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NoMich has posted 70 links and 977 comments to SportsFilter and 19 threads and 708 comments to the Locker Room.
10 Sports Heroes You Won’t Find on a Wheaties Box. Mental Floss magazine gives us a list of 10 people that are not, but should be, on a Wheaties box.
posted on May 1, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
Basketball team resists Saudi restrictions on female athletes. These Saudi women are going to play basketball, by gum, and there's nothing you can do about it. Zahed, who prays regularly and wears a head scarf even when outside Saudi Arabia, said that nothing in Islam bans women from sports. "Our society just has to get used to it," she said. "It's not yet normal for them to see women playing sports. But times are changing, and they have to start accepting it." (There's even a video of them playing.)[via]
posted on Apr 17, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
Sean Avery does his best to reduce the NHL to the level of the WWE (single link to a Youtube video). The NHL responds.
posted on Apr 16, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
Frozen Four: Where Eagles Soar The Boston College Eagles won the 2008 NCAA Frozen Four championship by knocking off this year's Cinderalla, Notre Dame, 4-1. This is BC's third national championship. Game Notes. Slide Show.
posted on Apr 13, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
Improv Everywhere makes the kids' day. For one day, two Little League teams got to experience the big leagues; complete with shirtless fans, NBC's Jim Gray calling the game, a jumbotron and the Goodyear blimp.
posted on Apr 7, 2008 - 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
posted to Baseball at 1:48 AM CDT
jojo: you saw Ankiel's last outing as a pitcher right? He was anything but accurate.
posted at 7:01 AM CDT on May 8
PGA Dresses Down John Daly for Golfing Topless A video of John Daly golfing in Branson, Mo., with no shirt or shoes has prompted this response from PGA Commissioner Tim Finchem: "There are certain things about presentation that we must insist on."
posted to Golf at 6:35 AM CDT
I read TheQatarian's story with near-trepidation. I thought the punchline was going to be something about George Burns using his dick as a golf club.
posted at 10:15 AM CDT on May 7
Salary vs Performance "What baseball teams are spending their money well, and how does it change over the course of the season?"
posted to Baseball at 8:40 PM CDT
Hey, that's pretty neat. Look at Detroit's line versus Arizona's line. Yikes.
posted at 8:52 PM CDT on April 29
10 spectacles of sport to see before you die. Including the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, Grand Sumo Tournaments, and the Kentucky Derby.
posted to General at 10:20 AM CDT
The X Games? Really? I would replace that with the 24 hours of Le Mans. The after party looks like the greatest event of mankind.
I would also add this must see: A Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals. Oh, wait, I've been to one of those. /pats self on back
posted at 4:23 PM CDT on April 29
The Ten Worst Number One Overall Picks A look back at the surefire picks that weren't.
posted to Football at 6:11 PM CDT
We're they overall number 1 picks, hawkguy?
posted at 7:13 PM CDT on April 22
Fukudome doesn't find racist T-shirts in Wrigleyville funny A Fukudome T-shirt with a racist image is the hottest-selling item at a souvenir stand that sells unlicensed Cubs-related merchandise across Addison Street from the ballpark.......... The Cubs front office was flooded with angry emails from fans in response to a Sun-Times story about a controversial T-shirt being sold outside of Wrigley Field. The ballclub does the right thing (update inside) after the uproar, for those of you who feel we've licked the problem of Racism in America, Guess Again!
posted to Baseball at 10:43 AM CDT
I find the name Ying Yang Mafia [(see two posts above)(nothing personal)] an offensive user name. But as long as he/she is a member of the Chinese underworld, it's ok....right?
Well, if his user name was Yin Yang Mafia then you may have a case, but this particular user calls himself Ying Yang Mafia. There's no correlation there. You may think I'm splitting hairs here, but there was a time where the user named Ying Yang Mafia admitted that his name makes no sense. I can't find the post now, but maybe he'll chime in with a link to it. Besides, we call him Wing Wang Mafia 'round these parts.
posted at 11:10 PM CDT on April 19
This is exactly why white folks are made fun of by other groups.
