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| Name: | Eric |
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eckeric has posted 2 links and 57 comments to SportsFilter and hasn’t posted any threads or comments to the Locker Room.
Celtic v Porto - Uefa Cup Final! If you don't want to listen to it you can read along with Mr Glendenning.
posted on May 21, 2003 - Go to the detail view for this result
Goons! Doug "The Thug" Smith, the author of Goon, was interviewed on Here and Now today. There was also a discusson with someone from dropthegloves.com: "your only source for authentic game worn enforcer jerseys and equipment."
posted on May 8, 2003 - Go to the detail view for this result
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
Walking Through the Fire Scoop Jackson of ESPN.com takes us through the story of the first 5 all black players to play in a NCAA Championship, the story depicted in Glory Road the new film by Disney. But it was so much more and if you have little knowledge of this story I would suggest reading this article and more. Awesome, life changing, history changing story.
posted to Basketball at 1:51 PM CDT
I think he has just been rereading What IF...
posted at 5:58 PM CDT on January 12
2005 NBA DRAFT. Follow along as your favorite NBA team makes rash decisions, and pins its hopes to someone you've never heard of before.
posted to Basketball at 6:52 PM CDT
I think Salim will be ok. The local paper indicated that the Hawks did their homework:
Rosborough said a West Coast-based Hawks scout, Herb Livsey, charted and watched Stoudamire at UA more than any other NBA official.
"Herb knows what Salim can do," Rosborough said.
posted at 10:02 AM CDT on June 29
Is anyone else sick of Curt Schilling? Tom Boswell is, in a passive-aggressive sort of way: "A nasty injury, gruesome enough to make for good melodrama, but medically insignificant enough to allow him to throw a baseball 92 mph... Pedro Martinez...has felt a bit slighted by Schilling's large, sometimes self-serving persona... Yankees Manager Joe Torre made it clear that he thought Schilling, consummate tough professional that he is, was not doing significantly more by pitching through the inconvenience of an ankle injury than many other players have done in postseason baseball, where countless players take the field held together by tape and a high pain threshold." An interesting perspective from outside the Nation.
posted to Baseball at 7:22 AM CDT
you know, if Boston wins, they could auction off those bloody socks of his and make a hell of a lot of money for the the K ALS campaign. Hope they have the sense to not wash them.
posted at 10:48 AM CDT on October 25
Frischilla stumps for change. Former Red Storm coach and current ESPN college basketball analyst Fran Frischilla offers up some possible remedies to U.S. basketball's general malaise.
posted to Basketball at 9:23 PM CDT
2 and 4 sound good to me.
posted at 11:14 AM CDT on August 31
Owners to politicians: Give us money!!! Because the rich men who own franchises don't get enough of the good stuff and wink wink nudge nudge, they're getting Congress to fix the tax code to make the cost of buying a team a deductible expense via a 15 year depreciation schedule. Hell, not like the US doesn't have a big enough deficit, right?
posted to Culture at 3:11 PM CDT
Bleah, what a rip-off.
posted at 10:16 AM CDT on August 3
Big Unit in Pinstripes, perhaps Starting by Friday? With El Duque joining the ever-growing list of Yanks either injured, on the DL, or about to go on the DL, a move for a bona fide starter is more urgent than ever. According to this article, it will be a 3-way deal involing the Padres along with the yanks and the Diamondbacks.
Hmmm...didn't I recently suggest hereabouts that it would take the special Brian Cashman touch to make a deal come to fruition?
The 31st is right around the bend. Watch for a flurry o flast-minute deals!!
posted to Baseball at 1:46 PM CDT
Here is an arizona article.
posted at 5:02 PM CDT on July 29
Masters of the Mic SI.com takes a look at the best broadcasters in the booth. Who are you favorite announcers in the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, College Football, College Basketball, Tennis, Golf, and everything else
posted to General at 8:48 AM CDT
Yeah, Vin Scully is my favorite. When I was growing up, they would carry the Dodgers on the radio here. His voice is one of the things that reminds me of summer. (Actually, here in the home of the Diamondbacks AAA team, a radio station joined up with the Dodgers radio network a few years ago, so I can still tune in and hear that voice).
posted at 3:51 PM CDT on July 29
The MLS officially announces expansion squads. Utah and Mexican club Chivas (location: SoCal, city TBD) will both receive teams. How to build a club when the first game will be in 8.5 months? ESPN's Marc Connelly has some ideas. Also, do we really need to dwindle the talent-pool in the MLS further? Will this be good or bad for the league as a whole?
posted to Soccer at 12:58 PM CDT
Huh, I remember so many expansion sites being discussed. When did Utah enter the mix?
posted at 3:51 PM CDT on July 14
Utah Saints!
