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- 05/10/08
| Name: | Thomas |
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| Location: | London, Ontario, Canada |
| Gender: | Male |
| Member since: | January 30, 2006 |
| Last visit: | May 10, 2008 |
tommytrump has posted 98 links and 1019 comments to SportsFilter and no threads and 20 comments to the Locker Room.
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 on Apr 19, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
Why the Leafs stink It's not bad luck. It's not bad karma. What it takes to build a chronic loser. Richard Peddie is sitting at a small conference table in his office at the Air Canada Centre. Laying face down on the table in front of him is a paperback copy of Barack Obama's political memoir The Audacity of Hope. Perfect for the CEO of a team about to set a new standard for futility, but that's not the point. The point will be revealed later. For now, Peddie would just like you to know that he enjoys reading books.
posted on Apr 5, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
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 on Apr 3, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
Third time is a charm Losing twice to China was enough as Canada is crowned world curling champs. The 'Comeback Canucks' needed no miracle this time.
posted on Mar 31, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
Shakespearean Baseball, The Summer Classic A dilema as to where to post this, baseball or culture. Alas, I chose culture.
posted on Mar 27, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
posted to Baseball at 1:48 AM CDT
Baseball's Failure Dynasties : ESPN's Page 2 analyzes Major League Baseball's current top (bottom?) five long term excersizes in futility.
posted to Baseball at 4:53 PM CDT
Fuck Jeffrey Loria, fuck Bud Selig, and fuck Claude Brochu.
posted at 7:12 PM CDT on May 2
I'm so sick of Chicagoans and their attitude towards success. Sure the cubs haven't won but you guys had the best basketball player of all time. 6 rings should help you forget about your cubs.
Focus Clevelander32, focus.
It is a baseball thread, about consistently weak baseball teams, and Oscar Robertson never played for a Chicago basketball team.
posted at 8:52 PM CDT on May 2
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
Every now and then the gates come down on a football thread, the lights flash and the Phason Express hammers through and derails.
That sentence reminds me of these commercials. Of course phason's rants are neither cool, refreshing, or intoxicating.
There is about as much body and substance in a Coor's Light as in his rants though.
posted at 2:26 PM CDT on May 5
Rangers forward Avery Hospitalized Sean Avery suffers a lacerated spleen in Tuesday's loss to the Pens and is out of the playoffs.
posted to Hockey at 12:11 PM CDT
How the HELL do you lacerate a spleen?
This is the second time I've heard of a player lacerating their spleen during an NHL game.
Peter Forsberg had to have his spleen removed after helping the Avalanche knocking off the Los Angeles Kings in the first round, missing the rest of the 2001 playoffs and all of the 2002 season.
Didn't Nik Borschevsky have some sort of spleen issue when he was with the Leafs?
posted at 12:53 PM CDT on May 1
Clemens reportedly had affair with country star Roger Clemens has another potential scandal he's already denying. He reportedly had a affair with country singer Mindy McCready in a decade-long relationship that began when she was 15 and Clemens was a 28-year old with the Red Sox. This could be especially damaging as Clemens' defamation suit against Brian McNamee proceeds.
posted to Baseball at 9:54 AM CDT
(prediction: 153 posts)
I'd wager heavy on the over.
posted at 11:33 AM CDT on April 28
Pink Balls used for the first time in cricket. A trial to see if a single type of ball is suitable for all forms of the game.
posted to Other at 11:37 PM CDT
The W.H.A. used a red puck for a while in the 1970's.
posted at 8:17 AM CDT on April 24
Cheerleader death renews calls for increased safety steps. "Figures show 50 percent of injuries to young women in high school athletics are from cheerleading," [state Rep. Peter J. Koutoujian, chairman of the Public Health Oversight Committee] said. "These girls don’t wear pads, and they’re pushing the boundaries at every turn. While the boys' sports, contact sports, get all the attention, there's a great deal of injuries these young women endure."
posted to Other at 5:50 PM CDT
That was the Shakers,
Lloyd Moseby wanted to ban kids?
posted at 9:28 AM CDT on April 23
Perfect? Despite Super Bowl loss, 18-1 football team wants "19-0" trademarks
posted to Football at 11:00 AM CDT
Has anyone copyrighted 9-7, 8-8, 7-9 ?
If not, the Seattle Seahawks might want to get to work on that right away.
posted at 10:00 PM CDT on April 21
Jays release Frank Thomas: After a slow start, and a dispute over benching the aging star, the Blue Jays release Frank Thomas
posted to Baseball at 11:28 PM CDT
Seems to me, I heard at one point he was a switch-hitter, too.
I heard that he practised with The Mick, was that true?
posted at 6:43 PM CDT on April 23
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
afl-aba, Thanks for the tip. I guess that CBS stands for Canadian Broadcasting Service.
No, CBS stands for Columbia Broadcasting System. Just in case you're unaware, CBS is available in Canada, both as an over-the-air, and on basic cable televison. Here in Canada we do have a television network referenced by the call letters CBC(Canadian Broadcasting Corporation). Perhaps that's why you were confused.
America is a war nation. Always has been.
As is Canada, in World War I, Canada suffered casualties(dead and wounded) of over 3% of her population, in comparison, the U.S.A. suffered losses of 0.35% of hers. In World War II Canada suffered casualties of about 1% of her population, in comparison the U.S.A. had casualties of about 1.17%. Canada has fought in Korea, and now in Afganistan suffering brutal losses as well.
Wow, we are a bloodthirsty bunch up here. Maybe this explains hockey after all.
posted at 6:00 PM CDT on April 19
Ha ha. Get literal much?
Got milk?
Engage in hyperbole and exaggeration much?
I said, quite clearly, and in English, that being an American, living among other Americans, that the homeland variety was my chief concern. Easy to scoff at those you don't live among or where you don't pay taxes. One's own turf should be one's primary focus.
I'll point it out again, though others already have. This is an article in a Canadian newspaper, about an event in Canada. How you grasp at this to tear at the U.S.A's military excursions is clutching at straws at best.
posted at 8:27 PM CDT on April 19
That article was troll bait to begin with
That article was preapproved by administration.
and posted to culture to boot.
The primary focus of that article is what about the culture of the sport attracts and repells people from the event. Where pray tell should it have been posted?
posted at 1:54 PM CDT on April 21
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
Weedy, you want to know what's really wrong?
People who don't use complete sentences. You know, people who do this ........... instead of completing a thought, and starting a sentence, with, like, you know, a capital letter at the beginning of the first word in the sentence and a period at the end of a statement or expression of thought. Oh, and brand new members telling long time respected members our our community to F you is really really wrong.
posted at 4:37 PM CDT on April 21
Says the guy who is a hawk, or are you a hawk who is a guy? I'm so confused!
posted at 4:01 PM CDT on April 22
Those are the two best throws from the outfield I have ever seen!
Maybe that you've ever seen, but not nearly the best. The greatest I ever saw was Ellis Valentine, Montreal Expos, from the foul pole in right field at Olypmic Stadium to the 3rd base bag, on the fly, with the runner out by plenty.