Fantasy Football Cheat Sheet Rankings Are Changing

After the first wave of fantasy football cheat sheet rankings were set in stone, it didn't take long for things to start changing. And that change came when Kenny Britt got arrested again!

Yes, Mr. Britt, just off a court appearance, was arrested and charged with resisting arrest and a few other details such as damaging evidence or something like that. Don't take me wrong I don't mean to be flippant just a little frustrated with such a talented fantasy football player it is hard to watch them put themselves and their career at risk. Not to mention negatively affecting their teammates and their franchise which pays him a lot of money.
Personally I had placed Kenny Britt at the bottom of my top 10 wide receivers. I truly believe his upside is huge, however limited by the inexperienced quarterback for the Titans. This recent brush with the law could land Britt a game suspension anywhere from one to four weeks. This is a guess so don't think this is a sure thing, but when you are evaluating your fantasy football cheat sheet rankings it is important to take this potential suspension seriously.
This recent brush with the law has caused me to lower Britt significantly. I now have him in the low 20s to low 30s of my wide receiver rankings. A careful watch of the fantasy news at Football diehards over the next few weeks hopefully will give us a better understanding of whether Britt will potentially lose games in 2011.

Even if Britt escapes this latest issue, fantasy football manager skill must recognize that he could easily make another mistake not far down the road. Hence there is additional risk to selecting Britt in your fantasy draft in the first three rounds. So keep a close eye on football diehard’s fantasy football cheat sheet rankings as we will be adjusting his position as information comes out.

Lannuzzi Not Just A Football Player

The term “football player” simply doesn’t do justice to Marco Iannuzzi.
The B.C. Lions receiver and punt returner is mature well beyond his 24 years. He’s in a construction consulting business with his father, which puts his Harvard architecture degree to good use, as the two map out construction projects from the ground up. As well, Iannuzzi is looking to set out on a career in the financial industry.
Should he so choose, he could give up football today, put on a suit and pack a briefcase and never put his body in harm’s way again.
“There’s a million other things I could do, and people ask me all the time, ‘Hey, you went to Harvard, why are you playing football?’ Well, because I want to play football,” he said. “It’s that simple.”
Iannuzzi made eight catches as a rookie this season, and averaged just over eight yards on his 16 punt returns.
“I’ve been really fortunate,” he said. “In my 12 some-odd years of football, I think I’ve won a championship in 10 of those years. So when I look around at these guys, it feels just like it’s felt for me the rest of my career. It feels like a winning group of guys.”
Garrett feels bad for fallen teammates
Winnipeg Blue Bombers running back Chris Garrett benefited from injuries to Fred Reid and Carl Volny, but he wasn’t happy to see his teammates go down with knee injuries in the same game on Sept. 24.
When the team’s first- and second-string backs got hurt, Garrett was promoted from the practice roster and has put in a series of great performances ever since.
“I wasn’t happy (when Reid and Volny got hurt),” admitted Garrett. “I was thinking more about them because they were lost for the season. But at the same time, it was an opportunity, and no matter how an opportunity is presented, you have to take it. I’m sad about what happened to them, but an opportunity comes once in a lifetime, and I just took it and ran with it.”
Garrett started the Bombers’ final six regular-season games, and averaged 96 yards a game while scoring four touchdowns.
“As soon as he sees the hole, he gets his shoulders going north-south and he’s got that extra burst to get through the line,” said offensive lineman Brendon LaBatte. “And rarely do you see the first tackle bring him down.”
Dinos’ Nill grooms great pros
It’s no coincidence that Blake Nill-coached players make an impact in the CFL ranks according to Winnipeg Blue Bombers offensive lineman Steve Morley.
“He’s a great football mind, right? He knows what he’s doing and he runs a professional practice,” said Morley, who played for the university coach at St. Mary’s. “He knows how to get guys ready for the next level, he knows how to make guys better.”
Nill, now the Calgary Dinos head coach, also has ties to Winnipeg kicker Justin Palardy, fullback James Green, offensive lineman Paul Swiston, defensive lineman Deji Oduwole and receiver Cassidy Doneff.
“You want to see your guys succeed,” said Nill. “I look at those guys — Green has fought for every inch he’s got. Morley’s paid his dues, Swiston is an up-and-comer, you want to see him do well, and the same thing with Deji, a guy who’s clawing his way, trying to become a regular in the CFL. That what it’s about, right? The experience they’re having right now is something they’ll cherish for the rest of their lives.”
Braley has two teams to root for
Could things have worked out any more fortuitously this weekend for B.C. Lions owner David Braley?
Not only does the Hamilton businessman see his CFL club advance to play in the Grey Cup game at BC Place, but the former tight end’s alma mater and the school to which he’s the largest patron, McMaster University, won its way into Friday night’s Vanier Cup.
“Yeah, I’m a pretty lucky guy,” Braley, a Marauder from 1960-63, said in an interview on Thursday.
The only thing better would have been if the other CFL team he owns, the Toronto Argonauts, was representing the East in the Grey Cup instead of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. Toronto will host both the Grey Cup and Vanier Cup in 2012.
“Maybe we can do that next year,” he said of a Toronto-B.C. title game, before adding with the hint of a chuckle that “we have to get (the Argos) out of the basement first.”

