By Rick Morris
The FDH Lounge previews the 2019-20
NFL Divisional Weekend.
Monday, May 25, 2020
Lounge on YouTube: 2019-20 NFL Playoff preview
By Rick Morris
The FDH Lounge previews the 2019-20
NFL Playoffs with FDH Lounge Dignitary Steve Kallas.
Lounge on YouTube: 2019-20 NFL Wild Card Weekend preview
By Rick Morris
The FDH Lounge
previews the 2019-20 NFL Wild Card weekend.
Lounge on YouTube: The NHL 2010s Review and 2020s Preview
By Rick Morris
The FDH Lounge looks back at the NBA in the 2010s and
ahead to the 2020s.
Happy Memorial Day
By Rick Morris
NOTE: This is our annual
Memorial Day tribute from The FDH Lounge.
Veterans have always been
heroes to me, people who put a cause greater than themselves ahead of their own
well-being. This very visceral account of D-Day from the late hero Charles
Durning tells the story in all of its honor and horror. For anyone dense enough not to understand why
flag desecration incites anyone with a shred of decency, sit through this.
Sunday, April 26, 2020
2020 FDH NFL Draft rankings
By Rick Morris
All of our rankings are based on the Jason Jones Top 75
Overall from PRO
FOOTBALL DRAFTOLOGY 2020.
Up first are the raw numerical rankings, with 75 points
for the top player on the list all the way down to 1 point for #75 on the list.
1 Miami
2 Jacksonville
3T Dallas
3T New York Giants
5 Carolina
6 Los Angeles Chargers
7T Minnesota
7T Washington
9T Cleveland
9T Dallas
11 Cincinnati
12 New Orleans
13 Las Vegas
14T Arizona
14T Baltimore
16 Tampa Bay
17 Houston
18 Buffalo
19 Denver
20 New York Jets
21 San Francisco
22 Philadelphia
23 Indianapolis
24 Chicago
25 Green Bay
26 Tennessee
27T New England
27T Seattle
29 Atlanta
30T Los Angeles Rams
30T Pittsburgh
32 Kansas City
Next are the rankings purely based on filling team needs,
also from PRO
FOOTBALL DRAFTOLOGY 2020. Attempting
to fill the top need earns 75 points, the #2 need is 50 points, the #3 need is
25 points, the #4 need is 10 points and the #5 need is 5 points.
1 Houston
2T Cleveland
2T Minnesota
4 Detroit
5 Jacksonville
6T Arizona
6T Atlanta
6T Miami
9T Los Angeles Chargers
9T New York Jets
11T Baltimore
11T Carolina
11T Cincinnati
11T Dallas
11T Las Vegas
11T New Orleans
11T Tampa Bay
11T Washington
19 Tennessee
20T Chicago
20T Denver
20T Los Angeles Rams
20T New York Giants
20T Philadelphia
20T Pittsburgh
26T Kansas City
26T Seattle
28 New England
29T Buffalo
29T Green Bay
29T Indianapolis
29T San Francisco
This is a mashup of the other two rankings, giving a
balanced sense of how teams acquired star power in the Top 75 Overall and what
they did to address their needs.
1T Detroit
1T Jacksonville
1T Miami
4 Minnesota
5 Cleveland
6 Los Angeles Chargers
7 Carolina
8T Houston
8T Washington
10T Arizona
10T Dallas
12 Cincinnati
13T New Orleans
13T New York Giants
15 Las Vegas
16 Baltimore
17 Tampa Bay
18 New York Jets
19 Atlanta
20 Denver
21 Philadelphia
22 Chicago
23 Tennessee
24 Buffalo
25T Los Angeles Rams
25T Pittsburgh
25T San Francisco
28 Indianapolis
29 Seattle
30 Green Bay
31 New England
32 Kansas City
Thursday, April 23, 2020
2020 NFL Draft top prospect highlight videos
By Rick Morris
Derrick Brown
Joe Burrow
K’Lavon Chaisson
JK Dobbins
AJ Epenesa
Yetur Gross-Matos
Justin Herbert
Jerry Jeudy
Javon Kinlaw
CeeDee Lamb
Jordan Love
Jeffrey Okudah
Henry Ruggs III
Isaiah Simmons
D’Andre Swift
Tua Tagovailoa
Chase Young
Sunday, April 19, 2020
Lounge on YouTube: 2020 NFL Draft preview
By Rick Morris
The FDH Lounge previews the 2020 NFL
Draft with FDH Lounge Dignitaries Jason Jones and Chris Galloway.
Monday, March 16, 2020
The NCAA, COVID-19 and a long-term solution
By Steve Kallas
and Janelle Allbritton (posted by Rick Morris)
Kudos to the
NCAA for deciding that those student-athletes who play (now cancelled) spring
sports should get an extra year of eligibility. To deprive seniors, who have
worked their entire college careers to get the point they are at, the
opportunity to play a season and, possibly, a postseason, would be unfair and
against the spirit of college athletics.
Having said
that, it would be equally unfair for the NCAA to not allow seniors who have
just completed their winter season the same opportunity that spring athletes
are getting. While the cancellation of the men’s and women’s NCAA basketball
championships are the best example of this, there are plenty of other sports
and thousands of athletes in those sports who deserve, along with all of the
basketball players, the right to compete in the highlight of their respective
seasons -- to play in conference championships and the NCAA tournaments (if
good enough).
This should
really be a no-brainer.
