Brady Bunch in the Bay – The Buccaneers 2020 DFO Preview

Our 2019 Tampa Bay preview focused on the team's nickname and the crab-filching faltching felching stealing quarterback. Well, seasons change, people change, but Tampa Bay's quarterback remains shady. Just in case you missed the news (and the accompanying screeching and wailing from the Greater Boston area), Tom Brady decided to

AFL Beat 2020 Season Round 10 / Sexy Friday Open Thread

This week... We are in the middle of a shitload of games in a row:   and IT'S SEXY AFL FRIDAY!!         Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat!   Like last week, we don't really have much time to reflect upon the Round That Was because there is another Round starting tonight! The one new thing

HOLY HELL MAJOR CHAMPIONSHIP GOLF IS BACK… Your Thursday PGA Championship slash afternoon open thread

Hawkey is back, the NBA is back (I think?), based ball is sort-of back who knows, football... again, who knows. All of that stated, golf has been back for six weeks. Granted, there aren't any galleries, so, it's been a bit strange, but, I'll take what I can get at

AFL Beat 2020 Season Round 9 / Evening Open Thread

This week... We have just started a shitload of games in a row:   We had quite a few blowouts:   and IT'S SEXY AFL FRIDAY NEXT WEEK, BITCHES!!   Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat!   Much like the Australian media, we don't really have much time to reflect upon the Round That Was because there is

AFL Beat 2020 Season Round 8

This week... We have a shitload of games in a row:   We have more upsets:   and a soccer game broke out:   Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! This was a very interesting week off the footy pitch as the schedule for Rounds 9, 10, 11, and 12 was announced shortly before I posted the

Bears Army

Halas Hall Board Room — Lake Forest — 8:44 AM General Manager Ryan Pace knocks once and enters through the doorway. The room is occupied but eerily dark for a Wednesday morning. His coworker, Head Coach Matt Nagy, is the only person seated at the large conference table that dominates the

AFL Beat 2020 Season Round 7

This week... A media star is born: A big surprise happens:   and Robbie Gray has ice in his veins and teammates on top of him:   Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! This was a very interesting week on the footy pitch.  We had upsets, we had an After The Siren kick to win a