Football Game Of Week

The Green Bay Packers were favored by some prognosticators to be the class of the NFC. But injuries decimated a very talented team. If not for the steady play of Quarterback Aaron Rogers, the Packers would have missed this year’s playoffs.

Gradually, they got better and with the stout defense, lead by Clay Mathews and the Cornerback Extraordinaire, Charles Woodson, and sure-handed veteran wide outs on offense, Donald Driver and Greg Jennings anything can happen.
They will be facing the talented young Philadelphia Eagles. Who up until recently, looked virtually unstoppable. The speed of the young receivers, the emergence of Lesean Mccoy has been the one-two punch that most teams have no counter moves for. Then add the mutli-talented, Pro Bowl, MVP candidate, quarterback Mike Vick to the mix. What can they do?
What the Packers will try to do is keep pressuring Mike Vick, like the Vikings and Bears were able to do successfully. The Packers were able to beat the Eagles that earlier this season by limiting those big plays the Eagles are able to get with their speed. So they can go into Lincoln Financial Field knowing they can beat the Eagles.
The eagles will have to limit their turnovers and have to keep Mike Vick off the ground. Protection is the name of this game. If they can do that, the will give Vick the opportunity to do his thing. And that offense is explosive.
Now with that said, given the explosiveness of the eagles offense and the toughness of the Packers Defense, this game will come down to special teams this is where the Eagles are better than the Packers.
The kicking game of David Ackers and the punting game of the Aussie, Sav Rocca make the Eagles arguably the best in the NFL. Then like a cherry on top, the electric Mr. Desean Jackson’s return game, standing... waiting…intimidating… He can change a game in the blink of an eye!

What Makes the Wonderful Football Players

Football is the greatest game in the USA. These people are crazy about football. They love to play and even watch football matches. When it comes to select one of the best football players, you can use the criteria that the best is one who has something unique and excellent qualities that everybody else has but that specific person uses that quality efficiently as compared to other team mates. Isn’t it?

