Offseason Events

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. 

Second Leg Champions League Thread: Liverpool-Porto / PSG-RealMadrid

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Such was the welcome given in Paris to Real Madrid, by ultras of their opponent: Paris Saint-Germain. Their name is Collectif ultra Paris, which is not a watch co-operative, but angries who break out the flares and shout “Puta Madrid!” over and over and over. They’ll be at the stadium:

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

2018 NFL Free Agent Round-Up

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Banner image via Kingman County News Folks we are less than two weeks from the start of Free Agency, and while the NFL doesn't have a "hot stove", it most certainly has a hot cauldron of lust.  Or something. Errybody's got lists of top NFL free agents, but as our own yeahright has

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

Offseason Qb Interviews! – Miami edition.

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Yeaahhhh Miami, I have to say I've been looking forward to this because I love smoking and hot women. Who wouldn’t want to play here? After an injury to Tannehill last year they brought in one of DFO’s favoUrites. I hope the cat hasn’t taken his laissez faire attitude elsewhere.

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

Champions League Valentines Day Roundtable now with Extra Hate!

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It is the fake day of love folks, I hope you did something for your loved one today or else this Hallmark holiday will leave you in the dog house. Unless that is your thing then enjoy your day Fido! While Wakezilla and I were not frolicking at the park, the