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CFL Pick 'Em Didn't know what else to do to get my picks in, so I just started my own damn thread. Selfish? Maybe, but that's just how I roll.
posted on August 07, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
"I don't want sympathy; all I want is a chance to play." Bert Shepherd, World War II aviator, and the first man to play Major League Baseball with an artificial limb, dead at 87.
posted on July 06, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
Did somebody say "Football?" I don't care if somebody said it or not; it's on like Donkey Kong. SpoFi Fantasy Football leagues await you inside.
posted on June 14, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
So, by "March," you actually meant "April," right? Right? I finally mailed out my SpoFi Swap CDs Thursday.
posted on April 19, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
Bush Booed By Beltway Baseballers! The high heat shut 'em up a little bit, though.
posted on March 31, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
CFL Pick 'Em, 96th Grey Cup Edition Here we go! Make your picks inside.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 05:46 PM on November 22
The Knicks Shed Some Cap It looks like the Knicks are trying to dig out of the Isaiah Thomas mess by shedding salary. This is not going to help the Knicks' performance this year. When I watched their game against Boston, Jamal Crawford appeared to be the only player interested in playing.
posted by Howard_T at 06:30 PM on November 22
Donnie Walsh had to make some sort of big move to reassure the fan base that he's actually got some sort of direction in mind for the team. Will Knicks fans be patient for two years? Hard to say. Donnie's in an Obama-type situation, though; NYK fans are so thoroughly sickened by the old regime that hope springs anew, and perhaps they'll put up with a couple of lost seasons, if there's a Lebron-sized payoff at the end of the travails.
With these deals, the Knicks have cleared enough cap room not just to sign Lebron in 2010, but to show Lebron, We've got enough to sign you and somebody like Chris Bosh or Dwayne Wade.
I think it was a good move by Walsh, hopefully the first of many. I'm not a Knicks fan by any stretch of the imagination, but a storied franchise like that needs to be put back together. If the Knicks lose for two years, but play hard, and genuinely appear to be trying, that will go a long way toward legitimizing D'Antoni as a coach who can handle the Big Apple and keeping the fans semi-satisfied during Lebron Watch 2008 - 2009.
Lesnar proves size does matter Despite it coming just weeks after Bernard Hopkins proved that a 45-year-old combat athlete doesn't have to turn into primordial paste in the ring, returning UFC champion Randy Couture -- as much an MMA institution as the cage itself -- failed in his attempt to write yet another storybook epilogue to a peerless career.
posted by BornIcon at 01:25 PM on November 21
BI, I wasn't speaking for anybody else. I speak for me when I say that you telling somebody else that their point is invalid because it's just their opinion is the height of hypocrisy on your part. Most of what you type on this site is unfounded opinion.
Of course, that's your right; after all, Sportsfilter is a sports message board, rife with opinions, insults, and bias. Just don't call somebody else out for behavior you exhibit all the time yourself.
As for the fix, I don't know that the Lesnar - Couture match "looked fixed;" I was speaking to the possibility of a fix. With all the crooked shit that goes on in the combat sports today, the possibility is always real. And, while you may see Dana White as a paragon of athletic and management purity and integrity, I don't know that I'm ready to trust his organization yet.
Spofi H2h Basketball Update - Week 2 Another competitive week with no blowouts. We've also upgraded our statistics package (i.e., there's now a google spreadsheet see link with stats by week and by team, along with individual team averages and best week ever stats)
posted by yukongold at 08:37 PM on November 19
NASCAR Season Ends In a chase that was much closer than the one the drivers just finished, the results are in and four teams were able to finish the long season.
posted by Folkways at 07:09 PM on November 19
Lesnar proves size does matter Despite it coming just weeks after Bernard Hopkins proved that a 45-year-old combat athlete doesn't have to turn into primordial paste in the ring, returning UFC champion Randy Couture -- as much an MMA institution as the cage itself -- failed in his attempt to write yet another storybook epilogue to a peerless career.
posted by BornIcon at 01:25 PM on November 19
You don't have to believe that this was a legitimate fight but if all you have is your opinion to base that on, then you are absolutely ridiculous.
Because God knows, you've never done that before.