Undoubtedly, each team member has that potential, vigor and capacity to become the best, if he uses it at the crucial moment efficiently; he wins the title best player. However, acquiring some qualities, an ordinary football player can try to be a great one. Here we are going to discuss about some qualities that makes a football player great.
• He must have a burning desire to win.
• He should love to run, tackle and block, which are the basic actions in football.
• He should be always ready physically in the top conditions in the whole year around.
• He should learn to take defeat sportily. If he faces any disappointment, he should react with a more determined effort and resolve, and not by displaying anger, poor sportsmanship and excuses.
• He follows all the workshops, football trials and learns his assignments thoroughly.
• He never quits or admits defeat, rather plays every play regarding it is the most crucial play.
• Despite of any condition.
• He should try to win his weaknesses.
• He is intent on coming off the field better players than he was when stepping on the field.
• He always works hard to be the best player in the team.
• He hustles all the time.
• He always thinks about team and always encourages their teammates.
These are the qualities of a great football player and if one adopts all those qualities he can be the best football player. There are many football academies to teach the game and some skills to rule the ground. But qualities are not the things that can be taught in any football academy every student have to acquire all these qualities of them and blend them with their skills. A perfect blend forms the best football player.
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Football Coach of Peen State University Tom Bradley's Scandal

or Penn State University, there was the past week _ a week of unimaginable turmoil and sorrow, anger and disbelief and shame. And then there is tomorrow.
　　The university has been rocked by a child-sex abuse scandal involving a former assistant football coach and it cost long-time head coach Joe Paterno his job. Now, some students and alumni are wondering what comes next for a proud institution brought low by allegations that powerful men knew they had a predator in their midst and failed to take action. What should the community do now?

　　"Our best," said 19-year-old Julie Weiss, a second-year student who paused outside her dormitory to consider the question.
　　Last week, the worst in its 156-year history, the place called Happy Valley became noticeably less so. Students and alumni felt betrayed as the allegations exploded onto the nation's front pages, bringing notoriety to a place largely unaccustomed to scandal.
　　State College is a community of less than 40,000. Paterno spent 46 years leading the Penn State team, and won more games than any other major college football coach in America. The team's success has brought in millions of dollars in television broadcast rights, merchandising and more.
　　As the school's trustees pledge to get to the bottom of the saga, many Penn Staters are feeling sadness, anger, a sense of loss. Some can't sleep. Others walk around with knots in their stomachs or can't stop thinking about the victims. Wherever two or more people congregate, the subject inevitably comes up. Even Saturday's pregame tailgate parties were muted with the subject that hung low over everything.
　　"Everyone's been struggling to reconcile how something so bad could happen in a place that we all think is so good," said fourth-year student Gina Mattei, 21, hours after Penn State played its first game since 1965 without Joe Paterno on the sidelines as head coach. "It's sad to think that something like that could happen HERE, in a place where everyone is really comfortable and has a lot of community spirit."
　　Sandusky was charged Nov. 5 with molesting eight boys over a span of 15 years, and two university officials were charged with failing to notify authorities after being told about a 2002 incident in which Sandusky allegedly sodomized a boy in the showers of the football building.
　　The scandal quickly metastasized, costing two more key figures their jobs _ Paterno, the face of Penn State football since 1966, as well as university president Graham Spanier. It also tarnished the reputation of an institution that preached "success with honor" and that, according to its own credo, was supposed to be better than this.
　　Some students argue that the question itself _ "How does Penn State regain what it's lost?" _ is flawed. This remains a world-renowned research institution, they point out. It's still the place where students hold THON, a yearly dance marathon that raises millions of dollars for pediatric cancer research. It's far more than football and far bigger than Sandusky, Spanier, even Paterno.
　　"I don't think that our name is tarnished at all," said Amy Fietlson, 19, a second-year student and aspiring veterinarian. "The integrity of a few individuals who have been involved with this school are definitely tarnished, but for the rest of us that had no way of preventing it or had no involvement in it, we are not tarnished at all. Our integrity remains."
　　But it won't be easy to recover, even with a commitment from new president Rodney Erickson to restore confidence and "rebuild our community." Too much damage has been done during a week of growing revelations, mounting anger and shock after nationally televised shock.
　　The U.S. Education Department is investigating whether the university violated federal law by failing to report the alleged assaults. Some donors are expected to pull back, at least in the short term. One football recruit has already changed his mind about attending Penn State next year. Moody's Investors Service Inc. warned that it might downgrade Penn State's bond rating as it gauges the impact of possible lawsuits.Then there's the risk that new allegations of wrongdoing _ more abuse victims coming forward, perhaps, or evidence of a wider cover-up than what's already been alleged _ could jolt the campus again."I hope and I pray that it doesn't go any further than what we've already seen, which is as tragic as it gets," said George Werner, 47, a Penn State graduate who was with friends Saturday in the shadow of the football stadium.Werner, 47, said he has struggled with the scandal every day, waking in the middle of the night and unable to go back to sleep.
     He fears it will be a long, long time before the university gets back to normal. "Maybe not in my lifetime," he says.At the ball game, fans roared "WE ARE! PENN STATE!" in thundering unison. The old chant seemed to take on new significance after a singularly horrific week. It was an incantation, as if saying the words could restore things to the way they were. It was affirmation. It was a chance to show the world that Penn State is still Penn State.The university is so big _ it's basically a small city unto itself _ that very little can alter the daily routine. Students still took tests, wrote papers, did research. Penn Staters still showed characteristic pride in their school. Saturday night crowds still packed College Avenue's bars, pizza parlors, galleries and clothing stores.
    Yet the Sandusky case reached beyond the confines of the football program into every corner of campus and across the vast alumni network.Earl Holt, a 2005 graduate who teaches school in Washington, D.C., said students and colleagues have asked him about Penn State. He came to State College over the weekend to see for himself, catching the game and gauging the mood on campus. He said he sensed "an atmosphere of disappointment, but also of wanting to heal the situation and move forward and progress."

