Fantasy Hype Train vol. III: Warm Cinders in the Wreckage

Hype can get the better of even our most seasoned, down-to-earth veterans in this most dangerous of games.* Only so much of fantasy football can be planned for; as I've purported many times, it is a dice game at even its best, and one bad roll can lead to the whole roster failing. Those "bad rolls"...

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Fantasy Hype Train vol. II: Hopping the Rails

Self-attribution bias theorizes that, if a single person experiences success, it was by their own doing, while setbacks or failures come about due to others or circumstances or anything BUT that given person's actions. It leads to people erroneously trusting in their own decisions and ideas without...

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Fantasy Hype Train, vol. I: Drink the Kool-Aid

Training camp: where sanity and restraint go to die. Player reports flood in, dripping with optimism and hyperbole. We've all heard the beats before; "Player X looks better than anyone I've seen step onto this field EVER," "His catch radius is the size of the Voyager 2 spacecraft," "If Rice and Sanders...

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Five Nuggets of Wisdom to Keep in Mind at Your First Draft

Congratulations to you, new fantasy footballer, on prancing over the metaphorical Rubicon and joining our collective degeneracy! I welcome you with open arms and a somewhat less-than-appropriate erection, assuredly a natural result of my excitement. Entering this world of statistics, names, procedure, and strategy can seem daunting, but push your fears into that dark corner of your brain filled with...

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About Last Night: Rangers 1, Flames 0

No Nash. No Lundqvist. No Problem. Calgary is no slouch and a 1-0 victory against a good team is just what the doctor ordered. They not only keep pace with the Islanders (also victorious last night) but finally show that they don’t have to score 5 goals each night to win. So here’s the...

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Catch-All: Value in the Second Tier of Wide Receivers in the 2015 NFL Draft

ALERT! Combine fever threatens to infect us all! Vigilance is your first and best defense, so keep a keen watch for the signs. Symptoms include a fever spike, leading to scorching hot takes; vertigo and neck spasms, from watching players leap skyward over and over; carpal tunnel syndrome after calculating...

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Hindsight is 20-20(14): The Dallas Cowboys' Season in Review

Nobody expected much out of the Dallas Cowboys in 2014. Mind you, that's not a set up for paragraph upon paragraph of I-told-you-sos; my prediction for Dallas coming into the year, as seasoned listeners of Third and Long may recall, was a less-than-rosy six wins. Rather, it's an indication of the way...

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Perfect Time for the Spotlight in New York to be on Hockey…For Good?

Let’s be honest Rangers fans, no one wants the Islanders to go well. I am no exception to this strain of the thought, but however they are and Rangers fans can’t ignore that anymore. However, with this resurgence in the rivalry it can only mean good things for hockey in the soon to be shared Big Apple. Hear...

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About Last Night – Rangers 6, Islanders 5

Rangers 6, Islanders 5 Holy. Shit. This was a wildly entertaining game and if you missed it, I’m sorry. Normally 6-5 is a poor game with bad defense and goaltending but this was simply just a showcase of 2 very talented teams who didn’t give up. If this ends up being a playoff series, Jesus take...

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What's Wrong With Youth Hockey?

For me, there’s nothing better in the world than going outside and playing hockey on a pond or an outdoor rink. However, through my own observations on the youth of the country, or as a whole are not following in this trend. Now, at the risk of sounding like an old-timer at the age of 23,...

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