Two Degrees, Or one?

So, I've got a facebook friend (helped him do Spanish homework in high school) and his friends include Donald Driver, Jason Kyle, Lavar Arrington, Rodney Heath, and Carol Best. Funny thing is, Carol Best is probably the least likely to accept my friend request.

As per the email...

draft results have been entered, now waiting for Price/Waterhouse to certify the results.

More forthcoming later...

AND WE'RE OFF!!!!!

Draft results are in, and the season is running!

Draft analysis post!

Thanks to everyone for either coming out or tuning in last night, it was good times.

Figured we could fire up a post here and discuss the why and what nots of the draft. Several of us went through last night and "Kipered" the draft, but I thought we could post here and have a free flowing discussion that may touch on mature subjects.

On a side note, if we need to make any changes to scoring, we need to do that before the season begins (we had discussed at one point giving bonuses to 300+ yard passers or 200 yard rushers or 100(?) yard receivers).

Still sort of stunned by the amount of shit I got for handcuffing Mewelde Moore with an 11th round pick

Considering that he gained about 8 pts per game last season, while Julius Jones averaged 4; Chester averaged about 7 - so I'm confused why I would get shit about getting a better player for a later pick.

Maybe Fast Willie wont break his leg, or Mendenhall wont break his collar bone, but considering he has 500 total yards and 4 total touchdowns in 2 games so far -- if he ever gets playing time, I can live with 37 pts per game from my #4 RB.

I cant believe the amount of shit I got for a 13th round pick

2 preseason games:

Catches 32
Yards 501
TDs 4

Granted its preseason, but... he's a 13th round pick.

Am I supposed to be held responsible for the fact that a website had his name transposed ?

Anyway, if my #3 receiver is pulling down 37 pts a game, I can live with that.

Why Jared Cook ???

I'm simply stunned by the amount of shit I got over my 12th round pick
Umm... Head coach Jeff Fisher said, "He has got that ability to play outside. It is another weapon. It is Chris Johnson at the tight end position."




Bo Scaife:

The leading receiver for the Titans last year was slow to sign the franchise tender until the uber-athletic Jared Cook was drafted and then he couldn't wait to sign. Scaife has never been productive in the red zone (his career YAC is hovering around 5 yards) and not to beat a dead horse, but this isn't exactly the "Air McNair" offense. Last season he hauled in 58 receptions (a career high) and he should see that number tail off this year. There are new targets in the same old offense and only so many balls to go around. You can't count on him for TDs and he is not going to catch 80 balls like the prolific pass catching TEs.

Jared Cook:

The Titans drafted the 6-foot-5, 246 pound TE from South Carolina in the third round -- another one of the athletic freaks the Titans love so much. Cook was compared to the Detroit Lions' genetic freak Calvin Johnson by his college coach, Steve Spurrier. That's high praise, but he may be a man without a position or he may be a hybrid with tons of potential. He has lined up at TE, H back, and WR in OTAs thus far and could serve as an even more athletic Chris Cooley for the Titans. He is intriguing in dynasty leagues, but for this year keep your distance (unless things really look up in the preseason).

Draft coverage!

I should have the webcam up and running in around an hour. For those who need to contact me via IM, my handle is: ConradBrean on AIM.

Lottery will start around 7:45ish...

Archived version of the lottery.



Draft order:
1) Smallville Crows
2) Spooner Express
3) The G.O.A.T.'s
4)
5) Corn Rocket
6) WMPTHv3.0
7) EH All Stars
8) Viable Draft Strategy
9) In Yo Grill
10) Sam Handwich

Crap!

Irving out for year.

Wow.

From Jason Sobel's Twitter:

Great stat from ESPN Research Dept.: Since start of '06, Tiger Woods has a better winning percentage than 10 different MLB teams. Wow.

Marlins, Padres, M's, Rays, Giants, Reds, O's, Royals, Pirates and Nats. All lower than TW's .4898%.

Relevant Text From Last Night

(201): My phone has seen less use in the last three days than Tom Brady's condoms.

