So I generally suck at fantasy sports. In our baseball league this year, I finished last by a mile. I thought I'd be in for more of the same for football season once my top pick, Brady, went down eight minutes into the season. But powered by Michael Turner and Santana Moss, my football team leads our fantasy league in points. We're also only 2-3. Last week I scored 115 points. The mean score in our 10-team league for last week was 85. But for the second time in five weeks, I scored the second most points, only to draw the team who scored the most.

I'm starting to think I'm the Cubs of fantasy sports. I put together sweet teams all the time, but still always find a creative new way to fail.

Also, there are currently four "Tom Brady ruined my fantasy season" groups on Facebook. Brady's knee had as big an impact on TUP as it did anywhere: Olsen, Stompy, and I all took him in the first round of our drafts.

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Get your picks in for TUP NFL Pick Em'. Here are the standings up to this point.

1	Arinitout	48	41
2	PlayingToWinThatPicture	44	37
3	Hester Hester Child Molester	42	36
4	Green Pinstripes	43	35
4	Ricky's Wrecking Crew	42	35
4	Depressed Fan	42	35
4	Finding Forrester	42	35
8	Southern Illinoise	41	34
8	Bears = Disaster	40	34
10	House is a Slunt	39	33
10	Rick Sutcliffe’s Colon	38	33

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Via Ziller at Fanhouse comes this awesome Gil Arenas interview with Slam. Highlights include:

Gil: I’ve got an invention. I’ll let your hear it, but if you make money you’ve gotta hit me off.

SLAM: I got you.

Gil: It’s called the Cool Aid (note: I couldn’t tell if he said Cool Aid or Cool Wave. Either way, copyright pending…) It’s like the microwave, but the Cool Aid. So for instance you can put a warm soda in the machine and boom, it’s cold. Most people, “Oh no, you call that the freezer”, but nah, the freezer takes two minutes. Just like you’ve got the oven and the microwave, you’ve got the freezer and the Cool Aid.

SLAM: But what else would you want to make cool besides soda?

Gil: Anything. Like if your ice cream is melting, boom, put it in. Beep!

Gil also discusses Halo, porn and Sarah Palin. The entire thing is worth your time.

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The Bulls kick off the preseason tonight. Since Vinny Del Negro has never coached a game in his life, we may just learn something from this. I'll be watching for how long a lineup of Rose-Gordon-Deng-Tyrus-Noah is on the floor together.

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Bears defensive end Mark Anderson in yesterday's Sun-Times:

''We're heading to the Super Bowl,'' defensive end Mark Anderson said. ''I really feel that way.''

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David Haugh in today's Trib:

Tampa Bay, which likes to disguise its Cover-2 scheme as much as the Bears, confused (Falcons quarterback Matt) Ryan so badly that his first nine pass attempts were incompletions — including the two interceptions. Ryan's passer rating in that game was 29.6, well below his respectable season average of 75.3.

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Also on the Network: √ The lineup gets a pickmeup [Feeling Dodger Blue] √ 7/2/09: Zito Betrayed [El Lefty Malo] √ Andre Miller's Disappearing Leverage [Depressed Fan] √ 7/1/09: A Tolerable Loss [El Lefty Malo] √ Progress So Far? [Depressed Fan] √ St. Louis Loves Their Colby Jack [C70 At The Bat] √ Peace, Ben. It's been real. [Tremendous Upside Potential] √ 2009 Free Agents, Position-By-Position [Depressed Fan]

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