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Eye-Black Messages Must Not Be Blacked Out

Scientifically speaking, eye black is a tool used to improve eye contrast sensitivity. Traditional eye black is a dark grease commonly consisting of beeswax, paraffin, and carbon. All this works together to reduce glare from the sun...

Written by Tosten Burks about 2 months ago 241 reads 3 comments
Buffalo Better Hope Terrell Owens Isn't Just Looking For Bills

Watching "The T.O. Show," one overwhelming thought surfaces: Terrell Owens needs to get in touch with reality. Watching the Buffalo Bills training camp open, one overwhelming thought rises above all else as well: so do his new team...

Written by Tosten Burks about 4 months ago 550 reads 10 comments
Federer Wins Wimbledon, Roddick Anything but a Loser

Andy Roddick has the easiest role in sports. He just needs to sit back, relax, and let Roger Federer beat him. He never fails to meet expectations because no one expects him to win. In fact, he has every excuse in the world to lose...

Written by Tosten Burks about 5 months ago 522 reads 3 comments
Jay Cutler's Tragic Flaw

Creon ignored the gods. Oedipus ignored fate. Jay Cutler ignored a text message. The Denver Broncos decided Tuesday that they would trade their disgruntled franchise quarterback after ten days of failed attempts to communicate with Cutler...

Written by Tosten Burks about 8 months ago 715 reads 24 comments
Fantasy Double Coverage: Kurt Warner vs. Matt Cassel

The two biggest stories at the quarterback position this off-season have revolved around Kurt Warner and Matt Cassel. After a few weeks of trickery, lies, and deceit, otherwise known as negotiation, Warner re-signed with the Arizona Cardinals...

Written by Tosten Burks about 8 months ago 302 reads 1 comments
LOCAL: Battered CIF Champions Bow Early In Boys Soccer Playoffs

Eight minutes into the Feb. 27 Poway High boys soccer game against Westview High in the second round of CIF playoffs, Zach Olow screamed...

Written by Tosten Burks about 9 months ago 51 reads 0 comments
Tom Cable: Exactly What the Oakland Raiders Need

In McAfee Coliseum, on 7000 Coliseum Way in Oakland, CA, nothing is more needed than what the Raiders organization got this past Wednesday. A repairman. Not a plumber, nor an electrician—a cable guy...

Written by Tosten Burks about 10 months ago 2,133 reads 19 comments
Super Bowl XLIII Preview: Has It Reached Midnight for Cinderella?

Apparently, only one of us believes so. And it's not whom you may think. The 12-7 Arizona Cardinals are seven-point dogs to the 14-4 Pittsburgh Steelers, owners of the league's No. 1-ranked defense...

Written by Tosten Burks about 10 months ago 30 reads 0 comments
Stupid, Absurdly Early 2009 Fantasy Football Rankings: Wide Receivers

The 2008 NFL season was supposed to be the official death of the running back position. Wide receivers and quarterbacks were taking over the game, re-shaping the way owners draft, strategize, and in the simplest form, play fantasy football...

Written by Tosten Burks about 11 months ago 4,712 reads 1 comments
Stupid, Absurdly Early 2009 Fantasy Football Rankings: Running Backs

Preseason rankings, along with conventional wisdom, was gone with the wind in the 2008 fantasy football season. Nowhere was this more apparent than at the running back position...

Written by Tosten Burks about 11 months ago 15,430 reads 13 comments
Stupid, Absurdly Early 2009 Fantasy Football Rankings: Quarterbacks

At this point of the National Football League season, most of the fantasy nation is either fresh off a champion and flying high or weeks removed from a playoff exit/snub that they really would like to leave in the past...

Written by Tosten Burks about 11 months ago 9,330 reads 10 comments
LOCAL: Sophomore Stud Kuklok Leads Defending Champs

Could there be a more perfect nickname? For someone who leads a defending CIF Championship team in points per game—as a sophomore; for someone who as a freshman led that same team in scoring ...

Written by Tosten Burks about 11 months ago 142 reads 0 comments
Sandy Alderson and the Padres Need To Dust Off Their Originality

Sandy Alderson probably doesn't own a Bible. He has Moneyball. He has no need for God. The Padres' CEO is polytheistic. Billy Beane and Andrew Friedman shrines rest near a copy of The Bill James Handbook...

Written by Tosten Burks about about 1 year ago 361 reads 2 comments
Monday Night Kicker: Week Seven

Curing the world of uninsightful, uninteresting, day after Ante Meridiem armchair quarterbacks. During the final seconds of the 71.5-minute epic in Oakland, Sebastian Janikowski kicked the ball farther than star child Darren McFadden had run all game...

Written by Tosten Burks about about 1 year ago 238 reads 3 comments
Matt Bryant Overcomes Tragedy For Tampa Bay Win

Yes, it sounds like a movie. It does seem to be styled for the silver screen. David Anspaugh would dramatize it. But movie analogies just do not do the story of Matt Bryant justice...

