Rick Nash. Goal of the year.: Sorry Toews. You've now got the second best.

posted by gspm to hockey at 09:53 AM - 27 comments

Trinity University Beats Millsaps College with Final 14-Lateral Pass: The lateral-tastic maneuver was straight out of the Cal playbook. However, Trinity missed the part where you clobber a trombone player.

posted by gspm to football at 11:01 AM - 16 comments

Texas 30 - Baltimore 3: ... wasn't an NFL preseason matchup but the rather the Rangers posting the highest major league run total in 110 years. I guess there is no mercy rule in the MLB.

posted by gspm to baseball at 08:09 PM - 32 comments

Eric Staal's bachelor party nets fourteen arrests.: Sure, it ain't no refs on the take from the mafia, marquee quarterback in dog fighting imbroglio, or steroid (?) icon taking over one of the marquee records in the game, but, man, the NHL is MESSED UP.

posted by gspm to hockey at 08:58 PM - 23 comments

The Goalies Archive: claims to be "the very first website to present every goaltenders [sic] who played in NHL history." A great first stop should you ever wanted to know who the number one keeper for the Detroit Cougars was between 1926 to 1928.

posted by gspm to hockey at 11:03 AM - 6 comments

London Irish player Juan Leguizamon: pulls a Jacobellis. With a twist of Patrick Stefan.

posted by gspm to other at 10:22 PM - 10 comments

I'll just ice this one and... oooaugh!: Patrik Stefan of the Dallas Stars was on a breakaway towards an open net in the absolute dying moments of a game with his team up by one... only the puck took a bad hop... and he missed the net... and the puck went back up the ice... and the Oilers tied the game with only two seconds left in one of the craziest endings* to a hockey game you will ever see. *of course, the game didn't end there but went into OT and a shootout wherein Stefan's teammates bailed him out and got the win.

posted by gspm to hockey at 11:53 AM - 27 comments

Ball vs ball.: Mark Cuban gets the University of Texas at Arlington Physics department to drop some science on the differences between the NBA's new synthetic balls and their old leather balls.

posted by gspm to basketball at 11:24 AM - 9 comments

I swear my mom! My home!: Alexander Ovechkin hit a hole-in-one on his first round of golf. Which seems even more unlikely after you check out his swing. Watch out Tiger!

posted by gspm to hockey at 08:21 AM - 18 comments

Canes ship stud D-man prospect Jack Johnson to the Kings.: The Canes wanted last year's 3rd overall draft pick Johnson to play for them. He wanted to keep playing for the University of Michigan Wolverines. They blinked and traded away somebody that - who knows - could be an NHL star. Your trivia answer is then "for defenceman Tim Gleason and centre Eric Belanger".

posted by gspm to hockey at 01:19 PM - 8 comments

Hurricanes 1: - Oilers 0

posted by gspm to hockey at 08:27 AM - 5 comments

"When you get to the end of your rope, you tie a knot.": And that knot is the CFL if you are a player banished from the NFL. Ricky Williams might be playing in Toronto this year.

posted by gspm to football at 07:34 AM - 25 comments

Champions of Europe!: UEFA Champions League decided tonight. I'll avoid putting the result right in the post lest some Statesiders have intentions to watch the game on delay but just can't avoid wandering past Spofi.

posted by gspm to soccer at 05:16 PM - 45 comments

"I hate Kobe Bryant's rotten and derivative soul.": Yet, in a way, writer Sam Anderson is sad to see him leave the playoffs. Well, there's always next year.

posted by gspm to basketball at 10:42 AM - 79 comments

How about a little bit of downhill skating combined with snowboard cross and bodychecking?: A sport that Dr Frankenstein would enjoy watching with the Hanson brothers - Crashed Ice. It is in Quebec City's old town this weekend.

posted by gspm to extreme at 09:47 PM - 12 comments

Remember the last time the Clips were 11 games over .500?: That's right, you don't. They've never been. Unless you remember them as the Buffalo Braves. (Poor Raptors, making hoops history for LA franchises yet again)

posted by gspm to basketball at 01:26 PM - 12 comments

Pie-o-metrics.: A novel graphical pie chart method has been developed to help decide when to pull the pitcher. It is a couple of years too late for a G Little in Beantown.

posted by gspm to baseball at 11:01 AM - 3 comments

The last captain to hoist the Cup gets waived.: The Tampa Bay Lightning waive their captain Dave Andreychuk. Given the choice between retiring on top (a long and successful career capped with a Cup win - see also Lanny McDonald, Ray Bourque) or coming back for another season Andreychuk came back and probably did not anticipate his time with the Lightning, and perhaps his career, ending quite this way.

posted by gspm to hockey at 12:42 PM - 33 comments

Champions League draw: EPL champs Chelsea vs El rey de la Liga Barcelona.: And in another mouth watering matchup - Arsenal will take on Real Madrid.

posted by gspm to soccer at 09:04 AM - 18 comments

Why does every white basketball player get compared to Larry Legend?

posted by gspm to basketball at 12:55 PM - 66 comments

MacInnis, Francis, Messier, Larionov and Stevens. Pick 4.: Who will be the odd man out in the 2007 Hockey Hall of Fame inductions? The idea of increasing the class of 2007 beyond the bylaw-mandated limit of four has been nixed.

posted by gspm to hockey at 02:09 PM - 33 comments

Monday Night Football's pigskin poet.: Those custom intro songs sung by Tim McGraw? Well some guy's gotta write them.

posted by gspm to football at 03:09 PM - 7 comments

"There is no room for emotion or panic in the bowels of a dark hole.": This heart pounding account of extreme deep diving in the world's biggest underwater cave is the first I'd heard of the attempted recovery of the body of a young diver that had disappeared into the depths ten years ago.

posted by gspm to extreme at 09:41 PM - 15 comments

One-time Giants QB Jesse Palmer: got the ball rolling with a featured appearance as the Bachelor. Now we will soon see ex-Dallas Cowboys QB Gary Hogeboom as a competitor on Survivor while Chris Valletta (previously connected to the Saints, Titans and Bucs) will be fodder for the Donald on the Apprentice. Obviously, NFLers bring tremendous reality TV intangibles and upside! (cause three examples makes a trend).

posted by gspm to football at 02:29 PM - 14 comments

The ten most calamitous celebrations.: Though, given that the Observer is considering this from a UK perspective, it would seem that the exclusion of NFLers Bill Gramatica and Gus Frerrote may spare them further ignominy.

posted by gspm to general at 05:27 PM - 3 comments