The Sports Truth

The Sportstruth’s senior editor, Lucas Dwyer, provides his observations and thoughts from the weekend that was.

Apparently my assertion that the Colts were not going away was wrong.

If I were a Colts fan, this would be sour grapes, but the Chargers got amazingly lucky (edittor’s note: Luke is a Patriots fan). The Colts easily could have and should have put up 35 or 42 points and yet San Diego won without Ladanian Tomlinson and Philip Rivers (you could argue they get better with Billy Volek, but we won’t do that here). Nevertheless, as the aforementioned Patriots fan, I’d much rather play San Diego than Indianapolis.

Can San Diego beat New England in the AFC Championship game if they play without Rivers and LT?

However, while we’re here, how is the early line for the Patriots and Chargers game -14.5? Sports Truth founder, Levi Matthews, believes that the spread technically should be lower than the Jax game, but believes that the Jaguars are a better team than San Diego. Maybe the spread is so high because we don’t know LT or Rivers status yet, and that makes sense, but you’d have to think that if they both play, the spread should be lower than the -13 the Jaguars were getting from the Patriots.

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Philip Rivers is known as a young, Pro Bowl quarterback.

George Clooney is known as a middle-aged Hollywood hunk.

But these gentlemen may have more in common than you realized. Rivers has the most unorthodox throwing motion in the league - while Clooney is attempting to portray a quarterback in the upcoming movie, Leatherheads.

Who would you rather barking out signals to your team?

For the fourth consecutive week, Britney’s Divorce Lawyers (who are pondering another name change to Marry Me Britney) delivered a savage beating to an overmatched fantasy football opponent.

In pulling our record up to 6-4 and snagging third place by virtue of an enormous lead in the overall points tie-breaker, Philip Rivers (right) led a thorough team effort with his best game to date.

Despite being 4-0 as a starter for us, Rivers hadn’t really showcased his potential until last Sunday, when he passed for 338 yards and three scores against the Bengals. Luckily for the Divorce Lawyers, our opponent’s T.J. Houshmandzadeh stayed out of the end zone for Cincinnati in that 49-41 shootout.

Inspired by Rivers’ effort at the helm, the supporting cast did what it had to do to bury the B-Town Billygoats early.

Even when they weren’t at their best, Larry Johnson, Reggie Wayne, Mark Clayton, Tony Gonzalez and Javon Walker all reached double figures in points, and the 125-85 rout was on. Now it’s time for a grudge match with a fellow 6-4 squad with sneaky-good players like Rex Grossman and Steven Jackson.

Proving what a fickle beast fantasy football can be, Rivers is getting the hook one week after turning in his best game yet. We’re hoping that Drew Brees can victimize that same Bengals defense Sunday, and continue what has been a very strong year for him, despite his 2-4 starting record for us. Jermaine Wiggins was added to the roster this week to spot start for an injured Gonzalez, which is a big loss. However, Larry Fitzgerald’s return should more than make up for it. At least we’re hoping so.

At this point, I turn things over to my colleague, Lucas Dwyer, for an in-depth account of a bizarre turn of events that impacted his own fantasy football league greatly last week. His account follows the Sports Truth’s favorite marathoner, Jane Murray, in her effort to dethrone the league’s top team — only to be thwarted, stunningly, by a mid-week scoring change made by the NFL.

As of Tuesday morning, Jane Murray’s team, aptly named the Kyle Killers, had defeated Kyle Kalember’s team for the second time this year, 77-69. The win for Murray left her tied atop of her division with Alex Woodcock at 7-3, and ahead of Kalember’s 7-3 team by virtue of a 2-0 head-to-head record. Additionally, Murray was tied with Woodcock and Toby Ralston for the #1 overall seed.

Everything changed Wednesday night when Jane, Sports Truth Founder Levi Matthews and I were watching SportsCenter and Brian Kenny told us about the scoring change.

Reggie Brown, Jane’s player, was no longer going to be charged with a fumble which was “recovered” by Correll Buckhalter and run into the end zone for a 55-yard touchdown. Instead, the play was going to be rulled a completed pass to Buckhalter by Donovan McNabb - Kyle’s player.

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