Could genuinely go either way.
I suppose I should preface this by stating that I am a Crewe Alexandra fan.
Can we make this a general sports thread and now talk about how the Jets beat the Pats?
Yeah, I want to talk about that.
Can we make this a general sports thread and now talk about how the Niners beat the Seahawks?
Yeah, I want to talk about that.
It will be really quite interesting to see if Chelsea can win the league considering the fact that they aren't allowed to sign any new players, including I think loan players, for violating the rules during an attempt to sign a young player from Lens. If Didier Drogba is in fact injured, they might have to adjust a bit. With Joe Cole coming back and Yuri Zhirkov nearing fitness, it shouldn't be too much of an issue. My guess is they will play Joe Cole off Nicolas Anelka or utilise Salomon Kalou. I hope they win the league, I like Carlo Ancelotti.
It depresses me that none of the Americans on the forum really give a crap about tackle football. I mean, normally, such a thing wouldn't really bother me, but my local NFL team (the Minnesota Vikings) has a man who can be referred to as Purple Jesus on national television without anyone really feeling put out. He's pretty good.
Can we make this a general sports thread and now talk about how the Niners beat the Seahawks?
Yeah, I want to talk about that.
FYP
I love how Bears and Vikings fans can come together in mutual distaste for cheeseheads. That's why I thought it was kinda funny when when some idiot writer at ESPN said that the only thing that could have been worse than Favre going to the Vikings would have been if Favre went to the Bears. Clearly, he doesn't understand the midwest. I know that Bears-Packers is the oldest rivalry in football and all, but at the same time, at least the Packers fans tend to have a grudging respect for Chicago due to their shared history. I think if Favre had gone to the Bears somehow, Packers fans would have been super depressed and secretly worried about how the season would play out.
But Favre going to the Vikings? I know Packer fans who reacted like they found out their mom just hooked up with Ron Jeremy. It's just disgust and horror.
Also Alex, I think the Bengals still have the Vikings beat for sleaziest team in the NFL, just when you consider the cumulative number of felons they've employed for the past decade.
From what I know, whereas Bears fans respect the Packers, Vikings fans just outright hate them. And I think that sparks a lot of mutual bad feelings between both those teams, and could lead to more ill-feeling about their ex-star QB going over to them.
It's a tough call, really. To me, the Vikings-Ron Jeremy comparison still seems a bit more apt. They're both just rather embarrassing rather than criminals and both are technically successful in their fields (the Vikings are top 10 by win percentage) yet have never actually accomplished a damned thing worth mentioning. Whereas the Bengals are just kind of well, the Bengals.
And we're playing the Rams twice, so that's two automatic wins at the very least.
Later in the day links to streams of the Leeds Vs. Liverpool match will appear here (http://myp2p.eu/broadcast.php?matchid=48854&part=sports).
Remember it is traditional for neutrals to cheer for the underdog so I expect everyone to be supporting Leeds tonight!
Thanks for...Smith!
Really? Alan Smith?
You paid a million pounds for every goal he scored for you.
The Rams are so fucking terrible.
Wait?
You're not a Bradford City fan?
It is also traditional for United fans to hate Liverpool fans. I think.Later in the day links to streams of the Leeds Vs. Liverpool match will appear here (http://myp2p.eu/broadcast.php?matchid=48854&part=sports).
Remember it is traditional for neutrals to cheer for the underdog so I expect everyone to be supporting Leeds tonight!
Not if you gave me a million dollars.
Thanks for Cantona, Smith, Ferdinand, etc., however!
Who is it I support again? Something to do with ports or something... the logo is a sheep with a flag? Shane knows. Anyway, how are they doing?
Later in the day links to streams of the Leeds Vs. Liverpool match will appear here (http://myp2p.eu/broadcast.php?matchid=48854&part=sports).
Disagree strongly.
But then I decide who I support based on whose team colours I like best that week. It's nice watching US football from Europe. No ties, I can just enjoy the games.
Anybody else feel sorry for the cowboys? You built a big, modern, expensive stadium, you throw a party for 100.000 of your closest friends and a bunch of new yorkers led by the ugliest man in football come in and shut the festivities down ...
49ers-Cowboys is a big American football rivalry
Also, the Bills aren't looking as bad as they could be this year.
Ryan, I didn't know that you were a Bucs fan. Are you gonna go to the game at Wembley this year? The Patriots aren't looking so hot after going 1-1 and almost losing the first game to the Bills.
Watching the Cowboys fall apart at the end of last season was one of the purest moments of schadenfreude I've ever had in watching sports. If I had access to a television last Saturday when Washington beat USC, that may have been up there.
Watching the Cowboys fall apart at the end of last season was one of the purest moments of schadenfreude I've ever had in watching sports. If I had access to a television last Saturday when Washington beat USC, that may have been up there.
If I understand correctly they fall apart at the end of every season. Is Romo unable to win play-off games?
Who is it I support again? Something to do with ports or something... the logo is a sheep with a flag? Shane knows. Anyway, how are they doing?
I have no idea what's going to happen against San Fran this week. None at all. The Vikings have played shoddy teams and yet they still let Brett Favre get knocked around. I hate Brad Childress. Adrian Peterson is nicked up. I don't think the Vikings are as good as people seem to think they are. Giving up 100 rushing yards to the Lions the week before hosting Frank Gore doesn't inspire confidence. EJ Henderson is a fast mlb, but he's also a knucklehead.
On the flip side, Frank Gore is nicked up. The Niners have only played NFC West games so far. But overall, I still think they're better than people give them credit for and they have some legit football players on defense.
Honestly, it's like a mirror match. I wouldn't be surprised if either QB shat the bed. Shaun Hill has hardly ever faced a decent defense, so it's hard to tell how good he is. On the other hand, he actually knows the Vikings D pretty well since he was one of our backups. Brett Favre is really fuckin' old and likes to throw interceptions. It'll probably just come down to whether Frank Gore or Adrian Peterson is feeling healthier.
It's not as bad as people make out. I think most of those accusations are just snobbery. I live in Scotland now and I've seen my fair share of great games up here.
It's not as bad as people make out. I think most of those accusations are just snobbery. I live in Scotland now and I've seen my fair share of great games up here.Celtic weren't that unlucky - we fucked it up big-style in the second half of the season.
I hope Celtic win the league this year, they were unlucky to fall at the final hurdle last year.
Worst thing about living on the East Coast: having to follow Niners games over ESPN fucking Gamecast because it's not on TV over here.
Man. Holy shit.
I liked Vernon Davis better when he was still a bit of a head case.
[...] and I also have no idea why our defense couldn't stop anything. They couldn't even put pressure on Stafford. What the fuck?
Yeah, having two of your better starting pitchers our for a few games certainly doesn't help. That hit Lester took on the leg looked ridiculously painful.
Because they're good?
No, I'm saying that the ones that are there are there because they're good. The white men are there because they're good. I don't think it has anything to do with race at all for them to be in the positions they hold.
Didn't Washington invest $100 mill into that face stomper to get a better defence? Not working or not working yet?
HEY ERIC.
FIGHT YOU! (http://www.nfl.com/gamecenter/2009100407/2009/REG4/buccaneers@redskins)
Norv Turner needs to be gone for that team to get anywhere.
And I personally don't think that the pats look great this year, so maybe there's something there too.
The only thing I really like about the Chargers is Rivers. He is probably even better than people give him credit for. That offense he's in calls for three types of plays: Hand it to the running back, dump it off to the running back or make a ridiculously high difficulty long pass. Over ten percent of his pass attempts went for over 20 yards last year, which is ridiculous. I'm still not all that terribly sure he's really worse than Drew Brees; the situations are too different for me to feel comfortable trying to make a comparison.
So, why can't the Buccaneers have the team we had in the first half of our last game all the time? What the fuck guys?
Woo the Redskins won TWO games!
TWO!
God help us when we play Dallas.
I picked up the 49ers defense this week on my fantasy team; frankly, I had no idea why they were still available, but I wasn't going to question it. After all, the 49ers stuff the run and running is the only area that the Rams are even remotely competent. But as optimistic as I was about their prospects against the Rams, I still wasn't prepared for that level of epic beat down. Someone needs to figure out a way to get Steven Jackson off that team; he deserves better.
Minus their pass rush the Packers looked like a much more solid team.
The Packers are already done if Clifton can't bounce back after the bye week.
Well I wouldn't exactly say that. I give the Packers an excellent chance to beat both detroit and cleveland without Mr Clifton
Taunting? Taunting?! Kiss my dick you fucking twat. What the fuck.
They won the last two games by a combined 10 points and needed an OT and a bullshit taunting call to do it
JENSON BUTTON - FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPION 2009
I think you have it backwards. They yanked the Titans game for being too depressing.
Seriously, though, we've still got the game up here in Boston. This is just the single most pathetic display of football I have EVER seen. Brady had more touchdown passes in a single quarter than Kerry Collins had completions in the entire game.
As I say this, Vince Young gets picked. Wow. I mean, yeah, Brady looked absolutely phenomenal on his own, but the Titans are just fucking awful.
You barely beat one of the most underachieving teams in the league!
So, who was pissed when the Patriots game got yanked off the air for being too awesome?At least you guys got to see it in the first place - we in the UK got Arizona-Seattle.
Instead they're rolling over every game, even against the Patriots, a team that's quite happy to score on you every possession if you let them. I've never seen anything like this before; I'm honestly curious how many players on the team really give a crap.
At least you guys got to see it in the first place - we in the UK got Arizona-Seattle.
On the plus side, I'll definitely be able to see the NE-Tampa game next week. :-D
I don't know who to give more credit to. While yes, the Titans were terrible, Brady actually looked really fantastic on his own. His passes were spot on, he was moving around well without really excessive time and he just looked absolutely locked in. On the other hand, one cannot express enough how absolutely fucking TERRIBLE the Titans looked. I mean, yeah, Brady got the ball in the air quickly, but I'm reasonably sure he probably could've stood there for about three minutes and then connect with Vince Wilfork for a TD, the Titans looked so bad. The Pats defense has, in my opinion, been steadily improving (Barring last week's second half, they looked pretty awful), but they didn't even have to work, the Titans offense was just utterly incompetent.
Might want to check your glass house for damage; last I checked you needed two missed field goals to get away from a Polamalu-less Steelers team.
You going?Unfortunately not. Was skint when tickets went on sale (on top of which they were a bloody rip-off). :cry:
Aaron Rodgers is a Cal graduate, I'd really like him to keep his heart. He's the first guy who proved that the "Jeff Tedford quarterbacks can't succeed in the NFL" claim was bullshit.
I just don't understand why he hit him so high.
Your response was actually a little more mild than I was expecting.
Mainly I wanted to point out to Shane that the Red Sox are out and the Yankees are up 3-1 in the ALCS.
Let me get this straight.
Your favorite teams are the Redskins for football, and the Orioles and Nationals for baseball?
So.......do you just choose whichever teams suck the hardest?
Your response was actually a little more mild than I was expecting.
Mainly I wanted to point out to Shane that the Red Sox are out and the Yankees are up 3-1 in the ALCS.
The film was woeful. I implore people to skip it and read the book if they have a passing interest in football.
I don't really think the Vikings have a chance in hell against the Steelers if Winfield can't play.
So I assume that the clippers are a pretty bad basketball team (http://www.theonion.com/content/video/fatal_staples_center_collapse).
EDIT: In case you can't fully comprehend what has happened there, his foot was hanging on by tendons and skin.
Dude, bone injuries heal way better than soft tissue injuries.
Well, I have a preferance for the arts coming out of Japan, so, Karate, JuiJitsui and Aikido. not much elbow smashing there.
My favourite part is that Manchester United lost the game and probably the league too. Awesome.
My favourite part is that Manchester United lost the game and probably the league too. Awesome.
But how can you enjoy Manchester United losing, when Chelsea end up winning?
Given the same money, I think virtually everyone with even a passing knowledge of football could have easily emulated his success given the same kind of budget.
Don't ever say Kleberson's name again. He and David Bellion were two of the dumbest signings I've ever seen.
A post in which I defend a Brett Favre interception.
You know who's team is definitely not going to lose today? Mine. The Redskins will, in fact, avoid tacking on losses at least two Sundays in a row.
Dear Players of Grimsby Town FC
I am writing with regard to my absolute astonishment and disbelief as to the sheer magnitude of your complete lack of talent and failure to carry out the job for which you are paid to do. I am not aware of any swear word or other derogatory phrase in my current vocabulary which comes close to a description of your performance (and I use that term loosely) this afternoon, but let me just say that you have collectively reached a level of inadequacy and ineptitude that neither I nor modern science had previously considered possible.
In fact I recall a time, in my youth, when I decided to call in sick at work and instead spent the entire day in my one bedroom flat wearing nothing but my underpants, eating toast and wánking furiously over second-rate Scandinavian porn. Yet somehow, I still managed to contribute more to my employer in that one Andrex-filled day than you complete bunch of toss-baskets have contributed to this club in your entire time here.
I would genuinely like to know how you pathetic little píssflaps sleep at night, knowing full well that you have taken my money and that of several thousand others and delivered precisely fúck all in return. I run a business myself, and I believe I could take any 4,000 of my customers at random; burn down their houses, impregnate their wives and then dismember their children before systematically sending them back in the post, limb-by-limb, and still ensure a level of customer satisfaction which exceeds that which I have experienced at Blundell Park at any time so far this season.
You are a total disgrace, not only to your profession, not only to the human race, but to nature itself. This may sound like an exaggeration, but believe me when I say that I have passed kidney stones which have brought me a greater level of pleasure and entertainment than watching each of you worthless excuses for professional footballers attempt to play a game you are clearly incapable of playing, week-in, week-out.
I considered, for a second, that I was perhaps being a little too harsh. But then I recalled that I have blindly given you all the benefit of the doubt for too long now. Yes, for too long you have failed to earn the air youve been breathing by offering any kind of tangible quality either as footballers or as people in general. As such, I feel its only fair that your supply runs out forthwith.
I trust, at this precise moment in time, that Mr Fenty is in his office tapping away on the Easyjet web site booking you all one-way flights to Zurich, complete with an overnight stay with our cheese eating friends at Dignitas. Dont bother packing your toothbrush you wont need it.
In the event that our beloved chairman cant afford the expense (understandable given that hes soon going to have to assemble a new squad from scratch), then I am prepared to sell my family (including my unborn child) to a dubious consortium of Middle Eastern businessmen in order to pay for the flights. Christ, Ill drive you there myself, one-by one, without sleep, if I have to.
Failing that, understanding that most dubious Middle Eastern businessmen are tied-up purchasing Premier League football clubs, I ask you to please take matters into your hands. Use your imagination, guys strangle yourselves or cover yourself in tinfoil and take a fork to a nearby plug socket, or something. Just put yourselves and us fans out of our collective misery.
So, in summary, you pack of repugnant, sputum-filled, invertebrate bástards; leave this club now and dont you fúcking dare look back. Youve consistently demonstrated less passion and desire than can commonly be found within the contents of a sloths scrótum, so frankly you can just all fúck off dont pass go, dont collect your wages, dont ever come back to this town again.
I look forward to you serving me at my local McDonalds drive-thru in the near future.
