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 16 Recap: Win and In
As a Green Bay Packers fan, I'm not used to anything coming this easy. So excuse me if I'm a bit extra cheeky, or cheesy. It's always beautiful to control your own destiny. It's even more beautiful when it happens in such a fashion that it makes a cakewalk look like climbing Mount Everest. All we had to do was show up. That's it. I knew we'd easily beat the New Orleans Saints, but my goodness, I didn't expect this mess. This game was the 240th of the 2024 regular season. It was the first to end in a shutout. 34-0 was the final score. No worrying about what the defense would do, no worrying about plays that could have been better, no fear that this was a trap game and we could be playing down to our competition. Hell, I think if we had played down to our competition, the worst we could have done was probably win 17-0.
By Clyde E. Dawkinsabout a year ago in Unbalanced
Top Scoring Players on Fantasy Football (Week 15)
To play off the words of the iconic Ringo Starr, "Please forgive the lateness of this story." With Christmas shopping, other stories, and even focusing on the Semifinals in Fantasy Football, I've been lagging when it comes to mentioning the top fantasy scorers for Week 15, which is a big week for Fantasy--it's either the end of the regular season, or the Quarterfinals depending on the league. In any event, here are Week 15's top scorers:
By Clyde E. Dawkinsabout a year ago in Unbalanced
It's the Wedgewood That Makes it Good
The Colorado Avalanche were coming off an amazing win in San Jose against the Sharks; an interesting battle between the two goalies who were traded for each other: Mackenzie Blackwood and Alexandar Georgiev. So the Avs were 1-1 in the three-game road trip, and we concluded our trip to the Pacific Time Zone with a stop in the epicenter of Orange County, California: Anaheim. This meeting was the second of the season between the Avalanche and the Anaheim Ducks, with the first one taking place on October 18, with the Avs defeating the Ducks in OT for our first win of the season after a shocking 0-4 start.
By Clyde E. Dawkinsabout a year ago in Unbalanced
The AFC Playoff Picture is Shaping Up
I do love Saturday football; I have since I was a kid. We don't get NFL games on Saturday until nearly the end of the season, and that's because it's by that time that college football is out of the way. I remember at one point, we would see four straight weeks of Saturday football, counting playoffs, but this year, we are being treated to five straight Saturdays of NFL action--the final three weeks of the regular season, Super Wild Card Weekend, and the Divisional Playoff.
By Clyde E. Dawkinsabout a year ago in Unbalanced
Trading Places
Amazing. When the Colorado Avalanche and the San Jose Sharks last faced each other, Alexandar Georgiev was with the former, and Mackenzie Blackwood was with the latter. Over a month later, the two goalies were swapped for each other, as Colorado was looking to solve our goaltender problems. Interestingly, these two goalies were not in net during the first meeting between the clubs this season. In this matchup, they were.
By Clyde E. Dawkinsabout a year ago in Unbalanced
Northern Exposure
The Colorado Avalanche were coming off a very impressive win at home over the Nashville Predators, in what was Mackenzie Blackwood's Avs debut, but once again, we were back on the road. At least, this time, it's a three game trip, and it is in the West. Can't get any more West in this continental land mass than the Pacific Time Zone, and that's where the Avs would be for the next three games. The first of those three was a trip to the Canadian side of the Pacific Northwest, the city that hosted the 111th Grey Cup and this year's Survivor Series: Vancouver, British Columbia.
By Clyde E. Dawkinsabout a year ago in Unbalanced
Life, Controlling Your Own Destiny, and Everything (NFC Week 16)
The National Football Conference continues to be the hot mess that it has been for the last few years. I still remember last year's final week, which saw two open spots up for grabs between teams who were either 8-8 or 7-9. It was wacky and wild, and this year could top that. I had to separate this week's piece by conference because the American Football Conference could have everything settled, and while the NFC can still leave things unsolved even at the final week, it's still worth a look see.
By Clyde E. Dawkinsabout a year ago in Unbalanced
All Wrapped Up in a Neat Little Package?! (AFC Week 16)
We are now entering the final three weeks of the 2024 NFL season, and it's wild. It's always very wild during Week 16, which is normally a Christmas week, but the calendar's makeup has allowed the NFL to kick off Week 17 on Christmas Day, so Week 17 will be a Christmas/Countdown to New Year's week, while the impending Week 16 will serve as an early Countdown to the Holidays. Because of what's happening regarding the scenarios for this week, I have to separate this by conference, because the American Football Conference could have everything settled by the end of the week. It's true.
By Clyde E. Dawkinsabout a year ago in Unbalanced
Simpsons Review: "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire"
Amazing, isn't it? 35 years. That's a long time in anything. Funny, this whole thing started as just a few minutes at a time on a sketch comedy show. Now? It's the measuring stick. It's been the measuring stick for many years. Primetime animation may have started with William Hanna and Joseph Barbera over six decades ago, and while they set that bar, Matt Groening raised it exponentially. Over 700 episodes have aired, and it all officially began with a simple Christmas celebration.
By Clyde E. Dawkinsabout a year ago in Geeks
NFL Week 15 Recap: Paradigm Shift
You know, I had to be one of very few NFL fans who actually didn't have this game between the Buffalo Bills and the Detroit Lions circled on my Week 15 itinerary. Don't get me wrong; there were quite a few games I was focused on for that week, but this one, despite the heavy anticipation, was not one of them. Everyone saw this as a Super Bowl LIX preview. I honestly can't see why. We all know Josh Allen falters in January. And as genuinely good as the Lions are, something will always happen with them.
By Clyde E. Dawkinsabout a year ago in Unbalanced
Stark Raving Vicious
WWE is coming off a massively epic Saturday Night's Main Event program that really showed out, with the show seeing the official crowning of the first-ever Women's United States Champion. At the event, Chelsea Green won the Finals of that title's tournament; outlasting 11 other immensely talented superstars to earn that distinguished honor. With that quest finished, the focus now shifts to Raw's Women's Intercontinental Championship, as that tournament has Dakota Kai and Lyra Valkyria in the Semifinals awaiting their opponents.
By Clyde E. Dawkinsabout a year ago in Viva
