Author: ballsofsteelandfury

Your Wednesday Champions League Return Leg Open Thread

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Today,  we get to know which team will join Manchester City in the next round and how many goals City will score on those poor boys from Switzerland. To the games! Manchester City v Basel Balls: If I remember correctly, we all correctly predicted that City would win and score at least 3 goals. 

Balls of Steel’s AFL Beat – 2018 AFLW Round 5

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This week,   The Round 5 Recap, the preseason games recap, and the Footy Tipping Contest update are all coming up on Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! Round 5 The Round started on North American Late Thursday Night with the Melbourne Demons taking on the Brisbane Lions in Melbourne.  It was a nice

At The Movies VII – Hard Ticket to Hawaii

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[Interior, DFO Clubhouse, Downstairs Bathroom, 2:15 AM] Balls is sitting on the toilet, watching live AFL and...otherwise involved.  Suddenly, he hears a knock on the door. Mysterious Voice:  KHNOCK KHNOCK! He looks up and sees this: Balls:  Oh, hi June!  Or is it Ms. Khnockers?  Lovely to see you!  Won't you come on in? 

Balls of Steel’s AFL Beat – AFLW Round 4

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This week, But first,  we are now past the halfway point and things are starting to come into shape.  We have the Round 4 scores,  the new leader in the Footy Tips pool,  and a brief recap of preseason AFL. All of this and more on WELCOME TO BALLS OF STEEL'S AFL

Your Saturday Football/Fútbol Morning Open Thread

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Coming off the second week of Champions' League games, we now have a better gauge as to who will pass on to the next stage. Sort of. To recap, here are the results in the first legs (Home teams listed first): Juventus 2 - 2 Tottenham FC Basel 0 - 4 Manchester

Champions League Barca Tuesday Roundtable

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I think almost every one of us folks on DFO that dig the soccer love FC Barcelona.  There are a lot of reasons for that.  They have an attractive style of play that values passing,  possession,  and attacking.  Their coaching history is filled with innovators and all-around decent dudes. Oh, 

Balls of Steel’s AFL Beat – AFLW Round 3 + AFLX!

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This week, But first, we have all of the AFLW Round 3 results, an update on our tipping contest, and a recap of the AFLX experiment.  All of this and more on Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! AFLW Round 3 The Round started on North American Friday Night with a hotly-anticipated clash

Your Daytona 500 Sunday Evening Open Thread

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Does anyone else gets annoyed by those Happy Daytona Day ads? Luckily, I'm not the only one: Listen, today is a big day because it's the "Official" start of the NASCAR season (even though we had two Duels on Thursday and a Clash last Sunday).  The Clash was an exhibition race between

At The Movies VI – A Threesome NOT Nominated For An AVN

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[INTERIOR,  DFO CLUBHOUSE] TWBS: Yo, you awake? Balls (moving aside empty pizza boxes): I am now. Whaddayawant? TWBS: So, I was thinking of something. Balls: You need to be careful. You don't do it very well. TWBS: Very funny.  I'm serious. Balls: Me too. TWBS: ANYWAY.  So, I was talking to Beastie the other day... Balls: Beastie is

Balls of Steel’s AFL Beat – AFLW Round 2

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You know, I really like how Jeremy Clarkson does the intros each week for The Grand Tour.  In that vein, this week: And In reality, lots of things happened this week and will happen in the week coming up. It was another week and another loss for the defending champions, the AFLX

Balls of Steel’s AFL Beat – 2018 AFLW Round 1

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Now that that bullshit the delicious Schadenfreude is over with, it's time to get into the REAL sports in this world. The AFLW season started this past weekend and we already had our first surprise of the year. We had another surprise in our Lady Footy Tipping Contest as a veteran tipper