When it comes to USF sports, most discussions focus on football: how we compare to the other Florida schools, how our relatively young program fights for big wins, how each year starts so promising then ends in heartbreak, etc. Now the conversations are shifting to that other sport, you know, [...]

You know how baseball players each have a song they walk out to? Well, for this year’s music issue I decided to pair some strong fantasy players with their perfect intro songs. Aaron Rodgers: “All I do is win” by DJ Khaled & others. Lyric sample: “All I do is [...]

The Penn State scandal is a terrible real-life illustration of the point I tried to make in last week’s column: off-field drama can impact on-field playing. I don’t know if it will affect NFL players, but it clearly was a presence in the Nebraska-Penn State game on Saturday afternoon. Prior [...]

Earlier this week, I felt like a fantasy football analyst for the first time. A friend asked me a straightforward “this player vs. that player” question for the first time. And I dealt with the anxiety of possibly giving the wrong answer for the first time. It’s not that I [...]

For this week’s food issue, I decided to brainstorm the perfect delicacies for some of our current NFL players to promote when they retire. In real life, many athletes choose to focus on food once their NFL career ends—Lee Roy Selmon, anyone? So here are my suggested endorsements, complete with [...]

Bye weeks are a tricky thing. If you don’t plan for them, you’re probably screwed. If you notice your opponents who don’t plan for them, you have the opportunity to take advantage of their foolishness. You’ll know which category you’re in soon. I’m a mixture of both. Originally I had [...]

We’re almost halfway through the fantasy season and I’m guessing your team’s weak links are becoming more apparent. Although there is always the option of picking up a free agent, it’s likely you will have to trade for a player who can really make an impact. When it comes to [...]

After a year of waiting, the best/only fantasy football sitcom returned last week. The third season of “The League” debuted on Oct. 6 on FX and to my delight it was hilarious, raunchy and full of NFL players. Watching my boy Maurice Jones-Drew do The Shiva Bowl Shuffle was pretty [...]

As fantasy owners, we consider many different aspects before deciding who to sit and who to start. We look at injuries, opposing defenses, teammates who might take opportunities away from our men and countless other things. For an individual player, we might think about his talent, how often he gets [...]

On Friday night I dreamed about fantasy football. Not really surprising, considering I had an in-depth discussion about it a few hours earlier at The Ale and The Witch in downtown St. Petersburg. In my dream, I decided not to play Eli Manning and accidentally moved him into a WR [...]