Pujols

There are players with worse names than that:
Albert Pujols
Dickie Thon
Antonio Bastardo
Chet Lemon
Razor Shines
Rusty Kuntz
Boof Bonser
Harry Byrd
Dick Dietz
Kosuke Fukudome
“Ugly” Johnny Dickshot (ref)
Goose Gossage
Urban Shocker (ref)
Catfish Hunter
Greg Legg (ref)
Wonderful Terrific Monds III (ref)
Bartolo Colon
A-Rod

From our old list:

Gaylord Perry
Mackey Sasser
Rollie Fingers
Chili Davis
Oil Can Boyd
Mike Sweeny (Mike’s Weenie)
Coco Crisp
Lenny Dykstra
Chien Ming Wang
The Big Unit
Milton Bradley
Mookie Wilson
Dick Pole

Who the fuck is ?Catfish Hunter

Green Man Lives On!

Did he pay the troll toll?

TO Apologizes

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

Yahoo now supports both real time scoring for everyone, and keeper leagues!

Holy Shit, they also support Free Agent Acquisition Budgets for waivers (that should get Trey excited, and this is one of the things that I wouldn't mind discussing changing for this season)!

Goddamn all of you for not reading the blog in real time!

Also, was getting ready to renew the league, but wanted to check with everyone on the settings. Any issues with can't cut lists or transaction numbers; what about waiver availability?

Any issues with scoring? I know we discuss this every year for a minute or two, but are there any issues?

Did we want to add another roster spot?

Does anyone read these posts?

Let me know as I start to set this stuff up in the next few days.

Pre-season polling !!!

GREENSBORO, N.C. -- The results are in, and Virginia Tech was predicted to win the ACC championship -- again. Georgia Tech running back Jonathan Dwyer was picked as the 2009 Preseason ACC Player of the Year. There were 87 total votes.

Here's how the voting broke down:

ATLANTIC DIVISION

1. Florida State (56)
2. Clemson (14)
3. NC State (10)
4. Wake Forest (7)
5. Maryland
6. Boston College

COASTAL DIVISION

1. Virginia Tech (78)
2. Georgia Tech (9)
3. North Carolina
4. Miami
5. Virginia
6. Duke

PREDICTED ACC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME WINNER

1. Virginia Tech (69)
2. Florida State (7), Georgia Tech (7)
3. Clemson (2), NC State (2)

2009 PRESEASON ACC PLAYER OF THE YEAR

1. Jonathan Dwyer, Georgia Tech (39, and Happy Belated Birthday to Dwyer, who turned 20 on Sunday)
2. C.J. Spiller, Clemson, (28)
3. Russell Wilson, NC State (16)
4. Christian Ponder, FSU; Vic Hall, Virginia; Tyrod Taylor, Virginia Tech; Riley Skinner, Wake Forest (1)

Vernon Forrest Killed in Atlanta

Seriously what is going on here? Is it just me or are a lot of prominent entertainers and athletes dying or getting killed.

http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=4356715

It has begun...

Draft kit ordered!

Note, I've added a Google Docs version of the rosters off to the right for your perusal (this is the same spreadsheet that I sent via email).

Ultimate gets 2 seconds on ESPN!

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=4347447

2 people from Triangle on the20person roster.

Fantasy Draft?

Weekend of Aug 21st good for everyone ???

Sexyama debut

What did you guys think of the fight? Ok fight but the first judge scored all three rounds for Akiyama (wtf). Realistically it is a hard fight to score. The first round was a toss up. Belcher knocked Akiyama down but then got taken down by Akiyamam. Second round went to Sexyama no doubt. By the third round the eyepoke was working on Akiyama heavily but legal leg kicks were destroying his left leg. Thoughts.

Boom!

crappy vid but awesome double knee to the face

Some of you may remember the Eastman Vs. Belfort fight. Fast forward to 1:00.

He's coming!

moral victories abound

Pack Basketball Records ACC's Top APR

I was surfing around during an exam and found this on Go Pack from May. The degrees were mostly fluff; 2 sports management, 2 management, a communication and a biological science degree (listed in perceived degrees of difficulty).