Yours sincerely
A very disillusioned Mariner
Forward With Negouai
Say what you like about Kevin Keegan. But, when he described Christian Negouai as "the most exciting player" he'd ever signed, he could scarcely be accused of over-egging the pudding. Agreed, 'exciting' is not how all fans expressed Christian's arrival. But, subsequent events have proved KK right. Of course, one makes these extravagant claims during moments of excitement - KK made a career out of it. And, let's be honest, he's hardly a man given to understatement. On this occasion though, our former manager could possibly have gone further. Because, with the best will in the world, 'exciting' doesn't even begin to describe Christian Negouai. It doesn't come close. Would it be immodest to claim that he's the most exciting player of all time? Sure, there have been 'great' players. 'All Time Greats', even. But you will search in vain for anyone who's generated as much God-knows-what-this-guy's-going-to-do-next exhilaration with such little effort? Who else has crammed so much breathtaking lunacy into so few minutes of football? For sheer amusement, you'd have to go a long, long way to find a player with a career as wincingly magnetic as our No. 30.
My own curiosity in Christian Negouai was kick-started by what remains the most blatant 'hand of God' moment connected with the club since Bobby MacDonald punched one in against Peterborough United in the 1980-81 FA Cup run. It would be difficult to exaggerate how badly Christian played during his home debut versus Rotherham. There was, for some, a question mark against his passing. Frankly, it wasn't all it could have been. Realising immediately that passing (long or short range) was not within his field of reference, those present wondered if crunching tackles might be his thing instead. An 'Enforcer', perhaps? Sadly not. The spirit seemed willing enough. The body less so. Stricken by indecision, little came off for our hero as he failed to adjust to Maine Road's wide open spaces. He had the air of having just jumped up from a heavy meal. The game seemed to pass him by. Incredibly, he went on to 'score' by palming the ball over the line (a skill in itself) from a corner.
All right so far then? Off to a nice start.
Of course, it couldn't last. And, after a long run (by Christian's standards) of uninterrupted football, the boom finally fell (three days later!) away at Blackburn in the Worthington Cup. Remember, by this point, Christian had already amassed around two hours in a City shirt (he'd made his actual debut the week before at Portsmouth). As anyone will tell you, that kind of punishing schedule can only be maintained for so long. And so it proved. Following two of his, now trademark, lunges he was sent off for two bookable offences. Harsh.
There followed the first of Christian's notorious - and numerous - 'quiet' periods. Little is known of the artist's movements during these mysterious absences. But they have become a feature of his time with the club. Suffice it to say that, after the success of his 'early work', not much was seen of the 'leggy' midfielder for a while as he got down to the serious business of skiving. Cruelly, injury deprived him of any further cameos during the remainder of his debut season. Even in extremis though, Christian has always retained the happy knack of being able to let things go from bad to worse, to even worse, to all time low. For, where Christian leads, controversy follows - even into the Treatment Room. Operations on both knees were soon diagnosed. A devastating blow. Rest and relaxation prescribed. Christian knew better, of course, and ignored the club's medical advice.
Needless to say, his recovery took longer than expected. KK went berserk. And, by the time he finally re-emerged (for the Reserves in the Senior Cup Final - during the last game of the second year of his contract) he'd fallen way down the midfield batting order. Difficult times. If there was a thin shard of sunlight poking through that gloomy period though, it was the news that Christian intended to apply for Belgian citizenship in an effort to advance his international aspirations - modestly, he accepted that Zidane had got a stranglehold on his coveted French No. 10 shirt. His hopes were boosted when he netted (again!) on his return to the first team. Astonishingly, this time it was in Europe. The UEFA Cup, no less!
Dizzy with expectation, by now, many of us had persuaded ourselves we had a real cult hero in our midst. If anything, his credentials were enhanced even further when he unwittingly became embroiled in a 'doping' scandal that later became tangled up in the FA's president-setting treatment of forgetful Rio Ferdinand. The fact that Christian's failure to be tested (he claimed he had to nip to the airport to pick his mum up) was met with a mere slap on the wrists - Ferdinand went on to receive a high-profile six-month ban - only increased his share price amongst Blues. But if his stock was rising off the pitch, he was no closer to securing regular football on it. Frustration.
Another quiet period followed - this time in, of all places, Austria, where he set up camp on loan to Sturm Graz. Ahead of schedule though, Christian was back at his beloved City. His self exile over, Christian continued his purposeful slide into degradation by turning out for the Reserves. That he ended up opening the bowling for Asa Hartford's young side, operating as Centre Forward was hardly a matter of choice. One has the impression the club's coaches felt they'd tried him everywhere else (midfield, in 'the hole', central defence). Why not up front? Feed off his flick-ons. Could work.
With bewildering speed he was back in a first team shirt again. There are times when the occasion seems to demand Christian Negouai. And a meaningless October Carling Cup tie at home to an under-strength Champions Select XI appeared a perfect arena for another comeback. Those of us, who, by now, were hooked on Negouai, could have been forgiven for expecting things to go wrong. But not quite to the extent they did. Let's just say the result was not altogether the success we had anticipated. Clearly, he was rusty and couldn't be risked for the full 90. The plan was to hold the Champions for as long as possible. And then unleash Christian, late on, to exploit Arsenal's tired legs. He came on with 20 minutes to go.
Within minutes though, 13 to be precise, he was back on more familiar territory - the bench. The sub had been subbed! To be fair, he'd been involved in a horrible injury. Taking his courage in both hands, our no. 30 had charged after a loose ball. Stretching for it (in the midst of a cold snap, remember) he found he'd arrived at the touchline without changing down the requisite number of gears. And, having failed to make provision for a pitch-side puddle, he crumpled to the ground - in stages. I swear the wind died for a moment or two, before, with his dignity in motion, Christian signalled for the physio. And that was that.
His next soon-to-be-abandoned match featured another run out as sub. Boxing Day, 2004. Away at Everton. And the slapstick continued. This time he only lasted 3 minutes. A record? Intent on more mayhem, Christian ran straight into problems - more accurately, Marcus Bent. Straight red. Unbelievable. He stood around being devastated for what seemed the appropriate length of time. And then folded his bat. That capped it. Something snapped within KK. And Christian was, literally, sent to Coventry - with largely disappointing results. To no-one's surprise, injury (a recurring theme) cut short his stay in the Midlands. And Christian was back in the stands by the time Keegan gave way to Pearce and the proverbial slate was wiped clean.
How our hearts danced when Christian was named as a sub for the Liverpool game. I shudder to think what he'd have cooked up for us if he'd been let off the leash that day. But it wasn't to be. No yellow cards. No straight red. No controversy. No nothing really. A huge disappointment - and what is known, in Negouai terms, as a 'collector's item'. Certainly a sad way to bow out.
It seems unlikely we will ever see his like again. At the time of writing he appears to have been confined to barracks - once again, held hostage by his past. Cut adrift. After a series of failures, each more dismal than the last, a recall now looks unlikely. And yet, many Blues maintain that Keegan has been more or less exonerated - and I would suggest more rather than less.
In an age of rush and hurry, Christian always did things his own way. Utterly unsuited to the task of playing football, I maintain that Christian Negouai is still the 'most exciting player' I have ever seen.
To end with this. When researching this piece, I looked up Christian's career stats on the club's official site. My jaw dropped when I saw he wasn't listed under 'midfielders' in the official squad run-down. Panic. Then I noticed our midfield had been sub-divided into 'defensive' and 'attacking' midfielders. I scanned the 'attacking' nominees. Not there either. Momentarily flustered, I began casting around amongst other hiding places. Central defence? Striker? Nothing. On the brink of giving up, I scrolled down. And there he was. Filed simply under 'Midfielder, Christian Negouai.' Alone. In a class of his own. To the last, utterly unique.
Forward with Negouai!
Durutti City, May 2005
Manny Pacquiao vs Miguel Cotto
You can't say "Except for the round where he nearly got reduced to a small bloody pile, changing the complexion of the fight, he was winning," with a straight face and expect me to take you seriously.
NEEDZ MOAR ICE HOCKEY
hint of handball
Arriving at a summit meeting of EU leaders in Brussels, Brian Cowen [head of the Irish government] said he agreed with calls for a replay since, 'fair play is a fundamental part of the game.'
He said he would be discussing the matter with the French President Nicholas Sarkozy on the margins of the summit although he did not want 'to raise it to high diplomatic status.'
[...]
FUCK YES I LOVE HOCKEY.
In other news, the whole "do better next week" thing probably won't work out because we're playing the Vikings. ffffuuuuu
I liked seeing that too.
Who knows more about being unnecessarily booed than Donovan?
In other news, the whole "do better next week" thing probably won't work out because we're playing the Vikings.
Bears offense doesn't consist of nearly enoughpasses to Forte.good passing plays
Considering he almost fell over the ball and his own feet I can't imagine he does that kind of thing a lot.
Talkin about hockey. Sorry for the confusion.
You must be watching different footage from what I'm watching.
There's obviously been a lot of uncertainty regarding the owners and that has filtered down into the staff. A couple of great players went out of the door and the ones that came in haven't filled the void. Half the first team is out injured right now and there clearly isn't enough money on the horizon to bring in suitable replacements. I feel sorry for Benitez right now, he's playing against a marked deck.
Lucas and Mascherano are players who I don't expect to see in side ostensibly competing for the title.
Also, the striker situation continues to be weird.
Glen Johnson is another problem. He's a great player on his day but he's spent his entire career at Anfield thus far out of position. Great, he's scored a couple of goals already but that's not actually his main role at the club. I'd argue that him being forward so often is stretching an already brittle defence.
It's mostly the injuries though. Half the team has been out for most of the year. It's no coincidence.
It's kind of insane that the Lions can be so bad that Stafford can throw this many picks and still have people like his play. The craziest part is that I might even be one of those people-- Stafford shows flashes of potential, he really does. The Lions typically have a couple of really good looking plays every game and when the line actually holds up so it's just on him and Calvin Johnson, you can expect some yardage. I don't know if he'll be good or not, but at least he's showing something, which is more than JaMarcus Russell can say. Maybe he only produces against weak teams, but that's better than having nothing to build on at all. That said, the Lions are still the Lions; any points Stafford and co. puts on the board is quickly given up by either the special teams or defensive unit anyway, and the o-line still sucks.
Unless you're a1029 year old Arsenal fan, I dunno how that's possible.
Whatever one thinks of Ryan Giggs, I think everyone can agree that he should never be allowed to take off his shirt ever again (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quI_LkMj4HI).
Maybe, but then you'd have to play them both of the bench 90% of the time.
I think it's a bad sign when the Bears lose 36 to 10 and I come away from the game thinking our offense played OK.
Jay Cutler only threw one real INT.
The Saints scare me. Teams shouldn't be able to just brees past the Patriots like that.
Dec 06 @ WASHINGTON REDSKINS
The Saints scare me. Teams shouldn't be able to just breeze past the Patriots like that.
The Saints scare me. Teams shouldn't be able to just bree bree bree bree past the Patriots like that.FYP
I had no idea North Korea had a football team.
GODDAMNIT! We should not have lost that game. Shaun Suisham screwed us so hard by missing that 23 yard kick. Also, there were a couple of bad reviews from the booth about down by contact. And the end of the half was crazy lucky for them.
At least Celtic won. Still top of the league... :-D
(Vikes are gonna blow 'em out of the water.)
(Vikes are gonna blow 'em out of the water.)
Clearly I know nothing about football.
I also was kinda astonished N. Korea had a team and were any good
Iran and Iraq pop up and play spectacular football on occasion (didn't Iraq win Olympic gold last year?), but never seem to be consistently good.
Here is Grella's second goal for the Yanks who won't see it otherwise -
That Leeds player on the far right of the screen seems kind of distraught after the goal is scored.
I like Mike Grella. He did well in the first leg. He's scored some good goals this season. I think the Yanks should take him to South Africa next year.
It was harsh on Lee Harper because his team played so well over two legs. He played like a superhuman in both games and the revenue from a match at Old Trafford would have bankrolled the club for a season.
Nearly made an arse of it again yesterday though... :|At least Celtic won. Still top of the league... :-D
Hail hail. :-D Hopefully we can keep it up, 'specially since we can now focus solely on domestic football.
P.P.S. - Anyone see Rodallega's goal for Wigan against Stoke yesterday? :-oRodalegga didn't score yesterday. Are you maybe thinking of Figueroa, who scored this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaMpc-uFPp0) totally ridiculous free kick?
That is the one, yes.P.P.S. - Anyone see Rodallega's goal for Wigan against Stoke yesterday? :-oRodalegga didn't score yesterday. Are you maybe thinking of Figueroa, who scored this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaMpc-uFPp0) totally ridiculous free kick?
Here is Grella's second goal for the Yanks who won't see it otherwise -
That is the one, yes.P.P.S. - Anyone see Rodallega's goal for Wigan against Stoke yesterday? :-oRodalegga didn't score yesterday. Are you maybe thinking of Figueroa, who scored this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaMpc-uFPp0) totally ridiculous free kick?
Don't know why I thought it was Rodallega... :? :oops:
Cracking goal nonetheless... :-D
Woooooo, the Niners beat the Cards!Didn't see that one coming at all.
Alas, I live in Aberdeen so I don't get to see as many games as I once did. I saw it on television though, it was a frustrating game.
Massive game on Saturday. Make or break time for our title hopes.
Didn't see that one coming at all.
Matt Giteau back home where he belongs
Going up to Carlisle play off semi final without a ticket and ending up sitting in their end negates any "part time" argument.
Going up to Carlisle play off semi final without a ticket and ending up sitting in their end negates any "part time" argument.
Are you guys trying to have a Leeds pissing contest or something?
A lot of Leeds fans these days are stay away - armchair fans.
Ahh, now it makes sense.
God damn it, Dallas.
man, everybody lost this weekend. Bears (no surprise, but I was hoping they'd, you know, put up a fight), hometown Hawks (uggghhhhh), Vikings... just embarrassing. Nobody showed up to play.
Except for the Cowboys. lolwot?
"Leeds fans singing 'Stand up if you're top of the League'. None of them have sat down yet.
Manchester United v Leeds United line-ups:
Man Utd: Kuszczak, Neville, Vidic, Jonathan Evans, Fabio Da Silva, Welbeck, Gibson, Anderson, Obertan, Berbatov, Rooney.
Subs: Amos, Brown, Owen, Giggs, Tosic, Carrick, Rafael Da Silva.
Leeds: Ankergren, Crowe, Naylor, Kisnorbo, Hughes, Howson, Kilkenny, Doyle, Johnson, Beckford, Becchio.
Subs: David Martin, Prutton, Grella, Michalik, Snodgrass, Capaldi, White.
Referee: Chris Foy (Merseyside)
Leeds boss Simon Grayson: "We won't change how we go about our business for anyone, as they wouldn't. We're here to win the game and we'll give it a go. The rivalry is there for everyone to know about, not so long ago it was a Premier League fixture, but hopefully it'll be a cracking game and atmosphere."
1319: GOAL Manchester United 0-1 Leeds United
Leeds goal: No, I'm not joking. Johnny Howson launches a fabulous 50-yard pass over the top of Wes Brown to Jermaine Beckford, and suddenly he's in behind. His touch is a little strong, but he gets to the ball before Brown and the onrushing Tomasz Kuszczak and rolls it into the net. This would be a Cupset to rival any other.
1326: Jason Crowe stands up a cross from the right to the back post, and Bradley Johnson heads wide. I knew League One once, and it wasn't like this. Leeds are on fire.
From Bobleponge, Eance, via text - "Stevo, watching this on telly at home in France. When Rooney had his shot cleared off the line, the Leeds fans sang a little ditty about his weight and his parentage. Two French commentators repeated it word for word, thinking it was the Manc fans encouraging him. Brilliant."
