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Category: SPORTS

  • Goodbye to Texas A&M University

    Goodbye to Texas A&M University

    The title of this article is a clever play on words to a song Aggies all know, but the rest of this article is sincere and from the heart. In 2014 I embarked on a journey out of the Midwest looking for a change of scenery and a new move in my career, winding up […]

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  • From AVerage to AV-Rage: Why the Avalanche should keep Sakic and Bednar

    From AVerage to AV-Rage: Why the Avalanche should keep Sakic and Bednar

    The Stanley Cup playoffs are well under way for NHL teams. The Avalanche are not one of the 16 that qualified.

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  • An Open Letter to the University of Arizona

    An Open Letter to the University of Arizona

    Fans, students and faculty of the University of Arizona, I am writing to you today amidst news that you have scheduled a football home game against the Bison of North Dakota State.  The North Dakota State Bison have a very good football team which plays incredibly physical and smart football which often grinds even the best […]

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  • The Tailgate Society’s 2017 Fictional Character Fantasy Draft  (Cont…)

    The Tailgate Society’s 2017 Fictional Character Fantasy Draft (Cont…)

    Written by: Shaun  Curran, AJ Speck, Shawn Fensterman & Ted Flint. You can check out the first 16 picks here. Shaun: Welcome back Sports Fanatics and home-team homers! Glad to have you back here with us as we dive into Part II of The Tailgate Society’s 2017 Fictional Fantasy Draft!! The rules haven’t changed and we’re jumping […]

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  • The Tailgate Society’s 2017 Fictional Character Fantasy Draft

    The Tailgate Society’s 2017 Fictional Character Fantasy Draft

    Written by: Shaun  Curran, AJ Speck, Shawn Fensterman & Ted Flint Good Day Sports fans & NFL Fanatics and welcome to The Tailgate Society’s 2017 Fictional Fantasy Draft!! As you all know by now, the NFL Draft commences tomorrow night, Thursday April 27th – unless you’ve been living under a rock you’ll notice that everyone […]

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  • Minnesota Vikings Draft Primer

    Minnesota Vikings Draft Primer

    As a fan of the NFL and specifically the Minnesota Vikings, the off–season can be a bleak and desolate stretch. Whereas baseball stretches 8 months from early April all the way through all of November, and basketball stretches for about the same amount of time from late October to mid June, football’s season lasts a […]

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  • Grading the 2017 Primetime NFL Schedule

    Grading the 2017 Primetime NFL Schedule

    Editor’s Note: Our good friend, Andrew Hammond stopped by The Tailgate Society to review the 2017 primetime NFL slate. Give him a follow on Twitter and take a gander at his work over at GoPowerCat and FanSided. With a quick investigation, you’ll quickly see that Andrew wrote this and definitely not Ted. Thanks for stopping by, […]

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  • NHL Playoff Primer: Eastern Conference

    NHL Playoff Primer: Eastern Conference

    Yesterday we took at look at the Western Conference of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Today, we look East.

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  • NHL Playoff Primer: Western Conference

    NHL Playoff Primer: Western Conference

    March Madness is sadly…finished. Your brackets were toast thanks to that South Carolina team. The Masters is over, and Major League Baseball just started, but we’re only about 5% into the season. You crave something to replace March Madness.

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  • MLB Preview

    MLB Preview

    Baseball season is here. The honeymoon is over for the Cubs as they go from loveable losers to defending champs. This is a new feeling for me. As a Cubs fan the beginning of the season was always one of hope. “This is our year,” I would say to myself. Knowing full well I was […]

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