Clash of the Beards and Bellies- Week 3

#TagsStrong I planned on leading off with a joke about how Scott’s chances to beat me twice in a row were as small as the hands of the sitting president the last time he prevailed. Even such a stunningly hilarious joke is not the same today. The fantasy football community lost a friend and theContinue reading “Clash of the Beards and Bellies- Week 3”

Hot Cash From the King of Spice

Down a Peg Human beings often blur the line between pride and ego. I would love for someone to proclaim that I am the greatest football writer in existence, but it’s off-putting for those words to come from me. Someone on social media would likely have a clever way of exclaiming the opposite. Humble pieContinue reading “Hot Cash From the King of Spice”

Clash of the Beards and Bellies- Week 2

Winded From Victory Laps “Don’t get too cute; it’s unbecoming of you” is what I would have offered to poor Nimble as advice last week before lock…if I wasn’t in bloodthirsty competition mode. In retrospect, he can set his lineups whichever way he chooses. He’s a grown man. I don’t share the same chilling regretContinue reading “Clash of the Beards and Bellies- Week 2”

Hot Cash From the King of Spice

Key Ingredients I’m a cook, not a chef. I did not attend culinary school, nor do I own or operate a professional kitchen. It’s merely semantics, at this point. Just as one is not a doctor without an M.D. or Ph.D, my path to prominence in the food landscape was not charted on a traditionalContinue reading “Hot Cash From the King of Spice”

Clash of the Beards and Bellies

Week 1 After a soul-snatching season of head-to-head DFS prowess against poor Nimble in 2020, I met the man this summer. I held him close, his pupils narrowed to pinpricks and pulse fluttering like a wounded moth. I whispered into his ear a message that made his graying beard hairs stand on end. “You stillContinue reading “Clash of the Beards and Bellies”