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| Name: | Matthew Haughey |
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| Homepage URL: | http://haughey.com |
| Location: | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| ZIP Code: | 94117 |
| Gender: | wuss. I always got picked last. |
| AIM: | mathowie |
| ICQ: | 6847330 |
| Member since: | January 23, 2002 |
| Last visit: | August 12, 2008 |
mathowie has posted 9 links and 21 comments to SportsFilter and 5 links and 14 comments to the Locker Room and has written 1 column.
brokeback html this post is borked.
posted on February 24, 2006 - Go to the detail view for this result
Awesome short video from last night's CBS News an autistic student being called into his first basketball game. Watch it until the end, it kicks ass.
posted on February 24, 2006 - Go to the detail view for this result
The Seattle Times has launched a sports weblog around local statewide basketball. From the URL (blog.seattletimes.nwsource.co m), perhaps it's just the beginning of their sports-weblog empire.
posted on March 05, 2003 - Go to the detail view for this result
test this is a test
posted on July 21, 2002 - Go to the detail view for this result
SportsFilter now has a RSS feed
posted on May 13, 2002 - Go to the detail view for this result
NHL Faces Competition from Russian Tycoon's New European League For years, the NHL has poached stars under contract with teams in Europe and Russia, scuttling existing agreements and angering owners. This may be coming back to haunt them, now that Russian energy tycoon Alex Medvedev is working with former NHL player Igor Larionov and former player's union chief Bob Goodenow to begin a league in Europe that will compete for players with the NHL. Here's a line from the Toronto Star that should chill NHL owners: "It's unclear whether the league -- which Medvedev said could formally be announced as soon as today -- would honour NHL contracts."
posted by rcade at 11:39 AM on December 17
Awesome short video from last night's CBS News an autistic student being called into his first basketball game. Watch it until the end, it kicks ass.
posted by mathowie at 12:55 PM on February 24
No way, Disney actually inquired about buying the rights to the story.
posted at 07:42 PM on February 24
brokeback html this post is borked.
posted by mathowie at 12:57 PM on February 24
Actually if you look at the broken post, the guy is trying to stuff a link to freecodesource.com some oddball myspace site. Were they trying to hide the link with CSS?
posted at 01:24 PM on February 24
brokeback html this post is borked.
posted by mathowie at 12:57 PM on February 24
My post didn't break the page, the guy before me's did.
posted at 01:21 PM on February 24
Don't give me this MTV ... Don't give me this MTV generation crap. Give me a real Extreme Sport.
posted by tieguy at 02:13 PM on February 27
Hey, quit metafiltering up this thread. Ha!
posted at 09:09 PM on February 27
England v Brazil and US v Germany kick off the quarterfinals tonight (US time). These are probably the games of the tournament. Although my picks are with the favorites (Brazil and Germany), my heart is with England and the US. Who do you favor? And, for those of us in the "unlucky" timezones, what's your stay-awake strategy? (Naturally, you'll be watching both games.)
posted by worldcup2002 at 09:29 AM on June 18
Thank god we're getting a break. I've spent too many days sitting around the house watching the previous night's tivo'd recordings well past noon, then getting to work after 1.
posted at 08:02 PM on June 18
US v Mexico and Brazil v Belgium are next. Can the US pull it off? Will the Brazilian beat continue?
posted by worldcup2002 at 10:27 AM on June 17
Wow, that was some ugly play. Lots of pointless yellow cards, a few uncalled that could have been red cards, and lots of intentional attacks. I'm glad it's over and amazed the US came out on top.
posted at 03:31 AM on June 17
Look who made the Shiftlist ... Look who made the Shiftlist (in the latest issue of Shift Magazine):
"MetaFilter's Matt Haughey must be tired of getting ripped off by every two-bit would-be community site, because now he's biting himself. Originated by seven MeFi members with the help of Haughey, SportsFilter is all the fun of a locker room, minus the giddy towel-snapping."
posted by jacknose at 12:24 PM on June 03
BlueTrain, I've never met and seldom emailed with anyone at Shift. I have no idea where their admiration of my work came from, but they do seem to follow everything I do (they mentioned me as the designer of the Creative Commons site). I think they glommed onto MetaFilter quite a while ago and used it for finding story leads and links for their shift list, and when I linked back to them one day, they probably got some traffic out of it.
posted at 02:03 PM on June 03
"I'm going to play ... "I'm going to play aggressive. If they call (Game 7) like they're supposed to call it, the outcome will be the same it was (on Friday). You've got to foul me to stop me. Period." -- Shaquille O'Neal, promising to do a bang-up job when the Western Conference decides tonight which team will cut down the Nets.
