Month: September 2016

We Won’t Have Mike Carey To Kick Around Any More

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(We open on a conference room at CBS Sports studios, where Sean McManus is obviously getting ready to deliver bad news to someone. Several low- and mid-level flunkies are seated at varous places around the conference table, eating the free donuts, drinking coffee, and a few are even snickering) Low Level Flunky:

BREAKING NEWS

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Chris Schauble - WHAT WAS THAT?!? Megan Henderson - Relax, the earthquake was in the midwest! CS - No, that's not what I'm talking about.  THIS Oh, Chris, you're being silly!  Wait!  I've got something in my ear.  We now go live to El Segundo to Kacey Montoya who has a live report

Your “College Football Is NOT An Amuse Bouche” Friday Open Thread

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Not much on the NFL front today. The big news comes with final cuts Saturday; by 4:00 PM EDT we will know who is supposed to start the season on the roster. Waiver wire Monday should be fun as well. NFL News: Ironic platform note at PFT: JEREMY LANE ON SITTING FOR

Your 2016 Tampa Bay Buccaneers: The Enthusiasm Isn’t The Only Thing That’s Infectious!

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Here's what I, a lifelong Dallas Cowboys fan, know about the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. And that about sums it up. I haven't paid attention to the Bucs since the days Dewey and Lee Roy Selmon ran around creating havoc in those classic creamsicle uniforms. You know that

Your 2016 Half-Assed Pittsburgh Steelers Season Preview

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Yes, you will be shocked and amazed that it took three full-grown adults (and I say the word "adult" in the most sarcastic way possible) to put this together.  To be fair, there are REASONS! Mainly one of us not named Balls or Sill put one past the goalie, got his wife

CFL Beat: Week 11

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With the closure of Week 10, we are officially halfway through the CFL regular season! If you haven't been paying attention thus far, that's fine; the old diehards, such as Gord from Shaunavon, SK, Mitch from Yarmouth, NS, and Gord from Orillia, ON, all swear that "the real CFL season

The 2016 “Houston Texans” Preview

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    George Berkeley was an eighteenth-century Irish philosopher who's primarily known for his ideas on immaterialism (later known as "subjective idealism"). This idea is that visible objects, even the world itself, only exist in the mind that perceives them. It is certainly counter-intuitive but contains a valuable insight that has been passed on

Hard Ride To Nowhere (Chapter 46)

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The scene: An empty road somewhere in the Midwest, where Future Moose recently ran someone over. That someone is now biting Moose on the arm. It seems pretty fair, all things considered. Ballsofsteelandfury (approaching): Hey, what the hell...? Future Moose (sighing as the man continues to bite at his outstretched arm): Well... Ballsofsteelandfury

Your “Finally! The Damn Exhibition Season Is About To Come To An End!” Thursday Night Football Open Thread

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Judging by the response folks around here had of the game last night, this Week 4 slate is not football fan-friendly at all. No starters worth their salt/guaranteed contract are going to play for any length of time, if at all. I thought perhaps of running down various position battles