After months of analysis and projections leading up to the April 25-26 NFL draft followed by days of draft recap and team grades, we focus on what really matters to us; how the draft affects our fantasy football leagues. While we may have thoughts on the absurdity of the contracts signed by high draft picks, it has no effect on our fantasy football team’s payroll. Players may have been drafted higher or lower than projected, but that has no impact on where they will be drafted in our leagues. What matters most to us is if the player will play and if it will be this year or in upcoming years. Let’s take a quick spin through the NFC and look at each team’s new additions that could factor into our fantasy football drafts.

Arizona – The Cards happily grabbed RB Chris “Beanie” Wells with the first pick in the second round. He will play immediately as Edgerrin James was released and Tim Hightower appears to be best suited as a goal-line back. Beanie should be drafted in one-season in rounds 4-5 in standard 12-team leagues and rounds 3-4 in Keeper leagues.

Atlanta – Eight picks, all on defense. So, obviously, the Falcons D is the only position that improved. They have some solid additions to support their corners as well as help John Abraham, especially DT Peria Jerry, S William Moore and DE Lawrence Sidbury. This will propel them into the top half of draftable defenses.

Carolina – DE Everette Brown and S Sherrod Martin will help the defense a bit, though not near as much as keeping Julius Peppers will. Their defense should remain in the same draft position.

Chicago – The Bears did pretty well considering they only drafted on Day 2. WR Juaquin Iglesias is a nice addition to a weak receiving core and could be a productive late round pick on draft day. DT Jarron Gilbert will help the Bears D out a bit, though not altering their draft position.

Dallas – The Cowboys traded their way into a lot of worthless picks. Even though the Cowboys had no draftable backup QB last year, I do not believe that QB Stephen McGee is in that category this year. If you draft QB Tony Romo, your backup should be a starting QB on another team.

Detroit – QB Matthew Stafford is giddy knowing that he will be given the reigns to a winless team, so the bar for success in worm-high. It also brings a rare smile to his face when he envisions WR Calvin Johnson in his huddle. However, he is still a rookie QB on a winless team, so don’t pick him as your number 1 QB. He should be drafted higher in Keeper leagues. TE Brandon Pettigrew is a must-draft TE in later rounds.

Green Bay – Green Bay’s D was productive in the TD category last season, but was a bit of a sieve. Adding DT B.J. Raji and LB Clay Matthews enhances this position a few rounds.

Minnesota – The Vikings grabbed WR Percy Harvin to add a new dimension to their offense. The kid can flat-out play, if he adjusts to life in the Twin Cities. I would definitely recommend picking him up in early double-digit rounds.

New Orleans – The Saints’ D was startable at certain times last season coming off the waiver wire. That will change a bit this year with the additions of CB Malcolm Jenkins and S Chip Vaughn. I feel good recommending drafting them in the last round.

New York Giants – The G-Men addressed their biggest need right away by drafting WR Hakeem Nicks. He should be drafted in early double digit rounds. I would recommend a late round handcuff of RB Andre Brown if you draft Brandon Jacobs. RB Derrick Ward is now on Tampa so Brown will be taking over for him.

Philadelphia – Philly will have the most rookies drafted this year. They landed WR Jeremy Maclin, TE Cornelius Ingram and RB LeSean McCoy. Maclin may be a DeSean Jackson clone in playmaking ability, which is good if he waits until he crosses the goal line to celebrate his scores. Ingram will be a favorite target of McNabb when he needs a tough catch across the middle and McCoy is a must-draft handcuff to Westbrook.

Seattle – LB Aaron Curry will definitely help Seattle on defense, but makes no difference in fantasyland. WR Deon Butler was drafted to replace Bobby Engram, but I see no reason to draft him unless you are in a really deep league.

San Francisco – The Niners get a gift in picking up WR Michael Crabtree with the 10th pick. He is the class of the receiving group and will be a flat-out receiving stud in the NFL. I don’t think you’ll get him if you wait until the middle rounds of your draft. You especially want to grab him early in your Keeper Leagues. In addition to Crabtree, the Niners picked up RB Glen Coffey who should be your handcuff to Frank Gore.

St. Louis – The Rams picked up T Jason Smith to replace Orlando Pace and will show immediate dividends in the passing and running game as Pace is vastly overrated and almost stationary nowadays. That being said, Marc Bulger is a late draft pick and Steven Jackson is still a first round pick. As much as I love LB James Laurinaitis, he doesn’t make the Rams D draftable in any format.

Tampa Bay – Good luck with QB Josh Freeman. If he only played as well as he talks. He has the size for an NFL QB (6’ 6”), but I don’t even recommend drafting him in a Keeper League.

