Wunderdog Sports Picks Blog

OK, we all get it. Al Davis is a meddlesome, cheap NFL owner that took the last year he looked good and stayed with it (by his Sunday sideline attire, I am guessing it was the ten year span of 1966-76). We have all accepted that fact, now it is your turn Al.  Every season sports fans’ nerves get worn thin hearing about highly-touted rookies that are all upside holding out for an astronomical amount of money none of us will ever see. It is hard for us to find this high-priced talent likeable. So it is up to you Mr. Russell to get into camp, now. Sign the dang contract and get your rookie butt on the field.  You have all the upside in the world, and on paper you have all the skills. Big arm, great vision and built like a defensive end. Great. The only thing on paper you are missing is your signature on the dotted line. 

Do you remember your last season as a college student athlete? How ‘bout the last game of your college career? You know the Sugar Bowl where you lead your LSU Tigers to a 41-14 stopping of the Irish of Notre Dame? If you are having trouble remembering that feat, here’s a newsflash: No one else remembers it either!

JaMarcus Russell, Brady Quinn is showing you up!

I decided to take a stab at playing some fantasy football this season. I haven’t played fantasy ball since about the ’99 season while a member of my hometown newspaper’s sports staff.  

Out of the ten or so guys that competed that year, I finished a respectable fourth. So armed with what I learned from that season 100 years ago I am ready to enter the online version of the fantasy game. Fantasy game – always makes me giggle a little when I say it. 

As a veteran player of Dungeons and Dragons, I am no stranger to games played in a fantasy realm, but the fantasy sports games we play today is much different from the game that gathered mostly young men in their parent’s basements with funny shaped dice to battle trolls, dragons and escape on an adventure lasting only as long as you were allowed to stay up past your bed time.

Living in a fantasy world

Over the weekend, we saw three major milestones in Major League Baseball passed. We saw two historic homeruns smacked, and one pitching hallmark eclipsed – a mark that may never be reached again.   So where do they all rank? Which one of the three historic outings is “worth” the most and which one will be, or should be, forgotten. Let’s start in the Bronx. Alex Rodriguez finally smacked his 500 career homerun Saturday night at home against

Kansas City. I would rank this historic swing as the third of the three milestones this weekend. Only because overall, this is just a speed bump. The Yankees and A-Rod only slowed down long enough to see what they hit and then kept on driving. This homerun was significant for Rodriguez, personally because the dinger lifted him out of his slump that saw him stuck on no. 499. The fact is that A-Rod will break the all-time HR record and this is just one step.  The Yankees are rolling and will break into the post season with A-Rod’s help - unlike any other of their New York counterparts from the NFL. Their season is not over, which brings me to milestone no. 2. The milestone tri-fecta