1347: Half-time Manchester United 0-1 Leeds United
If United weren't sure about their opponents before this one, they will know they are in a game now. It's everything the FA Cup should be.
From Missinaldo on 606: "There's only one team playing the football at OT today. Excellent passing, compact defending, and when attacking move forward in waves. It's Leeds.
From TaiSx via Twitter: "Are we playing Leeds or Real Madrid??
1454: Full-time Manchester United 0-1 Leeds United
Forget Leeds' past - they are a League One club, and they have just dumped Man United out of the FA Cup at Old Trafford. It's one of the great upsets in this competition's magnificent history.
1457: After everything Leeds' fans have been through in the last few years, you can feel nothing but delight for them as they start what is sure to be a massive party. That was a truly stunning performance.
Leeds boss Simon Grayson: "It was a good ball from Johnny Howson and nine out of 10 times Jermaine Beckford finishes them off. Full credit to the players, who were outstanding. They have been like that all season. Beckford is the new hero now."
Leeds United captain Richard Naylor: "It is unbelievable, a tremendous result that has been a long time coming. I am really proud of the lads. I thought we had a few chances to make it 2-0 late on. We dug in when we needed to but we also played some good football."
Man Utd had never before lost in the third round of the Cup - or been knocked out of it by a lower-division side - during Sir Alex Ferguson's 23-year reign as manager.
"Leeds fans singing 'Stand up if you're top of the League'. None of them have sat down yet."
Sigh. I hate to sound like a paranoid Celtic fan, but when you get a perfectly legitimate goal disallowed and then a stone-wall red card for the opposing team ignored, it really does make you wonder...Wonder what?
Sigh. I hate to sound like a paranoid Celtic fan, but when you get a perfectly legitimate goal disallowed and then a stone-wall red card for the opposing team ignored, it really does make you wonder...Wonder what?
That the SFA - of the likes of Jim Farry, Gordon Smith, Darryl Broadfoot, Mike McCurry et al - have it in for Celtic?
Never! And yes, I am being sarcastic.
Not that the fact that we couldn't last for two minutes with the bloody lead against a team we'd dominated helped a great deal.
It was nice of the Giants D to come through for me like that. I knew they had it in 'em.
I have decided that the referee had merely observed that it was more of an advantage to Leeds to keep him on the pitch since he was having such a bad game.
Fucking Carlisle.
having only scored 127 runs in the first innings
it's hard to escape the feeling that under his captaincy the Australian cricket team has become ever less gracious in victory and in defeat
I hate to break away from Scottish football but the Winter Olympics are starting soon, so I hope you'll all be watching on February 13th when Canada pound Slovakia (just a guess, but highly likely).Don't skip the speed skating either. You know ... fast dutch people! Yay!
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I prefer Celtic to Rangers simply because in situations where I'm neutral, I always cheer the team with the better uniform.
However, the Celtic Away kit makes them look like fluorescent bumble-bees.
cripsyneck
However, the Celtic Away kit makes them look like fluorescent bumble-bees.
Perhaps why we call it the "Bumblebee strip", then. ^_^
Away strips are allowed to be a bit daft, though. Let us not forget Rangers'... *cough* "tangerine" kit from a few years ago.
The problem with that strip wasn't how it looked; rather the very negative, sectarian connotations it carried.
Well I wasn't expecting that. By the last ten minutes I was just hoping Leeds wouldn't concede another then all of a sudden Leeds have a penalty, Beckford puts it away and we've got a replay with Tottenham at Elland Road.
The stars must have aligned over New Orleans tonight, because there was no way that they earned that victory.
TAKE THAT BRETT FAVRE! YOU CUNT!
edit: I must talk about how great the Spurs-Leeds game was Saturday. I watched with three of my friends, one of which is a big Spurs supporter. It was easily one of the five best games I've ever seen, and GODDAMN YOU, JERMAINE BECKFORD.
That's 5 goals in two games, now.
In the SPL, Hibs pinch a last-minute goal to win at Celtic Park whereas Rangers beat St. Mirren 2-0 and go ten points clear at the top! Yay!
I'm still upset about the fucking vikings
That Caps-Pens game today was a doosie.
Drew Brees is Mufasa (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHe9Pcv-Zl4)
Curling makes me horny
The only important sport for the Winter Olympics is hockey.
What the fuck is curling. That is bullshit compared to hockey.
Good weekend for Rangers! Celtic held to a 4 all draw by Aberdeen
Curling is what the Scots do because they have no other entertainment. [...]
Thog: Here stadium, where our women basketball teams play.
Kug: We no can dunk, but good fundamentals.
Ornik: That more fun to watch.
USA vs. Norway men's curling is so intense right now oh god they're in an 11th end and each country only has two rocks left augh
Over in the UK the BBC have pretty much round the clock coverage of several different events at once through the interactive service. It's pretty neat and makes me not mind paying the ridiculous license fee so much.
I really really enjoyed the mens snowboard cross
How awesome was that last throw from the Canadian dude?
(I have access to the Foxtel coverage which is 24hrs a day accross like 3 or 4 channels. Hooray for Canadian girlfriend)
Can someone explain to me why the US snowboard cross team (both mens' and womens') WORE JEANS?
I would think jeans are not a very snowboard-friendly item of clothing.
Not only is this the most bullshit game of the day
You want it.
EVAN LYSACEK BEAT YEVGENY PLUSHENKO IN FIGURE SKATING! FUCK YES TAKE THAT YOU RUSSIAN DOUCHEBAG!
[img]http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs396.snc3/24084_1149208582166_1586130718_30782310_6992630_n.jpg[img]
You want it.
For some reason NBC held this really long shot on Plushenko during the medal ceremony where you could just see the bitterness bubbling inside him.
Torah's an awfully funny name for a Mormon.
I wasn't aware Australians even had Mormons, I thought they were a uniquely American problem.As mormon problems go, America's are pretty minor. You know the formal-wear'd fuckos who troll neighborhoods to no success in the US? They're far more effective in the third world.
i know its been around forever but the sport where they ski and then shoot targets(biathlon?) makes zero sense to me. What is the correlation between the two. Yes i know it must be hard but still no idea why this is considered a sport. They are sports by themselves why combine them.
I'm trying so hard not to post about how we beat Canada at hockey
I think that's the funniest fucking thing in the world
It is because like a shark high fiving a gorilla, it need not have a reason beyond being badass
If only they gave out Gold medals for best analogy ever.
Fuck You Jace. Just, Fuck You.
Canada look like one of the poorer hockey teams in the Olympics although they have a squad chock-full of supposed superstars. They'll probably beat Germany in the playoff round but any of USA, Sweden, Finland or Russia is likely to be a very tricky game and each of them could trip them up easily if they don't get their act together very quickly.
I liked the Rocky-ish moment of getting Canada getting their asses kicked by the US in the first matchup only to turn around meet them at the final game and win in OT
Man what was with all the Mormon hate in this thread. Like, the worst thing I can say about any Mormon I've ever met is that she was too nice and happy. And I have met a goddamn whole lot of Mormons. Big damn Mormon community where I went to high school.
Also, Jonathan Toews had 9 assists going into the final
Man what was with all the Mormon hate in this thread. Like, the worst thing I can say about any Mormon I've ever met is that she was too nice and happy. And I have met a goddamn whole lot of Mormons. Big damn Mormon community where I went to high school.
Somebody talk to me about rugby
a friend here in town who gets Setanta on his cable box
sevens
a friend here in town who gets Setanta on his cable box
Does...he need a roommate?Quotesevens
edit: BAH NEVERFUCKING MIND. They moved the IRB Sevens US leg from Los Angeles to Las Vegas (http://www.usasevens.com/), and it already happened this year.
This is actually the first time I've paid attention to free agency but it's actually pretty exciting! Julius Peppers and Chester Taylor, both talking to Chicago. The Jets picked up Cromartie, and now have arguably the best two corners in the league. Thomas Jones, Brian Westbrook, and the rotting husks of LT and Jake Delhomme are all released. weeee
An aging starting QB, on the other hand, just gets thrown to the Lions.
As for the team with the worst name in Rugby, the Western Force (from Perth)
the Storm don't have any kind of powerful connections like Pratt or VISY.
Tebow hasn't thrown a ball in a regular season game and I'm already completely in hate with the smug bastard. Don't really know why but he annoys me.
if he wasn't such an outrageously preachy bible-thumping pro-lifer... well, actually, he'd still be a just-barely-mediocre ball player.
RAAANGERS ARE CHAMPIOOOOOOOOOOOONESS!!
It's been a hell of a season and I can't find the right words yet. However, I am absolutely elated that we're one promotion away from the Premiership again.
I am not sure how Bradley Johnson (shirtless) was able to produce a bottle of Bud so quickly so I assume he had it the whole game -
(http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47804000/jpg/_47804832_leeds466.jpg)
Incidentally, as you can tell from his choice of beverage, he's half-American and available for selection in the World Cup Finals along with Mike Grella and Davide Somma. Not to mention Patrick Kisnorbo, Neil Kilkenny and Shane Lowry (all Australian) and Max Gradel (Ivory Coast).
WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS HERE WE COME OMG!!!! TAKE THAT FUCKING DETROIT!
Oh, and the Niners are winning their pennant this year. You heard it here first.
Leeds were promoted to the Championship after beating Bristol Rovers today.
(http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47803000/jpg/_47803906_jb466getty.jpg)
Goals from Beckford (left) and Howson (right).
It's been a hell of a season and I can't find the right words yet. However, I am absolutely elated that we're one promotion away from the Premiership again.
Luckily, there's important NFL news as well. (http://blogs.nfl.com/2010/05/25/end-of-an-era-in-minnesota-allen-cuts-his-mullet/)
Leeds were promoted to the Championship after beating Bristol Rovers today.
It's not really just Barca acting like dicks but the way the media goes into a frenzy any time a transfer is even remotely possible and when it's basically a free for all between seasons they can't get enough. Barca have a lot of money and a great reputation with being one of the world's best club teams so there's always going to be stories surrounding them and considering Fabregas was brought up in their youth system and Arsenal are looking shaky without him once more it's really not surprising that this story has happened once again.
Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas is under contract with the Club until the summer of 2015. He is a highly-valued member of the team and part of our future plans.
We have followed recent speculation linking Cesc with a move away from the Club but as there has never been any official approach for him, only two informal exchanges, in which we made it abundantly clear that we have no interest in transferring Cesc, we have refrained from publicly passing comment. However, yesterday evening we received an offer from Barcelona for Cesc and in response, we immediately and resolutely told them once again that we have no intention of selling our captain.
To be clear, we will not make any kind of counterproposal or enter into any discussion. Barcelona have publicly stated that they will respect our position and we expect that they will keep their word.
football
football
Sup bro (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,24833.0.html)
they're all insanely douchey and their fans are annoying to excess.
they're essentially the new england patriots of basketball.
Don't forget Kleberson.
First Bearsgameloss of the preseason on Saturday!
Ah, thank fuck. New football season at last.
The Raiders lineup is secretly pretty OK because of their Janikowski, but yeah, um, everything that ever happened to them after Madden is bad.
God, why am I even watching this Vikings-Saints game? Banged up team with no corners vs. the offensively minded NFL champions.
i see him getting ejected from the league after brutally decapitating brent favre
Ha, I'd hardly consider myself boned with Peterson.
Congratulations on the moral loss Bears fans!
everybody loses
Also, Rangers are going to be absolutely and comprehensively destroyed by Manchester United tomorrow.
Have to say, while I fully expected Rangers' gameplan to consist of nothing beyond 'put so many men between Man U and the goal that they cannot see the goal and they forget there is a goal and eventually just kinda wander off,' I didn't expect it to work.
If Chelsea and QPR don't win their respective leagues at a canter I'll be extremely surprised.
Far more exciting in EPL terms is the battle for 2nd between Arsenal and Man Utd, and (by far the least predictable) the hoedown for the remaining European spots between Spurs, Villa, Man City, Everton, and Liverpool (listed in decreasing order of likelihood to qualify). Should be a crackin' season.
bears cowboys tomorrowThat much incompetence on one field should be hilarious to watch ...
no way am i gonna be drunk enough for this
any Jaguar fans? probably not since our own town doesn't even seem to be fans. Jacksonville's unofficial motto lately seems to be "well at least we have the Gators". Its sad and if it doesn't change I'm sure we will losing the franchise very soon.(peeks behind me at this funny black helmet with a spotted cat on it)
I guess what I'm trying to say here is that I wish the Vikings played in the NFC West instead of a real division.
I'm going to continue my tradition of trolling everyone with Flyers for the Cup. Hell, it almost worked last season.
Hey, hey Rob.
Psst.
Berbatov. :-D
Mainly I liked how at the end of the game none of the commentators bothered to explain what would happen next. I was sitting with a bunch of friends and none of us knew whether there was going to be extra time or not, and we were waiting for the commentators - you know, those people who are paid to know everything about the game and explain it to the peopel watching - to tell us, and there was just silence. Thanks Bruce McAveney, I'd temporarily forgotten how useless you are.
jwhouk: its ok to be a closet Jags fan most people are. It's embarrassing especially when you have games like yesterday. The names you mentioned aside from MJD were from a golden era of Jags football that they have never even gotten close to replicating. Brunell went on to backup QB and actually get a ring for it. Coughlin got a ring after leaving the Jags as well. So are we just cursed? Who knows but I'll keep supporting them till we find out.I blame that stupid "Uh-oh Jaguars" rap they did before the AFC title game.
Finally Pies fans can shut up about 1990.Do Pies fans (or any other Aussie Drools tragics) ever shut up? :evil:
Aussie Drools
Finally Pies fans can shut up about 1990.Do Pies fans ever shut up?
woooooooooooooo playoff basebaaaaaaaaall
We're gonna get our asses kicked by Philly even if we do manage to beat the Braves, but it's the first time in seven years so I don't give a shit.
woooooooooooooo playoff basebaaaaaaaaall
We're gonna get our asses kicked by Philly even if we do manage to beat the Braves, but it's the first time in seven years so I don't give a shit.
Giants fan, I take it?
Randy Moss again? Wait, what?
This would be like Beckham returning to ManU. Except, of course, that Beckham has actually won something in his career. And he hasn't mooned fans at Old Trafford.Randy Moss again? Wait, what?
I had no idea what this post was about until now, and I'm still confused. Talk about random.
This would be like Beckham returning to ManU. Except, of course, that Beckham has actually won something in his career. And he hasn't mooned fans at Old Trafford.Randy Moss again? Wait, what?
I had no idea what this post was about until now, and I'm still confused. Talk about random.
God, I've been watching bits of the game I missed on DVR and now I keep fantasizing about taking one of our offensive linemen's paychecks and cashing it out into silver dollars. That way I could stuff a bunch of them into a sack and use it to bludgeon them to death. It's ridiculous how badly they're failing to live up to their credentials. And you know what? Adrian Peterson too. It's year 4 and he is still a liability in 3rd down pass protection.
I just read what I wrote and I think maybe I should quit watching football for a while. And drinking whiskey. Probably both. At least not at the same time.
By the way, can we talk about how the holding company that owns the Red Sox is buying Liverpool and I pretty much want to cry and burn all of my Red Sox shirts and hats?
Really. What do I do? My favorite baseball team is buying my favorite football team's biggest rival. DOES NOT COMPUTE.
Oh, geez, what's up with you EPL types getting so upset that American sports owners want in on your teams? Look, in America, sports franchises are generally a losing proposition. With the EPL, you guys print money with your game tickets (or whatever you call them). ANY sane person would want in on that.
