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| Name: | Sean Smith |
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| Member since: | June 04, 2002 |
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smithers has posted 41 links and 537 comments to SportsFilter and 24 links and 367 comments to the Locker Room and has written 1 column.
Ask SpoFi: Pitcher-Catcher Signal Systems in Baseball Had a few questions that my Google search didn't quite satisfy, and then realized I was asking in the wrong place....the collected baseball wits of SpoFi would know!
posted on September 10, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
Pistorius makes strides is his quest to compete in Beijing. The double-amputee won his appeal against the IOC in his hearing with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (previous SpoFi discussion on this topic here and here; note Amateur's graphic that suggests how far Oscar still has to go in competition).
posted on May 16, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
Film Fest For those in the Greater Toronto area, the inaugural Canadian Sport Film Festival runs from tomorrow through Saturday, screening a number of features and shorts ranging across a wide number of sports and cultures.
posted on May 13, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
Dakar Rally cancelled by the Amaury Sport Organisation due to security concerns after four French tourists were killed in Mauritania. Have other sporting events of this magnitude been cancelled before due to terrorist threats or other such security concerns?
posted on January 04, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
8-year-olds suspended after hockey brawl in Guelph, Ontario. Criminal charges may be pending against one of the coaches involved.
posted on November 27, 2007 - Go to the detail view for this result
Spofi H2H Basketball Update - Week 3 We finally had some more lopsided results and clearly something is wrong with the game, because Dusted and I are on the losing ends of them. I have contacted Yahoo about finding the issue.
posted by YukonGold at 12:16 PM on November 20
2008 Fantasy Basketball Draft Results Lots of talent still left after twelve rounds and twelve teams.
posted by dusted at 01:46 PM on October 29
Tolbert's Lovechild = smithers
spacemen looking good, though there's so many guys i don't like personally on that team ;)
i predict that dusted sets a record for man-games lost to injury....
posted at 05:21 PM on October 29
Yahoo H2H Fantasy Basketball League ID is: 25642 Password is: spofi
posted by boknows at 02:58 PM on October 02
Tolbert's Lovechild is back for another year...
posted at 03:07 PM on October 02
Ask SpoFi: Pitcher-Catcher Signal Systems in Baseball Had a few questions that my Google search didn't quite satisfy, and then realized I was asking in the wrong place....the collected baseball wits of SpoFi would know!
posted by smithers at 04:06 PM on September 12
For those interested, I have since found a book called The Hidden Language Of Baseball by Paul Dickson. I'm very curious to learn more. Thanks for your feedback, gang.
posted at 10:13 AM on September 12
I needed to make this link dump, for this video I found that was not enough for a FPP. However, I needed to posted it! It is not often my palms sweat, but this did the trick!
posted by jojomfd1 at 07:03 PM on May 07
I think this might have been available for a bit, but the NBA has a Google Earth visualization (.kml file) that shows a whole bunch of things NBA hoops-related. (via Google Earth Blog)
posted at 09:05 AM on May 07
Heisman Winner Tim Tebow Circumcises Kids How did Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Tim Tebow spend his spring break? Performing medical and dental surgeries on impoverished children in the Phillipines -- including circumcisions. "The first time, it was nerve-racking," he said. "Hands were shaking a little bit."
posted by rcade at 06:28 PM on May 06
The Tim Tebows of the world are a refreshing change from the Greg Madduxes of the world.
posted at 07:55 AM on May 06
posted by Ufez Jones at 05:28 PM on April 18
East Boston 4 Detroit 5 Orlando 7 Cleveland 7 LeBron James West LA Lakers 5 Dallas 7 Phoenix 5 Utah 5 Amare Stoudemire
posted at 02:36 PM on April 18
WHAT GIVES, GUYS? Nelson says there's no problem, Davis says very little For Warriors coach Don Nelson, the mind-boggling question everyone wants answered is really a no-brainer. Why didn't he play Baron Davis in the second half of Monday's playoff-elimination game in Phoenix?
posted by BornIcon at 08:05 AM on April 16
Baron Davis is the leader of the Golden State Warriors and their best player. Correct on one of two. While he is their most talented player, it is widely acknowledged that Stephen Jackson is their leader and emotional catalyst. And, as Davis' agent points out in the article, no other team has the cap room to match what Davis is guaranteed in his player option for 08-09 with the Warriors. So he likely isn't going anywhere.
posted at 11:13 AM on April 16
"Tech doping"? How Speedo's LZR suit breaks swim records As the Associated Press reports, "the LZR now has been worn for 21 of the 22 world records set since it was introduced in February."
