Fantasy football, for the most part, is pretty standard: You enter a league, you pick your team name, you draft a squad either using a salary cap or a snake draft and then you play an opponent each ...

Q: I was watching a movie, and someone was being executed with the guillotine. Why did the French use the guillotine instead of hanging or firing squad? Although “In God We Trust” began showing up on ...

To get you ready to compete in a Guillotine League this year, we covered the basic overview of the format in our Guillotine League 101 article and went further into the specific draft strategies that ...

Don’t finish last. It’s a mantra every fantasy football player tells themselves. Of course everyone wants to make the playoffs; everyone wants to win the ‘chip. But ultimately, no one wants to finish ...

A common rumor holds that Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, the Frenchman who invented the guillotine, was also eventually executed with the device. But as the Dictionary of Eponyms notes, "Dr. Joseph ...

One day in May 1738, legend has it, a woman approaching the end of her pregnancy was walking down a street in Saintes, France, when she heard the cries of a man being executed on the town’s breaking ...