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| Name: | David Naylor |
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| Location: | Iowa |
| Gender: | people say I'm a guy... |
| AIM: | timesofthefire |
| Member since: | August 31, 2005 |
| Last visit: | January 08, 2009 |
boredom_08 has posted 6 links and 68 comments to SportsFilter and 2 links and 41 comments to the Locker Room.
Holyfield, in a shocker.... loses? SI.com's Graham scored the fight at 118-110 to Holyfield, but the judges speak otherwise, giving the win to Valuev by majority decision.
posted on December 20, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
Small Bug Only issue I've noticed recently. In the member pages (my own is the link cited), the old menu appears in the upper right corner, as it was before the remodel. And assumably due to said remodel, all the links but "home", "about", and "locker room" are dead. If this has been hit before, my apologies. And if this is in process, again the apologies. Just thought I'd bring it to light.
posted on October 28, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
Questionable Call Near the end of the Broncos-Chargers game today, there was a very curious call on the fumble/incompletion by Jay Cutler near the end of the game. The play was clearly a fumble by every replay, but because referee Ed Hochuli had blown the play dead, the ball returned to the Broncos at the spot of the fumble instead of going to the Chargers by way of recovering the fumble. The Broncoes went on to score a touchdown, a 2-point conversion, and win the game 39-38.
posted on September 14, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
Curious Thought about NFL Sundays Question for the elders of SF. Has the site ever considered posting a thread for live discussion on Sundays during the NFL season?
posted on September 07, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
Olympic Traitor? Chris Kaman of the Clippers, a US citizen, obtained German citizenship and plays basketball for the German Olympic team in these Olympics. He is three generations removed from his great-grandparents who came here from the motherland. There's some dispute about whether a US citizen playing for another national team is kosher. Opinions?
posted on August 18, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
CD Swap 2009! Anybody ready for a new year of music?
posted by BoKnows at 01:23 PM on January 06
It's 2009. What Resolution Should Your Team/Player Make? What resolution should your favorite (or least favorite) team or athlete make? I can think of many, but I'm sure there are some really good suggestions (not the anatomically impossible kind) out there. Let's hear them, and may 2009 bring health, happiness, and prosperity to SpoFites everywhere. Happy New Year from New Hampshire to all of you.
posted by Howard_T at 12:49 PM on January 01
my faves run like this:
Cardinals (the MLB type, not the NFL type) - make a move this offseason for something. pretty please. starting pitching would be nice.
Lightning (NHL) - try not to finish last in the league, you're really not THAT bad of a team.
Spurs FC - win the Carling Cup, and pick up a couple of wins to get out of the relegation stew.
Ravens - win a game in the playoffs.
hope all of your years are beginning well!
posted at 06:05 PM on January 01
NFL Confidence Pool XLIII Time to dust off the ol' crystal ball (or other object of prognostication) and place your bets. As always, the deadline for making picks is the start of the first playoff game, January 4, 2009 1:00pm ET.
posted by MrFrisby at 07:17 PM on January 01
I'm also in. It's waffle time.
posted at 05:58 PM on January 01
Mark Teixeira is a Yankee. The three top free agents are now members of the Yankees and Manny rumours have started (although, they may stop now). Finally, fans can watch an all-star game played 162 games a season.
posted by dfleming at 05:20 PM on December 24
Just a point, cjets. You're the one who brought the fact of JG being a Red Sox fan into this conversation, which didn't have to happen.
Baseball itself is the big issue here, although I'm thankful that so far, buying the All-Star team hasn't done the Yankees a scrap of good. I simply want to see how the team actually plays and if they, All-Stars that they are, can match up with the reigning AL champions, the Rays, or even with the Red Sox, who weren't exactly shabby last year, if you'll remember. We'll see how it happens in the field, not in the bank.
And by the way, before anyone tries to bring my bias into it, I'm a Cardinals fan, 11th on the list and 14th in average player salary according to the earlier posted CBSSports.com list.
posted at 08:18 PM on December 24
Let's Make NFL Extra Points Interesting
Instead of having allowing the place kicker to kick all extra points in the NFL, imagine if the player who scored the touchdown had to kick the extra point. If the player who scored is injured or completely incapable of making an extra point, then you have to go for two.
posted by pjb3 at 02:34 PM on December 21
That is a novel idea. I wonder what NFL kickers themselves would think about this.
posted at 04:20 PM on December 21
Some NFL stadiums now accepting tattling via text message. Fans in some cities can now text stadium security the location of drunken, rowdy fans.
posted by captaincavegirl at 10:29 AM on December 21
hah, I like the Bengals' text number. That's great. The system is just an invitation for abuse, but I guess it's worth a try.
