Football: Is It Real, Or Is It Fantasy?

QB in pain: A sight feared by fantasy football owners and NFL fans alike.
With the possible exception of dwindling 401ks, expanding waistlines and gray hair, there’s nothing fantasy football owners fear more than injuries to key players. Especially in the pre-season.
Just last week, the Dutchess Dawgs took Patriots quarterback Tom Brady with the fifth [...]

Dawgs Living in A Fantasy World As Draft Day Approaches

Eli Manning and the rest of the Giants quarterbacks get ready for the 2009 season.
In the overall scheme of life, vacations are not real. Get up when you want to get up, go where you want to go. No deadlines or meetings or conference calls. No pressure. One week is fun, two weeks sublime.
In [...]

Read the Newspaper: Headlines Tell the Story

There are lots of reasons people should read the newspaper every day — news, editorials, the classifieds, movie listings,
Here’s another one: the creative headlines in the sports pages that reflect the athletic temperature of the American cities they represent.
On Sunday, for instance, we watched the NFL playoff races wind down. We saw the Dolphins complete [...]

Dawgs Paws to Reflect on Another Lost Championship

Sad to say, the Dutchess Dawgs are becoming the Buffalo Bills of fantasy football.
For the second year in a row, the Dawgs dominated the Nightcap League, leading the circuit in wins, points and dawg-bites-man attitude. And for the second year in a row, the Dawgs lost the championship game.
Dawgs president, general manager and head [...]

Dawgs Defy The Odds

All year long, the Dutchess Dawgs have been chewing for respect.
Their September draft was poo-pooed by many of the so-called experts, yet the Dawgs went on to win to post a 10-2 record, best in the Nightcap League. They were under-Dawgs in many of those 10 wins.
In the playoffs, the Dawgs were picked to succumb [...]

Dawgs Howling after Comeback Win

That sound you heard Sunday night about 7:30 was the sound of Dawgs howling.
WOOF! WOOF! WOOF!
How about dem Dutchess Dawgs.
In the Nightcap comeback of the year, the Dawgs rallied from a 31-0 deficit to upend defending champion Ari’s Dealmakers, 91-66, and edge a step closer to their second successive Somers Division crown.
The Dawgs have won [...]

Dawgs Sign Marino, Brown

The Dutchess Dawgs, facing perhaps the two toughest games on their schedule, have signed a pair of free agents, Hall of Famers Dan Marino and Jim Brown.
With Drew Brees on a bye this week, and Clinton Portis off next Sunday, the Somers Division leaders are looking to reinforce their lineup with two of the NFL’s [...]

Dawgs Give GM 5-Year, $75M Deal

This season has been another Brees for the Dawgs
The Dutchess Dawgs served notice once again this weekend that they are a universal  force to be reckoned with in their unending quest for world domination…..at least in the Somers Division of the Nightcap Fantasy  League.
And as a result, president, GM and coach Big Dawg Bowser has [...]

Dawgs Barking for Respect

The late comedian Rodney Dangerfield once remarked: “I don’t get no respect. I played hide-and-seek, and they wouldn’t even look for me”.
The Dutchess Dawgs are the Rodney Dangerfields of the NFL (Nightcap Fantasy League). They don’t get no respect.
Last year, the Dawgs had the best record in the NFL at 10-2. They went to [...]