You sound like the typically bitter MMA fan who is pissed off because the interloper came in and won...Fuck off back to Sherdog. You'll fit right in.
If his post makes him sound like a bitter, pissed off fan, what the hell does your post make you sound like? Resorting to personal attacks because somebody said something you didn't like about your favorite sport? Well, sure, that's rational.
Anything can be fixed. Anything. Especially, but not limited to, the combat sports. They've been filled with cheats and liars for generations. If you don't think the fix can be in on any given sport, you're incredibly naive.
NFL overtime rules? Don't ask McNabb "No, I didn't know that," Donovan McNabb said at his postgame press conference, saying he was not aware that one overtime is all you get in the NFL in the regular season. Then McNabb compounded his error by not knowing the postseason overtime rule. Those games do play to a conclusion for obvious reasons, but McNabb said, "I hate to see what happens in the Super Bowl or I hate to see what happens in the playoffs. You have to settle with a tie." A real student of the game.
posted by dyams at 07:41 PM on November 19
Not knowing the tie rule in a regular season game is one thing; his comment about playoff games and/or the Super Bowl ending in a tie, though, was one of the stupidest things I've ever heard fall out of a professional athlete's mouth.
No wonder Terrell Owens doesn't like the guy.
CFL Pick 'Em, Division Finals Edmonton and B.C. both win on the road, and head into the strongholds of Calgary and Montreal. Closer to home, BoKnows bats .714 for a strong opening week. Can he keep up the pace? Make your picks inside.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 09:49 PM on November 15
Spofi H2h Basketball Update - Week 2 Another competitive week with no blowouts. We've also upgraded our statistics package (i.e., there's now a google spreadsheet see link with stats by week and by team, along with individual team averages and best week ever stats)
posted by yukongold at 08:37 PM on November 15
Tampa Bay no longer Melrose's place. The Tampa Bay Lightning fire first-year head coach Barry Melrose after just a month and a half. The Lightning take a gamble on Rick Tocchet for the interim.
posted by NoMich at 05:34 PM on November 15
I don't know that it was his knowledge of hockey, as much as it was his inability to get the players to buy into his philosophy. Some reports indicate he never really got the respect of his players.
Of course, the Lightning front office is full of dead-from-the-neck-up douchebags, so that could've played a role, too.
Halloween for 82 games. 50+ photos of the NHL's masked men and their masks. Better than anything you'll find in your local drug store's Halloween section. (SI)
posted by BoKnows at 05:27 PM on November 14
Brian Boucher's hair sticking up through the vents was pretty funny. Also, I can only hope that Jamie McLennan never wears this piece of crap again.
Tampa Bay no longer Melrose's place. The Tampa Bay Lightning fire first-year head coach Barry Melrose after just a month and a half. The Lightning take a gamble on Rick Tocchet for the interim.
posted by NoMich at 05:34 PM on November 14
Kevin Garnett’s greatness awes coach OK, so it was a wonderful achievement for Kevin Garnett last season when the big guy stepped into the Garden, and into local sports lore, by helping lead the Celtics to their 17th NBA championship. After all those years with the Minnesota Timberwolves, all those years of missing out on the NBA's grand stage, Garnett brought his talent, his desire, his smarts and his work ethic to Boston. And it paid off with a championship.
posted by BornIcon at 01:21 PM on November 14
CFL Pick 'Em, Playoff Edition Were you wistfully checking the CFL Pick 'Em standings all summer, wishing you could play? Or maybe you're looking for revenge/continuity after a disappointing/excellent regular season? Either way, here's your chance as the CFL heads into the playoffs. We begin anew and it's anyone's game. Make your picks inside.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 04:26 PM on November 08
CFL Pick 'Em, Final Standings tommytrump finishes off his victory run with a big week to leave no questions about the legitimacy of his championship. Congratulations!
posted by DrJohnEvans at 12:35 PM on November 04
Don't break your arm patting yourself on the back there, Sally Field.
Thanks again, Doc. You've had the most profound impact on my life of anybody or anything in Canada. And, congratulations to me for finishing my furious end-of-the-season blitz, to beat Apoch by one point.
Monty by 9
Calvillo for MVP
Over
277 Rushing Yards
Thanks again for another great season, Doc. You Canadians are a strange and wondrous people.