Keeping Lawr Michaels’ Legacy Alive
Hi Everyone. This is Todd Zola, Lawr’s long time colleague and friend. As you likely know, Lawr founded CREATiVESPORTS.com in 1996. One of my first writing gigs was a weekly …
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Creativesports Staff Remembers Lawr Michaels
It’s been a tough couple of days in the fantasy community as its members mourn the loss of Lawr Michaels. The quirky character from the best-selling “Fantasyland” literally come to …
Read More Lawr Michaels: The Approachable Man from ‘Fantasyland’
I was first introduced to Lawr Michaels while I was a junior in college. It wasn’t an in-person introduction, but after reading “Fantasyland,” I felt like I knew him pretty …
Read More Lawr Michaels: The Man and His Brand
Over the last two days, many of us were informed that our friend, colleague and the leader of this site, Lawr Michaels, would soon succumb to his health struggles. Yet …
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Jonathan Lucroy for MVP and Other 2018 Baseball Thoughts
Just two days left in the what was the 2018 MLB season — it always cracks me up how long the marathon of a full year of play seems in …
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Upstarts Or Polished Beyond Belief?
The guys on the NFL network seemed pretty clear Thursday night that the Browns would only press their first-round treasure from the 2018 draft, Baker Mayfield, into service if there …
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Flat-footed or Fleet-footed: Which is the Best Step?
It is already struggle time for me with respect to my numerous season-long fantasy football teams for 2018. Among the nine basic teams I attempt to drive, only three managed …
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Drafts 3, Lawr 0
I knew I was in for a harried evening, and again it was enough that we had just returned from London a week ago, and I anticipated some let lag. …
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That’s Not Football!
“So tonight is football: Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur,” noted my cousin’s mate, Jim McClean, as we finished up dinner last Monday evening. Jim finished with, “Remember, you are watching …
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Jonathan Lucroy for MVP!
I am not sure what it is with the Athletics. Surely, the team has had a couple of storied championship runs since migrating from Kansas City to Oakland almost 50 …
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MLB Life Imitates Fantasy Art
If you are old enough, you might remember back 20 years or so, when Fantasy Baseball was a new and emerging game, and at the time the scourge of Major …
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Khrushing It 2018: Looking at Homers Redux
Around this time last year, when I was still part of Mastersball, I looked at homers in what was the year of the dinger, trying to really understand not just …
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