Tag: 2023
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Week 18 Newsletter: Hail to the Queen
Another year has come and another fantasy football season has gone. A lot has changed since the start of 2023. The league as a whole has one more child (with two more on the way) and one more married man. Although it’s technically not a living thing, one of our league members also gave birth…
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Week 17 Newsletter: Pillow Talk
I mean… it would’ve been weird for me to not do a newsletter this week, right? After I was so bored I had to do one last week, it would’ve been weird if I skipped this week and just did the season finale next week, right? Honestly I might start doing a newsletter for every…
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Week 16 Newsletter: For the Soul
Well… this is unexpected. No, I’m not talking about the fact that we saw nearly every higher seed eliminated in the quarter-finals, though that was pretty crazy. I’m actually referring to this newsletter as a whole, the fact that it exists. This is the first set of newsletters I’ve done in back-to-back weeks in nearly two years, after I decided to go…
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Week 15 Newsletter: Ready to Rumble
RIP Andre Braugher, one of the most underrated actors of our time. Braugher, who suddenly passed away days ago at 61, made his bones as a Shakespearean actor while scoring notable roles in movies like Glory and shows like Homicide: Life on the Street. But it took until his role as Captain Raymond Holt in Brooklyn Nine-Nine that he achieved…
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Week 11 Newsletter: The Power of Sports Compels You
On October 28, 2018, I sat in the upper deck of Dodger Stadium, nervously anticipating the game I had come to see. I was more anxious than I had ever been for a sporting event, and for good reason. My beloved Boston Red Sox had a chance to win the World Series and thus give me the ultimate sports fan experience —…
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Week 8 Newsletter: Light the Beam
Tomorrow is going to be fucking crazy. Sacramento Republic FC will continue its pursuit of a second USL Championship crown, when it hosts San Antonio FC in the Western Conference semi-finals. The Texas Rangers and Arizona Diamondbacks will face off in Game 1 of the most unlikely World Series matchup of all-time (and one of the…
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Week 5 Newsletter: Swift Pun-ishment
We’ll get to the football and funny business in a minute. But first… Nothing about Tim Wakefield’s career should have worked, yet it did beautifully. Born in Melbourne, FL in 1996, Wakefield rose up the baseball ranks as a power-hitting first baseman at Florida Tech, where he set the single-season and career home run records…
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Week 1 Newsletter: Feeling Blue
Football is back, motherfuckers! The final sign of the NFL’s return is here at last — the first newsletter of the season has been released. With both real and fantasy football being played today, anticipation is high for pretty much everyone whose real team doesn’t have a star player calling out the head coach and…
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2023 Draft Newsletter
Welcome to a new era of the Epic League! Think that’s a bit dramatic? Consider the following: all but one of us are now in our 30’s, as of next weekend half of us will have been married, and Dad will soon not be the only member of the league who’s, well, a dad. We’re…
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