPRR). Stemming from fantasy points per snap and points per target — as compiled by the mathematical wizards at Pro […]
Chicago Blackhawks Score Twice in Final 76 Seconds to Win the Stanley Cup
After sending Corey Crawford to the bench with a Game 7 seemingly imminent, the Chicago Blackhawks did the impossible, scoring twice in the final minutes to hoist the Stanley Cup at Boston’s TD Garden. Just 17 seconds after Bryan Bickell netted the equalizer, Dave Bolland beat Tuukka Rask to shock the capacity crowd in Boston […]
Week 13 Fantasy Baseball Waiver Wire: Kyle Gibson, Koji Uehara, Nick Franklin
Summer is really the time we see a huge influx of prospects come up and it’s a dangerous time to be a fantasy owner. Top prospect status does not mean they will be an immediate impact player a la Mike Trout or Yasiel Puig. In many cases this year, guys like Jackie Bradley, Aaron Hicks, […]
Stanley Cup Finals: 5 Keys to Game 6
The Stanley Cup is in Boston for tonight’s Game 6 between the Bruins and the Blackhawks, and Chicago hopes to parade it around the TD Garden just as it did in Philadelphia three years ago. The Blackhawks have the momentum coming off of a strong performance at home in Game 5, but this series has […]
2013 Stanley Cup Finals: Bruins Will Need To Get Lucky Without Bergeron
Sometimes people can be their own worst enemy. Many of my days are spent in front of this very computer screen where I sit now, poring through articles, spreadsheets, stat columns, opinion columns and everything in between. Doing this has given me an opportunity to dig deeper into the world of hockey, trying to figure […]