American Football

　　American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football.[1][2] The ball can be advanced by running with it or throwing it to a teammate. Points can be scored by carrying the ball over the opponent's goal line, catching a pass thrown over that goal line, kicking the ball through the opponent's goal posts or tackling an opposing ball carrier in his own end zone.
　　In the United States, the major forms are high school football, college football and professional football. Each of these are played under slightly different rules.[3] High school football is governed by the National Federation of State High School Associations and college football by the National Collegiate Athletic Association and National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics. The major league for professional football is the National Football League.
　　American football is closely related to Canadian football but with some differences in rules and the field.[4] Both sports can be traced to early versions of association football and rugby football.
　　As usual, pundits remain divided as to who will lift the title next May, currently held by the ever-green Sir Alex Ferguson’s Manchester United. But they face stiff competition from big-spending neighbours Manchester City, as well as the strong London contingient of Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur, plus a resurgent Liverpool side under the steady guidance of their Kop hero, Kenny Dalglish.But football isn’t just about the Premier League.

    The League Championship and Non-League football seasons have already begun, and way down in the Midland Football Alliance (some nine steps from the Premier League!!) our own Loughborough University football team has already made an excellent start to their campaign, winning their first two matches. Last season they finished a very creditable fourth in the league against a strong contingient of Midland semi-professional sides.And on September 3rd, the team prepare to launch themselves at the first hurdle towards Wembley glory, with a home FA Cup preliminary round tie against Yaxley or Godmanchester Rovers. The team will also be competing in the FA Vase, the British Universities and Colleges Sport Competition (BUCS) and the Midlands Universities League.

     You can follow the team’s fortunes via their homepage here, and can find a comprehensive list of the division’s fixtures here. Why not pop along and cheer them on!And if you’re interested in football – either as a fan or a sports science student – don’t forget that the Library has a comprehensive range of sports databases, including SPORTDiscus and and the Physical Education Index, as well as a wealth of football-related books on our shelves.

