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rcade
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Name: Rogers Cadenhead
Location: Florida
Social Media Account: https://twitter.com/rcade
Member since: January 23, 2002
Last visit: March 12, 2024
Status: editor

rcade has posted 3,581 links and 14,013 comments to SportsFilter and 87 links and 689 comments to the Locker Room and 8 columns.

Sports Bio

I follow the teams from Dallas-Fort Worth because I grew up with them, but I've adopted the Jacksonville Jaguars, the only pro team my new hometown is ever likely to get. The most memorable sporting event I attended live was game 6 of the NBA Western Conference finals in 1988 at Reunion Arena -- Mavericks vs. Lakers -- when Mark Aguirre and his prodigious caboose received half the game MVP award, and the 17,007 fans in attendance received the other half. I also follow U.S. Soccer, Sheffield Wednesday and Orlando City SC because members of this site dragged me into the beautiful game for the first time since the Dallas Tornado folded.

Recent Links

NBA Pickem Week 19: Little Penny Edition: There's an 11-game national NBA week stretching from a TNT doubleheader tonight to an ESPN doubleheader next Monday. Last week was carnage in our contest with Howard_T scoring 23 to win the week. Make your picks and enjoy this old school NBA moment.

posted by rcade to basketball at 11:57 AM on March 12, 2024 - 8 comments

NBA Pickem Week 18: Don't Miss Tipoff Edition: There are 11 national NBA games this week beginning with a doubleheader tonight on TNT. In our contest Ufez Jones wins the week with 88 points and is now 74 back in second place. Make your picks promptly. Don't be late like Anthony Edwards.

posted by rcade to basketball at 11:46 AM on March 05, 2024 - 11 comments

Max Strus Sinks Mavericks with 59-Foot Buzzer Beater: After the Dallas Mavericks went ahead by 2 with 2.6 seconds left, Max Strus of the Cleveland Cavaliers scored a 59-foot three-pointer to win the game Tuesday night. It's the second longest buzzer beater to win an NBA game in the three point era.

posted by rcade to basketball at 12:31 AM on February 28, 2024 - 3 comments

NBA Pickem Week 17: Enough Basketball For You Edition: There are 13 games this week on TNT, ESPN and ABC, starting tomorrow night with a TNT doubleheader of Sixers/Celtics and Rockets/Thunder and ending Sunday with ABC and ESPN doubleheaders. Howard_T won week 16 with 30. Make your picks.

posted by rcade to basketball at 09:36 PM on February 26, 2024 - 6 comments

The Life of an NBA Beat Writer: HoopsHype talked to several longtime NBA beat reporters, past and present, about their jobs. "The money has changed things," said Kerry Eggers, who covered the Portland Trail Blazers for The Oregonian in the 1990s. "And more of the players are not willing to do media interviews. They don't feel like they have to. I remember sitting down with Michael Jordan before games -- just me for a few minutes. Now, that would never happen."

posted by rcade to basketball at 09:10 AM on February 15, 2024 - 0 comments

Recent Comments

NBA Pickem Week 19: Little Penny Edition

My picks:

Knicks by 7
Clippers by 12 (slam dunk)
Nuggets by 10 (slam dunk)
Kings by 5
Celtics by 8 (slam dunk)
Mavericks by 3
Lakers by 3
Bucks by 9 (slam dunk)
Mavericks by 5
Heat by 8
Warriors by 9 (slam dunk)

Going with a Mavericks upset over the Thunder even though Okie from Muscogee is still a banger.

posted by rcade at 12:25 PM on March 12, 2024

NBA Pickem Week 19: Little Penny Edition

Current Standings

posted by rcade at 11:58 AM on March 12, 2024

NBA Pickem Week 18: Don't Miss Tipoff Edition

Might want to check the URL for the current standings link

Fixed.

posted by rcade at 11:18 AM on March 06, 2024

Russell Wilson to be released by Denver Broncos

I thought Sean Payton would turn Russell Wilson into another Drew Brees. Instead I find myself wondering if Wilson will start anywhere in 2024.

