Tag: Fantasy Football
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Week 4 Newsletter: Magic in the Air
Greetings from Italy! More on that next week. Before I arrived here, I spent a couple of days in London — pretty much every flight from the U.S. to Italy had a lengthy delay in either New York or London, so I chose to chill in London. While there, I did as many touristy things…
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Week 3 Newsletter: NINE NINE
Despite working in television and watching a lot of TV in general, there aren’t a lot of TV shows I particularly watch. Chances are, if there’s a popular TV show or even something on networks in the evenings, I’ve never seen a single episode. From Breaking Bad to Game of Thrones to The Americans to Atlanta to BoJack Horseman to This is Us to The Walking Dead, I’ve seen about three…
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Week 2 Newsletter: Winless in Seattle
Greetings from the Emerald City! I’m continuing to scratch the pandemic travel itch by seeing the sights of Seattle, about four years after Jimmy, Chriss, and I made our own trek up north. While I’m doing a few different activities and have somehow gotten even fatter since then, one thing that remains the same is that I’m not traveling alone.…
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Week 1 Newsletter: A HOF Beginning
Things are finally getting back to normal. Businesses have opened back up, fans can attend sporting events again, and travel is returning to average levels. Of course, the pandemic is far from other — in fact a shit ton of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths have been reported in recent months (largely due to unvaccinated dipshits, but still). Booster…
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2021 Draft Newsletter: How will the Raiders screw up this time?
While we still are in a pandemic, I’m not doing another series of offseason newsletters. That shit was way too much work and I’ve somehow gotten even busier than before at FOX40. I’m doing the 10 p.m. show (M-F) now and this shit is hard, especially because we’re incredibly short-staffed (I have no writers for the majority…
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Week 17 Newsletter: Kamarageddon
It’s finally over. It’s done. We’re just hours away from the end of 2020, the worst year on record. Soon, 2021 will begin and all of our problems will instantly disappear, at least that’s what I’ve been told. Seriously though, this year has fucking sucked. I’ll go over in greater detail just how bizarre of a year…
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Week 16 Newsletter: Bah Humbug
Merry Christmas, everyone! Yes, I know it’s still only Christmas Eve, but the next time I write to you we’ll be counting down the hours until the end of this godforsaken year. So let’s celebrate the holiday season that feels like none that have come before. The pandemic has certainly taken some of the usual cheer…
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Week 15 Newsletter: The Cause of and Solution to All of Life’s Problems
On this day 31 years ago, arguably the greatest dynasty in American TV history began. Given how it started, no one could’ve seen how it ended up today. The Tracey Ullman Show wanted to use a series of animated shorts as bumpers between sketches. So one of the show’s producers, James Brooks, asked his friend, Matt Groening, for an idea,…
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Week 14 Newsletter: Shivakamini Somakandarkram
The Week 14 newsletter — the one right before the first round of the playoffs — is always the toughest to do each year. On top of the recaps, previews, features, and usual shenanigans, I’ve got to say goodbye to each team that didn’t make the postseason, while recapping every team that did. It’s still…
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Week 13 Newsletter: Dino-mite
The current major sports champions in the U.S. may be two teams I hate, one I don’t particularly care for, and one I don’t give a shit about. But leave it to South Korea to prove the sports gods aren’t complete assholes in 2020. Remember a few months ago, when all sports had been suspended…
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