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Some Packers Fans Okay with Aaron Rodgers

Another day, another video to share with you that I found on Hot Clicks. The video below features a song by the band The Replicates and chronicles the inspiring tale of a jilted fan base that ...

Written by Midwest Sports Fans about 2 months ago 433 reads 2 comments
Eric Wedge Likely Out Today in Cleveland

Courtesy of the good folks at the Dugout Sports Show (@DugoutSportsShow) and Waiting For Next Year, we can inform you that the Cleveland Indians have scheduled a 1:30 press conference, presumably to announce the firing of manager Eric Wedge...

Written by Midwest Sports Fans about 2 months ago 13 reads 0 comments
Derek Anderson To Start Sunday For Cleveland Browns

Derek Anderson replaced Brady Quinn in the second half of last weekend’s game against Baltimore, and he has replaced him moving forward as well...

Written by Midwest Sports Fans about 2 months ago 107 reads 3 comments
The AFC After Week Three

It’s only week three, and the NFL has already provided plenty of great moments and stories. You have the Jets emerging as a threat with rookie QB Mark Sanchez and the Ravens rolling right ...

Written by Midwest Sports Fans about 2 months ago 66 reads 0 comments
Fantasy Football Week Four Waiver Wire Steals: Glen Coffee

For those of you who followed PFI last week and our Week Three Fantasy Football Sleepers and Waiver Wire Steals, you capitalized on a touchdown from Johnny Knox, an explosive game from Tashard ...

Written by Midwest Sports Fans about 2 months ago 1,196 reads 0 comments
NFL Fantasy Football Week Four Sleepers and Bye Week Fill-Ins

We have now had three weeks of the 2009 fantasy football season and everyone should have a decent idea of what kind of team they have. I’m in six leagues and am at least 2-1 in five of them, so I’m feeling pretty good...

Written by Midwest Sports Fans about 2 months ago 1,260 reads 0 comments
College Football Picks: Three Top 25 Matchups Highlight Week Five Schedule

In what has seemingly been the year of upsets in college football, it’s been almost a guarantee that a highly-ranked team will go down every week...

Written by Midwest Sports Fans about 2 months ago 112 reads 1 comments
ProFootballinsight goes “10 Yards” with Mark “Munch” Bishop

ProFootballinsight’s Kurt Fraschetti goes “10 Yards” with one of Cleveland’s radio icons, Mark “Munch” Bishop...

Written by Midwest Sports Fans about 2 months ago 56 reads 0 comments
Delonte West Skips First Workout

Well this isn’t good. Troubled Cavs' guard Delonte West, who was recently arrested for gun possession in Maryland, reportedly skipped today’s first practice as the Cleveland Cavaliers opened training camp...

Written by Midwest Sports Fans about 2 months ago 154 reads 1 comments
Breaking News: Kansas City Chiefs Trade Tyler Thigpen to Miami Dolphins

Just saw on Twitter (via @TheBigLead) that the Chiefs have traded Tyler Thigpen to the Miami Dolphins. Twitterers are citing SportsCenter. According the KCChiefs...

Written by Midwest Sports Fans about 2 months ago 629 reads 0 comments
Felix Jones Injury Update: Knee Strain, Week 4 Status Uncertain

As anyone who has followed my fantasy football predictions knows, I have been high on Cowboys’ RB Felix Jones ever since the offseason...

Written by Midwest Sports Fans about 2 months ago 2,130 reads 0 comments
Browns Lose Big, Mangini Loses Team?

Is it too late to give the Browns’ name, its colors, and history back to Baltimore? When Art Modell sold the city of Cleveland down the river and moved the Browns to Baltimore, Clevelanders ...

Written by Midwest Sports Fans about 2 months ago 863 reads 2 comments
Fantasy Football Week 4 Start 'Em, Sit 'Em Lineup Advice and Projections

Looking back at my Week Three Start 'Em, Sit 'Em post as I begin Week Four, and it was a pretty solid week. The definite hits: Derrick Mason (start), Brent Celek (start), Denver D (start), Carson Palmer (sit), Ben Watson (sit), Donnie Avery (sit)...

Written by Midwest Sports Fans about 2 months ago 8,284 reads 0 comments
NFL Week Four TV Schedule, Odds, Spread Picks, Announcers, and Byes

I’m starting to get into a nice rhythm getting these NFL TV schedule and odds posts published. Right as the Monday Night Football game ends, it’s time to hit publish, turn the page, and get ready for the next week...

Written by Midwest Sports Fans about 2 months ago 655 reads 0 comments
Brett Favre Proves He Still Has the Fourth Quarter Magic

As I sat in the Edward Jones Dome Sunday afternoon and watched the Green Bay Packers beat the hapless St. Louis Rams, I couldn’t stop a wandering eye from glancing up at the far side of the building...

