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SportsFilter: The Saturday Huddle
Early reports on the upcoming Champions Dinner menu at the Masters have host Rory McIlroy serving things like Irish stew.
Mutton, mutton, who's got the mutton.
Guessing a few of the past champions in attendance will be ordering off the club menu.
Some may be pining for the Scheffler sliders or Bubba Watson's confetti cake.
posted by beaverboard at 01:45 PM on February 21
SportsFilter: The Thursday Huddle
Results are in for US vs Canada, and USA outlasted Canada in OT after tying the game with an empty net goal. What a heck of a game it was. Of course I was happy to see the US get the gold, but my real rooting interest was for the US goalkeeper, Airen Frankel is a graduate of my alma mater, Northeastern University in Boston. I also had a rooting interest for Switzerland vs Sweden. Alina Mueller, Switzerland's best player, is also a Northeastern grad, and she is a former and present teammate of Aerin Frankel at NU and currently on the Boston Fleet, Women's Professional Hockey League. Great to see her on the podium for the bronze.
So I really think that the biggest winner for the Olympics is womens ice hockey. The sport has evolved over the past couple of decades into a fast, entertaining, and exciting sport. The heavy hitting and general nastiness of the men's game is not there, although there was some pretty good contact out there today. What the game has is speed, individual skill, and solid team play. It's fun to watch.
posted by Howard_T at 07:17 PM on February 19
SportsFilter: The Thursday Huddle
Maximum suspense Olympics hockey -
Canada and USA men's games yesterday
USA-Canada women's game today
Best to just stay in a comfortable chair wearing a blood pressure cuff and pump it up every now and then
posted by beaverboard at 05:27 PM on February 19
NBA Pickem Week 17: Two Months to the Playoffs
My picks:
Pistons by 5
Celtics by 12 (slam dunk)
Timberwolves by 9 (slam dunk)
Lakers by 7
Knicks by 10
posted by Ufez Jones at 02:19 PM on February 19
NBA Pickem Week 17: Two Months to the Playoffs
My picks:
Knicks by 6
Celtics by 8
Timberwolves by 8
Lakers by 12 (slam dunk)
Knicks by 11
Thunder by 12
Nuggets by 13
Celtics by 7
Reunion night at San Francisco tonight. Porzingis and Horford get to say hello to their former teammates. Then on Sunday comes one more chapter in what might be the greatest rivalry in basketball. Celtics vs Lakers? It's always a war.
posted by Howard_T at 01:05 PM on February 19
SportsFilter: The Wednesday Huddle
DOG AT THE OLYMPICS
FULL COMPETITION HIGHLIGHTS (BlueSky)
posted by Ufez Jones at 05:10 PM on February 18
NBA Pickem Week 17: Two Months to the Playoffs
My picks:
Pistons by 5
Celtics by 10 (slam dunk)
Timberwolves by 8 (slam dunk)
Lakers by 6
Rockets by 9
Thunder by 17 (slam dunk)
Nuggets by 6
Lakers by 3
It has been harder to stay interested in the Mavs now that I've reached the acceptance stage. I am watching a lot of Orlando Magic basketball and planning to attend a game.
posted by rcade at 02:21 PM on February 18
Stink, stank, stunk: Oshawa Generals admit ‘shower before game’ email was an ‘overstep’ in apology to fans
I had a boss once who sent a department email about a coworker not washing his hands after going to the bathroom. It went to everyone but that person.
posted by rcade at 06:12 PM on February 17
SportsFilter: The Saturday Huddle
The Olympics has run out of inventory on two items:
- Free condoms
- $50.00 T-shirts commemorating the 1936 Nazi Olympics in Berlin
posted by beaverboard at 01:19 PM on February 14
Stink, stank, stunk: Oshawa Generals admit ‘shower before game’ email was an ‘overstep’ in apology to fans
The way this winter has gone up in the Northeast, you could take five showers with tropical body wash and conditioner and then get all sweated up just digging your car out to get to the rink.
