The Madden side you never see
In honor of a new Madden being out and my not buying it until they fix franchise.
Woot.com’s merger with Amazon explained
I know I say this every time I find a picture of an adorable kitten, but please set aside 20 minutes to carefully read this entire email. Today is a big day in Woot history. This morning, I woke up to find Jeff Bezos the Mighty had seized our magic sword. Using the Arthurian model as a corporate structure was something our CFO had warned against from the very beginning, but now that’s water under the bridge. What is important is that our company is on the verge of becoming a part of the Amazon.com dynasty. And our plans for Grail.Woot are on indefinite hold.Woot.com CEO Matt Rutledge in an e-mail to staff announcing Woot's acquisition by Amazon
Emmit Smith’s war room
Emmit Smith's mock draft at Walterfootball.comNo. 1 Miami Dolphins: Matt Ryan, QB, Boston College University In the 2007 regular season, the Miami Dolphin became the first winless team to ever win a game in a regular season. Why did this happen, you ask? No talent in and around the locker room. You have Clyde Lemon at quarterback. You have Ronnie Brown at running back. He had been banged up. And you have Chris Chambers at receiver. He was sent sailin to San Francisco, or the Windy City, so to speak.
No. 2 St. Louis Rams: Jake Long, OT, Michigan The Rams have not played confident football in three weeks… or three years, to be more precise. But the Rams are very close to winning the NFC W… South. All they need to do is find themselves a big ol’ offensive tackle who make big open holes for their running back Steven Johnson. Los Angeles… they give up, or they had given up 48 sacks on the year each week. That is why Marc Bulger is spendin too much time gettin roughed up in the behind.
Jesus and Dennis
And Jesus went into the field where the rye was growing, and Dennis did follow Jesus, and though Dennis had to tarry to keep apace, Jesus said it was still too close, and said, Dennis, why are you always with me like a shadow when even my own brother is not with me like this? and said, I go to you Dennis as a man goes to a 7-Eleven instead of to the village market, not because the 7-Eleven is better or less loathsome to him, but because the 7-Eleven is closer and always open, and the meaning of the parable was plain even to Dennis.McSweeney's
Deja screwed: The fix is in again for my fantasy season
Two years ago, I suffered through the gross injustice of weekly sabotage by my fantasy football archnemesis B Squared. He cheated and connived his way to the top of my fantasy league, siphoning points off opponents’ scores, secretly adding to his own totals when no one was looking, and stirring a superhero-like passion in me [...]
Oh, now I remember why I hate fantasy football so much
I love watching football. I could sit in front of the television for days, drinking in NFL action like it was Hi-C fruit punch. I love the players, the coaches, the strategies, the plays. When football is in my life, my life is good. So why go and ruin a good thing by adding fantasy? [...]