Sports Talk
For those of you uninterested in sports, fantasy or otherwise, you are advised to skip this entry.
- Up until the past year, I never realized how shady the world of college sports was. It's so sad and disturbing to hear about all the kinds of stuff that goes on - and that's just when they get caught. I guess most of it is caused by the fact that a lot of money is at stake. At least in professional sports, everyone knows that it's all about money and profit. But in college sports, all the schools try to talk about how academics is always a priority, while it's obvious that it isn't. So you have all this stuff happening behind the scenes and a lot ugliness that is swept underneath the rug. You gotta wonder, what scandal or tragedy is gonna be uncovered next?
- Yesterday was the McNown league draft. I went into the draft pretty unprepared this year, but came out feeling ok about how my team turned out. Had the 8th pick, which excluded me from getting any studs (Tomlinson, Ricky Williams, Portis), but it's aight. I ended up with a top 3 of Ahman Green, Terrell Owens, and Daunte Culpepper, which is not fantastic, but decent. And I'm also especially excited because this is the first time I have had Brian Urlacher on my team.
More importantly, Week 1 already looks like it could make or break my season. I have still yet to ever beat Dave Chan's team and my boys desperately need some confidence to start the year off right. A preliminary look at the matchup follows:
*Taipei Dudalisks vs. Dudo Dominators*
QB: Daunte Culpepper vs. Kelly Holcomb
WR: Terrell Owens vs. Randy Moss
RB: Ahman Green vs. Deuce McAllister
TE: Bubba Franks vs. Marcus Pollard
WR/RB: Eddie George vs. Fred Taylor
WR/RB: Rod Gardner vs. Hines Ward
WR/RB: Curtis Conway vs. Isaac Bruce
K: Jason Elam vs. Joe Nedney
D: Brian Urlacher vs. Ray Lewis
D: Derrick Brooks vs. Takeo Spikes
D: Roy Williams vs. Mike Peterson
Hopefully by the end of Week 1, his team name will have to be changed to Dudo Dominatees.
- Usually by the time football season starts, I can focus all my attention towards football instead of baseball because the Sox are out of the pennant race and my fantasy baseball team is pretty much locked into 2nd place. But this year, the month of September looks like it will be very exciting baseball-wise. Sox have a decent chance of winning the Central, if they could find some way to beat crappy teams and win on the road. Two big ifs, but oh well. At least we have something to hope for. And in fantasy, my team is almost dead even with P's team for 1st right now. It should definitely be a interesting final month and a half of the season.
Currently playing on my Winamp: Maxwell - Lifetime
