Balls of Steel’s AFL Beat – AFLW Round 6 + AFL Preview #1

ballsofsteelandfury - March 12, 2018March 11, 2018

This week, We have an action-packed episode of the AFL Beat on tap today. Let's get started. Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! Round 6 The Round started on North American Late Thursday night with the Crows taking on Fremantle in a game they desperately needed to win in order to stay in

Your Wednesday Champions League Return Leg Open Thread

ballsofsteelandfury - March 7, 2018March 7, 2018

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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

Don T - March 6, 2018March 6, 2018

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

ballsofsteelandfury - March 5, 2018March 4, 2018

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

Balls of Steel’s AFL Beat – AFLW Round 4

ballsofsteelandfury - February 26, 2018February 26, 2018

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

ballsofsteelandfury - February 24, 2018February 21, 2018

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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

Your Daytona 500 Sunday Evening Open Thread

ballsofsteelandfury - February 18, 2018February 18, 2018

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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

Balls of Steel’s AFL Beat – 2018 AFLW Round 1

ballsofsteelandfury - February 5, 2018February 4, 2018

Now that that bullshit the delicious Schadenfreude is over with, it's time to get into the REAL sports in this world. The AFLW season started this past weekend and we already had our first surprise of the year. We had another surprise in our Lady Footy Tipping Contest as a veteran tipper

Balls of Steel’s AFL Beat – 2018 Season Kickoff!

ballsofsteelandfury - January 30, 2018January 28, 2018

Now that the NFL off-season is here, it's time to move on to worthier pursuits. I speak, of course, of AFL, AFLW, and AFLX. Yes, AFLX. This is a brand new game the AFL is trying out to see if it can capture the imagination of countries that don't play cricket

Partying in the Underworld

Senor Weaselo - January 29, 2018January 29, 2018

It's a rainy Sunday noonish, and a man with a violin is finishing his teaching for the day. Yes, of course it's Senor Weaselo, who else would it be? Senor: All right, done for the day. Maybe I'll get a bagel and a haircut? His phone starts ringing and popping up on the

Welcome to the DFO Off-season!!

ballsofsteelandfury - January 22, 2018January 21, 2018

Another NFL year is in the books, but fear not, dear reader, for we have plenty of #content to keep you amused and occupied until this mad cycle begins again. All of your favourite off-season recurring features are BACK such as Yeah Right's Sunday Gravy, RTD's Request Line, my AFL Beat,

Your Saturday morning pre-NFL soccer thread

ballsofsteelandfury - January 13, 2018January 12, 2018

At the risk of having y'all say, "Fuck, Balls again?!?" and having it NOT be related to what you did a few hours ago, This time, I'm filling in for Don T as he was originally scheduled to regale you with tales of La Liga legends EPL underdogs And other stuff But his doctor/curandero