Posts by Shane Ryan
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Fantasy Fantasy Football: The Experts’ Week 8 Picks
It’s time again for the most important weekly feature on the Internet: Fantasy Fantasy Football. Throughout the NFL season, we’ll be evaluating five fantasy football gurus as they tell us who to start and sit each week. Using a highly flawed method based loosely on mathematical principles, we’ll attempt to reveal the one true football […]
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About Last Night: If the Glove Fits …
In case you were out living a life of leisure, here’s what you missed in sports on Tuesday. In an annual major league baseball tradition, the best hitters at every position were awarded for their fielding.
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About Last Night: Cry Me a Rivers
In case you were out living a life of leisure, here’s what you missed in sports on Monday. With his team poised to kick a game-winning field goal, Chargers QB Philip Rivers fumbled a snap that allowed the Chiefs to recover and send the game into overtime, where they won 23-20. Both teams are now […]
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Video: The 2011 MLB Season In Review
Already missing baseball? Us too! To help you detox from a season to remember and a playoffs we’ll never forget here are a few of the highlights from the 2011 season. May Francisco Liriano throws a no-hitter: Brandon Guyer hits a home run in his first career at-bat: Justin Verlander no-hits the Blue Jays:
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College Football Recap: Stanford Survives
For the past two Saturday nights, football fans have lived a charmed life. Last week, we got the Hail Mary Game. This week, there was a slice of triple-overtime insanity when undefeated Stanford survived a scare from USC. Those were the best games of the year, and the Musburger-Herbstreit duo were on the scene for […]
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About Last Weekend: The Ballad of Halloween
In case you were out living a life of leisure, here’s what you missed in sports last weekend. On Halloween Morn we gather the bones of the clashes Burn up the skeleton weekend and scatter the ashes. The fins from the Florida tip whom combatants adore
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The Silver Paradox, or Why Rangers Fans Should Take Heart
If you believe in destiny, aura, bad luck, momentum, or even the curse of the missed opportunity, you’ve probably written off the Texas Rangers. After last night’s excruciating loss, when the franchise’s first World Series was a single, tantalizing strike away on two separate occasions, they seem doomed to falter tonight. Think back to Bill […]
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About Last Night: Drama Kings
In case you were out living a life of leisure, here’s what you missed in sports on Thursday. After the Rangers had the Cardinals down to their final strike in the ninth and tenth innings and failed to finish them off, David Freese hit a walk-off home run in the eleventh to give the Cardinals […]
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Week 9 College Football Preview: The Week Before the Week
Week 9 is an opening act. Week 9 is a kid brother. Week 9 is the junior-varsity game, starting at 5 p.m. Week 9 is trying out conversational tidbits in front of the mirror before the big date. (You guys do that too, right?) Week 9 is a house salad with vinaigrette dressing when you […]
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About Last Night: Blame It on the Rain
In case you were out living a life of leisure, here’s what you missed in sports on Wednesday. Inclement weather postponed Game 6 of the World Series, but Rangers manager Ron Washington says he won’t use starter Derek Holland on full rest even if the series goes to a seventh game. Cardinals manager Tony La […]
