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| Name: | Rick Scully |
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| Homepage URL: | http://terrapin-gardens.net |
| Location: | Tunbridge, VT |
| ZIP Code: | 05077 |
| Gender: | dude |
| AIM: | t3rr4ping4rd3ns |
| Member since: | May 31, 2002 |
| Last visit: | May 9, 2008 |
terrapin has posted 38 links and 759 comments to SportsFilter and 24 threads and 270 comments to the Locker Room.
Pittsburgh Steelers football—I have been a Steelers fan for as long as I can remember despite growing up in the Washington, DC area. My first sports memories all involve Super Bowls in the mid-70s.
Arsenal—I have played and loved soccer all my life, but have never been able to get behind any of the many American league teams that have popped up over the decades. I used to attend Washington Diplomats games as a child and one of my most memorable sporting moments was traveling to Giants stadium to see Pele play for the Cosmos. I have no real reason to support Arsenal, per se, but as I have read nearly everything Nick Hornby has written—including Fever Pitch—I feel like I have supported them for ages. The only European match I have ever attended though was a First Division match between Watford and Wolverhampton in December 2001.Salary vs Performance "What baseball teams are spending their money well, and how does it change over the course of the season?"
posted on Apr 29, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
If you don't give my football back... Just as Ebbsfleet United is about to play one of the biggest ties in its history, it looks like the teams' 29,000(+/-) owners are having a little trouble with the "pick the team" part of their tagline. And with only 2,000 of those owners committed past the first year of the experiment, there is some concern about the future of the model.
posted on Apr 4, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
If you don't do what I say, I'll take my football home! Lawyer, multimillionaire, University of Washington alumnus, and former three-term Everett, Washington mayor, Ed Hansen wants his way. And if the University of Washington wants $200,000 for law school scholarships all they have to do is fire their football coach and athletic director. [more inside]
posted on Jan 10, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
McClaren sacked for big loss After only 18 matches as England's coach, Steve McClaren and assistant coach Terry Venables have lost their positions after their side's failure to qualify for Euro 2008. The Football Association said was a unanimous decision by the board. So who's next? The speculation begins.
posted on Nov 22, 2007 - Go to the detail view for this result
Tim Hardaway is making progress "I'm not really trying to make amends. I've been there trying to get help." No word on how George Takei feels about all this.
posted on Sep 27, 2007 - Go to the detail view for this result
Maple Bats: One of Baseball's Most Dangerous Weapons About two or three times a game. players swinging bats made of maple wood end up with kindling in their hands while the barrel – blunt and thick on one end, splintered and sharp on the other – flies every which direction. "Someone's going to die at a baseball stadium soon," writes Jeff Passan of Yahoo Sports. "Might be a player. Could be an umpire. Possibly even a fan. It almost was a coach."
posted to Baseball at 11:31 AM CDT
West Brom clinch Championship and promotion. They will be joined by Stoke, and one more team to be determined by playoffs between Hull, Bristol City, Crystal Palace and Watford.
posted to Soccer at 12:59 PM CDT
I was hoping Wolves might go up again. A good mate of mine supports them and took me to see them play Watford in 2001, my first English football match.
posted at 5:34 PM CDT on May 5
posted to Baseball at 10:27 AM CDT
apoch, I loved this post so much I had to post it to MeFi. I hope you don't mind. Thanks for making my day.
posted at 3:52 PM CDT on April 29
New York Times picks up the story and it includes a picture of Tucholsky being carried by Holtman and Wallace.
Come on fellow SpoFites. Let's not argue and point fingers in this feel-good thread. Please?
posted at 6:44 AM CDT on April 30
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
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don't count this one in the comment count ;)
posted at 3:32 PM CDT on April 28
thought it was Florida, because he was in spring training with the Red Sox in Fort Myers... and she's from Fort Myers.
ESPN article says he met her in Florida with his then Boston teammates.
"The allegations, according to the Daily News, claim Clemens was 28 when he first had contact with McCready. She was 15 when he noticed her at a Fort Myers, Fla., bar while out with his Red Sox teammates, according to the Daily News."
posted at 3:41 PM CDT on April 28
I can't give away ALL my secrets!