Oh, geez, what's up with you EPL types getting so upset that American sports owners want in on your teams? Look, in America, sports franchises are generally a losing proposition. With the EPL, you guys print money with your game tickets (or whatever you call them). ANY sane person would want in on that.
Okay, Ugly American here asking a question I don't understand: How in the world do EPL and other top Euro clubs find new talent to help them win all those trophies, make money, keep from being demoted, etc.?
Do you mean where does the talent come from? Or how do they find it? They have talent scouts and academies which train players from childhood for the latter, not to mention the fact that every few years there are useful tournaments such as the World Cup or the European Championships or the African Championships which among other things are opportunities for players to demonstrate their skills to perspective employers.I was essentially asking both, but more towards the latter.
As for the former, well - you do realise how many people in how many countries play soccer, right?
Cliff Lee is good at throwing baseballs.
He left his beloved childhood club for money, you can't really expect too much from him.
And then you go to America where you can walk down Main Street of Peoria, Illinois, and no one would know or care who you are.
oh my god that game nearly killed me but we are one win away from the world series
i love baseball so much right now you guys don't even know
oh my god that game nearly killed me but we are one win away from the world series
i love baseball so much right now you guys don't even know
Giants fan, hm? You realize you guys haven't won the World Series since the Truman administration?
Looks like Rooney's off to Liverpool, was at Anfield before and overhead Hodgson say "looks like Wayne's coming"
Didn't stay long after though because it started pissing it down.
Until it happens to Tom Brady, no one is safe.
Fah-vruh's last toss at Lambeau = INCOMPLETE.
Now the big question: does he get sat by Childress or by Roger Goodell?
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I'm a bit worried by how the Pats almost threw away an easy win today though, game was about 10000x closer than it should have been given the ridiculous turnovers San Diego handed us in the first half.
THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT
THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT
List.
I'd have taken a healthy Tony Romo over them any day of the week.
Plus the English announcers just CANNOT say it right. It's not "Cheek-a-rito", guys.
8-2 Giants, top of the 6th. That last half inning was ridiculous.
(photo: Ian Kinsler can't believe it)
I thought a perfect hat trick was a power-play goal, even-strength goal and a short-handed goal.
There's also the natural hat-trick, which is three straight goals scored by the same person without any intervening goals by others.I thought a perfect hat trick was a power-play goal, even-strength goal and a short-handed goal.
You know, I didn't know that there was a perfect hat-trick in hockey but that does make a lot of sense.
Of course, the Gordie Howe hat-trick is much more fun (goal, assist, fight).
I thought a perfect hat trick was a power-play goal, even-strength goal and a short-handed goal.
You know, I didn't know that there was a perfect hat-trick in hockey but that does make a lot of sense.
Of course, the Gordie Howe hat-trick is much more fun (goal, assist, fight).
There's also the natural hat-trick, which is three straight goals scored by the same person without any intervening goals by others.I thought a perfect hat trick was a power-play goal, even-strength goal and a short-handed goal.
You know, I didn't know that there was a perfect hat-trick in hockey but that does make a lot of sense.
Of course, the Gordie Howe hat-trick is much more fun (goal, assist, fight).
I kinda really hope the patriots bring randy back. That would be fucking beautiful.
lol
I realize now that should read "rolls out of bed, sends pictures of his junk to people, and decides to take your job".
Now that the euphoria has passed, possibly my favorite image of the 2010 Giants season:
How long a losing streak do you think it will take to stop the Australian cricket team from being such smug obnoxious arseholes?I honestly don't think it's possible.
Malinga is pretty much the only person that can pull it off though, it's the kind of stuff they try and beat out of you in primary school cricket. So hard to get anything near consistent out of it.
Sidearm's illegal? That's lame. Batsmen should just suck it up.Like that technique that cropped up in the twenty20 world cup where the batsman would change their stance as the ball was being bowled, if the player is good enough to pull it off they should be allowed to do it.
Australians, hang your heads in shame. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhHu5yWoCm0)I thought our government apologised for that a while ago.
What are you guys throwing such a fit about? Nevermind three-quarter or sidearm, baseball has submarine guys that pretty much throw underhand. And have for a LONG time.
More specifically, they needed a 6 to win, which means it has to travel in the air all of the way from hitting the bat to flying over the boundary rope (think home run but there is a rope on the floor to get over rather than a wall) and it is almost impossible to hit a rolling ball for a 6.
And Sandoval gets underneath them and fucks that ball up all the way into the stands for a three-run homer. I'm pretty sure that was the exact pitch where that happened, too. Bad example, shows just how pussy a maneuver an underhand ball is.
And Sandoval gets underneath them and #### that ball up all the way into the stands for a three-run homer. I'm pretty sure that was the exact pitch where that happened, too. Bad example, shows just how ##### a maneuver an underhand ball is.
When I come out there next summer, we'll play wiffleball and you see if you can hit me throwing submarine and/or knuckleballs.
"It's an entertaining, fun game and fans like to be entertained by the players, showing their competitive spirit with a big smile on their face," said Shanahan. "It's a matter of us trying to find ways to capture that. The game, it's still going to be three 20-minute periods with two teams and everyone is wearing equipment and using the puck. In some ways it's going to look very much like it was. We know what it is. It's a fun event."
Oh, no.
NO NO NO NO NOOOOOOOO. (http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=543059)
:psyduck:
The Vikings-Bears game is actually playing in my area on Sunday. On the one hand, I'm thrilled that I don't have to go to a sports bar to watch this one. On the other, it'll be equally depressing at home.
For as sloppy as we played, I'm surprised we pulled that win out with such a large margin on the scoreboard.
Every rational football fan hates the Dallas Cowboys.
Why does the baseball offseason have to be so goddamn long?
So, by "so goddamn long", you mean four fucking months?
Every rational football fan hates the Dallas Cowboys.True, but with Romo side-lined and that incredibly fat coach fired I actually enjoyed the cowboys' performance last week.
"There develop over time separate and unequal strategies adopted by winners and losers; the balance of those strategies favors the losers, and thus serves constantly to narrow the difference between the two."
PHILADELPHIA -- Steven Stamkos said Tampa Bay's wild win at Wells Fargo Center reminded him of what hockey looked like in the 1980s.
One problem: He was born in 1990.
Weird things happen over the course of a season that you don't expect.So true. My local football (NRL Rugby League) team was the North Sydney Bears, perennial losers and wooden-spooners who last won league championship in 1922*, but in their local derby matches against the hated** Manly Sea Eagles, the Bears were transformed, and often defeated their much-higher-rated North Shore rivals. Of course they'd put half the team on the injured list doing it, and then lose their next five games, but at least they beat Manly, right?
Well, that wasn't 11 weeks too late. (http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/Brad-Childress-fired-Minnesota-Vikings-112210)
To summarise: The entire NHL has gone batshit insane?
Okay, let's recap from earlier...To summarise: The entire NHL has gone batshit insane?
Then this (http://www.nhl.com/ice/recap.htm?id=2010020299&navid=sb:recap) happens. :psyduck:
Noooooooo victor martinez NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO FUUUUUCK
So Australia can now only take eleven wickets in a test match. Time to fire everybody and start recruiting South Africans.Sounds like they need some better bowlers.
And Qatar in 2022.
113th ranked Qatar. You thought FRANCE were bad this year, just wait.
It's so hot, the sweat from my undercarriage could irrigate a small radish farm.-Apparently they don't serve beer there*
We had a draw in the election and a draw in the footy and we'd damn well prefer another draw to where this looks like it's going.
Man, they aren't having to give up Buchholz, Bard, or Ellsbury for Gonzalez.
That is pretty awesome.
while playing very solid defense for a Red Sox outfielder.
Australians - Please account for your shoddy fielding thus far in the Ashes. You've all caught balls before, I've seen it many times.
Ellsbury can be very good, and I think at some point he will be very good if he stays healthy. He got hurt early last year and for whatever reason never came back, but in 2009 he did hit .301, steal 70 bases, and scored almost 100 runs while playing very solid defense. He's really quite good when he's on, my only qualms are health and that iirc he hired the Great Satan to represent him at some point.
Man, they aren't having to give up Buchholz, Bard, or Ellsbury for Gonzalez.
That is pretty awesome.
OPS is a misleading stat for someone like Ellsbury though, because he's such a prolific base-stealer. All those singles he gets? Half the time those turn into doubles and triples within a few pitches. The dude is a very good baseball player.
Interesting thread - go from discussion of the Ashes in one post to a commentary on the Red Sox lineup in the next.
Dude, it's all about big flashy trophies.
I stood near the Stanley Cup once. Not only is it big, it is EXTREMELY shiny.
Pictures do not do the shinyness justice.No they do not.
Hahaha oh man that was glorious. Suck it, Mark Sanchez. Suck it long, suck it hard.
Your new AL East is the most weak-ass baseball division in history. If only you could put the Pirates in there.
Hey now its no NL West. Or Central.
Still, Tampa Bay won their division for the second time in three years. There's arguably more of a spread between the teams than any other sport I can immediately think of.
Spare a thought for say, Southampton FC or West Ham United FC, both of whom have brought through an astonishing number of great British footballers over the last twenty years and have won absolutely nothing.
Salary caps are a pretty good idea, guys
If you're going to have a salary cap then you also need to build in allowances for teams that put years into developing star players who they then can't keep because those playes' market worth becomes too high to allow them to be kept under the salary cap.
That's really only important if you consider letting teams amass talent unfettered to be a goal. I don't. I'd rather have a system that occasionally shortchanges a team that has developed plenty of talent-- if you have so much talent, you should be fine after losing a player or two, after all, unless you are egregiously overpaying them due to incompetent scouts-- than set up a system that rewards teams for raiding what little talent small market teams already have. For example, the combination of market forces and a cheapskate owner once led to the Minnesota Twins baseball franchise unceremoniously ditching anyone on the team who made over a million dollars a season.
Could someone please explain the whole College Football Thing to me ... because I don't get it. There's a bowl selection thing going on behind me and they're talking about computers and rankings and provisional places and ... I don't know, don't the teams with the most points at the end of a season play each other in some sort of super sugar bowl thing? Why the difficulties?The BCS division is a result of evolution, ennui and money.
super sugar bowl thing
Could someone please explain the whole College Football Thing to me ... because I don't get it. There's a bowl selection thing going on behind me and they're talking about computers and rankings and provisional places and ... I don't know, don't the teams with the most points at the end of a season play each other in some sort of super sugar bowl thing? Why the difficulties?The BCS division is a result of evolution, ennui and money.
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At least the Lions beat the Packers!
Have you seen our schedule this year?
And half of those games we've won because the other team were incapacitated with injuries (Miami, Philadelphia), self-destructed with penalties (Green Bay), or the officials blew calls (Detroit 2x).
Take those out and who else have we won against? Dallas, Buffalo, Carolina, Minnesota.
:|
Have you seen our schedule this year?
And half of those games we've won because the other team were incapacitated with injuries (Miami, Philadelphia), self-destructed with penalties (Green Bay), or the officials blew calls (Detroit 2x).
Take those out and who else have we won against? Dallas, Buffalo, Carolina, Minnesota.
:|
Meh, isn't that true for every team? Sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you get screwed by an official?
...I don't think the Cubs are going to be gunning for a championship any time soon.
...I don't think the Cubs are going to be gunning for a championship any time soon.
Good teams overcome bad officiating.
Tuck rule.
In summary: Fuck you Penguins. Fuck you NHL. Sidney Crosby can suck a dick.
Zack Greinke traded to... Milwaukee?
The Warhawks completed their second straight 15-0 season, and won their third national championship in four years. They are 57-3 in Lance Leipold's four seasons as coach.
Yeah, but none of the teams in the NFC playoff race are intimidatingly unbeatable. We dispatched the Eagles, somehow with relative ease, and the Falcons are good but not incredible.
Then again, Seattle's in the hunt and we lost to them earlier this year.
Parity strikes again!
It's too bad for the Lakers that the West is so loaded. If they could pull a Boston and just roll over for a while without really hurting their standings it'd probably do them a world of good.
Don't hold your breath.
I'd agree with that except they haven't played most of the really strong teams in the west and lost to the fucking BUCKS by 19 the other night.
Don't hold your breath.
My expectations are so low they may as well be a carpet.
That being said, we made it to the Bowl with Rex Grossman.
(http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs213.ash2/47587_1227440177907_1586130718_31003208_1296469_n.jpg)
England retained the Ashes, though I suspect it will be through a draw.
Plus I think the English team will really want to win the Ashes.
You play to WIN the game.
Woo, Chicharito scores again!
It's only one hour into day 3 of the fifth test in the Ashes
Bagwell should be in.
Woo, Chicharito scores again!
I cant believe Man Utd a still unbeaten, haven´t exactly been playing like champions.
Bonds should be first ballot, frankly. Leaving him out won't make PEDs go away and whitewashing the history of the sport just ensures the Hall is some subject that makes sports fans argue once a year rather than some place that'd actually be interesting to visit in its own right.
Here's ten reasons (http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/cricket/reasons-why-poms-wont-win/story-e6frey50-1225955985591) why England won't win (like we just did).
I realize I'm not entirely unbiased in this matter but there are a ton of reasons why the arguments regarding PED use and the Hall of Fame are a load of BS and not internally consistent.
Ok maybe not, because we're 15 mins in apparently, and this thing hasn't started. Fuck you, Australian TV
Channel 1 (Channel 10's digital sports channel) shows a lot of Arsenal and Liverpool games, however usually two or three days after the fact.
1-1, replay at Fortress Elland Road where Leeds will win 1-0.
I don't know why you'd want to watch a game you would almost definintely already know the outcome of.
Ha, we all got a bit carried away there.
We're also at the top of the Championship
Some truly beautiful photos from yesterday in this Guardian slideshow (http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/gallery/2011/jan/08/fa-cup-arsenal-leeds-united#/?picture=370410783&index=0).
Howson with Fabregas' shirt after the game -
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i318/tommydski/Howson.jpg)
Fucking robbed.
I will be absolutely giddy when the Bruins beat the Flyers tonight.
I will be absolutely giddy when the Bruins beat the Flyers tonight.
7-5, boyos (and girlos)!
Arsenal losing to Ipswich sure took the shine off our draw at the Emirates. Especially since they were fielding a better team than against Leeds.
I suspect both us and Ipswich will be crushed in the second leg fixtures but I also suspect that Arsenal will be pulverised by Barcelona again.
Both will probably be close games
Oh hey looks like the Jets beat the Pats.
Take that, shane.
It's going to be nauseating reading about how Bears-Packers is a rivalry for the next week. If it's a rivalry, it's the sort of rivalry the players appear to not give even a single iota of crap about. Which pretty much means it's not really a rivalry at all. Which, hey, is fine. Just quit telling me about the rivalry then, since nobody outside of Illinois or Wisconsin cares. It's a fan vs. fan thing which by definition makes it boring as shit.
I like some NFL teams, Dovey. It's just that whenever I say that I like a team they lose in the playoffs so I'm keeping my mouth shut.
Sorry, they only allow locations within the continental United States (and, technically, Canada) to have NFL football teams.
And the Sharks are a hockey team, last I looked.
Smith is almost certainly gone after this year, but there isn't really an obvious replacement for him and this QB draft class kinda blows. If Denver really wants to take their chances with the Tim Tebow Experience, then the Niners should take a very good look at Kyle Orton. He's got flaws, but there aren't a whole lot of other decent options. I wouldn't want the Niners to spend the 7th overall pick on one of several underwhelming college QBs when there are other holes that need filling.
