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BC Lions at Saskatchewan Rough Riders Review...

Tonight, at the half, the BC Lions and the home team Saskatchewan Rough Riders have combined for nine turnovers as the Green Team took a 25-14 lead into the locker rooms. The Yardstick for BC at Saskatchewan (is there a damned abbreviation that works?!?)...



 

Argonauts at Tiger-Cats...

The 2009 Canadian Football League season kicks off in six days! The first game of the year will pit the Toronto Argonauts at the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. After a huge re-hauling of the team, the Ticats will attempt to get off the CFL doormat this year,...



 

2009 CFL Schedule Live at FanYard...

You can now check out and make picks on the entire 2009 CFL schedule, as FanYard has recently added the Canadian Football League to our slate of sports. As attendance and viewership of the CFL has been growing over the past half decade or so, we...



 

FanYard 2009 NBA Winners...

Congrats to Gungho-Guy, affectionately known to us FanYard enablers as GG, for winning the Gold in this year’s NBA race! It was a huge jump from last season’s fifth place finish. Coming in second was last year’s winner, Ralph Grunz....



 

2009 NBA Finals at Final Game?...

With their OT win in Orlando in Game Four of the NBA Finals, the Los Angeles Lakers are one home game away from reclaiming the title of NBA’s best team. Game Five is this Sunday at 8 EST. FanYard’s Yardstick for Game Four had the Lakers...



 

CFL Outsmarts NFL With Preseason Games...

Craving professional football? You don’t have to wait long now. The CFL preseason, which consists of a reasonable two games per team, starts next Wednesday, June 17th. The other four games will be played six days later, on June 23rd. The real...



 

Lakers Bandwagon Sees Jumpers...

With their Game Three loss to the Orlando Magic, the Los Angeles Lakers have seen a significant number of jumpers off of their bandwagon. If the Magic can win Game Four on Thursday at home, expect that wagonload to become even lighter. Right now,...



 

NBA Finals Game Three Pick at FanYard...

According to the Yardstick for Game Three of the NBA Finals, Los Angeles are still favored heavily to win the first game in Orlando…by nine points. Need a reason to go for the Lakers? How about a few reasons to cheer against the Orlando Magic....



 

Orlando Magic Home Dogs for Game 3...

Tomorrow’s NBA Finals Game Three matchup between the Lakers and the Magic favors the road team Lakers to take a 3-0 lead in the best-of-seven series. The Yardstick favors Kobe Bryant and company to win by nine points. The spread at sportsbooks,...



 

NBA Finals Game Two Pick...

The Lakers are favored by eleven points now, in what should be the final Yardstick for their game against the Magic that starts at 8 EST tonight. If I were a betting man, I’d be jumping on the Lakers when most sportsbooks have them favored...



 

Lakers Favored by 10...

In the past day, the Yardstick for tomorrow’s Game 2 NBA Finals between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Orlando Magic has dropped from eleven to ten in favor of Kobe Bryant’s squad.



 

CFL 2009 Season Schedule...

While FanYard will have the CFL available for picking this season, for now you can see the 2009 season schedule on the official CFL site. With pre-season games starting on June 17th, we will have our schedule up very soon.



 

Free Fantasy Football Magazine...

Lee over at FootballJabber just announced that the dudes over at FootballGuys are giving away a free fantasy football mag! Cool. Read about the magazine giveaway here.



 

Lakers Game 2 Favorites Over Magic in NBA Fi...

With Kobe Bryant looking unbeatable and his team stomping the Orlando Magic by 25 points and scoring 33% more points than their Eastern Conference rivals in Game One, the Los Angeles Lakers are heavy Game 2 NBA Finals favorites this Sunday. The Yardstick...



 

NBA Game 7 - Rockets at Lakers...

Today, we have a Game Seven, the most exciting thing for basketball fans. In fact, there are two of them today. The first has the Houston Rockets trying to knock off Kobe Bryant and the Lakers at the Staples Centre in Los Angeles.



 

Conspiracy to shutout the CFL from the US ma...

Well, one of our readers seems to think so. We got a lengthy comment this morning from a concerned reader warring all of us CFL fans of a possible conspiracy orchestrated by ESPN and the NFL to prevent the CFL from being aired in the US. While...



 

NBA Playoff Picks for April 29th...

In today’s NBA playoffs, the Nuggets can knock the Hornets out and the Hawks are locked up at two games apiece with the Heat. The Yardstick favors the Hawks by nine and the Nuggets by seven. Make a pick on today’s NBA games at FanYard.