posted at 04:18 PM on December 21
Holyfield, in a shocker.... loses? SI.com's Graham scored the fight at 118-110 to Holyfield, but the judges speak otherwise, giving the win to Valuev by majority decision.
posted by boredom_08 at 05:57 PM on December 20
Or should I have made this "I will break you! Part 3"?
posted at 06:00 PM on December 20
Happy Thanksgiving to you all Wishing you all the happiest of Thanksgivings.
posted by Monica Poland at 03:56 PM on November 27
Happy Thanksgiving to all as well. I'm certainly thankful for this site, it's a great place.
posted at 10:05 PM on November 27
Pistons get Iverson for Billups, McDyess, Samb It appears the promised shake-up has come to the Pistons. The Pistons are expected to trade guard Chauncey Billups, forward Antonio McDyess and center Cheikh Samb to the Denver Nuggets for guard Allen Iverson, the Free Press has learned.
posted by BornIcon at 01:18 PM on November 03
It'll be strange to see the Pistons without Billups and McDyess, after the years of their runs into the playoffs.
posted at 02:33 PM on November 03
MLB Post-Season Pick 'Em, Final Standings BoKnows plays through the rain and picks up three out of four points for the big win.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 06:00 PM on November 03
Ah, but YYM edged you on the tiebreak, Howard, if it really comes down to it.
And I will definitely take my t-6, as it may be the first time i've remembered to continue posting picks the whole way thru a SpoFi pick'em event.
posted at 01:09 PM on November 03
Small Bug Only issue I've noticed recently. In the member pages (my own is the link cited), the old menu appears in the upper right corner, as it was before the remodel. And assumably due to said remodel, all the links but "home", "about", and "locker room" are dead. If this has been hit before, my apologies. And if this is in process, again the apologies. Just thought I'd bring it to light.
posted by boredom_08 at 03:05 AM on October 28
Sweet deal. It really looks good so far, rcade. Your work on this is awesome.
posted at 12:03 PM on October 28
Small Bug Only issue I've noticed recently. In the member pages (my own is the link cited), the old menu appears in the upper right corner, as it was before the remodel. And assumably due to said remodel, all the links but "home", "about", and "locker room" are dead. If this has been hit before, my apologies. And if this is in process, again the apologies. Just thought I'd bring it to light.
posted by boredom_08 at 03:05 AM on October 28
and by "dead", I mean simply link back to the home page, thru one or two redirects in most cases that I could see.
posted at 03:06 AM on October 28
The Hoser's NFL Picks, Week Eight 2008 NFL picks that miss a good Waffle House smothered 'n' covered breakfast now and again.
posted by wfrazerjr at 04:20 PM on October 28
I'd have to agree with bob that sport and politics don't usually blend well, especially when we get to issues that people such as fraze feel so passionately about, and in my opinion for good reason. An argument like this seems to pop up around at least one team every year, but yet nothing ever changes. I might be remembering wrong, but I believe there was a stink a couple years ago over the Seminoles of Florida State, again as bob mentioned. It's an issue that should continue to be examined, but it seems to merely create bad blood among friends here.
I'd also bring up the point that if animals were intelligent and disagreed with our naming mascots after them, whatever would we do? No mascots ever.
posted at 02:59 AM on October 28
MLB Post-Season Pick 'Em, World Series Edition This is it. There are a bunch of marbles on the table, and the winner gets all of them. Make your picks inside.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 07:02 PM on October 21
Ah, no worries. What's a couple of digits between acquaintances, anyway? All is well.
posted at 03:58 PM on October 21
Favre Accused of Helping Packers Opponent Brett Favre phoned officials of the Detroit Lions prior to their game with the Green Bay Packers and gave an hour-long tutorial on the Packers offense, Fox Sports' Jay Glazer claimed today. If true, it didn't help -- the Pack won 45-28.
posted by rcade at 01:24 PM on October 21
So amaztek, about that whole addiction thing.
To quote this article: "The NFL doctors kept calling. Favre kept ignoring them. Finally, a league doctor called and said Favre had been classified as behavioral-referred instead of self-referred because the Packers' team doctors had contacted the NFL about his addiction to painkillers.
Now, Favre had no choice. He had to report to the Menninger Clinic or he would be fined four weeks' pay, or about $900,000."
Now, I don't know about the rest of you, but I wouldn't really call that "voluntarily going into treatment". Your statement about "NO ONE in the packers organization forcing him to go" is true. They tried, it didn't work, so they called the NFL. Nice try there. Oh, and by the way, why should one not bring the addiction up? It's a part of his life and career just as much as every start, pass, touchdown, and interception he's ever had.
posted at 02:23 PM on October 21
I'll give this thing a whirl. Just dropped you the e-mail, Bo.