- 06:49 AM
- 11/22/09
VeloNews has an Explainer article that covers some of the legal issues in the trial.
posted by apoch at 08:56 AM on November 05
If you go back far enough, everyone immigrated here.
posted by apoch at 04:20 PM on November 03
The primary sponsor of the US Speedskating team is now The Colbert Nation. huh.
posted by apoch at 09:57 AM on November 03
There is a sidebar with articles that covered testimony during the trial.
posted by apoch at 04:42 AM on November 03
Has anyone been on more teams with more potentially first ballot hall of famers than Shaq? Kobe, Wade, Nash, and Lebron, just to name a few.
posted by apoch at 09:38 AM on October 28
Take the Lions, please. Have them play in the Collesium and change their colors to red and gold. If they ever win at home, "Lions feast on foes at the Collesium" etc. Just take them away so I can stop drinking the blue and silver kool-aid.
posted by apoch at 09:46 AM on October 25
Astana's failure to file paperwork on time may allow Alberto Contador to terminate his contract.
posted by apoch at 08:29 AM on October 23
Tour of California route announced. Should be a good one.
posted by apoch at 12:32 PM on October 22
Garmin extends their sponsorship of the American cycling team Slipstream.
posted by apoch at 12:36 PM on October 20
JJ, I'm impressed! Got your own fan club amongst NFL coaches.
posted by apoch at 08:39 AM on October 12
UCI is banning race radios at all levels of road racing. No date's been set for the phase out though. Considering how poorly the the two stage ban went over at the TdF, not sure how they can say "They also took into account the desire expressed by the majority of those involved in cycling to prohibit the equipment."
posted by apoch at 08:50 AM on September 24
Garcia Acosta has completed 25 Grand Tours, but never raced the Giro d'Italia.
posted by apoch at 06:53 AM on September 23
All charges have been dropped after the DA found out West had a run in with Greg Maddux earlier that evening. Said ADA Marx, "Well, in that case, he was actually under armed." Per the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
posted by apoch at 10:44 PM on September 20
Who isn't too good for Charlie "Disease Ridden" Sheen?
posted by apoch at 11:44 AM on September 13
Yes. (He's on vacation right now though)
posted by apoch at 06:09 AM on August 31
hincadenza, I hope that for the spectators sake they don't use maple bats.
posted by apoch at 08:14 AM on August 01
Pete Rose the person is banned from baseball. AFAIK, the Hall of Fame inducts people, not stats. Stats might be used to figure out which people to induct, but it's impossible to induct Pete Rose the person who played without also inducting Pete Rose the gambling manager.
posted by apoch at 08:43 AM on July 28
I read that one of the reasons Bruyneal is leaving is that he wanted nothing to do with Vino.
posted by apoch at 05:10 PM on July 23
Mahorn hasn't been mentioned because he's now head coach of the Detroit Shock.
posted by apoch at 06:31 AM on July 02
Except it was written by Henry Abbot and not Kobe Bryant.
Not that I can blame Kobe for wanting to be seen like this instead of his usual image. It's much more flattering.
posted by apoch at 02:06 PM on June 05
Um, his argument wasn't that we should allow PED's. His argument was that calling it a health issue would be a more effective way of curtailing PED use than the current method of calling it a moral issue.
"Even if you regard such developments as morally dubious, the way to curtail them is not by denouncing putative failures of individual rectitude baseball has tried that for years with unimpressive results but to recast the issue as one of workplace safety."
posted by apoch at 07:04 AM on May 22
Good story. Due to my irrational dislike of Rick Reilly I wish someone else had written it. And Lionel, wherever you are, I'm jealous.
posted by apoch at 01:46 PM on January 30
I was happy to see they recognized how great a kicker Jason Hanson has been. He's deserved a better team for his whole career.
posted by apoch at 09:46 AM on January 22
Except the Baltimore Ravens won a Superbowl.
posted by apoch at 11:35 AM on January 19
so terrapin, basically you were turning the other cheek?
