Offseason Events

What’s In a Name? Saturday Night Openness

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I am taking over Saturday night duties.  Which, until JV NFL starts, will be kind of awkward and empty.  I don't even have EPL results to bitch about today (United humped Everton 4-nil in a friendly, but that's MOAR LIEK "sun rose in the East" kind of news). Someone mentioned (maybe

Sexy Friday, Almost the end of the Olympics edition!

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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

AFL Beat 2021 AFL Week 20

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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

AFL Beat 2021 AFL Week 19

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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

Sexy Friday, Start of the Olympics edition!

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I'll be honest. I've got nothing for this week. I thought I had something and then the week went by in a flash and now it's 4 PM Pacific on Sexy Friday and I'm typing out my thoughts on the keyboard ahead of post time at 5 PM Pacific. Beerguyrob had a

The DFO Olympic Fútbol Tournaments Preview and Evening Open Thread

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We're in the middle of the greatest international sports summer ever! We have: Copa América (COMPLETED! Argentina is your champion.)Euro 2020 (COMPLETED! Italy is your champion.)Concacaf Gold Cup (IN PROGRESS!)Tokyo Olympic Games (START TONIGHT!) Today, we are previewing the two fútbol tournaments on offer: The Men's (more even) and

AFL Beat 2021 AFL Week 18

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Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! More COVID game changes, a couple of big upsets, and a couple of disappointments. Let's see what happened this week. *** AFL 2021 Season Week 17 Recaps Fremantle Dockers 31 - 100 Geelong Cats The Cats did a tremendous job of focusing on the task at hand with

AFL Beat 2021 AFL Week 17

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Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! Let's see what happened this week. *** AFL 2021 Season Week 17 Recaps Port Adelaide Power 55 - 86 Melbourne Demons Big loss at home for the Power. They have not beaten any of the top 4, even at home, so their finals credentials are highly suspect.

The DFO Copa América 2021 Final Preview: Argentina vs Brasil

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We're now smack dab in the middle of the greatest international sports summer ever! We have: Copa América (FINAL TODAY!)Euro 2020 (FINAL TOMORROW!)Concacaf Gold Cup (Started already!)Tokyo Olympic Games (NOW WITH LESS PEOPLE AND MORE COVID!) For some, no doubt gambling-related, reason, King Hippo declined to take his usual Saturday morning futbol

AFL Beat 2021 AFL Week 16

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Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! Let's see what happened this week. *** AFL 2021 Season Week 16 Recaps Gold Coast Suns 77 - 67 RIchmond Tigers If no one saw last week's loss to St. Kilda coming, then absolutely no one to the infinite power saw the Suns handing the Tigers their second

The [DFO] Euro quarterfinals preview, with futbol info, maybe.

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Good morning dear fútbol enthusiast or degenerate gambler. Sadly we have no international games today but let's take a look at what we have coming up! I have assembled the greatest fútbol mind(s) that our site has to offer. (not legally binding) Balls: Um, before we start the festivities, can I

AFL Beat 2021 AFL Week 15

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Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! Let's see what happened this week. *** AFL 2021 Season Week 15 Recaps Brisbane Lions 94 - 50 Geelong Cats Woo that was a beatdown! Easily the Cats' worst loss of the season and Brisbane got sweet home revenge for a controversial early season loss to the