Green Advice for Green People: Good to Be Bad
If you are in a fantasy baseball league that isn’t rotisserie style, you’re doing it wrong. That’s just a fact.
Hoop Dreams: Hollinger’s PER Far From a ‘Total Stat’
John Hollinger’s Player Efficiency Rating pissed me off more when it was used to prove LeBron was better than Kobe a few years back.
The 18th Weekly Photo of the Week: “To the Land of Golden Bears”
Lindsay Gottlieb, head coach of the women’s basketball team this season, announced Monday that she was leaving the program to coach at UC Berkeley. In three seasons at the helm of the Gauchos, Gottlieb led the team to a Big West Tournament championship as well as a pair of regular season titles.
UEFA Champions League Breakdown
FC Schalke 04 will host Manchester United this afternoon before FC Barcelona and Real Madrid CF face off in the semifinal round of the UEFA Champions League Tournament.
Green Advice for Green People: Don’t Overlook Your League’s Overlooked Talent
Most fantasy owners don’t trust rookies and other smaller names to be consistent. They are reluctant to use players who have not established themselves as household names, which can be a big mistake. Here, five players who are still available in ESPN leagues because of their anonymity, but may not be for long.
’Chos to Kick Off Series v. 49ers
Hoping to maintain the momentum from Tuesday night’s 15-inning victory over Pepperdine, UCSB will host Big West foe Long Beach State in a three-game series starting today. Long Beach currently stands at 18-16 (5-4 Big West) after winning two out of three against Riverside at home.
Speace’s Pieces: Why Do We Play? To Win the Games
The NBA playoffs come down to two things: wins and losses. When we criticize, analyze and scrutinize every single move of each team, coach and individual player, it is all for naught. The level and style of play is not important. Only the victories — plain and simple.
The 17th Weekly Photo of the Week: Time to Dance
The Gaucho women’s club lacrosse team earned an at-large bid to the WCLA National Championship Tournament in Scottsdale, Arizona. On Wednesday, May 4, the team will face off against No. 10 University of Texas as a No. 7 seed.
Hoop Dreams: The Motherlist of All NBA Lists
I just want to confirm a few things in the NBA that nobody can agree on. This is meant to be the be-all end-all of NBA basketball lists, as the league stands in 2011. Any opinions that sway from the following are wrong. These are the obvious:
Surfers Leave the Ocean, Charge Upstream in Indo
I have constantly complained to my peers and family that my life is plagued with indecision — I can’t make up my goddamn mind about anything. One of the biggest downsides to that has been my inability to choose a career goal or plan for the future — as a kid I never wanted [...]
Green Advice for Green People: Not All Underperforming Sluggers Should Be Treated Equally
One of the most precarious situations for fantasy owners is when he or she has to deal with that player (or players) that they drafted to be the star on their team but started off the season in a funk. But how do you know whether or not the player will come out of his slump?
Speace of Mind: Golf Needs Tiger…for Better or for Worse
Hearty congratulations to the new owner of the illustrious Green Jacket, but I can’t help but wonder, “What if?”
Green Advice: It Must Be Baseball Season
Hello again my loyal readers. I know there are those of you out there who think I’m an idiot, were glad to see me go and are probably reading this wondering what I could possibly have to write about now that there’s no football on the weekends. The joke is on you, suckers, because it just so happens that I’m also pretty good at fantasy baseball.
Nuglets of Wisdom: Summer Heat Cools Waves
At some dreadful point this quarter the waves will start to trickle to a gradual calm until we’ve reached the summer lull, when swells large enough to generate decent surf are a rarity.
How to Train Your Sports Editor: The Long and Winding Road
With most classes, the end of the quarter means that it’s time to do a memory wipe of everything you’ve learned in the last 10 weeks. But as I’ve said all quarter long, ESS classes are not like most. I not only learned how to play a couple of new sports, but each class taught me something beyond the sport.