Controversial Stoppage?

Fuck no!

Maybe Bellator deserves an English language TV deal!

Crazy Shit.

Inverted triangle choke!

Oh Bron Bron.

Too good.

For the 'Guar

Coincidence? I think not.

UFC 100 on 7/11 is definitely one of the best UFC cards of all time. Check out this lineup.

UFC 100 Fight Card!

Meanwhile 7/11 is the expected arrival of Baby 'Uar. Coincidence.......

It's about time for another one of these:

Needed to add:

John Wall

Is apparently now looking at NC A&T. It would be nice, especially if he doesn't pick NC State.

Was I the only one unable to watch the Canes game?

When I turned it on, it was the old school test pattern, and the Tivo said it was blacked out.
Anyone else???

"x-compensatory selection"

so what is a compensatory selection? I've never followed drafts intently but I saw this on the later rounds in the paper this morning. . . I would like to point out that Al Davis rocks to the beat of his own drummer, possibly ignoring everyone, including his own staff during draft weekend. The drafting of really fast guys has paid off so many times before. . .

Really Trent? Really?

Trent Dilfer said that if Mark Sanchez, Sam Bradford, Colt McCoy, Tim Tebow, and Matthew Stafford went to go get a burger that Mark Sanchez would be driving, because he's the best leader that everyone gravitates to.

I know I'm a homer, but if Mark Sanchez was such a great leader why couldn't he beat out John David Booty his Freshman and Sophmore years. If all his teammates loved him why was he riding the pine.

Tebow has played since he was a true freshman and that was with a National Championship Sr. QB playing. Now Sanchez may drive, but only because Tebow wants him to feel good about himself.

Gonzalez Trade!!!!

The only thing I ever liked about the Chiefs was Tony G. (that I can think of). With Matt Ryan's rookie season . . . .

What a game!

Canes score the winning goal with 0.1 seconds left! Series Tied 2-2

Nice...

New ECU Logo

Big Rob headin' to Raleigh

Recruiting for the Pack info!

this kid has been known as Big Rob since 2nd grade?

Not sure about the Singer kid, but Rob is unmistakeable in the hallways. . .

Very exciting.

I am officially addicted to the MLB Network

even though Billy Ripken is one weird, creepy looking dude. And Joe Magrane looks like some kind of cut rate Bruce Campbell.

Holy Shit!

What a catch in the Cubs game!

So, ummm...

this final round of The Masters is pretty f-ing incredible.

Also

Tom kicked all of our asses in the bracket challenge this year.

Are there only 12 decent female

hoops players in college? What is it about women's collegiate sports that lends itself to all these dynasties (UT basketball, UNC soccer, UConn hoops, UCLA softball(?))?

Is it just a lack of overall talent in these sports, so if one team can grab up all of the solid players, BAM, they're a dynasty?

Or is this a situation where skill actually matters more? That is, in men's sports, skill can often be neutralized by pure athleticism; whereas the ladies don't normally have that luxury. Thus, the more skilled teams in women's hoops tend to win out and their tournament is relatively sucky (that, and the fact that a 1 seed may have to play on a 9 seeds home floor in the second round).

Addendum: apparently, UCONN is the first hoops program (men or women) to beat every team ON ITS ENTIRE SCHEDULE by 10 or more points!

Hudson, this is your reminder...

The Red-White spring game is April 18th at 1pm. Anyone?

OBVIOUSLY photoshopped.

Ironic Title Standings and next year?

If UNC wins to go to Detroit, and Louisville Doesn't win out. We're all going to be pretty close. . .

So does the Big East graduate a lot of talent or is the ACC going to have to get used to playing 2nd or 4th fiddle???

Pitt Nova

this game may be the best of the whole tourney. . .

Go Pack!

Wow. Bracketology is NOT my strong suit

Couple of shitty picks later (FSU in the Final Four ????) and I'm completely done after the first weekend.

points in pool vs points per round

SO here's where the points per pool system rocks. Who didn't pick wake to win. I'm going to get hosed if they can't come up with 15+ points in 4:30. However in TrayDee's points per players pooling system. we'd all come out even on it. . .

