Posts by Shane Ryan
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Fantasy Fantasy Football: The Experts’ Week 3 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: The Nation’s National Nightmare
In case you were out living a life of leisure, here’s what you missed in sports on Monday. The emerging month-long nightmare for the Boston Red Sox is closer than ever to being realized. With a 6-3 loss to the lowly Baltimore Orioles, Boston is now tied atop the wild card race with Tampa Bay. […]
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Gordon’s Left Foot: The College Football Recap
Let’s confront the scourge of college football. Forget the boosters, the agents, the arrests, and the embarrassing lack of a playoff. Those distractions can be stored in the attic of our minds on Saturdays. What’s really aggravated me recently — and what I’m convinced will soon have a major impact on a big game — […]
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About Last Weekend: The Nation Survives
In case you were out living a life of leisure, here’s what you missed in sports over the weekend. The Red Sox salvaged the tail end of a bad weekend with a 14th-inning victory over the Yankees Sunday night. Jacoby Ellsbury hit the game-winning home run, and the Sox, who dropped the previous two to […]
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About Last Night: Yankees In Name Only
In case you were out living a life of leisure, here’s what you missed in sports on Thursday Matt Moore earned an important win in his first major league start as the Rays beat the Yankees 15-8 and pulled within two games of the wild card and the idle Red Sox. His signature victory came […]
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The College Football Spectacular: Week 4 Preview
Lately I’ve been getting that panicky feeling in the pit of my stomach that lets me know the weeks are about to get really long. It’s a seasonal thing. Once baseball ends there is literally nothing to get us from Sunday night to Saturday morning. OK, not literally. Maybe you’ve got friends. Maybe family. But […]
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About Last Night: Crown The Yankees
In case you were out living a life of leisure, here’s what you missed in sports on Wednesday. The Yankees have clinched the American League East. A clutch 8th-inning single by Jorge Posada put the Bombers past the Rays 4-2. Posada admitted that he thought his hit came in the ninth inning, and wondered why […]
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About Last Night: Full Tilt Ponzi
In case you were out living a life of leisure, here’s what you missed in sports on Tuesday The U.S. Attorney’s office has amended the complaint against Full Tilt Poker, an online gambling site, to note that it was run as a “massive Ponzi scheme.” FTP apparently didn’t have the necessary cash on hand to […]
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Fantasy Fantasy Football: A Look at the Experts’ Week 2 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 premiere 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: N.Y.’s Ultimate Savior
In case you were out living a life of leisure, here’s what you missed in sports on Monday Mariano Rivera now has the most saves of any closer in MLB history. Rivera collected his 602nd regular season save in a 6-4 win over the Twins, passing Trevor Hoffman on the all-time list. “The save is […]