Having said that, so are Arsenal by all accounts.
Smith is almost certainly gone after this year, but there isn't really an obvious replacement for him and this QB draft class kinda blows. If Denver really wants to take their chances with the Tim Tebow Experience, then the Niners should take a very good look at Kyle Orton. He's got flaws, but there aren't a whole lot of other decent options. I wouldn't want the Niners to spend the 7th overall pick on one of several underwhelming college QBs when there are other holes that need filling.
I kind of wish Alex Smith would hold on another year so the Niners could grab Andrew Luck in 2012 draft.
Sorry, I think I'd rather jump off the CN Tower than ever be a Leafs fan. I mean, they've never won a Cup in my lifetime.
I'd scratch the Browns off that list, as they're pretty heavily invested in Colt McCoy (for good reason).
Sorry, I think I'd rather jump off the CN Tower than ever be a Leafs fan. I mean, they've never won a Cup in my lifetime.
Jesus christ, if that's how you base your fandom, you must have excellent bandwagon jumping skills. My Bruins haven't won a cup in my lifetime (or for that fact, since my parents were in high school), and I'm still rabid about them.
Orton is basically the best quarterback to have if you're rebuilding your franchise. He makes smart decisions and moves the ball well. He's certainly not playoff-caliber, but he's a good placeholder if you're having a couple of really off seasons. I think if Denver wants to turn Tebow into the franchise QB they want, they have to make him sit the bench for a season or two. Of course, it always helps to have an actually great QB to learn from while you're doing that, instead of someone perfectly average like Orton.
No, no - see, I'm a Predators fan. And, before that, I was a Blackhawks fan (before WWW lost me forever with the crap he spread after the Chelios trade). I hate TO, SO, ANYTHING "O".
Leafs fans tend to be the most arrogant bunch in all of hockey. They're like a mixture of Yankee fans with the failure level of Cub fans.
Dude, you changed teams? :?
I don't understand how people can do that? Unless it was in 1998 when the new Nashville franchise started up and it was closer to home, maybe.
Mr Gray, a former Scottish international footballer, replied: Can you believe that? A female linesman. Women dont know the offside rule.
Mr Keys replied: Course they dont
The Packers are the only non-profit, community-owned franchise in American professional sports major leagues.
BJ Raji was pretty much the only thing entertaining about Bears-Packers.
I am disappoint.
I did not know that! I like that a lot.
I did not know that! I like that a lot.
Yep! They're the only publicly owned franchise in all of the North American major leagues, to my knowledge.
Also, if I was going to be culturally insensitive I would point out that unlike soccer, things actually happen in American football that are enjoyable to watch.
Also, if I was going to be culturally insensitive I would point out that unlike soccer, things actually happen in American football that are enjoyable to watch. But I also like baseball so perhaps my perspective's a little skewed.
Both sports tend to have roughly the same amount of memorable moments per game, as far as I can tell. American football has more opportunities for bathroom breaks though, which I appreciate.
This is a fair statement that I could agree with but there are slight differences, I would say. American football and Baseball seem to be geared towards that big moment to please the fans i.e. Hail Mary (this is a bit of a guess as I don't know a lot about Am Foot) or Grand Slam whereas the big moments in Football (Soccer) can come from anywhere at any time as the continuous play delivers an opportunity for more chances from both teams.
Congratulations to the Packers and the Steelers! You're both a credit to the defunct industries that are your namesakes.
The wealthy elite of nearby Washington, including congressmen and their families, expecting an easy Union victory, had come to picnic and watch the battle. When the Union army was driven back in a running disorder, the roads back to Washington were blocked by panicked civilians attempting to flee in their carriages.
I did not know that! I like that a lot.
Yep! They're the only publicly owned franchise in all of the North American major leagues, to my knowledge.
Seattle Sounders of the MLS are fan owned.
I don't either but the fervor that the Sounders inspire here in Seattle is pretty formidable.
I hate their stupid uniforms though. Everybody in the city seems to have one, so it's like seeing a bunch of walking advertisements go by. Nothing like a massive "XBOX 360" logo on the front of your jersey.
Welcome to professional sports anywhere not in N. America.
It's always been strange to me that most of the major N. American sports have managed to keep sponsor's logos off of their uniforms (the most you'll see is the company that makes the jersey putting their logo really small somewhere below the collar). It's not like N.A. sport is any less corporatised than anywhere else, so how have they managed to hold onto that?
Their TV and radio broadcasts feature in-game namedrops for Coors, Dodge, Ford, Allstate, Speedee, and probably a few others I can't remember off the top of my head.
Considering the new sponsor is Standard Chartered ..
(Only changed this year though)
The cupset I predicted between Saints and Man Utd is in full flight now.
If Manchester United land Adam instead, that's the deal of the transfer window. Terrific player, would bolster them tremendously.
United loan out all their reserve players, but don't sign anyone
True, he is both injured and very probably due for a spell in jail but once he's out, Kenny will hopefully beat the Barton out of him.
I wonder if this schedule is essentially due to the physical exertion (90 minutes is a long while to be running up and down the pitch, after all) or some other reason?
I wonder if this schedule is essentially due to the physical exertion (90 minutes is a long while to be running up and down the pitch, after all) or some other reason?
Not a football expert, but I would guess not.
If you look at cycle racing, schedules can be very tightly packed, especially around the classics and the 6-days. Domestiques and riders in the Blue Train could expect very long periods without a break and enduring more exertion than a 90 minute game.
Cycling is a whole different kind of sport though. Cyclists are expected to be athletes and nothing more, their skill set is how to get the most out of their cycling over whatever distance they cover and there is nothing more than them and their bicycle. Also, taking nothing away from their athletic nature though, they don't tend to stop and start unless something goes wrong so they can get a steady motion and keep the momentum up for long distances and there is no slipstream for footballers the way there is in a cycling train.Cycling is not a single sport, but a whole family of sports with widely varying physical and mental demands. BMX racing, cyclocross, time-trialling, stage-racing, and velodrome sprinting don't have a lot in common beyond involving bicycles. About the only discipline in which "there is nothing more than them and their bicycle" is an individual time-trial, in which there is no paceline and drafting is illegal.
HOLY SHIT GOALIE FIGHT
http://video.nhl.com/videocenter/console?hdpid=49&id=95819
I was just thinking yesterday that it'd be pretty rad to see two goalies drop the gloves
Speaking of soccer jerseys and sponsors on uniforms and American sports and so on:
This is pretty neat (http://imgur.com/a/I7b32)
NO.
Speaking of soccer jerseys and sponsors on uniforms and American sports and so on:
This is pretty neat (http://imgur.com/a/I7b32)
NO.
So for all these footy people on here who presume so much about their sport </light_sarcasm_mode>, what EPL/UEFA teams would you compare the two Super Bowl combatants to?
Usher was the best part. That and the look on Slash's face when Fergie tried to rub up against him.
Ugh, I'm really starting to feel the Fox in this Superbowl coverage. "This is so much bigger than just a football game." No it's not!Yes Michael Douglas. An annual sporting competition is comparable to getting out of the great depression, the civil rights movement, the space race, and the fall of the USSR.
Amazingly, the Black Eyed Peas halftime show was even more awful than I'd anticipated.
Who the shit was in charge of volume levels for the halftime show performers
Like, seriously, how the fuck did that person ever get a job doing anything ever
I also love that one of the giant letters completely malfunctioned, spelling 'LOE' on the middle of the field.
I also love that one of the giant letters completely malfunctioned, spelling 'LOE' on the middle of the field.You noticed that, too. Good. That helped make it worse than even I thought.
Having watched an unusually large amount of American Football this season thanks to the fact that there are several games a week now screened on free-to-air TV in Australia, it seems to me that this Superbowl was a perfectly entertaining, everyday game of football, rather than an actual Event game, such as last season's. Not a bad game by any stretch of the imagination, but not one that's going to be remembered by anyone who's not a Packers or a Steelers fan for very long and nothing really to distinguish it from any other game of the season other than a lot of fireworks and a half-time "extravaganza" and people who kept saying "Superbowl" a lot.
You were doing good until that last word.
polo? what's that? do you mean horseball?I think you'll find it's referred to as Hoofball.
Not polo though, you pleb.
Also putting quotation marks around football might be the most insufferable thing I've ever seen.
Entirely appropriate to distinguish it from actual football though, unless you prefer the equally nauseating prefix "American" to be used every time.
Not polo though, you pleb.
But horses have feet, therefore still played on foot.
Pitchers and catchers reported today.
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Wait, wait... ManU is UNDEFEATED? In EPL Play????
Pitchers and catchers reported today.
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Now begins the stretch until March 31st, which will somehow feel even longer than the last three months.
He'll probably start the season in AAA but that will mostly be to game service time so he's not Super 2 eligible down the line.
We might see Arsenal surprise Barcelona tonight too, they actually have most of their best players fit again.
Yeah, decent result. Barcelona must be unhappy, they could have killed the game several times over in the first half. Just goes to show that Wenger knows what he's doing for the most part. Although they rode their luck a lot, they got a result against inarguably the best team in the world. In the first half I was screaming at Eboue but I guess that kind of physical player was needed in the end, just to disrupt play like a big comedy drunk. Quiet game for basically everybody I expected to shine and a few of Arsenal's lesser players were very good overall. Fabs and Nasri couldn't really get in the game much but Wilshere was impressive again. I can't think how he's not going to be absolutely brilliant.
Wish I'd thought to put money on the last couple of nights. I guessed the right score for this and the Spurs match and almost the right goalscorers too (had Nasri to score tonight, not Arshavin - who is incidentally having the best worst season ever?!).
Wait a minute - WHO cares about the Daytona 500?
Perth being full of Saffas and Poms
Wait a minute - WHO won the Daytona 500? (http://sports.espn.go.com/rpm/nascar/cup/news/story?id=6142487)
"I think the world's going to like him a lot."
Also, let's all sit back and enjoy the sight of the Brumbies' 20-year-old rookie Robbie Coleman completely wrongfooting All Blacks/Chiefs fullback Mils Muliaina:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRWlQ5yFRdY#t=0m25s (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRWlQ5yFRdY#t=0m25s)
Man, I could watch that all day.
Sevens players play the most spectacular rugby.
Also as a Springboks supporter living in Perth I am totally OK with the Wallabies playing the Bokke in Perth regularly.
Blah blah blah I'm a Rangers fan
And, you don't end up with what happened to me: I purchased the jersey of one of my favorite players on the Preds - and 24 hours later, he was traded to Colorado. :/
Actually I'd totally get a jersey of a player who didn't play for the team anymore (Mike Richter or Gretzky, f'rinstance), or even the old discontinued Rangers 3rd (http://jerseys-fs.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Hockey%20Jerseys%20for-sale-3286932707075357490.jpg), if that sort of stuff wasn't actually more expensive than the already ridiculously expensive regular jerseys.
Yeah, it's situational. It kinda depends on the player and the condition of the jersey. My uncle's old pristine Puckett jersey is fine but a ratty old Pierzynski Twins jersey is basically just admitting you're cheap.
Yeah, it's situational. It kinda depends on the player and the condition of the jersey. My uncle's old pristine Puckett jersey is fine but a ratty old Pierzynski Twins jersey is basically just admitting you're cheap.
EDIT: What is the accepted practice of wearing older shirts in north america? Because like Shane said all of his jerseys now have players who no longer play for the team so surely it makes more sense to either have a blank shirt or your own otherwise you end up paying out for new jerseys constantly and plenty of people still wear shirts that the team stopped using 5-10 years ago.
Also, Dovey, if you go old school like Richter or Gretz, cool. And like I mentioned above..you could get it on a recent jersey because the Rangers never change, either.
But people who get a legend on a NEW jersey, I hate that so much. It's embarassing how many Bobby Orrs you see on the new Bruins jersey when you go to the Garden. Bobby Orr played in the 70s. The Bruins have changed styles 3 times since then.
Arsenal, what was that all about?
I would get rid of fully half that team. Not good enough.
When Ramsey, Vela, Lansbury, Simpson, Watt, Frimpong, Emmanuel-Thomas, Henderson, Gibbs, Eastmond etc reach maturity and are ready to go into the first team at last, are they really going to play either of the Manchester Teams off the park, let alone the other London clubs?
They should have another one to replace him, same as they should have another decent striker and a decent holding midfielder apart from Song.
Was this the shortest hattrick ever? Kuyt scored three goals from 1 yard, 3 yards and 2 yards collectively. I can't immediately think of a hattrick which was scored from six yards in total. Fair play to him, you have to be there to score them.
I find it very comforting to know that someone out there things that kind of a race is a good idea. Gives me hope for the human species.
Personally speaking, I'm enjoying the hell out of the Miami Heat's collective meltdown. Schadenfreude wheeeeeeee.
Also the Red Sox will win 162 games this year, you heard it here first.
Personally speaking, I'm enjoying the hell out of the Miami Heat's collective meltdown. Schadenfreude wheeeeeeee.
Arsenal Vs Barcelona tonight.
RVP and Fabs both in but Rosicky in for Arshavin?
:psyduck:
I am watching a liveblog of the game and holy shit, is it as fucked as the blog is making out?
Personally speaking, I'm enjoying the hell out of the Miami Heat's collective meltdown. Schadenfreude wheeeeeeee.
Also the Red Sox will win 162 games this year, you heard it here first.
I'm saying 97.
And the "Chara's hit was DIRTY" cries will be heard in 3, 2, 1...
The naysayers are already saying the Brewers are doomed this year since Greinke broke a rib in a pickup basketball game. It's like we can never do anything right, even when we have everything seemingly go our way.
I´m still waiting for a Europa League game with Liverpool that´s actually fun to watch. They have been terribly boring in Europe this season, maybe has something to do with the fact that squad players have been given chances in that competition and they seriously lack quality in depth. Lot´s of work to be done in the summer.
Perhaps you should support a non-terrible team.
FUCK YOU SHANE
As expected, Wiggins the first to go under 17 minutes at the mid point (15k) of the 27k individual time trial. At this point he has already overhauled his minute man Hesjedal and put another 15 seconds into him.
Rob I swear to god you're stalking me. There's a dude at trivia the past two weeks..last week he had a Liverpool jersey, and last night a Flyers t-shirt.
JUST FESS UP IF IT'S YOU, I FEEL BAD FOR GIVING HIM DIRTY LOOKS.
Rob I swear to god you're stalking me. There's a dude at trivia the past two weeks..last week he had a Liverpool jersey, and last night a Flyers t-shirt.
JUST FESS UP IF IT'S YOU, I FEEL BAD FOR GIVING HIM DIRTY LOOKS.
Oh man, you weren't supposed to know. I pay that guy to make you uncomfortable so that you don't win the quiz. Must get him to try harder next time. Maybe a Yankees jersey is in order?
Point is: how would you guys recommend I watch soccer on the internet? also, what teams should I like and why? should I call it football or soccer? ETC ETC ETC
I've never really been in to any kind of sports, but I love to watch soccer (or football, whatever) in real life. I don't have cable or any kind of television programming at all or else I'd probably watch it.
Point is: how would you guys recommend I watch soccer on the internet? also, what teams should I like and why? should I call it football or soccer? ETC ETC ETC
atdhe.ws
Happy National Lack Of Worker Productivity Day!
And, for all of you in the Continental US: "How's your bracket doing?"
blah blah blah new team
That's cool. Former Liverpool legend Steve Nicol is their manager and former Leeds defender Didier Domi is in their defence too. Should do alright.
