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NBA Draft for Dummies

Hello, all you fellow GMs reading this. Now, if you are someone who is a little inexperienced at drafting (like Cavs GM Danny Ferry) or just a total wackjob who has a serious mental disorder, and who probably thinks hiding behind a stop sign is a good hiding place in hide and seek (cough, cough, Grizzlies GM Chris Wallace), then I'll help you with these easy tips. But please, don't tell Stephen A. Smith I've been making your picks. I don't want word getting out. So here you go. Follow these rules, and you'll never draft another Sam Bowie or Christian Laetnner again.

Anthony E.'s Complete Idiot's Guide To The NFL Draft! Pt. 2!

Sorry it is so late, but here is PART 2!! This blog will focus on the Procedure and Rules of the NFL Draft. All Complete Idiots...Enjoy and learn!!!

Procedure and Rules

"The current format consists of seven rounds. Each team is assigned a selection in each round, with the team with the worst record from the previous year being assigned the first pick in each round. The team with the second-worst record gets the second pick, and so on. Ties are broken by strength of schedule. In the event that the strength of schedules are equal, a coin is flipped to determine who picks first. For teams that qualified for the playoffs, ties are broken first in the order in which they were eliminated from the postseason. However, the Super Bowl participants make the final two selections, with the team that lost the game picking next to last, and the winner picking last.

Hard and Fast

Not many hard and fast rules when it comes to golf. This is the most fickle of games. On days I feel great, I can just as easliy shyt the bed as play well. On days when my hands are swollen and my head hurts, I can often play great. I've quit trying to figure out this nonsense (not really). Anyway, there are some things, however tenuous they may seem, that tend to be as close to "givens" as you're likely to find in golf. Here are a few:

How's The Dummie Doing?

I'm here to start a new occasional segment on how all my "For Dummies" guides helped the person writing them. Basically, I'm going to update you on my bracket. Maybe it'll make me seem like a dummie just like all of you.

-My usual March Madness pool is only three people big, with me and two of my best friends, but its so incredibly heated. Despite the entry fee being only $1, we argue about our picks constantly and want to earn a year's worth of bragging rights. But the rest of my pool is back in NE Ohio, and I've had little communication with them, so for the first two rounds, we're all playing blind.

AE's Complete Idiot's Guide To The NFL Draft! Part 1!

From the author that brought you out of the darkness in time for the NCAA Tourney!......

All you complete idiots!!!!

How is it that when its not baseball season, there is no Baseball Tonight every night? Because during football or basketball season, there is not enough going on in baseball to run an hour long show on ESPN. But did you notice that pretty much all year round there is NFL Live, a show that runs on ESPN every day!? Why is this? Well it is because of the NFL Draft. (N-F-L Dra-ft) No, not the draft that you get when you leave a door open, but the kind where talent-desperate, (or talent-hungry) NFL teams ravage college football teams, taking all their good eligible players, and leaving some college football teams depleted. When you hear that a college football team is in rebuilding mode after winning a title, or had a good season, it's usually because of the Draft. Now you might think that sounds negative? Well for die-hard college football fans like me, who's team gets ripped off of their star linebacker for the past two years, and loses another star CB, the draft gets annoying for college football fans. But as an NFL fan as well, we love the Draft!!! So here is the positive spin on it! The Raiders suck (and will continue to as long as Al Davis is there), and the draft gives them some much needed talent! So now that you have both sides of the spectrum's views, you have some background on the Draft. Tune in next week, for Part 2 of the Complete Idiot's Guide, where I will begin to explain the event in more detail!

Anthony E.