I just bought a James Hardy jersey!

I never tire of these:

I'm sure it seemed like a funny idea at the time, but...

Wow. Kind of glad that he was the 1st player I dropped

Donte Stallworth -- not looking so good as a keeper.
More to follow, but it appears he killed someone.

Is this even legal ???

No shoes ???
I thought there were minimum rules to what you had to wear when you play.

Scary!

Ann Wolfe and James Kirkland are two of the scariest people that you could ever come across. It's hard to explain but when you see them on TV its scary.

The trainer that trained Ann Wolfe and James when he was a kid, says they have demons in them.

Ann Wolfe was in the emergency room in her early twenties after her father was murdered and mother died of cancer, and saw women's boxing on TV and Said to her self "Shit. I'll fight if they pay me! Oh I get to fight women too?!? Fuck I kill a bitch"

Now she trains James Kirkland. She trains him unbelievably harshly. Makes him shovel tires across a field! Puts a heavy bag on the front of a truck and he needs to hit it as she drives at him! This of course will help him fight effectively when stepping back! Let not practice this with human beings lets back him up with a car because he won't back up for people.

Very scary!

Addendum: So I'm sorry to boxing poop it, but if you want to see one man beat on another man for 18 minutes, you should have watched this fight. Meanwhile the guy taking the beating (Joel Julio) probably has the most power in the 154 pound weight class, caught Kirkland flush a bunch of times, and Kirkland just walked right through them like it was nothing.

The dude is like the Terminator, but has bad defense so he gets hit a lot but it doesn't faze him. His hardcore training and preparation makes him tough to knockout. He could be beat, but it will be him getting caught by the perfect shot. The problem is do you want to take a beating the likes of which you have never taken to luck out and land that punch???

I love the fights that have your heart pumping because guys are trading bombs, laying it all out there, in a totally chaotic fashion.

I don't ask for much

but SI.com says that Torry Holt and the Panthers are a fit and that he once expressed an interest.

I Try Not to Post Random Linked Things

but I find KSK funny, and they seem to have captured what I would imagine a conversation between these two would be like.

Car boats!

This May Sound Silly

since I only ever knew him as an announcer for the Bulls, but I had no idea that Johnny 'Red' Kerr (who died this week) was 6'10''. I also didn't know that he was the Phoenix Suns first coach.

Did you guys see...

some dude is claiming to be "outing" Troy Aikman?

I'm not saying I'm gay or anything, but with those gigantic hands, imagine what kind of back rubs he could give.


***SAN***
I can't find a video of the Tick rubbing Omnipotus' feet, but I think it would be like that.

Free Agency starts...

and the Grossman era ends!

Oh yeah, this...

Re-goddamn-diculous.

11 Points in 46 Seconds!

What could possibly top this?

Tiger Woods Return

The worst thing to happen in sports in the last 30 years would be if Tiger Woods was on steroids, right? Why doesn't anyone make mention of this? There are way too many people now who don't look like they are on roids who are, so who the hell knows.

Sidekick note: Stupid long comment after the jump, probably should have just made a separate post

Go Sparky!!!

Washington vs. ASU for #1 in the PAC 10 !

Looks as if the Panthers franchised J.Peppers.

I can't imagine he's too happy -- I saw he wanted to go to Dallas.
Anyway, if they bring in a coach to do the 3-4, maybe he'll wash the sand out of his vahinta.

Go Sparky!

ASU upsets UCLA!

Wake Dropped Again!

This time, to us! Even after we blew a 20 point lead!

Duke and Wake dropped

It's like Christmas, except we didn't win. Too bad we don't get Duke at RBC. Do we have a trip to Miami or was that a single game this year?

Looks like we're getting at least 2 O Linemen

and 2 GIGANTIC tight ends.

