Archive for January, 2008
Fantasy Basketball: BGs!
Going to the dark side has been a lot easier than I thought. With my decision to cheat my way to the top of my fantasy basketball league, I figured I would be wracked with sleepless nights and flooded with feelings of guilt and remorse.
I’m not.
In fact, ever since I crossed the [...]
Friday Night Lights: Spanx for Nothing
The day that “Friday Night Lights: the football show” becomes “Tuesday Night Gym: the volleyball show” is the day that I will no longer watch television. Unfortunately, after this week’s FNL episode, I am one week closer to that fate.
Friday Night Lights has never been about the football. I found this out [...]
TGIF: Heavyweights!
A great clip from a great movie. Body!
Fantasy Basketball: My Cheating Heart
Fantasy sports are great, so long as I am winning and the sport in question is always football. Any other situations just make fantasy games boring and hard.
Take, for instance, my trial with fantasy basketball. In a Yahoo! public league, I am flailing in ninth place, I haven’t made a transaction [...]
Friday Night Lights: The Great Awakening II
“Want to see my quizzing trophies?”
I fully expected to hear this line from the new Christian radio guy as he was listening to Lyla’s tell-all in the church sanctuary. Or maybe I was just hoping to hear it, considering I had spent a good portion of high school banking on the fact that quizzing would [...]
Friday Night Lights: Family Time
In last week’s episode, Coach Taylor’s advice to Smash Williams was just another example of how great his parenting skills are. It also got me to thinking: how would all the fathers on Friday Night Lights rank? Well, it’s a good thing I have time on my hands, because here is the list I came [...]
The pudding predicament
Life is full of difficult questions, and I came face-to-face with one the other day: When does chocolate pudding go bad?
I was hoping the answer was “never,” or at least “six months from purchase date.” The prospect of eating bad pudding was one that I feared had regrettable consequences, namely digestive ones. Unfortunately, [...]
Friday Night Lights: I Will End You
Nothing could have ruined the greatest Friday Night Lights episode of season two, but having Tim Riggins get kicked out of the house for a misunderstanding involving taking a go at coach’s daughter
I just got done watching the greatest Friday Night Lights episode of season two, and I finally feel that my faith is restored [...]
Celebrity Apprentice: Hotdoggin’ It
Donald Trump’s restructured reality show got under way last week, which may or may not be good news. The first episode was largely tolerable, which gives it a head start on previous Apprentice installments, but there was something oddly offputting about quasi-celebs competing half-heartedly for the title of Apprentice winner. In fact, the [...]
B-lieve it! Kevan Lee wins fantasy
Cheaters never win, and winners never cheat. And although it took 15 weeks for this truth to sort itself out, the fantasy football gods finally got it right.
Kevan Lee: champion! B Squared: Loser.
The final score was 194-116, a glorious, wonderful, predestined 194 to a spiteful, evil, unbecoming 116. [...]
