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- 01/09/09
| Name: | Steve |
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| Homepage URL: | http://tedcar.sasktelwebsite.net/ |
| Location: | Canada |
| Member since: | July 22, 2002 |
| Last visit: | December 13, 2008 |
Steve-o has posted 8 links and 39 comments to SportsFilter and 0 links and 0 comments to the Locker Room.
Why sports documentaries are no longer one-dimensional fan-fests.: A new breed of sports documentaries are receiving critical acclaim. Following in the footsteps of Hoop Dreams are films like Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait and now, Tyson.
posted by Steve-o to culture at 02:30 AM on June 09 - 4 comments
The Globalization of Sport.: David Stern has made efforts to grow the NBA into a global league. The British Empire exported soccer so well that it is often called The World's Game. Simon Kuper contrasts the ways the British and American empires have exported their sports.
posted by Steve-o to soccer at 03:26 PM on February 02 - 15 comments
Is the English Premiership the best in the world?: With two teams in the Champions League semi-finals, Oliver Holt thinks so. The EuroFootsie rankings seem to tell a different story. With 12 Spanish teams in their top 22, their model shows Spain to be the best.
Does England deserve a fifth Champions League place if Liverpool can't finish fourth in the EPL, but win the European Cup?
posted by Steve-o to soccer at 09:57 PM on May 01 - 16 comments
Paula Radcliffe takes a dump on the streets of London: and still wins the London marathon by more than five minutes, with the third fastest women’s marathon time ever. "I didn’t really want to resort to that in front of hundreds of thousands of people."
posted by Steve-o to other at 12:10 PM on April 20 - 24 comments
Frozen out, many NHL players try breaking new ice.: As the NHL lockout drags on, most Europeans have returned to their home leagues to play, and many North Americans are joining them. Some are playing in charming places like small-town France and Sweden but the big money is in Russia where conditions are less than ideal.
posted by Steve-o to hockey at 11:23 PM on November 21 - 1 comment
Howard, you are half-right. Didn't you read the article? Gazprom, Rosoboronexport, Russian Railroads and others are pumping money into Russian teams with sponsorships. Russian hockey fans don't pay NHL ticket prices and can't afford to. That could change. The prices for the upcoming UEFA Champions League soccer final in Moscow range from 80 to 200 euros ($295).
posted by Steve-o at 03:17 AM on March 03
Could the editor who wrote the headline for this story have been more lazy? Lost in translation? How cliché.
posted by Steve-o at 03:33 PM on February 02
It won't really be like a Champions League for hockey because all of the best teams are in the NHL. Same situation with basketball. It sounds more like the World Series champs vs. the Japan Series champs, series that happend back in the 70's and 80's. It wasn't taken very seriously in the USA.
posted by Steve-o at 12:52 PM on January 27
What is the biological limit that a human can run unaided by steriods or wind? About 9.84.
posted by Steve-o at 02:36 AM on May 15
It does devalue the Olympic competition when the best athlete isn't there. I don't believe I just commented on a figure skating post.
posted by Steve-o at 05:38 PM on January 02
This is the league that has a replay booth on seven-second delay so that it can’t actually review ... goals in time to correct it before the next faceoff. Is this sarcasm or some kind of crazy conspiracy theory? The replay officials have missed a couple, but I don't want to wait for them to review every play before the puck is dropped.
posted by Steve-o at 03:47 AM on December 30
Astounding. Did he jump or was he pushed?
posted by Steve-o at 04:22 AM on November 19
posted by Steve-o at 03:28 AM on November 14
I posted about this system a couple of years ago: End of offside controversies in soccer? Maybe Carroll's "save" will help build support to try it. Bring it on! Contrary to early reports, like the Deutsche Welle link from this thread, this ball will NOT be used in the Carling Cup final in Cardiff on Feb. 27. (Go Liverpool!)
posted by Steve-o at 02:54 PM on January 11
I don't think the English Premier League has a limit on non-EU players provided they comply with work permit criteria laid down by the government. A non-EU player must have played 75 percent of his national side's matches over two years and the nation must be higher than 70th in the FIFA rankings. Most of the other big European leagues have quotas.
posted by Steve-o at 03:19 PM on January 03
Calling Reinprecht and Montador "superstars" is pretty funny. That Financial Times writer obviously doesn't know hockey, but it's an interesting story.
posted by Steve-o at 11:35 PM on November 21
These NHL players have already had a hand in screwing over the 90% of their own who make less than league average salary Hunh? Hirsch came to Europe to take a Swiss player's job. Now someone takes his and it's a tragedy. Whether or not this is good for the NHLPA's bargaining position is an interesting question. I think it strenghtens it. The players don't sit at home missing the game and they make a little money. European fans are happy to see the world's best, many of them their countrymen taking the oppurtunity to play at home.
posted by Steve-o at 12:49 PM on November 02
Martin Gerber isn't really a "big-shot", and he's Swiss, so he's not taking up one of the foreign player spots. If someone better than you comes along, you lose your job. That's sport. Get used to it.
posted by Steve-o at 03:02 AM on November 02
Where are you getting your info etagloh? After the Olympics will Five Live always be blocking non-UK listeners or just for EPL matches? Last season us non-UK types could get Euro 2004, FA and Carling Cup plus the occasional other match that they'd forgot to turn off the web stream. All this and Liverpool are selling Danny Murphy. I think I'm gonna cry.
posted by Steve-o at 03:00 PM on August 09
Sports announcers already know it, and now Elan Fuld has proven it: clutch hitters really do exist.
I did chuckle at the reference to his being a "life long baseball fan", the kid is 21. - posted by dviking He'd be 24 now. That press release was written in May 2005. The author did write up his study. You can read it here: Clutch and Choke Hitters in Major League Baseball: Romantic Myth or Empirical Fact. Since only Bill Buckner and Eddie Murray show up as 'clutch' at the .001 significance level, I think that practically shows that 'clutch' doesn't exist. There are a bunch of other clutch articles on Cyril Morong's site.