Fantasy football preview — The Buffalo Bills
We left off with an in depth look at the Baltimore Ravens, today 32 teams in 32 days continues with the Buffalo Bills: QUARTERBACK The Bills coaching staff recently revealed that Ryan Fitzpatrick...
View ArticleFantasy football preview — The Carolina Panthers
We left of with an in depth look at the Buffalo Bills, today 32 teams in 32 days continues with the Carolina Panthers. QUARTERBACK Well, if you were one of the five guys in the world who predicted Cam...
View ArticleFantasy football: quarterback strategy and rankings
It used to be that you could wait until the later rounds of the draft to pick your QB, and that GM’s who jumped the gun on a major name usually had unfillable weaknesses at other positions. The...
View ArticleFantasy football: wide receiver strategy and rankings
If you missed it, check out last week’s quarterback and running back previews. WIDE RECEIVERS: While other positions have elite tiers, followed by massive drop-offs, this year, wide receiver is just...
View ArticleWeak week on the waiver wire
Before we delve into this week’s top options on the wire, let’s take a look at how last week’s top five options panned out: 1) C.J. Spiller (RB, Buffalo): Ridiculous numbers. Top tier RB1 for the rest...
View ArticleNFL Thursday Night Preview: Giants vs. Panthers (week 3)
One new change implemented for the 2012 NFL season is one I feel is years overdue. No, not the change in the overtime rules (that is decades overdue), but simply this… Thursday night football. Every...
View ArticleNFL midseason report card: Ranking the best teams & players in the NFC
We have just wrapped up week 8 of the 2012 NFL season, and using my incredible math skills (and 4th & Blog’s official “Abacus of champions”) that means we are halfway done with this campaign and...
View ArticleWhich NFL coaches will get the ax? Complete “Black Monday” preview
It can be considered “poor taste” to celebrate when someone loses their job. We Me here at 4th & Blog agrees with that sentiment. Someone losing their job is especially hard around the holidays,...
View ArticleThe 10 O’Clock: Carrie Underwood or Faith Hill? It’s really one of those...
Good morning and welcome to the first 10 O’Clock of the week. Before I go any further, a quick programming note to let you know that there might not be a 2 O’Clock today. After all, I’m delighted to be...
View ArticleThe 10 O’Clock: Tom Brady freaks out with the best of them, but he’s also a...
Early last week, I was driving home when I turned a corner and came face to face with a nice big tree, all lit up for the holiday season. It was a couple of blocks from my house, and I silently nodded...
View ArticlePanthers kicker Graham Gano shoves marching band member at halftime (with video)
The first Sunday of the NFL season provided plenty of drama for the underappreciated superstars of the NFL: the kickers (Of which, barefoot ones are the most revered) Whether it was Shawn Suisham...
View ArticleThe Geek vs. The Greek: NFL Picks, Week 8
The Geek lays the blame for this week’s terrible 7–8 record at the feet of his wife, an obvious bad-luck charm who also caused him to miss the most shocking two minutes of football in years. Meanwhile,...
View ArticleThe Geek vs. The Greek podcast: NFL Picks for Wild Card Playoffs
Our NFL experts spent a whole season picking winners and losers for provincesports.com. One of them is around to join Province Sports Radio ahead of the NFL’s Wild Card Playoffs. J.J. “The Geek” Adams...
View ArticleMorning Skate, Jan. 9: Wonder if any former Canucks were watching the Luongo...
Roberto Luongo the Florida Panthers makes a save in front of Derek Dorsett of the Vancouver Canucks Thursday. (Photo by Jeff Vinnick/NHLI via Getty Images) I’ll say it: I wonder if Ryan Kesler was...
View ArticleThe Geek vs. The Greek: NFL Playoffs Divisional Round picks
Our pigskin prognosticators went 4–0 on wild-card weekend, both foreseeing the lone upset in Pittsburgh. Now, just eight teams left in the Super Bowl sweepstakes, and every home team favoured to...
View ArticleNFL Sunday Good Reads: Setting up Patriots-Jets, Bills-Jaguars, Browns-Rams …...
It’s Sunday. It’s a big day for a lot of sports fans. For some, that means 10 straight hours of sitting in front of the TV. It’s not what I would recommend, health-wise, but since when was watching the...
View ArticleBig delights in Big D: Canucks sure know how to manage their down time
DALLAS — A Cowboys game, a turkey dinner and a spirited cribbage tournament. The Vancouver Canucks talk about managing their minutes on the ice, but they sure know how to manage their down time on this...
View ArticleThe Morning Skate, Jan. 18: Canucks sneak one out, Seahawks fumble one away...
Between the Canucks escaping from Brooklyn with points, the Seahawks bombing in Carolina and that tennis bombshell, it was quite the weekend. It was also quite the weekend for a whole swath of young...
View ArticleThe Afternoon Skate, Jan. 18: McCann moves up, Milos goes Down Under, and...
Ummm, say what? An Afternoon Skate? That’s right. It’s something we’ve been thinking about doing for a while here at Province Sports. Not as hot and heavy (and wordy) as our traditional Morning Skate,...
View ArticleThe Morning Skate, Jan. 29: All-Star edition! Virtually free of useful sports...
Early this week, JMac quietly requested a trade. You take the Skate on Friday and I’ll do your Thursday, he offered — straight up. No problem, I said. Only occurred to me a day or so later what a...
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