The second in a series of articles about fantasy sports will cover some of the tips that you should be aware of to possibly win your fantasy sports league.The first tip is to get to know the sport that you’ll be playing in a bit better. Look at the positions to be filled and look at the main stats. categories that are available to you. In a sport like baseball, hitting and pitching are key elements to help you win so you might want to focus on those positions before anything else. If it’s a sport like hockey, goals and assists are your main categories usually, so you may want to look at adding some snipers to your line up to help you gain more points. Also,be on the lookout at certain times for trades or free agents. Every league has their own deadlines set and you should be aware of this fact midway through the season.

Secondly, you should be aware of all of the stats. categories that are given to you in your league. If it’s a basic league, then you should focus on things like touchdowns, goals,baskets, etc. and look for scoring help. Otherwise, you should be aware of other categories that may seem hopeless to you, but may very well help your chances at winning your league. For instance, in hockey the ‘goon’ may seem like an undervalued commodity to you . Instead, a goon can definitely help you gain penalty minutes that can earn you valuable points if penalty minutes are a stats. in your league.

In baseball, scoring may seem like a high stats. to you but be aware that even in real life hitting is nothing without good pitching. A good starting rotation of pitching can take you to the promised land or break you even with a decent offensive ball club. In football, defense helps but receivers,running backs and quarterbacks lead the way for fantasy football so pick these guys often and early.

Another tip to follow is to keep track of your sport before your fantasy draft even begins. In football, is there going to be a quarterback controversy? Is the quarterback that you plan on picking even going to be the starting quarterback after training camp? Is that star receiver you plan on picking going to consider ending his lockout and returning to the team in time for the season to start or will he continue his holdout for more money? Will that star point guard in basketball decide to hang up the sneakers officially or will he return and decide to play for one final season?

These are all things that you should consider before drafting a player to your fantasy team. Another thing to look at are injuries. Is there a player that you want to pick that often gets injured? Is he worth the risk or should you choose someone potentially not as valuable to your team but that you know won’t get as injured often. Injuries play an important role in Fantasy Sports and unfortunately rely more on luck than on skills. So while you may wish your friends teammates good luck, secretly you’re hoping that they break a leg or get a concussion. It may sound mean but if money is involved the better the reason to think like that. So there’s just a few tips that I hope Fantasy Sports fans pick up on and hopefully will help them in the next fantasy sport to come around.

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There have been many hobbies that have been created in part due to the popularity of the internet. Downloading porn and getting in message board debates about the latest star wars films comes to mind first but another hobby that has helped the sports fan on the internet is the boom in popularity of Fantasy Sports Teams. This article will help to give the dummy with no knowledge of Fantasy Sports a bit of information to help him understand what fantasy sports is all about and hopefully decide to join in on the phenomenon sooner or later.Let’s start off with the basic definition of fantasy sports as defined by our favorite free encyclopedia, http://www.wikipedia.org.

Fantasy Sports:A Fantasy sport is a game where fantasy owners build a team that competes against other fantasy owners based on the statistics generated by individual players or teams of a professional sport. Probably the most common variant converts statistical performance into points generated by a fantasy team, and are typically simple enough to be manually calculated by a “league commissioner.” More complex variants use computer modeling of actual games based on statistical input generated by professional sports.

Boobnewb’s Definition of Fantasy Sports: A fantasy sport lets the average fan become the imaginary general manager of a sports team. You can decide which players you want on your teams based 75% on the knowledge you have of the sport and 25% based on the luck you have in picking those players in a fantasy draft. You can show off to your friends how good you would be compared to them by choosing just the right players on your team that will make your team a successful club compared to theirs through a process of mathematical statistics like goals,touchdowns, baskets etc.

Have you ever seen a sports team’s general manager make a horrible trade or make a horrible draft pick? Are you sitting on your couch and thinking to yourself that you could do a way better job than that idiot if you were given the job of being the team’s general manager? Well, now thanks to the internet you can put your money where your mouth is and create your very own fantasy sports team. Before the internet; fantasy sports still existed but it was more difficult to keep track of statistics with simply a paper, a calculator and a pen or pencil. When computers and printers were invented it made things a bit easier thanks to the help of spreadsheets with programs like excel that would help to do a bit of the work for you. Now with the help of the internet it has made viewing results for fantasy sports much easier thanks to up to the minute results and websites that automatically do the all of the work in keeping track of statistics for you.