posted by apoch at 12:57 PM on January 13
Thanks guys. It was pretty impressive even to a clueless person.
posted by apoch at 08:14 PM on January 04
So.. can someone who understand darts explain how amazing that is? It looked impressive, but how nuts was it?
posted by apoch at 09:33 AM on January 03
I know, lets require that the kicker make a self post to a blog that doesn't self posts while twittering from his blackberry (or iphone) and kicking.
posted by apoch at 07:55 AM on December 22
Wait wait.. don't tell me.. the Cardinals caught the 49ers with their pants down?
posted by apoch at 05:12 PM on November 12
All this time I thought he was trying to make a nuanced political statement. Silly me.
posted by apoch at 11:45 AM on November 08
TBH, I've been trying to figure out the best way to respond to that. Thank you for doing it better than I could.
posted by apoch at 09:16 PM on October 17
"the fact of the matter is, T.O. hasn't done or said anything that wasn't actually true"
I think Jeff Garcia would like to dispute that.... oh you meant in Dallas. Nevermind.
posted by apoch at 02:24 PM on October 16
Well, you see, he was fined $100,000 by the arbitration panel at CAS. This is supposedly for legal fees incurred by the prosecution. This was never an issue during the actual hearing. After the hearing was over, the panel heard arguments from a lawyer for the prosecution that they deserved some compensation. Landis was never given a chance to argue about it and he cannot race again in the US (even though his ban ends on 1-29-09) until he pays.
Also, the guys who sit on the various arbitration panels at CAS frequently argue as prosecution in hearings before CAS. Which is a rather serious conflict of interest.
If the system was fair instead crooked, this would have gone away already.
posted by apoch at 09:07 AM on September 30
I'm guessing.. about three years when his contract finally runs out. Unless they give him another five year extension.
posted by apoch at 10:43 AM on September 23
Pancreatic cancer is scary. The average life expectancy is only 3 to 6 months.
Partly because early pancreatic cancer doesn't cause symptoms. Once it's found it is hard to treat, or as often the case, untreatable.
posted by apoch at 04:16 AM on August 22
If that was not the case, SPOFI should have posted as was the case.
As bperk point out, we like to self-police in these parts. That's because We (you, me, Hal, any other active member) are SpoFi. The Pantheon may be in charge of this place, but we are all part of the collective.
Anybody hear the discussion on NPR (I think it was Fresh Air?) yesterday about how hard gymnastics is? The guy being interviewed, and I paraphrase, said, "If you were to design a sport for the sole purpose of hurting women atheletes it'd look a lot like Gymnastics."
posted by apoch at 12:53 PM on August 15
I bet Greg Easterbrook is pulling for Thunder. That way they can name the cheerleaders The Lightning. He'll be at every home game waiting to see the Lightning flash.
posted by apoch at 04:57 PM on July 30
Steers? Nah, they should go with Robber Barrons.
posted by apoch at 10:42 AM on July 28
BoKnows, haven't you ever seen Full Metal Jacket?
posted by apoch at 10:56 PM on July 27
Lets see, they busted* what four riders out of 180 that started? I think 'lightly scratched' is much more accurate, no matter what those yahoos in the news think. Garmin-Chipolte, CSC Saxo, and Team Columbia were some of the best performing teams. It was a great tour. *had four positive A samples, afaik, B results that might condemn or clear the riders haven't been announced.
posted by apoch at 10:50 PM on July 27
CSC Saxo Bank is one of three teams that rode in the tour with the strictest anti-doping programs in cycling. In fact the doctor in charge of the program has recently criticised WADA for not punishing more dopers based on the test results they have. He's also in charge of Astana's anti-doping program and they just kicked someone for having abnormal values that didn't indicate doping, but where outside of the teams acceptable parameters. Sastre won clean.
posted by apoch at 07:48 PM on July 27
That'd only work if they were from Texas.
