The Cincinnati Bengals are taking on the Cleveland Browns tonight in the NFL’s Thursday evening matchup and according to the latest line the Bengals are an 11.5 point favorite according to the sportsbooks covered by OddsShark.com. I know Cincinnati is HOT right now like never ever before (first time in franchise history to be 7-0) and I […]
Yay Team! Just Not That Guy…
As I am sure everyone has loved (hated) listening to me talk about fantasy sports over and over, here I am again with a write up on the subject. But this time, it’s about what I think is the difficult part of the activity. We here at On The Bench Report, as our readers have […]
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 […]
Rob’s Rants And Raves Fantasy Edition: Fantasy Football that is…
I hear the word fantasy and I immediately think of the word football to accompany it. This time of year, every guy pictures football (we don’t just picture Beyonce). This is my fourth and (hopefully) final version of this article. If there is something I obsess about more than football itself, it is fantasy football. As mentioned, […]
Are some sports mascots racist?
I have already written my other article about the NFL’s Washington football franchise. Here though we will give an honest appraisal of other professional sports teams in the NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA, and NCAA teams, taking into account that although we are in a very diverse country, our sports teams seem to predominately prefer to nearly exclusively use Indigenous Americans as mascots for […]
NFL Predicting the AFC North
Top photo courtesy of (Charles LeClaire-USA Today) In the NFL, the more things change, the more they stay the same, especially in this bone bruising division where it usually comes down to the Baltimore Ravens and Pittsburgh Steelers slugging it out. I mean in the last 20 years how many dudes have the Cleveland Browns had under center? Since […]
NFL OH NO Series – Geno Smith
feature image courtesy – USATSI What just happened in New York?!? Starting QB Geno Smith is out 6-10 weeks. I read that and think he got injured on some play in training camp or in the weight room or something football related. But, no. The Jets quarterback was sucker punched in his own locker room by […]
NFL Rename the Washington Redskins
Top image is courtesy of (Carolyn Kaster AP/ChangeTheMascot.org) I’m disgusted with having to write Redskins, but in order to educate I need the subject to be clear. I personally support human rights causes and organizations such as ChangeTheMascot.org and the National Coalition on Racism in Sports and the Media. Those are proudly the views of Jason Anthony Fisher and not […]
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 […]
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 […]
How “Playmakers” paved the way for “Ballers”
Anyone remember the show “Playmakers”on ESPN? Didn’t think so. For those of you who may of missed it in 2003 running for less than four months from August till November. It showed us the backdrop of a fake football league full of players who weren’t exactly model citizens off the field. Basically think “Any Given […]
Poor Officiating Sports Rankings Part 2
Above Image (courtesy of www.amishbabymachine.com) As I mentioned back in April, at OTBR we are going to chart through the year the performance of major sports in the world (mostly North American) to see who will win the 2015 brass whistle for poor officiating. After all, sometimes the REFS -DO MAKE YOUR TEAM LOSE. If you are not […]
Bay area sports are the Best
Why the Bay Area is the best place to be a fan right now Let me preface this article with a disclaimer: I’m a loyal fan of most of the teams in the Bay Area. My blood bleeds black and orange with the San Francisco Giants, I grew up watching Joe Montana and then Steve Young throw […]
Watch Your Back, Aaron Rodgers
(Image Courtesy of Mike DiNovo-USA TODAY Sports) The Deflate-Gate drama continued yesterday (May 14, 2015) with Tom Brady formally appealing his suspension and Bob Kraft and the New England Patriots releasing a rebuttal report on their very own “The Wells Report in Context” website. Not only do these two events ensure we are all going to […]
Rob’s Rants & Raves: Vol. 2 “Hugs & Basketball” By Cheat-Os
Shop Amazon DVDs – Save Up to 55% on Thousands of Movies & TV Shows I hope my handful of readers enjoyed my first installment of Rants & Raves. While I didn’t expect to immediately have a second dose already…this week has compiled a couple thoughts. Allow me to spill this weeks Rants & Raves. […]