Balls of Steel’s AFL Beat – Round 20

This week, I met DFO's very own BFC, BrettFavresColonoscopy, for a quick drink prior to him getting on a plane for what must have been his fifth flight in a week. Totally cool dude and if you East Coasters ever decide to do a meetup somewhere in the Acela corridor,

Your Olympics Day 1 (Technically 3) Saturday Open Thread

Fuck, it's early on the West Coast and yet we already have our first Gold medal and it's   Virginia Thrasher from the USA in Air Rifle.  You know, if you can't make a good school shooting joke out of that, I don't think I know you. Lots of events on today with

Balls of Steel’s AFL Beat – Round 19

This Round was unofficially deemed the round of the milestones since several players were either breaking records having to do with the number of games played or were playing in a game number that is easily divisible by 50. Details on that, the updated finals picture, my flirtation with perfection, and

Balls of Steel’s AFL Beat – Round 18

We are getting ever closer to the end of the regular (home and away) season with only 5 games left for each team. It's getting close to Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! We start off with Australian Friday Night Footy (Friday morning for us in North America) and a crucial

Balls of Steel’s AFL Beat – Round 17

How do you define perfection? You may want to ask Dok Zymm as she picked EVERY single game correctly this week in our Footy Tipping Contest!  That, the week's recap, and much more on Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! The Round started with the blockbuster matchup of #1 Hawthorn vs #2

BattleBots Way-Too-Late Recap, Way-Too-Early Preview, and Prediction Standings

SAAAAAAN FRAAAAAANCIS… oh right, they're in LA this year, silly me. So, we are now officially into the knockout rounds of this year's BattleBots tournament. 32 robots go into the Box, one will eventually come out with the electronics of broken machines on one wheel and the Giant Nut on the

Balls of Steel’s AFL Beat – Round 16

It's about time.  We have nine games to review with lots of finals implications.  Let's get started! Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! The Thursday Night Footy game this week (I'm still not happy about having to wake up early on Thursday mornings) had Port Adelaide hosting the Hawthorn Hawks for

Balls of Steel’s AFL Beat – Round 15

We are FINALLY done with the Bye weeks!  This was the last of the Bye Rounds and we will return to our regular schedule next Round.  In the meantime, what happened this week? Quite a bit, actually.  Let's dive in. Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! Again, we had a Thursday Night

Balls of Steel’s AFL Beat – Round 14

So, um, about posting the AFL Beat on time.... Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! The image above could be used to describe my beloved Cats' performance this weekend.  Well, at least the third quarter performance.  But I'm getting ahead of myself... This was a weird week on the schedule.  There was

Balls of Steel’s AFL Beat – Round 13

Ok, so since there are only 6 games this weekend, that means I should be able to get the AFL posted at the regular time, right? Well.... Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! We do our best around here, that's all I can say.  Let's get right to the action!  This

Euro 2016 DFO Field Report: Part Deux

Our man on the scene is kicking ass and taking names (no he's not Russian or English,  why do you ask? ) and he's back with another ON THE SPOT REPORT. Take it away,  Litre_cola! [gview file="https://www.doorfliesopen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Dispatch-2-The-Red-Curtains.pdf"] Awesome job!  Man,  I wish I was there.  BTW, I know I owe you guys an