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• Preferred targets: Fantasy football values for 2022

  By themikeherndon on July 24, 2022 • ( 1 )

  

  Identifying value – and potential upside – is a benchmark of any successful fantasy football drafting strategy. Here are nine players who appear to be values at their current ADPs.

• Off the rails: The 2022 Laviska Shenault Hype Train Awards

  By themikeherndon on July 2, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  Often, in our zeal to find the next breakout fantasy star, we ignore the red flags. Here are this year’s most-overhyped fantasy picks.

• Golden State of Affairs: Winners win, and dynasties live on

  By themikeherndon on June 18, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  When Steph Curry said people didn’t expect the Warriors to be winning another NBA Finals, he kept receipts. Doubt this man at your own peril.

• Baylor’s Dave Aranda shows there’s more than one way to lead

  By themikeherndon on June 3, 2022 • ( 1 )

  

  Aranda’s success is a lesson that we don’t have to settle for the boundaries of our comfort zones. It doesn’t always take an alpha to lead. Just someone who knows how to climb out of the pit.

• NFL mock draft 2022: In defense of the quarterbacks

  By themikeherndon on April 25, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  It’s become so trendy to pan this year’s crop of quarterbacks that it’s almost now passé. But we still think you’ll see three come off the board in the first round.

• The win-now Brooklyn Nets are throwing away their shot

  By themikeherndon on March 17, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  Philadelphia is taking its shot now. In trading James Harden, the Nets just threw theirs away.

• Super Bowl LVI: Sometimes conventional wisdom is right

  By themikeherndon on February 11, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  You can find plenty of reasons to go against the grain in Super Bowl LVI. But will it be determined by the obvious matchup instead?

• Overtime’s squeaky wheel: Is it time for a change?

  By themikeherndon on January 27, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  After an overtime classic between the Chiefs and Bills was essentially decided by the coin toss, is it time to adjust the NFL’s OT rules?

• The dynasty that will not die

  By themikeherndon on January 7, 2022 • ( 1 )

  

  Sooner or later, people are going to learn that predicting the end of the Alabama dynasty is a losing proposition as long as Nick Saban remains on the sideline

• Basketball isn’t just the offseason in Alabama anymore

  By themikeherndon on December 20, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  With Bruce Pearl in Auburn, Nate Oats at Alabama, Andy Kennedy at UAB, and Richie Riley at South Alabama, we may be in the early stages of this state’s new Golden Age of college basketball coaches.