Rise & Grind: January 29th, 2014
Welcome to the RotoGrinders cup o’morning joe. Start your day off right here with yesterday’s happenings and take a peek at the the upcoming DFS day.
Grab your first cup of coffee and catch up on the latest news!
In Case You Missed It
- Gabey Sticks With FanThrowDown – After the $500k Football Championship issue, then the 1099 problem, many people were turned off to FanThrowDown. GrindersLive host CrazyGabey has been a blogger and social media mogul for FanThrowDown. After seeing reforms happening, Gabey has decided to continue on with his duties for the site. Read his post about about how he arrived at what was a difficult decision here
- Unibrow is Dominant – Tristan Thompson and Tyler Zeller were no match for Anthony Davis last night, as the ‘brow led the Pelicans (still weird to say “Pelicans” isn’t it?) over the Cavs. Davis finished with 30 points , grabbed 7 rebounds and returned 8 shots from whence they came.
Today’s Events
- Skyllzone Launches NBA – Skyllzone, the free site where you draft a team versus computer players and can win real money prizes, is rolling out their NBA product today. The NFL games received great feedback from the community. Check out the games here Skyllzone
- NBA Tonight – Huge block of games in the NBA tonight with 11 contests. The big game of the night has OKC travelling to Miami. Can Lebron show young Durant how it’s done down on the A1A, or will Kevin posterize the Heat ala Michelle Obama?
- Tonight’s NBA Tournaments – FanDuel is going HAM and rolling out a $110k Slam tonight with a $25 entry and $12k first prize. Over on DraftKings tonight is the finale of the January Jam with the $200k Buzzer Beater that is paying out $25,000 to first place. DraftStreet BBC Qualifier #20 runs tonight as well with a $215 buy-in. We’ll let you know who made bank in these tournaments tomorrow.
On the Grinders Schedule
Articles
- #1) NBA Daily Plays – STLCardinals84 highlights his favorite players for this evening on a 7 game NBA slate.
- #2) NBA Grind Down – Notorious provides in-depth analysis of all the games.
- #3) CBB GrindDown – Varncass gets even more in-depth into the day’s college action.
- #4) NHL Daily Plays – Get your puck fix with JMBWngFn’s daily plays column.
- #5) PGA Weekly Picks – FSWA nominated Gibbathy gives his picks for this week’s Waste Management Open in Scottsdale.
GrindersLive
- 4:30: Daily Fantasy Happy Hour by DraftStreet – CrazyGabey and his Beard with their sidekick Dean78904.
- 5:30: GrindersLive presented by DraftKings – Notorious and Al “Smizzle” Zeidenfeld break down the night’s action.
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