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Basqueing in Glory: Athletic Bilbao is Europe's most exotic football club. For 80 years, the legendary club has managed to keep itself in Spain's top division, fielding players recruited exclusively from the Basque region. But how long can the fiercely independent club continue to resist the trends of globalization?
posted on Apr 11, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
Profile of Asafa Powell, who has run the five fastest 100 metre sprints in history and is still based in a run-down training facility in Jamaica. Photo Gallery
posted on Apr 6, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
Football Filter is a new "online community a la digg that concentrates on quality links on the world of football (soccer)". via Metafilter Projects.
posted on Feb 26, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
ZEUS is a computer program that analyses NFL coaches based on the plays they call across the season. Belichek's notorious 4 & 13 call in the superbowl was the right choice, but coaches lose their teams 0.5 to 1.5 games a year on blown calls. Interesting interview with the programmers. via kottke
posted on Feb 16, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
White men can't jump: 10 myths about race and sports. A quiz from the American Anthropological Association.
posted on Feb 2, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
Tejada tells team he’s 33, instead of 31. Houston Astros shortstop Miguel Tejada told the team he’s actually 33, two years older than he’s listed in the club’s media guide and other baseball records after being shown a copy of his birth certificate by ESPN.
posted to Baseball at 10:44 PM CDT
Sean Avery does his best to reduce the NHL to the level of the WWE (single link to a Youtube video). The NHL responds.
posted to Hockey at 10:53 AM CDT
Sean Avery is a punk and this stick waving broke the code. Even his own team-mates have had trouble sticking up for him (one of them said, if your stick isn't on the ice, you're not going to score) and if you look at the 25 second mark of that video his team-mate skates over in the middle of the play to have a word with him -- that is extremely unusual and in my mind the team mate was telling him to cut the crap. Whether what he did was in the letter of the rules or not it was just stupid and undignified and childish and the reaction across the league has pretty much been, "I haven't seen that since PeeWee hockey".
posted at 12:48 PM CDT on April 16
Basqueing in Glory: Athletic Bilbao is Europe's most exotic football club. For 80 years, the legendary club has managed to keep itself in Spain's top division, fielding players recruited exclusively from the Basque region. But how long can the fiercely independent club continue to resist the trends of globalization?
posted to Soccer at 2:35 PM CDT
Hi aupa-athletic. It sounds fabulous, I would love to go to one of their home games sometime. I'm only 7,000 miles away though.
I don't see this as xenophobic at all, remember that the history of soccer is one of local clubs, often workingmen's clubs, and not one of the more "franchise" (fuck I hate that term applied to teams) type of origin we associate with such sports in North America. So a club that is true to its roots is not necessarily xenophobic, anymore than the old Montreal Canadiens were when they got the first two picks out of Quebec every year. I do think they will have an uphill battle though, as the article notes.
On preview: Chargres, you make good comparisons, thanks, very interesting. For Montreal, it was a big deal when they had their first non-francophone Captain, and it still is a big deal if their players don't speak French, even though now most of them are Russians, and the Captain is a Finn. But the fans above all wanted to win. I think that transition was made easier when Quebec City had a team (emblazoned with the fleur-de-lis) because now they had an in-house rival, so to speak, and the need to project Nationalism declined.
posted at 1:51 PM CDT on April 14
The $6 billion heist "All in all he [Bernie Ecclestone] took US$3.25 billion out of Formula One thanks to his deals with Mosley. And this on top of the US$1.7 billion he had earned from the APM deals and the US$1 billion he had received as commission for his companies. By the time 2007 closed, since Mosley had become FIA president in 1991, Ecclestone had extracted nearly US$6 billion in profits from Formula One. One astute observer said: 'It is the biggest heist in history.' The same observer reckoned Ecclestone was legitimately entitled to only US$1 billion. He said: 'Ecclestone could have been a billionaire without Mosley’s help, but that wasn’t enough.' ”
posted to Auto Racing at 4:39 AM CDT
And now Mosley is caught in a 5 hour nazi-themed, death-camp-simulating sex-orgy-video with 5 prostitutes and a dominatrix.....
posted at 9:32 PM CDT on April 7
PGA Tour player Tripp Isenhour faces criminal charges for killing hawk It wasn't an accident, but it was with a hit golf ball. How many strokes off for killing a migratory bird?
posted to Golf at 7:15 PM CDT
The Smoking Gun has the police report.
posted at 10:02 PM CDT on March 8
Andrew Symonds escapes punishment after tackling streaker Ogilvie had been drinking when he decided to strip and run on to the field.
posted to Other at 1:17 PM CDT
There have been streakers at NHL games, like this legendary one in red socks at a Flames game. He left on a stretcher....
posted at 10:51 PM CDT on March 5
Bob Knight Resigns from Texas Tech in midseason after 902 career wins.
posted to Basketball at 9:03 PM CDT
He's saying his departure now gives Pat Knight a chance to coach the team for 10 games, get them ready for next year. Two Texas Tech starters, leading scorer Martin Zeno and Charlie Burgess, are seniors. Did they sign up for the end of their careers to be a valuable learning experience for next year's coach, possibly at the cost of a Tournament bid?
