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gradys_kitchen has posted 23 links and 195 comments to SportsFilter and hasn’t posted any threads or comments to the Locker Room.
The "Why" behind Team USA's recent international woes. However, the article fails to tackle the biggest question, does anyone in the States really care anymore?
posted on Aug 20, 2007 - Go to the detail view for this result
Dogfighting, point-shaving, blood doping. It couldn't get any worse, could it? Slate envisions how a bad sports week could get worse.
posted on Jul 26, 2007 - Go to the detail view for this result
'Roid rage on the 9th tee - Gary Player said Wednesday he knows of at least one golfer who has used steroids, and he urged golf organizations to move quickly toward a random drug-testing plan .. then he put his fist through the wall and screamed "why is no one listening to me!!"
posted on Jul 18, 2007 - Go to the detail view for this result
Which NBA lottery team built up the most positive karma during the season, thereby earning them a shot at Oden or Durant?
posted on May 22, 2007 - Go to the detail view for this result
Rigid rules devastating quality of NBA. Suspensions, synthetic balls and mixed signals - the declining state of NBA gameplay as opinioned by veteran NBA writer Mike Kahn
posted on May 16, 2007 - Go to the detail view for this result
Keith Hernandez rips ex-mate Gary Carter on air Keith Hernandez ripped his former Mets teammate, Gary Carter, during yesterday's game on Ch. 11, calling him "unconscious" after Carter openly campaigned for the managerial job currently occupied by Willie Randolph.
posted to Baseball at 6:50 AM CDT
Rockets fine Yao Ming for attending Special Olympics opening ceremony Doesn't strike me as the wisest of PR moves.
posted to Basketball at 5:36 AM CDT
I guess I'm as RETARED as wfrazerjr since I agree. But BOLTING2BELIEVE .. I must ask .. many strippers are single mothers just trying to get by, so if Yao dialed up Stephen Jackson and skipped off to the gentlemen's club for 2 days, would it still be about the kids? Thankfuly Yao earned his fine by being a good citizen. Should be a non-story.
posted at 9:49 AM CDT on October 4
The top 10 worst sports team names ... because marketing departments like a challenge .
posted to General at 9:40 AM CDT
If all teams were to adopt the LA Angels of Anaheim model the author forgot to mention my beloved Detroit Pistons of Auburn Hills. While I understand the logic behind moving stadiums to adjoining cities from a gate revenue standpoint, even if it is 24.7 miles from the northern border of Detroit as in the Palace of Auburn Hills, it has always seemed silly to retain the originating city name. Of course playing against the Auburn Hills Pistons just doesn't have the same ring as Detroit - you know, the Detroit full of unruly, out-of-work auto employees who beat Indiana players mercilessly - to warrant TV dollars or the respect of teams who are so huge that they represent entire states or nicknames of states. Anyhow thats my somewhat related to the topic rant.
As for worst nicknames - and I assume this is tongue in cheek given it comes from a prominent design school - are the Nads and Balls of the Rhode Island School of Design. Then again, maybe those are the best ever.
posted at 11:45 AM CDT on September 13
Bills' Everett Injures Spine Making Tackle Buffalo Bills reserve tight end Kevin Everett suffered a cervical spine injury making a tackle on a kickoff return in Sunday's game against the Denver Broncos. He showed no movement as he was taken off the field after being knocked unconscious on the head-first hit, and in emergency surgery Sunday night, doctors removed his third and fourth vertebrae. A preseason profile describes the former third round pick, now 25, who has been sidelined with injuries most of his NFL career.
posted to Football at 9:42 AM CDT
Mike Utley Foundation - Finding a Cure for Paralysis.
posted at 1:42 PM CDT on September 10
Newspaper: Rick Ankiel Received Human Growth Hormone Shipments Ankiel, the feel-good story in baseball this year after getting himself on the good side of earned runs (seven last night alone), ordered a 12-month supply of human growth hormone in 2004, according to an exclusive in today's New York Daily News. He allegedly received eight shipments of HGH from Signature Pharmacy, an Orlando firm that's at the center of an investigation into illegal online drug sales.
posted to Baseball at 8:48 AM CDT
I also heard that while rehabbing Ankiel may have participated in dog fighting and wrote a book about being gay in the NBA.
posted at 2:31 PM CDT on September 7
BBCRMOL! The Bryant"Big Country"Reeves Memorial Overpaid List is out again. With a new twist, they include injured players this year.
posted to Basketball at 5:29 AM CDT
Theo Ratliff will make $12 million this year .. its enough to make a 9 to 5 office captive find the tallest structure available to throw oneself off of.
posted at 9:02 AM CDT on September 4
Jaguars Will Dump Leftwich, Rely on Garrard to Start In a dramatic about face from all of the happy talk this preseason between Byron Leftwich and Coach Jack Del Rio, the Jacksonville Jaguars will drop their four-year starter and elevate David Garrard to the position. If anyone's looking for a gutsy, slow-footed, cannon-armed quarterback who takes more debilitating hits than the Black Knight on Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Leftwich is available for trade until 4 p.m. Saturday.
posted to Football at 5:16 PM CDT
For a change the Lions probably won't be calling. That says something. What that is, I am unsure. Could be the highlight of his resume ... "Lions not interested'.
posted at 12:33 AM CDT on September 1
Third footballer dies from heart problems in 10 days. What the ... ?!! ... Chaswe Nsofwa, a former Zambia international, collapsed and died of heart failure during a training session with his Israeli club side, Hapoel Beersheba. The tragedy came less than 24 hours after Clive Clarke, the Leicester City player on loan from Sunderland, suffered a heart attack during Tuesday's League Cup tie at Nottingham Forest. Clarke was recovering in hospital yesterday. On Tuesday afternoon ... Sevilla ... left-back, Antonio Puerta, had died after suffering "five cardio-respiratory stoppages". Little more than a week earlier Walsall's 16-year-old youth-team player Anton Reid inexplicably collapsed on the training ground and died.
posted to Soccer at 11:15 PM CDT
the grouping of these occurrences is strictly random. If these were spread out over an entire year, no one would be trying to make a connection (and most people wouldn't notice).
