Bronco fans seem pretty happy with Orton.  I hold no grudges against the guy.  He’s doing exactly what we’d expect: managing games. [Predominantly Orange]
A great analysis of how to draft in fantasy basketball taking into account the ever-difficult to gauge percentage categories. [GMTR]
Jay Cutler series-by-series breakdown from yesterday’s game. [Jay Cutler Superstar]
I will always link [...]

Yesterday was an odd day for Milton and the Cubbies.  Well, not odd if you have been keeping track of Bradley’s antics throughout the season.  He took himself out of the game without warning after getting to first base.  All of a sudden he just went trotting into the dugout and right into the clubhouse [...]

In a huge blow to the Illini defense, junior linebacker Martez Wilson will miss the remainder of the season with a neck injury.  A five-star prospect in 2007, Wilson played for the Illini right away and many expected him to break out in a major way this season. 
The injury, a herniated disk requiring surgery, has to [...]

Unless there is some glaringly bad play by one of the offensive linemen, I rarely notice how bad they are doing right away (assuming they are having/causing problems).  That is probably why it didn’t really dawn on me that maybe the line was a huge part of the problem, if not the entire problem, on [...]

Blogpoll is up for Week Two.  No changes in the NQTC ballot from a couple days ago, because I forgot to change my FSU error by the deadline this morning.  Check out the full poll with analysis at CBS Sports.  Here’s the top ten:

Rank
Team
PPB
StdDev
Delta

1
Florida (85)
24.4
2.1
–

2
Southern Cal (13)
23.3
1.4
1

3
Texas
22.9
2.1
1

4
Alabama (4)
22.3
1.6
–

5
Penn State
19.4
2.7
1

6
California
19.1
2.1
1

7
Brigham Young
18.4
2.6
2

8
Mississippi
17.0
3.7
–

9
Boise [...]

After my heavily anticipated return to NQTC,  The Bad Guy picked up right where I left off in 2008, making amazing call after amazing call. To recap – BENCH:  LJ was a dud, JLew was decent but didn’t find the end zone. START: Cedric Benson was awesome, Reggie Bush would have been great if he didn’t have a [...]

I know we did an entire tribute to Jordan at the end of last week and you are probably all sick of him, but somehow throughout the whole induction ceremony I didn’t catch this Cuban model hanging off MJ’s arm.  She is a looker (and most likely a gold-digger).  Here’s what the Tribune had to [...]

Deron Williams dressed up like a goof with recspecs, a ghostbusters tee, and high socks playing dodgeball.  You have to see it to believe it. [BDL]
I don’t usually link to this kind of stuff, but Maria Sharapova is a real looker. [Sharapova's Thigh]
So the Milwaukee Bucks are still an NBA team, at least for fantasy [...]

Well I tried to be optimistic in my roundup of the Bears game this morning, but with news that Urlacher will likely miss the rest of the season rolling in, it’s hard not to think that God has it in for the Bears:
Brian Urlacher appears to be out for the season after dislocating his right [...]

As Bears fans around the country wake up this morning, most have a feeling of dread about the season in their stomachs.  While those feelings are definitely warranted after last night’s catastrophe, there were some good things that happened as well.  Going down in a game against a divisional rival like the Packers hurts, but [...]

Same drill as last week: take a look at the ballot and let me know what you think.  I’ll revise and send in the final draft on Wednesday.

Rank
Team
Delta

1
Florida

2
Texas

3
Southern Cal

4
Alabama

5
California
1

6
Boise State
1

7
Brigham Young
1

8
Penn State
1

9
Georgia Tech
1

10
LSU
1

11
Oklahoma
2

12
Virginia Tech
2

13
Ohio State [...]

Michael Jordan gave a great speech on Friday at his induction ceremony.  He named all the people that drove him to succeed, whether it was by placing obstacles in his path to motivate him, of by supporting him as he rose to the top.  In my opinion, the speech was a home run, and some [...]

The final video of the day will not be an on-court clip. I decided to go with a commercial. Although we all love the McDonalds game of HORSE commercial with Larry Bird, and of course the Gatorade “Be Like Mike” commercial, his Nike failure commercial always struck me on a deeper level. [...]

Although it wouldn’t be the last of Michael Jordan in the NBA, it would be the last of him as a Bull.  The image will be burned in our brains forever.