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vito90 has posted 78 links and 1191 comments to SportsFilter and 1 thread and 34 comments to the Locker Room and has written 1 column.
The Seahawks appear to be pretty loose going into this weekend's game. Starts slow, crescendos into the funny...
posted on Jan 11, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
Bivariate Baseball Score Plots...? OK...I came across this unbelievable baseball data crunching site. I don't have the faintest idea how one might use it. But surely, one might. And then one might tell me how I would apply it.
posted on Aug 3, 2007 - Go to the detail view for this result
Sports Illustrated's writers on the Best Games They've Ever Seen. Linked via Metafilter
posted on Jul 26, 2007 - Go to the detail view for this result
Bunt Cake. A comic made from ...BASEBALL CARDS! In the spirit of Get Your War On comes Bunt Cake. A web comic featuring Baseball Card images as the clip art. Linked via Metafilter
posted on Jul 17, 2007 - Go to the detail view for this result
"The Worst Beating of Your Life" Very funny article about extreme marathoning. Competitors have 60 hours to go 100 miles (and that's the good news). Or you can compete in the 60 mile version, dubbed "The Fun Run".
posted on Apr 29, 2007 - Go to the detail view for this result
Happy 25th, USFL! (or what could've been).
posted to Football at 4:23 PM CDT
Superbowl: Patriots vs. Giants 2.0 After an upset of the Packers, the Giants take on the Patriots again in Arizona.
posted to Football at 9:18 PM CDT
Did anyone notice that Favre (and most of the Pack) looked like they were about to die of exposure the whole night, while Eli and Plaxico looked almost comfortable?
Man I thought this too and I think it played a big part. I think the Pack was VERY cavalier about the elements and it hurt them. I think the machoness of playing without sleeves was ridiculous. Who the hell did they think they were going to intimidate? The warm guys? Some of the second half drives Favre looked absolutely miserable, I think I saw him putting in eye drops and breathing through a (cheesecloth?) rag just to draw some warm breath. As strange as this may seem, and I feel ridiclous for suggesting it but Favre didn't look like he wanted to be there!
I guess I'm hoping for the perfect Pats season at this point. And four years IS quick for a QB to lead his team to the Super Bowl! Not everyone can be Ben Rothlisberger!
posted at 12:16 PM CDT on January 21
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 to Business and Law at 2:27 PM CDT
University of Washington Husky Class of '94 and Class of '01.
My first Husky memory was a 27-20 win over the Wolverines in the Rose Bowl. 1978. Warren Moon and Jacque Robinson. Followed them all through the 80's and 90's as we put player after player in the NFL. The Rose Bowl seemed our birthright. You know at one time the Dawgs had 8 guys on NFL rosters at QB alone? (Moon, Pelleur, Conklin, Hobert, Brunnel, Millen, Huard, maybe a couple others). Tight ends, running backs, offensive and defensive linemen. Only Miami it seemed like produced more pros. I was a student when we won the split title with Steve Emtman and Napoleon Kaufman and then a couple years later a great Rose Bowl with Marques Tuiasosopo.
But it came at a cost, the first scandal under Don James' watch set us back and then the second punch under Neuheisel put us on the canvas. Since then it's been ugly and uglier.
I want wins, and I want them badly. I don't even really care if a few corners are cut to get us back to relevancy. I think the idea of football player as student is pretty much a canard anyway, so I'm not really concerned with recruiting guys that might not be academically up to UW standards. As long as they're good citizens and stay out of trouble. What I want from Ty (and I'm glad he's back for another year) is to keep the big picture sparkling clean, hide the dirty details, and win some fucking football games.
I think when you have tremendous pride in your school and your team, it's like making sausage. Maybe you don't really want to see how it's being made.
The Huskies have a great quarterback in Jake Locker. Not just great but with the potential to be the best Husky ever and who knows? Maybe one of the best Pac-10 QB's ever. Lots of local skill-position recruits want to go to the UW to play with Jake. The decision to keep Ty was the right one in my opinion. If he fails, then we can bring in Mora. But for now he should have the full support of all Husky fans.
Incidentally I predict a backlash against this asshole who made his contribution contingent on Ty's firing.
posted at 5:12 PM CDT on January 10
First documented US MMA death. Samuel Vasquez, a 35-year-old mixed martial artist from Houston, Texas, died on Friday.
posted to Other at 4:43 PM CDT
While there will certainly be some knee-jerk reactions and attempts to change/ban/limit the sport, I don't think they will get much traction. MMA fights couldn't get licensed 10 years ago until the UFC agreed to make many significant modifications to the sport to make it more safe. They have a very good track record and I see that track record allowing them to make a stand against those who would seek to water the sport down at this time.
Still - for this guys family and friends a very tragic story.
posted at 7:49 AM CDT on December 3
After the Last Shot: The Bill Walton Era.
