Lesser Sports

CFL Beat: Week 5

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It's Labour Day weekend (or LaboUr, if you're a regular reader of this fine website!), and with that comes some of the marquee rivalry games that the CFL has to offer. School is just around the corner - and, unfortunately, the potential for a dangerous fall with rising COVID case

Guest Post – Walkingthedog Fills You In On: the European Champions League

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[Earlier this summer, I reached out to the dormant Commentists to ask if they were Still around, and Interested in commenting or posting. This post is the result of those labours. If you want to join in, hit me up. Otherwise, enjoy.] Good morning? Afternoon? Whatever. Fucking time zones. I'm Commentist Walkingthedog. It's Thursday night.

AFL Beat 2021 AFL Finals Week 1

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Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! We've eliminated two teams. Which ones were they? Let's see what happened. *** AFL 2021 Finals Week 1 Recaps Port Adelaide Power 86 - 43 Geelong Cats I woke up early for work and turned on the game just to see that Geelong was getting its ass kicked.

CFL Beat: Week 4

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It appears the CFL was kind enough to wait until I was home from vacation in order to start giving us some more significant league-wide news stories this week. Just as well, since I burned through an unreal amount of data in the last two weeks! The things we do

AFL Beat 2021 AFL Week 23

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Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! We've gotten to the end of the Home and Away Season! Finals start this week. Let's see what happened. *** AFL 2021 Season Week 23 Recaps Western Bulldogs 64 - 66 Port Adelaide Power This was the first of many crazy and exciting games this weekend. Port

CFL Beat: Week 3

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As my second week of vacation winds down, I look forward to hopefully giving some more space to pontificate a bit further on the state of Canadian football. In league news this week: The BC Lions released international kicker Takeru Yamasaki, a Japanese citizen, and signed two replacements - American Jimmy

AFL Beat 2021 AFL Week 22

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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

Premier League uneducated and snarky preview Part 2

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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

CFL Beat: Week 2

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Even my vacation won't stop the CFL Beat from getting written. Thanks to mobile data hotspots and cheap beer for allowing to continue the writing process from anywhere on earth - I don't know what I'd do without either of you. In league news this week: The Argos signed former NFL

AFL Beat 2021 AFL Week 21

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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.