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- 07/05/08
| Name: | Tim Musa |
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| Homepage URL: | http://weather.musaland.com/ |
| Location: | Los Angeles, CA |
| Member since: | October 17, 2006 |
| Last visit: | July 1, 2008 |
opel70 has posted 2 links and 19 comments to SportsFilter and hasn’t posted any threads or comments to the Locker Room.
Wiimbledon crowns top 'tennis' champs “Women, free beer and video games,” Participants play in the second annual Wii Tennis tournament at Barcade in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
posted on Jun 9, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
Photographer pierced by javelin Ryan McGeeney served seven years in the Marines, including a six-month deployment in Afghanistan, but 10 minutes of photographing the state high school track championships proved to be more dangerous to him. "They don't have javelins in Afghanistan," McGeeney joked.
posted on May 20, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
Wiimbledon crowns top 'tennis' champs “Women, free beer and video games,” Participants play in the second annual Wii Tennis tournament at Barcade in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
posted to Tennis at 1:18 PM CDT
Sports Broadcasting Legend Jim McKay Dies Spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of sport. . McKay, longtime host of ABC Wide World of Sports, RIP.
posted to General at 12:16 PM CDT
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posted at 12:59 PM CDT on June 8
NFL Owners Vote Unanimously to End Collective Bargaining Agreement ESPN's John Clayton reports, "The NFL officially notified its players union on Tuesday that it will opt out of the current collective bargaining agreement, which could lead to a season without a salary cap in 2010 and a possible lockout in 2011." CBS Sports NFL reporter Clark Judge says the move was motivated by owners wanting to lower the amount of revenue devoted to players, pay less to rookies, and recoup bonuses paid to contract-breaking players.
posted to Football at 8:56 AM CDT
The old link was pointing to an article that said this might happen. Now that it is official, I'm guessing the powers that be decided to make it current.
posted at 2:04 PM CDT on May 20
It's time to pitch the DH. The most astonishing occurrence in the first six weeks of the baseball season — other than the decline of my World Series favorites, the Seattle Mariners, who played like the Seattle Pilots — was that the National League outscored the American League.
posted to Baseball at 6:09 PM CDT
I would be the first to say that I am not much of a baseball person. I know the basics, but don't follow it too much.
From that perspective, my feeling is that if there was no DH in the AL, why keep two leagues? As far as I see it, the reason to have the two leagues is because the rules a slightly different. Though I guess the same could be said of the AFC and the NFC in football, and the Eastern / Western conference in the NBA.
So is the reason just for the sake of manufacturing a rivalry?
posted at 2:20 PM CDT on May 13
Maddux becomes ninth pitcher in MLB history to reach 350 wins Greg Maddux reached another milestone in his long, brilliant career. It might have meant more to a catcher making his big-league debut than it did to the pitcher with Hall of Fame credentials.
posted to Baseball at 7:35 AM CDT
Too bad he's with the Padres, or he probably would have arrived a fair bit sooner. Five tries to get this win.
posted at 1:49 PM CDT on May 12
"Tech doping"? How Speedo's LZR suit breaks swim records As the Associated Press reports, "the LZR now has been worn for 21 of the 22 world records set since it was introduced in February."
posted to Olympics at 10:51 PM CDT
Aren't the swimmers who can actually get one of these suits tops in the world already? True they may not have been world record swimmers, but weren't they already pretty good?
posted at 7:49 AM CDT on April 15
We Tried Baseball and It Didn't Work Excellent example of true geek humor, so of course baseball fans will probably hate this one.
posted to Baseball at 10:20 AM CDT
Yeah, I work in the software / hardware field and most of this just strikes me as a failed attempt at humor. 1) he decides that they only need four people per team, and then essentially complains that there aren't enough people. 2) he make the decision of only four people per team on the number of bases and then removes most of them, so in his redefined game there should only need to be one person per team (only one base now).
