Original post by Dudski
OK, the 17th annual Illinois-Carolina roto league baseball draft is over. Here’s what I ended up with:
Downtown Dunn: Does Adam Dunn even have a nickname? “The Red Menace” works, “The Redabomber” probably doesn’t. In any case, my first pick at #6. Just drop the 40 HR’s and [...]
By Bread and Circuses
A little bit of must reading as you listen to announcers getting sentimental about Georgetown’s trip to the Final Four under John Thompson Jr.
NYtimes.com
It’s a story of how a player with a 1.33 GPA whose high school transcript had 9 passing grades and 12 F’s (including Phys Ed) got admitted into Georgetown [...]
By Bread and Circuses
Holidays divide the year into manageable parts, commemorating all manner of religious and secular occasions. There’s one tomorrow, but you won’t find it on any calendar. It’s draft day. Roto draft day.
Since 1989 I’ve been part of the Carolina-Illinois League. It started with myself and a local doctor. [...]
Spurned. True love left broken and sad. Hey wait, no one’s dancin’ with that coach!!
Billy Gillispie, so we’re told, has declined the offer to coach the Arkansas Razorbacks. Well, actually, Gillispie was never officially offered the job. Seems his AD Bill "Slow" Byrne never gave Arkansas permission to talk to Gillispie until he had a firm [...]
The hottest news on the college coaching carousel is the Kentucky job, left open when Tubby Smith bolted for the still waters of Minnesota. Speculation has been rampant. Everyone from Calipari to Donavan to Pitino to Crean to Izzo has been mentioned for the job. Calipari and Pitino immediately took their names out of the [...]
Should the Bears take the Redskins offer to swap first round picks (getting the 6th and giving up the 31st along with the rights to all pro linebacker Lance Briggs)?
NO! Absolutely not. Nada. Nyet. Un-uh. No way. Forget it.
Right now the Bears have Briggs services because they hung [...]
So Pacman Jones is going to meet with Roger Goodell. Probably the first such meeting to start with the commissioner telling the player, "My family knows I’m meeting with you and if I’m not back in an hour they have been instructed to call the police."
Message to Kobe Bryant. I’ve eaten every negative [...]
Come on, people. We’re letting Payton Manning off much too easy. One Saturday Night Live does not make this guy Chris Rock. Alot of people have invested alot of time hating him. Are we just going to let all that negativity, all those nasty blog entries go to waste? Because [...]
March Madness could just as easily be called March Mundanity. So many platitudes, so little substance. The coaches talk in coach speak, the players talk in cliches, and the announcers talk endlessly without saying anything.
It’s probably for the best. If I got to hear the interviews and comments I want, [...]
Bob Woolmer went down hard, just like the Pakistani cricket team he coached. The Jamaican hotel room he was found in had blood on the floors. A bone in his throat was broken. A police investigator said he suspects more than one man would have been involved to subdue Woolmer. He was a big man, [...]