Pop Culture: Start watching Atlanta

Most the people reading this have no idea who Donald Glover is, if you look at his IMDb page it will be mostly comedy.  If you taken a deeper dive into google, you will see Childish Gambino, Glovers’ alter ego rap name.  The first song I heard of his was Freak and Greeks and I was hooked, then he went on to star in “Community”, a criminally underrated NBC comedy.  Gambino fun rhymes in “Freaks and Greeks” and hilarious scene on Community only scratch the surface of Donald Glover. Glover has been relatively quiet the past few years since leaving Continue reading Pop Culture: Start watching Atlanta

How to fix Fantasy injuries

We all play fantasy football and we all end up with injuries its part of the game but can it be fixed?  In the NFL, if a starting running back gets hurt the back up comes in and the game moves on.  This isn’t the case in fantasy football, if a player of yours goes down, no more points for you!! Its all part of the game but it can be really frustrating and it can ruin your season because as we know every week counts.  So while it sucks when you lose a player that week or longer is Continue reading How to fix Fantasy injuries

Water Cooler Mondays

Another weekend of sports in the books, here is the AVS quick hits in case you can’t remember her name from the bar Saturday and need a recap College Football  Florida State was the latest stop on  Lamar Jackson Heisman Tour.  This kid is for real and so is Louisville jumping into the top 5 in the polls by destroying #2 Florida State. The biggest upset of the weekend goes to North Dakota State winning in Iowa!  Brutal lose for Iowa as their chances of making the playoffs disappear. Don’t tell Notre Dame fans that winning is important as the Continue reading Water Cooler Mondays

Almost Varsity Sports Hot Soup: NCAA WK 3

Call me Patrick.  I’m here to give you free money.  After a pretty hot start to the year, we’re here to keep it up for all.  7-3 so far (2-3 last week)(+370). Lets get to the picks: Cincinnati Bearcats vs Houston (-7.5); 64.5 Greg Ward Jr is back.  Duke Catalon is back.  They were cleared to play Tuesday this week.  They are not playing on short rest here.  Both of these offensive stars were not rushed back and were allowed to focus entirely on this huge division game on Thursday night football.  Without those two, the Cougars were still able to Continue reading Almost Varsity Sports Hot Soup: NCAA WK 3

Almost Varsity PodCast Ep. 5

Week 1 of the NFL is in the books.  The boys recap the first week of NFL along with the lesser exciting Week 2 of College Football.  Episode includes segments Why we Hate Notre Dame, Highly Recruited / Highly Educated with a twist, Corey Bets and Almost.  We go over the Hot Soup and Homer Picks along with some other thoughts on the upcoming weekend. Enjoy!