If people in a hockey facility smell bad, imagine what it's like at a basketball game with more heat in the building and no Zamboni smoking up the place between periods.
posted by beaverboard at 05:01 PM on February 13
Stink, stank, stunk: Oshawa Generals admit ‘shower before game’ email was an ‘overstep’ in apology to fans
Honestly, I'm OK with this email. I don't want to sit next to someone that smells like ass. Especially since the team is playing like ass right now and has a record of 12-36.
posted by NoMich at 08:49 AM on February 13
NBA Pickem Week 16: All Star Edition
My picks:
Knicks by 6
Spurs by 9
Thunder by 14 (slam dunk)
Lakers by 11
posted by Howard_T at 02:38 PM on February 11
NBA Pickem Week 16: All Star Edition
My picks:
76ers by 6
Spurs by 8 (slam dunk)
Thunder by 10 (slam dunk)
Lakers by 6
posted by NoMich at 10:57 AM on February 11
NBA Pickem Week 16: All Star Edition
My picks:
76ers by 6
Spurs by 11 (slam dunk)
Thunder by 6
Lakers by 10
posted by Ufez Jones at 10:36 AM on February 11
NBA Pickem Week 16: All Star Edition
My picks:
Knicks by 8
Spurs by 13 (slam dunk)
Thunder by 8 (slam dunk)
Lakers by 3
The Bucks looked pretty scrappy against Orlando last night but it won't be enough to beat the Thunder.
posted by rcade at 04:40 PM on February 10
SportsFilter: The Monday Huddle
When you said that Duke-UNC game was another classic, you weren't kidding.
It featured both a buzzer beater and a geezer beater.
posted by beaverboard at 08:37 PM on February 09
SportsFilter: The Monday Huddle
HA! I hope they can store that level of saltiness for the next freezing rain here in the Triangle.
posted by NoMich at 03:18 PM on February 09
NFL Playoff Pickem: Super Bowl 0x3C
Passer: Sam Darnold
Rusher: Kenneth Walker Aye-Aye-Aye
Receiver: Smith-Njigba
Player with interception: Davis (NE)
Player with sack: Demarcus Lawrence
Player with first turnover: Kenneth Walker
Super Bowl MVP: Darnold
Tiebreaker: 34
posted by Ufez Jones at 05:33 PM on February 08
NFL Playoff Pickem: Super Bowl 0x3C
Seahawks by 17 (27-10)
Passer: Drake Maye
Rusher: Kenneth Walker III
Receiver: Hunter Henry
Player with interception: Derrion Kendrick
Player with sack: Ty Okada
Player with first turnover: Drake Maye
Super Bowl MVP: Kenneth Walker III
Tiebreaker: 37
posted by bender at 03:49 PM on February 08
NFL Playoff Pickem: Super Bowl 0x3C
Same but I assume I can just type my picks as a comment
posted by bender at 03:43 PM on February 08
SportsFilter: The Sunday Huddle
In an outcome that no one wanted but that seemed almost pre-ordained, Lindsey Vonn, starting in the 13th position, crashed 13 seconds into her Olympic downhill run and once again had to be airlifted off the mountain, her drive to compete at age 41 with a torn ACL gone in a burst of unsettled snow.
posted by beaverboard at 01:23 PM on February 08
NFL Playoff Pickem: Super Bowl 0x3C
I think you have the entry form locked out already, Rogers. I can't type nothin in it right now.
posted by NoMich at 10:25 AM on February 08
SportsFilter: The Saturday Huddle
Yet another classic Duke/UNC game tonight.
posted by NoMich at 12:03 AM on February 08
NFL Playoff Pickem: Super Bowl 0x3C
My picks:
Seahawks by 3 (lock)
Passer: Sam Darnold
Rusher: Kenneth Walker III
Receiver: Jaxon Smith-Njigba
Player with interception: Carlton Davis III
Player with sack: Anfernee Jennings
Player with first turnover: Sam Darnold
Super Bowl MVP: Jaxon Smith-Njigba
Tiebreaker: 43
posted by ic23b at 06:19 PM on February 07
NFL Playoff Pickem: Super Bowl 0x3C
Fixed. The match for props is on full name so I have to make sure all the winners are changed to it.
posted by rcade at 06:18 PM on February 07
NFL Playoff Pickem: Super Bowl 0x3C
Why didn't I get 5 points for picking Stafford last week?