Manchester United is slated to begin its summer tour with a match against the Revolution July 14.
against the Revolution
omigodomigodomiGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD
Alls I know is that Montreal's back in Boston at the end of the month, and I'm anticipating some very bad blood.
I hope Shane is watching the Revolution tonight, they are giving Champions DC United a hiding right now.
I hope Shane is watching the Revolution tonight, they are giving Champions DC United a hiding right now.
Maybe he's too busy watching the Bruins get beat aw yeaaahhhh
I wanna meet whoever had Butler, VCU and UConn in their Final Four brackets.
I did see the Bs take down Philly last night, though. Ha, Rob. Ha.
Opening Day is Thursday awwwwww yeah.
Opening Day is almost here. I can smell the RAGE in SF waiting to be unleashed.
no thanks, i´d rather watch west ham beat man utd, although it would be very typical of united to win this 3-2
what is his strength?
A) Eff the Giants.
A 3-1 series opening week against heated rivals who've just won a series does, however!
Sample size, my friend. The Orioles aren't going to be leading the AL East all season either.
Speaking of the Red Sox holy shit Shane what is happening I am like flipping a coin to decide whether or not to start walking over to the Tobin bridge to line up with the rest of the jumpers.
I enjoy watching snooker, but my wife hates it. Tonight is her night away this week, so I may get a chance.
The only thing I know about snooker is that there's apparently a player with the nickname "Interesting"?
Also, I guess there's more balls than standard 8-ball.
Lupercal, hate to break it to you (pun not intended) but the black is worth seven points, not eight.
Glad to help you on your way to knowing what is going on.
... overkill to basically everyone else in the thread who likes their balls thrown, kicked, or swung at.
Just because I've been watching more MLB Tonight this season, I've come to a conclusion.
I'm glad I am not a WHITE Sox fan, because Hawk Harrelson is the single most annoying baseball announcer EVER. Even worse than Tim McCarver.
Oddly enough, that was a sub-plot for an episode of How I Met Your Mother.
"Who was the kicker?" "Rashad...Tarkenton?"
YOU GOTTA BE
BLEEPIN' ME
He's a decent enough striker, especially for that kind of money but I'd take a glance at the Barcelona team before making any wagers against the Spanish Champions.
shaggy haired guy, tiny Argentinian guy who admittedly has a SHITTON of goals, that one guy we sold to them, the short haired guy, is Henrik Larsson still there?
Barcelona Versus Manchester United final seems like a no-brainer again.
The former should absolutely destroy the latter unless Fergie comes up with some astounding gamesmanship (didn't work for his successor to be though). They're a weaker side than they were a couple of years ago and I predict a fairly one-sided final from a footballing perspective, unless Barcelona pick up massive injuries and/or suspensions in the Real Madrid second leg.
We are talking about the New York Times that partially own the Red Sox
Schalke might hilariously sodomise Man U 5-0 though.
First Stoke completely outplay Arsenal
Arsenal were the dirtier team in that game, just sayin'.
Not the IRA, no.
Yeah, most normal 9 inning Major League games are 2:30-3:00 long.
Sox v Yankees drag on. They are always long games.
or JSFI
(just some fucking idiots)
Bryan, what's with Ramirez stealing Wilson's crossed arms thingy?
Grats Man U on winning a thing more times than anyone else has won a thing by drawing at Blackburn.
Pardon me if I'm off by a year or seven (I'm geographically challenged as I moved out from the US in '90), but wouldn't the Sox of that era need to wear BLACK socks?
Oh man now I want to watch that game. That is amazing.
19:09 I've just been handed the team-sheet for tonight's game and it's some team for the Reds. Kuszczak; G.Neville (c), Brown, O'Shea, P.Neville; Beckham, Scholes, Butt, Giggs; Rooney, Owen.
Normally I would love to join in a hockey chat, but the world championships are over, and my appetite for fancy goals (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRROpiNAvPw)and gritty hockey battles is
temporarily sated. (http://www.iihf.com/channels-11/iihf-world-championship-wc11/homeiihf.html)
1) From a non-neutral standpoint, are the Cup Finals ALWAYS that intense? I'll have a heart attack if this goes 7.
Also Hoogerland is the greatest sportsperson in the world ever TRUFAX.
Desperately wish Wiggins was still here as I reckon he could make a difference to the methods and the standings.
Desperately wish Wiggins was still here as I reckon he could make a difference to the methods and the standings.
Just like he did in Battle School?
Dovey is a lackwit. Get one now, your life will be infinitely better because of it.
WORDS: EATEN :mrgreen:
@jwhouk: You managed to pique my curiosity. What are you counting down? The number of wins your favorite team needs to win the conference title/world series?Stolen bases/HRs somebody needs to make a record? Days to the kick off of the NCAA season?... :psyduck:
The club will instead participate in the 201112 season of the Russian Major League (VHL), the second top ice hockey league in Russia after the KHL, in December 2011 and will automatically be qualified for the VHL playoffs.[3] Also, Lokomotiv Yaroslavl's squad for the 201213 KHL season will automatically be qualified for the KHL playoffs that season, and the club may request allowance to use more than six non-Russian players in the KHL squad.[4]
Yankees in four, account yourself one brilliant Max Scherzer start.
It is a very good time to be a Wisconsin sports fan, that is for certain. :D
And what exactly do you mean by "action cam"? The overhead shot? They have cables suspended over the playing field to provide those.
Just hatefuck whenever Liverpool and Man U play each other
Is this the part where everyone turns round and looks at me with a slightly menacing look of perplexion?Only the guys, Barmy. Only the guys... :-D
THE FRENCH LOST! :-D
Well, admittedly it was only by one point, but
THE WILLIAM WEBB ELLIS TROPY IS OURS AGAIN!!!!
THE FRENCH LOST! :-D
Well, admittedly it was only by one point, but
THE WILLIAM WEBB ELLIS TROPY IS OURS AGAIN!!!!
Your avatar has to dance the haka or it didn't happen :-)
Congrats to All Blacks and their supporters!
Difference between European Football and American Football:
In Europe, if you lose all your games, you get relegated to a lesser league.
In America, if you lose all your games, you get the first pick in next year's draft!
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And, of course, I won't truly believe in the draft as the great equalizer unless the Cubs win the world series one of these centuries.
Playing soccer in New England in February? No thank you.Finland's contribution to international extreme soccer is the annual Swamp Soccer World Championship Tournament. (http://www.ukkohalla.fi/en/events/swamp+soccer/)
Difference between European Football and American Football:I like the NFL system better. Fairer and more chance for drama!
In Europe, if you lose all your games, you get relegated to a lesser league.
In America, if you lose all your games, you get the first pick in next year's draft!
There'd be complaints from here to the Gulf Coast that they deserve a shot - especially if LSU blows it against Arkansas.
You really think that Houston would be a serious candidate for the title game?
And before this becomes TOO much of my own thread to post in, I'll go out on a limb and say this is what the Top 5 in the BCS will look like:Officially I *have to* challenge that list because Stanford has yet to play Notre Dame. Judging from what I saw last night, this is unfortunately quite close to the mark...
1. LSU
2. Bama
3. Arkansas
4. Stanford
5. Virginia Tech
Houston will be sitting at number 6, most likely.
Or are you in favor of a play-off, a la NCAA hoops? I think the season is long enough as it is. These kids are supposed to study, too!
Didn't know that! A bit surprising actually. Where are the college sport reformers, when we need them the most?Or are you in favor of a play-off, a la NCAA hoops? I think the season is long enough as it is. These kids are supposed to study, too!
This point is invalidated by the fact that Div II and III football DOES have playoffs (16 teams), and those are real student athletes who are playing without scholarships or chance to join the pros.
In local NBA news, the Sacramento King's arena, which for years went under the moniker Arco Arena, but sold naming rights to the makers of "Power Balance" bands (scammy magnetic wrist bands that supposedly increase athletic performance) last March to Power Balance Pavillion, has had irony slap them upside the head. The Power Balance company has just declared bankruptcy because they lost a lawsuit where any customer who ever bought one of their products may return it for a full refund because of fraudulent advertising claims.
Not like we'll ever see the Kings play there again given the combination of the lock-out and the owner's attempt to move the team to Anaheim.
Didn't know that! A bit surprising actually. Where are the college sport reformers, when we need them the most?Or are you in favor of a play-off, a la NCAA hoops? I think the season is long enough as it is. These kids are supposed to study, too!
This point is invalidated by the fact that Div II and III football DOES have playoffs (16 teams), and those are real student athletes who are playing without scholarships or chance to join the pros.
Playoffs are kind of fun, when the nature of the game is such that the teams can play 4 games in a week, but that's not the case with football (might be interesting to see, though?). Otherwise it has the air of prolonging the agony. I also feel that the "best team of the year" means something else than "a decent team that just got its act together in January". But that is just me...
In local NBA news, the Sacramento King's arena, which for years went under the moniker Arco Arena, but sold naming rights to the makers of "Power Balance" bands (scammy magnetic wrist bands that supposedly increase athletic performance) last March to Power Balance Pavillion, has had irony slap them upside the head. The Power Balance company has just declared bankruptcy because they lost a lawsuit where any customer who ever bought one of their products may return it for a full refund because of fraudulent advertising claims.
Not like we'll ever see the Kings play there again given the combination of the lock-out and the owner's attempt to move the team to Anaheim.
Ouch. What do they call the stadium now? "The no name pavillion"? "A balancing act"? Or is it still PBP simply because nobody can pay the maintenance guys to take down the neon lights, banners and whatnot?
Arrggh. A wolverine?
Arrggh. A wolverine?
UM grad here. Are we going to have to battle?
Arrggh. A wolverine?
UM grad here. Are we going to have to battle?
So what would you do with $260,000,000?I wouldn't play in Los Angeles for the next 10 years, that's for sure.
where is your god now, tebow?
where is your god now, tebow?
Seriously - 108.8 miles per hour??? :|
What in the name of Blake Geoffrion's granddaddy does Shea Weber have to do to win the Hardest Shot competition?
Any hockey fans? I love the Red Wings, I always have. i think it started from playing Blades of Steel for the NES!
Blades of Steel for the NES!
Never going to happen.
Never going to happen.
Never say never.
Yankees are the Yankees. Rays, Jays and O's have all improved over the winter. What have the Sawx done?
What if they start eating chicken and drinking beer in May?
Would it shock you if the Sawx finished dead last in the East this year?
Just wondering.
I will predict the following:
Albert Pujols will be the first player to hit five home runs in a single game. He will do so on his first visit to Fenway Park.
Prince Fielder may come close to being the second.
Wait what?
The Red Sox will have some actual competition on Thursday, when they make the short trip to Hammond Stadium to play the Twins in a "B" game.
Thursday, when they make the short trip to Hammond Stadium to play the Twins in a "B" game.
play the Twins
THURSDAY
If Torres isn't suspended for the rest of the series, the rest of the players in these playoffs better make sure their life insurance policies are paid up.
AUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Spain won the Euro 2012 championship 4-0 against Italy. Their style of football is unbelievable and it is not surprising that they haven't conceded a goal since 2006. Not in SIX YEARS have this team let one in.Given that in the preliminary round Spain vs. Italy ended in a 1-1 draw this is somewhat of an overstatement. I guess you meant to include only the KO matches of the major tournaments or something?
Spain won the Euro 2012 championship 4-0 against Italy. Their style of football is unbelievable and it is not surprising that they haven't conceded a goal since 2006. Not in SIX YEARS have this team let one in.Given that in the preliminary round Spain vs. Italy ended in a 1-1 draw this is somewhat of an overstatement. I guess you meant to include only the KO matches of the major tournaments or something?
But yeah, Spain gave a strong impression the matches that I happened to see. The final was a walkover. They could have just shaken hands after about 75 minutes.
Spain won the Euro 2012 championship 4-0 against Italy. Their style of football is unbelievable and it is not surprising that they haven't conceded a goal since 2006.
And David Beckham is in his late 30s - he is too old to be playing for England
I believe in the church of baseball.
Ninety per cent of baseball is half mental.
Take me out to the ballparkgame. <- Thanks, jwhouk. As ashamed as a(n ex-)Cubs fan can be. IOW - not at all.
I know nothing of baseball culture, but really? (http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2012/08/02/derek-dye-intern-ejected-by-umpire-for-playing-three-blind-mice/)
My reaction to Packers-Seahawksanyone:
(http://picturepoetry.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/achewood-beef-hee-hee.jpg)
John Farrell, John Farrell, JOHN FARRELL!!!!!
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.Rest of story (http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_268751/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=28M2Ry1y)
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.
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.
YES!
(http://cdn3.sbnation.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/4666373/20121208_pjc_aa9_533.0_standard_352.0.jpg)
Or were you celebrating something else?
Oh, and CrayWales, it's not that we're ignoring you. We have several NHL fans here, and some of us are hockey-obsessed this time of year.I think that is directed at me, and no worries, I'm a Welshman diving into American, and I assume Canadian rivalry. Closest I can compare to that is England vs Wales in rugby, I'd like to assume any rugby fan knows that is one of the biggest rivalries in the sport of rugby.
San Jose won all three against Vancouver this year, with one in overtime. So you know what's going to happen, of course:
Canucks will sweep them. :-o
Surprised that U of M would play baseball there, instead of at Target Field or their own facility.
Don't worry, Patrick. Your season will be over Sunday. ;)
Hey QC, do you play tennis? I found a pretty decent racket at a thrift store over the weekend, and am gonna start playing with some friends of mine that were on the varsity team in high school (though geez that was like 8 years ago).
B's in a sweep. Rask for Connie.
Jesus y'all are a bunch of haters.
http://deadspin.com/fuck-you-bill-belichick-512568029
Tebow to the Patriots ...
MURRAY DID IT!!!!
After 77 years there is a BRITISH Wimbledon Champion.
Well bloody done!
And I remember watching that match. She beat Chris Evert-Lloyd. And sportingly offered to replay a ball, when Evert-Lloyd complain about a call by one of the referees. Something that I remember from my youth is considered ancient history :psyduck: :psyduck:
Virginia Wade is British and she won 40 years ago.
who the hell watches men's tennis anyway, half the fun of watching tennis is the shit-hot Russian girls in skirts
Wrestling will return to the Olympics in 2020.
Maybe WWE will suspend their season to send athletes to Japan. :lol:
2 things: to nobody's surprise, Giants are mathematically eliminated from the running to get into the playoffs, and HOCKEY HOCKEY HOCKEY HOCKEY HOCKEY HOCKEY HOCKEY HOCKEY HOCKEY HOCKEY IS BAAAAAAAAACKI have to admit my first thought on seeing this post was wondering how the Giants could be out of the playoffs already when the season just began a couple weeks ago.
I've been to 16 NHL games. 15 of them involving the Predators.
Make that 17 and 16, if you include pre-season games.
I can't answer for ev4n, but I can say that Shane has expressed unprecedented levels of butthurt at the new Sharks sweaters. I agree with him on the white ones, but the teal ones look incredible. super clean.
It ain't cheating if you don't get caught, son. ;)
Every jersey is better than Philadelphia's MLS jersey.
I can't answer for ev4n, but I can say that Shane has expressed unprecedented levels of butthurt at the new Sharks sweaters. I agree with him on the white ones, but the teal ones look incredible. super clean.
A PROPER HOCKEY SWEATER FUCKING HAS STRIPES ON THE BOTTOM OF IT.
Wahhh, stripes are too damn heavy BUT WE'RE GONNA SEW A BUNCHA COMPLETELY NON-LEAGUE-MANDATED UNNECESSARY NUMBERS ON THE FRONT OF THE JERSEY
I have no idea why the NFL plays exhibition matches in England. Literally no clue. England has never cared about American football. Ever. Probably never will. It is a shit sport compared to Way More Badass rugby.
