Month: March 2016

Balls of Steel’s AFL Beat – Last Offseason Report!

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Are you ready for some AFL football?!?!?! The regular season starts this week with an early Thursday morning/late Wednesday night Special Opening Day match between Richmond and Carlton.  Those of you with Fox Soccer Plus can watch this LIVE starting at 4:00 AM Eastern / 1:00 AM Pacific.  Of course, those

Sunday Gravy with yeah right: You’re Not Bloody Worthy, You Tossers!

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English food gets a bad rap in general. Alright, I'll never understand baked beans and tomatoes for breakfast but most everything else is very tasty. For years English food has been a punchline and I've never understood why. I guess if I lived there I could grow tired of it but

New non-NCAA Open Thread? New non-NCAA Open Thread!

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Since the JV basketball games are over for the night, let us retreat to the DFO rec room, kick back with a stiff drink, and ponder the meaning of life.  Or post pics of hot girls, weird ass gifs, and engage in revelatory conversations about strange co-workers, ex-girlfriends or boyfriends, or random

Commentist Beer Barrel: Extreme Beer Aging

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Before I get started, I want to thank Son of Spam, Brett Favre's Colonoscopy, and Electric Mayhem for contributing to Beer Barrel in my absence. Credit for the feature's increased quality during that time is due entirely to them. Credit for the scheduling fuck-ups that caused us to have three

An Open Letter to King Hippo, Sill Bimmons, and the other EPL lovers/La Liga haters

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Dear Invisible Imaginary Internet Friends, Please don't take this post the wrong way.  I love international football just like you do.  I like Rebecca Lowe as a host and as an expert on all things footy.  I also enjoy watching the English Premier League along with you and I was raptured

Basketball Coma – Friday Night (Almost Finished!)

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Remember that scene in "The Great Outdoors" where John Candy is trying to eat that 96-oz steak (one has to suspend disbelief and pretend that would be a challenge), and Dan Aykroyd insists he's finished. "There's nothing left on that plate but fat and gristle!" Ladies and gentlemen, your fat

This Week In Violence! Presents Buzkashi

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When you think about polo, what do you think about? Pretentious wankers in jodhpurs? Giant-sized croquet mallets? The most bland, reserved crowds ever? Overall, polo as we know it is reserved almost exclusively for the wealthy elites of the United Kingdom and the northeastern United States and as well in

Request Line: I’m Gonna Crawl

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Wow.  Man. Oh, my head.  It feels...not good. Like many of you, I'm suffering from the effects of the overindulgence that results when two of the biggest drinking days of the year converge.  And what better way to reflect upon that than by announcing ANOTHER day of drinking!  That's right, on Saturday

Basketball Coma – Friday Afternoon Edition

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MOAR Arkansas-Little Rocks, amirite?? Please, in the name of BLEERGH? 10MW Syracuse vs. 7MW Dayton (12:15, CBS) PRO TIP (and you should DEFINITELY listen to me, what with my 10% success rate yesterday) - the major conference team that gets in despite near-unanimous opinion that it had no business doing so...tends