posted by ic23b at 05:50 PM on February 07
NFL Playoff Pickem: Super Bowl 0x3C
My picks:
Seahawks by 17 (lock)
Passer: Sam Darnold
Rusher: Walker
Receiver: Smith-Njigba
Player with interception: C. Bryant
Player with sack: Nwosu
Player with first turnover: Maye
Super Bowl MVP: Darnold
Tiebreaker: 40
posted by tahoemoj at 05:15 PM on February 07
NFL Playoff Pickem: Super Bowl 0x3C
My picks:
Seahawks by -14 (lock)
Passer: Sam Darnold
Rusher: Walker
Receiver: Smith-Njigba
Player with interception: Jones
Player with sack: Nwosu
Player with first turnover: Maye
Super Bowl MVP: Darnold
Tiebreaker: 47
posted by tommybiden at 04:17 PM on February 07
NFL Playoff Pickem: Super Bowl 0x3C
My picks:
Patriots by 3
Passer: Sam Darnold
Rusher: Stephenson (NE)
Receiver: Smith-Njigba
Player with interception: Davis (NE)
Player with sack: Williams (NE)
Player with first turnover: Darnold
Super Bowl MVP: Diggs
Tiebreaker: 51
This one goes down to the wire. I see a late missed field goal finishing the game in regulation.
posted by Howard_T at 04:14 PM on February 07
SportsFilter: The Saturday Huddle
The weirdness of Super Bowl numbering.
posted by rcade at 12:27 PM on February 07
NFL Playoff Pickem: Super Bowl 0x3C
My picks:
Seahawks by 3
Passer: Sam Darnold
Rusher: Rhamondre Stevenson
Receiver: Jaxon Smith-Njigba
Player with interception: Marcus Jones
Player with sack: Demarcus Lawrence
Player with first turnover: Cooper Kupp
Super Bowl MVP: Sam Darnold
Tiebreaker: 40
The Super Bowl doesn't usually sneak up on me, but this one did. The only hype I noticed was when old Pats were mad at Tom Brady.
posted by rcade at 12:07 PM on February 07
NBA Pickem Week 15: Swap Meet Edition
Revised picks:
Thunder by 6
Spurs by 10 (slam dunk)
Warriors by 6
Celtics by 13 (slam dunk)
Clippers by 3
posted by rcade at 10:56 AM on February 07
NBA Pickem Week 15: Swap Meet Edition
Revised picks:
Knicks by 3
Clippers by 7 (slam dunk)
posted by rcade at 07:07 PM on February 06
NBA Pickem Week 15: Swap Meet Edition
Revised picks:
Suns by 5
posted by rcade at 08:07 PM on February 05
NBA Pickem Week 15: Swap Meet Edition
My picks:
Raptors by 7
posted by rcade at 07:09 PM on February 05
NBA Pickem Week 15: Swap Meet Edition
My picks:
Raptors by 12 (slam dunk)
Suns by 9 (slam dunk)
Pistons by 6
Clippers by 7
Rockets by 5
Spurs by 7
Lakers by 4
Knicks by 4
Timberwolves by 9
All that Giannis talk for nothin'!
posted by Ufez Jones at 06:37 PM on February 05
NBA Pickem Week 15: Swap Meet Edition
My picks:
Raptors by 16 (slam dunk)
Suns by 11
Pistons by 8
Kings by 9
Thunder by 12 (slam dunk)
Spurs by 10 (slam dunk)
Lakers by 7
Celtics by 6
Timberwolves by 8
Wait! Who's playing where now?
posted by Howard_T at 03:55 PM on February 05
SportsFilter: The Wednesday Huddle
The only games I cared about in the autumn of 1968 were the Southeast Asia Military Games. I was in a place called Con Thien, Republic of Vietnam. It's a few miles from the coast of the Tonkin Gulf, and right on the edge of what was then the DMZ. What worried us was avoiding being hit by a pitch that carried an explosive warhead. I was not in the military at the time. We were working on some experimental infrared equipment that was to detect the gunflash from artillery. The last systems I worked on in my career were based on the same principle. They became part of the missile warning systems on aircraft. What goes around comes around.
My eldest sister married a guy from Detroit, and she was living there in '68. She was a rabid baseball fan, but of the Braves. They were in Boston until just a few years before she married and moved. When I had a chance to talk to her after I got back from Nam, she had to tell me how great the series was and how Mickey Lolich won it. I do remember seeing him on TV pitching against the Red Sox. He was rather hard to hit, but most unathletic in appearance. RIP, Mickey Lolich.
posted by Howard_T at 03:46 PM on February 05
SportsFilter: The Wednesday Huddle
'68 was the 1st year I started really paying attention to baseball (6-7 years old).
Two of my favourite uniforms ever since, I rooted for the Tigers in the series that year.
I liked Mickey, and since my dad and mom were huge Bob Gibson fans, made for fun viewing!
Good long life, may he rest easy.