Precisely what aspect of it is illegal, then?
Real.
Illegal move in pro football.
I never get why people think that rugby is more bad-ass. To me, soccer and rugby with their continued play are just way softer than two mammoth teams, half of the players chosen for size and strength, bashing into each other 70 times a game in head-on colissions.
I never get why people think that rugby is more bad-ass. To me, soccer and rugby with their continued play are just way softer than two mammoth teams, half of the players chosen for size and strength, bashing into each other 70 times a game in head-on colissions.This weekend our footy Grand Finals take place. Here's a taste of the pansified clashes likely to take place between the small, weak, positively puny players of the NRL, who are of course never chosen for their size and strength:
I have no idea why the NFL plays exhibition matches in England. Literally no clue. England has never cared about American football. Ever. Probably never will. It is a shit sport compared to Way More Badass rugby.
I have no idea why the NFL plays exhibition matches in England. Literally no clue. England has never cared about American football. Ever. Probably never will. It is a shit sport compared to Way More Badass rugby.
So, London had a World League/NFL Europe team for like, a decade. Not to mention that every year the NFL has this game in London, they sell out Wembley, and they sell it out rather fast for what usually ends up being two shitty teams.
Does Ryan still come around here at all? He used to play for a team in the top British league. Let him explain England's fascination with football in better detail.
I've also noticed that an entire generation has come of age not knowing a time when hockey in the south was a novelty.
I have no idea why the NFL plays exhibition matches in England. Literally no clue. England has never cared about American football. Ever. Probably never will. It is a shit sport compared to Way More Badass rugby.
@Jay_Grossman
#Preds G Pekka Rinne to see Drs. this AM, more clarity on his situation later today
I realize that, but it's still obviously just to show England what Murca's all about.
PS hockey folks, I know Hertl isn't scoring much lately, but he's making good plays still. and how about that goddamn killer shootout save by Niemi tonight, and how's about undefeated in reg? fuck yeah, this Sharks fan is real proud lately.
so then every team's gonna have to fly halfway around the world for one day? sounds... efficient.
I don't think you're taking flight time into account, and only accounting for the time zone difference. A flight from SFO (nobody flies to London from OAK) to LHR is gonna be around 11 hours. That's gonna total to a full day's worth of time where they can't train or do anything else useful.
So before the game one of my co-workers told me that Ohio State was supposedly on "upset watch."
It's now 63-7, so LOLOLOLOLOL.
And the Buckeyes just got a touchdown. I'm glad that they've decided to continue running up the score, fuck Penn State. Here's hoping they break 70.
Instant replay in baseball can't come soon enough. The hell with the "tradition" of blindness, bad calls, moronic bowing to the crew chief's word when all evidence is to the contrary: they need to institute it. :oops: :x
Instant replay in baseball can't come soon enough. The hell with the "tradition" of blindness, bad calls, moronic bowing to the crew chief's word when all evidence is to the contrary: they need to institute it. :oops: :x
Yeah, but at least they got that obstruction call right in game 3.
what, baseball isn't long enough for you?
It also doesn't help that there are more in-game delays than ever before (stepping out of the box, stepping off the mound, throws over to first, etc.).
Instant replay in baseball can't come soon enough. The hell with the "tradition" of blindness, bad calls, moronic bowing to the crew chief's word when all evidence is to the contrary: they need to institute it. :oops: :x
Yeah, but at least they got that obstruction call right in game 3.
It might be "right" in the literal sense but on replay you could see he didn't interfere directly and with intent to slow down the runner- it was wrong place, wrong time. But that won't change the outcome anymore and the win last night put that to rest for the time being...but it's not the only play this fall that has been the subject of debate about the usage.
OBSTRUCTION is the act of a fielder who, while not in possession of the ball and not in the act of fielding the ball, impedes the progress of any runner.
Rule 2.00 (Obstruction) Comment: If a fielder is about to receive a thrown ball and if the ball is in flight directly toward and near enough to the fielder so he must occupy his position to receive the ball he may be considered in the act of fielding a ball. It is entirely up to the judgment of the umpire as to whether a fielder is in the act of fielding a ball. After a fielder has made an attempt to field a ball and missed, he can no longer be in the act of fielding the ball. For example: an infielder dives at a ground ball and the ball passes him and he continues to lie on the ground and delays the progress of the runner, he very likely has obstructed the runner.
Instant replay in baseball can't come soon enough. The hell with the "tradition" of blindness, bad calls, moronic bowing to the crew chief's word when all evidence is to the contrary: they need to institute it. :oops: :x
Yeah, but at least they got that obstruction call right in game 3.
It might be "right" in the literal sense but on replay you could see he didn't interfere directly and with intent to slow down the runner- it was wrong place, wrong time. But that won't change the outcome anymore and the win last night put that to rest for the time being...but it's not the only play this fall that has been the subject of debate about the usage.Quote from: MLB RulebookOBSTRUCTION is the act of a fielder who, while not in possession of the ball and not in the act of fielding the ball, impedes the progress of any runner.
Rule 2.00 (Obstruction) Comment: If a fielder is about to receive a thrown ball and if the ball is in flight directly toward and near enough to the fielder so he must occupy his position to receive the ball he may be considered in the act of fielding a ball. It is entirely up to the judgment of the umpire as to whether a fielder is in the act of fielding a ball. After a fielder has made an attempt to field a ball and missed, he can no longer be in the act of fielding the ball. For example: an infielder dives at a ground ball and the ball passes him and he continues to lie on the ground and delays the progress of the runner, he very likely has obstructed the runner.
Absent is the word "intentional." Obstruction is obstruction whether it's accidental or not.
If we'd had video replay, there would have been TWO triple plays in world series history.
I am disappointed at the Murphys on that one. Everyone knows it's, "Tessie, You know I love you mad-lyyyyyy...."
Ohio State's perfect season continues to be marred by underperforming teams in the rest of the Big 10. None of the voters are going to be impressed by a win against 1-6 Purdue. And after a big loss to #24 Michigan State, #23 That Team Up North, formally the only ranked opponent still on OSU's schedule, will probably drop out of the rankings, and the Buckeye's hopes for a national championship will drop along with them.
Michigan bit the dust against Nebraska, meaning Northwestern will be the only rank team we played all season.
Fuck you very much, rest of the Big 10. Stop losing against teams that aren't Ohio State.
The Greenbay one is weak. The Denver one is bad ass.
deserts get cold as fuck at night, dogg
Looking at the standings for the west I saw something odd. Can anyone explain how they are going to play hockey outdoors in a desert environment, even if it is winter? :roll:
...But I didn't think you lived in Toronto?
:-D
I don't usually care much for the SEC's warm weather imitation of football, but that Iron Bowl was pretty intense.
I would just like to thank Auburn for improving Ohio State's chances of going to the National Championship game.
Should Missouri and Michigan State do the somewhat unthinkable and win their respective Conference Championship games, (and, assuming that Florida State does not trip over Duke), who here thinks the BCS people are just going to say, "Screw it, get Saban on the phone"?
Should Missouri and Michigan State do the somewhat unthinkable and win their respective Conference Championship games, (and, assuming that Florida State does not trip over Duke), who here thinks the BCS people are just going to say, "Screw it, get Saban on the phone"?
Should Missouri and Michigan State do the somewhat unthinkable and win their respective Conference Championship games, (and, assuming that Florida State does not trip over Duke), who here thinks the BCS people are just going to say, "Screw it, get Saban on the phone"?
Michigan State winning is not in anyway unthinkable. All Ohio State has to do is have the same piss-poor defensive showing that almost got them beat by Michigan.
Ohio State's perfect season continues to be marred by underperforming teams in the rest of the Big 10. None of the voters are going to be impressed by a win against 1-6 Purdue. And after a big loss to #24 Michigan State, #23 That Team Up North, formally the only ranked opponent still on OSU's schedule, will probably drop out of the rankings, and the Buckeye's hopes for a national championship will drop along with them.
Ohio State's perfect season continues to be marred by underperforming teams in the rest of the Big 10. None of the voters are going to be impressed by a win against 1-6 Purdue. And after a big loss to #24 Michigan State, #23 That Team Up North, formally the only ranked opponent still on OSU's schedule, will probably drop out of the rankings, and the Buckeye's hopes for a national championship will drop along with them.
34-24 How's that for underperforming?
Now this is my idea of football weather!
...and they now go on to get their butts kicked by the MTSU Raiders in the Military Bowl.
Now this is my idea of football weather!
I always enjoyed football games in that kind of weather when I was in high school, but that could have been because I was in the band and we wore very warm wool uniforms.Now this is my idea of football weather!
I played in that weather a couple of times, it ain't fun!!!! :psyduck:
Then again I was standing on the sidelines the whole game, had to warm up in slush, rocks, and mud, only got indoors at halftime so maybe my recollections aren't exactly the rosiest of memories :cry:
Romo really knows how to Romo when Romo-ing is called for, huh?
I so want this to be a common usage verb.
none of the major league stadiums had stupid corporate sponsor names. Now they all do. This upsets me.
none of the major league stadiums had stupid corporate sponsor names. Now they all do. This upsets me.
Modern life... Even one of the colleges of Oxford University has gone that way (Manchester College is now Harris Manchester College, named for a carpet tycoon who saved it with a donation). This is not quite the same as being named after a founder, like Nuffield College (after Lord Nuffield, the creator of Morris Motors, the company that made the Mini).
Amazing the amount of drooling going on over Peyton Manning and records, none of which mentioned his play in Denver being assisted by the thin air or lackluster division or easier schedule. But why let those get in the way of the fantasies of him being a living legend despite a lack of rings, a long track record of being a horrible teammate, and finding ways of losing then blaming his teammates for screwing up his own screw ups...As a fan of european soccer, I find out obsession with playoff success to be a bit silly.
As a fan of european soccer, I find out obsession with playoff success to be a bit silly.
Besides, do you feel Elway was overrated, too?
Welp, I'm sure some of our membership here has heard about the rumors swirling around up here in the Tundra.
I want to make one thing perfectly clear: Aaron Rodgers is a great quarterback. He has led - and is more than capable of leading again - the Packers to the Super Bowl. He is also a great humanitarian who does great work for charities and is a truly funny guy.
I don't give one flying flip about his sexual preferences or what he does in his time away from the game - as long as it doesn't prevent him from playing football for the Green Bay Packers.
Sorry, seeing guys aiming for the triple-20 constantly gets tedious after a while.
And the Aussies and Irish are already crying, "NO! WE CALL IT FOOTBALL!"
In other news, we're already off to a wonderful start in Wisconsin sports for 2014. UW loses to the Gamecocks in the "Consolation Bowl", while news out of Lambeau is that the game might not be a sellout on Saturday.
Sorry, seeing guys aiming for the triple-20 constantly gets tedious after a while.
Packers aren't the only team having trouble. The Colts and Bengals haven't sold out either.
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/nfl-alarmed-three-four-playoff-games-including-green-213137570--nfl.html
Welp, I'm sure some of our membership here has heard about the rumors swirling around up here in the Tundra.
I want to make one thing perfectly clear: Aaron Rodgers is a great quarterback. He has led - and is more than capable of leading again - the Packers to the Super Bowl. He is also a great humanitarian who does great work for charities and is a truly funny guy.
I don't give one flying flip about his sexual preferences or what he does in his time away from the game - as long as it doesn't prevent him from playing football for the Green Bay Packers.
Welp, The Buckeyes lost. We had such a great run and it got messed up in the last two games. It was fun to watch though, I love a good offensive slugfest.
On the news they're talking about the Packers-49ers games possibly being the coldest NFL game ever. Call me a literal fair-weather fan, but if I had tickets to see my team and the forecast temperature was 20 below, I'd stay home.
Welp, The Buckeyes lost. We had such a great run and it got messed up in the last two games. It was fun to watch though, I love a good offensive slugfest.
On the news they're talking about the Packers-49ers games possibly being the coldest NFL game ever. Call me a literal fair-weather fan, but if I had tickets to see my team and the forecast temperature was 20 below, I'd stay home.
20 below? Did the weather shift for the worse? I was reading that it was going to be about -5 or so, still about five to 10 degrees warmer than the Ice Bowl in '67...the record low temp for a game.
Welp, The Buckeyes lost. We had such a great run and it got messed up in the last two games. It was fun to watch though, I love a good offensive slugfest.
On the news they're talking about the Packers-49ers games possibly being the coldest NFL game ever. Call me a literal fair-weather fan, but if I had tickets to see my team and the forecast temperature was 20 below, I'd stay home.
20 below? Did the weather shift for the worse? I was reading that it was going to be about -5 or so, still about five to 10 degrees warmer than the Ice Bowl in '67...the record low temp for a game.
The forecast low is down to -22 (http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=44.51915899999999&lon=-88.01982599999997&site=all&smap=1&searchresult=Green%20Bay%2C%20WI%2C%20USA#.UsjYwvRDtGI). Because the game is being played in the late afternoon, it could definitely break the Ice Bowl record.
I hope the refs have plastic whistles this time.
in those situations, why in the actual fuck do they even bother playing in an outdoor venue?
in those situations, why in the actual fuck do they even bother playing in an outdoor venue?
Because weather is part of the game. I despise the rise of indoor stadiums.
in those situations, why in the actual fuck do they even bother playing in an outdoor venue?
in those situations, why in the actual fuck do they even bother playing in an outdoor venue?
Because weather is part of the game. I despise the rise of indoor stadiums.
There's weather and then there's suicide. Even Tauntauns, native to Hoth, freeze to death.
except boners.
I have this mental picture of football players being shoved inside gutted tauntauns for warmth while they aren't on the field playing. It is hilarious.
I tried watching cricket once. The match had to be stopped because it was too cloudy.
It wasn't raining, just cloudy.
Wide receiver Steve Smith predicted himself to be at 61 percent Friday after downgrading himself to 57 percent Thursday.
He said there is an 89 percent chance he will play on Sunday vs. the 49ers.
15 days, no contact with the team. Have a nice vacation, Torts.
There are always three things I root for in a Super Bowl:So your ideal would be a game that goes 0-0 into overtime, and then is won by a punt return for a touchdown?
1. A shutout game.
2. An overtime game.
3. A punt return for a touchdown.
The reason is simple: none of the three have ever happened in the 48 years the NFL has been doing this Super Bowl thingy.
There are always three things I root for in a Super Bowl:
1. A shutout game.
2. An overtime game.
3. A punt return for a touchdown.
The reason is simple: none of the three have ever happened in the 48 years the NFL has been doing this Super Bowl thingy.
Wit
So your ideal would be a game that goes 0-0 into overtime, and then is won by a punt return for a touchdown?
There are always three things I root for in a Super Bowl:
1. A shutout game.
2. An overtime game.
3. A punt return for a touchdown.
The reason is simple: none of the three have ever happened in the 48 years the NFL has been doing this Super Bowl thingy.
There are always three things I root for in a Super Bowl:So your ideal would be a game that goes 0-0 into overtime, and then is won by a punt return for a touchdown?
1. A shutout game.
2. An overtime game.
3. A punt return for a touchdown.
The reason is simple: none of the three have ever happened in the 48 years the NFL has been doing this Super Bowl thingy.