Morgan Alexander ATH 5-10 180 4.5 5.6 Cartersville, GA
Jarvis Byrd DB 5-10 173 4.5 5.8 Pahokee, FL
Tyson Chandler DT 6-6 344 5.4 5.7 North Plainfield, NJ
Ryan Cheek LB 6-0 232 4.51 5.5 Lancaster, OH
Duran Christophe OL 6-6 275 - 5.5 Woodstock, GA
Donald Coleman LB 6-0 210 4.5 5.4 Princeton, NJ
Sylvester Crawford DE 6-5 230 4.62 5.5 Charlotte, NC
A.J. Ferguson DE 6-2 250 4.8 5.1 Southport, NC
Nathan Mageo DT 6-4 280 5.1 5.5 Roswell, NM
Quintin Payton WR 6-3 190 4.49 5.5 Anderson, SC
Deion Roberson DT 6-4 258 4.9 5.6 Tucker, GA
Brian Slay DT 6-2 276 4.9 5.6 Ashburn, VA
Rashard Smith ATH 5-10 180 4.5 5.4 Dublin, GA
Anthony Talbert TE 6-4 230 4.75 5.2 Cincinnati, OH
Chris Ward K 6-1 170 - 5.3 Fayetteville, GA
James Washington RB 5-10 170 4.43 5.6 Orlando, FL
Asa Watson TE 6-4 210 4.69 5.5 Rock Hil, SC
Camden Wentz OL 6-2 276 - 5.6 Marietta, GA


COMMITTED/UNSIGNED

Brandan Bishop DB 6-1 200 - 5.5 Boca Raton, FL
Darryl Cato-Bishop DE 6-3 238 4.65 5.4 Dorchester, MA
Rickey Dowdy LB 6-1 229 4.6 5.7 High Point, NC
Denzelle Good OL 6-6 325 5.25 5.6 Gaffney, SC
Dean Haynes DB 6-0 180 4.5 5.2 Tunnel Hill, GA
Everett Proctor ATH 6-1 190 4.45 5.5 Fayetteville, NC
Raynard Randolph DT 6-3 300 5.2 5.7 Brandywine, MD
Hans Rice LB 6-3 195 4.5 5.5 Eufaula, AL
Bryan Underwood WR 5-9 162 4.4 5.7 Cleveland Heights, OH

And great googley moogly, look at this kid they're still after!!!
Arthur Lynch TE 6-5 240 4.7

Have Mercy!!!!!

Now let me just say that I'm extremly proud of my school and it's attempt to convert to Division-1 sports. However, it's going to be a long road. Thanks for laying down the hammer Wolfpack.

BRIGHT SPOT FOR THE NIGHT: It was a 10 point game at the half!!!!

Does this mean his pussy is ripped?

Torn labrum?

Well, that sucked.

Left the Sidekick's close to 10, Steelers were up 20-7 I think, maybe 9 minutes left.
BUT... we had been DVR-ing the game, so "reality" was quite different.
How was I to know that Warner led 2 drives down, put the cards up 23-20 with 2 minutes to go.
T Bone calls and is like "MOTHER FUCKER!!! Big Ben pulled another one out"
I of course was like ?????
Text from the Sidekick -- I ASSUME there was another fairly shitty call against the Cards giving the 'Burg 15 yards and a 1st down.

Curses.

Why I Love Boxing: Part 3

When the most unexpected thing happens! The Mosley-Margarito fight was totally unbelievable! Watching in on free HBO made it all that much better. For all of you with HBO, go watch it or DVR it tomorrow morning, go find it On Demand or anyway you can get it, because it was awesome!

Oh yeah and Fedor.......... Only one guy on the planet who can knock out a 240lb man in mid-air throwing a flying knee. Probably need to go to YouTube to catch that.

I'm going to have to say easily in the Top 5 of fight nights we have watched. SK?

SK Update with Pics
Here's what Arlovski was trying to do:



Here's what he did:



Another angle:

Good Woman, Good Memories

Man, this sucks, she was a good woman...Kay Yow Died. And what pisses me off is that she is such a positive influence and if you go to cnn.com the headline story is about a bikini model that died.

