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Amateur has posted 49 links and 560 comments to SportsFilter and 3 links and 149 comments to the Locker Room and has written 5 columns.
Lance Armstrong to return to pro cycling Armstrong, who will turn 37 on September 18, cited 41-year-old US swimmer Dara Torres's Olympic comeback in Beijing as proof that age was no barrier to an elite sports career.
posted on September 09, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
Everlasting Run What makes a man run 100,000 miles without ever missing a day?
posted on December 17, 2007 - Go to the detail view for this result
Nate DiMeo's Plan to Save the NHL The NHL should be more like pro soccer. No, I'm not crazy. A nice fit with chico's column, too.
posted on October 05, 2007 - Go to the detail view for this result
Russia to Host 2014 Winter Olympics Sochi, Russia was selected by IOC delegates on the second ballot. SportsFilter discussed the three finallists, and earlier the seven candidates.
posted on July 04, 2007 - Go to the detail view for this result
Rogge unveils plan for Olympic programme At the 2005 IOC Congress, baseball and softball were voted off the Olympic island for 2012, leaving the summer Olympics with 26 sports. Yesterday Jacques Rogge announced his plan for the future: there will be 25 "largely untouchable" core sports, with the possibility of adding three more on a rotating basis for each edition of the Games.
posted on June 24, 2007 - Go to the detail view for this result
Lance Armstrong to return to pro cycling Armstrong, who will turn 37 on September 18, cited 41-year-old US swimmer Dara Torres's Olympic comeback in Beijing as proof that age was no barrier to an elite sports career.
posted by Amateur at 06:19 PM on September 10
Lance Armstrong to return to pro cycling Armstrong, who will turn 37 on September 18, cited 41-year-old US swimmer Dara Torres's Olympic comeback in Beijing as proof that age was no barrier to an elite sports career.
posted by Amateur at 06:19 PM on September 09
I agree that the "I have decided to return to professional cycling in order to raise awareness of the global cancer burden" rings pretty hollow. There are surely other motivations as well.
posted at 07:39 PM on September 09
Carlos Sastre wins Tour de France
posted by Ying Yang Mafia at 04:29 PM on July 30
posted at 10:12 AM on July 30
The LA84 Foundation Library is "engaged in an ambitious project to convert selected scholarly journals, proceedings and series publications, as well as non-scholarly sports magazines and reviews from paper to digital format." You can search their archives or browse through their list of journals. Never complain that you have nothing to read anymore ;)
via Open Access News
posted by Fence at 04:22 AM on May 30
Great link, Fence.
posted at 07:05 PM on May 30
Female ski jumpers taking VANOC to court .... sources indicated that the petition is being filed against the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympics and alleges that banning women jumpers from the Games violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Ski jumping, a part of the Games since 1924, is the only Olympic event closed to women. The IOC has argued that there are not enough top-calibre women ski jumpers to warrant inclusion.
posted by tommytrump at 02:37 AM on May 22
Hey, I'm all for women's ski jumping getting in. Sign me up for the petition to the IOC. I just don't see how suing VANOC -- who have no control whatsoever over the sporting programme -- is anything other than a publicity stunt. And lbb -- I do think that according to the charter as you've quoted it, the IOC has an obligation to put pressure on the FIS to develop women's ski jumping. I don't think they have to automatically have exactly the same events (or even the same number of events) for women as for men; but they should have policies that move sport in that direction. From where I sit, there is plenty of evidence that the IOC is putting exactly that kind of pressure on most of the Olympic sports.
posted at 07:46 PM on May 22
Female ski jumpers taking VANOC to court .... sources indicated that the petition is being filed against the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympics and alleges that banning women jumpers from the Games violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Ski jumping, a part of the Games since 1924, is the only Olympic event closed to women. The IOC has argued that there are not enough top-calibre women ski jumpers to warrant inclusion.
posted by tommytrump at 02:37 AM on May 22
VANOC is being targeted despite the fact that local organizers have no decision-making authority over which events are on the Games agenda. I'm sure there is some lawyer out there who can explain this but it seems like they've chosen the wrong target. Ms. Corradini said VANOC is being sued because it is the B.C.-based representatives of the IOC. Hmmm. That's not how I understand it, but maybe the courts will agree.
posted at 05:53 AM on May 22
NHL Playoffs Pick 'Em, Conference Finals round results.: Plus Finals round rules inside.
