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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
POOR OFFICIATING SPORTS RANKINGS
Above Image (courtesy of www.amishbabymachine.com) Historically, there are a couple sports who are the one’s that consistently carry the reputation for rotten work by the referees and call into question the integrity of the outcome: Boxing and professional basketball’s NBA. They are the dynasties, the Yankees if you will. Here at OTBR we are going to chart through […]
“You know why I’m here”
The Seattle and Boston media had some critical insight about the most important NFL game of the year from today’s installment of Media Day. Marshawn Lynch finally speaks to the media. Let’s read about what the Seattle Times feels is important news to print! File under: Ain’t nothing changed from yesterday. Mayday! Boston Herald is concerned […]