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| Name: | Tom Ziller |
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"It's 'Bull Durham'-meets-fantasy-sports come to life." The Schaumburg Flyers are managed by, well, a few hundred (or thousand) armchair coaches via the internet. "Fans" set the lineups before each game. After starting 31-17 and winning the Northern League's first half division title before the fans took over, the minor league team has gone 14-31 and sits in last place with the democratic managerial style. But those 14 wins and 31 losses have been viewed 500,000 times via the web-reality show based on the team. Still, the manager and some players are not happy. "It's the dumbest thing I've ever heard of in baseball, period," says the closer. (This, of course, is to counteract the recent feel-good publicity surrounding the Vintage Base Ball Association, where the mitts are flesh and walks take six balls.)
posted on September 01, 2006 - Go to the detail view for this result
When franchises go bad. The Raiders, Knicks, Blues, and Orioles are the SportingNews' choices for the worst franchises in pro sports.
posted by Ying Yang Mafia at 01:41 PM on January 19
"I'm not satisfied with things that don't test my abilities..." Charlie Engel, 43, of Summerfield (North Carolina), will attempt to run 50 miles for 10 to 12 hours a day for 80 straight days across the Sahara Desert in northern Africa. He and two others -- Kevin Lin of Taiwan, and Ray Zahab of Canada -- will seek to become the first to run 4,000 miles across the Sahara.
posted by NoMich at 11:17 AM on September 05
I enjoy running, even trail running. But I have no idea how something like this could be even possibly thought of as rewarding in any way. Three months of 50-milers everyday... in the GD desert? No, gracias. Really.
posted at 11:12 AM on September 05
Greece celebrates stunning upset. Why did the U.S. lose to Greece? Try three words... but don't panic...yet.
posted by justgary at 01:27 PM on September 01
To echo, nemo, this has absolutely zero to do with Battier over Bowen. Battier was far better in the exhibitions, and was on par with Bowen this past NBA season (and Shane didn't have Tim Duncan next to him). There are myraid reasons to select Battier over Bowen for the team - shooting, ball-handling, rebounding, quickness up and down the court (as opposed to Bowen's hand/lateral quickness advantage), youth, up-close knowledge of Gasol's game... Putting a guy like Bowen on the team was a nice thought, but nothing more. The team lost because he can't guard in the halfcourt and it missed more shots than usual. And Greece isn't a slouch, either. It's not a disaster. Championships are not a given.
posted at 03:22 PM on September 01
Speaking of needing one more team.... we could use a 6th in the College Football Pick 'Em to legitimize the league in Y!'s mind. There's still plenty of time to register and set the picks before tomorrow's kickoffs. Any takers?
posted by Ufez Jones at 09:38 AM on September 01
I'm also in, with an obvious team name. Thanks for setting this up.
posted at 12:00 PM on September 01
Seattle Pitcher Stable After Hit In The Head. OUCH! You hate to see something like this happen and I hope he's OK. IMHO it's also a good argument for keeping wooden bats only in MLB and never allowing them to go to aluminum as some have suggested in the past.
posted by commander cody at 05:26 PM on August 31
Vlad is definitely the batter I'd least like to get hit in the head by. Not that I'd want to get hit in the head by any batter, actually. But definitely not Vlad.
posted at 03:27 PM on August 31
Witness for the Prosecution? Imagine you are the world's most powerful newspaper and you have invested your credibility in yet another story line that is falling apart, crumbling as inexorably as Jayson Blair's fabrications and the flawed reporting on Saddam Hussein's supposed WMD. What to do?
posted by justgary at 03:48 AM on August 31
Weedy's right on this. Completely different scenarios, especially when you add in the race card that got thrown down in Durham. Lake Minnetonka was a laugher from the start (however disgusting and irresponsible it was).
posted at 03:19 PM on August 31
Back to the Future?
The Golden State Warriors have parted ways with former coach Mike Montgomery. Montgomery's dismissal paves the way for Don Nelson to become the next head coach.
posted by lilnemo at 12:13 PM on August 29
That team needs more than Don Nelson to get to the playoffs. The west is loaded. At the very least, Richardson needs to keep progressing, Davis needs to get back on track, and Pietrus needs to show some improvement. And they desparately need in an interior defender. Nelson will only be around a couple years. I think this begins the grooming of Mario Elie.
posted at 04:30 PM on August 29
Katrina strikes again Do any SpoFiers live in Louisiana? I'd like to see more local information about this. This is horrible how they're punishing these kids after their world was destroyed.
posted by timdawg at 01:39 PM on August 29
As other posters have said, it's tough to opine when not all the facts are clear from the coverage. If the school singled out good football players and filled up their classes with those kids at the exclusion of other evacuee students needing their education, then yeah, that's shady. But I'm not sure that's the case. And in either case, I'm not sure someone should've blown the whistle on this. What good can it do, really?
posted at 04:19 PM on August 29
Tears of a Clown A after being roundly booed every time he touched the ball in the World Cup semi-final, Ronaldo may find himself second best again, this time in FIFA's Young Player of the Tournament award, thanks to an email from England fans bitter at their team's Quarter-final exit.
The ten finalists for the Golden Ball, Player of the Tournament award have also been announced.
posted by Mr Bismarck at 07:43 AM on July 06
The Golden Goat could easily be split into thirds for England, to be shared by their three strikers: Rooney, for his Nutcracker audition; Michael Owen, for only being able to salvage his disaster of a performance by getting himself injured; and Eric Crouch, for apparently missing his flight to Germany. Landon Donovan and Reyna similarly deserve a piece. And definitely Valentin Ivanov. I think Henry might have his award cinched up. Zizou wouldn't be a surprise either, even if The Blues fall to The Blue.
posted at 12:08 PM on July 06
The case made for the Knicks is actually pretty strong - I went into it preparing to disagree, but it's to difficult to make a strong case that there are sadder NBA franchises. Nonetheless, I will try. Memphis/Vancouver. Making the NBA playoffs isn't the victory it is in MLB or the NFL, and that Memphis hasn't won a single playoff game in their three trips and has now blown the show up (with possibly Gasol gone soon?) tells me bleakness is afoot. This is all on top of the fact that the team failed to garner an audience in Vancouver and has failed to garner an audience in Memphis. Minnesota. One good (great?) season out of 16. Painful. And unless someone sends them two young All-Stars and a glut of picks for KG, they'll be bad a long time. Philadelphia is pretty self-explanatory. The Knicks still might win this contest, though. Tough team to root for the past six years.