AFL Beat 2021 AFL Week 22

Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! The Finals picture is taking shape. Let's see what happened. *** AFL 2021 Season Week 22 Recaps GWS Giants 106 - 67 Richmond Tigers The Giants put one giant boot on the cockroach-like Finals chances for the Tigers. Funnily enough, other results assured that the Tigers are

Pre-Season Bukkake Saturday Night Open Thread

That's right, NFL Network's Glorious Quadrupleheader continues, with the 2nd half of Donks/Vikes RITE NOW!  DUUUUUUUVVVVVAAAAALLLLLL and #ThePauls follow at 7p, with the Battle FOAR Los Angeles to close matters at 10p.  I choose sleep, in that'un. So, that gets you set for viewing options.  Fuck baseball.  Let's segue into new feature What

Premier League uneducated and snarky preview Part 2

First thing you should do is join the footy tipping league so you don't miss anymore games. https://fantasy.espn.com/games/english-premier-league-pickem-2021/group?id=5015c670-ada1-4413-93aa-9b4a4abb1e20&joining=true It begins! Holy shit we did something on time. Usually we stretch these previews into the 2nd week of the season. Anywhoo it starts today and we have; Personally I believe the early one will

Sexy Friday, Post-Olympics edition!

I've decided to switch up the format of Sexy Friday a little bit. Change is good. Go with me here. One reason is that I've found that I need a space to put some stuff out there that doesn't fall into the traditional post categories. I've done serials with tWBS,

AFL Beat 2021 AFL Week 21

Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! We had some major upsets this week. Let's see what happened. *** AFL 2021 Season Week 21 Recaps Geelong Cats 65 - 84 GWS Giants Because I wake up early for work, I tuned in at the start of the third quarter when GWS were leading by 31.

Sexy Friday, Almost the end of the Olympics edition!

I've greatly enjoyed the Olympics. I think I've enjoyed them more because the coverage is more focused on the action itself instead of all the hoopla around it. I haven't seen one story about sex in the Olympic Village and I'm really happy about that. Which brings me

Nature Abhors a Vacuum: Tuesday Evening Open Thread Edition

Tuesdays suck. Summer Tuesdays suck more, because it stays light out FOREVER, making Wednesday seem all the more distant. But God forbid you do something fun, because you have three more days of adulting you have to get through. Going to a 4 weekday-3 weekend system would boost the GDP

AFL Beat 2021 AFL Week 20

Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! More COVID game changes happened this week in the middle of the round. Let's see what happened. *** AFL 2021 Season Week 20 Recaps St. Kilda Saints 81 - 112 Carlton Blues Somehow, Carlton, of all teams, is still in contention for finals. Granted, it's because everyone

Fantasy F*ckfest 2021 (the Evening Edition)

Below follows Part 2 of our Roundtable, which doubles as evening Open Thread.  Three commenters represent Murrika, and 3 for Canadia.  No moose were injured in the compiling of this "thought."   reverendmayhem  9:43 AM New Question: who will be the late round/low auction price quarterback who makes you kick yourself for passing up?   The

AFL Beat 2021 AFL Week 19

Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! More COVID game changes are on tap for next week. Let's see what happened this week. *** AFL 2021 Season Week 19 Recaps Port Adelaide Power 97 - 69 Collingwood Magpies For the second week in a row, the first game had a 69 in the scoreline. I