Truer words have never been LOL-ed

I assume Jeff Kent is a first ballot HoFer in 2013

solely on being the leader in HR @ 2nd base, top 20 in doubles, couple golden gloves, etc...
Any disagreement?

The Steelers, at least on defense, are pretty good.

Troy Aikman's Hands

I know we discuss this all the time, but its scary everytime I see them. they are the size of baseball mitts. It looks like he could palm two basketballs at once.

Freaky.

I actually liked the girl who did the National Anthem

for the NFC game -- someone find me a link!!!

Go Sparky !!!

Ariz. State gets defensive, pulls off 61-58 upset of No. 7 UCLA

Holy crap!! We were down 8 with 3 minutes left!!!

Georgia Tech 71 vs. N.C. State 76 Final

Finally!!! Somebody calling it like they see it!!!

Fucking gigantic robot!!!

when comments are whack, yo

found this one by accident, I may be miles behind the curve. . .

Yo Comments Are Whack in the spirit of Sir Surfs A Lot?

Indeed.

YIKES!!!

Former N.C. State basketball player faces felony charge

Posted: Today at 3:01 p.m.
Updated: 34 minutes ago

Raleigh, N.C. — A former N.C. State basketball player has been charged with a felony count of obtaining property by false pretenses.

Gavin Grant, 23, surrendered to authorities Tuesday on the charge, which stems from credit card fraud at Saks on Oct. 14, 2008, authorities said.

Another person, Paige Gilliam, 25, has also been charged with three counts of obtaining property by false pretenses.

Funniest comment section I've ever read.

RE: Lebron James' tattoos


carpe diem Says:
June 4th, 2007 at 11:11 am
Horrible tats!!! The only good one is the one of his moms name, it’s also the only tat that doesn’t have something to do with him. Can you say conceeded!!


james Says:
June 15th, 2007 at 2:35 pm
Yeah, I can say “conceeded”, but it wouldn’t mean anything…


zak Says:
June 16th, 2007 at 4:02 pm
uhmm…first of all, conceded is spelled with one E you illiterate one

Eddy Curry is like a big, gay Hal

'Come and touch it, Dave'

2 things:

1) Would this classify as one of the scariest things that you could possibly ever hear? Not only would he be oiled and naked, but he'd also be calling you Dave when that's not your name.

2) This makes me sad that we don't have a fantasy basketball league.

Edit to add:

I'm now going to put the image of Mr. Curry doing this into your head forever (some things can't be unimagined):

Life and an ABC fan

Has an occasional reward like Wake pwning them in everything but rebounding and especially a slight edge in scoring!!!!!

So the Panthers are getting their shit kicked right now

We suck.

That is all.

Well, thats the end of college football.

Sweet Dee is working on the ACC pick'em, but its $30 a month, so much like 90% of our other great ideas, I see this one falling by the wayside.

I think a new rule for broadcasting sports...

If you dont show any regular season games, you cannot do playoffs & championships.

This Fox team SUCKS.
The younger guy will say some garbage like "I think Florida is gonna bring the heat this time." Then they rush 3 - back to back plays.

Also -- Fox cant make up their mind about whether they even want to show the play clock, whether its going down, or whether its going up. Grrrr!!!!

So did we all think the same thing at the same time???

WHAT THE FUCK IS RON CHERRY DOING REFFING THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP ???

Only 5 or 6 short months....

until pre-season polls have OSU ranked in the Top 10... again.

We REALLY suck @ organization

Bowl pick'em ... kind of weak.

ACC Fantasy Bball... ummm... kind of never happened.

Look -- I'm just a social director. You fucktards need to TCB.

Bowl-shit.

I know that the Sidekick & I have both bitched about the number of bowls that got stretched WAYYYYY beyond New Years Day.
The National Championship should be tomorrow night, no if, ands or buts.


But then... football will be over.
Insert sad emoticon.

Whats it gonna cost to get Tony Romo???

Stupid Texas Tech

I THINK they were 6.5 or 7 point favorites.
Fuckers.

I do love the Ole Miss fans yelling "Overrated".