Fine.... the left bracket is done by putting the following characters together with no spaces: & lt ; and the right bracket is & gt ;
The lt and gt stand for "less than" and "greater than"
What I don't do for you people.
this comment doesn't count toward the 153 either
posted at 3:53 PM CDT on April 28
Wow, dyams.
I was thinking that the conversation was going much BETTER than expected.
I don't think anyone meant harm about the comment count, and I apologise for my role in the derail on HTML, etc.
I hope you'll have a cold one, watch Sports Center and reconsider.
posted at 4:28 PM CDT on April 28
Plus, I still think it was a shallow move by McNamee's lawyer to even comment on this story.
Clemens is suing Brian McNamee over defamation of character. Brian McNamee's lawyers are defending their client. If Clemens is less than the upstanding patriotic poster boy he is claiming to be then Brian McNamee's attorney's owe it to their client to use whatever information that comes to light to defend their client. The press is the one reporting this information. As far as we know it isn't Brian McNamee's lawyers feeding this information to the press. It ain't pretty, but that's how it goes.
posted at 5:20 PM CDT on April 28
Perfect? Despite Super Bowl loss, 18-1 football team wants "19-0" trademarks
posted to Football at 11:00 AM CDT
"I would wear them just to get the confused glances..."
I couldn't tell you who won the Fiesta Bowl in 2007, so I would assume that someone wearing such a shirt was sporting the correct one.
This may sound blasphemous on a sport website, but unless one of my favourite teams wins something I forget immediately who won the previous year. Heck, I had to think hard about who won the NCAA basketball tournament last month!
Oh, and fuck the Pats ;)
Maybe someone should trademark 20-0 in case some other team in some other league with 20 games in a season might go undefeated at some point in an undetermined future?
Forget what I said about the Pats, fuck lawyers.
posted at 7:01 PM CDT on April 21
I hadn't seen smithnylu's comment, who owes me a new monitor! Thanks for the laugh.
posted at 7:06 PM CDT on April 21
If you don't give my football back... Just as Ebbsfleet United is about to play one of the biggest ties in its history, it looks like the teams' 29,000(+/-) owners are having a little trouble with the "pick the team" part of their tagline. And with only 2,000 of those owners committed past the first year of the experiment, there is some concern about the future of the model.
posted to Soccer at 8:01 AM CDT
I accidentally linked to the same article twice when I really meant to highlight this article. Specifically, the part where they republish the memo. And this part stuck out to me:
"In addition, an example where Chris McPhee was used at right back against Aldershot was suggested by no one at all. This was a selection that proved very effective against a talented and speedy winger and yet there is no mechanism that allows Daish the sort of flexibility for this sort of selection."
So even those who do take the time to pick the teams don't have the tools to do so with any flexibility.
Apparently the team's ownership forums are filled with people saying if that can't pick the team they won't continue to give money.
Personally, I think the owners should let the manager pick. And if I was the manager of a team where there were 29,000 people telling me what to do, I'd find somewhere else to manage.
posted at 4:44 PM CDT on April 4
yes, thanks.
posted at 1:46 PM CDT on April 7
Team Summaries Leading to Final 4 Committee gets it right as 4 number 1 seeds advance to the Final 4 for the first time in history.
posted to Basketball at 12:10 PM CDT
This can happen in the Women's tournament too as the final eight are all 1 and 2 seeds. As a Maryland fan, I hope it does :)
posted at 3:09 PM CDT on March 31
SI: The Vault Sports Illustrated has opened up its archives. For free.
posted to Culture at 4:38 PM CDT
I had a cork wall in my room as a kid, and I removed the covers of my SI issues (except the swimsuit, natch) every month and used them to "wallpaper" that cork wall.
Cool find, nemo. Cheers.
posted at 12:44 PM CDT on March 23
Unfortunately the ash tree won't be around much longer due to the emerald ash borer as well as the various diseases that attack the tree. Ash will be as rare as Elm soon.