I recently took up the challenge to become a better beer drinker. I know, it's not like I devoted myself to helping a leper colony or anything, but still. So after connecting with another blog, we decided to post guest posts on each other's sites. Bryan Roth wrote 12 Great Craft Beers For 12 Great …
You know how playing softball once a week doesn't make you a Major League Baseball player? Well, I've been drinking beer for, well, at least 39 years now. (I have pics of tasting a beer as a 2-year-old, which explains a lot!) Let me just get this straight. I'm not suggesting that you should start …
My latest Fantasy column on SportsIllustrated.com discusses some of my tenets and philosophies when it comes to approaching a 2012 Fantasy Football draft. I talk about handcuffing running backs, along with a discussion about taking a backup quarterback or tight end. But the most discussed part of that article was my refusal to take Patriots …
When I was a kid, I collected everything to do with sports -- it was something my Dad helped me with. I collected sports cards, magazines, hats, posters, tickets and anything else you could imagine. But once I became an adult (I swear it happened), and began moving from house to house, apartment to apartment, condo …
Trent Richardson enters the NFL season as the most anticipated rookie running back in Fantasy Football since Darren McFadden came out of Arkansas in 2008. He’s the highest drafted running back (No. 3 overall) since Reggie Bush was taken with the second pick by the Saints in 2006. Running backs can have the biggest Fantasy …
Earlier, I looked at the Average Fantasy Rankings for Quarterbacks, and found a few players that several sites are in disagreement about, including Peyton Manning and Philip Rivers. But running backs – the backbone of any good Fantasy Football team – are usually the most deliberated of positions, and the average Fantasy Football rankings for …
After going over the Fantasy Football rankings for some of the major media sites, like CBSSports.com, ESPN.com and NFL.com, I posted the averages for your viewing pleasure. Several people messaged me to request I do the same, but with some of the other Fantasy Football sites. And I thought – what a great idea! I …
Taking Arian Foster first overall seems to be the smart pick for 2012, but what does the Fantasy Football history of the No. 1 pick suggest? Considering the No. 1 pick in Fantasy Football is more important than in any other Fantasy sport, you have to take this situation seriously! There are very few things that …
What is the shelf life of Fantasy Football first overall picks? How long can a stud remain the No. 1 pick? I went back to 1971 and examined the first picks in Fantasy Football in every season up through last year. I only broke down the running back position, assuming they would be the top …
For a few years now, everyone has been talking about dual running-back systems and how they have been affecting the world of Fantasy Football. So I thought I’d go back and take a look at how things went about a decade ago, back when Marshall Faulk and The Greatest Show on Turf was dominating most …
The offseason is slowly passing us by, with Offseason Training Activities in full force and the NFL Draft well behind us. That means that many websites are starting to post their offseason Fantasy Football Rankings at each position and their top 200 players overall. Rather than just look at one site's set of rankings, I …
If you read my previous column, then you know that I have little to no advice to give on how to use the D.E.N.N.I.S. system (Shout out to all you Always Sunny fans out there). My only chance of demonstrating value is explaining what BABIP means, and why it is so important when deciphering hot …
