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| Name: | BitterOldPunk |
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posted on Jun 20, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
NFL Pro Bowl ballots are up. Vote for your favorite players. For QBs, I'll vote for Favre, Brooks, and Vick in the NFC; Maddox, Gannon, and Bledsoe in the AFC. Who has earned the trip to Hawaii?
posted on Nov 27, 2002 - Go to the detail view for this result
Jeremy Shockey Traded to Saints In the second big swap of the day in the NFL, the New Orleans Saints traded a second-round and fifth-round pick to the New York Giants for tight end Jeremy Shockey.
posted to Football at 5:02 PM CDT
Terrell Owens is a sweet, sweet man. If you get mowed down by a Honda Civic, you'd be extremely lucky to have Terrell Owens nearby.
posted to Culture at 3:01 PM CDT
A few years ago I was bartending at a restaurant when TO and his "date" walked in. Turns out his "date" was his sister (or half-sister, or something) who lives in my hometown and TO was visiting for a few days. They took a booth in a corner of the bar, enjoyed their meal and a couple of cocktails, and TO graciously hung out for about half an hour afterwards signing autographs for the waitstaff and shaking hands with well-wishers.
He was friendly, personable, and a good tipper. I'd figured him to be a spoiled loudmouth, but that evening changed my perception of the guy.
Contrast that with a story I heard from a friend of mine, a waiter in a tres chic restaurant in South Florida -- he called me all excited one night to say that Eli and Peyton Manning had been in earlier drinking up a storm, asking if anyone knew where to find any blow, and were currently sitting parked in their Escalade in the alley out back getting their knobs slobbed by a couple of Florida's finest escorts.
On-screen personae may differ markedly from off-screen behavior.
posted at 2:28 PM CDT on July 22
An Instant Classic - Single link YouTube post. "Unbelievable. I knew he'd hole it."
posted to Golf at 2:42 AM CDT
I have Tiger fatigue.
I was hoping Mediate would win. He played some really great golf.
Oh well.
Tiger will not let up until he wins 20 majors. That's his grail. One more than Jack. He'll do it, too.
posted at 7:41 PM CDT on June 17
Game 1
Detroit Red Wings v Pittsburgh Penguins.
More series breakdowns: ESPN, Sports Illustrated, CBS Sportsline
posted to Hockey at 9:10 AM CDT
The fact that the first two games are only on Versus breaks my heart....and compels me to go to a sports bar that gets Versus.
posted at 2:49 PM CDT on May 24
This is my #1 draft pick... Well maybe a little lower than first. Size, strength, aggressiveness, quickness. With a little help on his technique, he could be an excellent offensive lineman.
posted to Football at 10:11 PM CDT
I loved the YouTube comments on a related video:
MONGOLIA RULZ
Do you guys even have the INternet?
Fuck u we have better girls than your bitches
R U serious? I live in Sweden ffs
posted at 1:13 PM CDT on April 25
Perfect? Despite Super Bowl loss, 18-1 football team wants "19-0" trademarks
posted to Football at 11:00 AM CDT
Coincidentally, the Lions just jumped on the bandwagon and trademarked "0-17".
Leaving the Falcons to wonder, "Now why didn't WE think of that?"
posted at 8:11 PM CDT on April 21
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
Right. Because repeatedly punching someone in the head until they fall down is more sportsmanlike than maneuvering them into a submission hold that results in a tap-out.
UFC fights are exciting, they pit talented athletes against each other, and I don't believe there's any evidence that they are more dangerous than boxing (I'd think they were safer, really, in terms of cumulative damage to the participants).
Bemoaning the UFC as an indicator of America's "war-like" culture is just a kind of self-satisfied armchair sociology. Can't you say you find it distastefully violent, and leave it at that? That's fine, that's your opinion, but to then draw a line from the UFC to US foreign policy is specious reasoning of the most fuzzy-headed sort.
True, but I don't live in those countries.
Last time I checked, Americans were playing and enjoying watching hockey, rugby, and Muay Thai.
posted at 4:29 PM CDT on April 19
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
Three of the greatest achievements in sports history:
Secretariat wins the 1973 Kentucky Derby. He ran each quarter-mile leg of the race FASTER than the one before -- meaning the horse was still accelerating as he crossed the finish line. It was the fastest Derby ever run (1:59 2/5), and only one horse (Monarchos in 2001) has since finished the race in under 2 minutes -- two horses did it that day in 1973: Secretariat, and his rival, Sham.