You think Knight would cotton to one of his players or coaches abandoning the team at midseason, with a Tournament bid still in play? No chance. That's not doing things the right way.
Bob Knight loves the right way, loves the rules. It's just that most of them have never applied to him.
Good riddance.
Gotta agree. Basically a hypocrite.
more.
posted at 1:59 AM CDT on February 6
CFL'ers prompt study on ALS link Through the CFL Player's Association, Proudfoot discovered that at least eight out of about 15,000 all time CFL players have been diagnosed with ALS. In the general population, it affects 2 of about 100,000 people at any given time. Most die from two to five years after diagnosis and its causes are unknown.
posted to General at 11:05 PM CDT
But, what is the rate for middle age men in the general population? That 8/15,000 (say, 45/100,000) sounds significant compared to 2/100,000 in the "general population". But the general population includes a lot of baby girls, etc. I am sure the doctors know about this confound, but the reporters could do a better job with this obvious point.
In any case, interesting article, especially since the doctor suggests it may have something to do with pesticides, when the more obvious working hypothesis is head trauma.
And, really sad about Proudfoot.
posted at 11:53 PM CDT on January 28
No, I really did think it was interesting they suggest pesticides and not just head trauma. I like they aren't just blaming it on 20 years of banging your head. Seriously.
I am criticising the paper for not presenting the facts very well. What is the rate for middle age to retired men - this matters because the disease disproportionately affects men vs women, and it seldom affects people under the age of 30. So: retired football players are the main demographic for ALS, and if you were to factor out women and people under 30, the apparent CFL discrepancy may be statisticallly insignificant, or less so.
Interestingly, there were/are at least three former San Francisco 49ers with the disease
posted at 12:31 AM CDT on January 29
Bite Me NY Giants and former Patriots offensive lineman Grey Ruegamer has an interesting part-time job. Please be advised that this is not for the weak-stomached.
posted to Football at 3:05 PM CDT
Takes balls.
posted at 3:34 PM CDT on January 26
Rick Nash. Goal of the year. Sorry Toews. You've now got the second best.
posted to Hockey at 9:53 AM CDT
This was very impressive, especially since I have a lot of respect for Rick Nash as a player, but principally (until now) as one of those guys with the guts to hang around the front of the net, the knack of getting open or being where the puck is, and then enough skill to bang it home. A sweet set of tools, for sure, but not exactly grace and beauty. he'd be perfect on the wing with the Sedins. heh.
posted at 3:13 PM CDT on January 18
Fan Signs The fight for attention can be seen at stadiums across the nation. This struggle is no more evident than when a fan proudly displays their crappy homemade creation for all to see.
posted to General at 7:44 PM CDT
Does that idiot with the afro and the moustache and the welcome-back-kotter look still hold up endless very precisely lettered signs at the Spectrum during flyers games?
posted at 9:53 PM CDT on January 9
... and to answer my own question...
posted at 10:07 PM CDT on January 9
Steve Downie at it again. Already suspended this year, Steve Downie takes a cheap "thumb" at the eye of Jason Blake. At what point does the NHL do something serious about the Flyers, who have already been suspended 52 games this season for a variety of cheap shots. Is it a team mentality or just a series of unfortunate events?
posted to Hockey at 12:44 PM CDT
The flyers are, and always have been, a dirty team. Not a tough team, but a dirty one. Sometimes they have had enough skill mixed in to be successful, sometimes not. But dirty is in their DNA and they will likely never clean that up.
s do the flyers to be competative. i don't care if the style of a minority (and it is a minority) of flyers players offend the delicate sensibilities of opposing hockey fans as long as it results in wins.
So you admit your team is unsportsmanlike. I agree. But it is not a "minority" -- it is the very essence of the team. And, for the record, it hasn't resulted in a cup since 1975, so, individual wins aside, it hasn't exactly been a winning strategy over the long term.
posted at 8:15 PM CDT on January 6
Bobby Clarke defending Downie:
On the other shoulder, Downie has Flyers senior vice-president Bob Clarke saying he loved Downie's cheap shot - thought it was great. "When he went after Blake, I loved it," Clarke told TSN yesterday.
More confirmation the Flyers are morally bankrupt.
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posted at 5:48 PM CDT on January 10
This article discusses the non-baseball legal issues in this case: he must have also lied to US Immigration, for example, and in court testimony he may have sworn to his wrong age.
Personally I think its a non-issue but legally it does sound like he might be crucifiable....