Grum, I disagree about the notion that these type of occurences would go unoticed. The sudden death of athletes, whether cardiac related or not, always draw a great deal of attention due to the perception that athletes are in peak or near-peak physical condition. The assumption would be that they are less susceptible to such health events.
Good info from the American Heart Association for those who are interested:
"Although SCD occurs rarely in athletes, when it does happen, it often affects us with shock and disbelief.
Cause: Most cases of SCD are related to undetected cardiovascular disease. In the younger population, it is often due to congenital heart defects, while in older athletes (35 years and older), the cause is more often related to coronary artery disease.
Prevalence: SCD in athletes occurs rarely; however media coverage often makes it seem like it happens more often. In the younger population, most cases of SCD occur while playing team sports; in about one in 100,000 to one in 300,000 athletes, and more often in males. In older athletes, SCD occurs more often during running or jogging and in approximately one in 15,000 joggers and one in 50,000 marathon runners.
Screening: The American Heart Association recommends cardiovascular screening for high school and collegiate athletes."
posted at 1:30 PM CDT on August 30
posted at 3:37 PM CDT on August 30
A story for the ages or the aged- the oldest player in college football debuts this September. Gives a whole new meaning to fantasy football, a baby boomer re-living the glory days wants one more chance, and gets it.
posted to Extreme at 7:13 PM CDT
Hmm .. where have I seen this before?
posted at 10:00 AM CDT on August 23
Drew Colors "Bledsoe’s NFL legacy: all he really wanted was to be somewhere else."
posted to Football at 3:34 PM CDT
So where would you put how Barry Sanders retired in all of this?
Lions related burnout. Its amazing the whole team doesn't retire each and every year before season's end. The only entry on their exit interview: "Demoralization" or "Looked unfavorably upon by the Fates".
posted at 9:58 AM CDT on August 23
The "Why" behind Team USA's recent international woes. However, the article fails to tackle the biggest question, does anyone in the States really care anymore?
posted to Basketball at 3:46 PM CDT
I for one still do (therefore the posting) although the reasons in the article aren't very revealing for anyone reasonably versed in FIBA's rules, but a good lesson for those who are not. Point of it all for me at least .. it would be refreshing to see the U.S. flex some international muscle since basketball like baseball is our export. Even more exciting would be some fan enthusiam.
posted at 3:52 PM CDT on August 20
Michael Vick Admits to Dogfighting, Will Plead Guilty The Falcons quarterback has reached a plea agreement with prosecutors in his federal dogfighting case and will enter his guilty plea Monday, his attorney said today. No word yet on what sentence he might receive. Vick and his codefendants, who already reached deals, face up to five years in prison and $250,000 in fines.
posted to Football at 2:05 PM CDT
Oh yeah! A Mike Vick thread I somehow missed. Without reading the comments I will predict that all of the following have taken place:
a) It has been suggested that Vick's genetalia be chewed off by a dog
b) Someone has bizzarely eluded to horse racing as being as cruel as dog fighting
c) Racial epitaphs have been traded, knowingly or unknowingly
d) "You just don't understand thug life"
e) Someone other than Vick is at fault, most notably society, Roger Goodell and the media
f) Atlanta fans reminded about how screwed they are with the injury to DJ Shockley
Now to start reading in reverse to see if my career change to TV Psychic is not too far fetched.
posted at 3:19 PM CDT on August 21
The fallibility of humankind is quite well documented. We could also throw in a discussion of moral relativism if we wanted to escalate the debate to a different plane. However, in any era there are basic holes in some of the arguments here.
No matter if you're the President of the United States, people make mistakes, we're human.
Pointing to the actions of others is a poor way to vindicate oneself even if those actions are committed by 'stand up' folks like the President. Mom said it best when she asked, if all of your friends jumped off a bridge, would you follow? Mankind should be held accountable for all mistakes with the opportunity to earn forgiveness, not passively dismissing errors, or crimes in this instance, as just part of human nature.
Did Vick drown the dogs himself? Was he actually doing any of the actual literal horrible shit? Or was he paying for it all and other sociopaths doing it? I think there's a bit of a difference in light of such outrage. He's a dick, for sure, but he's hardly the anti-christ. He's the money, from what I can tell.
In this case, if broadly applied to history, the Gestapo is at more fault then the Nazi leadership. Did Hitler shove humans into giant furnaces? Was he actually doing any of the actual literal horrible shit? Or was he just directing others to do it?
A less sinister comparison would be determining who is ultimately responsible in organized crime (boss or foot soldier) 'cause one hates to play the Hitler card on a sports message board.
posted at 11:10 AM CDT on August 22
JJ - you got me.
Also, I was hoping to score with the girls by throwing in that moral relativism bit. Had my cardigan on, pipe in hand and everything.
posted at 11:32 AM CDT on August 22
This really boils down to a long standing pissing match over whether or not a porn stache can pull more chicks then a man-perm circa 1986.