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beaverboard has posted 15 links and 2374 comments to SportsFilter and 0 links and 3 comments to the Locker Room.
New York Times to begin charging for online access: On March 28th, the NY Times will institute a pay wall and begin charging frequent readers of its content for online access via digital subscriptions. If they are successful and other content providers follow suit, the economic landscape of online content will change. How will this affect SpoFi and the linking to online content? When more online content sources have pay walls, SpoFi members may be able to continue following links to content without having to pay for the access, but will this coming transition end up imposing restrictions and/or an economic burden on SpoFi itself?
posted by beaverboard to general at 10:50 AM on March 19 - 5 comments
Income Inequality and the Superstar Effect: An article that goes beyond the sheer dollar amounts paid to top athletes (and executives) and examines the broader impact that megasalaries have on economies and societies at large.
posted by beaverboard to general at 06:32 AM on December 28 - 2 comments
Shaq is now a Green man.: Shaq is now preparing his own letter of farewell and thanks to the Cleveland fans after signing with the Boston Celtics.
posted by beaverboard to basketball at 05:50 PM on August 04 - 17 comments
College coach supports theft and suppression of news: College football coach Guy Morriss is fully in favor of his team's recent student newspaper caper, and feels that his players' actions are beneficial to the team.
posted by beaverboard to football at 12:46 AM on March 04 - 6 comments
RIP Mosi Tatupu: Former Patriots' stalwart Mosi Tatupu passed away earlier today. He was a fan favorite during his playing days. One of the most remarkable things about Tatupu was that, despite his Pacific island background, he was one of the Pats' best winter weather players. Somehow he almost always managed to keep his feet under him, even in blizzard conditions. Condolences to Lofa and family.
posted by beaverboard to football at 12:56 PM on February 24 - 10 comments
Note to Tebow with what will surely be disturbing news: a rostered NFL QB recently underwent a radical position reassignment procedure.
They just checked on him in post-op. He's doing fine and is expected to make a full recovery.
posted by beaverboard at 03:19 PM on May 16
Incoming Jets QB David Garrard has retired. I was looking forward to seeing him have a shot at getting back on the field again.
posted by beaverboard at 07:55 PM on May 15
As a Heisman winner from a Florida university, he's in extremely appropriate company in terms of his potential to be a dynamic starting NFL quarterback.
posted by beaverboard at 11:28 AM on May 14
Urban Meyer and his staff didn't do Tebow any favors by allowing him to head to the draft suffering under the delusion that he was destined to be a starting NFL QB.
Other QB's made the transition to another position in the pros after winning a title in college. Rex Kern comes to mind.
I still can't understand how Florida's offense was so successful with Tebow under center. I can understand the success when Leak was the starter and Tebow was the wild card change of pace, but when Tebow became the starter and opposing DC's got used to how UF looked on offense with Tebow in there, the sets and play sequences became highly predictable. Defenses should have known what was coming, and some of those QB running plays seemed like they took an hour and a half to develop when you watched them on TV. Tebow looked ponderous hitting the hole. His main skill looked like it was hanging onto the football after contact.
Somebody should have been able to stop that Tebow-led unit. They had standouts on the OL and highly athletic skill position people, but Tebow never looked like a dynamic game changer himself.
Tebow is fortunate that Saban was just digging out from his Dolphins fiasco and retooling Alabama after their Franchione-Price-Shula nightmare when he (Tebow) and the UF offense were on top of their game. If Saban had gone to Bama a bit earlier in the decade, he might have been able to expose the UF offense in the middle of Tebow's college career, rather than at the end of it.
posted by beaverboard at 08:59 AM on May 14
And Justin Blackmon is in purgatory in Jacksonville.
I hadn't seen that mug up of Jimmy. Rough moment.
posted by beaverboard at 08:17 AM on May 14
Most polarizing virgin athlete.
posted by beaverboard at 05:09 PM on May 13
At one point, I thought I might have seen rcade in the gallery at 13.
When there was a 4 way logjam at -12, I thought Garcia was had a good chance to prevail. He looked like he was swinging the club pretty well, and his disposition looked decent (to the extent that you can judge such things on TV).
From what I can tell, Garcia was one of the few players that found the hazard at 17 who elected not to hit his third shot from the drop zone. And then once that, too, fell awry, I assume he felt compelled to hang tough and slug it out with fate from the tee regardless of the outcome.
If Sergio had found the green at 17 with his first shot, parred the hole, and finished alone in second place at -12, he would have earned an additional 788,500.00, which is more than three times the amount that he did earn. The strokes he lost at 17 and 18 cost him a bit more than 130,000.00 each.
posted by beaverboard at 12:54 PM on May 13
Third time's the charm for Mr. Titus Young.
posted by beaverboard at 12:18 PM on May 13
Roster spot or no roster spot, if I were the commissioner of SpoFi, I would want Tebow to continue to be in the discussion mix one way or another, since his presence alone can take a thread that ordinarily might be good for a modest dozen posts or so and easily spin it into a 30-40 post county fair heifer.
If Tebow were to ever elbow a kid out of the walk up line at an ice cream stand, the post count for a thread on that topic would climb right up into Sandusky territory.
posted by beaverboard at 11:46 PM on May 12
Is SpoFi sending the emissary from our Ponte Vedran consulate to Sawgrass this weekend?
posted by beaverboard at 07:55 AM on May 12
The spirit of subtitled rally driving lives on as we reflect on a momentous departure from the pinnacle of sport.
Please consider turning on the CC captioning for this clip of Sir Alex.
posted by beaverboard at 08:14 AM on May 10
I lived in TB for a spell in the late 70's and I put Ronde up there with the kings of that era - Bell, Williams, Selmon, Giles, et al.
posted by beaverboard at 11:10 AM on May 09
Ronde Barber has finally decided to hang up his leather helmet and high top shoes after a near-Methuselan number of years in the league.
When brother Tiki retired a few years back, he condescendingly joked that Ronde had to keep playing because he needed the money so bad.
That's one reason I was not sorrowful when Tiki eventually became a member of the "Look Who's Bankrupt Now" club.
posted by beaverboard at 10:47 PM on May 08
Jerry Jones knows in his heart and in his intuitive GM bones that there's some value and redemption room in Titus yet.
posted by beaverboard at 07:38 PM on May 08
SportsFilter: The Tuesday Huddle
Sergio isn't the last waterbender, but right now, he's the most notable one.