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By John Kirkland Twitter: @FBGarbageTalk This Saturday, May 7, starts the first leg of the Triple Crown – the Kentucky Derby. As you’ll recall, last year I correctly predicted American Pharoah would win and would go on to complete a Triple Crown. Now that you believe I’m a credible source for horse racing information, I’m here to give you a
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By John Kirkland Twitter: @FBGarbageTalk Hello America! I’ve missed you! Hope you’ve missed me too (insert emoji-of-choice). In my first article back after a long hiatus, I thought I’d talk about free agency and recognizing talent. And, what better way to do that than by channeling my inner-Donald Trump? Onwards and upwards America! Ok, first, what the trump is going
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By John Kirkland Twitter: @FBGarbageTalk Hellooooo Am-er-ica! Today let’s talk about get-rich-quick schemes. Yes, unfortunately, it seems that everyone in America has come to associate the “American Dream” with gettin’ rich quick. At least Americans do. Like winning the lottery, or suing the pants off of someone for a fender bender, trying to collect for their “pain and suffering,” and
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By John Kirkland Twitter: @FBGarbageTalk Well, America – as you know, the preseason was marred by ACL tear after ACL tear, sidelining a number of players for the year. The list is long, as it is every year, though this year includes some notable fantasy players like Jordy Nelson and Kelvin Benjamin. Even star LB Kiko Alonso, who the Eagles
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By John Kirkland Twitter: @FBGarbageTalk So, if you’ve been reading my column, you’ve known that pretty-boy Brady was going to start the NFL season for like 4 months now … at least! Ok, so maybe Goodell wasn’t the one to let Brady off of the hook, I guess because he paid all of that money for the Wells Investigation. But
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By John Kirkland Twitter: @FBGarbageTalk Now that we are getting close to drafting our fantasy football teams, what with all the pomp and circumstance that goes into believing our team is THE team to beat (until it gets beat), I thought it appropriate to help people out with a couple of helpful jabs, a la Geno, to get us all
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By John Kirkland Twitter: @FBGarbageTalk After writing about JPP’s off-season contract issues with the NY Giants and the possibility of being traded away here, the Fourth of July happened, and well, JPP had an incident with a fire cracker and so I thought it time to follow up … on how much the main street media sucks. Not soon after
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By John Kirkland Twitter: @FBGarbageTalk Hello America! Sorry for the long layoff. Lots of “real” work … anyway today, I thought we’d talk Steeler Nation! Hope that’s cool wif you. Before we go there, a story about the first Steeler’s fan I ever met. A long, long time ago, way back when, I took a girlfriend to Aruba where we
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By John Kirkland Twitter: @FBGarbageTalk America — I’m not a betting man, but I do like watching history happen … which is what I’ll be doing this weekend when American Pharoah wins the third jewel of the Triple Crown, the Belmont Stakes. Set in Elmont, New York, the Belmont Stakes is the longest of the three legs of the Triple
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Say hello America, and beyond, to the face of white-collar crime in 2015! No, no no! Not DeflateGate … I’m talking FAFI, no FIFU, no I mean FUFI, damn it – Fédération Internationale de Football Association … yes, FIFA corruption! That’s right, these guys, pictured below, were indicted on corruption charges and arrested in Zurich, Switzerland early Wednesday, May 27,
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