Horry kow!! (did I just officially kill this thread?)
posted at 10:59 PM CDT on April 22
Top 10 Unbreakable Sports Records Whenever the inevitable debate arises among sports fans concerning the record that is the least likely to ever be broken, many people are quick to cite Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hit streak. But there are many others...
posted to General at 6:59 PM CDT
The record that is the most deceiving is Nolan Ryan's 7 no-hitters in a career. How can a record with such a small number be so out of reach? But look at how many MLB seasons there have been and how many pitchers there have been in that whole time, but there that 7 sits. Of those that have multiple no-hitters and that are still playing, Hideo Nomo and Randy Johnson, have only 2 each.
posted at 7:39 PM CDT on April 17
Basketball team resists Saudi restrictions on female athletes. These Saudi women are going to play basketball, by gum, and there's nothing you can do about it. Zahed, who prays regularly and wears a head scarf even when outside Saudi Arabia, said that nothing in Islam bans women from sports. "Our society just has to get used to it," she said. "It's not yet normal for them to see women playing sports. But times are changing, and they have to start accepting it." (There's even a video of them playing.)[via]
posted to Culture at 12:48 PM CDT
I hope this post isn't taken as me bashing Saudi Arabia. My intention is in hoping that these womens' basketball teams are a first step towards greater equality in the kingdom for women.
posted at 1:03 PM CDT on April 17
This wouldn't happen if the event were being held in Saudi Arabia, where women aren't even aloud to drive.
This *is* happening in Saudi Arabia. I'm pretty sure that women playing sports isn't much of an issue in most other Muslim-majority countries.
posted at 4:13 PM CDT on April 17
...they're breaking rigid Wahabist Islamic Sharia law
There are differing opinions on what, exactly, sharia law is. Don't think that the ultra-conservatives own the only true Islamic path.
posted at 6:42 PM CDT on April 17
Sean Avery does his best to reduce the NHL to the level of the WWE (single link to a Youtube video). The NHL responds.
posted to Hockey at 10:53 AM CDT
If the Rangers had scored when another Ranger took a shot that Brodeur did not pick up because of Avery's antics, I would say that the ploy was effective.
I'm not sure that the goal would've counted. I've seen goals get waved off because the ref saw that a player interefered with the goalie's ability to make a play to stop the puck. I don't think that Avery was giving Brodeur the chance to play a puck. I don't see how anybody couldn't help but watch Avery's stick, held high in the air, waving around. We've seen what a stick weilded like that can do to another player (McSorley on Brashear anyone?).
Besides, how was that NOT unsportsmanlike conduct? Rule 41g reads:
A misconduct penalty shall be imposed on any player who persists in any course of conduct (including threatening or abusive language or gestures or similar actions) designed to incite an opponent into incurring a penalty.
posted at 4:03 PM CDT on April 16
Frozen Four: Where Eagles Soar The Boston College Eagles won the 2008 NCAA Frozen Four championship by knocking off this year's Cinderalla, Notre Dame, 4-1. This is BC's third national championship. Game Notes. Slide Show.
posted to Hockey at 10:04 AM CDT
Or "Cinderella" if you would. D'oh!
Overall, Inside College Hockey is a fantastic reference for, uh, college hockey.
posted at 10:07 AM CDT on April 13
But just think if you splintered Greg Maddux* (armed with a tank of ether and a pair of nail clippers) like a baseball bat made from maple. My god, the destruction would be on a massive scale!
* - you have to call Greg Maddux, "Greg Maddux," otherwise Greg Maddux will kill a puppy. Again.
Doesn't the ball come off an aluminum bat much faster than off a wooden bat? Frankly, I'm surprised that the NCAA still uses aluminum bats.