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Clemson Fires Tommy Bowden In a season where some Clemson fans saw their "sky-high expectations" vanish in a 3-3 start the school fired Head Coach Tommy Bowden after 10 years. Just last December, Bowden got a $500,000 raise to a yearly salary of $1.8 million. He has a $4 million buyout. "It's what he deserved," senior quarterback Cullen Harper told ESPN.
posted by rcade at 02:47 PM on October 13
Video Shows Coach Shoving Young Player. He(coach) says that action viewed on videotape was justified by some of the events that happened during the game.
posted by BoKnows at 07:51 PM on October 07
While the coach should absolutely have known better than to shove a kid.... reading the comments below the story posted by those who were at the game puts the incident in a slightly different light. Not only was the victim's team apparently behaving poorly during the game BUT the child himself was purportedly using the "shake-line" to punch opposing players in the stomach as they went by. I can only assume the coach saw this and decided to give the kid a bit of his own medicine. Again - NOT the proper solution, by any means. However, it makes more sense than the unprovoked "attack on a minor" that Wesley's dad is making this out to be. Too bad the other team's videographer didn't catch young Wesley's transgressions on their film.
posted at 10:13 AM on October 07
Fukudome doesn't find racist T-shirts in Wrigleyville funny A Fukudome T-shirt with a racist image is the hottest-selling item at a souvenir stand that sells unlicensed Cubs-related merchandise across Addison Street from the ballpark.......... The Cubs front office was flooded with angry emails from fans in response to a Sun-Times story about a controversial T-shirt being sold outside of Wrigley Field. The ballclub does the right thing (update inside) after the uproar, for those of you who feel we've licked the problem of Racism in America, Guess Again!
posted by skydivedad at 10:43 AM on April 21
Just a question... Did Harry Caray say "Holy Cow!" too (That is what the letters on that shirt attempt to spell, right?) ... I always associate that with the Scooter. Must be my East Coast bias. ;-)
posted at 07:34 AM on April 21
Are You Smarter Than a Tenth Grader?
posted by justgary at 01:45 PM on March 06
6 out of 7 here... I always thought if a runner was hit by the batted ball he was out. Maybe the fact that the first baseman was in postition to make the play, but didn't, changes that. Sort of like the infield fly rule, I guess.
posted at 08:24 AM on March 06
We Tried Baseball and It Didn't Work Excellent example of true geek humor, so of course baseball fans will probably hate this one.
posted by billsaysthis at 10:20 AM on February 07
First of all, the requirements for the game are stupid: it does not scale. They say you need at least nine players on a side. That's stupidly inefficient. The minimum number of players is clearly four: three men on and one batting. That's how we played: four people on a side. Sounds like the late Eddie Feigner...
posted at 11:31 AM on February 07
Tom Brady Wearing Walking Cast The Patriots quarterback was spotted leaving a New York apartment Monday wearing a walking cast on his right foot, as shown in photos and a video on TMZ.Com. Brady's 124 consecutive starts at QB are the third longest streak in NFL history.
posted by rcade at 12:13 AM on January 22
I wondered if anyone else noticed Brady on the bench with his head hung down as if something was bothering him. I thought perhaps the three interceptions he had just thrown was the problem. I noticed that too ... but he was sitting that way even BEFORE the first interception. Also after Gafney's TD he didn't sprint to the endzone to high-5 Jabar but instead merely headed off the field, head-down ... not looking at all healthy. We were thinking he was more than a bit under the weather the entire game.
posted at 06:58 PM on January 22
Ice Bowl is one for the ages The consensus about the Ice Bowl, aka the AMP Energy NHL Winter Classic? It was cool.
posted by bender at 10:35 AM on January 04
Both the Sabres and Penguins wore their throwback uniforms. The light blue uniforms were from the basic color and design Pittsburgh used when they first came into the league in 1967 or so. I figured someone here would know. Thanks, dyams.
posted at 07:44 AM on January 04
Ice Bowl is one for the ages The consensus about the Ice Bowl, aka the AMP Energy NHL Winter Classic? It was cool.
posted by bender at 10:35 AM on January 03
My plan on New Year's Day was to check out the Winter Classic during lulls in football action but, like another poster mentioned, once I tuned in I was hooked ... only turning back to the gridirons (the grass ones that is) between periods or during the various ice cleaning / repair play stoppages. I thought it was great! Just a quick question, however ... what was up with the uniforms? Buffalo going back to white at home I get ... but Pittsburgh in light blue? I have no clue.
