Your Sexy Soccer Saturday Open Thread or When Will Mourinho get fired already?

ballsofsteelandfury - September 1, 2018August 31, 2018

It's been one heck of a couple of weeks for ole Grumpy Pants. First, United lost to something called Brighton Hove and Albion: Then, they lost 0-3 at home to Tottenham. The presser afterwards was... not good. Now, the pressure is fully on and the news coming out of England is that if

Your Labour Day Weekend Friday Night Open Thread

ballsofsteelandfury - August 31, 2018August 31, 2018

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So, we all slept in until the crack of noon, immediately cracked open a beer, and then scratched our asses to our hearts' content, right? Wait seriously? Do you NOT work for a company that gives you a four day weekend this weekend? Um, I guess the appropriate thing to say is

AFL Beat 2018 Round 23

ballsofsteelandfury - August 27, 2018August 26, 2018

This week, Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! Round 23 Recaps and Highlights The final Round of the Home and Away season started with the Port Adelaide Power's last and best chance to sneak into the Eight after falling out last week. All they had to do was beat the Essendon Bombers

AFL Beat 2018 Round 22

ballsofsteelandfury - August 20, 2018August 19, 2018

This week, Welcome To Balls Of Steel’s AFL Beat! Round 22 Recaps and Highlights The Round started on Australian Friday Night with Essendon's last and only hope of staying in the finals picture: Beating Richmond at the MCG. Yeah, that wasn't really going to happen, right? To their credit, the Bombers kept it

Sexy Soccer Saturday Open Thread – The REAL Fútbol Begins

ballsofsteelandfury - August 18, 2018August 18, 2018

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So, last week, King Hippo took you through the beginning of the English Premier League (EPL). In addition to the EPL, the French league, Ligue 1, started last weekend. Here are the standings for both leagues: Meanwhile, La Liga and Serie A BOTH start this weekend while the German Bundesliga starts play

Your 2018 La Liga Preview

ballsofsteelandfury - August 17, 2018August 12, 2018

The games start today (in roughly 15 minutes, I believe), so what better time than the present to give you what you've all been waiting for? Contrary to what Litre_cola might have said in his preview, I don't believe in too much fútbol. Hell, the rest of the world doesn't either.

AFL Beat 2018 Round 21

ballsofsteelandfury - August 13, 2018August 13, 2018

This week, Welcome To Balls Of Steel's AFL Beat! Round 21 Recaps and Highlights The Round started, as usual, with Australian Friday Night Footy and the Essendon Bombers hosting the St. Kilda Saints in a desperate attempt to keep their faint finals hopes alive. On the bright side for the Bombers, it was the

HAWT PRESEASON AXXSHUN! Thursday Night

WCS - August 9, 2018August 9, 2018

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WEEK ONE OF THE PRESEASON WOOOOOOOOOO.... Who's ready to watch sixth-round draft picks from Middle Tennessee State run into undrafted guys from Cal-Poly and Mount Union?! This is our methadone for the four weeks, before our six month heroin bender begins. 24 teams (that's 75% of the league; MATH!) play tonight. Here's

Your 2018 Cleveland Browns Season Preview

ballsofsteelandfury - August 6, 2018August 6, 2018

So, true story, I was joking around about how I'd draw the short straw and do the Cleveland Browns season preview and instead turn it into an AFL finals preview and before I knew it, I had actually been assigned the Browns! That should teach me to keep my mouth shut. Now,

AFL Beat 2018 Round 20

ballsofsteelandfury - August 6, 2018August 5, 2018

This week, It was that kind of week... Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! Round 20 Recaps and Highlights Strap yourselves in, kids, because this week's games gave us quite a ride. It all started on Friday morning when I woke up early enough to catch the second part of the third quarter

AFL Beat 2018 Round 19

ballsofsteelandfury - July 30, 2018July 29, 2018

This week, Welcome to Balls of Steel’s AFL Beat! *** Round 18 Recaps and Highlights The Round started off with an Elimination game for Essendon. The Bombers were hosting the Sydney Swans and desperately needed to win to maintain any hopes of playing finals. The game was close for about three quarters and then

AFL Beat: 2018 Round 18

ballsofsteelandfury - July 23, 2018July 22, 2018

This week, Welcome to Balls of Steel’s AFL Beat! *** Round 18 Recaps and Highlights The Round began on Australian Friday Night (North American late Thursday/ early Friday) with the Richmond Tigers taking on the St. Kilda Saints. Was I going to wake up early to watch this one? Only the fourth quarter and