Clyde E. Dawkins
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I'm a big sports fan, especially hockey, and I've been a fan of villainesses since I was eight! My favorite shows are The Simpsons and Family Guy, etc.
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NFL Week 7 Recap: Lonely at the Top
The beautiful thing about the NFL being 18 weeks is that the season can be divided evenly into three sections. The first six weeks serve as a feeling out process, the period that tests out who the contenders are, who the pretenders are, and who will be playing draft picks. It's basically a six-week grace period.
By Clyde E. Dawkins3 months ago in Unbalanced
What Went Wrong: You Have to Score More Than ONE RUN a Game, Brewers
"Built for Fall," it says. Built to fall is more like it. In past stories, I've mentioned the concept of "fool ya teams." It's a phrase my dad made up for teams who look good, look like they'll go all the way, are pushed up as big favorite, but they fizzle when it counts. The original Brooklyn Dodgers spent decades as MLB's original "fool ya team" until they finally won the big one in 1955. In recent years, that torched has been passed, though it can be said that the Cleveland Guardians have fooled people for many years now.
By Clyde E. Dawkins3 months ago in Unbalanced
What Went Wrong: Where's Henry Rowengartner When You Need Him?
Remember when it looked like the Chicago Cubs would run away with the National League Central this year? It definitely looked like the Cubs would take the Central after a couple of seasons of being out of postseason contention in the final weekend. The Cubs started falling off during the late summer months, allowing the Milwaukee Brewers to return to their routine position of leading and eventually winning the NL Central. At least the Cubs did get something this time. The Cubs did get in as one of the National League's three Wild Cards; in fact, they finished as the best of the three Wild Cards, meaning that they had the Wild Card Series at home.
By Clyde E. Dawkins3 months ago in Unbalanced
"Beyond the Gates" Week 31 Review
As Beyond the Gates progresses, the angles get more and more wild and unpredictable. If you had asked me this time a year ago, before this show was even promoted for a premiere, if I would be into any soap this religiously, I would have shouted a resounding "HELL NO!" I had made my feelings about soap operas very clear, and then Beyond the Gates changed the game. I said many times that the soap genre needed this badly. See how much less over the top this soap is compared to others? There's a reason for that; I'll let you figure that out.
By Clyde E. Dawkins3 months ago in Geeks
Put Some Respect on His Name
Forgive the lateness of this recap; so much goodness happened in the world of sports. It's typical of the month of October; the most chaotic month in the sports calendar. Hockey's in the early stages, the NFL is closing in on midseason form, baseball's on the verge of crowning a champion, the CFL is on the home stretch, and the NBA is coming. There's also the Sports Equinox, that one day of the year when the four main leagues all play at once, but that's later in the month.
By Clyde E. Dawkins3 months ago in Unbalanced
NFL Week 6 Recap: Sunday Night Heat
Wow. We're at Week 6 already. The final week of the first one-third of the 2025 season, and we have arrived at that very point. Of course, the talk from Week 6 was the Sunday Night contest between the Detroit Lions and the Kansas City Chiefs, the latter coming off a Monday loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars. They needed a big statement win on that evening, and they did get it. A 30-17 victory to bring them to .500 (3-3).
By Clyde E. Dawkins3 months ago in Unbalanced
2025 League Championship Series Preview
It's mid-October, folks, and you know what that means: it's LCS time! The League Championship Series has arrived; the last stop before the Fall Classic. Introduced in 1969 as a result of the American and National Leagues splitting into East and West Divisions (marking the start of Divisional Play), the League Championship Series originally served as the lone playoff round prior to the World Series, and was originally played under a best-of-five format for the first 16 seasons. It was in 1985 that the LCS increased to a best-of-seven format, but even so, the LCS still originally pitted the champions of the East and West Divisions against each other until 1995, when the LCS pitted the winners of the Division Series against each other.
By Clyde E. Dawkins3 months ago in Unbalanced
Clash of Clashes
I'll be honest, I had long been over last year. How the Colorado Avalanche showed out in the playoffs, only to be cheated by referees who decided to allow Dallas' dirty hits while putting us in the box for simply breathing. How the Stars had a coach who continued to bully refs into ignoring their dirty plays, and who would bitch and moan when a game was fairly officiated and rightful calls went against the Stars. How for every one power play the Avs had in that series, the Stars had about six. And how Mikko Rantanen delivered the ultimate humiliation with a Game Seven hat trick.
By Clyde E. Dawkins3 months ago in Unbalanced
15 Glorious Innings
The Detroit Tigers and the Seattle Mariners faced off in one hell of a Division Series, and that's an understatement. Game One went extras, needing 11 innings before the Tigers won it in Seattle. The Mariners took Games Two and Three, and looked to finish it in Game Four. Seattle led 3-0, but the Tigers took over; nine unanswered runs. The nine runs in Game Four stand as the most in a game in Tigers postseason history. Wow.
By Clyde E. Dawkins3 months ago in Unbalanced
What Went Wrong: It's Not Always Sunny in Philadelphia
You know, we have spent the entire season so far enjoying the Kansas City Chiefs' downfall, and rightfully so. They started 0-2, got back on track winning back-to-back games, but then, they were defeated by a Jacksonville Jaguars team they had bested forever. Chiefs are 2-3 and are on the verge of being knocked down a few more pegs than they already are.
By Clyde E. Dawkins4 months ago in Unbalanced
CFL Week 18 Recap: The Wild, Wild West
I bring good news to my fellow American CFL fans: the Grey Cup is again airing on CBS Sports Network here in the States. This is Year Three of the Canadian Football League's relationship with CBS Sports Network, after several years on the ESPN networks, which in turn, followed their years on the now-defunct NBC Sports Network. Ever since the CFL first hit CBS Sports Network, games that don't air on the channel air on a stream site known as CFL+, which is for fans in the U.S. and other countries outside of Canada. 2023 saw the entire playoffs (including the Grey Cup) air on CFL+, but last year saw the Grey Cup air on CBSSN.
By Clyde E. Dawkins4 months ago in Unbalanced
