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Trying their best to win at losing: Eight badminton players face disciplinary hearings for "not using one's best efforts to win a match" after two Olympic women's doubles matches where both pairs were very obviously playing to lose their final group matches in order to secure a better draw in the knockout round. This is the first Olympic tournament that's not been a pure knockout competition; it may be the last.
posted by etagloh to olympics at 01:53 AM on August 01 - 32 comments
"In the white spaces. I think about the silence at Lord's, and I understand. Test cricket is different from the rest of the world because it was designed to be." : Having travelled to India for the World Cup (as mentioned here), Wright Thompson visits the home of cricket and meditates on the nature of the Test match.
posted by etagloh to other at 07:18 PM on December 27 - 9 comments
Dan Wheldon Dies in 15-Car Crash at Las Vegas: Dan Wheldon died Sunday from injuries suffered in a 15-car wreck during lap 13 of an IndyCar race in Las Vegas. He was 33. Wheldon won this year's Indianapolis 500. "I've never seen anything like it," driver Ryan Briscoe said of the crash. "The debris we all had to drive through the lap later, it looked like a war scene from Terminator or something."
posted by etagloh to auto racing at 06:29 PM on October 16 - 28 comments
Argentine Soccer Giants Relegated: For the first time in their storied 110-year history, the Argentine soccer team River Plate has been relegated from the country's top division. They lost a promotion-relegation playoff against Belgrano de Cordoba in Buenos Aires. Despite the presence of 2,200 police at the match, violence erupted in the stands and spread into the streets, leaving 68 people injured, 50 arrested and 15 vehicles destroyed. The 3,000 traveling Cordoba fans were not able to leave the stadium for two hours.
posted by etagloh to soccer at 09:00 AM on June 27 - 3 comments
“He plays like a child enjoying the pasture, playing for the pleasure of playing, not the duty of winning.": That's the Uruguayan novelist Eduardo Galeano on Lionel Messi, who receives a long profile from the New York Times in advance of next Saturday's Champions League final.
posted by etagloh to soccer at 01:50 AM on May 22 - 7 comments
Appointing Moyes in his place removes both the first and third on the list of the Premier League's longest-surviving managers. Wenger goes top with 17 years, but there really aren't many managers with any longevity beneath him.
It feels like the appropriate choice, although it'll be a heartbreaker for Everton fans. Heck, I have friends who are Preston fans who still pined his move to Goodison back in 2002.
The Fergie Era warped time and space. Eric Cantona retired in 1997. I bet there are players on United's books now who weren't born then.
posted by etagloh at 11:19 PM on May 08
NBC should give up on the Premiership and just show the Championship - it's vastly more interesting.
I'm pretty sure it's the most competitive league division in Europe, in part because the competition is so desperate. As Mr B notes, a couple of months of bad results can take you from the top to the drop.
Right now, it's better to spread your ownership across Europe and take advantage of the looser loan classification, and adjust your squads based upon who's best set at mid-season. But how long, I wonder, before league rules are changed so that Premier League club owners can also have stakes in lower-league teams and use them as de facto reserve sides?
posted by etagloh at 01:19 PM on May 06
Will the quality of the game deteriorate?
Does that matter? Colleges still pack their stadiums and get massive TV deals. But by extension, does that change the calculation about the value of a college scholarship?
posted by etagloh at 11:12 PM on April 24
Man Utd clinch the title; RvP probably clinches goal of the season.
posted by etagloh at 07:02 PM on April 22
The Masters should move the green jacket ceremony outdoors so the fans at the tournament could share in the moment.
Yeah, right. If the Augusta National could keep the spectators out on the surrounding roads and still take their money, they'd do that instead.
posted by etagloh at 12:59 AM on April 15
This would seem to suggest that the rules are either very complicated, not well explained, or simply so numerous that it's hard to keep track of all of them.
Golf: the US tax code of sports.
posted by etagloh at 12:17 AM on April 14
Thatcher was inclined to support the "membership" scheme that would have forced football fans to carry special ID cards. Hillsborough changed all that; the families still want to know her precise role in the govt/police/press nexus that blamed that disaster on supporters.
posted by etagloh at 03:48 PM on April 08
101GreatGoals, better known for its not-quite-kosher goal videos, has a piece on the relationship between Liverpool FC and Margaret Thatcher.
No minute's silence in Manchester tonight for United vs City, either.
posted by etagloh at 01:35 PM on April 08
Why Rugby League is looking more like the NFL
That's one reason why I've tired of RL over the past few years, especially in its antipodean incarnation. If you look at the clips of Eddie Waring commentating on Wakefield vs Hull Kingston Rovers, you'll see a very different game from NRL.
posted by etagloh at 01:23 PM on April 08
It's a matter of degrees - $50-100,000 a year in tuition, room and board might seem like a lot except when you look at the sheer volume of revenue being generated by their activity.
"Shaq is rich. The white man who signs his check is wealthy."
The system persists because enough people first and foremost enjoy the myth of the true amateur, the scholar-athlete, and the transformative coach; as a result, they accept the "traditional answer" about scholarships because that perpetuates the myth. The mythology precedes the rationalisation, as it has done throughout the history of formalised amateurism in sport.
posted by etagloh at 12:32 AM on April 03
Bit snowy in Denver, then. Twitter collectively noted that the Nike hi-vis ball did not exactly live up to its name.
posted by etagloh at 02:18 AM on March 23
"A dingo ate my homework!" The cricketing bit of Twitter has been laughing about this all day. I especially liked the wag who said that Ed Cowan's submission had footnotes and a bibliography.
On the other side of the argument, Brydon Coverdale makes the case that the players deserve their fate. But it still feels like pretty ropey sports psychology.
posted by etagloh at 09:06 PM on March 11
And for those interested in the sharp-toothed pitch invader, it was a Beech Marten, which is significantly larger than your average mustelid. They apparently have a reputation in Germany for eating cars -- specifically, hoses and other rubber/plastic bits.
posted by etagloh at 04:52 PM on March 11
NASCAR is busily pulling fan videos of the crash that were uploaded to YouTube; they have a copyright claim on fan footage as part of the conditions of entry, but it comes across as knee-jerk suppression of a news event, not a sporting event. ESPN apparently didn't do any of its own reporting at the end of the race, and instead interviewed drivers about the race while "waiting for word from NASCAR."
posted by etagloh at 07:39 PM on February 23
SportsFilter: The Thursday Huddle
The story behind the bloody Champions League tune.