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rcade has posted 1821 links and 9212 comments to SportsFilter and 85 links and 680 comments to the Locker Room and 8 columns.
Attending Your First Premier League Game: "It will be noisier than you are used to. Emotions will be higher than they are at home. The food will be awful. People will be drunk. The weather will be bad. Many of the supporters, even the ones cheering the loudest, will not appear to be having fun as we know it, and will be expressing their feelings in novel combinations of swear words."
posted by rcade to soccer at 10:58 AM on May 21 - 11 comments
CBS Loses U.S. Open After Four Decades: After broadcasting the event for 46 years, CBS will be losing the rights to the U.S. Open to ESPN in 2015, thanks to an $825 million, 11-year deal for the broadcast and cable rights. Viewership fell to a 25-year low of 2 million in 2012. Rain has postponed the men's final from Sunday to Monday for five straight years.
posted by rcade to tennis at 06:39 PM on May 17 - 2 comments
Tiger Woods Wins Player's Championship: Tiger Woods won the Player's Championship Sunday after Sergio Garcia put two shots into the water on the 17th hole, the infamous island green on TPC Sawgrass outside of Jacksonville, Fl. Woods and Garcia were tied for the lead prior to Garcia's quadruple bogey. Woods, 37, finished at -13 ahead of three other players for his fourth tournament win of 2013. It's the fastest he's ever won four tournaments in a year. He won this event previously in 2001.
posted by rcade to golf at 08:57 PM on May 12 - 4 comments
Rec Soccer Ref in Critical Condition After Player's Punch: A referee in a recreational soccer league in Taylorsville, Utah, has been hospitalized in critical condition after being punched by a teen player he had just yellow carded. The 17-year-old had just been assessed the penalty when he struck the ref in the head. Though the injury appeared minor, the ref was found in the hospital to have suffered serious internal head injuries.
posted by rcade to soccer at 08:53 AM on May 01 - 7 comments
Tim Tebow Forsaken by Jets: Quarterback Tim Tebow arrived at the New York Jets facility this morning and was told he was being released. Acquired before last season for a fourth- and sixth-round pick (with a seventh-round pick coming with him), Tebow only had six completions for 39 yards and 32 rushing carries for 102 yards. He had no touchdowns as a Jet. His hometown newspaper, the Florida Times-Union, reports this morning that he's coming to Jacksonville -- to set up fast-casual chicken restaurants.
posted by rcade to football at 08:42 AM on April 29 - 33 comments
I adopted Spurs because of Edgar Davids. When I didn't know enough about soccer to understand what I was seeing during the games, Davids was always a whirling dervish in a stylish white-and-black uniform.
posted by rcade at 04:57 PM on May 21
Sergio Garcia no me gusta Tiger Woods.
posted by rcade at 02:35 PM on May 21
This sounds cool, but I'm bummed that there are two teams in New York City and still none in the southeastern U.S. The closest MLS team to Florida is DC United.
posted by rcade at 02:34 PM on May 21
The Slainte Irish pub in Baltimore's Fells Point neighborhood has epic curry fries.
One of these days I'm doing some Premiership tourism. I need to express my crushing disappointment at Spurs in person.
posted by rcade at 02:24 PM on May 21
Garrard led the 2007 Jags team that went 11-5 and beat the Steelers in the first round of the playoffs, so it's not like he had no chance at all. He was a starter for five seasons, and part of the reason they weren't in the playoffs more than once was on him. His play was inconsistent.
posted by rcade at 08:50 AM on May 16
Jimmy Smith is one of my favorite Jaguars. A shame to see him end up like this, which I assume is due to his longtime drug problems.
He was drafted by Jimmy Johnson in Dallas as a second rounder, but they let him go quickly because of injury. If I recall correctly, he got a chance in Jacksonville because his mom prepared a scrapbook of his athletic exploits and managed to get a team exec to look at it.
The Jags haven't been lousy at receiver since he left.
posted by rcade at 06:05 PM on May 14
So basically, Tebow couldn't lead a good team enough to make them (not players nor coaches nor management) want him even as a backup ...
I think you're reading too much into player silence. Most players don't comment on major personnel moves by their team. Knowing how strongly Elway felt about getting Manning, it would have been foolish and probably career threatening for a Broncos player to speak out against it.
Besides -- it's Peyton Freaking Manning. Who's going to argue against that?
... nor a bad team enough to make them (not players nor coaches nor management) want him even as a backup. Maybe he isn't actually the leader you think he is.
And you're reading too much into what happened in New York. The Jets are a completely dysfunctional organization.
Urban Meyer and his staff didn't do Tebow any favors by allowing him to head to the draft suffering under the delusion that he was destined to be a starting NFL QB.
I don't know how you can say that, given where he was drafted.
Somebody should have been able to stop that Tebow-led unit. They had standouts on the OL and highly athletic skill position people, but Tebow never looked like a dynamic game changer himself.
Kee-rist. Now we're going to delegitimize his college career too, despite his Heisman Trophy and presence on two national champions? Tebow won in college because he was great at that level. The college game was suited to his skills.
Knowing what's coming is irrelevant if you can't stop it. Jimmy Johnson's Dallas Cowboys often were predictable too in their two Super Bowl-winning years. But opponents couldn't stop them because they were so much better.
posted by rcade at 09:41 AM on May 14
Putting aside his Jeter-like intangibles, which starting quarterbacks in the league would you prefer Tebow over?
Every Jaguars quarterback after David Garrard.
Tebow should already be on somebody's team as a backup. He shouldn't be out of the league already after what he accomplished in Denver.
posted by rcade at 04:32 PM on May 13
I was planning to go, but ended up watching at home.
I've never seen a leader bomb 17 like that on Sunday. It's a real face-losing moment for Garcia to do that after publicly sparring with Woods. These guys are too rich to care much about the money a late collapse costs them.
Garcia was on the 17th tee tied with Woods. A birdie puts him in command. What a moment to find the water!
posted by rcade at 01:07 PM on May 13
At the time he was fired for his role in the Penn State abuse coverup, Graham Spanier was the highest paid college administrator in the U.S.
posted by rcade at 12:08 PM on May 13
What a shock. I can't picture a Premiership without him at Man U. If he'd given the news earlier the whole season would've been a tribute to him.
posted by rcade at 09:26 AM on May 08
It's a jackass move, but I still think it's funny.
posted by rcade at 11:51 AM on May 07
Bubba Watson sticks up for Broussard. Sigh.
posted by rcade at 01:05 PM on May 02
I updated the post to reflect the player's age. Seventeen is old enough to know that a rec league ref is spending his free time helping you and should be treated with respect.
Before my son's soccer game last weekend, I saw some kids around age 11 who must be in a traveling league or some other advanced league. They were really good, but they worked the refs constantly. I saw a nephew's national under-17 team play some African kids a decade ago at Disney World, and the slightest contact made them fall to the ground as if shot by a sniper.
I wish the highest levels of pro soccer would do more to end the grandstanding, diving and complaining. Poor sportsmanship is being passed down.
posted by rcade at 10:43 AM on May 02
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