The IronDog Chronicles

Happy Halloween, peoples…

These comments came out last week, but in the joy of groovy ghoulies, I had to put this one up with my favorite pumpkin design.  Nothing like a note from Rasheed to start off your fall season.

Boo!,
BD

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Enough of the ranting of draft day tools…Here are the results:

Rules: 10 Team League, 11 man roster with 2G, 2F, C, 2 Util, 3 Bench, Head-to-Head each week, players gathered from waivers are forced to be held for two weeks, 7 Categories (Points, Assists, Rebounds, Blocks, Steals, 3 Pointers Made, FT %). That […]

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Ahhh another NBA season…Another draft day…

The fantasy basketball season is under way…And believe me peoples, for me and my boys in the AAANYC league, this is serious business.
With fantasy hoops, your draft strategy could turn in an instant. Your whole season could twist in the wind with a pre-season sleeper pick-up (Luol Deng), a […]

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I’ve seen more Yahoo! bashing over the past few months than all of the times during the online crush from 2001-2003…
Check out this article on Yahoo’s new strategy direction from Eric Auchard of Reuters.
The good news is that Yahoo! seems to be returning to their original roots of providing tech tools that help you generate […]

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The use of numbers and statistical analysis is now mainstream knowledge in the world of sports…
Yet, how about utilizing numbers and statistical analysis to improve the competition levels in leagues? Bill James asks that question with this article on the Globe.com.
What I find interesting is this statement…”If you reduce the number of possessions in […]

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I had a tough changeover with my television dramas at the end of this summer…
I was hooked on “The Sopranos” for years. Then, HBO yanked “John from Cincinnati” after hooking us on a good story line and after I grew attached to the Yost family.
Well, I’ve switched over to AMC’s “Mad Men”, and I’m […]

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Congrats to UNC Chapel Hill Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Oliver Smithies, who was named one of three Nobel Prize honorees chosen for developing a technology for manipulating genes in mice to replicate human diseases.
I enjoyed this note from the N&O…”Smithies still works in his lab seven days a week. He […]

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Last night was a doozy peoples…
Check out the October 7, 2007 edition of WXYC’s “SportsRap” here.
The board was back on, and the call flow was steady. We touched all the bases with a review of UNC’s 33-27 victory over Miami, the weekend’s upsets, and the Marion Jones case, which still crushes my heart.
I still […]

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Who’s address is best…?
Well, the answer to that question always depends on how you rate what the best qualities are in an address. Yet, the American Planning Association’s ratings of America’s Best Neighborhoods is right on point.
Here’s the list:
– Chatham Village (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
– Eastern Market Neighborhood (Washington, DC)
– Elmwood Village (Buffalo, New York)
– The […]

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I’ve been wondering whatever happened to the ‘YaoWorld’ takeover…
Yes, the marketing takeover of China and the American marketing strategy that was going to place surrounding Houston Rockets center, Yao Ming, fizzled over the past couple of years.
After reading Brook Larmer’s, “Operation Yao”, the strategy to launch the brand of Yao Ming seemed to be set […]

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