posted by rcade at 01:02 PM on June 02
I'm really surprised the Lakers pulled it off. Make no mistake, I've been a life-long Laker fan, but even I would admit they were being beaten silly in this series. The Kings were a better team in every game; when the Lakers were kicking ass and playing well, they'd only be up three or four points and in the course of a few seconds Sacramento could turn the tide and be up by five. The officiating Friday night was crap and it was the only reason why they won the game.
posted at 11:46 PM on June 02
Looking at the Olympic ... Looking at the Olympic category I see both of the Russians leaving links, even though on the front page only the first one is shown (I assume the other one was removed for being a double.) I'm not sure if it's a bug or feature though.
posted by mkn at 03:56 PM on February 24
yeah, I just need to add the flag to filter out the hidden posts.
posted at 08:30 PM on February 24
Dude, if you can't beat them, invent your own sport. The U.S. men sweep the halfpipe snowboarding competition. Team USA has now won 6 medals. (The best finish for the U.S. in the Winter Olympics has been 13 medals.) 4 out of 6 medals are in snowboarding. Gnarly. Here's a look at the sport's humble beginnings in the good ol' U. S. of A.
posted by jacknose at 07:43 AM on February 12
I used to snowboard multiple times a week back in college, and the best snowboarders, worldwide, were all in the Nordic countries. The best, by far, snowboarder alive (easily the Tiger Woods or Michael Jordan of the snow) is Terje Haakonsen (or however you spell it, I'm too lazy to look up the proper number of o's with dots over them). He boycotted the 1998 games because he felt they were a spectacle that wasn't helpful of the sport. Everyone at the 98 olympics knew that Terje would have taken it easily (he had won every world contest he entered that year). I was a bit surprised to see few recognizable names in the finals, the europeans really dominate the sport now. Did they not allow professional snowboarders in this year? Was there a mass boycott by riders? (I haven't read a snowboard magazine in a year, so I wouldn't know this time around).
posted at 01:26 PM on February 12
Errors posting comments to ... Errors posting comments to FPP posts. Maybe it's just me, but I can't post a comment to a front page post. I can- obviously- post a fpp to the main page and the locker room, and can comment in the locker room, but not on the front page. Error inside...
posted by hincandenza at 04:32 PM on February 09
should work now
posted at 07:20 PM on February 09
Nice logo change! I was ... Nice logo change! I was wondering if you guys have considered creating several SportsFilter logos, and having them rotate (ala the various MeFi logos). Perhaps we could have in place of the "o" a basketball, a hockey puck, and a soccer ball?
posted by insomnyuk at 02:29 PM on February 09
That's the plan. Footballs, baseballs, golfballs, hockey pucks, basketballs, bowling balls, etc, all serving in the "o" position.
posted at 03:38 PM on February 09
[T]his year there's a real possibility (threat?) that patriotism could erupt into full-scale jingoism. There's a chance that other nations could look at cheesy attempts at patriotism and see the most blatant attempt at using nationalism to hijack the Olympics since 1936.Not what I expect from ESPN - but certainly a welcome sentiment. Does anyone else feel that these olympics are going to stink for around 2000 reasons, one of which is definitely this "America #1" attitude? (another of which is "Utah?")
posted by djacobs at 05:45 PM on February 09
My only worry with the focus on USA's recent terrorist acts is that it makes us look like we're the only country in the world that's ever suffered a terrorist act. Ireland, Israel, and a handful of other countries that also participate in the olympics have experienced massive terrorist acts before. When I saw special attention brought to the US in the ceremonies, I felt bad that we've never seen anything like it before at other games, and the US appropriated the games for some sympathy from the world. Contrary to what US television displays, it's supposed to be an event where individuals push themselves to excel in sports events. It's not an us-vs-them race for medals or a way to see which country is best.
posted at 03:43 AM on February 09
I have a confession to make. ... I have a confession to make. I posted this on the motherfilter, and got righteously told off. No-one told me we weren't allowed to advertise. Anyway, if I was wrong I want to know: what's the policy?
posted by walrus at 01:56 PM on February 07
Actually, it was a stupid post and I'd love to delete it, but I don't want to send the message that "take it to sportsfilter" is the right one, because I don't think it is. I'm trying to figure out a way to openly promote sportsfilter on metafilter as an additional community, and not a sub-section or a place where sports news must go from now on. It's touchy, and I hope people don't post things like "this would be good for sportsfilter too" because it just leads to the unwanted conclusion (that sports don't belong on metafilter). If you would like a sportsmined person at metafilter to know about this site, email them instead.
posted at 06:03 PM on February 07
I was amazed when I took my first trip to London recently and I noticed the free newspapers provided by my hotel mentioned the scores of NHL games on the front page of the Sports section. I couldn't help but wonder if anyone in London really cared if the Ducks beat the Sharks, since I as an American couldn't care less. :)