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rumple has posted 28 links and 185 comments to SportsFilter and 0 links and 49 comments to the Locker Room.
Malcom Gladwell compares and contrasts dog fighting with the NFL: "A dog that keeps charging at its opponent is said to possess 'gameness,' and game dogs are revered. In one way or another, plenty of organizations select for gameness. [.....] This is why Michael Vick's dogs weren't euthanized. The betrayal of loyalty requires an act of social reparation. Professional football players, too, are selected for gameness".
posted by rumple to football at 01:15 PM on October 12 - 2 comments
FlipFlopFlyball: is designer Craig Robinson's collection of the sports graphics he does for fun. Mostly about baseball, these range from whimsical to silly to interesting to simple. He also has a baseball flickr set.
posted by rumple to culture at 02:10 PM on October 11 - 3 comments
30 dirty players in 30 days: "I have finished my 30 Dirty Players in 30 Days feature. Over the month of August, we featured the all-time dirtiest player from each NHL Team - From Anaheim to Washington."..... 18. CHI Bobby Hull - Nice guy on the ice. Too bad his wife didn't play hockey. 22. VAN Todd Bertuzzi - In this case, one cheapshot does make you a dirty player. 29. FLA Brian McCabe - This "Flying Ass" was the inventor of the "Can Opener". 30. COL Steve Moore - Of course he didn't deserve it, but his hit on Naslund was dirty. And 26 others ...
posted by rumple to hockey at 12:33 PM on September 16 - 19 comments
Monica Seles talks about her hair, her fridge, her body, and being stabbed in the back: The former teenage prodigy won eight grand slam events before being attacked at age 19 by a deranged fan. She came back to win a ninth, but was never the same again. In this interview she reflects on her career, and on being a teenage girl under the spotlight. "My generation was the last when you were marketed really as a tennis player - Graf, Hingis. But when Anna Kournikova came along, there was this whole other thing - suddenly it was all about looks. Tennis is pretty unforgiving if you are carrying weight. You are expected to wear short skirts, and you are compared to all these 16- and 17-year-olds.
posted by rumple to tennis at 03:21 PM on July 05 - 8 comments
Sunday Flash Fun: Little Master cricket is an extremely simple, yet surprisingly addictive, flash game. Control a loose-limbed batsman, defend your wicket, and hit for 1, 2 ,4 or 6. As in real cricket, starting stance and bat angle are crucial. Unlike real cricket, the balls pile up if you play with too dead a bat. Game resets extremely quickly, which is good, because it is tricky to score well and you only get one out!
posted by rumple to other at 02:27 PM on May 10 - 6 comments
A nilly-willy is not ok.
posted by rumple at 12:33 PM on November 05
$6.7 Billion Lopped off Olympic Economic Benefits Projections And government's new number, $4 billion, is based on a seven-year-old 'best case' scenario that hasn't panned out.
We're going to be paying for this boondoggle for a long, long time. But go hockey team anyway, WTF.
posted by rumple at 11:44 AM on November 04
Thank heavens he didn't do lunch with Deion Sanders or something similarly heinous deserving of a long suspension.
posted by rumple at 12:04 AM on November 03
"To my knowledge, only one man in England's Premier [Hockey] League (EPL) has stepped onto the ice as an NHL star. Now, he's talking to me in a dimly-lit Bracknell car park. "
posted by rumple at 12:19 PM on October 31
Yankees in 5
MVP: Sabathia
Under
3hours 29 minutes
posted by rumple at 11:50 AM on October 27
This picture and this one give a sense of what happened since the videos aren't sticking. With the beachball considered an "outside agent" it should have been a drop ball, but the referee Mike Jones, who appeared to have a sound view of the incident, awarded the goal. "I thought it was a deflection off a player," said the Sunderland manager, Steve Bruce. "If anyone knew that rule, that it should have been a drop ball, then you are one saddo. I didn't know."
posted by rumple at 03:01 AM on October 18
Speaking of the Olympics, they love (as do most of us British Columbians) to flaunt the incredible artistry of the local First Nations when it suits them - never mind that these people have been pushed off their land, never signed treaties, never defeated in battle, etc.
But when it doesn't suit them, we see debacles like the Hudson Bay Company ripping off one of the most successful and iconic BC aboriginal cottage industries - the Cowichan Sweater.
Your 350 dollar knitted sweater that "nods" to the Cowichan style from the Bay? Not providing employment opportunities to local First Nations. If you aren't going to buy the real thing then don't freakin' rip off the design and get them made in China.
posted by rumple at 02:13 PM on October 17
Phillies in 6
Yankees in 5
Kershaw, Sabbathia
AL +1
posted by rumple at 05:13 PM on October 14
goddam, thanks!
So all those "tons of waivers" are just people who drafted higher than me therefore they're lower on the (non existent) waiver list, which then makes sense why they are doing better...they have better players!
posted by rumple at 03:27 PM on October 12
He may have mistook himself for a Schmidt hammer.
posted by rumple at 01:54 PM on October 12
What are "waivers"? I am dropping like a stone and see everyone ahead of me has tons of "waivers". I know what they are in real life, but the league summary says "no waivers" which is cool, not the point, the point is I have no idea how to play this frickin' game!!!
posted by rumple at 01:41 PM on October 12
As a Twins fan, that blown call on Mauer's double was hard to take. It hit the fielder's glove for God's sake
I sometimes snicker at the over-elaborate hushed tones of reverence in golf but I have to say, those players will call fouls on themselves and do so, all the time.
It is hopelessly naive - in itself sad - to think that the fielder would have corrected the umpire and called it a hit. That would be sportsmanship and the fact it is so clearly ludicrously not going to happen is too bad.
posted by rumple at 09:54 PM on October 10
Really good article, thanks. I like the comment about professional sports being in the "harvest mode" of a sunset industry....
posted by rumple at 04:08 PM on October 10
And, by the way, I don't watch
I had that figured out.
What, exactly, did I say that would be remedied or changed by watching the game? Please be precise.
posted by rumple at 11:01 PM on October 09
MLB Post-Season Pick 'Em, Final Standings
dang! thanks for organizing. Next year I might even get to watch one of the World Series games.