Mixing in some basketball

My brother-in-law is coming to visit this weekend - should be fun, we always have a good time when he's around. He's in town to hit up the Duke vs Gonzaga game at Madison Square Garden on Saturday - he went to law school at Duke and is quite the Duke fan. I'm psyched for the game and to see his fandom in action live and in person. Here's hoping that upcoming snowstorm doesn't trap him here, though it looks like my native Virginia might get the brunt of the storm with much of the northeast missing out on a pre-Christmas blanketing of snow.  

Meanwhile today I am huddled over a cup of coffee trying to stay warm and caffeinated - prepping for my shopping excursion this afternoon. And tonight we'll be looking for a sports bar in which to watch the Colts vs Jags game. All in all, a nice day ahead. So let's get to today's links without further ado:

• I've got a couple of fflibrarian-in-other-places links for you - first up, read the NY Times' Fifth Down for some suggestions on Week 15 Fantasy Football Matchups. You'll see my top links for the week in there, too. 
• Or scope out my column for the Bruno Boys, Fantasy players on the rise. I look at the top 75 RBs and WRs this year and compare their fantasy points per game this season to their fantasy points per game in 2008 to get a look at players who have seen the biggest increases or decreases this year.
• Another great place to read up on improving players is The Hazean's 15 Fantasy Sophomores on the Rise.
  
• As always, there are plenty of start/sit links for you:
• RapidDraft's Week 15 Start 'Em/Bench 'Em Report  
• FFNerd's Week 15 Where to put 'em
  
• FantasySharks.com's Start/Bench List 
• The Hazean has a start/sit list just for the Thursday Night Game
• Fantasy Football Roundtable's Start 'em/Sit 'em - don't let the C average on their report card at the bottom scare you away; this start/sit stuff is tricky business.
• Junkyard Jake's Sleepers/Creepers
• FantasyFootballXtreme's Week 15 Start & Bench Advice
• Fantasy Joe's Studs, duds and sleepers: Lions may be fodder for Boldin
• Fantasyfanplay's Play 'Em/Lay 'em
• RotoExperts' Sit/Start
  
• Another good job from ProFootballWeekly.com with their Ten most intriguing players of Week 15. Absolutely agree that Bowe is a very interesting play here. Is anyone gutsy enough to start him this week? For more on Dwayne Bowe, see Rotoworld's Throwing Bowes.
  
• How about a few Week 15 rankings?
• Fantasy Hulks' Week 15 positional rankings (links to QBs)
  
• Mr. Fantasy's Rankings for Week 15 (links to RBs)
  
• KFFL.com's FF Rankings - includes PPR (links to WRs)
  
• Mac Bros' Start/Sit Rankings 
• And on a very sad note, see the Fifth Down's report if you missed the news about Chris Henry's death - my thoughts are with his family, friends, and teammates.

Finally, we won the $50 gift card to Buffalo Wild Wings for all your comments last week! Thanks to all who commented. With a random drawing, the gift card went to commenter Tim...let's see if we can get another one this week. The blogger with the most comments on the BWW All-Star Blogger League site wins that $50 gift card and I will then pick a name at random from the commenters. So get commenting on my post today on the BWW site!