posted by NoMich at 10:57 AM on May 20
Wings in six. Zetterberg and Malkin. Osgood wins the Conn Smythe.
posted at 07:52 PM on May 20
NHL Playoffs Pick 'Em, round 2 results. Plus round 3 rules inside
posted by NoMich at 07:47 PM on May 09
I also want some second-round points because I would have got it all correct. Except for Philadelphia. And Dallas. And Franzen. And Morrow.
posted at 08:37 PM on May 09
NHL Playoffs Pick 'Em, round 2 results. Plus round 3 rules inside
posted by NoMich at 07:47 PM on May 05
OK, I think I've spotted you all enough of a lead. Detroit (Zetterberg) over Dallas (Morrow) in 5 games Philadelphia (Briere) over Pittsburgh (Malkin) in 7 games
posted at 09:10 PM on May 05
New and Improved NHL Playoffs Pick 'Em Thread. I just wanted to start a fresh, new thread to avoid confusion. Come on inside and show off your amazing powers of prediction.
posted by NoMich at 04:10 PM on April 10
Alright, a decision has been made (by me): The goalie must have played 2 complete games for his GAA to be counted. Excellent decision, O fearless leader.
posted at 11:27 PM on April 10
Olympic torch put out by protests. Security officials canceled the final run of the Olympic relay through Paris after chaotic protests Monday, sending a snuffed-out torch to its destination on a bus in a humiliating concession to protesters decrying China's human rights record.
posted by worldcup2002 at 12:24 PM on April 10
grum, that Wikipedia article nowhere states that Smith and / or Carlos was "banned by the IOC for life." You exaggerate. However, your central point is correct -- an athlete making such a political statement today would almost certainly suffer the same fate as far as the IOC is concerned -- have their accreditation revoked and therefore be out of the Games. But this honestly seems reasonable to me. Would you treat it differently?
posted at 11:24 PM on April 10
New and Improved NHL Playoffs Pick 'Em Thread. I just wanted to start a fresh, new thread to avoid confusion. Come on inside and show off your amazing powers of prediction.
posted by NoMich at 04:10 PM on April 08
Montreal (Plekanec) over Boston (Murray) in 5 Pittsburgh (Malkin) over Ottawa (Heatley) in 5 Philadelphia (Briere) over Washington (Ovechkin) in 7 New Jersey (Parise) over New York (Jagr) in 7 Detroit (Zetterburg) over Nashville (Dumont) in 4 San Jose (Cheechoo) over Calgary (Iginla) in 4 Colorado (Stastny) over Minnesota (Gaborik) in 6 Anaheim (Selanne) over Dallas (Morrow) in 7 Goalies: Price / Nabokov Does the "lowest GAA" category have a minimum number of minutes played requirement?
posted at 10:08 PM on April 08
How to Tell When a College Basketball Game is Out of Reach Take the number of points one team is ahead. Subtract three. Add a half-point if the team that is ahead has the ball, and subtract a half-point if the other team has the ball. (Numbers less than zero become zero.) Square that. If the result is greater than the number of seconds left in the game, the lead is safe.
Or you could just use the handy Bill James Lead Calculator.
posted by justgary at 04:56 PM on March 20
I think it's a bit confusing, but from the article: That doesn't mean a team with a 10-point lead and the ball with 10 minutes to go has only a 9 percent chance of winning. Rather, it means they're 9 percent of the way to having a completely insurmountable advantage. Although this is not quite a quantitative definition, we can imply that 73% safe = much higher percentage of winning.
posted at 10:32 PM on March 20
Hurricanes/Senators in Four Player Deal. Hurricanes send Cory Stillman and Mike Commodore to the Senators for Joe Corvo and Patrick Eaves.
posted by NoMich at 01:52 PM on February 11
I hope, for Ottawa's sake the sake of Amateur's team in the office hockey pool, that Stillman can find his scoring touch again.
posted at 10:38 PM on February 11
When Octopuses Are Flying in Detroit It's . . . The secret to throwing a large octopus onto an ice hockey rink is to boil it first for 20 minutes on high heat with a little lemon juice and white wine to mask the odor.
posted by bobfoot at 11:39 PM on December 10
Fun article ... but is it really from 1996? I would think that doesn't meet the guidelines.
posted at 05:30 AM on December 10
I get that he's doing good work for cancer, lbb. I just don't see why that requires a cycling comeback. Really one has nothing to do with the other.