Written by Midwest Sports Fans about 2 months ago 197 reads 4 comments
Dwight Freeney Injury Update: Status Uncertain After Injuring Right Quad

Two weeks in a row I have idiotically picked against the Indianapolis Colts. And two weeks in a row the Colts have made me look like an idiot...

Written by Midwest Sports Fans about 2 months ago 636 reads 0 comments
Quick Hit: Yet Another Reason Why the Cubs Will Continue to Suck

There are so many reason why the Cubs’ franchise and its management suck, and why they will continue to do so. Here is one of them, via Bloomberg (with a hat tip to The Big Lead): Tribune Co...

Written by Midwest Sports Fans about 2 months ago 145 reads 0 comments
Frank Gore Injury Update: High Ankle Sprain, Could Miss Three Weeks

I am neither a 49ers fan, nor particularly a fan of the University of Miami. But I have always been a big Frank Gore fan...

Written by Midwest Sports Fans about 2 months ago 94 reads 0 comments
Frank Gore Injury Update: High Ankle Sprain, Could Miss Two Weeks

I am neither a 49ers fan, nor particularly a fan of the University of Miami. But I have always been a big Frank Gore fan...

Written by Midwest Sports Fans about 2 months ago 1,002 reads 1 comments
College Football TV Schedules, Spreads & Odds – Week 5, Oct. 3

It’s Sunday night, and you now what that means. It’s time for next week’s college football TV schedule...

Written by Midwest Sports Fans about 2 months ago 185 reads 0 comments
College Football Week Five: TV Schedules, Spreads & Odds

It’s Sunday night, and you now what that means. It’s time for next week’s college football TV schedule...

Written by Midwest Sports Fans about 2 months ago 2 reads 0 comments
Marian Hossa Injury Update

Marian Hossa, forward for the Chicago Blackhakws, recently answered some questions about his decision to let doctors perform surgery on his right rotator cuff...

Written by Midwest Sports Fans about 2 months ago 850 reads 0 comments
White Sox-Cubs Trade Rumor: Jake Peavy for Carlos Zambrano…Really?

I sure hope that this is one of those cases of where there may be smoke, but no actual fire. In Phil Rogers’ quick-hits column at the Tribune today (via FanNation T&R), he says that ...

Written by Midwest Sports Fans about 2 months ago 3 reads 0 comments
White Sox-Cubs Trade Rumor: Jake Peavy for Carlos Zambrano...Really?

I sure hope that this is one of those cases of where there may be smoke, but no actual fire. In Phil Rogers’ quick-hits column at the Tribune today (via FanNation T&R), he says that “some ...

Written by Midwest Sports Fans about 2 months ago 200 reads 4 comments
With Contract Up After 2010, What Should the Cubs Do With Sweet Lou?

Let me preface this entire article by saying that I have always been a fan of Lou Piniella, and when the Chicago Cubs hired him as their manager in 2006, I was extremely excited...

Written by Midwest Sports Fans about 2 months ago 3 reads 0 comments

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Midwest Sports Fans Article Archive

Some Packers Fans Okay with Aaron Rodgers

Eric Wedge Likely Out Today in Cleveland

Derek Anderson To Start Sunday For Cleveland Browns

The AFC After Week Three

Fantasy Football Week Four Waiver Wire Steals: Glen Coffee

NFL Fantasy Football Week Four Sleepers and Bye Week Fill-Ins

College Football Picks: Three Top 25 Matchups Highlight Week Five Schedule

ProFootballinsight goes “10 Yards” with Mark “Munch” Bishop

Delonte West Skips First Workout

Breaking News: Kansas City Chiefs Trade Tyler Thigpen to Miami Dolphins

Felix Jones Injury Update: Knee Strain, Week 4 Status Uncertain

Browns Lose Big, Mangini Loses Team?

Fantasy Football Week 4 Start 'Em, Sit 'Em Lineup Advice and Projections

NFL Week Four TV Schedule, Odds, Spread Picks, Announcers, and Byes

Brett Favre Proves He Still Has the Fourth Quarter Magic

Dwight Freeney Injury Update: Status Uncertain After Injuring Right Quad

Quick Hit: Yet Another Reason Why the Cubs Will Continue to Suck

Frank Gore Injury Update: High Ankle Sprain, Could Miss Three Weeks

Frank Gore Injury Update: High Ankle Sprain, Could Miss Two Weeks

College Football TV Schedules, Spreads & Odds – Week 5, Oct. 3

College Football Week Five: TV Schedules, Spreads & Odds

Marian Hossa Injury Update

White Sox-Cubs Trade Rumor: Jake Peavy for Carlos Zambrano…Really?

White Sox-Cubs Trade Rumor: Jake Peavy for Carlos Zambrano...Really?

With Contract Up After 2010, What Should the Cubs Do With Sweet Lou?

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