Month: March, 2009

NQTC Fantasy Baseball Draft Grades, Part II

31 March, 2009 (12:00) | Fantasy Baseball, NQTC | By: StevieY19

Here are the second half of the draft grades from the NQTC league draft last week.  If you’re unable to find the first half by scrolling down for about five seconds, it’s right here.  To the second half we go.  Now that we’re done, feel free to rip on our teams, rip on the grades, [...]

Darko Turns Into Incredible Hulk, Still Sucks

31 March, 2009 (11:00) | Basketball, NBA | By: Stormin' Norman Disciple

I can’t believe I missed this.  Apparently this video takes place back on December 8.  Darko got called for his 4th foul and immediately was assessed with a technical.  He didn’t take too well to that, as you can see:

NQTC Fantasy Draft Grades, Part I

31 March, 2009 (10:00) | Fantasy Baseball, NQTC | By: StevieY19

The NQTC fantasy baseball league held its draft last week, and it got done sometime around Sunday night.  Anyway, I’ve looked over the rosters and here come the draft grades.  I’ll go over them in order of where they picked in the first round, with the first six now and the last six a little [...]

Why Statistics Work So Much Better In Baseball Than In Basketball

31 March, 2009 (09:00) | Baseball, Basketball, Statistics | By: Stormin' Norman Disciple

I am a fierce believer in sabremetrics, which is the study of statistics in baseball to determine a player’s value in terms of wins, among other things.  In baseball, a game can be distilled down to a certain number of one-on-one at-bats.  These are unique battles between pitchers and hitters that can be analyzed statistically.  [...]

Qualified Links

31 March, 2009 (07:30) | The Links | By: StevieY19

Two Baltimore Orioles radio announcers left the ballpark during a rain delay and didn’t come back for the last eight innings.  I do this when my professor isn’t there five minutes before class. [Awful Announcing] Piniella tells Marmol to stop whining and just pitch after Carlos had complained that there was no real competition for [...]

Crazy Idiots Run Race In Snow

30 March, 2009 (14:30) | Insane | By: Stormin' Norman Disciple

The Shamrock Shuffle went forward even in the face of a snowstorm Sunday morning.  Crazy.

Hoffpauir, Hill In; Bako, Stanton Out

30 March, 2009 (14:16) | Chicago Cubs | By: Stormin' Norman Disciple

Micah Hoffpauir is an absolute monster with the bat.  He has been raking at every level and every spring for a while now.  As usual we all expected the Cubs to send him back to the minors at the end of the spring this year.  Thankfully, Lou made the right call putting his power bat [...]

Hilarious Guitar Hero Commercial With College Coaches

30 March, 2009 (13:36) | College Basketball, Humor, Video | By: Stormin' Norman Disciple

If you haven’t seen this yet, get ready for a ridiculous commercial via Docksquad: Let’s hope the curse of the Guitar Hero commercials doesn’t hit any of these guys.

Another Reason To Love Ryan Dempster: His Stance On Night Games

30 March, 2009 (11:00) | Baseball, Chicago Cubs | By: Stormin' Norman Disciple

The debate rages on over night games in Wrigleyville.  I personally have an aversion to them for 2 reasons.  The first is that I lived in Wrigleyville and its a residential neighborhood.  The people who live there have been promised over and over again that traffic and noise issues would be controlled and have been [...]

That Wasn’t Worth It

30 March, 2009 (10:00) | College Basketball | By: StevieY19

Last week I said that the general dullness of the first two round of the NCAA Tournament wasn’t such a bad thing.  I thought that since so many good teams won, the second weekend would be that much better than most years.  I was absolutely wrong. The last four days were no better than the [...]

Viewing Sporting Events Can Cause Serious Heart Problems

30 March, 2009 (09:00) | Health | By: Stormin' Norman Disciple

Have you ever said something like “My heart stopped during that play,” or “I’m going to have a heart attack if Tyrus shoots another jumper”?  I know I have.  Well maybe we should stop making those jokes, since a recent report just came out that shows fans can suffer severe heart conditions: Researchers have found [...]

Qualified Links

30 March, 2009 (07:30) | College Football, The Links | By: Stormin' Norman Disciple

NQTC’s first liveblog went pretty well, except for the Goran Suton love affair.  Anyways both games were blowouts, with MSU beating Louisville and UNC crushing Oklahoma. [NQTC] Coach Ditka heard about those new NFL rules that protect the players’ safety, and let’s just say he’s not thrilled about those pussies and their ‘rules’. [Blog Down] [...]

Louisville-Michigan State Live-Blog

29 March, 2009 (12:00) | College Basketball, NCAA, NQTC | By: Stormin' Norman Disciple

Louisville-Michigan State LiveBlog

I Have a Man-Crush on Scottie Reynolds

29 March, 2009 (08:51) | Basketball, College Basketball, NCAA | By: Stormin' Norman Disciple

All season long I have been singing the praises of Villanova and Scottie Reynolds in any conversation about the Big East and the NCAA in general.  Ask anyone who has watched a Nova game with me the last couple years.  I like the whole team, but Scottie Reynolds was my favorite from day one.  I [...]

LiveBlog Reminder–Louisville/MSU Game

28 March, 2009 (08:11) | College Basketball, NCAA, NQTC | By: Stormin' Norman Disciple

Hey everyone, StevieY and I are going to try something new this weekend.  We will be liveblogging the Louisville-Michigan State game at 1:20 pm central time on Sunday.  It will be different than some liveblogs you’ve seen.  Unlike the type they do on Deadspin where you have to keep refreshing, we will be using a [...]