And lo did Gretzky come amongst the people and say "Keep holy thy sacred game day, and honor it with the consumption of hopped beverages and fatty meats, wearth the colors of thine devotion openly and proudly, and challenge believers of other sects in public, while those who root for other teams may be flawed in thine eyes, thou must remember that those who follow the lesser sports such as Baseball, Football and Shuffleboard are but misguided lambs, as you once were, and must be lead to the truth, usually by watching someone score a sweet hat trick during a high stakes game"
I'm hoping the Browns grab Michael Vick in free agency. The Dawg Pound jokes write themselves!
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1994. 74-40 on a small market, struggling franchise. Who promptly went under.
Shark hunting time.
Hey, you have nothing to play for.Shark hunting time.Aww, that's cute
I was born in Toronto. They haven't won a cup since before I was born.
Hockey/Lesser sports
rugby and hockey are on the same level, and then there's lesser sports
In fucking June. :psyduck:Yeah... so? Winter = rugby.
I think Akima's point might have been that it is winter, you're just on the wrong hemisphere.Yeah. I didn't grasp that GM was merely impatient as opposed to being confused about rugby being played in June.
Okay, I think I walked into that one. :lol:
Still - I'm torn. My "Hate the Original Six" bias is going up against "Team that hasn't won it in the last five years" bias.
The big winner, of course, is the NHL - the two largest metro areas in North America, facing each other in the championship.
I take it Uruguay's best stars play for Liverpool FC?
And Beo: the NCAA went to an overtime system that some in the NFL would not mind seeing copied. Each team gets the ball at the opponent 25, and has an untimed series to score. Whatever the result, the opposing team then gets the ball at the other 25 and has a chance to score. If one team scores more than the other, they win. If it's still tied after each team has had the ball, they do it again - but this time, no point-after kicks. You have to go for a two-point conversion.
I always figured the NFL's system was fast but inherently unfair because TV time slots were more important than anything else in the NFL.
me too, now I don't have to listen to all the douchenuggets who like soccer for one month every 4 years
Great, baseball season again. Ugh. I fucking hate baseball. Never heard of a sport that had more of an overwhelmingly self-righteous attitude among the fanbase, and the following is my story.
I spent 3 years of my life trying to learn about baseball because I found it interesting. After having never grown up around sports, followed by 5 years of living in Europe, where baseball is almost unheard of, it was fascinating, exhilarating. I moved back to the U.S. in 2009, my best friend (a Giants fan) got me started watching baseball at the start of 2010, and lo and behold, SF wins the World Series. I was stoked, because my best friend was stoked. The overwhelming majority of baseball fans, upon the discovery that I was a new fan, accused me of being title residue, nothing but some shithead bandwagon fan. Never felt more belittled by something so trivial in my entire life.
I'm just one man, so my absence from the ranks of baseball fans won't impact the sport. But I am still a man, with every right to enjoy a sport for my own reasons, regardless of how long I've been a fan. Treat new fans with patience and respect. Don't bully them into not liking the sport altogether.
The Tour de France starts tomorrow. It's the toughest professional sporting event in the world. It starts in the greatest count(r)y in the world. It will be awesome. Already very excited about being able to watch two stages in person. I may have to spend a lot of today jumping up and down.Toughest professional sporting event in the world? Bullshit. Try competitive dog sled racing. An average of a thousand miles of travel in some of most hostile and lonely terrain on earth. Lance Armstrong would never survive the Iditarod.
GM has a point. Y'all in Europe have NFC about how hard it is to go from point A to point B in Alaska, during the middle of February/March.
Tour de France is the biking equivalent of a Formula One race. Lots of flash and dash, but everyone knows who's going to win before the race even starts.
GM has a point. Y'all in Europe have NFC about how hard it is to go from point A to point B in Alaska, during the middle of February/March.
Tour de France is the biking equivalent of a Formula One race. Lots of flash and dash, but everyone knows who's going to win before the race even starts.
Just a couple of comments on this. You do realise that the Iditarod is inspired by the efforts of a Norwegian don't you? It's also been won by both Swiss and Norwegian competitors. In fact getting from point A to Point B in Alaska in the middle of February/March might be considered very similar to the same in Norway, Sweden, Iceland and Finland, all European countries and all of which used dog sleds for transport in winter.
And if everyone knows who's going to win the Tour de France then perhaps you can tell us who's going to get this year's Yellow, Green, Polka Dot and White jerseys, the Combativity award and each of the individual stages. We'll see if you're right in three weeks time.
me too, now I don't have to listen to all the douchenuggets who like soccer for one month every 4 years
You sounded different about fair weather fans about 3 months ago.Great, baseball season again. Ugh. I fucking hate baseball. Never heard of a sport that had more of an overwhelmingly self-righteous attitude among the fanbase, and the following is my story.
I spent 3 years of my life trying to learn about baseball because I found it interesting. After having never grown up around sports, followed by 5 years of living in Europe, where baseball is almost unheard of, it was fascinating, exhilarating. I moved back to the U.S. in 2009, my best friend (a Giants fan) got me started watching baseball at the start of 2010, and lo and behold, SF wins the World Series. I was stoked, because my best friend was stoked. The overwhelming majority of baseball fans, upon the discovery that I was a new fan, accused me of being title residue, nothing but some shithead bandwagon fan. Never felt more belittled by something so trivial in my entire life.
I'm just one man, so my absence from the ranks of baseball fans won't impact the sport. But I am still a man, with every right to enjoy a sport for my own reasons, regardless of how long I've been a fan. Treat new fans with patience and respect. Don't bully them into not liking the sport altogether.
So, is anybody watching the game Germany vs. Brazil? Because it's nothing short of hilarious. :-DSure, in the same sense that you can't spell "slaughter" without "laughter". When Brazilian fans started cheering the Germans, you knew it was a disaster.
Are they allowed to just not turn up?
DEUTSCHLAND WELTMEISTER! Götze with the game winner in 2OT. Beautiful goal, caught it on his chest and crossed it into the far side of the net. The kind of thing dreams are made of.
Such an amazing weekend of racing. Blel Kadri timing everything brilliantly, Simon Yates properly getting in the mix on the breakaway and a good GC sort out at the end of the day on Saturday. Sunday was an awesome show of power by Tony Martin dishing out 2.45 on everyone else and France getting to wear the Yellow Jersey on Bastille Day.
Football fans should also note the brilliance of Tony Martin as apparently he won the World Cup.
DEUTSCHLAND WELTMEISTER! Götze with the game winner in 2OT. Beautiful goal, caught it on his chest and crossed it into the far side of the net. The kind of thing dreams are made of.
There is a sick part of me who reads that as Goatse scoring the winning goal.
I was working an afternoon Philadelphia-New Jersey game at the Spectrum; the back end of a home-and-home. The Devils won the previous game, 6-4, in a game refereed by Mark Faucette. The game got chippy late in the third period, with about 40 penalty minutes being handed out in the final five minutes, including roughing penalties to Lindros and Scott Stevens in the waning seconds of the game.
The start of the game at the Spectrum was delayed several minutes. I had to wait for the red light on the scorers table to indicate that the broadcast had returned from a commercial and it was OK to drop the opening faceoff.
During the delay, I made small talk with several of the Devils and Flyers on the ice. I said hello to Mark Recchi and talked to Bernie Nicholls. I then tried to greet the 19-year-old rookie Lindros.
Hey, Eric. How are things going? Hows your dad? I asked.
The response: (Bleep) you. Just drop the (bleeping) puck already.
Lindros was apparently in a bad mood because hed recently missed 12 games with a knee injury, the team was in a losing skid, and hed had a tough game in New Jersey. This game was also played about a week after Lindros had to go to court in Toronto after the Koo Koo Bananas incident. You know what? Those were his problems, not mine. But we were about to have a mutual problem.
Right off the opening faceoff, Lindros bulled forward and drilled Nicholls under the chin with his stick. I ditched Lindros on a high-sticking penalty.
Before the game, I had brought a tube filled with posters to Flyers equipment manager Jim Turk Evers. The posters, which depicted Recchi and Lindros, were to be autographed and then donated to a charity auction. I had done a similar thing in other cities, such as a Cam Neely and Ray Bourque poster in Boston, and a Mario Lemieux and Jaromir Jagr in Pittsburgh.
After the game, I want to Turk to collect the poster tube.
Stewy, youre not going to like this, Evers said. I dont have them.
What do you mean you dont have them? I asked.
Well, Rex signed the posters but when Eric found out they were for you, he tore every one of them up. Im sorry about that.
I never spoke to Eric Lindros again.
One year, much later in his career when he was with the Rangers, I ended up getting him on eight minor penalties that season. I caught some heat for it from John Davidson on the Rangers broadcasts, but the truth of the matter was this: I did NOT go out of my way to invent penalties on Lindros or any player but I wasnt going to give that guy a break on anything borderline that I might have let slide with a player who had gained acceptability with me.
stewart then says he treated him differently while as an official. i didnt know players needed personal acceptance with officials to be treated the same way.
Good teams overcome bad officiating.
Nobody has an ethical problem with terminating an employee for reasons that have nothing to do with his job?
Nobody has an ethical problem with terminating an employee for reasons that have nothing to do with his job?
Nobody has an ethical problem with terminating an employee for reasons that have nothing to do with his job?
Out of interest, roughly where would you draw the line on this one?
Is there anything outside of a player's sport that you feel would merit a termination of their job or a ban by the governing authority?
Can be tricky if the victim is unwilling to support action/prosecution against the perpetrator which appears to be situation in this case.Clearly a match made in Stockholm.
To go further, I think employers should have an obligation to rehire felons after they're released from prison.
I assume we're talking about Ray Rice. I'll relay a personal anecdote. A fellow coworker of mine is on the chopping block because of an incident where he represented the company name while attempting to start a fight at the bar I moonlight at. Rice is constantly a representative of the NFL, and committed a pretty high profile crime. I fail to see a distinction between the two. My coworker is small time, Rice is nationally televised every time he takes the field. Where is the line?
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To go further, I think employers should have an obligation to rehire felons after they're released from prison.
I'll propose this parallel scenario for you. Imagine that both a teacher and a sportsperson are convicted of child molestation crimes. Even after imprisonment and rehabilitative programmes we know that they will pose a high risk to children in the future. Both professions would put them in the position of access to children, particularly ones that are vulnerable to exploitation. Would you really expect the school or the sports team to rehire these people on release from prison and, if so, why?
Women who are wearing Ray Rice's jersey deserve to be punched in the face. Repeatedly.
I assume we're talking about Ray Rice. I'll relay a personal anecdote. A fellow coworker of mine is on the chopping block because of an incident where he represented the company name while attempting to start a fight at the bar I moonlight at. Rice is constantly a representative of the NFL, and committed a pretty high profile crime. I fail to see a distinction between the two. My coworker is small time, Rice is nationally televised every time he takes the field. Where is the line?
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I need more information: in what capacity was he representing the company?
The Sharks suck ass this year. And every year, but usually we wait for the postseason...
Sometimes I feel sorry for other teams going up against GB in the women's Team Pursuit. If you're not Australia or Canada it seems you just aren't going to make them work that hard.
Speed Skating. That is the one sport I wish I could have taken up, even just as a hobby. Dummy me never tried, though.
I have one question about fixed gear bikes. Why! Why is this a thing! Those things are friggin death traps.
Both teams have to have 6-6 records and have to have either played in a conference championship in the last five years or played in a BCS bowl during that time.
BTW: The Stagg Bowl is the NCAA Division III Football Championship.
Oh wow, another UWW vs Mount Union championship game, who would have guessed
There is a 6 year span in the middle of the 80s where Wayne Gretzky would have been 5th or better in scoring, including winning a scoring title, if you had stolen a point a game from his totals.
These days, a point a game player is somewhere between good and great. Gretzky was that much better than the field.
RIP Stuart Scott.
Cool as the other side of the pillow.
I plan on only watching halftime strictly because I wanna nail Katy Perry and I don't give half a flying shit about hand egg.Funny. Whenever I hear Katy Perry, I want to drive nails into my ears to get rid of that over-autotuned noise. If I want horrid noise, I have Merzbow to listen to.
I plan on only watching halftime strictly because I wanna nail Katy Perry
American football has no hakas.
no need for all that armour
Until I saw a live game of hockey, I had NO IDEA how often they changed lines, since the TV cameras slavishly follow the puck when it's dumped to allow for the switch.
Until I saw a live game of hockey, I had NO IDEA how often they changed lines, since the TV cameras slavishly follow the puck when it's dumped to allow for the switch.
One game, live, and you'd be hooked. Promise.This is a fact. It didn't even take a live game to get me into it, but when I finally went, it was like I'd started using heroin or something. It's that gripping.
Ice hockey is good. It would be great without the fighting.
Anyway. This the real MVP:
(http://i.imgur.com/CYxw0z0.gif)
This car just passed me for no reason
(http://i.imgur.com/veHd7oR.jpg?1)QuoteThis car just pased me for no reason
God, I hope we don't end up facing you guys in the first round at all.....
When facing teams that are currently above .500, we slaughter them. When playing teams currently under, we get hosed. Predators have been smashing all season. Have fun getting eliminated by us [emoji41]
That's the thing about all the North American major leagues, with 30 teams each, that means the average time between championships is 30 years. Even with random distribution of championships, a drought of 60+ years wouldn't be unusual. Add in the fact that some franchises are richer and better organized, and you'll get LOTS of teams rivaling or surpassing the Cubs eventually.
That's the thing about all the North American major leagues, with 30 teams each, that means the average time between championships is 30 years. Even with random distribution of championships, a drought of 60+ years wouldn't be unusual. Add in the fact that some franchises are richer and better organized, and you'll get LOTS of teams rivaling or surpassing the Cubs eventually.
That's the thing about all the North American major leagues, with 30 teams each, that means the average time between championships is 30 years. Even with random distribution of championships, a drought of 60+ years wouldn't be unusual. Add in the fact that some franchises are richer and better organized, and you'll get LOTS of teams rivaling or surpassing the Cubs eventually.
And what does that have to do with a 32-year-old's sudden realization that he was conceived in the parking lot at Nassau Colosseum?
Any of that true?
It's almost like they forgot they're the team that shut out the defending Cup champions HARD on opening day in their own house after a masturbatory banner ceremony.
Got to see the Senators live last night. Erik Karlsson is totally must see live.
Last night's Canucks at Sharks game has got me so royally infuriated, even 12 hours after the fact. I wanted to murder every zebra in the house last night. Literally the worst officiating I've ever seen in sports.
If it's of any consolation, officiating in the NHL is at an all-time low, league-wide.
One bullet dodged.
Super Bowl prediction: Carolina will beat Denver so badly that people, whom paid good money for tickets, will spend the fourth quarter wishing they brought something to read.I'm very happy that this wasn't the result of Super Bowl L*. Go Broncos!
*Yes, L. The NFL can be wrong but I'm not going to be.
Super Bowl: Fuck it, let's just stop using roman numerals
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And, of course, I won't truly believe in the draft as the great equalizer unless the Cubs win the world series one of these centuries.
FYP. :D
Oh, Kugai: I need this explained to me. (http://www.odt.co.nz/sport/ice-hockey/385116/ice-hockey-ridiculous-decision-slammed)
I was not aware that NZ even had any sort of Ice Hockey league/organization...
Well a couple of weeks later I must say that if Warren Barguil keeps climbing mountains and getting in large leading groups he might as well win it for France. He lost a shitton of time in the first week but he's less than 10 minutes away now.
So how about the London athletics world championships
Plenty of upsets huh.
It is fun to see but my goodness it's a continuous stream of surprises.
athletics is one of the best sportWait...what? I thought "athletics" was just another word for "sports".