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mbd1 has posted 8 links and 357 comments to SportsFilter and 1 thread and 61 comments to the Locker Room.
The Ballad of Big Mike What happened next was the strangest encounter of Lemming's 28-year career as a football scout. Michael Oher sat down at the table across from him ... and refused to speak. "He shook my hand and then didn’t say a word," Lemming recalled. ("His hands — they were huge!") Lemming asked a few questions; Michael Oher just kept staring right through him. And soon enough Lemming decided further interaction was pointless. Michael Oher left, and he left behind blank forms and unanswered questions. Every other high-school football player in America was dying for Lemming to invite him to play in the U.S. Army All-American Bowl. Michael Oher had left his invitation on the table. A fantastic article in the NYT Magazine by Michael Lewis, detailing the unusual story behind Michael Oher. via kottke
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posted on Oct 17, 2005 - Go to the detail view for this result
The Road from Bristol A March Madness style bracket to determine which ESPN broadcasting personality is the most totally loathsome. Voting for the Egregious Eight takes place this week.
posted on Aug 15, 2005 - Go to the detail view for this result
Who was your favorite player growing up? Rich Lederer asks that question to a group of baseball writers, analysts, and executives at a new site called Baseball Analysts. 15 of the 38 people named a Hall of Famer, and the leading player was Yaz, who was named five times. Yesterday was part one, today is part two, and the last part is due tomorrow. Here's the Baseball Primer thread on the article. Me? I'll take the Wizard of Oz.
posted on Feb 23, 2005 - Go to the detail view for this result
Awesome, baby! The Super Bowl is over; the NHL isn't playing, and the NBA playoffs don't start for another 6 months or so. That means it's college hoops time! The stories so far: Illinois and Boston College are undefeated while traditional powers Kentucky, Kansas, North Carolina, and Duke are all having excellent seasons. Coaches are on the hot seat at Virginia and Indiana. Some resources: Jeff Sagarin's ratings; Ken Pomeroy's site, The Mid-Majority, and Yoni Cohen's excellent College Basketball Blog. And it's never too early for Bracketology. Oh yeah....this is Rivalry Week on ESPN.
posted on Feb 7, 2005 - Go to the detail view for this result
16 nations vie for Euro 2008 title beginning June 7. Czech Republic, Portugal, Switzerland, Turkey, Austria, Croatia, Germany, Poland, France, Italy, Netherlands, Romania, Greece, Russia, Spain, Spain, Sweden. Who's your pick to win it? Who will be the surprise team? Where can we watch live in the US for free at home (or can we)? Get the ball rolling inside.
posted to Soccer at 12:21 PM CDT
What franchise has the best run of players at one position in history? Batter's Box says it's Left Field for the Red Sox, but plenty of other arguments appear in the comments.
posted to Baseball at 1:33 PM CDT
I think Win Shares could really help guide this discussion.
As a Cardinals fan, I immediately thought of them for the first basemen.
posted at 5:05 PM CDT on June 4
The Epic of Craig Biggio You ever go to a movie, it' s pretty good for about an hour and a half but then the story is over but it's like the director can't find the ending so it goes on for another half-hour looking for some way to tie things together? That's kind of Biggio's career; it was over, and then it went on for quite awhile.
posted to Baseball at 9:38 AM CDT
I hated the way he (and others) let himself get hit by pitches constantly. That stupid elbow armor. But I did admire that he hung around forever and seemed to enjoy playing the game.
posted at 11:23 AM CDT on February 26
Q&A: Will Leitch An interview with the founder of Deadspin.com.
posted to General at 3:05 PM CDT
Will's book tour hits Philly tomorrow, and I'll be there. I'm looking forward to it.
posted at 2:53 PM CDT on February 19
Jayvee Hoops at Carolina No lottery picks here. Just hoopsters.
posted to Basketball at 10:42 PM CDT
Kieran Darcy wrote a good article about his time on the JV team at Penn.
posted at 1:49 PM CDT on February 12
1988, Year of the Card "We're celebrating the 20th anniversary of one of the great classic baseball card sets, 1988 Topps. We're going through all 792 cards one by one, posting bits about what makes the card awesome and cool stats about the player or team featured on the card."
posted to Baseball at 7:42 AM CDT
My first set was 86 Topps. And yes, I loved the gum, and the wax packs for 35 cents.
