The Drubbing

As the young season chugs along, all is becoming normal in the top-10 of The Basketball Jesus Rankings, but there are still a few statistical outliers sneaking their way into the top-15.

LeBron James continues to stake his claim to the top spot and is holding onto a stout 47-point lead. Perennial contenders Dwayne Wade, Dwight Howard, Amare Stoudemire, Carlos Boozer, Dirk Nowitzki, Chris Paul and Chris Bosh have claimed a spot in the top ten.
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Seriously.

Admit it.  Hockey isn’t nearly as boring, hard to follow, trivial, unimportant and irrelevant as you’d like to make it.

We’re now three season’s separated from an NHL work stoppage that many thought would spell the end of hockey in the U.S. for good.  With a plummeting fan base and a TV contract that found its way to rivaling the rodeo for air time, the NHL looked to be in ridiculously thin ice.
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To follow up Ryan’s preview of a hotly contested early season match-up between two of our fantasy basketball teams I’ve got a mid-week progress report that shows less progress than I would have liked.
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The Nets organization “gets it.”

The economy sucks, we all know that. But we’re not going to make our way out of this by burying our heads in the sand of our own private beaches. The only way for us to come out of this is for us to come together as communities to work collectively on getting everyone to a better place.
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Here at The Drubbing, we are engaged in many sports related activities.  One of our favorites is fantasy sports.  Currently, four of the contributors are in a Fantasy basketball league and two of them just happen to be playing each other this week.  I am going to run down a preview of the match-up between Nate and myself and give a prediction of who will win.  Nate will in turn write a recap and a forecast halfway through the week, then the winner will get a chance to have the last say.
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Alright, alright – I know – it wasn’t the most thrilling World Series, but it was definitely interesting. I’d like to congratulate my beloved Philadelphia Phillies for finally bringing home a world championship. Yes, we defeated the Tampa Bay Rays, but those same Rays knocked off the defending champs. That says something about the quality club Tampa has, but more importantly it says something about the Phils.
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If you’re a fan of college football and/or an avid viewer of sports news, you may have seen video clips the other week or read some tidbits of Penn State football coach Joe Paterno and USC football coach Pete Carroll ranting about the Bowl Championship Series, better known as the “BCS.” I found both rants quite entertaining, but very different, especially with the outcome of this past weekend in college football.
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Just a week and a half removed from Halloween, Week 2 of The Basketball Jesus Rankings are still serving up some tricks and a few treats if you’re a Golden State Warriors fan. All is right in the world of Larry Bird Fantasy Basketball Leagues as LeBron James appears to have cemented his position at the top of the rankings, barring injury, as he’s built a 50-point lead on the rest of the field. But I’m still having trouble grasping the player that’s catapulted to the #5 position.
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Wine 'em dine 'em 69 'em

With the state of the current economy on the fritz, i recently started thinking about job security.  Then i started watching Monday Night Football.  And then, i pondered who had hotter cheerleaders, the Cowboys or the Buccaneers.

Then i realized it didn’t matter, they were all hot.  So i got to thinking, who has a shorter career, professional sports cheerleaders or NFL running backs.
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As week one has come to a close, I’m back to report a few shockers in the rankings for the Lary Bird Fantasy Basketball League. The NBA has had a few surprise performances, and a lot of disappointments for fantasy owners so far. The Basketball Jesus Rankings have had a few of our own.
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