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| Name: | Rod Murray |
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| Member since: | January 25, 2006 |
| Last visit: | May 17, 2008 |
Spitztengle has posted 13 links and 161 comments to SportsFilter and no threads and 140 comments to the Locker Room.
Right on the button! Kevin Martin won his third career Brier on his final stone against defending champ Glenn Howard, capping an impressive week at 13-0.
posted on Mar 16, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
New home not so sweet for CFL? The Canadian Football League's move solely to cable network TSN is apparently not all roses.
posted on Feb 29, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
A Fight to the Death CBC program The Fifth Estate investigates the effects of undiagnosed concussions in WWE wrestler Chris Benoit's tragic demise. Also relevant to other SpoFi threads about NFL disability pensions, etc.
posted on Feb 7, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
NFL Updates Disability Plan Following a string of news stories drawing attention to the trials of former NFLers' efforts to get disability benefits, the NFL has announced updates to assist getting these benefits to players more efficiently and quickly.
posted on Dec 14, 2007 - Go to the detail view for this result
CFL Announces Commissioner Today, Mark Cohon was announced as the 12th commissioner of the Canadian Football League.
posted on Mar 28, 2007 - Go to the detail view for this result
LA Galaxy reserve team uses ticket agent to fill out game day roster They didn't want to play short-handed. Anybody here know how to play this game?
posted to Soccer at 11:25 AM CDT
Have we returned to the days of 'Gladiators'? The ice at Montreal's Bell Centre, home of the Canadiens, will be replaced tonight by an eight-sided, chain-link cage that will hold two incredibly fit men using an arsenal of fighting skills and raw violence to pummel the other into submission. Watching the men in the cage - their muscles clenched and red-faced with adrenalin - it is easy to see the comparison to the blood sport of ancient Rome.Mixed martial arts, and especially UFC, the largest purveyor of the sport, is moving from cult interest into the mainstream. Tickets to tonight's event sold out within a minute. CBS is to begin airing fights in prime time next month.
posted to Culture at 12:31 PM CDT
to think that it is just two guys pummeling each other is kind of idiotic and shows that you haven't watched a fight or only taken away what was convenient to fit into your view of the sport
Hey, I'm a huge fan of the "sweet science" or the "pugilist art" of boxing myself. But to say that boxing or MMA can't be boiled down to two guys (um, there are women in both sports too) pummeling each other is just denial.
Bloodlust is an undeniable phenomenon in our society ... and always seems to have been. Likewise so has the moral outrage at this type of thing as "sport". But the one thing I'm reluctant to concede is that just because "it's always been that way" (which is a myth that needs nuanced recollection), doesn't mean that it will always continue to be that way.
Personally, MMA really disgusts me. But ironically, it's revived my fondness for boxing. Figure that one out.
And re: MMA as a favourite Canadian bloodsport? It's got to get in line behind hockey, folks!
posted at 4:28 PM CDT on April 19
When I was over there living in a tent, away from my family and worried about getting my ass shot off and orphaning my daughter, I wasn't doing it for you.
So, just out of curiosity, who were you doing it for?
posted at 6:59 PM CDT on April 19
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'd like to see the same level of passionate outrage at the official racist images of the Indians, the Braves, and the Redskins.
I'll second that! Can't believe it's taken this many posts before someone actually contextualized this in relation to that much longer-standing, and yet unresolved issue.
posted at 1:25 PM CDT on April 21
Octopus swinging by Al Sobotka will result in $10,000 fine. "Because matter flies off the octopus and gets on the ice when he does it." :(
posted to Hockey at 9:05 AM CDT
I was sure it was a link I followed through SportsFilter to a story about how hard it is to get those things into the arena. Anyone remember that, by chance?
I can say that the NHL has become extremely finicky about their ice. Airburst pyrotechnics have also been banned from above the ice surface (or so I was told by a pyrotechnician who works at Rexall and Pengrowth) due to what most people would consider negligible debris.
I just wonder if they're gonna ban players from hawkin' loogies on the ice now too?
posted at 4:03 PM CDT on April 23
Thanks, goddam ... that's the one.
posted at 6:14 PM CDT on April 23
"Tech doping"? How Speedo's LZR suit breaks swim records As the Associated Press reports, "the LZR now has been worn for 21 of the 22 world records set since it was introduced in February."
posted to Olympics at 10:51 PM CDT
I think this is an incredibly fascinating "controversy"! I've been a long-time critic of many of the logics underpinning the ban on drugs in sport, and this is one indisputable example of technology surpassing "nature" (i.e., human skin) in a significant way. Don't get me wrong, it's super-cool! Engineered fabrics making swimmers go faster than ever is almost comic-book-good! But it does beg many serious questions about its legitimacy and fairness of use in the pristine world of international competition.
MUZZLE DICK POUND!
posted at 11:54 PM CDT on April 14
WTF? Any swimmers out there that can explain this to me? Is this normal for any swimsuit, or just the LZR?
A friend of mine (who is a swim coach) said that it's 'cause it's like squeezing into a compression sock ... only it's like a nylon in that if it gets a "run" it's hooped. They are seamless and super-tight-fitting ... so I guess it's the getting them on and off that reduces their life-expectancy. Or so I'm told.
posted at 10:24 AM CDT on April 15
Olympic torch put out by protests. Security officials canceled the final run of the Olympic relay through Paris after chaotic protests Monday, sending a snuffed-out torch to its destination on a bus in a humiliating concession to protesters decrying China's human rights record.
posted to Olympics at 12:24 PM CDT
That will never happen as long as teams represent countries.
