Mid Season Fantasy Awards

Most Valuable Player: Drew Brees
This is an easy one as Brees has been consistent each week with 300 yard games and multiple touchdowns. Move over Peyton Manning as Brees has passed him and Tom Brady due to injury as the top QB.

Most Valuable Non-QB: Clinton Portis
No Tomlinson, No Adrian Peterson, No Randy Moss, No Terrell Ownes, No Braylon Edwards, they all have "stunk" through the first half of the season. Portis has had 100 yard games and TDs and has been a solid performer week to week. It may even be time to think about trading him at his high as he is getting up there in age and his value is at an all time high.

Rookie of the Year: Chris Johnson
Another easy choice, many would have picked Darren McFadden or Jonathan Stewart, but Chris Johnson will be a first round draft pick in all leagues next season and looks like the real deal fantasy stud. Honorable Mention goes to Matt Ryan and Matt Forte.

Biggest Surprise Fantasy Player: Roddy White
Its rare that a team with a rookie QB puts up the stats on a consistent basis as Roddy White has, but again scored a TD this week and has been a solid performer all season. He is this years version of Braylon Edwards who scores every week.

Week In Review

Well this week was another roller coaster ride for fantasy owners. Drew Breese and Kurt Warner continue to lead the way among quarterbacks, but finally after 8 games Peyton Manning finally decided to show up and contribute with two passing and one rushing TD this week.

Chris Johnson continues to excel as the top rookie and solid running back, while the first rb selected in the NFL Draft Darren McFadden continues to sit with turf toe and is just about useless.

I am a Derek Anderson owner and I can't wait until the Browns bench this guy and get the Brady Quinn era going. It is time to start to pick up some of these players who may still be on your leagues free agent lists.

4 for 4 on Suicide Picks this week

Based on "The Rules" of Suicide Pool picking, our picks were 100% correct this week.
*Patriots defeated the Rams
*Philly defeated the Falcons and Roddy White
*Jets defeated the Chiefs
*Houston up 28 points on the Bengals

Look for our suicide picks next week.

Rangers Tie Game with 8 Seconds to Play and Win in Shootout

The New York Rangers tied the game last night with 8 seconds to play before going on to win in a shootout.

What am I talking about you ask??? NHL HOCKEY!!!!!!!!!

Kolby Smith or Darren McFadden This Week?

Its sad that this is what fantasy football has become, spending the frist few hours of your morning trying to figure out if I should start Darren Mcfadden the first running back selected in the NFL draft or Kolby Smith. The sad think is I am going to go with Kolby Smith...

Week 8 Suicide Picks

There are some pretty good choices in week 8 for your suicide pools. Remember the basic rules:
1) Don't Pick a Road Team
2) Avoid Divisional Games
3) Avoid the Sunday and Monday Night Games

Based are those simple rule here are our options this week:
a) Patriots over the Rams (Especially with no Stephen Jackson)
b) Philly over the Falcons
c) Jets over KC (although playing aganist a former coach is rule # 4, but we still like this one)
d) Houston over Cinncy

Corruption in College Basketball

Taking a break from fantasy football as I am already beat up with the NFL, we are starting to get ready for the start of college basketball. Being from New York and attending St. John's University it has been sad to see a decline in a great program and cant seem to understand what happened to such a great school that played its home games in the worlds greatest arena Madison Square Garden.
What may have went wrong? Was it the coaching, the campus? Location? The answer to this is maybe all of these issues contributed, but what may have been an even bigger issue is since St Johns built their dorms, the school is no longer allowed to pay, that's right PAY their players a stipend of $1100 per month for living expenses. During my day at the school many of the student athletes bought new cars and fancy clothes all with legal money the school provided under the scholarship. Since the dorms were built the players can live in these dorms and not be entitled to this stipend. This was a recruiting advantage for the school as some of the athletes chose St John's knowing this income would be there.

There is a lot of corruption in college sports, we all read about the Reggie Bush stories and the recent issues with Kansas State paying the highest salary to an assistant coach who coached Michael Beasley's AAU Team. Its time for the NCAA to stop all of this and either pay the players or stop fooling themselves. Where do they think all these players get the money for the clothes they wear, the tattoos they get, etc.....

Are you Ready for SHC Basketball??

After 7 weeks of Fantasy Football, I am tired of seeing my players get hurt (Romo) suspended (LJ- Winslow), tired of Peyton Manning throwing for less yards and TDs that Gus, JT O'Sulivan, Jeff Garcia, Dan Orvolosky and other qb names that I cannot spell non the less pronounce.

What do we do about this you ask, well we can quit fantasy football which we talk about every year, but I am a realist and I know that will not happen, but rather we will do the next best thing which is get ready for BASKETBALL SEASON!!

We have our league draft on Saturday morning, which will cause me to miss my daughters soccer game. Think of all the family affairs we have all missed as a result of spending 12 hours in front of the T.V on Sundays hoping and praying that players like Jacob Hester might score a TD. That's the beauty of fantasy Basketball.......THERE IS A TOMORROW!!!

How the Mighty have Fallen!!!

I am sure I am not the only fantasy football owner wanting to kill themselves over players like Terrell Owens, Larry Johnson, Ladanian Tomlinson, Braylon Edwards, Derek Anderson, Peyton Manning, Antonio Gates, etc All of the "stars" and top players in their position are being outplayed by the likes of Owen Daniels, Matt Ryan, Lendale White, Chris Johnson, Matt Forte, Roddy White.

We are seeing a changing of the STARS in Fantasy Football this year. Next year you will no longer see LT and LJ at the top of the draft boards, instead you will see players like Matt Forte, Chris Johnson, Matt Ryan, Roddy White. This has been an interesting season thus far through the first seven weeks filled with heart ache and key injuries to Tom Brady, Tony Romo, etc. It may not be to late to attempt to take advantage of some of your fellow owners and try to "steal" some of the up and coming stars for the old big name players like Terrell Owrns and Ladanian Tomlinson who will still command talent in trades.

Week 7 Suicide Pool Pick of the Week

Remember my rules of picking games for a suicide pool, avoid division games, avoid road team, avoid Monday and Sunday night games.

Those rules don't leave us many options this week, but our Suicide Pool Pick for Week 7 would be the Dallas Cowboys vs the Rams, but since we used the Cowboys our pick this week is the N.Y Giants back at home vs the 49ers.