- 06:12 PM
- 11/21/09
The Pats helmet made me immediately think of this. If they're not going to bring back Pat the Patriot, I say go for it - the NFL needs to lighten up.
posted by kokaku at 10:27 AM on November 11
Debo - is it all games or just the AFC throwback games?
posted by kokaku at 11:29 AM on October 20
Be like the Williams sisters - don't play so much. They have obvious scorn for the rankings system. That may only work for the top tier players. Lower ranked or unranked players may feel the need to play as much as possible to break into the ranks or move up the ranks.
posted by kokaku at 03:56 PM on October 12
As far as the fans... stop going to the games - a coordinated fan strike is the only way to motivate the owner to change things.
As far as the WaPo... bread & circuses! And they wonder why people don't read newspapers any more.
posted by kokaku at 11:39 AM on October 12
It is somehow fitting that the Sox would go out because Papelbon finally gets burned. All season he's been wacky with control - walking guys, loading bases, almost always getting out of his self-created jams. Not this time. Sox have gotten soft - there was none of the fire that won in the playoffs before.
posted by kokaku at 10:14 AM on October 12
Sportsfilter bake sale to purchase it and build something to rival Telemanjaro?
posted by kokaku at 12:32 PM on October 08
Are we sure it wasn't Browns agree to send Edwards to Jets?
Mind you, I have no idea why any of that would happen, but Google is fun on a slow day.
posted by kokaku at 12:00 PM on October 07
An interesting chat with Theo Epstein
posted by kokaku at 09:55 AM on October 05
Silly football stats from CHFF
posted by kokaku at 09:35 AM on September 28
I'd be curious to know how many tons of dollars the NBA is raking in relative to other years such that they feel they need to curb referee salaries.
posted by kokaku at 03:40 PM on September 21
good job rcade - you own telemanjaro - now we just need to do a bit of work on cowboys hdtv
posted by kokaku at 03:05 PM on August 22
irunfromclones, are you saying the real Usain Bolt is a short dumpy guy who created a superfast Bolt-bot that's winning all the races?
posted by kokaku at 08:01 AM on August 21
Well said, hincandenza. Easy for all to judge, but nobody really has all the facts and we don't even know which facts we do have since they were released partially and illegally.
posted by kokaku at 07:44 PM on August 08
Very cool - especially the bit about displaying the hit locations for one game as if they'd occured in any park.
posted by kokaku at 05:34 PM on August 01
Good article with Rickey where he talks about the third person thing.
posted by kokaku at 07:49 PM on July 27
Ahhhh - good times
posted by kokaku at 08:01 AM on July 15
Slow news day???
Hell no!
There's....
the....
ummm....
Tour de France!
(I kid - I love the tour - big cycling fan)
posted by kokaku at 07:27 AM on July 14
I wasn't making a legal point so much as a moral point (as in this is not a joke and the media should stop treating it as one).
posted by kokaku at 06:28 PM on July 10
How is that not sexual assault? And the Hollywood Gossip article is pathetic, making the whole thing into a big joke.
posted by kokaku at 06:16 PM on July 10
What would like to see Drood? Wimbledon, at least, has live scores which have gotten better each year. And now they broadcast online via NBC. Not sure about the other Grand Slams. It seems like there isn't great coordination between the events when it comes to technology and presentaton.
posted by kokaku at 05:53 PM on July 05
You could see in the final games that Federer was going to win - he just plain outlasted Roddick. A couple of straight service wins where he didn't give up a point while Roddick went to deuce on his serves before winning. Roddick couldn't keep going like that. Amazing match.
Also since there was no front page post - props to Serena for her win and then winning the doubles with Venus later in the day.
posted by kokaku at 05:49 PM on July 05
I'd read the stories and thought 'what's the big deal', but having just watched the video - ban ban ban. There's nothing musical or cultural about playing a game in a beehive.
posted by kokaku at 03:40 PM on June 29
Baseball is a conservative sport in a conservative country which hasn't made its mind up on whether or not being gay is publicly okay yet.
