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Home sweet home: LSU tops OSU in BCS Championship LSU rolled to a 38-24 win over the Ohio State Buckeyes to claim its second national title in five seasons.
posted by Folkways at 08:25 AM on January 08
The German World Cup Baby Boom. Last summer's mix of sun, beer and excitement during the football World Cup appears to have produced a massive hormone rush in German bedrooms, gardens and back alleys.
posted by Ufez Jones at 09:58 AM on February 22
Those fucking Germans! As for the post-handball boom, wouldn't that just lead to a bunch of handjobs?
posted at 10:24 AM on February 22
Alabama has fired Coach Shula Crimson Tide, 10-2 last year, this year they're 6-6. Does he deserve being fired?
posted by texasred at 08:43 AM on November 28
It's Bear hunting season again!
posted at 08:51 AM on November 28
Torquay United to pull plug on divers "British Football has the opportunity to take a lead in resolving this major issue which is tarnishing our Sport and marred the World Cup Finals in Germany 2006." “58% of the players who were treated on the pitch during the 2006 World Cup eventually turned out not to be injured.”
posted by Texan_lost_in_NY at 11:32 AM on November 21
Here's a thought - post-game review of questionable injuries and dives by EPL, FIFA, or appropriate governing body with issuance of yellow cards & fines for guilty players and teams. With the prospect of carrying a card into the next match, it might be a way to discourage this behavior without disrupting the flow of play during a match.
posted at 05:33 PM on November 21
US Stumbles Out of the Gates The United States soccer team has a dissapointing World Cup opener, losing 0-3 against the Czech Republic.
posted by NightingalesGone at 05:09 PM on June 13
My question is why nobody is questioning Arena's lineup - move Beasley to the right to accommodate Convey on the left, Donovan to forward, Mastroeni to midfield? Did all this gerrymandering have anything to do with the obvious mental discombobulation apparent in the team? The loss of Heyduk at right back didn't help. In any event, the degree of improvement necessary to even compete against Italy is so enormous I personally can't imagine it occurring in 5 days. The US were so bad at the very fundamentals of the game that a discussion of tactics, creativity, etc. is virtually irrelevant. What a dissapointment - 3 & out; wait until 2010! Am I a realist or simply defeatist?
posted at 09:14 AM on June 13
Two points I would like to, well, point out: 1. How can the NCAA argue against a 16-team football playoff when every other division of the same sport successfully undertakes a 16-team playoff? The model is in place and it's their model. Conferences with championships should have their teams limited to 11 regular season games. Therefore, 2 teams would play 15 or 16 games, 4 would play 14 or 15, every other team would play no more than under the current system. Side note - if they still want a gazillion bowls, let the non-playoff teams continue to bowl away. Those bowls surely cannot be any less meaningful than they currently are. 2. LSU beat the #1, #3, #12, #16, & #23 ranked teams in the BCS poll(12/2/07); #6, #10, #11, #13, & #14 in the final Coaches poll, and #5, #9, #12, #13, & #15 in the final AP. The 2 teams they lost to, both in triple O/T, received Coaches & AP votes and were bowl participants. I'm not sure if any of the other reasonable candidates for the championship game can claim a similar resume for the season. I don't have the time to compile the same statistics for each of the other candidate teams, but it would be interesting to see what those results are.