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- 07/05/08
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AFI names its top 10 sports movies Two boxing movies "Raging Bull" followed by "Rocky" at the top. Also two baseball movies in top 5.
posted to Culture at 12:23 PM CDT
Ring it up! Celtics crush Lakers for 17th title There were legendary Celtics sitting in the stands, with names like Russell, Havlicek, Heinsohn, Maxwell, Ainge, and White, who could all tell stories about the days when they touched the NBA championship trophy, sprayed champagne on each other, and watched Red Auerbach proudly puff on a victory cigar. After a 22-year wait that included the retirement of Larry Bird, lots of lean years, and the death of Auerbach, the Celtics have new legends named Pierce, Allen, and Garnett, who now can tell their stories about touching the trophy, spraying champagne, and wishing Red were here to witness it.
posted to Basketball at 5:29 AM CDT
Further evidence of getting what you pay for. Clearly, Boston's money was not wasted, and the team came together beautifully in the last two series. Still, I bet the Hawks are kicking themselves. They were thisclose.
Oh yeah -- Auerbach was an asshole. But then, I have ABA in my tag.
posted at 7:18 AM CDT on June 18
D'Antoni accepts Knicks' offer Mike D'Antoni is set to become coach of the New York Knicks, bringing his entertaining offensive style from the Phoenix Suns to a team coming off one of the worst seasons in its history. Can he make the Knicks contenders again?
posted to Basketball at 4:48 PM CDT
So much for Stephen A. Smith's "insider" guarantee on ESPN Radio that D'Antoni was all but wrapped up by the Bulls, whose roster supposedly better fit D'A's style. Personally, I would've gone with the Bulls, as the Knicks are a complete disaster and further away from any redemption.
posted at 6:32 AM CDT on May 12
BCS officials reject playoff proposal Bowl Championship Series officials rejected a plan Wednesday to turn the much-criticized system for deciding a national champ into a four-team playoff. The BCS format will remain the same until at least the 2014 season.
posted to Football at 6:20 PM CDT
A boycott will never happen. Too many 'Muricans love football too much to ever do that (why do you think the Detroit Lions continue to sell out their home games?). The BCS knows this, which is why its immovable. You'll watch. I'll watch. Case closed.
posted at 12:14 AM CDT on May 1
If the BCS knows this, Afl, why did they even float the proposal of this plus-one playoff?
Testing the waters, I suspect. There's been such a clamor for some kind of playoff system that it was inevitable that the BCS would at least dip its toe in to see the reaction. However, I agree that, eventually, a playoff will emerge. I'll probably be too old to care or dead by that point.
posted at 7:45 AM CDT on May 1
Clemens reportedly had affair with country star Roger Clemens has another potential scandal he's already denying. He reportedly had a affair with country singer Mindy McCready in a decade-long relationship that began when she was 15 and Clemens was a 28-year old with the Red Sox. This could be especially damaging as Clemens' defamation suit against Brian McNamee proceeds.
posted to Baseball at 9:54 AM CDT
Hey, 15 in country music years is around 32. Plus, messin' around while married is part of the C&W experience. Why the fuss?
posted at 11:02 AM CDT on April 28
A Special Story: Caleb Campbell Comes to Detroit with a Love for Football and for Serving His Country The Lions final choice in this year’s draft may have drawn as much attention as their first. Detroit selected safety Caleb Campbell out of Army as their second of two seventh-round picks, creating a stir at the site of the NFL Draft: Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
posted to Football at 6:32 AM CDT
Finally, an NFL player who can kill or be in the presence of killers and not be punished, so long as he ices Iraqis. Pacman missed his calling.
posted at 8:47 AM CDT on April 28
Have we returned to the days of 'Gladiators'? The ice at Montreal's Bell Centre, home of the Canadiens, will be replaced tonight by an eight-sided, chain-link cage that will hold two incredibly fit men using an arsenal of fighting skills and raw violence to pummel the other into submission. Watching the men in the cage - their muscles clenched and red-faced with adrenalin - it is easy to see the comparison to the blood sport of ancient Rome.Mixed martial arts, and especially UFC, the largest purveyor of the sport, is moving from cult interest into the mainstream. Tickets to tonight's event sold out within a minute. CBS is to begin airing fights in prime time next month.
posted to Culture at 12:31 PM CDT
America is a war nation. Always has been. Hell, ratting was a popular Colonial spectator sport, and I seriously doubt we'll see a mainstream return to that game. So some progress has been made.
Still, the people who get off on MMA will be the great-grandparents of American Idiocracy in the future -- assuming it hasn't already arrived. Hoo-yeah!
posted at 12:59 PM CDT on April 19
Yes, those blood-thirsty Americans in Montreal.
Oh -- MMA is a Canadian import? Well then, I take everything back. Imagine me thinking that war and war-related sports are popular in America.
posted at 2:47 PM CDT on April 19
I look to MMA to fulfill my combat sport jones.
Who's stopping you? Jones out to your fullest desire. I used to fight in karate tournaments, and bristled at their tight restrictions. My friends and I then conducted Fight Club-type matches in basements and garages. I'm familiar with the impulse.
posted at 2:52 PM CDT on April 19
afl-aba, you need to get an atlas (book of maps) or a globe and find Montreal.
Thanks for the tip. I guess that CBS stands for Canadian Broadcasting Service.
posted at 3:10 PM CDT on April 19
So how are you any different than the people who get off on MMA [that] will be the great-grandparents of American Idiocracy in the future?
Because I no longer get off on this crap. Testing oneself physically is one thing; participating in corporate-funded distractions is another. Am I the only one here put-off by the slobbering jackasses who hoot and holler at these matches? It's Rollerball/Running Man time.
posted at 3:29 PM CDT on April 19
My point is not that Americans don't eat up MMA, it's that it is by no means a uniquely American phenomenon and your facile pop anthropology is crap. There are a host of "violent" sports (hockey, rugby, Aussie rules football, Muay Thai, etc.) that have their origins in, or are widely popular in, countries outside of the U.S.
True, but I don't live in those countries. I live in the US, and so this is my main concern. One can always point to other countries in order to downplay one's own (a time-honored, popular tactic), but it ultimately begs the question, one that you seem to dodge.
"Plus America has nowhere near the level of fan violence that accompanies certain sports in other countries."
I'll keep that in mind when wearing NY Giants gear at an Eagles home game.
More than that, we in the States must endure "tributes" to the military before big games like the Super Bowl. While we're slaughtering foreigners in their beds, we cheer F-16s screaming above a stadium at home. I'm guessing that fighter jets kill more people than do soccer riots.
posted at 3:43 PM CDT on April 19
I'm not dodging anything; my original point was that you have taken an article from a Canadian publication about an event to be held in Canada to rail against American militarism. It just seems incongruous, is all.
This event is also, and most primarily aimed at, the American public. Of course there are violent knobs in Canada. So what? Last time I checked, Canada isn't invading or occupying numerous countries. Not on the US scale, anyway.
Canada and the US, in many ways, share a common culture. But in terms of global impact, who has the upper hand?
posted at 4:32 PM CDT on April 19
I agree with including "Eight Men Out." "Slap Shot" as well.
"He Got Game" has its moments. Dunno if it's a Top 10, but the Earl Monroe montage alone is worth the view (as are the opening credit images), and the pre-Celtic Ray Allen does a nice job alongside Denzel.
I'd definitely include "Fight Club." Maybe too homoerotic for the avg. male sports fan, though.
"Fight Club" is out there, I'll admit. It might fit into the extreme fighting slot, though domestic terrorism is rarely seen as a legitimate contact sport.