Elway turning down that offer is amazing. How could he not see the value of an NFL ownership stake that huge?

posted by rcade at 12:27 PM on March 05, 2024

NBA Pickem Week 18: Don't Miss Tipoff Edition

My picks:

Celtics by 9
Nuggets by 8
Rockets by 6
Bucks by 10 (slam dunk)
Mavericks by 8
Nuggets by 3
Cavaliers by 7
Bucks by 7 (slam dunk)
Celtics by 13 (slam dunk)
Knicks by 5
Lakers by 5

The Rockets last five games: Phoenix, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma City, Phoenix, Phoenix.

posted by rcade at 11:57 AM on March 05, 2024

NBA Pickem Week 18: Don't Miss Tipoff Edition

Current Standings

posted by rcade at 11:47 AM on March 05, 2024

Max Strus Sinks Mavericks with 59-Foot Buzzer Beater

That was a crusher but I keep watching the replays because it was also, in point of fact, objectively awesome. The last 5 minutes of the game are worth seeing again.

posted by rcade at 12:14 PM on March 01, 2024

SportsFilter: The Monday Huddle

ESPN wrote a magnum opus on that Clippers redesign. A lot of it looks good but I sideeye the excitement over the new L with the A sitting in its lap.

posted by rcade at 09:56 PM on February 26, 2024

NBA Pickem Week 17: Enough Basketball For You Edition

My picks:

Celtics by 20 (slam dunk)
Thunder by 9 (slam dunk)
Pacers by 7
Clippers by 14 (slam dunk)
Knicks by 3
Heat by 7
Celtics by 8 (slam dunk)
Bulls by 5
Nuggets by 8
Mavericks by 14 (slam dunk)
Celtics by 11 (slam dunk)
Cavaliers by 6
Thunder by 6

We love that ba .... sket .... ball.

posted by rcade at 09:52 PM on February 26, 2024

NBA Pickem Week 17: Enough Basketball For You Edition

Current Standings

posted by rcade at 09:36 PM on February 26, 2024

SportsFilter: The Sunday Huddle

American Ice Football.

posted by rcade at 01:13 PM on February 25, 2024

SportsFilter: The Tuesday Huddle

It is a shame to see the ACC looking like the next Pac-12. I watched the final football games of that conference in disbelief.

The ESPN/Fox/SEC/Big 10 fatberg are conspiring to turn college football into two superconferences that are like the NFL.

posted by rcade at 01:54 PM on February 20, 2024

SportsFilter: The Tuesday Huddle

It's not easily broken, but after just one month in litigation the ACC is already talking about a buyout. FSU has a lot of good vectors of attack where the ACC decided things to protect itself against the interest of its member schools.

One is adding SMU, Cal and Stanford, which was done to ensure the ACC didn't fall under 15 schools and trigger a clause where ESPN could renegotiate the TV deal. These schools bring down the average TV viewership of ACC games, which won't help the big schools get closer to financial parity with the SEC and Big 10.

Another is the former ACC commissioner selling the TV rights in a way that gave ESPN subsidiary rights for nothing that it could resell to Raycom Sports. His son was a top executive trying to save that network at the time.

I talk to SMU fans who are telling themselves FSU won't be able to leave short of paying over $500 million. It seems like wishful thinking to me. Every time a big football power decides to leave a conference it succeeds.

posted by rcade at 12:59 PM on February 20, 2024

SportsFilter: The Tuesday Huddle

The original grant of rights that was supposed to be an ironclad lock against schools leaving the ACC is only four pages long:

theathletic.com

I've signed longer contracts to write a book.

posted by rcade at 10:28 AM on February 20, 2024

SportsFilter: The Wednesday Huddle

Here's the winning play calls from Super Bowl broadcasts.

How did some announcers not know that overtime would've extended to a second quarter? On the Chris Fowler call they talked about the Chiefs having two timeouts to use in the final 10 seconds.

posted by rcade at 08:44 AM on February 14, 2024