Twitter Party Sponsored by WhiteFence

3.17.10 1:22 am by Alex

EDIT: Thanks to everyone who participated and congratulations to those who won. Enjoy the tournament!

Hey everyone,

We’re happy to announce a special event Wednesday afternoon (4 p.m. EST, 1 PST). WhiteFence.com is sponsoring an NCAA Tournament March Madness Twitter Party and they’ll be giving away a bunch of $100 Best Buy gift cards and a 40″ Sony HDTV (retail price $679).

When the party starts at 4, be sure you’re logged on to Twitter and following @thesportsgeeks. We’ll ask questions about the NCAA Tournament, which starts Thursday, and about WhiteFence and their services. Just answer the questions with the hashtag #WFMadness, and you’ll be entered to win. Winners will DM us their email addresses, and we’ll make sure you get the goods.

What: March Madness Twitter Party, including gift card and TV giveaways

When: Wednesday, March 17, 4 p.m. EST

Where: Twitter – @thesportsgeeks, @whitefence

Hope to hear from you all then. Thanks for reading!
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The Sports Geeks Podcast – Episode 9

10.30.09 11:12 pm by Alex and Pat

Alex and Pat go through this week’s NFL schedule, make their picks, discuss the major issues going into the week, make some fantasy predictions and take your fantasy questions. Be sure to send us your fantasy questions or your predictions for this week’s top fantasy performers (QB, RB, WR, TE) if you think you have what it takes: podcast@thesportsgeeks.com and follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/thesportsgeeks. We’re listed on iTunes so click here and subscribe. Thanks for listening!

 
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Current Standings:

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Fantasy Basketball 2009

10.20.09 12:10 am by Alex

Hey everyone!

We’re putting together a fantasy NBA league for the 2009 season, and we’d like you all to join us. Here’s the deal: we’re doing a head-to-head 8-category league with 10-12 teams. Its nothing super-serious – no money involved or anything – but we want people that will be committed and remain competitive throughout the year.

The draft will be this Sunday night the 25th at 8:45 eastern and we want everyone to be there. If you’re interested and you can make the draft date, shoot us and @reply on Twitter or an email (thesportsgeeks[at]gmail.com) with whatever awesome team name you’d use and tell us what makes you a sports geek. We’ll chose the most creative ones. Can’t wait to hear from you!

Thanks for reading,

- Alex

P.S. – Everyone please join our Facebook page. We want to get all our readers in one place for discussions and such. I won’t stop pimping this until you all join, haha. (http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Sports-Geeks/153867459262)

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The Point of Fantasy Football

8.24.09 12:34 pm by Matt

Dear Fantasy Players,

There is one and only one key to fantasy sports success. It is more important than research, drafting, and setting your lineup. Your chance of winning a small 10 team league is 10%. Your chance of someone remembering you won last year is 1%. Your chance of someone caring that you won last year is 0%. In fact, it might actually hurt you because they’ll say you’re a dork.

Therefore you must have one objective: the best team name.

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Grading Our Draft

8.23.09 2:23 am by Pat

Editor’s Note: Before you read this, check out the results of our Not-So Mock Fantasy Draft: http://bit.ly/2yCum8. Hopefully Pat’s ultra-insightful analysis along with our draft results will help you out during your fantasy football drafts this year.

After an online draft which featured plenty of trash talk and lots of cussing when “your sleeper” got drafted two picks before you were going to grab him, I decided to spark further debate by grading the draft team by team.  I will go through each teams picks, round by round, and let you know which pick I think was the best pick (MVP) and which was the worst (Marbury).  Why Marbury, you ask?  Well, when someone makes a bad or questionable pick a common response is “you crazy?”  In case you haven’t heard, Marbury is certifiably bat shit crazy (for some evidence, I refer you to this, this, this and this).  So I will now break down each person’s Most Valuable Pick as well as their Marbury.  Keep in mind that the MVP or Marbury isn’t necessarily the best or worst player on the roster as I’m more considering where they were taken in the draft, team needs, and who they could have got.  I’m including each person’s twitter link so you can talk fantasy with them during the season.

Note: I just finished writing this article and now realize just how good of a draft this was.  It took me forever to finish and I honestly had a lot of trouble picking my favorite pick for each team, and for many teams picking the “Marbury” was more out of personal bias than actual dislike of the pick.  I must say, good draft all around everybody!  Should be a fun fantasy season!

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Tweets of the Week: Michael Vick Edition

7.27.09 3:45 pm by Alex

In recent weeks Mike Vick has found himself back in the news again, after his release from federal custody and subsequent meeting with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.  It’s a controversial issue. Sunday night, I posed the question to our twitter followers:

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