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Amateur has posted 48 links and 552 comments to SportsFilter and 3 threads and 149 comments to the Locker Room and has written 5 columns.
Everlasting Run What makes a man run 100,000 miles without ever missing a day?
posted on Dec 17, 2007 - Go to the detail view for this result
Nate DiMeo's Plan to Save the NHL The NHL should be more like pro soccer. No, I'm not crazy.
A nice fit with chico's column, too.
posted on Oct 5, 2007 - Go to the detail view for this result
Russia to Host 2014 Winter Olympics Sochi, Russia was selected by IOC delegates on the second ballot. SportsFilter discussed the three finallists, and earlier the seven candidates.
posted on Jul 4, 2007 - Go to the detail view for this result
Rogge unveils plan for Olympic programme At the 2005 IOC Congress, baseball and softball were voted off the Olympic island for 2012, leaving the summer Olympics with 26 sports. Yesterday Jacques Rogge announced his plan for the future: there will be 25 "largely untouchable" core sports, with the possibility of adding three more on a rotating basis for each edition of the Games.
posted on Jun 24, 2007 - Go to the detail view for this result
Down in one fourteen times in four months. An amateur American golfer with thirteen aces so far this year drops another one in for the cameras.
posted on May 26, 2007 - Go to the detail view for this result
The LA84 Foundation Library is "engaged in an ambitious project to convert selected scholarly journals, proceedings and series publications, as well as non-scholarly sports magazines and reviews from paper to digital format." You can search their archives or browse through their list of journals. Never complain that you have nothing to read anymore ;)
via Open Access News
posted to General at 4:22 AM CDT
Female ski jumpers taking VANOC to court .... sources indicated that the petition is being filed against the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympics and alleges that banning women jumpers from the Games violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Ski jumping, a part of the Games since 1924, is the only Olympic event closed to women. The IOC has argued that there are not enough top-calibre women ski jumpers to warrant inclusion.
posted to Business and Law at 2:37 AM CDT
VANOC is being targeted despite the fact that local organizers have no decision-making authority over which events are on the Games agenda.
I'm sure there is some lawyer out there who can explain this but it seems like they've chosen the wrong target.
Ms. Corradini said VANOC is being sued because it is the B.C.-based representatives of the IOC.
Hmmm. That's not how I understand it, but maybe the courts will agree.
posted at 5:53 AM CDT on May 22
Hey, I'm all for women's ski jumping getting in. Sign me up for the petition to the IOC. I just don't see how suing VANOC -- who have no control whatsoever over the sporting programme -- is anything other than a publicity stunt.
And lbb -- I do think that according to the charter as you've quoted it, the IOC has an obligation to put pressure on the FIS to develop women's ski jumping.
I don't think they have to automatically have exactly the same events (or even the same number of events) for women as for men; but they should have policies that move sport in that direction. From where I sit, there is plenty of evidence that the IOC is putting exactly that kind of pressure on most of the Olympic sports.
posted at 7:46 PM CDT on May 22
Olympic torch put out by protests. Security officials canceled the final run of the Olympic relay through Paris after chaotic protests Monday, sending a snuffed-out torch to its destination on a bus in a humiliating concession to protesters decrying China's human rights record.
posted to Olympics at 12:24 PM CDT
grum, that Wikipedia article nowhere states that Smith and / or Carlos was "banned by the IOC for life." You exaggerate.
However, your central point is correct -- an athlete making such a political statement today would almost certainly suffer the same fate as far as the IOC is concerned -- have their accreditation revoked and therefore be out of the Games.
But this honestly seems reasonable to me. Would you treat it differently?
posted at 11:24 PM CDT on April 10
How to Tell When a College Basketball Game is Out of Reach Take the number of points one team is ahead. Subtract three. Add a half-point if the team that is ahead has the ball, and subtract a half-point if the other team has the ball. (Numbers less than zero become zero.) Square that. If the result is greater than the number of seconds left in the game, the lead is safe.
Or you could just use the handy Bill James Lead Calculator.
posted to Basketball at 4:56 PM CDT
I think it's a bit confusing, but from the article: That doesn't mean a team with a 10-point lead and the ball with 10 minutes to go has only a 9 percent chance of winning. Rather, it means they're 9 percent of the way to having a completely insurmountable advantage.