posted by apoch at 12:10 PM on July 27
Truehoop had a good point about naming the team wind.. imagine the headlines "The Lakers Break Wind."
posted by apoch at 10:51 AM on July 27
Well in all fairness, it's the only game they can stream. I'd be pretty surprised to see CBS/FOX/ESPN allowing NBC to rebroadcast their games over the net.
posted by apoch at 01:38 PM on July 26
After today's time trial, Mr. Vansevenant is 53 seconds behind Bernhard Eisel, the next closest rider. The final stage is usually relaxed and without attacks and so barring an unforseen crash that a rider cannot catch up from, he'll make history.
posted by apoch at 11:46 AM on July 26
Until 2012. Or maybe next years World Championships.
posted by apoch at 03:22 PM on July 19
According to this, Venus withdrew due to injury.
posted by apoch at 01:23 PM on July 17
The medical facts aren't really what concerns most people. For many it's about creating a fair playing field. If one person dopes and the other doesn't, the doper has an unfair advantage. Of course if you took too athletes and used two equaly effective training regimes, the winner would be decided by genetics. Which I guess leads me to a question I'm not educated enough to know not to ask. Is sport as a whole just a form of a mating ritual? If you think about it in that light, doping is bad because it masks who has the best genes. It means the doper isn't just a cheater, they are a liar, a liar about how good their genetics are. People hate liars.
posted by apoch at 03:02 AM on July 16
It isn't the cheaters that are destroying the sport, it is the imbalance in media coverage of the dopers. When a cyclist dopes the media (and a large portion of the general public) act like he's the devil and single handedly ruins the sport. When a football player gets busted for doping he misses four games and everybody pretends it never happened after that. Take half a glass of media bias, add a splash of doping history, garnish with an antidoping and arbitration system that assumes the athlete is guilty and makes it almost impossible to prove otherwise, top it off with incompetant labs and news leaks, and you have a nasty cocktail. Which cyclists are forced to drink every day of their professional career.
posted by apoch at 08:14 AM on July 12
Well as someone who is against doping in sports and a lover of cycling you should be watching Le Tour and chearing on one of the three teams with extensive anti-doping procedures. Garmin-Chipolte, Team Columbia, and Team CSC/Saxo Bank are all doing quite well. Kim Kirchin of Columbia currently holds the Yellow. If one of these teams can win the Tour how good will it be for the sport?
posted by apoch at 02:57 AM on July 12
I hope you have no interest in football or baseball either. There are dopers in every sport.
posted by apoch at 08:03 PM on July 11
Except the Chicken is banned from competition for two years.
posted by apoch at 08:27 AM on July 10
I'm hoping they name the team something like the OKC Bandits, or Robber Barons. I blame Stern, that starbucks guy, and Bennet et al for this fiasco. If taxpayer money is going to pay for stadiums, each household should get one pair of tickets to one home game a year for free.
posted by apoch at 06:29 AM on July 05
God, I hope you two never have kids that want to play sports. "I'm sorry son, I won't be making it to your peewee football game today, or any day. The NFL Network is showing reruns of The Superbowl every Saturday this fall. I just don't see the point in watching you play when I can see professional athletes do it so much better than you probably ever will."
posted by apoch at 02:36 AM on June 24
(actually, has any team heald the MLB and NBA championships at the same time?) I can safely say, no, no they haven't.
posted by apoch at 06:47 PM on June 13
I blame this win on the Ghost of Red Auerbach. There is no way the Zen Master is going to surpass the man for coaching championship rings against the Celtics.
posted by apoch at 08:05 AM on June 13
Rant Your Head Off has an interesting analysis of this article. It's about halfway down and starts at the big bold "Meanwhile...". Preceding that is a pretty good discussion of the Gatlin case currently before CAS.
posted by apoch at 07:54 AM on May 30
Florida State Gets Funky New Nike Uniforms
Not sure if "Noles" on the waist line is such a good idea. From the wrong angle..