News: We’ve achieved a certain mathematical symmetry as a league, six teams at 3 – 3, three at 4 – 2 and three at 2 – 4. I don’t know what the significance of that is (if any) but it suggests no one is presently poised to run away with a lead or be eliminated from contention early and that’s a good thing. Scoring was a little light this week and I owe that to the combination of injuries and…
News: Week 5 brought the dream of a perfect season to an end once again. This is hardly surprising. We’ve had a few 11 – 2 seasons and Archie had a 12 – 2 season in the more recent, 17 game season era but 14 – 0 is something I doubt we ever see. In the NFL, the water cooler gossip remains the injury epidemic this year. Case in point, teams like the 49ers are getting ready to run Brandon…
News: The big news in Clan McDonald this week was of course our annual outing to Western, for an afternoon of football, camaraderie and yes, perhaps a couple of beverages in the parking lot. It was nice to see everyone and catch up a bit on a stellar October day! The highlights from fantasy were Scott managing to keep his record perfect at 4 – 0 and Ceilidh posting a rare 200+ point weekend. As they like to say in…
News: Week 3 was a pretty entertaining batch of football games I thought, with a few in particular providing a lot of drama if you were fortunate enough to be able to watch. Unfortunately we also saw some officiating that will do nothing to quiet speculation about corruption. The pass interference call on CeeDee Lamb towards the end of that game was so bad, you can’t even attribute it to incompetence. That was a choice to “see” something no one…
News: I don’t want to start equating injuries with news. They are news certainly but not likely news to anyone here. Early in the season we’re still trying to figure out which teams and players are gold and which are fool’s gold. What we’re seeing so far is the dominance of the “superstars” and quarterbacks. Fantasy experts told us the QB position would be deep this year and while it’s still early, that prediction is holding up. Our top twenty…