1. Fantasy Football Update! Entering the final game of the regular season last week, we had a one game lead but had to end the season playing the team we had the lead on. If we lost, they would have won the tie breaker against us (having defeated us twice this season). We were not confident at all, as Jeremy Maclin, Larry Fitz and Mike Sims-Walker were all injured. We hit the waiver wire late Saturday night and took a chance on rookie Kenny Britt (who ended up with a respectable 7 points). Thankfully, Dallas Clark (22), Drew Brees (29), Ryan Grant (25) and even Michael Crabtree (14) all came up LARGE. We ended up pistol whipping our opponent, 124-79, which put us in the four team playoff this past weekend. We still have work to do tonight, but things look good at this point. (Thanks, in part, to Minnesota's D doing the unthinkable and allowing Carolina to score 26 points.)
2. UMass! We took The Playmaker into The Garden Saturday to watch UMass and Memphis. His friend's grandfather is a professor @ UMass and gave us suh-weet tix. We were right behind the Minutemen bench, 9 rows from the court. It was our first look at junior guard Anthony Gurley (a Boston kid who transferred from Wake Forest). The kid is a player. ("Let me meet this playah...") He has an NBA body (in fact, he has an NFL strong safety's body). He does not have the outside shot (yet) for the NBA. But he could go to Europe right now and earn some good coin. Other good things: Oh, yeah, UMass won at the buzzer. And The Playmaker caught a UMass T-shirt thrown into the stands during a timeout.
3. Go Bucks! The Playmaker's hoop season kicked off December 5. The first three weeks were practices and the season opens January 2. We did scrimmage another team on Saturday for the final 15 minutes of practice. And?!? It's not our style to brag, but we kicked the crap out of them -- something like 14-2. The Playmaker scored 4 points (2-2 shooting), had 2 assists and 2 rebounds while playing with a cold and being subbed for liberally. The obvious comparison to great Bucks players past and present?!? Let's see...Sidney Moncrief? Michael Redd? The immortal Paul Mokeski ("I have two kids...")? Um, we'll go with current hotshot Brandon Jennings. Much like Jennings, it appears The Playmaker can get down the paint and to the rim on anyone anytime. Again, not our style to brag.
1. Fantasy Football Update! Entering the final game of the regular season last week, we had a one game lead but had to end the season playing the team we had the lead on. If we lost, they would have won the tie breaker against us (having defeated us twice this season). We were not confident at all, as Jeremy Maclin, Larry Fitz and Mike Sims-Walker were all injured. We hit the waiver wire late Saturday night and took a chance on rookie Kenny Britt (who ended up with a respectable 7 points). Thankfully, Dallas Clark (22), Drew Brees (29), Ryan Grant (25) and even Michael Crabtree (14) all came up LARGE. We ended up pistol whipping our opponent, 124-79, which put us in the four team playoff this past weekend. We still have work to do tonight, but things look good at this point. (Thanks, in part, to Minnesota's D doing the unthinkable and allowing Carolina to score 26 points.)
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