There is little
difference between not playing at all (spring 2020 student-athletes) and
playing your regular season with no chance to participate in conference
championships and then national championships (winter 2019-20
student-athletes). Many people (not all) understand the time, effort and
dedication that it takes to be a college athlete in today’s world. For those
who don’t, it’s akin to having a full-time job -- while carrying a college
course load at the same time. A difficult task (ask anyone who does it). And
please save the jokes about players who don’t go to class, players who are just
waiting to go “pro.”
On the overall
scheme of things, that’s an incredibly small percentage of NCAA athletes.
While those
winter athletes did have an advantage over the spring athletes in that they did
get to play a regular season, the reality is that everyone is playing with the
hope of participating in conference and, maybe, national championships. The
“postseason” is what makes for the season-long goals and, in this season, to be
deprived of that opportunity hurts all winter athletes, virtually to the same
extent as spring athletes.
So, it’s time
for the NCAA, an organization often under fire, to do the right thing and
extend the extra year of eligibility to include all winter athletes.
Then, and only
then, will the NCAA have done right by ALL of their student athletes.
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2020 BY WESTCHESTER COUNTY POST. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Tuesday, March 3, 2020
NHL power rankings for start of March
By Rick Morris
NOTES: Rankings from start of
season are in parentheses.
TOP TIER
1 Boston (1-5-3-1)
2 St. Louis
(3-3-1-6)
3 Washington
(2-1-2-3)
4 Tampa Bay
(24-20-14-2)
5 Colorado
(7-2-6-9)
SECOND TIER
6 Philadelphia
(6-14-11-8)
7 Dallas
(10-8-8-5)
8 Vegas (16-12-10-15)
9 Pittsburgh
(13-6-5-4)
10 Toronto
(19-17-7-10)
11 NY Islanders
(4-4-4-12)
12 Edmonton
(5-16-22-13)
13 Columbus
(25-26-23-7)
THIRD TIER
14 Carolina
(11-7-9-11)
15 Calgary
(17-10-16-18)
16 NY Rangers (18-18-20-21)
17 Vancouver
(15-21-12-14)
18 Florida
(14-22-13-16)
19 Nashville
(23-24-24-19)
20 Arizona
(8-9-17-17)
21 Winnipeg
(9-11-19-20)
22 Minnesota
(22-15-18-25)
23 Montreal
(21-19-21-22)
24 Buffalo
(20-13-15-24)
25 Chicago
(27-26-25-23)
26 New Jersey
(30-30-30-27)
27 San Jose
(12-23-26-26)
28 Anaheim
(26-25-28-28)
29 Los Angeles
(28-29-29-30)
30 Ottawa
(29-27-27-29)
FOURTH TIER
31 Detroit (31-31-31-31)
BIGGEST RISERS:
Vegas (7 spots), NY Rangers and St. Louis (5 spots), Colorado (4 spots),
Calgary and Minnesota (3 spots)
BIGGEST
FALLERS: Columbus (6 spots), Pittsburgh (5 spots), Arizona and Vancouver (3
spots)
RANKINGS BY
DIVISION – 1 POINT PER RANKING SPOT FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL TEAM, DIVIDED BY THE
NUMBER OF TEAMS, LOWEST SCORE IS BEST
1 METROPOLITAN 12.25
2 CENTRAL 14.29
3 ATLANTIC 17.63
4 PACIFIC 19.5
RANKINGS BY
CONFERENCE
1 EAST 29.88
2 WEST 33.79
NBA power rankings for start of March
By Rick Morris
NOTES: Rankings from start of
season are in parentheses.
TOP TIER
1 Milwaukee
(2-2-1-1)
SECOND TIER
2 LA Lakers
(1-1-2-2)
THIRD TIER
3 Denver (4-9-3-6)
4 LA Clippers (7-5-6-5)
5 Toronto (3-8-8-3)
6 Boston (6-6-5-4)
7 Houston
(10-10-7-9)
8 Utah (12-12-9-7)
9 Miami (5-4-4-8)
10 Oklahoma
City (19-18-13-13)
11 Indiana
(11-11-12-12)
12 Dallas (9-7-10-10)
13 Philadelphia
(8-3-11-11)
FOURTH TIER
14 Memphis
(25-24-20-14)
FIFTH TIER
15 New Orleans
(26-26-25-15)
16 Brooklyn
(14-13-14-16)
17 Orlando
(18-15-17-18)
18 Sacramento
(17-16-23-21)
19 San Antonio
(23-20-15-17)
20 Portland
(20-22-16-19)
SIXTH TIER
21 Phoenix
(16-14-18-20)
22 Washington
(24-25-27-22)
23 Charlotte
(21-21-21-24)
24 Chicago
(15-23-19-23)
25 Detroit
(22-17-24-26)
26 Atlanta
(28-27-30-28)
27 Minnesota
(13-19-22-25)
28 New York
(29-29-28-27)
29 Cleveland
(27-28-26-29)
SEVENTH TIER
30 Golden State
(30-30-29-30)
BIGGEST RISERS:
Denver, Oklahoma City and Sacramento (3 spots)
BIGGEST
FALLERS: none as many as 3 spots
RANKINGS BY CONFERENCE
– 1 POINT PER RANKING SPOT FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL TEAM, LOWEST SCORE IS BEST
1 WEST 210
2 EAST 255
Sunday, February 9, 2020
2020 NASCAR preview
By Rick Morris
The FDH Lounge
previews the 2020 NASCAR season with FDH Motorsports Editor Mike Ptak.
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