Washington – The Skins further enhanced their defensive front by drafting DE Brian Orakpo. In addition to line help, they also grabbed two LBs and CB Kevin Barnes. This greatly enhances the attraction of the Washington D and moves them into the top 8-10 defenses to draft. Author Resource:- Bill Parsons is the owner of MaximumFantasySports.com and
a rabid fantasy sports participant. He began creating his own football and baseball fantasy leagues at the ripe old age of seven; tracking stats and standings on paper. Bill decided to create a real-time fantasy football league website that includes all of the best features and some of which have never been attempted at any other website. Join Maximum Fantasy Sports today by visiting www.maximumfantasysports.com. Membership is Free! More on that at 2009 NFL Draft Impact on Fantasy Football (NFC)

Interested in fantasy football? More importantly, do you love the NFL? Well, why not make things a bit more interesting this year? Get yourself involved in a Survivor Pool. Mix in a bit of skill with pure luck to see if you can hang around the longest and become the last player standing to grab the trophy, which, hopefully, comes in cash form.

The concept behind a Survivor Pool is a pretty simple one; survive in the pool the longest in order to win. The way in which you achieve this, in most pools, is by correctly picking the winner of a game every week. There is a variation that is the complete opposite; picking a losing team each week.

Survivor Pools is most popular with the NFL as there are fewer teams than college and the teams are followed more widely. However, a Survivor Pool can easily be modified to work in union with other occasions, such as college bowl seasons. In the case of NFL Survivor Pools, you are asked to pick one team per week who you think will win the game. If that team does win, you move onto next week. If that team loses, so do you and you are out. This carries on until one person is left in the pool. That person is then declared the winner and will happily collect their prize.

You basically have two choices to play in a Survivor Pool; you can either set up your own pool, such as at your office, and get people to join or, alternatively, you could choose to join a pool that is already in existence. If you set up your own pool, you decide the rules. If you join an existing pool, then you have to follow the rules set out by the person who set up that particular pool. All rules should be clearly defined and documented in advance of the first game. These rules are also known as the pool configuration. What settings are commonly available for configuration of a Survivor Pool?

There are many sites that will host your Survivor Pools, though few that will host your pools for free. Common settings of all sites include; the maximum numbers of players allowed in the pool, tiebreaker rules should the season end with more than one player still active, if Rebirths are allowed and, if so, how many Rebirths are allowed per team and if there is a Cutoff week. Rebirths allow a team who is out to buy their way back into the pool. Other settings found on some sites include allowing autopicks and how many weeks autopicks are allowed, whether the players need to pick winning teams or losing teams and what the finances are for the league (Entrance fee, Rebirth fee).

Survivor Pools are also known as Last Man Standing Pools, Suicide Pools, Eliminator Pools and Knockout Pools. These aren’t the only fantasy football pools involving NFL teams. You can also participate in Point Spread or Pick ‘em Pools, Confidence Pools and Super Bowl Square Pools. Descriptions of these pools can be found in different articles.

Depending on the amount of people taking part in the pool that you are in and the entrance fee, you could win hundreds of dollars! It is not all about the money, though that is clearly the best prize. It is also about getting involved and enjoying being more than just a spectator in the NFL, so get yourself signed up!
Author Resource:- Bill Parsons is the owner of Maximum Fantasy Sports and a rabid fantasy sports participant. He began creating his own football and baseball fantasy leagues at the ripe old age of seven; tracking stats and standings on paper. Bill decided to create a real-time fantasy football website that includes all of the best features and some of which have never been attempted at any other website. More on Be the Last Man Standing with Survivor Pools

In today’s competitive business environment organizations are seeking any advantage that will see them secure their position within the market; this is particularly relevant in sport. Moving towards the new millennium sporting teams are faced with a changing environment where they are likely to experience periods of success followed by times of uncertainties where mergers and relocation are a common reality. The key to survival rests with the ability to generate revenue and to ensure that the current supporter base remain loyal while at the same time developing strategies to lure potential supporters.
Most decisions about soccer apparel are based on personal taste, but there are some factors to consider. The most important thing to think about is comfort. You want something that fits, but isn't so big or small that it makes it hard for you to move comfortably.
Each soccer team has its own visual identity, and the appearance of their logos and jerseys are one of the most exciting areas of graphic design. And it is no surprise that fonts play a strong role! Below are images of just a few of the jerseys known and loved by fans around the globe. Can you guess which fonts have been used? Many of the fonts that help build these jerseys can be found in the Linotype library, or are similar to popular Linotype fonts. Often, designers will take a font and run it through a Photoshop filter, or automatically condense or expand its width. In these cases, some of the “fonts” pictured below are not exactly as the typefaces would normally be seen in print. This is all part of the design process.