All the more reason for someone to step forward. Of course it wouldn't be easy on them at all, but this country is far more progressive than it was when Jackie Robinson was playing. The right player with the right motivation could do a world of good to helping people be less afraid of the other. And that's something everyone could use (whatever part of the gay-straight spectrum you live in).
posted by kokaku at 04:09 PM on June 11
I got curious about R_A_M's closing comment that Red had a few HOF'ers. The 58-59 Celtics that started the dynasty had 7 of 11 players enter the HOF. The 68-69 Celtics that ended the dynasty had 4 of 11 players enter the HOF (2 of those played through the whole dynasty from the 58-59 team).
So, yeah, just a few HOF'ers :)
posted by kokaku at 06:58 AM on June 02
Not following golf, I didn't know anything about the 17th at Sawgrass, but this is a funny analysis of the hole.
posted by kokaku at 08:37 PM on April 23
Looks like I'm outnumbered here :)
And yeah, I'm trying not to make this a homer thing. I really am more bothered by the inconsistency (even if the skate were on the other foot so to speak). The stuff in the B's/Habs series is great physical hockey play - maybe some of it gets minor penalties in-game, but none of it seems really suspension-worthy.
I absolutely agree with you tahoemoj that the Carcillo/Cammalleri inconsistency is much worse. Those are clearly intent to injure and should be called harshly and equally.
posted by kokaku at 07:29 PM on April 20
Lucic is dancing with Schnieder and Lapierre comes skating in to mix it up (and he's thrown a lot of cheap shots in games 1 & 2 plus their last regular season meeting a week ago). The stick was high, but it's arguable that the glove hit Lapierre not the stick (hard to tell from the link I posted, but possible since Lapierre stayed on his skates), which I see as defending (even if it was with an agressive counter) against a Montreal instigator. I'd agree that he really should've taken the hit, but who knows what my instinctive reaction would be under similar conditions.
But, that really gets away from my point - if you let one team get away with things, or call instigation inconsistently, how is the other team supposed to react? (at some point, an overreaction seems inevitable) And if you don't call it for one team, how can you call it for another?
posted by kokaku at 10:06 AM on April 20
Yes, I'm a Bruins fan and there are a lot of B's links there, but I'm actually looking to get a conversation going about what seems to be unevenly applied discipline in these NHL playoffs.
Intent isn't considered, but results are. With a policy like that, a failed but certainly intended elbow is fine but one that causes an injury may get noticed. That's a policy that isn't really going to protect the players so well.
Mind you, I don't think the B's/Habs game-ending chipiness deserved suspensions, but in light of that, how do you give Lucic a suspension for defending himself?
posted by kokaku at 08:57 PM on April 19
I offer some homer opinion which makes a good point that the officiating crew didn't think Beckett threw at Abreu.
posted by kokaku at 07:37 PM on April 14
Isn't college football the developmental league?
posted by kokaku at 10:19 AM on March 26
On a related note (well, not directly related, but it is about a goalie and a record, at least, and not quite worthy of a front-page post) - They honored Eddie Johnson during the Bruins/Pens game on Sunday and I'd never heard about his record before. He was the last goalie to play every minute of every game in 1963-64 (something that probably belongs more in the thread about unbreakable records, but that's a ways back now). And good show Marty. Even though I don't like the Devils one bit, they play much more exciting hockey than they used to (and I hope the B's don't have to meet them early in the playoffs, especially they way they're playing right now).
posted by kokaku at 11:16 AM on March 18
Best suggestion I've read on the Pro Bowl is to name the teams and skip actually having the game.
posted by kokaku at 04:45 PM on January 01
[guy on segway] i hope this works i hope this works i hope this works [/guy on segway]
posted by kokaku at 02:44 PM on December 23
And IG Farben Field
posted by kokaku at 05:39 PM on September 12
I believe there's a US women's basketball player who now plays Russia in the Olympics under such a move (which was discussed a while back on SpoFi, though I can't find search so I can't find the link).
