Midwest Mountain Sports Report 9/20/21 Week 2 of the NFL was not nearly as exciting as Week 1. This is not a line item for a thing I learned this weekend. It seems too obvious, and is more of a general anchor of expectations for loyal NFL fans who watched many of their teams experience …
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Ten Things I Learned This Weekend (well, actually just 7)
Midwest Mountain Sports Report 9/13/21 In an effort to collate my various thoughts and opinions from a myriad of sports watched and activities played in a single weekend, I’m grouping it all together in one exercise. This Monday, and hopefully for future Mondays, I will list ten things that I learned from the sports I …
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Fantasy Football Tight End 2021 Rankings
Midwest Mountain Sports Report 8/18/21 We’re in the thick of fantasy football draft prep, and pre-season speculation. Through our third week in August, we have seen the first round of pre-season football. I was surprised at the increased interest at pre-season speculation this year, but I suppose that’s what we get after a 2020 Covid-hamstrung …
Winners, Losers and Cards
MM Sports Report Thursday 8/5/21 It’s been a busy couple of weeks since my last post. The Milwaukee Bucks emerged from Schrodinger’s box alive and well, and have some championship hardware to display for their effort. Simone Biles withdrew from Olympic competition, only to re-emerge this week to take home a bronze medal on the …
The Cat Days of Summer
MM Sports Report Tuesday 7/20/21 For those of you who may not recognize the name ‘Erwin Schrodinger’, you may be aware of the quantum physicist’s proverbial cat. The thought experiment goes like this: “When does a quantum system stop existing as a superposition of states, and become one or the other?” Or, for the layperson: …
Avs are Sitting, and Waiting, and Wishing, and Hoping…
MM Sports Report 5/26/21 If you’ll pardon my absence, my schedule was jam-packed with all kinds of hockey goodness. It’s true, the Nuggets of Denver are also in the NBA playoffs, but due to the constraints of a single-sport attention span, one must choose which league to follow in the post-season. The NHL and …
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Tried to Write About All the Sports, Went All in on Avs Game 1
Midwest Mountain Sports Report Tuesday 5/18/21 Well welcome back to writing, Mr. McManis. I see that I’ve been away for a couple of weeks, and I will chalk that up to post-season hockey anticipation, a stunning slide in performance from the Minnesota Twins and the Colorado Rockies, and the sports card market feeling a bit …
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Wednesday Roundup
Midwest Mountain Sports Report 4/28/21 Today it’s a quick-hit, hodge-podge sort of Midwest Mountain sports recap. The Avalanche are in a bit of a lull, after dropping two straight games to the Blues. The Rockies and the Twins are experiencing the end-of-April doldrums, riding the basements of their respective divisions. I’m getting duplicates in my …
Collecting Cards
Midwest Mountain Sports Report 4/21/21 It’s been about a week or two since my last post, and I’m happy to be back writing gibberish online. Nothing in particular prompted my pause, but I do think that I had been feeling a bit burned out, and the general state of affairs of the world were weighing …
Midwest Mountain Monday
Midwest Mountain Sports Report 4/5/21 What a wild weekend of sports. We had NCAA madness in the men’s and women’s tournaments, with the latter concluding with a championship title for the Stanford Cardinal, their first title since head coach Tara VanDerveer brought her team to the top of the mountain in 1992. The Baylor Bears …
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