He was really trying hard to make this a funny idea, but, in my opinion, he struck out.
posted at 11:31 AM CDT on February 7
Jonathan Papelbon's dog eats World Series winning baseball. ESPN's brief coverage of a toothsome story of a Boston terrier named Boss, his master and a baseball that has seen better days.
posted to Baseball at 5:38 PM CDT
Well, heck, it's still just a ball. I'm not sure how many balls baseball players tend to get to keep, but it football it seems that some players must need multiple storage sheds to hold all of their "special" balls. Do you really think that ball is more special to him than the ring he got?
He actually has seemed to me to be more down to earth than many sports stars. And maybe the "history" of the ball feels more "real" to him if he could actually hold the ball to re-live the moments.
posted at 8:00 AM CDT on December 21
Schilling Calls Out The Rocket Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling called on Roger Clemens to give up the four Cy Young Awards he's won since 1997 if he can't clear his name from allegations that he used steroids to prolong and enhance his career.
posted to Baseball at 6:27 AM CDT
But as has been brought up in the past, it is pretty impossible to prove a negative. How do you prove that you never took steroids. Especially when all it takes is for anyone to come out and say, "Yep, I saw him take some."
posted at 8:05 AM CDT on December 20
Redskins' Taylor Shot by Intruder Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor is in critical condition after being shot twice by an intruder early Monday at his Miami home. Taylor, 24, was the fifth overall pick in the 2004 draft and leads the team in interceptions. He's reportedly in emergency surgery.
posted to Football at 1:07 PM CDT
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posted at 7:50 AM CDT on November 27
The Curse Of Curtis Leskanic Is this the year the Red Sox break the agonizing 36-month-long curse?
posted to Baseball at 10:23 AM CDT
And I think if we are going to add stories from The Onion, we must have Terry Francona Announces Josh Beckett Will Start Games 1, 4, 7, 2, 6, 3, 5
posted at 2:15 PM CDT on October 25
300: Another milestone reached.
posted to Baseball at 1:58 PM CDT
Another take on who the next possibility could be, picking Oswalt, Buerhle, Sabathia as the top three contenders.
posted at 4:11 PM CDT on August 6
First Base Coach Killed by Line Drive Former Major Leaguer Mike Coolbaugh, 35, was hit in the head by a foul ball in the ninth inning of the Tulsa Drillers' game Sunday in Little Rock, Ark. He was knocked out and stopped breathing en route to the hospital.
posted to Baseball at 8:02 AM CDT
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posted at 4:06 PM CDT on July 23
Congress Scolds N.F.L. and Union The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law heard two hours of testimony, much of it from former players who said they had been wrongfully denied benefits. The hearing was scheduled after months of growing, vocal dissatisfaction expressed by former players. N.F.L. Commissioner Roger Goodell did not attend the hearing because he was at previously scheduled meetings in Germany. Gene Upshaw, the executive director of the N.F.L. Players Association, who said recently that he is “concerned about the red tape” of the disability process, was on vacation in Italy.
posted to Football at 10:55 PM CDT
Coal mining? Not sure about the "four years", but it is a career that can be very short lived, as well as very debilitating.
posted at 1:31 PM CDT on June 27
Asante to Pats: See you midseason New England Patriots cornerback Asante Samuel, miffed about being given the franchise tag, is skipping the Pats' first mandatory minicamp. He also says he'll skip the preseason and the first half of the regular season if New England doesn't sweeten its offer. Where do your sympathies lie, and is the franchise tag fair? And tack on any other interesting minicamp news, like this tidbit about the Houston Texans allowing running back Samkon Gado to miss some offseason workouts to study for the MCAT. Gado plans to become a doctor when his football career ends.
posted to Football at 10:54 AM CDT
So now there's two? Any more disgruntled "franchise" players out there? Are there any "franchise" players that are gruntled (or happy with the designation)?
Tim
posted at 2:43 PM CDT on June 5
OK, so not exactly tennis, but with Nadal's trouncing of Federer this week, I though this could bring some levity in the runup to Wimbledon.