Although this is not quite a quantitative definition, we can imply that 73% safe = much higher percentage of winning.
posted at 10:32 PM CDT on March 20
Hurricanes/Senators in Four Player Deal. Hurricanes send Cory Stillman and Mike Commodore to the Senators for Joe Corvo and Patrick Eaves.
posted to Hockey at 1:52 PM CDT
I hope, for Ottawa's sake the sake of Amateur's team in the office hockey pool, that Stillman can find his scoring touch again.
posted at 10:38 PM CDT on February 11
When Octopuses Are Flying in Detroit It's . . . The secret to throwing a large octopus onto an ice hockey rink is to boil it first for 20 minutes on high heat with a little lemon juice and white wine to mask the odor.
posted to Hockey at 11:39 PM CDT
Fun article ... but is it really from 1996? I would think that doesn't meet the guidelines.
posted at 5:30 AM CDT on December 10
"If you're not confrontational, you're not doing your job." Due to step down as head of the World Anti-Doping Agency at the conclusion of this week's Third World Conference on Doping in Sport, Dick Pound offers some parting remarks in the Telegraph.
posted to Other at 8:00 AM CDT
I think it's obvious that the existence of WADA is a very good thing -- when it comes to exposing cheating, the International Federations and the National Olympic Committees proved that they could not be trusted to expose the cheaters that they had so much invested in. The creation of WADA and the WADA Code is a critical first step in making sure that anti-doping enforcement is uniform across countries and sports. Since Pound played a critical role in creating WADA and getting it off the ground, you've got to say that he's been a major positive force.
I have been critical of Pound's public statements in the past and I don't agree with all points of his philosophy. But the rant lbb linked to is a bit off the mark on some topics, too. For example: "Dick Pound may be a part of the reason that doping is much discussed by sports journalists, fans and bloggers, but he is only a small part. But the biggest reason that doping is discussed so much is that so many more scandals are reported these days, rather than quietly covered up or brushed aside."
The reason it's so much harder to cover these things up or brush them aside is because of the existence of WADA, which has no particular interest in the earning power or the attraction of star athletes.
posted at 6:50 PM CDT on November 15
And now there may (or may not) be another candidate for the job.
posted at 11:39 AM CDT on November 16
Confidential files reveal fortunes of Leaf Empire ... and then there's the story about about the water from melted ice shavings scraped up by an ice-resurfacing machine between periods during the last home game at Maple Leaf Gardens in 1999. The water was cleaned, purified, and poured into 2500 acrylic pucks, which were then sold for $50 each. The Empire made $125,000.
posted to Culture at 5:49 PM CDT
I like the story in the sidebar: Why It's Your Fault the Leafs Stink. That means you, grum.
posted at 7:51 PM CDT on October 30
Landis appeals his doping case to the Court of Arbitration of Sport
posted to Other at 4:38 PM CDT
apoch didn't say people couldn't disagree with him. And let's face it, jhk's comment is basically content-free. But we won't survive around here very long if we object to every instance of that particular sin.
I have not had time to look over the AAA decision in detail. However, I have gone carefully over a number of CAS decisions in the past and I will say that the panels usually give athletes a very fair and detailed hearing, and most importantly they have a strong tradition of sticking by the letter of the law. I don't always agree with the decisions, but they are always rational and carefully argued.
posted at 7:36 PM CDT on October 10
NHL Tournament of Logos I just thought y'all would like this. That's all...
posted to Hockey at 9:16 PM CDT
Well, that was too easy. I am sorry I missed all the earlier rounds but obviously the Habs did not need my help.
posted at 9:42 PM CDT on September 26
HGH + The Clear = HR(50%) A Tufts physicist and baseball fan will publish an article in the upcoming issue of the American Journal of Physics detailing how a small increase in muscle mass could increase the amount of home runs a professional-baseball-level player would hit by over 50 percent.
posted to Baseball at 9:38 AM CDT
the Wired article: "But then, how to explain the explosion of home run hitting from about 1995 onward?"
the Tufts press release: "In the 1990s, home run totals skyrocketed to historic levels, notably dropping off after steroid testing was instituted in 2003."
Somebody show me this "explosion" and then I'd especially like to see the "notably dropping off." (Here's a picture to help you out).
the physicist: "If you look at other sports, you don't see radical changes in performance. No one is running a 6-second 100-meter dash, no matter what they are taking."
Oh, for fuck's sake, you call yourself a scientist? Show me the baseball player who's doing the equivalent of running 100m in 6 seconds.
posted at 9:38 PM CDT on September 26
Bill Henry is Not Dead For those of you who mourned former MLB All-Star Bill Henry, who passed away last week of a heart attack at the age of 83, mourn no longer. It wasn't the Red Sox' left-handed reliever who passed away, but an imposter, who's posed as Henry for decades.
posted to Baseball at 5:28 AM CDT
That is one odd story.
posted at 1:39 PM CDT on September 7
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 to Baseball at 8:09 PM CDT
An inning with fourteen batters, an inning with twelve batters, and an inning with ten batters... I'd love to see somebody's scorecard for that one.
posted at 9:05 PM CDT on August 22
Great link, Fence.