(warning: midi file)
posted at 5:35 PM CDT on July 14
Johnson's latest pitch: He's open to a trade. After a week that saw a lot of speculation and denial, as well as a reported argument between he and a teammate, Randy Johnson confirms he would be open to a trade but has not been asked to waive his no-trade clause by the DBacks, yet. During the media session, he debunked rumors that he'd prefer to go to Anaheim because he has a home nearby. His condition is that the team he'd be traded to would have to have "[good] chance to win. That's the only way." Later when asked about a trip to Boston's North End, Johnson commented, "I was really torn between the Boston clam chowder and the Manhattan clam chowder".
posted to Baseball at 4:11 PM CDT
I think everyone in Arizona pretty much knows that Randy will have to go. It just isn't fair to anyone to let him ride through this rotten year. What are we, 27 games below .500? Sure, if this was the NBA, we could still talk about making the playoffs! But in Baseball, this year is so over. Please let the man have an impact somewhere. I would like to see him and Curt on the same team again...
posted at 11:15 AM CDT on July 13
The local press and sports radio folks (in Tucson anyway) are pretty much saying that the Diamondbacks are now a rebuilding team and that as much as it would hurt to let Randy go, it doesn't do him or the team any good to keep him here. If he stays, he will win his games, but the team can't contend with just Randy winning. He pretty much spends the rest of the year not making a difference, no matter how good he is. Plus, if they hold on to him, the team loses the chance to get a good trade and actually build for the future. If they miss the chance to trade, it will be that much longer before the club has a chance to contend again. The radio announcers for sunday's game were talking about how there was a lot of hope at the begining of the year centered around the bullpen, and that folks felt like it should be ok moving from last years system where we only scored two runs, but Curt and Randy kept the other team below that. Of course, they had a lot of time to talk, as SF scored their 6th, 7th, 8th runs. Anyhow, they never really brought up trading Randy, but they did a good job of pointing out that we sucked a lot more that we were supposed to (which has got to be hard to do as the homer radio crew), and I think that that gives some background as to why it doesn't make sense for Randy to stay. I think one writer said that the fans will cry into thier beers when the trade happens, but they will also know that it really has to happen.
I'm sure the thing that people really want to know, is who the press thinks they may try to trade for, but they haven't had much on that, at least, I haven't seen it. Jerry Colangelo is keeping his mouth shut.
posted at 1:00 PM CDT on July 13
"Old White Guy Makes Racially Insensitive Remark" (thanks jugwine) Larry Bird wants more white guys in basketball because that's who are watching sports in America: White dudes. But Bird qualifies his statement with, "But it is a black man's game, and it will be forever. I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American." Also, Bird felt it the white man wasn't good enough to guard him...
posted to Basketball at 1:46 PM CDT
I think the underdog thing is a big factor with Luke. At college games the fans always flip out when the 12th man on the team (or any of the walk-ons) steps out onto the court. Everybody likes an underdog. And on a team that that lousy with all-stars, you don't get to cheer for the underdog very often.
How often do LAs fans actually get to cheer for someone they like?
posted at 5:56 PM CDT on June 9
Every game should have a winner. Sepp Blatter wants to get rid of drawn matches. And just when the American league was going to finally allow them.
posted to Soccer at 10:57 AM CDT
Yeah, but who the hell would want to play cards if in order to determine a winner one had to simply flip cards to see who had the highest card? No one. Just like how penalties are a lame way of determining a winner.
yes, if we are going to insist on a winner, we might as well do something fun like subtract one player from each team every 5 minutes of overtime, until it is KEEPER VS KEEPER.
posted at 1:50 PM CDT on April 27
Jenna Cooper, an all-Big 12 women's soccer player at the University of Nebraska, was fatally wounded Saturday night by a gun fired during a party at her house.
posted to Soccer at 8:04 AM CDT
Hmn, our paper just covered preventing problem parties yesterday. Sadly, I don't think there was anything she could have done to prepare for this, assuming that she knew the folks who had the fight. This did not sound like one of those 300 person parties that get out of control.
posted at 4:06 PM CDT on April 26
It has ALWAYS been about our band beating their band. People do not join band to cheer the football team on. They join band to be in band. Playing at a football game is a chance to prepare for the state band competition. I mean, "go school!" and everything, but the band loves the football team as much as the football team loves the band.