(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 […]
MLB Trade Deadline Update
(Image Courtesy of Harry How/Getty Images) A couple of big trades went down since my preview article for the upcoming trade deadline when Johnny Cueto was sent to Kansas City and Troy Tulowitzki was surprisingly sent to Toronto. Those won’t be the last big name players to change uniforms this week, nor will it be the […]
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. […]
MLB Trade Deadline Special
The first of the bigger names officially came off the market when the Astros acquired pitcher Scott Kazmir from the A’s this week. It was a classic trade deadline deal where the A’s knew Kazmir would not return to Oakland next season when he is a free agent, so they wanted to get something in […]
MLB Pennant Race report
(Top image is courtesy of Anthony Gruppuso-USA Today Sports ) I know there is a lot of baseball to still be played, but let’s not kid ourselves, in the American League, there are very few contenders left. Some years a bunch of teams are still in it, but this year it feels like the standings could likely […]
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 […]
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 […]
Rob’s Rants & Raves: Vol. 3 “Summertime”
Summer, summer, summertime. Suns out guns out, ice cold drinks, Fresh Prince & Jazzy Jeff on the boom box blastin’…lemonade stands going up? I ran out of summer analogies. Point is it’s summer, mid July, and it’s time for me to rant and rave about stuff. NBA season has come to an end. MLB is […]
MLB Preview Revisited
(Image coutesy of Jasen Vinlove-USA TODAY Sports) Here we are at the All Star Break, so this seems like a good time to take a look around the Majors to see who is doing better than expected, worse than expected and as expected. Before the season started, I wrote a series of in depth articles 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 […]
UFC 189: WOW
UFC International Fight week has come and gone. After a week long series of local events in Las Vegas, along with the UFC Fan Expo, and what can be argued as one of the biggest UFC Pay Per Views of all time, UFC 189 did not fail to deliver. This was my first time […]
Cardinals Astros cyber hacking scandal, Aaron Sorkin, and the greatest sports movie ever made
Top Image courtesy of (www.livingpuyallup.com) Dear Aaron Sorkin, please make the Astros Cardinals cyber-hacking scandal into the greatest sports movie of all time, pleaseeeeeeeeeeee. It’s odd to me that nobody’s discussing the most fascinating sports scandal of the summer (I’m a Cubs fan so maybe I’m biased). It broke in late June that the St. […]
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 […]
DeMarcus Cousins and Kobe Bryant Deserve Each Other
(Top Image courtesy of a screenshot from ESPN 1st Take) Kobe Bryant and DeMarcus “Boogie” Cousins deserve each other. No other two players in all of the NBA would be more fun to watch if paired together. Just Imagine the 6 ft. 6 in. Five-time NBA Champ and Seven-time Western Conference Champ Kobe Bryant, who even at 36 can […]
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 […]
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