Secretariat wins the 1973 Preakness.
And, of course, the thrilling, amazing, jaw-dropping, never-will-we-see-it-again performance of Secretariat at the 1973 Belmont Stakes. The horse won by 31 lengths. Thirty-one lengths! It was the fastest mile-and-a-half ever run (2:24), beating the old record by 2 seconds. To this day, no horse has ever run that distance in less than 2:25.
Whenever I want to see pure athletic excellence in action, I watch replays of the 1973 Belmont Stakes, possibly the greatest non-human athletic achievement ever captured on film.
Most racehorses' hearts weigh between 8 and 10 pounds. At autopsy, Sham's heart was found to weigh 19 pounds. Secretariat's heart (which was never formally weighed as the horse's owners wished him to be buried intact) was estimated to have weighed about 22 pounds.
We may someday see a horse like that again, but we will never, ever see a performance like the 1973 Belmont Stakes.
I wanted to make this a FPP, but figured I'd just put it here.
posted at 2:02 PM CDT on April 18
Maddux' record of 116 decapitated hookers in one season will surely not be broken in a post-steroids world.
That made beer come out my nose.
AND IM NOT DRINKING BEER
posted at 2:31 AM CDT on April 19
Ultimate Fighting Robs The Cradle Want to watch 6-year-olds in the Octagon? Welcome to Missouri, apparently the only state in the union that allows "youth fighting." Says one parent, "We're not training them for dog fighting...I'd rather have my kids here than out on the streets."
posted to Culture at 5:46 AM CDT
I'll bet I could move a lot of "My kid can beat up your honor student" bumper stickers at these events.
posted at 4:27 PM CDT on March 29
New home not so sweet for CFL? The Canadian Football League's move solely to cable network TSN is apparently not all roses.
posted to Football at 5:17 PM CDT
There are only eight teams in the CFL? Really?
I had no idea.
posted at 12:03 PM CDT on March 2
Happy 25th, USFL! (or what could've been).
posted to Football at 4:23 PM CDT
My dad was a season ticket holder and he & I went to just about every home game the Birmingham Stallions played in '83 & '84. Then I left town, but I still freakin' LOVED the USFL, and it broke my heart to see them move to a fall schedule and destroy themselves.
If it hadn't been for the USFL, I'd have never gotten to see Herschel Walker, Jim Kelly, and Reggie White (not to mention Joe Cribbs...who once owned "Joe Cribbs' Superstar Car Wash" out on Highway 280...) play football in person. Birmingham has a long, sad history of minor-league football teams (Go, Vulcans!) but not only were the Stallions GOOD (two-time Eastern Conference champs) they were popular -- the games were well-attended.
Damn, I miss the USFL. If they'd made a go of it, we'd now have quality year-round football.
Guess I'll hafta start rooting for our new team now.
posted at 6:08 PM CDT on February 25
Arsenal's Eduardo Da Silva injured in outrageous tackle, possibly ending his career. A truly horrific injury, broken pieces of bone were sticking out of his sock as he was stretchered of the field. This is the sort of injury that you never truly recover from (See Alex Smith). I hope the FA bans Martin Taylor for life.
posted to Soccer at 1:12 PM CDT
Oh, snap.
posted at 3:41 PM CDT on February 23
Keyshawn working out, mulls NFL return Keyshawn Johnson has the desire to strap on the pads, but does he have the moves?
posted to Football at 11:24 AM CDT
Keyshawn had good hands and wasn't afraid to run slants and crosses across the middle. That said, he should stay retired. I think he'll get better in the booth. I'd rather listen to him than Michael Irvin, that's for damn sure.
posted at 11:37 PM CDT on February 21
New leash on life: Raiders' Cooper dedicates himself to care of abused and mean dogs at animal shelter. A heartwarming story about an undeniably dedicated volunteer.
posted to Football at 5:45 PM CDT
I'd never heard of the breed of dog he owns. Turns out they're rather fearsome.
posted at 9:46 PM CDT on February 5
Shockey + New Orleans = bonanza for Times-Picayune sportswriters.
On the field AND off.
As a Falcons fan (shut up, I know, OK?) I look forward to an exciting season for the NFC South...