BTW, the song has a nice beat, I can dance to it.
posted by tommybiden at 01:07 PM on February 05
SportsFilter: The Wednesday Huddle
Roly Poly Mickey Lolich - a slappin slab of Detroit funk dedicated to the beer drinker's hero and the rest of that team.
posted by NoMich at 11:30 PM on February 04
SportsFilter: The Wednesday Huddle
RIP Mickey Lolich, unexpected star of the 1968 World Series.
That sporting event and the Apollo 8 mission brought hope and joy to the tail end of a wretched and riveting year. It was a titanic and historic hardball struggle that included everyday players and Olympic gods.
All seven of the games were day games, so following them in my high school was a challenge.
Someone snuck a small radio into study hall and secretly passed along updates.
It was billed as 30 game winner Denny McLain against Bob Gibson, but Lolich was the man of the hour in the end. And he didn't start Games 1, 4 and 7 to get his trifecta. It was games 2, 5 and 7. They were all complete games. The guy could throw innings until the cows came home and then went back out.
However, Gibson's magnificence musn't be lost in the telling of the tale. He was in his own realm at times, as he had been in the previous year's Series.
Lolich was part of a glorious tradition of #2 lefthanded starters becoming stalwarts, a role echoed by players like Boston's Bruce Hurst in the 1986 Series.
Sometimes, when you think back on moments in time like that, you run out of words and just sink into the memory of it.
If Howard was stateside at the time, he may have his own thoughts on the subject.
posted by beaverboard at 10:06 PM on February 04
SportsFilter: The Tuesday Huddle
I guess she has decided that this is her last hurrah--might as well put all of her cards and more than a few ligaments on the table.
posted by tahoemoj at 02:06 PM on February 04
SportsFilter: The Tuesday Huddle
A beast such as her needs no tiara and invisible plane.
I just hope she doesn't end up suffering an Alex Smith type of injury. His leg is messed up for life.
And people would never stop showing footage of her wiping out to end it all in an Olympic bib.
posted by beaverboard at 04:19 PM on February 03
SportsFilter: The Tuesday Huddle
And she already had a knee replacement not too terribly long ago, right?
posted by NoMich at 03:28 PM on February 03
SportsFilter: The Tuesday Huddle
Lindsey Vonn tore her ACL in a recent crash that required her to be airlifted to a hospital and says she's planning to compete in next week's Olympics.
Good Lord.
posted by beaverboard at 01:47 PM on February 03
SportsFilter: The Sunday Huddle
That's right up there with the classic NY newspaper headline: Headless Body In Topless Bar
posted by beaverboard at 02:38 PM on February 02
SportsFilter: The Monday Huddle
If you subscribe to The Athletic, cool story about the Columbus Blue Jackets' cannon.
posted by tommybiden at 09:04 AM on February 02
SportsFilter: The Sunday Huddle
Boxer loses hairpiece in the ring and blames mother's shampoo
posted by tommybiden at 12:54 PM on February 01
SportsFilter: The Friday Huddle
Mike Tirico is generally excellent at whatever he does. The problem I have with sports play-by-play is announcers and especially commentators who go off on lengthy dissertations about one thing or another and forget that there's a game going on. It's annoying to see a play happen and to have no idea who was involved. My wife and I were watching the Patriots vs Texans game, and at one point as Mr. Collinsworth rattled on and on, she turned to me and asked, "Does he ever shut up?" If Mike Tirico has a fault, it's being unwilling to quiet these people.
posted by Howard_T at 03:36 PM on January 31
SportsFilter: The Saturday Huddle
Patriots doing the smart thing as the designated home team in the Super Bowl but choosing to wear white road unis rather than their dark home sets.
When you are 9 - 0 on the road for this season, why would you want to do anything else. Since they are the home team, although not playing in Foxborough, a win might not officially count as a road win.
The real reason for the all white look is that ghosts are traditionally clothed in white robes. Sam Darnold has some experience with ghosts and the Patriots.
posted by Howard_T at 03:24 PM on January 31
SportsFilter: The Saturday Huddle
Patriots doing the smart thing as the designated home team in the Super Bowl but choosing to wear white road unis rather than their dark home sets.
The Pats have had better title game success in white, plus choosing their road unis worked for Bill Cowher's Steelers and the Peyton Manning Broncos.
posted by beaverboard at 01:01 PM on January 31
SportsFilter: The Saturday Huddle
What's wrong with Irish stew? Looks yummy