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rumple has posted 58 links and 432 comments to SportsFilter and 0 links and 103 comments to the Locker Room.
The Boston Bruins are the toughest team in the NHL: So what is it good for, this heady melange of swagger and glower and grit and facepunching? What is it, if it's not a way to win? Consider this possibility: toughness in hockey isn't a strategy. It's an aesthetic.
posted by rumple to hockey at 01:43 PM on June 14 - 4 comments
Four new, not-racist names for Washington D.C.'s football team: The slideshow at the bottom of the article is sort of interesting too, as insight into how branding companies think.
posted by rumple to football at 08:12 PM on June 13 - 13 comments
Charles Pierce on Donald Fehr and the NHL lockout: So, when the NHL players turned to [Fehr], everyone on both sides knew they were hiring a wartime consigliere. The players came out of the last lockout with such impeccably clean clocks that it's a wonder they didn't hire someone with an RPG launcher this time around. Fehr's hiring should have come as a surprise to approximately nobody, since a lockout is always a deliberate tactic by management aimed at achieving a precise goal — in this case, clawing back what little was left after the last time Bettman fastened on this strategy.
posted by rumple to hockey at 03:43 PM on December 11 - 3 comments
Slave Genes Myth Must Die: Olympic Champion sprinter Michael Johnson says, All my life I believed I became an athlete through my own determination, but it’s impossible to think that being descended from slaves hasn’t left an imprint through the generations. . . . Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me –- I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us.
posted by rumple to olympics at 03:26 PM on July 26 - 20 comments
Profile of John Carlos: who, together with Tommie Smith, performed the black power salute on the podium of the Mexico City Olympic games. "In life, there's the beginning and the end," he says. "The beginning don't matter. The end don't matter. All that matters is what you do in between whether you're prepared to do what it takes to make change. There has to be physical and material sacrifice. When all the dust settles and we're getting ready to play down for the ninth inning, the greatest reward is to know that you did your job when you were here on the planet."
posted by rumple to olympics at 09:51 PM on March 30 - 0 comments
As a Canucks fan, this series is going to be a weirdly excruciating schadenfreude sandwich.
I found myself clinging to a single positive hope - that Brad Marchand might have turned out to be the goat on the overtime goal. Nope, but probably more chances of that to come.
posted by rumple at 01:44 PM on June 13
Manchester City's Carlos Tevez apparently lost his paystub. Count the figures to the left of the decimal, and weep. Something about seeing the pay in such a mundane setting is shocking. Not to mention the 24 GBP fine -- I'm sure that hurt.
Hope the server bounced back up gracefully
posted by rumple at 04:43 PM on November 28
Just wondering where the Wednesday huddle is?
posted by rumple at 02:24 PM on November 28
Just make the PAT less automatic by changing it to, say, a 40 or 45 yarder. With the probability reduced to something like 75%, coaches will go for the 2 pointer more often, and misses will factor into a lot more games = more moments of intense interest for the fan.
posted by rumple at 03:25 PM on November 23
But they won't get revenue from parking, concessions, etc., in the way that is supposedly essential for modern NHL teams to survive and which is a main reason they lobby for public funds for new arena construction. It doesn't add up at all.
posted by rumple at 01:27 PM on October 25
Zidane's headbutt is immortalized in Paris.
posted by rumple at 05:55 PM on September 26
Yeah I would appreciate that too. It's confusing and in a way can seem a little high-handed to repackage the comments that way. I like the end product since it makes a standalone thread that people will find and take part in, but it's been bugging me a little too. I support Etrigan's idea of a marker in the new thread that it has happened.
posted by rumple at 05:19 PM on September 26
oh dammit, forgot. OK I will pick against the games already played, so to speak.
Washington in 7
St Louis in 7
Flyers in 5
Nashville in 7
posted by rumple at 02:29 PM on April 29
and goofy assertions
It's part of the Scientific process to have and eliminate alternative hypotheses.
Also, it's a 10% difference in penalties called, which given his sample size is huge, it does beg for an explanation. So the old "correlation doesn't equal causation" thing is, as usual, a red herring.
posted by rumple at 08:38 PM on April 26
Think North American professional leagues are aiming for parity? Two extremely close final standings tables from professional soccer leagues.
posted by rumple at 02:24 PM on April 18
Hmmm. Fiskars could sponsor the Clippers. Red Bull will sponsor the Bulls, obviously. Fruit of the Loom gets the Knicks. And I dunno, V1agra gets the Heat.
posted by rumple at 02:17 AM on April 18
Rangers in 6
Boston in 5
Panthers in 7
Pittsburgh in 6
Vancouver in 5
San Jose in 7
Nashville in 6
Phoenix in 7
posted by rumple at 04:07 PM on April 11
He'll be walking with a linp for a while.
posted by rumple at 09:13 PM on March 31
Patriots by 10
Under
Patriots
Patriots
Defence
posted by rumple at 05:49 PM on February 03
The Boston Bruins are the toughest team in the NHL
"We need aesthetics of violence, because violence is about pain, and pain is something we all need to understand. We need something in our culture that tells stories about it. Inflicting pain, enduring pain, owning pain. Mastering it. Making it- this thing that all humans instinctively fear, this thing that entire moral philosophies have been invented to avoid- yours. This is a fantasy many of us have and a narrative most of us will sometimes need. Maybe it was needed more when hockey players were birthed in mining towns and logging camps and fans came to the games from the factories and docks, when everyone who came to the barn came from a world of grinding, exhausting, injurious physical labor. Once upon a time it may have been easier to empathize with the idea that sometimes you need to take a blow to make a living- or deliver one to protect you and yours.
The kind of aesthetics- the emotional moments- that hockey provides are not exactly flourishing in the modern world, which is perhaps why the defenders of old-time hockey are so terrified of seeing them eroded further. This kind of art is important to them. They need it, and don't want it to be stripped away just because some other fans are unmoved. So they try to pretend it's necessary for winning and losing, because no one will have sympathy if you simply say, "it gives me the sort of feelings I want to feel.""