Sports Romance Books Football Players

Why fantasy football needs to move on from PPR scoring

By Jaime E. Love 7 days ago

Some annoyances are consistent. Like ringing ears following a rock concert, pesky mosquitos buzzing around your deal with on a sizzling summer night time, the Nicole Kidman advertisement that performs in front of films at AMC theaters.

Some nuisances look below to remain, including details-for every-reception scoring in fantasy soccer.

PPR has corroded the fantasy landscape with the exact same constant determination as geological erosion, with the same performance as a swarm of locusts, with misguided attractiveness akin to Adam Sandler’s comedy fandom.

So here we are, a fantasy local community that has been conquering and oppressed by the scourge that is PPR scoring. There is not substantially we can do to adjust it ideal now, today. The only detail accurate soccer fans, who happen to play fantasy football, can do is to yell and scream at how backward the plan of PPR is even though also conforming to currently

… Read More

Big Ten football training camp preview, featuring more coachspeak that you can stand

By Jaime E. Love 1 week ago

Big Ten football training camps are kicking off, and that means strategic brilliance is materializing, championship hopes are soaring and already-stressed-out coaches are on autopilot, saying things that mean very little, if anything. Let’s dot the conference map:

WEST

Illinois (2021: 5-7 overall, 4-5 Big Ten)

Syracuse transfer Tommy Devito is the latest flavor at a school that typically struggles to get the quarterback thing right. The offensive line is inexperienced — not the best timing, given the terrific one-two punch of running backs Chase Brown and Josh McCray. If the defense doesn’t come together and rise up, you can nix any bowl ideas right now.

Coachspeak with Bret Bielema:“To come full circle and win a game against Nebraska on the front end, to beat Northwestern — a team we have great respect for — at the end of the year, really tells me the growth we had in

… Read More

Evangel Christian DE Nii Addy flourishes in 8-man high school football

By Jaime E. Love 1 week ago

The final aim for Evangel Christian football, in accordance to mentor Darius Dixon, is to discipline an 11-gentleman staff at the time yet again.

For now, the Lions are a person of six AISA educational facilities playing 8-person football, with 2022 currently being the initially season the association has sponsored the variation. And following a productive 2021 year, ECA enters as 1 of the favorites.

That is in substantial part because the Lions have the form of player eight-guy groups, or AISA groups in typical, seldom have — a legit Division I recruit.

Nii Addy, a senior defensive finish, currently retains delivers from Arkansas Point out, Liberty, Toledo, Tulane, Western Kentucky and Alabama Point out. Duke also has revealed interest in the 6-foot-3, 235-pounder, who experienced 53 tackles, 13 tackles for decline, nine sacks and two forced fumbles in 2021.

“He’s a significant expertise,” Dixon stated. “A whole lot of

… Read More

Vanderbilt coach foresees football program becoming nation’s best

By Jaime E. Love 2 weeks ago

The minimum-enviable time slot for a head coach at SEC media days each and every 12 months is the one right after Nick Saban. Reporters are digesting what Saban and his Alabama contingent just mentioned with headphones in their ears and tiny interest paid to whomever is standing at the podium.

For the final past two a long time — and it is barely a coincidence — the position of adhering to up Saban has fallen on Vanderbilt coach Clark Lea.

The next-12 months Commodores coach — who performed baseball at Birmingham-Southern for a year in 2001 — might also have the toughest on-industry task in the SEC. His out-gunned method — formerly led by Derek Mason — has lost its previous 21 meeting video games, not possessing gained in its league due to the fact beating Missouri in Oct 2019.

But Lea, employed final calendar year immediately after serving

… Read More