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'The NFL Beat': Combine Cliff Notes

We're taking this thing back to Indy. The 2013 NFL scouting combine is upon us, and draft season is in full swing. Some fans are just now tuning back in after "enjoying" a few NFL-free weekends running errands and doing chores. Weekends filled with snot-nosed neighbor children and thoughts of looming lawn fertilization. Read More | Comment »

3:28PM Thu. Feb. 21, Alex Dunlap

'The NFL Beat': Lombardi and Kopay

To know is to understand. To understand is to have knowledge. To have knowledge is to tolerate, and to tolerate is to have peace. Those are David Kopay's words, not mine. David Kopay is gay. Read More | Comment »

12:21PM Sun. Feb. 3, Alex Dunlap

'The NFL Beat': Spinal Stenosis

Jarvis Jones may be the best player in the 2013 NFL Draft. He also has spinal stenosis. Read More | Comment »

12:03PM Wed. Jan. 23, Alex Dunlap

Top 10 Blogs of the Year

One of our current goals here at the Chronicle is to not only put out a solid and informative print issue each week, but to provide our readers with interesting daily content on our website, whether that be breaking news, a review of the previous night's big show, or a Downton Abbey recap. Read More | Comment »

4:11PM Wed. Jan. 9, Mark Fagan

'The NFL Beat': Raiders in Long Form

Al Davis is turning over in his grave, and to be honest, I would be, too. It's tough to know where to start. Any lover of the NFL as a product should be a shameless admirer of the late Oakland Raiders owner and GM. Read More | Comment »

3:47PM Sat. Dec. 29, 2012, Alex Dunlap

'The NFL Beat': Lomas Brown's Fraternity

No bond unites NFL players. This is not the "fraternity" that it's often referred to as. The accolades and distinctions that come after, those are better examples of fraternal, mutual respect and admiration amongst peers. The Hall of Fame, for example. It's easier to adhere to the friendly, noble standards set forth when you're old and rich. Read More | Comment »

2:50PM Sat. Dec. 22, 2012, Alex Dunlap

'The NFL Beat': God Bless Commissioner Goodell

Long live Commissioner Roger Goodell and shame on you for doubting him. Here I explain why every NFL fan in America is demonizing the man who may be single-handedly preserving the longevity of their beloved league … Read More | Comment »

10:15AM Sat. Dec. 15, 2012, Alex Dunlap

'The NFL Beat': To Explode From Within

Week 13 of the NFL season has arrived, and with it comes the final week of your fantasy league's 2012 regular season. Read More | Comment »

1:58PM Sat. Dec. 1, 2012, Alex Dunlap

'The NFL Beat': Week 12

As we enter the stretch run of the fantasy season, we see in the near future an epic drop in the beat. Not a mistake, but rather, a choreographed, masterfully performed coda from one movement to the next. You will be receiving the same NFL Draft and offseason enterprise journalism you have come to expect soon enough. Just not today. Read More | Comment »

4:17PM Sat. Nov. 24, 2012, Alex Dunlap

'The NFL Beat': Week 11

Welcome back. The Circuit of the Americas has taken over Austin and many of the tourists I have seen trickling in look like the type who might call soccer "football." Read More | Comment »

1:00PM Sat. Nov. 17, 2012, Alex Dunlap

'The NFL Beat': Week 10

Well, I told you so. Raiders RB Darren McFadden blew a tire Week 9 against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in what turned out to be a case of the five syllables that fantasy owners hate the third-most. The Gold and Silver medal winners for this dubious distinction are "Dr. James Andrews" and "Lisfranc Injury." Read More | Comment »

2:03PM Sat. Nov. 10, 2012, Alex Dunlap

'The NFL Beat': Bye Week Bros

When things get tough, you turn to your boys, and if the fantasy football season were MarioKart, we'd be on the level with the lava. The one where you have to control your character over a long, spinning, metal cylinder that serves as a bridge over the river of molten rock below. Things are officially getting tough, and every move is critical. Read More | Comment »

1:09PM Sat. Nov. 3, 2012, Alex Dunlap

'The NFL Beat': Week 8

With six games left in our fantasy football regular seasons, we have little time for useless chatter or the exchange of half-hearted pleasantries. It's not you. It's me. I need to move on to this next chapter. Week 8. This is "The NFL Beat." Read More | Comment »

12:03PM Fri. Oct. 26, 2012, Alex Dunlap

'The NFL Beat': Week 7

You have gone on living your everyday life while I have lived in a basement. The small, eye-level window in the corner reveals a fluctuating pitter-patter of feet wearing nice shoes, productively tapping the adjacent sidewalk as their owners go about their days. Read More | Comment »

6:02PM Fri. Oct. 19, 2012, Alex Dunlap

'The NFL Beat': ACL Edition

Regular marchers to "The Beat" know that one-half of my double-life is compromised of pounding out quarter, eighth, and occasionally sixteenth notes. This weekend, worlds collide. I have never attended an ACL festival that Alpha Rev has not performed, because honestly, I don't like paying to go to concerts when I spend 75 days a year playing them. Read More | Comment »

11:11AM Sat. Oct. 13, 2012, Alex Dunlap

'The NFL Beat': Week Five

If you're 1-3 or 0-4 in your fantasy football league, now is the time to break the cycle. You cannot go on living like this. The pain is too much. Read More | Comment »

7:52AM Sat. Oct. 6, 2012, Alex Dunlap

'The NFL Beat': Week Four

This is "The NFL Beat" and I am backstage at Studio 6A. The birthplace of Austin City Limits, and its home for more than 30 years. I have a show here tonight, as well as a writing deadline. The show takes place onstage, the writing takes place backstage. Read More | Comment »

11:24AM Sat. Sep. 29, 2012, Alex Dunlap

'The NFL Beat': Week Three

An NFL weekend is descending upon us, but first, I would like to congratulate you. Your fantasy team had a big win last week. Even though you may have lost, you are still a winner for having learned a lesson. The same way that failed athletes and coddled child-stars-gone-bad are. A big winner. Read More | Comment »

8:02AM Sat. Sep. 22, 2012, Alex Dunlap

'The NFL Beat': Week Two

There is no time for lengthy introductions or the exchange of half-assed pleasantries. Winners know that shaking hands is just a primordial way of checking your opponent to make sure he is unarmed. As you know, we have something up our sleeves, my friends. This is NFL week two and this is "The NFL Beat." Read More | Comment »

4:17PM Sat. Sep. 15, 2012, Alex Dunlap

'The NFL Beat': Week One

You get a feeling when the beat drops back to its proper place and the groove resumes. This is it. Week 1. NFL Beat fantasy geeks, we resume now. Read More | Comment »

7:15PM Fri. Sep. 7, 2012, Alex Dunlap

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