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irunfromclones
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Name: James DeGriz
Location: Terra
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Member since: June 30, 2005
Last visit: November 20, 2009

irunfromclones has posted 63 links and 765 comments to SportsFilter and 0 links and 7 comments to the Locker Room.

Recent Links

Sam Bradford goes pro: Just days before Sam Bradford will undergo season-ending shoulder surgery, he ended his reign as Oklahoma's premier passer and entered the 2010 NFL draft. Now the only question remains is how much his decision to play one more year of college has cost him in in the draft and cash.

posted by irunfromclones to football at 02:54 AM on October 27 - 16 comments

Nascar graduates from Dukes of Hazzard to Days of Our Lives: Or maybe that's As The Wheel Turns? It's a story ripped from the headlines, famous people, infamous drugs, and a mysterious murder by suicide... It's mayfield vs Mayfield.

posted by irunfromclones to auto racing at 06:50 PM on September 09 - 4 comments

Coach's trial raises questions about heat deaths: After two-plus hours of practice in 94 degrees, 26 percent humidity weather, Pleasure Ridge Park football coach David Jason Stinson had seen enough of players "goofing off". The fix? Running 200 yard "gassers" until a player collapses and dies.

posted by irunfromclones to football at 01:40 PM on September 03 - 5 comments

Pacman close to deal to play in CFL: 26 years old and already a "has been", Jones will head north in the hope that the CFL will have fewer restrictions on his night clubbing lifestyle.

posted by irunfromclones to football at 12:54 PM on September 01 - 17 comments

Memphis to vacate Final Four season: Memphis comes up smelling like a Rose, Derrick Rose. Memphis will be forced to vacate the record 38 victories from its Final Four season of 2007-08 under former coach John Calipari because of NCAA violations, The Commercial Appeal reported.

posted by irunfromclones to basketball at 02:59 PM on August 20 - 15 comments

Recent Comments

Lincecum Wins NL Cy Young

Anyone know if a pair of starting pitchers from the same team has gotten a higher vote total than Carp and Waino did this year?

See grum above. But is there another starting pitcher that probably got high after the vote?

posted by irunfromclones at 03:53 PM on November 20

SportsFilter: The Wednesday Huddle

Bahraini middle-distance runner Rashid Ramzi was stripped of his 1,500-meter Olympic gold medal Wednesday and four other athletes were disqualified because of doping at the Beijing Games.

posted by irunfromclones at 12:48 PM on November 18

Bills Fire Head Coach Dick Jauron

Steve Spagnuolo is 1-8 with no relief in sight. Is he on the block?

posted by irunfromclones at 05:24 PM on November 17

Bills Fire Head Coach Dick Jauron

Is this the first rock in a landslide that will sweep Eric Mangini and Tom Cable to the exit door too?

Now that the ice has been broken so to speak, it might be easier for the Browns and Big Al to dump their coaching nightmares.

posted by irunfromclones at 03:59 PM on November 17

SportsFilter: The Tuesday Huddle

I can't remember a throw that inaccurate/bad from any game this season

Then you evidently have not been watching Alex Smith.

posted by irunfromclones at 02:43 PM on November 17

Supreme Court Refuses to Take Redskins Case

so-called "native Americans" (a term which is, itself, misleading and misdecriptive)

false paternalism so often involved in these sorts of issues

Not that you are rare, but you don't expect to find such a highly educated and refined racist. But then again, just look at how the British thought of the wogs in their empire.

Not that it will dent your racist reasoning, but since the American Indians have a deep and abiding distrust of whites in general and the government in particular, few if any would give an honest answer to such a survey or indeed respond to it at all. The results are scarcely the barometer of American Indian views that you want to believe it is.

I note also that racists always bring up the U of F's Seminoles as an example of how American Indians are ok with how they are "honored" or portrayed by whites. The image is not the type of rude caricature as used by the Cleveland Indians, nor is the mascot. The university negotiated to gain agreement for use of the name with the Seminole Tribe of Florida. The Seminoles officially approved the relationship and details of the images and costumes before they could be used.

I can excuse to some extent the rednecked, beer bellied, mullet headed, gap toothed, wife beater shirt wearing racists due to their lack of education. But it's apparent that in your case a higher education merely allows you to express your racist views in a more eloquent fashion than most.

posted by irunfromclones at 02:08 PM on November 17

Titans Owner Bud Adams Flips Off the Bills

shouldn't an owner get hit with a 6-figure fine?

Funny you should ask-

Goodell fines Titans owner $250,000 for gesture

posted by irunfromclones at 08:15 PM on November 16

Titans Owner Bud Adams Flips Off the Bills

I'm sure that what he meant was that they were number 1.

posted by irunfromclones at 08:04 PM on November 16

Supreme Court Refuses to Take Redskins Case

I wonder why all of the civil rights and celebrity activists are so silent on this subject.

posted by irunfromclones at 05:34 PM on November 16

German MNT keeper Enke in apparent suicide

I have an excellent understanding of depression from personal experience as a result of certain life and military experiences. And while I never actually attempted suicide, it was close enough for a smart, perceptive family doctor who listened to bring in a therapist who put me on prozac for 18 months.

When I sat there seriously considering ending my own life and the best way to do it, I thought of my wife and children, and how sad and traumatized they would be whichever way I did it. And I stepped back from the edge that day and damn glad I did.

I once heard someone say that suicide is the biggest "fuck you" to your family and friends. I agree.

posted by irunfromclones at 04:30 PM on November 11

German MNT keeper Enke in apparent suicide

I follow that Drood. If it had been an accident, cancer, heart failure, drowned in beer, hey no problem he gets the .

Punching your own ticket? You don't pass Go, you don't collect 200 bucks, and you don't get the .

posted by irunfromclones at 02:47 AM on November 11

Allen Iverson Leaves Grizzlies

What team needs that?

My Golden State Warriors.

posted by irunfromclones at 09:27 PM on November 10

Mark Cuban says he'd be interested in buying the Dodgers.

Buy the Gigantes. This ownership by committee and each owner taking a turn at GM is just insane.

posted by irunfromclones at 05:37 PM on November 10

Larry Johnson Released by the Kansas City Chiefs

"often angry and sullen, he was dogged by controversy and frequently at odds with coaches and fans"

Sounds like the Barry Bonds of football. I don't know this guy's story, so I don't know what reasons he might have for being angry and sullen often. But you might think that being rich and famous would alleviate that just a tiny bit.

With the lower tolerance in the league for this sort of behavior and at his age, he might have tantrumed himself into retirement.

posted by irunfromclones at 12:41 PM on November 09

17 Congressmen Vote Against Yankees Resolution

Does Congress pass a resolution for every team that wins the World Series?

posted by irunfromclones at 04:03 PM on November 08