College Football Week Zero in Dublin
College Football kicks off across the pond as part of the Dublin Aer Lingus College Football Series. It is the first time in 5 years that college football has gone international. This is a great matchup for the setting in that Big Ten football is the closest thing to Rugby that Americans can offer. Nebraska enters the game as 13-point favorites after beating Northwestern 56-7 in 2021. Stateside on the east coast, you can catch it tomorrow afternoon at 12:30 PM on Fox.
KD Back in Brooklyn, Chet Holmgren Out for Year
After a couple of months of speculation that Kevin Durant would be traded from the Nets, KD is now singing a different tune - “Brooklyn, Brooklyn take me in.” Despite the awkwardness of him requesting both the GM (Sean Marks) and coach (Steve Nash) be fired, the 10-time All-Star under a 4-year contract will return for the ‘22-23 season. I’m surprised Adam Silver didn’t force the Nets to deal KD just to stir up publicity on #NBAtwitter.
The other notable news in NBA is unfortunate. The #2 overall pick of this past draft, Chet Holmgren, suffered a Lisfranc injury in his right foot while playing in a Pro-Am summer game in Seattle. The fact that the Thunder have already ruled him out for the year makes me think they are already looking to tank again, this time for the Victor Wembanyama sweepstakes.
Rumors: Judge Re-signing Confirmed?!?
The face of baseball hit homers 47 and 48 in the Subway Sweep at the Stadium. With 48 blasts through 124 games, Aaron Judge is now on pace for 63 on the season.
The 10 Characters in a Live Fantasy Football Draft
1. The Commish: Feels self-important because he happened to be the first one to have an ESPN account in the 7th grade. After 10+ years as a commissioner of your league makes a half-joke he’ll put this on his resume, but has used this remark the past 3 years so it plays worse every time and you think he might be serious. “Threatens” to step down every other year as if anybody in the league would care.
2. **League Governor** who never wins: Glue guy(s) of the league. They have made it to the championship 3 times in the past 6 years but are cursed. Ideally, you want a few of these guys because of the storylines obviously.
** “League Governor” = guy or girl in your fantasy league. Going the NBA route here because saying “guy or girl” every time just doesn’t have the same ring to it.**
3. League Governor who changes his team name midseason: Unstable. A flight risk. The Dan Snyder of the league.
4. League Governor with the wildly inappropriate team name: “C’mon man, we’re approaching 30, we can’t be putting this on the trophy.”
5. League Governor who claims they are a scout: Doesn’t watch college football but can tell point blank whether an NFL prospect will have a successful career based on Mel Kiper Jr.’s draft day montage.
6. League Governor who thinks he is Adam Schefter of the league group chat: Takes pride in being the first to send screenshots of all breaking news. Has Twitter notifications on for 57 sports reporters from sea to shining sea.
7. League Governor who listens to fantasy football podcasts: Unoriginal. Religiously listens to people talkin’ fantasy and emphatically brings up talking points as if they’re their own thoughts on draft day. While you’re drafting players with your gut, get ready to hear about how it was a terrible pick. Go with your intuition, Matthew Berry can kick rocks.
8. League Governor who thinks every pick was great: Tells you they were going to take him next round and that you got great value. According to them, everybody in the league has a flawless roster.
9. League Governor who drafts the injured guy: Was not paying attention when half the league announced the injury and had a full-on conversation about who his backup is. Usually, the morale of this governor is low after the league’s reactionary roast.
10. The “look at my team” League Governor: Constantly forces you to look down his line of the draft board.
Self-explanatory best of the rest: League Governor(s) who shows up winging it (over half the league). The new League Governor. League Governor who is always late. League Governor who wants the draft over after the 6th round.
Cheers!