Deadlines and Headlines – July 5
Posted: July 5, 2012 Filed under: MB 2013 | Tags: APFL, British Open, Foxtel Cup, IBL, IFL, John Deere Classic, LSFL Leave a comment »Upcoming Deadlines
- International Basketball League – today @ 7:00 pm CDT
- Foxtel Cup (Australian Rules Football) – tomorrow @ 8:35 pm CDT
- American Professional Football League – Saturday @ 7:00 pm CDT
Headlines
- The IBL This Week
- This edition of the league’s weekly newsletter takes you deep inside the 2012 IBL Playoffs
- IBL League Leaders
- Take a look at the regular season stats leaders for the 2012 season
- IFL Conference Finals Players of the Week
- To everyone’s shock, Sioux Falls QB Chris Dixon wins another award
- Tri-Cities QB Houston Lillard is the brother of Blazers lottery pick Damon Lillard
- Foxtel Cup Semifinal #1 Preview
- Not a ton of info regarding the Morningside – Werribee game tomorrow night (Saturday in Australia), but a little bit to peruse
- APFL Playoffs – Fan Bus for the Council Bluffs – Oklahoma Semifinal
- If you’ve ever wanted to ride a bus from Tulsa to Council Bluffs to watch a minor league indoor football playoff game, I’ve got great news for you
- APFL – Council Bluffs Express News
- Two great nuggets here:
- 1) the Oklahoma Defenders’ bus broke down on the way from Tulsa last weekend and they were going to forfeit unless the Express paid their expenses. Council Bluffs paid up and won the game, earning a home game this weekend. Had the game ended in a forfeit, Oklahoma would have hosted this weekend instead as Council Bluffs needed to win by at least 16 to win the tiebreaker for home field advantage.
- 2) Council Bluffs signed 4 players from the neighboring Omaha Beef (in the IFL, although they were run by that league this season due to ownership issues) prior to the final regular season game. The new players, including QB James McNear who was instantly installed as the Express starter, led the team to victory and are on the roster for the playoffs.
- Two great nuggets here:
- New Family Zone Attraction at this year’s John Deere Classic
- LSFL’s Texas Shoot Out
- Further information released regarding the Lone Star Football League’s championship game and surrounding activities (Yin Yang Twins!)
- The British Open Website
- It’s two weeks away, but never too early to start thinking about the British Open
- Sorry, Great Britain, I know you just call it the Open Championship, but I’m going to stick with the British Open. Maybe if you had won the Revolutionary War, I’d let you have this one. But if we have to call our championship the U.S. Open, you have to call yours the British Open.
Monday’s MegaLinks
Posted: July 2, 2012 Filed under: MB 2013, MegaLinks | Tags: APFL, IBL, IFL, IWFL, John Deere Classic, LSFL Leave a comment »We’ll start America’s birthweek the best way we know how – with a batch of MegaLinks! First, we here at MegaBracket want to take a moment to say Happy 236th Birthday America! After all, “There’s nothing better than being an American”. Perhaps being a MegaBracketeer is better. If you don’t love MegaBracket, leave it! But not really – stay. Let’s get to the links…
- IWFL All-Star Teams Announced
- The page format is not very readable, but the information is there.
- Updated IWFL Playoff Brackets
- APFL Playoffs Set
- Picks page is open. Deadline is Saturday, July 7 @ 7:05 pm CDT.
- IBL Playoffs – Bellingham Slam Clinch #1 Seed
- Will face the Vancouver Volcanoes-Salem Soldiers winner
- LSFL Inaugural Championship Game Information
- If you are in or around San Angelo, TX on July 21st you can catch performances by Paula De Anda and the Ying Yang Twins, then the 1st ever Texas Shoot-Out
- John Deere Classic
- Current tentative field list – the picks page will not be open until after this weekend when the PGA Tour confirms the field
- IFL Conference Final Recaps
- Sioux Falls 61, Green Bay 42
- Tri-Cities 51, Wichita 30
- The 2012 United Bowl will be hosted by Sioux Falls on Saturday, July 14 at 7:05 CDT
- Do you believe in miracles?
Friday’s MegaLinks
Posted: June 29, 2012 Filed under: MB 2013, MegaLinks | Tags: IFL, John Deere Classic, Mike Tomczak, Patrick Swayze, PBR 1 Comment »To paraphrase Paul Harvey, “Good Morning MegaBracketeers, it’s Friday!” What better way to get ready for the weekend than a (not necessarily) heaping helping of MB links? OK, OK, perhaps a beverage would enhance the morning. However, if you are at work and can’t imbibe, take a swig of MB and feel the buzz of random minor league football awesomeness. (Kudos to the IFL Website for adding frequent updates. The other events coming up – not so much.)
- IFL MVP and Coach of the Year Announced
- To no one’s surprise, the MVP (for the 3rd time in the league’s 4 seasons) is Chris Dixon of the Sioux Falls Storm
- The Green Bay Blizzard’s Robert Fuller won the COY for the 2nd straight season, earning the honor in 2011 as head man of the Fairbanks Grizzlies
- IFL Conference Final Previews
- Keep Tabs on the IFL Weekend Action
- John Deere Classic
- An early sneak peek at some of the golfers expected for the John Deere Classic, MB 2013’s first golf event, coming in 2 weeks
- In PGA events, everyone picks a team of 5 golfers. The scores for the golfers are added up and compared with everyone else in MB (and also in any leagues in which you are a member). Points are awarded based on finish (1st = 80 points, 2nd = 72, 3rd = 64 and so on down to 8 points for 10th)
- TPC Deere Run
- The site of the John Deere Classic and a course once played by your author as well as two other MegaBracketeers and Mike Tomczak’s nephew
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