posted at 11:40 AM on January 03
Bloody mess: Schilling's sock called into question Gary Thorne, who does play-by-play of Orioles games on the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network (MASN) and has a solid national reputation, having done lots of work for ESPN, brought up the saga of Schilling's bloody sock during last night's telecast.
posted by BornIcon at 06:52 AM on April 26
I also remember watching that game live and wondering two things: 1. If that was real blood, why did it stay bright red for the entire game and not dry up and get that brown-ish color blood turns to after about 10 minutes? and 2. If it stayed red because it was still oozing and fresh, then why didn't the stain get any bigger? Maybe now these questions that bothered me so will finally be answered...
posted at 09:28 AM on April 26
Leave It to Buckner This time, it’s no mistake: Twenty years after The Error, the unforgivable first baseman and his unlikely new friend Mookie Wilson are cashing in on Sox fans’ pain.
posted by justgary at 01:32 AM on October 31
As far as I can tell, I'm the only writer from Boston in this crowd. The year 1986 is not remembered with much fondness by Red Sox fans, Really? Is that so??? Then why on earth did the team celebrate the 1986 pennant winners with a big celebration at Fenway - get this - when the Mets were the opponent?!
posted at 12:37 PM on October 31
Barbaro's hopes fade and Salon wonders if the future of horseracing itself is in doubt.
posted by Fence at 07:53 AM on August 01
That Salon article certainly gives a very different impression than this one from AP...
posted at 04:40 PM on August 01
Remind me not to go hunting with Dick Cheney. USA VP shoots 78-year-old Texas lawyer with shotgun while hunting quail. So many jokes in there I don't know where to start. (The lawyer is doing fine.)
posted by worldcup2002 at 03:23 PM on February 13
Wow... Cheney is into Shakespeare? Who knew...
posted at 09:10 AM on February 13
There is more than one way to eliminate the Yankees. It becomes an issue where kids are devastated when they find out they are on the Yankees. Many kids actually pray they will not be on the Yankees when the rosters and teams are announced. Heh...
posted by justgary at 02:04 PM on February 10
There was a town much closer to Boston than Lowell (whose name unfortunately escapes me at this moment) that also wanted to ban Yankee Little League Teams a while back - but NOT because kids didn't want to be on it ... but because they DID and people were getting upset at all the Yankee hats and other apparel being worn in school and even - GASP - out on the street! "dyams" above had it nailed with this observation: Man, does New England have Yankee paralysis or what? Their every thought with regards to baseball revolves more around the Yankees than it does with the Sox.
posted at 07:52 AM on February 10
Red Sox contact Clemens about 2006 season I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.
posted by wfrazerjr at 09:15 PM on December 12
I really hope the Red Sox sign him. ... It's going to be hilarious seeing how Red Sox fans justify his existence. I think it would be hysterical seeing Sox fans suddnely embrace him once again after going in their minds from "hero" (as a Sox) to "washed-up nobody" (Blue Jays) to "uber-villain" (in pinstripes) to a "non-factor" (as a ~gasp~ National Leaguer) and now he goes back to "hero" ?! Too funny. Truthfully, I really don't see Roger leaving Texas, but hey, stranger things have happened...
posted at 07:28 AM on December 12
Owens apologizes to Eagles coach, QB, Team President and fans but the Eagles won't take him back. I guess this douche realized he was losing money or no one would want him with his shit attitude. Big ups to Eagles managment for not backing down.
posted by HATER 187 at 03:41 PM on November 08
>>>To McNabb, Owens said, "I apologize to him for any comments that may have been negative." MAY have been negative?!! Sheesh... He just doesn't get it, and never will. Kudos to the Eagles for putting him right where he should be - OFF the team.
posted at 03:55 PM on November 08
I've lived this side of the pond for 12 years now. I still don't remotely get the appeal (or point) of college sports.
In my case part of the appeal is I have two kids in college and it is fun to keep track of how their schools are doing. But I also think it is fun to watch. Most college athletes are playing competitively for the last time in their lives as the percentage of them who go on to play at the professional level is very low.
As to the point ... well, it all comes down to money! Athletics, especially in NCAA Division I programs, brings in a lot of $$$$ to the schools ... from TV revenues to alumni donations.