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rcade has posted 1832 links and 9236 comments to SportsFilter and 85 links and 680 comments to the Locker Room and 8 columns.
Boston Takes 2-1 Lead in Stanley Cup Finals: A 2-0 win over the Chicago Blackhawks in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Finals gives the Boston Bruins a 2-1 series lead. Daniel Paille and Patrice Bergeron scored second-period goals. Tuukka Rask stopped 28 shots. "They had shots but most of them came from the outside," Rask said. "We eliminated a lot of their rebound opportunities."
posted by rcade to hockey at 07:20 AM on June 18 - 1 comment
Spurs One Game from Title: The San Antonio Spurs dominated game 5 of the NBA Finals, defeating the Miami Heat 114-104 to take a 3-2 series lead. Manu Ginobili started for the Spurs and had a season-high 24 points and 10 assists. Spurs guard Danny Green's six three-pointers pushed him into record territory for the most threes in a playoff series. "I can't believe he's still open at this point in the series," said teammate Tony Parker. Miami's big three played well -- LeBron James scored 25 points, Dwyane Wade 25 with 10 assists and Chris Bosh 16 points -- but now must win both games in Miami to repeat as NBA champions.
posted by rcade to basketball at 11:19 AM on June 17 - 6 comments
African Muslim Rises Up Sumo Ranks: An Egyptian Muslim has become the first sumo wrestler from Africa to reach the second-highest division of the sport. Osunaarashi Kintaro, 21, whose real name is Abdelrahman Ahmed Shaalan, is a Giza, Egypt, native who began practicing sumo at age 15 and moved to Japan two years ago. He's 6-foot-2 and 300 pounds and was promoted to juryo division after only eight tournaments. "God has given me the gift (of victory) after I have gone through a lot of pain," he said. Favoring pushing and thrust-out techniques so far in his career, Osunaarashi's sumo name means "great sandstorm."
posted by rcade to other at 04:19 PM on June 16 - 0 comments
Bruins Win Game 2 in Overtime: A Daniel Paille goal 13:48 into overtime gave the Boston Bruins a 2-1 road win over the Chicago Blackhawks in the Stanley Cup Finals, evening the series at 1. Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask made 18 saves in a first period onslaught by the Hawks, letting in only one goal by Patrick Sharp.
posted by rcade to hockey at 10:25 AM on June 16 - 5 comments
Robert Kraft: Putin Stole My Super Bowl Ring: New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft has revealed that he didn't give Russian leader Vladimir Putin his Super Bowl ring in 2005 during a visit to St. Petersburg, Russia, as he's previously said. After Putin put it on, he pocketed the ring and kept it, Kraft said. When the NFL owner came home and demanded it back, the White House told him to claim it had been a gift. "I put my hand out (to get it back) and he put it in his pocket, and three KGB guys got around him and walked out," Kraft said. He said he was told by someone in the Bush White House, "It would really be in the best interest if you meant to give the ring as a present."
posted by rcade to football at 06:12 PM on June 15 - 6 comments
Thanks. If that happens I think it would have to be the longest regular-season game in NFL history.
posted by rcade at 01:19 PM on June 17
I kept thinking the Heat were going to storm back, too. That 9-0 run near the end started to make the Spurs fans nervous.
posted by rcade at 12:57 PM on June 17
NFL overtime question: If the first team scores a field goal after a 10-minute drive and the second team still has the ball when 15 minutes expires, does the game end or do they get to continue the drive?
posted by rcade at 11:22 AM on June 17
Japan's baseball league has admitted juicing balls.
posted by rcade at 04:20 PM on June 16
What would the other data points be?
The amount of practice time and playbook attention he gets. We'll see in coming weeks how much they value Tebow by those things.
At this point I'll just resign myself to being the bad guy.
I'm OK with it being a misunderstanding, but "publicist" didn't look like a compliment when you kept saying I glossed over a negative. I don't have the emotional investment in this you think I do. He's not a Jag. That was the scenario I wanted.
