Dan over at the Bleacher Report recently announced the 2007 Bleacher Report HR Derby. I’ve played HR Derby a few times in the past. Basically you select a few hitters who you think will hit the most home runs this year, and get points for how many they hit. It’s really pretty simple.
Now for the [...]
Archive for March, 2007
Time for some Home Run Derby
Thursday, March 29th, 2007Tony LaRussa arrested for DUI
Thursday, March 22nd, 2007I’m not at all surprised that the skipper of my least favorite baseball team was driving drunk, my question is, was David Eckstein with him?
This Year’s George Mason
Tuesday, March 20th, 2007The first and second rounds of the NCAA tournament went, for the most part as planned. Of course there were upsets, players coming into their own, and cinderellas, but people looking for “this year’s George
Mason” have been sorely disappointed. They’ve been disappointed for precisely the reason that George Mason was such a story last year… [...]
Duke loses it’s first round game to VCU
Thursday, March 15th, 2007Every March, I make out my brackets, just like everyone else, but just once. It’s what the folks on the Mike & Mike Show call their “Sheet of Integrity”. That sounded good to me. So I started doing this last year. First of all, it’s definitely less confusing. You have one pick. You don’t have [...]
Second Annual Vigilante Sports NCAA Bracket Challenge
Sunday, March 11th, 2007I’m setting up a Bracket Challenge for the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament again. If you’re interested please post a comment. It will submit your email address to me, but not show it to the public. I’ll take care of your email address (ie. not share it with anyone else). So, submit a comment and I’ll [...]
Bears trade Thomas Jones to the Jets
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007So the Bears have solved their running back problems… or have they? They traded Thomas Jones to the Jets Monday for the 37th overall pick in the draft. There are a couple of takeaways from this.
The Bears believe in Cedric Benson. He definitely came on strong last season as he gained more carries as the [...]
Lovie Smith gets his contract
Thursday, March 1st, 2007Following a 2005 NFL Coach of the year award with a Super Bowl appearance, heading into this off season, Lovie Smith’s future with the Bears was in limbo. He was the lowest paid coach this past season, and was heading into the final year of his current contract. There was much speculation about whether the [...]