posted by bobfoot at 10:51 PM on April 15
"...who must wear new suits every 10th swim." WTF? Any swimmers out there that can explain this to me? Is this normal for any swimsuit, or just the LZR? I wouldn't call this technological doping so much as a technological arms race. Wearing an old-school suit now is like bringing a knife to a gunfight. I'm sure less-wealthy countries will recall the universal values of Olympism as they're getting pasted in the pool.
posted at 08:16 AM on April 15
Rushin' to the Olympics: Former Silver Stars guard Becky Hammons becomes a naturalized Russian citizen in order to compete in the 2008 Olympic games.
posted by curlyelk at 11:12 AM on April 11
But the Olympics (modern not ancient Greco) were started for countries to come together in peaceful means for the purpose of freindly competition. My guys against your guys, in sport, not war. Hmmm....is it possible that binary my-guys-against-your-guys thinking perpetuates a war-like mindset? The modern Olympics were introduced in 1896 and their "peaceful competition" played out against perhaps the bloodiest century in the history of humankind. Or maybe you're right: the bloodshed would have been worse if we didn't have the salve of Olympic competition every quadrennial.
posted at 03:38 PM on April 11
Olympic torch put out by protests. Security officials canceled the final run of the Olympic relay through Paris after chaotic protests Monday, sending a snuffed-out torch to its destination on a bus in a humiliating concession to protesters decrying China's human rights record.
posted by worldcup2002 at 12:24 PM on April 08
Good point cjets, though a small clarification: the torch/flame was introduced in 1928 in Amsterdam and the first torch relay that traversed national borders was used by Hitler and Goebbels in 1936. And there is no evidence from Antiquity of a torch run spanning multiple city-states, either. It was a local event in which a flame was run to an altar to light a candle in homage to the gods. In neither 1936 nor Antiquity was the torch sponsored by Lenovo.
posted at 12:31 PM on April 08
Olympic torch put out by protests. Security officials canceled the final run of the Olympic relay through Paris after chaotic protests Monday, sending a snuffed-out torch to its destination on a bus in a humiliating concession to protesters decrying China's human rights record.
posted by worldcup2002 at 12:24 PM on April 08
Spitztengle kind of beat me to it, but the Olympics have always been about politics, long before 1980. You can look at the Cold War state-sponsored doping programs at their peak in Montreal in 1976 or Palestinian terrorism in Munich in 1972 or the slaughter of Mexican students and Black Power in 1968 or Japan's post-WWII reconstruction and coming out party in 1960 or Berlin's showcase of the Aryan ideals in 1936 ... ... or, as lil_brown_bat points out, you could right back to 1896 when Coubertin revived the Olympic Games and decided to centre competition around nation-states when there was no historical precedent for such competition in Antiquity, instead of simply making it an open competition for the world's athletes. In other words, the Olympics have always been a site of political discourse and conflict. Thinking that they ever were (revisionist nostalgia) or could be (delusional utopia) is like buying into the slick marketing rhetoric that says there are no human rights violations taking place in Guantanam...err...Guangzhou. That said, I'm sort of torn, and perhaps cautiously optimistic (in the lesser of two evils) that the market economics the Olympics will facilitate in the very near Chinese future have a better chance of changing things internally than symbolic political acts like a boycott of the Games. And that said, I still fully support any individual (ie. non-nation-state based) acts of protest, boycott or other awareness-raising activities that express a personal political response to the situation.
posted at 09:18 AM on April 08
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posted by BoKnows at 07:24 PM on March 19
A late entry: the picks for Reading Tea Leaves and Teabags are in.
posted at 08:19 PM on March 19
Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden
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posted by yerfatma at 06:51 AM on March 17
Vinceborg would be really funny, except cyborgs can't writhe in pain, can they?
posted at 12:31 PM on March 17
Bonds’ homer No. 762 a bizarre mystery After Bonds connected on No. 756 to move past Hank Aaron, each of his home runs became the new final home run. Every fan who snagged one became an instant celebrity and, at least until the next one was hit, a potential millionaire. When the season ended on Sept. 30, every home run ball that Bonds had hit after 756 had been accounted for, except one: No. 762.
posted by BoKnows at 08:28 PM on March 14
Thanks BoKnows.....that was as interesting for the draconian lengths usually taken to authenticate as anything else....kind of a shadow world that most of would never have known about.
posted at 09:00 AM on March 14
cool shit yukon.....my team still sucks, but cool shit nonetheless