Topic: WE LIKE SPORTS (Read 794245 times)

idontunderstand · « **Reply #2750 on:** 15 Nov 2012, 09:47 »

It was a really good goal. All my friends had left at that point since they were sure we would lose. Then in marches Zlatan.

valley_parade · « **Reply #2751 on:** 16 Nov 2012, 11:25 »

In four days, the Blue Jays have effectively fucked us into another last place finish next season.

Dammit, Boston.

Skewbrow · « **Reply #2752 on:** 18 Nov 2012, 02:36 »

jwhouk · « **Reply #2753 on:** 18 Nov 2012, 06:33 »

Bandwagoner.

jwhouk · « **Reply #2754 on:** 01 Dec 2012, 08:46 »

Ouch.

KC Chiefs linebacker kills girlfriend, drives to stadium and kills self outside Arrowhead.

jwhouk · « **Reply #2755 on:** 01 Dec 2012, 18:03 »

Quote from: Dave Skretta, AP News

It began like any other Saturday for the Kansas City Chiefs during the NFL season, their general manager and coach at work early to put final touches on this weekend's gameplan. Then they got a call to hurry to the parking lot.

The two men rushed through the glass doors of Chiefs headquarters and came face-to-face with linebacker Jovan Belcher, holding a handgun to his head.

Belcher had already killed his girlfriend and sped the short distance to Arrowhead Stadium, right past a security checkpoint guarding the entrance. Upon finding his bosses, Belcher thanked general manager Scott Pioli and head coach Romeo Crennel for giving him a chance in the NFL. Then he turned away and pulled the trigger.

Rest of story

riccostar · « **Reply #2756 on:** 01 Dec 2012, 20:30 »

Yuck

It was all over the news while I was watching a TV Christmas movie tonight

Akima · « **Reply #2757 on:** 02 Dec 2012, 14:19 »

Quote from: jwhouk on 01 Dec 2012, 08:46

KC Chiefs linebacker kills girlfriend, drives to stadium and kills self outside Arrowhead.

Tragic and horrible. Depressingly, this gets media attention because the man who killed his girlfriend was a football player... Otherwise, I doubt anyone would have paid attention to this very ordinary act of violence against a woman.

jwhouk · « **Reply #2758 on:** 02 Dec 2012, 15:05 »

Thing is, he shot himself in front of two of his bosses. And yes, I agree, it's only magnified because of who, where and how - but still, it's a sad situation.

I'm just amazed that there is ANYTHING that is done or said that would bring ANYONE to want to shoot their spouse. Especially when your mother-in-law and newborn child are present.

jwhouk · « **Reply #2759 on:** 02 Dec 2012, 16:50 »

Interesting statistic brought up on ESPN:

There will be 3,500 cases of murder/suicide shootings in the US this year, similar to what happened with Belcher and his wife.

valley_parade · « **Reply #2760 on:** 03 Dec 2012, 11:18 »

Twitter DMs between Paul Bisonette and Evgeny Malkin. Aw SNAAAAAAAP.

jwhouk · « **Reply #2761 on:** 03 Dec 2012, 14:19 »

Biz Nasty is ALWAYS like that, though.

valley_parade · « **Reply #2762 on:** 03 Dec 2012, 15:34 »

Of course he's always not good enough to play on a line with Malkin and Mozyakin. Sergei Mozyakin is scary good.

(seriously, Mozyakin is sorta really good. /writerbias)

valley_parade · « **Reply #2763 on:** 04 Dec 2012, 19:20 »

Owners and players meeting tonight, and have met most of today. Gary Bettman will be addressing the media at 1:00 PM tomorrow.

Hmm.

jwhouk · « **Reply #2764 on:** 04 Dec 2012, 19:34 »

Do NOT get your hopes up.

