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Etrigan has posted 19 links and 455 comments to SportsFilter and 0 links and 3 comments to the Locker Room.
Olympics drop wrestling for 2020: The International Olympic Committee has dropped wrestling from the list of "core" sports as of the 2020 Games. The shocking decision would mean that the sport, which had 18 events for men and women at last year's London games, is off the program for the first time since 1900.
posted by Etrigan to olympics at 01:11 PM on February 12 - 26 comments
HoboJacket: Some MIT guys have a... great? idea: buy clothes from schools you hate and give them to the homeless. They get warm, and you get the chance of seeing someone begging for spare change in a Bulldogs jacket. Is this a brilliantly terrible idea or a terribly brilliant one?
posted by Etrigan to culture at 11:08 PM on November 28 - 6 comments
Comment-shifting: I appreciate the efforts by mods to make threads out of hot topics in the Huddle. Perhaps they could include notations of such on the story and the affected Huddle, just to allay any confusion? For example, on the Seahawks-Packers story linked above, something like (Editor note: The first 22 comments were relocated from the Monday Huddle.) and (Editor note: 22 comments from this Huddle were relocated here.) in the Huddle itself. (Also, I apologize for the broken link -- the system is putting slashes before my quotes.)
posted by Etrigan to editorial policy at 05:11 PM on September 25 - 3 comments
The Best Deal Ever Is Not Good Enough: We discussed the Silna brothers six years ago, but there's a new wrinkle in the saga of the biggest money giveaway in sports history. Ozzie and Daniel Silna, owners of the ABA's St. Louis Spirits, negotiated a deal when the NBA absorbed four other ABA teams in 1976 -- one-seventh of TV revenues from those four ABA teams, forever. This has made them somewhere between $240 and $300 million, but they're suing for a chunk of international broadcasts and the NBA TV network, ideas no one had thought of 36 years ago.
posted by Etrigan to basketball at 09:57 PM on September 07 - 2 comments
One At Bat: "Of the almost 17,500 people to play in Major League baseball, Adam Greenberg is the only player to have his career end on the very first pitch. In fact, according to Major League rules, Adam’s debut only counts as a plate appearance, not an official at bat. Our goal…to get Adam Greenberg the official at bat he deserves."
posted by Etrigan to baseball at 08:21 PM on September 06 - 6 comments
Rocs: Maybe. Why not go full-on mythological terror beast and be the Dragons, though?
Metros: Oh hell no. Sure, it's easy for the other teams' fans to turn anything into an insult, but when I think "That guy's a Metro," I don't think that he's a subway car.
Leopards: Way too close to Jaguars. It's one thing to be "a cat, like other teams," but you need to be a different cat. Lions are different from Bengals are different from Panthers are different from Jaguars.
Skins: No. That's not a change. That's "Wink-wink we can't use that word anymore, but you know what we're talkin' about."
posted by Etrigan at 08:29 PM on June 13
So, in essence, Goodell's defense is "Nuh UH."
I cannot wait for him to pull out the "You're awfully obsessed with this. Maybe you're the racist..." card.
posted by Etrigan at 08:18 PM on June 12
Part of all of us should always be humming that song.
And as regards Tebow, my jaw, it has dropped.
posted by Etrigan at 07:53 PM on June 10
The Ottawa Redacts
The Ottawa Headsmacks
The Ottawa BreadAxe
Yeah, even the parodies are better actual names.
posted by Etrigan at 07:13 PM on June 08
I don't get why the NBA is able to fine him $75K for this, but the floppers from earlier in the series can only be fined a 5K max. Are there different rules for in-game infractions as opposed to post-game interview infractions?
Flopping is much less likely to lose sponsors.
posted by Etrigan at 11:26 PM on June 03
If that ankle injury in 2000 had put him out of the game entirely, I think he'd be in the HOF; take his whole career into account, though, and I agree with cixelsyd. The only highlight at this point is his longevity, and given that he had four years in the middle of it with less than a season's worth of games total, it's not really even that much of a highlight.
posted by Etrigan at 07:04 AM on June 03
Now that Tressel's gone, Gee is unfireable.
posted by Etrigan at 06:55 PM on May 31
The Chip Kelly backlash makes it to the Oregon Legislature.
posted by Etrigan at 07:06 AM on May 16
Boy, talk about a guy who just never had a chance. Between being on the Jaguars and... well, that was pretty much it, actually. Just "being on the Jaguars" killed what could have been a really good career.
posted by Etrigan at 06:55 AM on May 16
The Broncos didn't complain because they had Manning coming in. The Jets didn't complain because they're a bunch of dysfunctional losers.
So basically, Tebow couldn't lead a good team enough to make them (not players nor coaches nor management) want him even as a backup, nor a bad team enough to make them (not players nor coaches nor management) want him even as a backup. Maybe he isn't actually the leader you think he is.
Admittedly, I've never thought much of "leadership" in football, for a variety of reasons, but I can't see Tebow as an exemplar of the form.
posted by Etrigan at 07:27 AM on May 14
Any individual as devoted to religion as he is is taught to constantly spread the word of God.
People are taught all kinds of wacky-ass things in the name of religion, and freedom doesn't mean I don't get to (at least) roll my eyes when they do those things.
Maybe it's the leadership qualities he seems to show when he is on the field and given a chance that can somewhat compensate for his lack of skills.
I can't really speak to whether he shows leadership qualities, but was any Bronco vocal about seeing him go? Has any Jet expressed displeasure at his departure? (I don't remember either of those things happening, but I don't live in either of those media markets, so I wouldn't have heard as much about it as I did about Titus Young getting cut)
posted by Etrigan at 08:17 PM on May 13
He's probably the most polarizing athlete alive today, so strong love/hate on either side is to be expected.
Tiger Woods?
I would argue that Tebow is the most polarizing athlete when it comes to his playing. There are people out there -- I'm related to at least two of them -- who really do think he'd make a great QB, if he found a coach willing to mold a team around him. His evangelical Christianity is also polarizing, but you could take that away and you'd still have that argument over whether he's any good.
On the other hand, no one thinks Tiger Woods is an overrated golfer; he's just a dick. Ditto Ray Lewis, who we all may recall is a fairly off-the-field polarizing figure on this board, but I don't recall anyone who's willing to say he's not a Hall of Fame player. I mean, shit, if you're talking off-the-field polarizing, OJ is still alive.
posted by Etrigan at 07:16 PM on May 13
SportsFilter: The Tuesday Huddle
I scored above average. Which can't be right, because the average is allegedly zero.