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TheQatarian has posted 28 links and 290 comments to SportsFilter and 0 links and 0 comments to the Locker Room and 3 columns.
Agassi Admits Crystal Meth Use in New Book: Andre Agassi admits in his upcoming autobiography to using crystal meth in 1997, which -- probably not coincidentally -- was the year he fell to 141st in the world rankings.
posted by TheQatarian to tennis at 09:46 PM on October 27 - 13 comments
The Tormentor: Does every major sports city have another city that exists simply to torment them?
posted by TheQatarian to general at 10:24 PM on October 06 - 4 comments
The Tormentor: Does every major sports city have another city that is simply there to torment them?
posted by TheQatarian to at 10:23 PM on October 06 - 2 comments
Williams Sisters Join Dolphins' Ownership: In an apparent attempt to have more owners than players, the Dolphins add two more owners, joining Gloria Estefan, Jimmy Buffett and Marc Anthony.
posted by TheQatarian to football at 10:43 AM on August 20 - 9 comments
One Area Where Hockey Has It Right: The NBA Draft should take a page from the NHL, says New York Daily News writer Elliot Olshansky.
posted by TheQatarian to basketball at 10:25 AM on June 23 - 4 comments
Cheap move by Spikes, and a pretty spineless punishment by Meyer. At the very least he should be suspended for an entire game, and I'd say more. They're playing Vanderbilt, so it's not like they desperately need him. (No offense to any Commodore fans.)
Something tells me the SEC will add to the punishment.
posted by TheQatarian at 08:13 PM on November 02
Maybe this is just because I'm a Minnesotan, but given the hotbed of political correctness that most college campuses are these days, you'd think the student body would demand correcting that already. (This is one of the rare cases where I actually agree with the PC crowd.)
posted by TheQatarian at 04:24 PM on October 28
On one hand, one cannot blackball Acta from managing ever again just because he had to try to get something out of the hellhole that is the Washington Nationals franchise. On the other, how he can possibly be the best the Indians could do, I have no idea.
posted by TheQatarian at 07:37 PM on October 25
To answer the question, it's probably because the season is a loss by now, and putting in what would clearly just be an interim coach would be pointless. If it were an interim coach who might be auditioning for the job (e.g. Mike Singletary last season), that would be one thing, but Snyder clearly wants a big-name guy, and none of them are going to be willing to take over mid-season. So you can lose with Zorn or lose with someone else...might as well just stick with the loser you already have.
posted by TheQatarian at 08:48 PM on October 19
As a Twins fan, I'm not cursing out Phil Cuzzi like many others. Aside from Nathan's blown save and failing to get a run across with the bases loaded and no one out in the 11th, I can also totally understand how Cuzzi missed that call. The left fielder was coming right in toward the line, and he was probably closer to the play than was beneficial. Had it been a regular season game and had Cuzzi been the third base umpire, I'd bet he gets that call right.
Which leads to another reason I favor replay in the postseason: Umpires are going to make mistakes, but such a system would likely save them a lot of grief. Cuzzi wouldn't have to spend a minute fretting over his mistake as he did on Friday night. Then we don't have to listen to calls for umpires' heads and they can mostly go about just being anonymous arbiters of the game.
However, C.B. Bucknor is a whole category unto himself as far as being an awful umpire. Replay isn't going to save that idiot from my wrath or anyone else's.
posted by TheQatarian at 05:30 PM on October 11
I'm all for replay in the playoffs, but I can live without it in the regular season. The playoff games are too critical, and you've got to get the calls right if at all possible. And I really don't buy this "human element is part of the game" crap. If you can get it right, then get it right. Give the manager a red flag just like the NFL has for head coaches, and review the critical calls. Would it really take any longer than it takes when the manager comes out and yells at the umpires for blowing a call? I'm pretty sure the only reason Gardy didn't come out and blow a gasket is that he couldn't see it from his angle.