Tebow playing for the Hoodie is a fun 2013 storyline, if he makes the team, but I'm not a Pats fan. I'm more invested in seeing what Andy Reid and Alex Smith do in K.C. I hoped Smith might end up in Jacksonville.
posted by rcade at 01:03 PM on June 16
That was a scrappy game. Every time skaters had something good going on offense, the other team screwed it up. The winning goal seemed a little soft. I blame goalie fatigue.
posted by rcade at 12:44 PM on June 16
"Their relationship settled into a routine: meet at the CVS, follow him to the house, make love. Then she would return to her hostess stand and he would resume the life of a superstar golfer. ... She guides me to a church parking lot behind the office building. ..." -- The Temptation of Tiger Woods.
I was in Orlando this past week. The shopping center we visited every day for my son's animation class was the one where Tiger met the hostess at Perkins, where she waited for him outside CVS and where they drove across the street for church parking lot Escalade nookie while the National Enquirer spied on them.
There's also a Subway, where he may have gotten the hostess the only gift she got during their affair: a chicken wrap.
The Perkins has become a sports bar. If they don't have a shrine to the building's sports history, it's a shame.
posted by rcade at 10:31 AM on June 15
You're hanging you hat on the fact that the patriots signed him to disprove the notion that Tebow wasn't wanted.
Yes, I believe that the Patriots signing Tebow is an indication they wanted him. Why would the Patriots sign him otherwise, given the hype? The contract details are just an one data point on how much (or how little) they wanted him.
Nothing I've said about Tebow is as strong in praise as "I think he could be a decent QB for a very specific team." My belief in him is specifically qualified to a set of circumstances that requires Jacksonville to have a hopeless starting quarterback. Yet I can't talk about the guy without being treated like his publicist, while you have said my exact position: "I think he at least deserves the chance to compete (as a backup)."
posted by rcade at 07:01 PM on June 13
As I said, you just glossed over it as always.
I don't know what that is supposed to mean because it's an empty subjective dig, but with the crack that I should be Tebow's publicist you've crossed into the troll realm. Should I lower my game to your level and call you a hater?
posted by rcade at 03:02 PM on June 13
I don't think the Hoodie would do it to showboat. He's won 10 or more games for a decade. He does things to keep that team among the NFL's elite. Either he thinks Tebow can contribute or he thinks he can make him into a commodity to be dealt elsewhere.
Well, first, he needs to be successful in New England to make that claim true.
The conventional wisdom was that he was done and no teams wanted him.
As Grum points out, I addressed the hype. I was counting on it to sell 5,000 season tickets in Jacksonville. There's going to be a lot of Patriots football watched in North Florida this season.
Trent Dilfer went from winning a Superbowl to a backup quarterback in the span of one offseason.
Dilfer played six more seasons after that Super Bowl win, starting 36 games. Through his play in Denver Tebow merited a chance as a backup somewhere for a few years. There are a lot of clipboard holders who've done less than lead a team to the playoffs and a win.
posted by rcade at 11:59 AM on June 13
I think you need all three of those before you bring in someone like Tebow (or, a prior example, Moss).
I'm not buying the theory that a backup quarterback needs a special set of circumstances to succeed, and these circumstances only exist in New England. If he's good enough to hold a roster spot there when week 1 rolls around, he's good enough to do it in lots of other places.
The only special circumstance here is that Tebow comes with a disproportionate amount of hype, and some teams handle a media circus better than others.
Tebow's still better than anything the Jags have under center. Blaine Gabbert and Chad Henne were awful last year. But the team does have Jordan Rodgers as the third stringer, so there's an outside chance we'll have a good quarterback in town. His big brother Aaron might visit.
posted by rcade at 10:29 AM on June 11
I don't think he had anywhere else to go ...
If one of the best coaches in NFL history thinks he's worth signing, doesn't that suggest the conventional wisdom is wrong? Tebow's run in Denver should've earned him a few years of clipboard duty and spot play with a possible chance to become a starter somewhere down the line. It made no sense for him to go from playoff win to out of the league so quickly.
posted by rcade at 09:22 AM on June 11
Why fault Cuban for spending $100,000 towards improving the game of basketball? He's been obsessed with applying better metrics into basketball for the 13 years he's been an owner. This expenditure is consistent with that.
posted by rcade at 03:39 PM on June 09
That Parker shot was incredibly timed. The margin of victory was the fingertip that left the ball a tenth of a second before the clock expired.
posted by rcade at 07:43 AM on June 07
SportsFilter: The Tuesday Huddle
That Ryan link is great. Pete Prisco got some nice access to Ryan.