(Image Courtesy of Jim K. Decker) NFL Sports Betting Predictions for the 2015 Season Thursday, September 10, is arguably the greatest day of 2015 for most American men. Because 8:30pm Eastern signals the start of the 2015 football season which everyone is fired up about! You don’t have to be a New England Patriots or Pittsburg Steelers […]
DeflateGate Tossed and Tom Brady Wins Again!
(Image Courtesy of AP; Getty Images) ESPN.com is reporting that Tom Brady has won his appeal against the NFL and DeflateGate has been tossed. It is hard to beat Tom Brady in 2015. After stomping on the Indianapolis Colts with over-inflated footballs, and winning one of the most exciting Super Bowls in memory, David has taken […]
Team OTBR Fantasy Baseball Update: Week 21
Week 21 just started, so why an update already?? Because we already won!! How is that you ask? Because our opponent, XoloPound, has graciously forfeited. It must be because we are just such an intimidating force. But they have an illegal lineup, so they get no points for the week. As long as we manage at […]
Team OTBR Fantasy Baseball Update: Week 20
Even though week 20 technically isn’t on the books as of writing this, it is almost a mathematical impossibility that PGH Best 1 has a comeback to take us down. That would require Brandon Crawford having about 9 home runs and 23 RBI. Basically, we’re safe. We almost need to send Yoenis Cespedes a nice […]
Team OTBR Fantasy Baseball Update: Week 19
Can you say division win? Well now you can! Because it just happened. This week‘s win over MadBumss created separation putting them 2 games behind us. Unfortunately, Basher, the division leader, and Murphy10, tied with us in second place, also won. So nothing changed in the standings there. Team OTBR is still behind Murphy10 in […]
Team OTBR Fantasy Baseball Update: Week 18
Steamrolled. Can’t do too much when you go up against the weekly point leader. And Papa appears to be on the a path to capture that distinction. To put it this way, we would have beaten 6 other teams this week, but there is a reason Papa is leading the West division. We’re currently in […]
Grantland to Bill Simmons: Good Riddance
Grantland released an article today titled Patriot Games: Deflategate and the Golden Boy That Never Was written by Charles Pierce that seems to give ex-Grantland editor-in-chief, Bill Simmons, the New York wave. Just to set the stage for anyone who isn’t familiar with Bill Simmons: Bill Simmons is from Massachusetts, and doesn’t hide his passion for […]
Team OTBR Fantasy Baseball Update: Week 17
Don’t call it a comeback! OK, we really need to call a spade a spade and address the amazing Sunday comeback for Team OTBR. Looking at the score and remaining games left on Sunday morning, we would have thought we were cooked. We looked like we had close to no hope of winning Week 17, […]
Watch Your Back, Hillary Clinton and Lois Lerner
(Above image courtesy of Elsa/Getty Images) * Although every effort has been made for this article to be objective, it discusses politics as it relates to current events in sports. Any views expressed in this article are only views of the writer, and not necessarily On The Bench Report. Deflate-Gate. How a story about the air pressure […]
Team OTBR Fantasy Baseball Update: Week 16
Crushing win this week! Mad Bumss lost, so we’re now tied for second with only murphy10. Good feeling to create some distance. Xolo Pound loaded their lineup with 2 start pitchers, but that backfired on them with a lot of their pitchers putting up negative points! Bad news for them is good news for us. […]
Team OTBR Fantasy Baseball Update: Week 15
MLB All-Star Game week. Short week. Let’s analyze with an analogy: Casinos want some people to win. People go to casinos for the excitement. For the chance to win a big jackpot. If people thought there was no chance of winning, casinos would be completely empty. Casinos win over the long run. Math is on […]
Team OTBR Fantasy Baseball Update: Week 14
We’re back! Not only did we win this week, but we had the highest points total in the league – no bonus points for that, but it’s good to know we have a solid core. All Star game this week, so rather than making sure we have 2 start pitchers going this week, we need […]
Team OTBR Fantasy Baseball Update: Week 13
After a brush with greatness for one week, Team OTBR has dropped back into a tie for 3rd in our division. 2 games behind the leader, Basher. Remember, the top two teams in each division make it to the playoffs, so there’s still time, and we are easily in the hunt. We’re going to give Justin […]
Touching Stanley Cup without the White Gloves
(Featured Photo Courtesy of Mike Jacobs / On The Bench Report) There were no While Gloves on my hand when I had the chance to touch The Stanley Cup. That was quite a contrast to when Philip Pritchard, aka “The Keeper of the Cup”, holds the priceless piece of hardware that he is responsible for. […]
Team OTBR Fantasy Baseball Update: Week 12
Has anyone forfeited in the history of CBS Sports Fantasy Baseball? Well, OTBR just learned that making a mistake before the games start on Monday can screw you for the entire week. We apparently had too many reserve players and correcting the problem didn’t actually correct the problem. Unfortunately, we took a loss and get […]