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JKidd says he won't stay with the Nets ... unless they dump coach Byron Scott. Sounds like he wants to stay in Jersey, though. Maybe he doesn't give San Antonio much of a shot against the retooled Lakers, either...
posted on July 10, 2003 - Go to the detail view for this result
Yankee dominance is not what's hurting baseball. In fact, having the Yankees on top has traditionally been good for baseball. Allen Barra explains why the Bronx Bombers, ballooning payroll and all, aren't to blame for baseball's woes after all.
posted on August 06, 2002 - Go to the detail view for this result
USA Today ranks the Ten Hardest Things to do in Sports. Do you agree? What's missing? Bull Riding?
Tell you what though. I sure agree with #1!
And yes, Soccer got mad props! (Flash)
posted by vito90 at 10:58 AM on March 10
Uh, about those playoff rules...we've changed them. David Stern announced that the NBA has decided to expand its first round of playoffs from a best-of-five to a best-of-seven series starting this season. Doesn't it seem odd for a league to change the format for determining its champion in the middle of the season?
posted by herc at 01:51 PM on February 10
It's basically just greedy -- they all want the money from the extra games. I'm not sure the playoffs aren't too long already; you can almost always count on each team to get blown out in at least one game of each series, because it's basically impossible to maintain that much-vaunted "playoff intensity" the whole way through. Take out those blowouts and you basically have a 5-game series anyway -- just with a smaller take at the gate. In other words, the fans lose out, in the long run, from longer series. We're the ones that have to pay to watch the crappy play that results, while the owners and players get pretty much the same take no matter how poor the games are (in the playoffs, at least).
posted at 12:11 AM on February 10
Heart-stopping entertainment. A recently published report has shown that that penalty shoot-outs in important football (like, with the feet, dude ;-) matches cause people to have heart attacks. The researchers have therefore suggested that penalty shoot-outs be removed from the beautiful game. Noooo!
posted by BigCalm at 05:02 AM on December 24
i suppose you would take away everyone's freedom to do ANYTHING remotely dangerous... Starfucker, can you read? Here, for example. What I said was:
I'm not talking about banning anything or protecting anyone. I'm talking about deciding what's the right thing to do.The various soccer organizations are free to decide what they think is best. That doesn't mean that whatever they happen to decide is necessarily the best thing to do, however.
posted at 10:27 AM on December 24
Heart-stopping entertainment. A recently published report has shown that that penalty shoot-outs in important football (like, with the feet, dude ;-) matches cause people to have heart attacks. The researchers have therefore suggested that penalty shoot-outs be removed from the beautiful game. Noooo!
posted by BigCalm at 05:02 AM on December 20
Oh, great, the all-caps argument. I tremble before your mighty display of incontrevertible genius and cutting wit, StarFucked. I'm not talking about banning anything or protecting anyone. I'm talking about deciding what's the right thing to do. On the one hand you have an entertainment, an activity people are paid to do so the people who pay them can make money. On the other hand you have the people they make the money off of. Now what you all are saying is, the fucks who make the money shouldn't care if it so happens they're going to kill some of the fucks whose money they take, because... because those other poor fucks just don't know better? Brilliant. You obviously have a profound and subtle understanding of morality.
posted at 03:07 PM on December 20
Heart-stopping entertainment. A recently published report has shown that that penalty shoot-outs in important football (like, with the feet, dude ;-) matches cause people to have heart attacks. The researchers have therefore suggested that penalty shoot-outs be removed from the beautiful game. Noooo!
posted by BigCalm at 05:02 AM on December 20
So y'all are saying that whether or not people will die because of them should have no bearing on what the rules of an activity should be? I don't get it. If it were up to me, and I knew shootouts were going to kill people, I'd change the rule as soon as I could come up with a better alternative. What's there to think about? Do you actually believe that because other people will fail to take care of themselves you're somehow excused from considering that your decisions might harm them?
posted at 02:08 PM on December 20
"We choked, just flat-out choked." The Dallas Mavericks blow a 30-point lead to the Lakers.
posted by kirkaracha at 11:42 AM on December 07
I happened to catch this (couldn't sleep), and it was pretty ridiculous. The Lakers were hitting their shots -- but, aside from a couple crazy plays by Kobe, they were wide open. The Mavs just stopped playing defense. And, so many of their points earlier in the game having come off of missed shots on the other end, their offense dried up at the same time.
posted at 10:29 PM on December 07
Completely Snookered. The University of Alabama's Dennis Franchione will accept a deal for $10-11 million to become Texas A&M's football coach, while RC Slocum will move to a 'special advising' position. This is a smart move, considering Alabama is scandal plagued and under probation. However, what is causing a major meltdown among Alabama fans is that while Fran preaches Loyalty, Accountabilty, and Trust to his players (who all decided not to tranfer after probation hit, although given the option to); he lied for the last few weeks about "signing the Alabama contract as soon as the season was over" and explicitly denied A&M rumors. The administration, asst. coaches, and players believed him until he boarded a one-way plane today. Insider sites have multiple reports from the players that Fran did not (and has still not) address the team before leaving, and were broken the news by the Co-ordinators this afternoon. Current (weak) rumors have players going through the athletic complex and tearing down all pictures of Fran.
posted by Stan Chin at 08:38 PM on December 05
Career decisions are a thing you just have to be greedy about -- i.e., you have to think of yourself first. It's the only way to make them; you can't live your life to make other people happy instead of yourself. But there's no excuse for lying to the community that's supported you and helped you succeed. And leaving without facing -- and acknowledging, not to mention thanking -- the people you've abandoned is cowardly, and disgusting. Fucking prick.
