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Musings of an American Sports Fan who REALLY Enjoys the CFL

Musings of an American Sports Fan who REALLY Enjoys the CFL

Earlier this month, a lot of American football fans were introduced to the Canadian Football League as they turned on ESPN2 to watch the debut of Johnny Manziel for the Montreal Alouettes against the team he was just recently on.

Despite all of the hype from all over North America, it wasn’t even the best debut of that week! The previous night, the Toronto Argonauts’ McLeod Baltazar Bethel-Thompson threw a touchdown pass with one second left, to cap off a 42-41 comeback victory over the Ottawa Redblacks in his first CFL start!

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The 2016 Reasons Are Several Bowl Pick’em

Reasons Are Several 2016 College Bowl Pick'em

Back in August, Matt and I previewed the 2016 College Football Season by picking Conference Champions. We were so close on a bunch of our picks. Well, we weren’t all wrong. Together Matt and I went .500.

This time we’re back for the “2016 Reasons Are Several Bowl Pick’em,” also known as episode #147, and Neil’s joining in on the fun. So maybe we’ll see some improvement.

So, here are our picks for what you might be able to probably expect during the greatest season of the year… Bowl Season!

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Engineering my return to Fantasy Football through Proxycasting

Are you ready for some Fantasy Football? I know I am!

This year, I am participating in the Couple Things Podcast Fantasy Football League. The draft happened just days ago, and the season is upon us…

While I am ready (kind of), my draft wasn’t what you would call brilliant. I am stacked at Running Back and I have solid Wide Receiver options, but my starting Quarterback after the draft was Ryan Tannehill, and my backup is going to be Jay Cutler when he clears waivers.

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2016 College Football Season Preview Conference Winners with Reasons Are Several

2016 College Football Preview

Before the 2016 College Football Season kicks off, I joined Matt on Reasons Are Several to talk about rivalries, traditions, and to make predictions and picks for the upcoming season.

We predicted conference champions for each of the major conferences in the FBS, as well as our semi-final and final matchups, plus our prediction for the National Champion and Heisman trophies.

The episode is all the college football you can handle and maybe more.

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February has been Widely Considered a Wasteland in the American Sports Landscape, It’s NOT

1995 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue Cover with Daniela Pestova

For some reason, February has been widely considered a wasteland in the American sports landscape. This is because most American sports fans look at February as a pause between the National Football League’s Super Bowl and Major League Baseball with a stopover in College Basketball for March Madness. But that is not the case, far from it. There is plenty of sport to go around in February for the American sports fan, even more for the worldly sports fan.

Below are 10 reasons February isn’t the sports wasteland that most seem to think it is. Because there are plenty of things for sports fans to get excited about.

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