Skaltura · « **Reply #2765 on:** 05 Dec 2012, 01:33 »

Going 3/3 after potentially being out of the season because of illness? Just another day at the office.

http://www.denverpost.com/recommended/ci_22118576

I would really like to know what she could do if she were allowed to compete in men's races, I think more then a few gents would get a right pwning at the ~~hands~~ legs of this girl.

My new favourite individual sportsperson now that Magdalena has retired.

jwhouk · « **Reply #2766 on:** 05 Dec 2012, 07:28 »

Arkansas?

Really?

REALLY???

ARKANSAS???

Skewbrow · « **Reply #2767 on:** 05 Dec 2012, 07:52 »

Indeed. Why any football coach would want to move South (of all compass directions) from the lovely and tradition-laden Midwest is beyond me?

jwhouk · « **Reply #2768 on:** 05 Dec 2012, 16:30 »

It appears it was five letters: M-O-N-E-Y.

jwhouk · « **Reply #2769 on:** 06 Dec 2012, 07:13 »

Hey! I found a job opening downstate! Closer to my hometown and everything!

Maybe I can get them to credit my 19+ years in the state service to overlook some of my deficiencies in the work experience area...

idontunderstand · « **Reply #2770 on:** 09 Dec 2012, 02:21 »

valley_parade · « **Reply #2771 on:** 09 Dec 2012, 09:12 »

Robin van motherfreaking Persie, I love you.

Skewbrow · « **Reply #2772 on:** 09 Dec 2012, 14:01 »

Quote from: idontunderstand on 09 Dec 2012, 02:21

YES!

Ok. So Sweden totally pwned and KO'd Finland in the floorball aka unihockey aka indoor bandy WC final match. If anything the 11-5 score flatters the Finnish team

Congrats. <grumble, grumble>

Or were you celebrating something else?

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #2773 on:** 09 Dec 2012, 16:50 »

Uncomfrotable thought: the Cowboys just won a game ... can we now safely say who the two people on that team were that were holding them back?

jwhouk · « **Reply #2774 on:** 09 Dec 2012, 17:47 »

Uh, no.

idontunderstand · « **Reply #2775 on:** 10 Dec 2012, 01:19 »

Quote from: Skewbrow on 09 Dec 2012, 14:01

Or were you celebrating something else?

I didn't even know we'd beat you [AGAIN!] but thanks for telling me.

Unfortunately there are no finns nearby to pick on.

I was celebrating Juan Manuel Marquez' long overdue victory over Manny Pacquiao, to be honest. A magnificent right-hand counter in round 6.

Skewbrow · « **Reply #2776 on:** 10 Dec 2012, 02:59 »

That would have been my second guess. But only after reading today's paper

jwhouk · « **Reply #2777 on:** 10 Dec 2012, 06:20 »

By the way - anyone who was watching the Packer game on SNF last night who thought that there really wasn't THAT much snow falling was deceived big-time. We got about three inches of snow. If that game had been played 10 years ago, you wouldn't have been able to see the grass - it would have been all snow except for the yard markers and sidelines.

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #2778 on:** 12 Dec 2012, 01:15 »

Yeah. Damn that heated field. I wanted people to slip 'n slide.

Jimor · « **Reply #2779 on:** 12 Dec 2012, 16:44 »

Before this development, I was always of the opinion that the Superbowl should always be played at Lambeau Field during the worst blizzard of the year.

~~mustang6172~~ · « **Reply #2780 on:** 12 Dec 2012, 21:21 »

I was under the impression that heated fields could stop ground from freezing, but would not stop snow from accumulating.

valley_parade · « **Reply #2781 on:** 13 Dec 2012, 06:09 »

If it keeps the ground warm enough to not freeze, one would think it might melt a bit of the snow, too.

jwhouk · « **Reply #2782 on:** 13 Dec 2012, 19:10 »

The snow was a fine, wet snow which didn't stick. And anyone who's lived here long enough could tell you that if the ground is still warm, the snow won't stick.

