2013 MLB Trade Rumors: Giants Shift from Buy to Sell
A 2-1 loss to the Chicago Cubs on Sunday dropped the San Francisco Giants to 46-58 and ten games out of first place in the National League West. Before the All-Star break, the Giants appeared as if they could contend for the Division, but a recent four-game losing streak coupled by nine wins in ten […]
2013 MLB Trade Deadline: Texas Rangers buying AND selling
The Texas Rangers believe they have a strong chance to make the postseason. Sitting six games behind the division-leading Oakland Athletics, the club may not win the American League West. However, at only 1 ½ games out, the Wild Card remains well within their grasp. To help make a final push to the playoffs, Texas […]
Fantasy Football: 2013 Quarterback Tiers and Projections
When I sat down to slice and dice these quarterbacks as if I were Michael Symon, I came to realize that I just couldn’t cut past this one bone in my roto roast lamb. Today I’m here to remove it, and that bone that needs to be picked lies inside of “standard” scoring. That is […]
MLB Week 18: A Look Ahead at Key Storylines and Matchups
The Major League Baseball trade deadline has been much of the focus of the MLB landscape for the last couple of weeks. Now that it is only days away, that hasn’t changed. But the dreaded Biogenesis scandal has jumped back into the headlines over the last week, and it’s not going away just yet either. […]
2013 MLB Trade Deadline: Starting Pitchers at a Premium
July is often a time when playoff contenders stock up on available talent from baseball’s ‘have-nots.’ Position players and relievers are traded with great regularity, but the thing on the minds of most general managers is starting pitching. This year, their job has been made difficult because the trade market is thin and lacks true […]
Tortoises vs Hares Part III: Hunter Pence and Elvis Andrus
We’ve been discussing the value of base running, stolen bases, and speed. So far, in Part I of this series, we looked at the Major League Baseball leaders in “Runner on First Scores on a Double (1stDH).” Part II of this series looks at league leaders who have led the league in “Reaching Third Base or Scoring from First Base on a […]
Team USA Basketball: Scrimmage Recap, Boxscore and Crystal Ball Predictions
It’s not a good time to be a young lawyer in the ole U.S. of A. but when it comes to rising basketball stars, the future couldn’t be brighter. Team USA had an internal scrimmage yesterday that had the country’s best up-and-comers vying for a spot on Coach K’s (Mike Krzyzewski ) 2014 World Cup […]
Fantasy Hockey: Avoid Goaltenders Who Blow Up Your Head To Head Teams
On Thursday I wrote about how a team’s possession rates probably won’t make a goalie’s stats much worse unless the goalie was terrible to begin with (Steve Mason), but how a team’s penalty killing can affect just about any goaltender for better (James Reimer in 2013) or for worse (James Reimer from 2010-2012). There’s a […]