Hall of Famer Johnny Bench was just one of the stars churned out in Cincy under Sheldon “Chief” Bender’s watch.
The baseball world lost a good one this week when Sheldon “Chief” Bender, former farm director of the Cincinnati Reds, passed away on Wednesday at the age of 88.
During Cincy’s vaunted Big Red Machine days, Bender [...]

February 29th, 2008
Categories: BASEBALL, Obituary, RotoRob . Author: RotoRob . Comments: 1 Comment

Marc Savard is one of the NHL’s hottest players currently.
Now, with the trade deadline passed, there’s really nothing left to do, but focus on the performance of your players. If you’ve been hoarding passers, waiting for your team to land a sniper and it didn’t happen by Tuesday, you made a poor fantasy choice. I’m [...]

February 29th, 2008
Categories: HOCKEY, Ice Chips, Steven Ovadia . Author: Steven Ovadia . Comments: No Comments

Larry Hughes led the Bulls to victory while Captain Kirk watched from the bench. (Gus Chan/The Plain Dealer)
Should Kirk Hinrich owners be worried? Captain Kirk is having a week from hell, capped by a benching in the second-half Wednesday as he could only watch while Larry Hughes led a Bulls’ rally. In today’s Daily Dose, [...]

February 28th, 2008
Categories: BASKETBALL, NBA Daily Dose, RotoRob . Author: RotoRob . Comments: 1 Comment

Dear RotoRob,
 
One more thing: in this setting, would you deal Justin Morneau and Grady Sizemore for Prince Fielder?
 
I’m in a 10-team, 5×5, H2H league and I can keep 12 players. 
 
My roster:
Miguel Cabrera
Robinson Cano
Nick Markakis
Justin Morneau
Hunter Pence
Alex Rodriguez
Jimmy Rollins
Grady Sizemore
Justin Upton
Johan Santana
Jake Peavy
Brandon Webb
Cole Hamels
Felix Hernandez
Carlos Zambrano
Yovani Gallardo
Takashi Saito
Rafael Soriano 
Thanks for your time.
 
James
James,
If you deal those [...]

February 28th, 2008
Categories: BASEBALL, Dear RotoRob, RotoRob . Author: RotoRob . Comments: 1 Comment

Baltimore freed up some cap space by restructuring Jonathan Ogden’s contract.
New Baltimore Ravens’ head coach John Harbaugh faces a major uphill battle as he tried to rally this team after a devastating 5-11 season in which it sunk to the bottom of the AFC North.
One of the first orders of business, and this is more [...]

February 27th, 2008
Categories: FOOTBALL, RotoRob, Transactional analysis . Author: RotoRob . Comments: 2 Comments