2011 World Series: The Cardinals Want to Win Game 4

A fairly obvious headline I spotted yesterday amazingly came to fruition in Game 3 last night. The Cardinals and Rangers both answered the bell by plating far more runs than they did in Game 2. In fact, they combined for 23 runs making the unorthodox mission a wild success. Not to be outdone, a celebration of the obvious has made an appearance once again. Today’s thought-provoking headline? The Cardinals are going into Game 4 looking to win and take a 3-1 lead. Now I don’t know about you, but I’m relieved to learn of these plans as I would otherwise have no idea as to what Tony La Russa’s intentions were in Arlington this evening:
In other news, Josh Hamilton “says he might have Sports Hernia.” Now while I am flattered by his forwardness, I’m also a bit concerned at how mentally centered the Rangers slugger is going into such a critical game. Come on everybody, sing it for Josh: “Get well, get well soon, we wish you to get well … Geeeet well, get well soon, we wish you to get well…”
As Peterman stated, it really is a stirring little anthem of wellness.
Tonight’s starters are Derek Holland, who has served up five homers in 13.2 innings so far this postseason, and Edwin Jackson, a pitcher pretty much impossible to predict. Six innings of 2-run ball? Sure. Two innings of home run derby? Why the hell not.

The Highs and Lows of Tim Tebow: Down 15-0 Late, Denver Wins

If you were hoping that Tim Tebow talk would die down, sorry. Not this week. Every angle, every storyline, every stereotype of Tebow by both the “haters” and the “lovers” was played out over the more than 60 minutes of game action. For 50+ minutes, Tim Tebow was dreadful and looked every bit like the player who many expected. He scrambled for yards, but it was more than offset by bad sacks and inaccurate throws. On his first eleven drives of the day, the Broncos scored zero points. He was 4 for 14 for 46 yards, and with all the lost sack yards, the Broncos barely had positive net passing yards for the day.
Then, with the Broncos trailing 15-0 late, Tebow led what looked like a garbage time drive, getting a touchdown on a pass to Demaryius Thomas. Denver, though, recovered the onside kick that followed, and Tebow again quarterbacked the team down the field to a touchdown, and then ran in the 2-point conversion to send it to overtime.
He didn’t have to do much in overtime. The Dolphins won the toss, but then Matt Moore showed why he is Matt Moore, and had absolutely zero pocket awareness of the obvious blitz coming at him, and fumbled inside the Miami 40. Three handoffs and three yards later, and the Broncos won the game on a Matt Prater 52 yard field goal.
Last week, I was a “lover” I guess because I thought it was time to give him a chance to see what his different skill set could do, plus I defended his rating by QBR. This week, I’ll probably be labeled a “hater” for not overly praising his winning ways.
Despite all the religious references you will hear, Tebow does not control the onside kick that had to happen. If it doesn’t, the Broncos lose, and the story is about Tebow’s horrible performance that only looked moderately tolerable because of the garbage time touchdown. Since it did, he got another chance and took advantage. He played much better on the final drives, hitting throws that he was missing earlier. He does not will the fumble, though a Matt Moore fumble is not entirely unpredictable.
So in the end, the Tebow talk will be unbearable this week. The truth: he played a bad game against a bad opponent that other quarterbacks have carved up, but played well at the end. The Broncos got some bad breaks early, and had some missed field goals. They got some very good ones late. He made the plays at the end, but I hate the term “when necessary”. It’s necessary to make plays all game long, and there aren’t too many other opponents in this league where such a comeback would have still been viable late.

Sunday Night Football: Colts at Saints

Another primetime game for Curtis Painter. It’s should be fun. Honestly, as much as has been made of the quarterback situation in Indianapolis, the cornerback play there is just as awful, and probably worse. Jacob Lacey and Jarraud Powers have been abused in recent weeks. I’m sure that Drew Brees is a little excited about the possibilities.
If Indianapolis is going to stay in this one, it’s going to be by making plays on offense against a Saints’ defense that has had difficulty generating a pass rush and has been vulnerable. Painter hasn’t been consistent, but will have a chance to make plays downfield to Pierre Garcon, Reggie Wayne and Dallas Clark. Indianapolis has been competitive in recent weeks, but has continually come up short at the end. If it gets to the end in this one, it will be a bonus.