Generally, Fantasy Sports start off with a commissioner. This is the owner of the league and can also be a player in the game as well or simply be there to enforce the rules and be impartial to any players who are in the league. The commissioner can set the rules for the league such as how many players will be allowed to join the league as well as set the point totals for each statistic. The next priority for the league is to set up a draft date. These can either be live on the internet or done offline in some fashion between all the members of the league.The commish can either decide in which draft or order the players are selected or he can let the internet randomly pick who gets which pick in the draft. Also, unlike most of the normal drafts in professional sports, in fantasy sports every single player in the league including rookies for the upcoming season can be chosen to be on your particular team. Once the draft is finished, all the members of the league now have their teams all set up and ready to go for the upcoming sports year. Usually, depending on the sport, you need to make sure you draft well for each particular position of a roster.
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Dane Cook is an up and rising stand up comedian. He has won several awards recently including being named Comedy Central’s favorite comedian and Stuff magazine’s comic of the year. In early August, his second album, Retaliation, debuted at Number Four on the Billboard 200, making him the highest-charting comedian since Steve Martin a quarter century ago.

He also recently appeared on the MTV Video Music Awards presenting alongside Snoop Dogg. He will soon be in a couple of feature films as well with such actors as Ryan Renolds and Chris Evans. Check out his new album ‘Retaliation’ which is in stores now and for more info check out his personal website, http://www.danecook.com.

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The I-C-CAN is Boobnewb’s first look at a piece of technology that will help us to become even more lazier in the future. Scientists have created a self-chilling can that will allow users to chill their beers or soft drinks to under 34.8 degrees in under 3 minutes. Once the can becomes cold, it will stay this way for over an hour.The company that created the cans, Tempra Technology, says that the cans are perfectly safe and have no toxins, gases, or any pressurized materials that can be harmful to humans. The contents inside the drink become consumed by a gel-like substance after being opened that drains off to the bottom of the can. There is also an insulated heat absorbing product at the bottom of the can.

Once activated, the product drops to near freezing temperatures. Tempra Technology has already signed deals with large firms like Heineken, Coke, Pepsi, and Budweiser. The good news is that these companies will begin sending the new cans to store shelves by the end of the year. The bad news is that these new insulated cans will cost about double of what it costs for a normal can of soda or beer.

The company says that at first there will be an increase in price, but once the product catches on and there’s an increase in demand for the insulated cans that we should see the price come back down. It’s Boobnewb’s verdict that this product will become more common in the future but in the meantime we recommend that you simply stick to ordinary ice cubes and do the freezing yourself.

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Members

* Jimmy Pop Ali – vocals, programming
* DJ Q-Ball – turntables, vocals
* Evil Jared Hasselhoff – bass, backing vocals
* Lüpüs Thünder – guitars, backing vocals
* Willie the New Guy – drums

Former members

* Spanky G – drums
* Daddy Long Legs – vocals
* M.S.G.
* Skip O’Pot2Mus
* Tard-E-Tard

The Bloodhound Gang are a rock/rap band that hail from King of Prussia, Pennsylvania and formed in 1994. They are known as a band that doesn’t hold anything back and gained popularity for their obscene and crude humour in their songs. Their songs also include many taboo subjects that other bands won’t touch but The Bloodhoung Gang will gladly talk about in all of their albums. Those subjects include such things as ‘Rape’, ‘Gay humour’ and ‘incest’ just to name a few.

After the band formed in 1994, they released the Dingleberry Haze EP which became a flop and cost them their record deal with Columbia Records at the time. They resigned with Geffen and in 1996 released ‘One Fierce Beer Coaster’ which became the band’s first successful album. The success of this album allowed them to return in 2000 with their follow up album ‘Hooray for Boobies’.

They scored a massive hit single with the song ‘The Bad Touch’ that helped them break into mainstream success with loads of press for the song from outlets like MTV. With their increase in publicity also came backlash from other groups like GLAAD( Gay And Lesbian Alliance), who felt that their video for their hit single depicted gay bashing by showing two gay looking Frenchmen getting hit in the back of the head with a loaf of bread and carried away by members of the band.

The band denied the claim and simply stated that the video made fun of the French and not gay people. After the success of their second album, the band disappeared off the face of the earth. The band simply disappeared with many fans wondering what they were up to and when they could expect a new album from the band.Music stations like MuchMusic in Canada described the band as a one hit wonder and critics were waiting to see when the band would make a follow up to their 2000 success of ‘Hooray For Boobies’. The band showed up quietly in 2004 by appearing on MTV Personality Bam Margera’s hit TV Series ‘Viva La Bam’ as both Bam and members of the band live in Pennsylvania and are supposedly good friends.

Finally, in 2005, news came out that the band were releasing their long awaited follow up to ‘Hooray For Boobies’ with the release of the album ‘Hefty Fine’ coming to stores in the fall of 2005. The band’s first single “Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo” (Which is Military Code for the word ‘Fuck’) has already gained heavy rotation on music video channels such as MTV,MuchMusic and on the radio and includes good friend Bam Margera throughout the video. Check out their new album when it hits stores…

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