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sixpacker has posted 3 links and 63 comments to SportsFilter and no links and 5 comments to the Locker Room.
Five Hundred for Junior A humble player, a proud father, and a fan that doesn't bicker about price. It does one good to see such an achievement played out so well.
posted on June 21, 2004 - Go to the detail view for this result
Race tries to attract top American runners Jerry Crockett, chairman of the long-distance running division of USA Track & Field said "It's a little bit of a sad commentary that our runners can't compete with the Kenyans and Ethiopians on a championship scale, but we're getting there." Well, attempting to discourage non-Americans from participating is one way to do it, I guess.
posted on April 23, 2004 - Go to the detail view for this result
Decline in baseball salaries: It looks like some players might have to sell the vacation home in Palm Springs. Poor bastards. Maybe taking up a collection is in order?
posted on April 08, 2004 - Go to the detail view for this result
The Silencing of Carlos Delgado. "The Mets have a policy that everybody should stand for 'God Bless America' and I will be there. I will not cause any distractions to the ballclub.... Just call me Employee Number 21." And we saw him grin and bear it when Jeff Wilpon, son of Mets CEO and owner Fred Wilpon, said, "He's going to have his own personal views, which he's going to keep to himself."
posted by the red terror at 10:24 AM on December 08
Former NFL Star Received Steroids from BALCO One of the dirtiest players in NFL history, four-time Super Bowl linebacker Bill Romanowski, will tell 60 Minutes this weekend that he used steroids received from Victor Conte. Here's a line from his upcoming memoir, which can be filed with Jose Canseco's book in either the sports or pharmacology section of Barnes & Noble: "My rage was the orgasm of my fear."
posted by rcade at 08:21 AM on October 14
My rage is the orgasm of having to work 11 hours a day. (But that's just me.)
posted at 09:11 PM on October 14
Done. Chicago overcomes Boston to move on to the ALCS.
posted by jerseygirl at 06:43 PM on October 07
What Joey Michaels said. I truely don't feel that bad about it. Last year took out a world of sting from this type of defeat. Go ChiSox.
posted at 07:24 PM on October 07
Baseball wildcards should lift our spirits The tight pennent races and the playoffs will help get rid of the "funk" we are feeling brought on by all of the sad news of late. To me sports, in general, offer a nice release. I would throw College FB and the NFL into this "funk buster mode" as well.
posted by daddisamm at 10:44 AM on September 17
I expect Boston to fall apart in the final series against New York. The Sox will be all about the Wild Card this year. Perhaps deja vu all over again?
posted at 06:56 PM on September 17
Baseball has another Lowe-down cheater Dodger's pitcher Derek Lowe abandons wife and kids for local TV reporter.
posted by Marla Singer at 09:27 PM on August 04
Here's some stats, lbb: David Blankenhorn stated in his book Fatherless America that: "The United States is becoming an increasingly fatherless society. A generation ago, an American child could reasonably expect to grow up with his or her father. Today, an American child can reasonably expect not to. This astonishing fact is reflected in may satistics, but here are the two most important. Tonight, about 40 percent of American children will go to sleep in homes in which their fathers do not live. Before they reach the age of eighteen, more than half of our nation's children are likely to spend at least a significant portion of their childhoods living apart from their fathers. Never before in this country have so many children been voluntarily abandoned by their fathers." Steve Farrar provides more stats in his book Anchor Man: 85 percent of all children who exhibit behavioral disorders come from fatherless homes. 90 percent of all homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes. 71 percent of all high school dropouts come from fatherless homes. 75 percent of all adolescent patients in chemical abuse centers come from fatherless homes. 63 percent of youth suicides are from fatherless homes. 70 percent of juveniles in state-operated institutions come from fatherless homes. 85 percent of all youths sitting in prisons grew up in fatherless homes. 80 percent of rapists come from fatherless homes.
posted at 08:01 AM on August 04
Can we get on with it, please??? This shit needs the banhammer applied, post haste.
posted by lil_brown_bat at 06:57 PM on May 21
Dieses Marken wenig Richtung.
posted at 09:26 PM on May 21
Let's See a Show of Hands A group of grade-schoolers in Acton, Mass., is pushing for the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox to break a Major League rule and shake hands before their game April 11. "After children's sports games, we shake hands with the team we're playing," they wrote in a letter to Commissioner Bud Selig. "If kids can show good sportsmanship, then professionals can too."
posted by rcade at 11:30 AM on March 24
Absolutely moronic. These guys don't need to shake hands. Alot of them are probably friends and get together after the game to hang out and party. It's a rivalry between teams. Don't take that away from us, you hypersensitive soccer-moms... feeding your kids this crap. (I admit it. I've had a beer or two. Still pisses me off, though.)
posted at 09:25 PM on March 24
Rush the Passer The success of Donovan McNabb this season can be attributed to Rush Limbaugh, according to the nation's best-known recovered Oxycontin abuser and eight-day NFL Countdown commentator. "There's been a demonstrable change in McNabb's performance ... I think he was motivated, inspired by a whole lot of things."