PhDribble examines Bill Walton's perception of the NBA landscape, and the message of morality in the league.
posted to Basketball at 3:40 PM CDT
Very, very, very thoughtful writing. Thanks for the link.
posted at 7:25 PM CDT on December 1
Sean Taylor murder was a botched robbery The Washington Post is a reporting that Sean Taylor's murder was simply a case of a robbery gone wrong. The suspects thought he was out of town and didn't expect anyone to be home.
posted to Football at 9:07 AM CDT
Howard, yerfatma said what I was going to say, which is that since they were commiting another crime it's potentially a death penalty case - but "intent" and "premeditation" are two different things.
posted at 7:28 PM CDT on December 1
Thank God for Netflix: "Why the hell shouldn't college basketball be like this? Why don't more colleges field teams rich with walk-ons?" Henry Abbot on Quantum Hoops, the story of the Caltech basketball team. [via]
posted to Basketball at 5:17 PM CDT
That looks freakin' great. It's in my queue now. Thanks for the link, I had never heard of it.
posted at 6:58 PM CDT on December 1
For The Love of Sport: The Sweet Science Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Ricky Hatton will attempt to knock a little bit of the tarnish off of boxing’s image on December 8, 2007 when they clash for the WBC welterweight title in Las Vegas. The latest in a weekly series by sportsfilter member kyrilmitch_76.
posted to Boxing at 11:20 AM CDT
Great comments and article. I have been keenly observing fan's shifting from boxing to MMA and UFC. I was a huge boxing fan growing up, now I consider myself a huge UFC fan. I think there are several reasons for boxing's loss of popularity, many of which have been mentioned (no marquee names that the layperson knows such as Ali or Sugar Ray or Tyson, too many governing bodies, etc.)
There are a couple more differences as well - one is there are too damn many weight classes. Imagine how much better and more frequent the matchups would be if you consolidated the divisions in boxing.
The biggest difference comes down to money, or I should say the root cause of the differences. UFC fighters, even top ranked ones, are hungry. When you make less than $100,000 per fight (which everyone outside of a title fight does), and then have to kick funds to your agent, entourage, etc. you have to fight more than once a year. Promising fighters trying to get a title shot might fight three times in a year. UFC fights take place, at minimum, one night per month with anywhere from 5 to 10 fights on the card. One out of every three fight nights is on free basic cable. And the fights are set up in a way that is much less political and much more egalitarian. If you win, you fight the next guy above you. If you lose, you fight the next guy down.
Right now, in the USA, the UFC is totally driving MMA, and whether you like Dana White or not, he is positioning the sport the right way. When UFC bought PRIDE, they immediately put all the top PRIDE fighters on a free card so as to introduce them to US fans.
posted at 7:16 PM CDT on December 1
Barry Bonds indicted on perjury, obstruction charges
posted to Baseball at 4:26 PM CDT
This isn't a sad day, it's a necessary day. And his trainer Anderson was supposedly just released from prison.
posted at 5:54 PM CDT on November 15
Selected editions of the Spalding Baseball Guides from 1889-1939 are scanned (full text, high resolution) and free online at the Library of Congress. They also have 2100 baseball cards scanned and searchable.
posted to Baseball at 4:48 PM CDT
Nice find rumple! Thanks for posting. Bookmarked.
posted at 3:51 PM CDT on November 15
I kept holding out because I thought I was right When you hit a lot of home runs, drive in a bunch of tallies, do a good job in the field and, on top of all that, bring in fans who never before went to ball games, you say to yourself, "Joe, you certainly meant something in that box office, even if you didn't mean a thing winning the pennant."
When he held out for more dough and returned to the team after spring training, rusty and battling injuries, the fans actually booed him, the writers were no longer complimentary. They "taught him a lesson, or confirmed a lesson he was already prepared to believe: They were fans, they were friends . . . as long as he was a winner. But that could be over in a day."
posted to Baseball at 12:19 AM CDT
Fantastic link.
Monkeyhawk - I did a double take when I read the "best lie" passage. Do you think it might be a transcription error and should read "best he"? A few sentences later it reads "my clad" when it should have been "my dad". Anyway that was really something.
posted at 6:12 PM CDT on November 10
The Extortionist: an interesting, lengthy profile of high-profile baseball agent Scott Boras.
posted to Baseball at 7:03 PM CDT
I have to say that was one of the more interesting reads in quite awhile. He's a fascinating guy and has really carved out some kind of niche for himself.
posted at 8:20 PM CDT on October 26
I'm guessing the answer is "Hitler" (Godwin in a spofi thread???) but an apropo answer might be Don King - similar impacts on their respective sports...
posted at 1:40 PM CDT on October 27
Manny Ramirez, as Himself All right, then, be it resolved: Manny Ramirez knows more about baseball than you do.
posted to Baseball at 2:43 AM CDT
In my opinion, another example of Manny being stupider like a fox was how he rested his body in the last weeks of the season, with the ambiguous painful oblique muscle. His body in the playoffs is just a little bit fresher than guys who didn't get any days off. He is fun to watch, I just really wish he would hustle on the fly balls.
posted at 10:50 AM CDT on October 24
Sox Will Face Rocks in World Series The Boston Red Sox beat the Cleveland Indians 11-2, completing a comeback from 3-1 to win the American League Championship Series. They'll face the Colorado Rockies Wednesday in the World Series for Game 1 in Fenway Park.
posted to Baseball at 11:15 PM CDT
I have to say, Lofton looked SLOW out there yesterday. I don't think it's a shoo in he scores if the third base coach sends him, unless Manny doesn't even bother making a throw. There were alot of goats for Cleveland yesterday, Garko killed them in the field (not the first game he's struggled) and Blake grounding into the double play when it was still close. This should be a fun series, the best pitching staff in baseball versus a team playing about a .900 clip for the last month. Bring it!
posted at 8:42 AM CDT on October 22
Sweet freakin' blast from the past. There was so much talent in that league. I would love to see an analysis of the combined Pro Bowls and HOF's that spent time in the USFL. Everytime a new pro football league rears its head, (and yes even the XFL) I have such high hopes.
I completely forgot that Doug Flutie played in the USFL. Just today I saw this great highlight on TV. Maybe you've seen it? When he was in college, he threw this awesome Hail Mary pass that his receiver caught in regulation to win a game. It was amazing! He had to evade a near sack to get the pass off. I'm gonna go scour youtube for that clip.