Monthly Archives: November 2008

Quarter-Pole NHL Power Rankings

The San Jose Sharks have run like a well oiled machine so far in 08-09. Abundant scoring is coming from a variety of places, while their off-season defensive acquisitions, Dan Boyle and Rob Blake, have played magnificently. Even when their … Continue reading

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Football Survivor Picks, Week 13

Argh! These Thursday games are killing me! I knew I should have just posted quickly on Wednesday to take Tennessee this week, as my top pick and evidenced again by me using them in our original survivor pool. And then … Continue reading

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Prepping For Burke

As talk in the NHL heats up about the possibilities of Brian Burke taking over for Cliff Fletcher as GM of hockey’s most valuable hockey franchise, the Toronto Maple Leafs, Fletcher makes perhaps his final move in the Leafs’ front … Continue reading

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How Not to Look Like a Genius

Simple, start writing about football and give football opinions. A football is, uh, football shaped because it does some crazy things, or maybe the other way around. Either or, predicting the NFL with a great degree of accuracy is difficult … Continue reading

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Football Survivor Picks, Week 12

The Steelers polished off the Bengals on Thursday Night Football. While this isn’t very useful now, my number one pick this week was the Steelers, as evidenced by my pick in the original survivor pool for Week 12. Hey, I would … Continue reading

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Tie Game Gets the Boot

Thankfully, the rules in each of our survivor pools specifically stated that the team you pick needs to WIN their game. A loss or a tie results in getting eliminated from the pool. Not that I expected a tie. There … Continue reading

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Hot Or Not?

Chicago Blackhawks’ defenseman Cam Barker has been a one-man fantasy wrecking crew these past two weeks, and what’s even better is that he’s currently owned in only a quarter of fantasy hockey pools. When the ‘Hawks drafted Barker 3rd overall … Continue reading

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Stealing Slow-Starting Talent From the Impatient

If you’re looking to shake up your lineup and are willing to sacrifice some of your producing players, there are several elite forwards that have gotten off to slow starts, but are much too explosive to ignore. You may be … Continue reading

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Football Survivor Picks, Week 11

Bye weeks are over for 2008, so now there are a couple more games to choose from for our survivor picks. Of course, 11 weeks in, and assuming the “can’t use the same team twice” rule that applies in most … Continue reading

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Hot Stove League 2

More from baseball’s hot stove: Nick Swisher to the New York Yankees. This move is good for Swisher, assuming he gets at bats. With a very full outfield, Swisher looks like a lock for first base. Assuming Johnny Damon doesn’t … Continue reading

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