posted by rcade at 02:05 PM on January 26
Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot. I've often thought that the prick has a large listening base because his audience includes the normal people that listen for the shock value... waiting to hear more idiocy. I used to listen to him to make myself feel more righteous. It worked for a while. Not so much anymore.
posted at 08:30 PM on January 26
Report: Bonds Admitted to Using Substances SAN FRANCISCO - Baseball star Barry Bonds testified to a grand jury that he used a clear substance and a cream given to him by a trainer who was indicted in a steroid-distribution ring, but said he didn't know they were steroids, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Friday. The Giants' slugger told the federal grand jury last year that Greg Anderson, his personal trainer, told him the substances he used in 2003 were the nutritional supplement flaxseed oil and a rubbing balm for arthritis, according to a transcript of his testimony reviewed by the Chronicle. The substances Bonds described were similar to ones known as "the clear" and "the cream," two steroids from the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, the lab at the center of the steroid scandal.
posted by LROD at 08:18 AM on December 03
I stand with Drood. You fucked up the record books with your performance enhancers? Well, f you. You're disqualified.
posted at 09:26 PM on December 03
The Chicago Black Sox Trial of 1921 including a diagram of the fix, game-by-game series stats, images, and a whole lot more. All part of the Famous Trials website, which was found on MeFi.
posted by Ufez Jones at 09:28 AM on November 30
After going to a Durham Bulls game this past summer, my girlfriend has decided that she wants to be a baseball fan. The most fun I ever had at a baseball game was the first time my wife, brother-in-law and his wife and I saw the Durham Bulls play in Durham in 1996. The stadium was still new, it was comfortable, the employees were pleasant, and they made the whole experience entertaining. (Don't mean to derail. Just wanted to mention it. Chat on.)
posted at 01:21 PM on November 30
Mets join Martinez chase The Mets have joined the table in the hunt for Pedro Martinez. Over the weekend, the Mets conveyed to the free agent that they had significant interest in signing him, multiple baseball sources said yesterday. Now that the Mets' internal interest, which was first learned from a National League executive late last week, has become known to Martinez, it makes them the third team to be identified as a suitor for the three-time Cy Young award-winner. Other teams contacted Martinez soon after he filed for free agency earlier this month, but the Mets' recent entry introduces a wealthy candidate for Martinez' services in a market that has been slow to develop and has been relatively quiet until the Yankees got into the action last week. In addition to positive comments about Martinez from manager Joe Torre, catcher Jorge Posada and shortstop Alex Rodriguez, Yankees owner George Steinbrenner met personally with Martinez in Tampa.
posted by LROD at 06:03 PM on November 26
Assumption: Steinbrenner knows exactly what he's doing - i.e., he simply wants to drive up Pedro's price and doesn't really want him. And, Prediction: Pedro stays in Boston for more than he's worth.
posted at 08:56 PM on November 26
Artest Calls Season Suspension Too Harsh INDIANAPOLIS - Indiana Pacers (news) forward Ron Artest said Tuesday he wishes he hadn't gotten into a fight with fans but feels his season-ending suspension was too harsh. I don't think it was fair — that many games," Artest said in an interview with NBC's "Today" show. "I respect (NBA Commissioner) David Stern's decisions, but I don't think I should have been out for the whole season."
posted by LROD at 10:31 AM on November 23
When I first saw the clip of the incident on Saturday morning, I originally thought that Artest should be banned from the NBA. Under no circumstances can that type of behavior be allowed. It's uncivilized, distracting to the sport, and extremely dangerous. The situation could easily have escalated to the point where someone was killed. If that happened, Artest would be looking at prison time, not a suspension. Seventy-two games is not too harsh.
posted at 01:26 PM on November 23
Mmmmm, Roethlisburgers So what do you get when you combine ground beef, sausage, scrambled eggs, grilled onions and American cheese? The "Roethlisburger" of course! Riding high on his 5-0 record as the Steelers rookie quarterback, Big Ben has had a sandwich named after him at Peppi's Late Night. But you won't read about it on humble Ben's weblog.
posted by terrapin at 10:55 AM on November 04
He actually does sound humble. How refreshing.
posted at 11:24 AM on November 04
World Series Game 4 Red Sox are leading the series, 3-0.
posted by jerseygirl at 06:38 PM on October 28
I've been reading the posts all day, but just couldn't think of anything more to say. So many of the sentiments have been my own. I couldn't let the day pass without saying something, though. I think I'm just having trouble comprehending. I always said this day would come, but now that it's here, I just feel kinda numb. Kinda like I'm going to wake up soon. And in a weird way, that, in itself, is a wonderful feeling. Thank you Red Sox.
posted at 02:39 PM on October 28
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 by Prince Valium at 07:22 AM on October 25
blarp - As I understand it, he had asked God to help him to pitch well, not necessarily to win. I don't see anything wrong with that. Shilling's got a gift, and he's not taking all the credit. I like that.
posted at 02:27 PM on October 25
I know that FSK wrote it in the near dark, and that he wrote the words in less than one hour. My guess is that it took less time to write the "melody". FYI. Fancis Scott Key didn't write the melody. The melody is based on an English drinking song, which, if you ask me, is ironically appropriate for a nation that has become so great because of the work of so many diverse people.