Fleer and Donruss had their first sets in 1981.
posted at 1:28 PM CDT on January 17
College Coaches Franchione, Callahan and Orgeron Sacked Say goodbye to Dennis Franchione at Texas A&M, Bill Callahan at Nebraska and Ed Orgeron at Ole Miss. Houston Nutt at Arkansas may be next.
posted to Football at 1:35 PM CDT
No way LSU would hire Nutt. If Arkansas is going to let him go for not being good enough (which I think is ridiculous, I want him to stay), he's definitely not good enough for LSU. The unknown here is that Frank Broyles is finally stepping down from the AD position, and the new guy, Jeff Long from Pitt, will make the decision on Nutt's future. He might want to start off with a new hire, or he may want to keep Nutt on for continuity. Who knows.
And McFadden is not going to stay for his senior year, no way no how. He's a top 5 draft pick easy.
posted at 10:13 AM CDT on November 26
Ha. And let's not forget about my second favorite college football team, Duke. Ted Roof may be out after winning like 4 games in 4 years. What will AD Joe Alleva do? A nation waits.
posted at 10:17 AM CDT on November 26
posted at 3:48 PM CDT on November 26
Nutt wasn't gotten rid of for not being good enough but for various off the field controversies.
Arkansas didn't get rid of Nutt; Nutt got rid of Arkansas. But the reasoning is the same. I guess he was just sick of the whole situation. At Ole Miss he'll get a chance to stick it to the Hogs every year. And vice versa. That should be an interesting matchup for the next few years.
posted at 11:25 AM CDT on November 27
Duke Super Bowl In-depth analysis of tomorrow's clash of 1-9 college football titans. Mostly sophomoric, but humor us Duke fans on our one chance for football glory...
posted to Football at 10:04 AM CDT
Oh man. I'll be in a cabin in the woods all weekend. Usually I schedule around a much-awaited, epic clash of the titans like this one. NBC is actually televising it, right?
posted at 12:58 PM CDT on November 16
Royal Reading Rule Reds. Starting their sophomore season in the Premiership, Reading (managed by Steve Coppell, a former Man Utd star) held the reigning champions to a 0-0 draw. Against players whose individual transfer fees cost more than most of Reading's team put together. At Man Utd's stadium. After having one man sent off with 20 minutes remaining. Rah rah, Reading!
posted to Soccer at 12:09 PM CDT
Does it rhyme with leading or with bedding?
posted at 12:18 PM CDT on August 12
Tuesday Morning Quarterback returns! Our long national nightmare is nearly over.
posted to Football at 5:43 PM CDT
He's a blowhard who churns out repetitive mad-lib style "columns." I wouldn't be surprised to find out that he's been dead for three years and his kids are making sure the TMQ Column Generating Machine gets an oil change every 30000 words.
posted at 11:36 AM CDT on August 8
USA 2-1 Mexico FSC's Christopher Sullivan said before the game that while El Tri generally outplay Uncle Sam, the Americans find the chances and win and that was certainly what happened this afternoon. Donovan got his fourth goal of the tournament, all PKs, emerging star Bennie Feilhaber had the best goal of the competition with a volley to the top far corner off a poor Mexican clearance for the winner and the US improved to 10-0-1 under Bob Bradley. Next: Bradley takes an extremely young team to Venezuela since even the strongest side he could have fielded were unlikely to make it out of the group stage.
posted to Soccer at 5:59 PM CDT
Why are the USA and Mexico invited to play in Copa America? I thought it was a CONMEBOL tournament.
And their group is Argentina (FIFA #5), Paraguay (FIFA #37), and Colombia (FIFA #31). The US is currently FIFA #16, and I know there are lots of problems with the FIFA rankings, but I would expect them to be competitive in that group, even with the all the games in unfriendly stadiums.
Maybe there's just not much to play for, in that the US has their berth in the Confederations Cup. And maybe it's too early to be thinking about seeding for WC2010. And maybe we need to find out what the kids can do.
posted at 11:11 AM CDT on June 25
Mathematician: Yankees Will Dominate Baseball This Year
posted to Baseball at 12:51 PM CDT
Any news on the A-Rod as a choker front?
posted at 9:03 AM CDT on April 9
So I've moved to Long Island and gotten Verizon's FIOS cable, with 5 flavors of ESPN and Fox Soccer Channel. This has been a great time to be unemployed, between the Champions League and Euro 2008 coming up.