Exactly! If the Olympics (or sport in general) was "just about the athletes", then it would look a hell of a lot different than it does. Fact is, sport is always-already political. Nothing ideological about singing anthems before games? How about military representation and "honour the troops" campaigns strategically coinciding with major sporting events? And we're not even scratching the surface of the historical legacy of using the Olympics as an ideological/political battlefield.
Reality is (unfortunate as it may be for some), we can't just simply ignore global politics, can't erase the history of contestation that has surrounded the Games, can't just start with a clean slate and embrace some pure Olympic ideal. This monster was created long ago ... and it's gonna stick around and be a force to be reckoned with.
posted at 10:11 PM CDT on April 7
Hawk attacks 13-year-old at Fenway Park And you won't believe the name of the girl.
posted to Baseball at 7:53 AM CDT
I didn't think Andre Dawson had been in Fenway since the early-mid-nineties???
posted at 9:39 PM CDT on April 4
CFL Hall confirms class of 2008 Professional football's most dynamic special-teams star is headed to the Canadian Football Hall of Fame. It's taken nearly eight years, but Mike (Pinball) Clemons can finally call himself a Hall of Famer. The five-foot-five native of Clearwater, Fla., truly excelled in a big man's game. He holds the pro football record for single-season all-purpose yards (3,840, set in '97) as well as the career mark (25,438). He captured three Grey Cup titles as a player ('91, '96 and '97) and another as a coach in '04, becoming the first black head coach ever to win the CFL championship. A Heisman Trophy winner while at Boston College, Doug Flutie still holds CFL single-season records for completions (466), yards (6,619) and touchdowns (48) and in 2006 was voted the top player in league history. Last year, he was inducted into both the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame (the first non-Canadian to do so) and the U.S. College Football Hall of Fame. CFL rushing leader Mike Pringle and all-star offensive lineman John Bonk were also among the players named to the Hall on Wednesday while former Saskatchewan Roughriders president Tom Shepherd will be enshrined as a builder at ceremony in September.
posted to Football at 10:46 AM CDT
The A/V room at sportsnet.ca has the acceptance speeches of Pinball and Pringle. Don't think Clemons is one of the nicest guys in pro sports? Watch the clip (CFL honors 2 great RBs)!
posted at 1:41 PM CDT on April 3
is henry "the gizmo" williams in the cfl hof?
Yes.
posted at 8:29 PM CDT on April 4
Critics Go Ape Over LeBron James Magazine Cover A picture of NBA star LeBron James and the model Gisele on the cover of April's Vogue is attracting controversy over their pose. The shot taken by renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz has been compared by some detractors to King Kong holding Fay Wray. ESPN.Com columnist Jemele Hill called it "memorable for all the wrong reasons." The photo is remarkably similar to "Destroy This Mad Brute," a famous World War I recruitment poster.
posted to Basketball at 10:16 AM CDT
As is often the case with racial issues, this is much ado about nothing, which is unfortunate because it is harmful to the real cases of racism which still exist in our society.
TQ, just exactly how does this "ado about nothing" not relate to the "real" cases of racism in society? How deep does racist thinking go? How deeply imbedded is it within our institutions (e.g., popular media)? How is this racist thought perpetuated by stereotypical imagery?
I'll turn to a quote from Pratibha Parmar from "Black Feminism: The politics of articulation" (cited by bell hooks in Black Looks: race & representation)
"Images play a crucial role in defining and controlling the political and social power to which both individuals and marginalized groups have access. The deeply ideological nature of imagery determines not only how other people think about us but how we think about ourselves."
The "problem", if you will, is not only in the negative stereotyped imagery of this (or any other similar example) put out by "racist white folk", it's that it's compounded "by black folks creating and marketing similar stereotypical images" (hooks, p. 4 ... referring to things like LeBron "not caring" or Tiger not feeling threatened, etc.). The question that follows is then this: how do those who dare to desire differently (i.e., for a more egalitarian world void of racist politics) move past these conventional ways of seeing blackness? The fact that TW or LJ don't seem to care doesn't really trickle down to the felt effects of racism in everyday lives.
To close, it's not "rehashing" tired or old "shit" ... it's a politics of contemporary race relations that is far from over ... and that's not 'cause we (the accused liberal do-gooder crowd) are just too unwilling to let go of something that no longer has political salience. Just watch the coverage of the Democratic convention and tell me that "race" isn't still at the very front of political thought in the US (cf. reasons either for or against voting for Obama).
The diatribe endeth here ... or can be followed further here
posted at 12:04 PM CDT on March 27
Donnie Deutsch said on this MSNBC clip that "the fact we're having this discussion means that it's great art." Just for an alternative view, I thought I'd post these "art commandments" to see if the answer would be the same.
On another note, the fact that "we" are having this discussion here on SpoFi has really reminded me of why I love this site. rcade, I considered posting this a day earlier, but was assuming it would only be met with the typical "what does this have to do with sport?" kinds of commentaries. I've been enlightened and informed about this issue via the traffic on this post ... and I thank you all for such a lively engagement.
posted at 10:51 AM CDT on March 29
QMJHL mulls sanctions against Roy after brawl The son of legendary NHL goalie Patrick Roy could face discipline from the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League for his role in an ugly brawl during a first-round playoff game between the Quebec Remparts and the Chicoutimi Sagueneens. Roy coaches his son Jonathan on the Remparts and denies he encouraged the slugfest near the end of the second period in Saturday night's 10-1 thrashing from the Sagueneens.
posted to Hockey at 3:10 PM CDT
This is all I can think about after watchin' the clip.
posted at 11:29 PM CDT on March 24
They play soccer in North America? Who knew?