I have no problem with someone born in one country playing for another, but it does seem counter to the spirit of the games to allow these fast-track citizenships.
Shouldn't there be a minimum time of citizenship and residence requirement?
posted by kokaku at 08:36 PM on August 18
Phelps also stands to shatter the record for Olympic gold medals (and that's just in this Olympics - imagine if he picks up more in 2012)
posted by kokaku at 01:12 PM on August 11
If they're not named the Oklahoma Surreys, I'm not watching (okay, I'm not watching anyways, but just think of the floor show!)
posted by kokaku at 10:29 AM on July 07
this is also pretty classic "What? Dude, your [sic] an NBA official, not the stinking Pope. Not one person in the arena paid 1 cent of their ticket to see you, ref the game and shut your pie hole."
posted by kokaku at 09:18 PM on June 10
Guess he meant it when he said he wants a Gold Glove
posted by kokaku at 11:49 AM on May 15
And Franco-American relations still struggle
posted by kokaku at 11:30 AM on May 05
posted by kokaku at 05:29 AM on May 02
We could easily spin it out to 200 if we're going to rattle off possibilities for 'A' Arse? As in where he got his steroids stuck.
posted by kokaku at 03:27 PM on April 28
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the only country in the world that could generate that kind of opinion is the U.S, this "you're either with us or against us" kind of nationalism. Try visiting some other countries sometime - the US has no lock on nationalist fervor.
posted by kokaku at 12:04 PM on April 11
I'd be pretty pissed off if I were a Russian player who didn't make the team so they could bring a ringer with no connection to the country.
posted by kokaku at 07:57 AM on April 10
They're going to need it because they're O line isn't getting any younger (unless there's some moves I haven't heard yet)
posted by kokaku at 12:00 PM on February 06
Immunity for telecommunications companies who spy on us? Awesome NFL dealing with NFL matters? Despicable Arlen Specter? Jackass
posted by kokaku at 11:37 AM on February 01
question for football nation: what is the point of taking a knee at the end of the half? if you have a few seconds left, why not wing one? [...] what is it that coaches are afraid of? There's also the risk of a QB fumble turning into a defensive TD. I agree they should throw it up there, but if something crazy happens, the coach will take a lot of heat for not kneeling.
posted by kokaku at 10:53 AM on January 14
Yes. It's been done without supplemental oxygen
posted by kokaku at 12:30 PM on January 11
Don't forget lucky bounces. Any of their close games could easily have gone the other way because of a handful of plays. I am a Pats fan, but I don't think the element of chance should go without mention.
posted by kokaku at 01:18 PM on January 03
Never again do I want to hear the media telling another long-suffering-/turnaround-in-Boston sports story because they're too lazy to come up with an original idea.
posted by kokaku at 05:58 AM on December 31
Also, records set by the Pats. (Link goes to a photo gallery but it's the only place I've seen a complete list of records) Most, surprising? The first time the Pats ran the table on the AFC East.
posted by kokaku at 07:52 AM on December 30
Largest point differential per game in the Super Bowl era Here's to hoping it ends better for the Pats than the previous record holder, the 68 Colts.
posted by kokaku at 07:22 AM on December 30
LBB - both games are on the Fox Early game map
posted by kokaku at 04:11 PM on December 28
How bizarre - I was about to reply to YYM's comment so I checked the maps. It's been updated - the Dal/Was game is now being shown on Fox. Never let it be said that posting on Sportsfilter is like screaming into a hurricane?
posted by kokaku at 03:04 PM on December 28
Belichick Call Questioned in Pats' Loss to Colts
Terrible call, but the game never should have come down to that. All along there were bad play calls & clock management decisions. When your run is working well enough (between Maroney and Faulk), why have drives where you go all-pass and 3-and-out? They had a lead that was their's to blow.
This used to be a NE specialty - build a lead, and grind out the clock on the ground. Watching BillB this season and last (despite what he did with Matt Cassel), I'm thinking that Crennel & Weis had a lot more to do with the Pats success than they get credit for (even though the two of them have been disappointing as head coaches).