posted at 11:01 PM on December 05
Area Man Thinking Up Funny Things To Say For Next Football Game "Kordell Stewart may end up starting at quarterback, and I've pretty much run through every Kordell joke in the book over the years," said Patek, poring over the USA Today sports page. "Do I joke about how he could get yanked in favor of a guy with a concussion and spinal-cord injury? I could, but I'd have to be careful."
posted by owillis at 10:10 AM on December 05
Popular Humor Publication Wrings Out Yet More Tired Prose Derived From Mildly Witty Headline "It's not that we don't try to invent anything original," said Shrumlinger. "Well, actually, maybe it is that. I mean, if everybody loves you for mimicking newspaper prose over and over again, why shouldn't you mimick newspaper prose over and over again? We want to be loved, too, you know."
posted at 05:16 PM on December 05
“We’re attempting to find skates and equipment to fit him.” Tallest-basketball-player-ever Manute Bol is going to be playing hockey with the Indianapolis Ice of the Central Hockey League. Why not, after his recent defeat of William “The Refrigerator” Perry in Celebrity Boxing.
posted by kirkaracha at 08:01 AM on November 13
(More on Bol here. The interview gets interesting about halfway down, when Bol himself speaks, describing the situation in the Sudan, and also why he did that boxing match. ("That money is not going to my pocket. If it was going to my pocket, I would say yeah, you know, it's bad to do that, you know."))
posted at 02:03 PM on November 13
“We’re attempting to find skates and equipment to fit him.” Tallest-basketball-player-ever Manute Bol is going to be playing hockey with the Indianapolis Ice of the Central Hockey League. Why not, after his recent defeat of William “The Refrigerator” Perry in Celebrity Boxing.
posted by kirkaracha at 08:01 AM on November 13
This says it all about the guy:
Bol recently took part in Fox TV's Celebrity Boxing show and beat former football player William "The Refrigerator'' Perry in a bout. Bol agreed to take part, so long as Fox agreed to air a toll-free number for the Ring True Foundation, a West Hartford-based charity he set up to benefit southern Sudanese children. He donated his $35,000 purse from the boxing match to the group.He's got his priorities -- and his heart -- in the right place. Who the fuck cares what other people think, when you're doing good things.
posted at 10:31 AM on November 13
Yao-ch! Life in the NBA begins for Yao Ming. 11 minutes of playing time. 0 points. 2 rebounds. Pacers win! And it seems that The Quick is working out nicely (if you can judge a new offense by one game). Any other NBA reports?
posted by jacknose at 10:26 AM on October 31
He was outed by ABC I believe you mean ousted. Marv's the one what dresses funny.
posted at 03:50 PM on October 31
Congratulations, Anaheim Angels, 2002 World Champions!
Much like my own New England Patriots this January, the Angels completed an Impossible Dream season by downing the Giants 4-1 in the deciding Game 7 of the World Series to win their first ever World Series. The Angels have shocked the world by not only beating out the heavily favored M's in the AL West this season, but going further than anyone outside of the Anaheim thought possible.
The Giants had the championship in their grasp last night, but let it slip away needing only 6 outs to take the crown. After that heartbreak on Saturday, they never really showed up to play tonight, and it's a shame the Big Guy didn't get a ring in what was probably his best and only chance to get that elusive championship- although he should have put to rest any doubts about his ability to perform on the biggest stage.
posted by Hal Incandenza at 10:19 PM on October 28
I wonder if it was a good idea to bring the little kids into the dugout for the World Series -- they probably felt a lot of pressure. There was that whole thing about the Giants being undefeated (until game 6, at least) when Baker's kid was a bat boy; I wonder if, when they did lose, he felt like it was because of him. Baseball players are superstitious and all, but maybe they should keep their kids out of it.
posted at 10:34 AM on October 28
Ripken's streak is the most memorable moment in baseball history? It is, according to us fans. Does anyone else find it hard to believe that 'the shot heard 'round the world' didn't make the list?
posted by oliver_crunk at 07:43 PM on October 24
The moment for me was when Ripken hit the home run in his first at bat in the game he broke the record. I'm with you there. (Though, obviously, I'd forgot about that home run. Must've been blinded by my rage against MLB....) Gibson's homer is also my strongest memory. That was just absurd -- the cripple coming back to save the day for the underdog, in the most dramatic of all possible plays. Crazy stuff.
posted at 10:58 AM on October 24
Ripken's streak is the most memorable moment in baseball history? It is, according to us fans. Does anyone else find it hard to believe that 'the shot heard 'round the world' didn't make the list?
posted by oliver_crunk at 07:43 PM on October 23
I saw that. I was like, Wait a second -- that's a "moment"? And it's "memorable"? I don't think I can remember a single hit Ripken got.
posted at 10:19 PM on October 23
Have you seen this yet? ... Have you seen this yet? Apparently being on the cover of Sports Illustrated leads to bad things for a lot of athletes. I'm hoping either Eric Lindros or Barry Bonds are on the cover next. And maybe my first grade teacher Mrs. Seminara for some reason. (Link horked from Puckupdate.com)
posted by Samsonov14 at 10:25 AM on October 22
I know. I mean, there's no other possible explanation for how the Skins could lose!
posted at 10:29 PM on October 22
These are all completely meaningless comparisons -- it doesn't mean anything to say one of these is "harder" than the others. The fact is, in order to do any of them, you need to have exceptional physical ability, and you need to train like hell. The only way you could have a meaningful comparison is if you could somehow define a norm for athletic ability, and see how much a person with "normal" athletic ability had to train to do any of them. But you can't. Athletic ability tends to be specialized -- a world-class [sport1ist] is likely to be an average at best [sport2ist], no matter how hard he/she trains. So, whatever -- you can pick whichever one you want, and say it's the hardest; you'll be just as right no matter which one it is.