The wetness tore up the field, though. They showed plenty of shots of players tearing grass and mud clumps off their helmets.

valley_parade · « **Reply #2783 on:** 13 Dec 2012, 19:30 »

That happened in New England once. Fieldturf sort of solved that issue.

~~mustang6172~~ · « **Reply #2784 on:** 13 Dec 2012, 20:32 »

Remember when artificial turf was the most hated thing in sports? When did that stop?

valley_parade · « **Reply #2785 on:** 13 Dec 2012, 21:10 »

When it got good?

jwhouk · « **Reply #2786 on:** 14 Dec 2012, 06:44 »

When it went from being a rug to being something that actually looked like grass?

The Seldom Killer · « **Reply #2787 on:** 14 Dec 2012, 11:23 »

The Tour de France is coming to Yorkshire in 2014. Words cannot describe how awesome this is. So happy right now.

pwhodges · « **Reply #2788 on:** 15 Dec 2012, 03:00 »

What? Yorkshire's part of France now? I can't see that going down well.

valley_parade · « **Reply #2789 on:** 15 Dec 2012, 05:53 »

Hey, Tommy seems to think Yorkshire is its own country, with an Olympic Committee and everything. So why not?

jwhouk · « **Reply #2790 on:** 15 Dec 2012, 07:24 »

It appears that my favorite sport is heading for the nuclear option.

The NHLPA is planning on doing a "disclaimer of interest" - a method of essentially removing the union from bargaining on behalf of the players, in an effort to sue the NHL for unfair labor practices. The effect of a disclaimer is essentially the same as that of decertification - except that the NHLPA would continue to exist as a labor organization, but would simply no longer represent the players of the National Hockey League in CBA negotiations.

The NHL, of course, has preemptively sued the NHLPA before the NLRB for using this tactic as a bargaining tool, charging that the PA is essentially "not bargaining in good faith" by using it.

What they probably don't want the NLRB to know is that the league is refusing to budge on three issues, while they have essentially come to an agreement with the PA on almost every other issue.

Meanwhile, I'm planning on attending a hockey game tonight featuring two of my first cousins once removed.

The Seldom Killer · « **Reply #2791 on:** 15 Dec 2012, 08:25 »

Yorkshire was always an obvious choice for le Grande Depart

T'our de France

jwhouk · « **Reply #2792 on:** 15 Dec 2012, 16:34 »

Plans for attending HS hockey falling by wayside.

Might be for the best.

Skewbrow · « **Reply #2793 on:** 17 Dec 2012, 14:12 »

It does sound like this season in the NHL vs. NHLPA match up only the lawyers will make any money.

Why am I not surprised?

Nikolai · « **Reply #2794 on:** 26 Dec 2012, 17:11 »

Is anybody watching the World Juniors? This is the first hockey I've watched in a couple years now. Man, I've missed this.

valley_parade · « **Reply #2795 on:** 26 Dec 2012, 18:30 »

It being in Ufa and apparently games starting at 6 AM here = I'll stick with the KHL and 11:30 AM ET/19:30 Moscow games.

Patrick · « **Reply #2796 on:** 31 Dec 2012, 01:51 »

I liked watching Romo cry almost as much as I like watching either of the Manning brothers cry. As an SF Giants fan, I like a good killer-rookie story (FUCK YEA POSEY) so it's only fair it should transfer over to football and RG3.

jwhouk · « **Reply #2797 on:** 01 Jan 2013, 14:11 »

Bucky vs. The Tree for the Roses.

And the hit the South Carolina D-man put on the Michigan RB would have been a 15 yard penalty and a $20k fine in the NFL.

Sadly.

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #2798 on:** 03 Feb 2013, 15:20 »

Superbowl.

That is one ugly skirt on Jennifer Hudson.

Also: go ravens.

~~mustang6172~~ · « **Reply #2799 on:** 03 Feb 2013, 19:59 »

I've never seen a Super Bowl that included a power failure before.

Or one that ended on a free kick.

It's a big night for me.

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