Written by Tosten Burks about about 1 year ago 327 reads 1 comments
Bolts and Briefs From the Second Day of Chargers Training Camp

The following bit of Pulitzer-Prize worthy investigative reporting comes directly to you from ChargersBeat.com, your home for completely unboring, unbiased, and unRaiderish (best part huh) Chargers talk...

Written by Tosten Burks about about 1 year ago 677 reads 2 comments
Luis Castillo's Paycheck, Antonio Gates's Toe, and Other San Diego Chargers News

Luis Castillo is now the sixth-highest paid defensive lineman in the NFL. According to nfl.com junkie Adam Schefter, Castillo signed a five-year contract extension that will pay him up to $43 million, with $17...

Written by Tosten Burks about about 1 year ago 580 reads 0 comments
NFL News Wire Rundown: July 21st

I haven't done one of these since Monday. No, I wasn't curing AIDS or financing homeless people. I was doing something better: Working on the Fantasy Football Writers With Hair 2008 Draft Kit...

Written by Tosten Burks about about 1 year ago 1,490 reads 5 comments
MLB All-Star Game 2008: So Many Things To Make Fun of, So Little Time

During the ninth inning of the All-Star Game yesterday, I planned to write this article about how pathetic Fox Sports' performance was in covering Mariano Rivera's entrance at Yankees Stadium...

Written by Tosten Burks about about 1 year ago 668 reads 5 comments
For Charger Fans Who Slept Through The Past Few Days

The following is from the critically acclaimed (if everyone's a critic, then my dad counts) Chargers blog Chargers Beat. For more amazing writing and updates like this, go check out the site...

Written by Tosten Burks about about 1 year ago 178 reads 8 comments
Tour de France: I'm Here To Help

The following is from the critically acclaimed (if everyone's a critic, then my dad counts) sports blog The Love Boat. For more amazing writing like this, go check out the site...

Written by Tosten Burks about about 1 year ago 364 reads 1 comments
Fantasy Football: Man Crush Monday!

Ha. My colleague Alex Kozora has had to write every Man Crush on this site so far. That means he's gayer than I am. Ha. And I watch Top Chef, so that's saying something...

Written by Tosten Burks about about 1 year ago 820 reads 5 comments
NFL News Wire Rundown, July 14th

Here I am again, on the other side of a five-day hiatus in which I slacked off and didn't post a thing. I'll just say I spent that time doing charity work...

Written by Tosten Burks about about 1 year ago 1,269 reads 9 comments
NFL News Wire Rundown, 7/9

I was scanning YouTube today and found a great clip that I had never seen before. Dave Dameshek, an ESPN radio personality in Los Angeles, with guests Jimmy Kimmel, Jeff Ross, (Cousin) Sal Iacono, and Bill Simmons...

Written by Tosten Burks about about 1 year ago 352 reads 25 comments
NFL News Wire Rundown, 7/8

Alex Rodriguez is getting a divorce. He's all over the news. Michael Vick is going bankrupt. He made it onto perezhilton.com. (I was linked there. I didn't visit the site on my own. Don't worry...

Written by Tosten Burks about about 1 year ago 274 reads 6 comments

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Tosten Burks Article Archive

Eye-Black Messages Must Not Be Blacked Out

Buffalo Better Hope Terrell Owens Isn't Just Looking For Bills

Federer Wins Wimbledon, Roddick Anything but a Loser

Jay Cutler's Tragic Flaw

Fantasy Double Coverage: Kurt Warner vs. Matt Cassel

LOCAL: Battered CIF Champions Bow Early In Boys Soccer Playoffs

Tom Cable: Exactly What the Oakland Raiders Need

Super Bowl XLIII Preview: Has It Reached Midnight for Cinderella?

Stupid, Absurdly Early 2009 Fantasy Football Rankings: Wide Receivers

Stupid, Absurdly Early 2009 Fantasy Football Rankings: Running Backs

Stupid, Absurdly Early 2009 Fantasy Football Rankings: Quarterbacks

LOCAL: Sophomore Stud Kuklok Leads Defending Champs

Sandy Alderson and the Padres Need To Dust Off Their Originality

Monday Night Kicker: Week Seven

Matt Bryant Overcomes Tragedy For Tampa Bay Win

Bolts and Briefs From the Second Day of Chargers Training Camp

Luis Castillo's Paycheck, Antonio Gates's Toe, and Other San Diego Chargers News

NFL News Wire Rundown: July 21st

MLB All-Star Game 2008: So Many Things To Make Fun of, So Little Time

For Charger Fans Who Slept Through The Past Few Days

Tour de France: I'm Here To Help

Fantasy Football: Man Crush Monday!

NFL News Wire Rundown, July 14th

NFL News Wire Rundown, 7/9

NFL News Wire Rundown, 7/8

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