It is that time of the year to buy new soccer uniforms for your club. The task seems like a daunting one and you do not know where to even begin. There are always problems to face and potential disasters you must be aware of when going through with such a big commitment such as buying uniforms for a whole team. There is always the chance your uniforms won’t arrive in time or the order will be screwed up. You could end up adding a player late and needing another jersey, which in most cases takes much more time than you can afford to waste. The process of deciding what you want your jerseys to look like takes long enough; you don’t want to have to sit through all the extra unneeded time spent on waiting for your jerseys to be manufactured and shipped. I played on an intramural team last year and it took us a good week or two just deciding on a team name and what we wanted our jerseys to look like; color, logo, fabric, and everyone’s sizes, numbers, and names on their individual jerseys. You want to be as efficient as possible with a task such as this.

All your young soccer player cares about is that soccer jerseys have the color and design that all the other kids are wearing; you may be more concerned about making sure it fits. Soccer jerseys also shouldn’t seriously impact your child’s college career by making a dent in your educational fund. If you’re involved with your kids’ soccer team, you may find yourself in a position to give input on the kind of soccer jerseys the team should use. Youth Soccer Uniform is generally based on customization. Do your homework beforehand, finding out which suppliers have been used in the past, the prices they charge, and whether there are any competitors that can give you similar quality for a lower price.

This may involve starting your soccer shopping several weeks before the season begins, but it may save you enough money that you’ll be glad you started early.

The new Chelsea coach, Carlo Ancelotti, has again raised Deco and Ricardo Carvalho, constant sources of news, rumors on the Internet of interest to both international Portuguese. For the Italian technician, both players have never been for sale, being important for the club.

"Carvalho is a very intelligent defender and Deco has great qualities. The team needs them and ets sure he will stay at Chelsea this season, "said Carlo Ancelotti, adding that the transfer market was closed.

"We will keep the players we have. We do not need to hire more, since this team is very competitive, "he said, quiet and rumors that gave the Blues interested in players like Pirlo, Ribéry or Aguero.

Togolais before heading for the defense, especially in the absence of striker Emmanuel Adebayor Features, men Roger Lemerre has struggled to find the solution endorsing their low harvest goals since the beginning of the qualifications (1 goal in three matches).

Even playing at home before a team much weakened by the absences and morale undermined after his last defeat (3-0) in Gabon, Lemerre opted for caution in bringing a team built around a mid-field and of strengthened defense with two players at the edge: Youssef Hadji and Mounir Hamdaoui (4-4-2).

The player of the AZ Alkmaar, given by many as the new star of the selection Moroccan sentence still to show talent that made him the scorer of the Dutch championship.

After missing, Yaounde, several clear opportunities which would have enabled the team to snatch the points in the victory, Hamdaoui has once again bypassed the chance missing a penalty in the 33rd minute.

This penalty could be a turning point in a meeting that has really started until the 27th minute with a first warning marocaine: on receipt of a center Merouane Zemmama the right flank, Kamal Chafni hitting his head but the keeper Obilalé Kodjovi, well placed, stop the ball on the goal line.

This opportunity was, in addition to the penalty and a shot to raz-de-terre Chafni of which slightly missed the cage of Togo, one of the few moments of the first half, marked by a pressure unsuccessful Moroccan players , carried by the enthusiasm of pre-game, have sinned by precipitation and lack of concentration, including the decisive moments.

The Togolese, hitherto confined to their area, would still achieve the repair of National at the 45th minute, but without real danger to Nadir Miaghri.

But they will afford their clearest chance in the second period, including the 46th minute when, on an attack against, Kader Cougbadja comes face to face with Miaghri and pull on the left of goalkeeper Moroccan d ' a stop-reflex saves her relive the horrible experience against Gabon (1st goal).

This opportunity would also be only for men by Jean Thissen who have benefited from a more frank commitment defensive compartment and the middle of the national team in the offensive action. This commitment, however, would cause more harm than good for the Nationals who have left several holes in their opponent.

However, they still can not break a defense togolaise opaque and very persevering.

By the time the game has deteriorated Moroccans (bullets, lack of consistency, individual duels lost), Lemerre has brought Nabil Baha and Rafik Abdessamad in replacement Hamdaoui (62nd) and Chafni (70th). Changes that have brought a new dynamic to the national team that has regained its punch, but in vain.

The most significant opportunities for the end of the game were created by Zemmama, who runs a masterly coup-franc to 30 meters, but his shot was pushed in extremis by the custodian (63rd).

The bullets could have saved arrested nationals: the same Zemmama on a coup-franc positioned closer to the cage than the previous opponent, sent a cross shot but the ball runs right to the amount of custodial Togo (80th).

After this meeting, Morocco was third in Group A behind the opponent of the day. Gabon (1) and Cameroon (4th) compete for their third match of the day on 5 September.