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graymatters has posted 40 links and 421 comments to SportsFilter and 0 links and 0 comments to the Locker Room.
Congress to look at NFL head injuries: Judiciary Committee chair plans hearings on impact of injuries, how to limit them, and compensation. Because it's not like they have anything else to do.
posted by graymatters to football at 01:22 PM on October 03 - 15 comments
'An obvious case of deliberate overreaching by the government': Appeals court rules that feds had no right to seize results of MLB player steroid drug tests.
posted by graymatters to baseball at 03:53 PM on August 26 - 2 comments
New football league off the ground?: Signs three former NFL head coaches. Already has TV contract for games. May try to sign Michael Vick and other NFL castouts. Is this the same league Mark Cuban was talking about forming back in 2007?
posted by graymatters to football at 06:01 PM on March 11 - 20 comments
Iraq banned from Olympics: The interntional Olympic committee confirms a ban on Iraqi participation in 2008 games due to government interference.
posted by graymatters to other at 12:51 PM on July 24 - 6 comments
AFI names its top 10 sports movies: Two boxing movies "Raging Bull" followed by "Rocky" at the top. Also two baseball movies in top 5.
posted by graymatters to culture at 12:23 PM on June 19 - 41 comments
I hate that the discussion has focused on the Yankees cheating.
Not to get all semantical, but cheating does not always mean playing outside the rules. It can also mean avoiding an obstacle or result with skill, luck or something else. In video games, cheating is using codes to change the rules of the game to give the player an advantage. It's not breaking the rules; it's changing the rules. Where is Captain Kirk when you need him? The Yankees use their financial ability in the same way. They don't break the rules, but their finances allow them to make their own rules.
posted by graymatters at 03:20 PM on November 06
Lambert suspended. I think she was just preparing for her career with WWE, but somebody forgot to tell her that it's not supposed to be that real.
posted by graymatters at 02:42 PM on November 06
Let's say that Nike does step in with a new contract. What are they going to do if one of the players refuses to wear Nike and insists on wearing Adidas? Or do you have to have the last name of Jordan to be allowed to flick your finger at the school?
posted by graymatters at 02:27 PM on November 06
The Yankees won't win 27 championships out of the next 30, of course.
You're just being a hater.
the single biggest advantage the Yankees have had since 1995 is that their "core four" (Posada, Jeter, Rivera, Pettitte (although he left and came back)) have performed amazingly well for 15 seasons. It's really hard to find any teams since free agency that can claim to have had that sort of reliability in that many players for that long.
Amen. I think the biggest advantage to the Yankees unlimited money trough (as well as the best use of that money) has been keeping that core group together as not only great players, but as leadership for the team. (Yeh, I know Pettitte went home to Houston for a few years, but there were other reasons for that.) In the age of free agency, has there been any other team able to keep a core like that together? A lot (probably most, maybe all) players go solely after the money when picking a team to play for. The Yankees can outbid any team for any player they choose, but they also have the resources to keep any player they choose as well. Keeping these players has been their best investment. But the fact of their age and that they won't be around for the next 30 years (at least as players) will be one of the reasons the Yankees won't win those 27 championships.
posted by graymatters at 09:27 AM on November 06
Sorry gray but your first statement sounds EXACTLY like a Yankee Hater with your sour grapes. Be a hater, that's fine, were used to it but at least own it.
Thanks for confirming my point.
posted by graymatters at 04:16 PM on November 05
I'm no fan of the Yanks but what is so wrong with a team that spends big in order to win big?
Not a thing. My comment about taking 9 years to buy a world series was merely that - a comment. If they got the money, there is no reason that they should not spend it to buy up the best players they can.
However, I think a lot of people would agree with me (at least those that are not Yankee fans, and I am not a Yankee fan but not a Yankee hater either) that there is a certain amount of satisfaction when the highest paid team and players do not win, regardless of the sport.
Most Yankee fans seem to think that if you are not a Yankee fan then you must be a Yankee hater. There are those of us who view the Yankees as just what they are: just another team in the league that our favorite team must compete against.
posted by graymatters at 02:54 PM on November 05
Nice to see that after 9 long years, George was finally able to buy that next world series title.
Best thing that the Yankees do for city of NY is the massive amount of tax that their players probably have to pay on those exorbitant incomes.
posted by graymatters at 10:00 AM on November 05
I think the problem is clear. Poor blocking on the return team. Who taught them to only block the other team? Fire the special team coach.
posted by graymatters at 07:37 PM on November 03
Wouldn't it have been easier to stab or shoot the guy then?
I thought it was the challenge of competition, representing your school, taking pride in doing better than you did before .
Best laugh all day.
posted by graymatters at 06:22 PM on November 03
He is an American citizen thanks to taking a test and living in our country.
Hey, some don't even have to take a test to succeed in American sports or politics.
(trolling . . . trolling . . . trolling)
posted by graymatters at 04:24 PM on November 03
Good story for Halloween!
posted by graymatters at 02:32 PM on October 31
If there was any purpose to it other than hotdogging, then they would have tried it during a drive and not on an essentially meaningless two-point conversion.
posted by graymatters at 02:32 PM on October 31
MLB gets a clue, plans to use veteran umps in World Series due to bad calls in playoffs.
posted by graymatters at 07:54 PM on October 22
Marcus has his own wiki page.
Says he was rated 100th best shooting guard in country while in high school. Doesn't sound to me like he is worth the $3 million the school could lose. Maybe MJ needs to buy out the Adidas contract.
posted by graymatters at 04:00 PM on October 22
The Hoser's NFL Picks 2009, Week Nine -- Haiku Edition
I'm waiting for the limerick edition. Or did I miss that one already?