posted by TheQatarian at 12:34 PM on October 11
If it's in the rules, you have to enforce it, but I think there is a perfectly valid call to change the rules for future races. That rule is about as out-of-date as the golf scorecard.
posted by TheQatarian at 02:26 PM on October 08
I questioned the Hoser's pick of Green Bay as his lock when the Bengals seemed like a much better sure thing to kill the Browns. Shows what I know. Greanted, I was right that Green Bay was a questionable lock, but I chose no better.
posted by TheQatarian at 04:04 PM on October 07
My apologies if I'm breaking any rules by posting a column I just wrote. The last column I wrote never got posted, and it kinda lost relevance. This one is sort of a redo of one I wrote in 2006, but with more details and stuff.
posted by TheQatarian at 10:25 PM on October 06
We've got about 4 weeks until Favre comes back to Lambeau and this whole thing starts over again. And if the Vikings beat the Rams next week (and they really ought to), we'll hear about how it is Favre's first 5-0 start in his career. It won't end. The fact that he is now on my favorite team doesn't make me any less sick of the media's worship of him. When I watch, I turn the TV sound down and listen to the radio broadcast, partly because Paul Allen is awesome, but also because the TV guys just can't help but join in the Favre worship. Last week, for example, the final play was the TV guys going on and on about Favre, and glossing over what an awesome catch it was by Greg Lewis.
To be fair, I do like that he helps the Vikings win games, though I hope he doesn't repeat his usual playoff performance.
posted by TheQatarian at 01:10 PM on October 06
Amazingly, Gardy has never won Manager of the Year. And Scioscia will probably get it this year because of the Adenhart tragedy, even though his team has way more talent than the Twins do.
I thought 2006 was the year Gardy should have won it, but some people in the media got horribly confused. Leyland won MotY, and Terry Ryan of the Twins won Executive of the Year. Why Ryan got that award given that the two big acquisitions of the offseason were Rondell White (who stunk) and Tony Batista (who was even worse to the point that he got cut midseason), I'll never know. Likewise, Leyland managed the Tigers to a 10.5-game lead over the Twins at the All-Star Break (the White Sox were between them at the time), but Gardenhire's team surged while Leyland's team choked away the division on the last weekend of the season, although they did make the playoffs (and eventually the World Series). It should have been Dave Dombrowski of the Tigers who got the executive award (he had several big free agent signings that led them to the World Series that year) and Gardenhire who won MotY, not the other way around.
But I digress. Cabrera may be sober, but he has to stop fighting his wife. Twins win this one, because Minny always beats Detroit.
posted by TheQatarian at 03:42 PM on October 05
I thought of that, too, but if the Tigers had lost yesterday, they wouldn't be playing tomorrow. You have to treat every game as sudden-death at that point, and worry about the next game when you get to it.
posted by TheQatarian at 02:00 PM on October 05
I would like to be the first to wish the Detroit Tigers the best of luck...in finding a hotel that isn't full of media people covering tonight's football game.
Right now, nothing seems to be working in Detroit's favor. Aside from the logistics, the Twins have the home-field advantage, the winning momentum, and a favorable pitching matchup.
Not to mention this bit of history. (The proper formatting got lost among server changeovers, but the Minnesota-Detroit history is in there.)
posted by TheQatarian at 10:38 AM on October 05
Not to toot my own horn -- well, OK, perhaps I am -- but I may very well have predicted the Tigers' collapse against the Twins given this column I wrote back in 2006. Minny owns Detroit, I tell you.
posted by TheQatarian at 08:57 AM on October 04
High School Refs: All Celebrations are Unsportsmanlike
I've noted in enough threads how sick I am of celebration penalties. It doesn't hurt anyone, and it doesn't give either team an advantage, so it shouldn't be a penalty. That said, I'm fine with penalizing "taunting" or clearly pre-meditated showboating at this level, but I'm completely against penalites for "being happy", which it sounds like is what is happening here.