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Based in Atlanta, GA - Rick Limpert is an award-winning writer, a best-selling author, and a featured sports travel writer.

Named the No. 1 Sports Technology writer in the U.S. on Oct 1, 2014.

Tuesday
Oct122010

Fantasy Football Buy or Sell for Week 6

Week 5 is in the books and there are no unbeaten teams left in the NFL. This is the earliest I can remember this happening in a while.

The bye weeks continue and so does the lineup for your fantasy team. The Packers are banged up, including quarterback Aaron Rodgers. The Falcons are hitting their stride, and if you watched Monday Night Football last night, Brett Favre struggled and the Jet's D dominated.

Here's a buy or sell heading into Week 6.

Buy:

The Jet's D. Wow, what a performance on MNF. I expect the Jets to continue shutting teams down and winning games with their defense.

Frank Gore, RB 49ers. The 49ers have been bad, but Gore puts up numbers and expect that to continue.

Kenny Britt, WR Titans. The young wide receiver for the Titans is becoming the favorite target of Vince Young. Against the Cowboys he had four catches for 86 yards and a score.

Danny Amendola, WR Rams. The Rams still have a ways to go, but they do know they have their quarterback of the future in Sam Bradford. Amendola is a young wideout who will get more catches now with Mark Clayton out for the season. He could be a decent fill in if you have WRs on bye weeks.

Sell:

The Packer's Tight Ends. Both Finley and Lee went down on Sunday, but the Packers also have other injury issues as well. The Pack kept 4 tight ends coming out of camp, looks like they will use them all.

Shaun Hill, QB Lions. Is Matthew Stafford back yet? No, but Hill has been filling in well against weak competition. Don't play him this week unless you have nobody else breathing on your roster.

Alex Smith, QB 49ers. The fact that Smith is still the starter is amazing to me. All you need to know about Smith is he has more interceptions than touchdowns for his career. I'm glad I'm not a 49er fan.

Mike Tolbert, RB Chargers. 12 carries for 11 yards and a fumble. Ouch!

On the fence:

Hakeen Nicks,WR Giants. Had a monster week, but can that continue. Nicks has been inconsistent throughout his career.

Colt McCoy, QB Browns. Will be interesting to see how McCoy does this week if he gets the start.

Tuesday
Oct122010

iPads and Walmart

While at my local Walmart over the weekend I checked out the Apple display to see if they were prepping it for the soon to be arriving iPads.

There was some empty space.

 

Now word has come out that iPads are available at Walmart Online, and you can have it shipped to Walmart near you.

Walmart Online is going to sell all models, but right now only the 64GB iPad WiFi, 32GB iPad WiFi+3G and the 64GB iPad WiFi+3G can be ordered online. All other iPad models are marked out of stock right now.

When the iPads reach the stores, each store is expected to have 5 of each kind of iPad in stock.

 

 

Tuesday
Oct122010

Tropical Storm Paula Near Honduras

Tropical Storm Paula was expected to strengthen into a hurricane on Tuesday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. Weather forecasts showed it could hit Mexico's popular Caribbean resort of Cancun. Authorities in Honduras closed schools and warned of flooding in some villages as heavy rains reached the coast.

"Paula continues to strengthen and is expected to become a hurricane soon," the center said.

The storm in the southwest Caribbean was carrying top winds of 70 miles per hour and moving northwestward at a speed of 10 miles per hour.

It was located about 90 miles east of Isla Guanaja in Honduras.

The six-month Atlantic hurricane season, which ends on November 30, has produced five major hurricanes this year out of the eight that have formed. The United States has so far escaped a significant landfall.

Monday
Oct112010

Braves Bench Conrad for Game 4

You have to feel for the guy.

Atlanta Braves second baseman Brooks Conrad is not in the starting lineup for Game 4 of what could be his club's final game of the National League Division Series on Monday night against the Giants at Turner Field.

Instead, Troy Glaus was at third base and Omar Infante at second a day after Conrad set two NLDS records by committing three errors in Sunday's 3-2 loss. The Giants lead, 2-1, and can wrap up the best-of-five series with a victory Monday.  Glaus is not known for his defensive prowess either.

Conrad's three errors also tied the overall single-game postseason record shared by 11 other players.

Conrad wasn't available to comment on Monday, but after the game on Sunday, he stood tall and faced the media.

"It's completely embarrassing," Conrad said. "Once again, I felt like I let everybody down. I feel terrible. It's a whole lot to swallow. That last one, I tracked the whole way and tried to stay in front it at least. It seemed to go right through me. Weird feeling, but no excuses. It was a terrible performance tonight.

Glaus has played in 128 games this season for Atlanta, mostly at first base, batting .240 with 16 homers and 71 RBIs. He's played only two innings at third base all season and hasn't started at the hot corner since 2009, when he played for the Cardinals. He did play some third base during a one-week rehab stint at Triple-A Gwinnett the last week of August after recovering from inflammation in his left knee.

Check out Conrad's miscues here: http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=12802465&topic_id=8878972&c_id=mlb

Monday
Oct112010

Kindle Free Pick of the Week: 25 Language Phrasebook

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Learn how to say Hello, How are you, Please, Thank you and much more in 25 languages!

If you travel and take your Kindle with you, this is a no-brainer.  It's free. get it now.