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| Member since: | August 16, 2002 |
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Mookieproof has posted 15 links and 86 comments to SportsFilter and 0 links and 0 comments to the Locker Room.
Is ESPN Killing the National Hockey League by Influencing Public Attitudes?: By creating and reinforcing an expectation of failure regarding the NHL, ESPN is shaping public perception and contributing to the “death” of the NHL in the United States.
posted by Mookieproof to hockey at 03:15 PM on July 07 - 48 comments
Steeler fan has over 200 hours' worth of tattoos: This guy was my Little League baseball coach--though he didn't have the tattoos back then. Bonus fun fact: he named his son after Mel Blount. More pics here.
posted by Mookieproof to football at 10:04 AM on January 31 - 7 comments
Physicist claims that the Immaculate Reception was indeed a legal play: Here comes the science.
posted by Mookieproof to football at 11:32 AM on October 20 - 2 comments
Caps fire Bruce Cassidy.: The Washington Capitals, limping to the second worst record in the NHL and hemorrhaging money, canned their 38-year old coach today. He'd struggled communicating with his veteran players (an assistant coach had to separate him and defenseman Brendan Witt earlier this year), but the final straw appears to have been ill-advised comments about players being distracted by family matters.
posted by Mookieproof to hockey at 12:33 PM on December 10 - 4 comments
Empty Handed.: Former Negro League players and their families face difficult times without an MLB pension or royalties from sales of Negro League apparel. (long, minor WashPost registration required)
posted by Mookieproof to baseball at 11:53 AM on August 23 - 5 comments
You know, I'd be happy to have Cuban buy my Penguins to keep them in Pittsburgh. But dude is a bit of a head case--and could use some grammar lessons.
posted by Mookieproof at 01:18 PM on February 10
I bet Jeremy Roenick still thinks he should have made the American team.
posted by Mookieproof at 12:56 PM on February 24
About the best I can say is that I won't miss Paul ("Let me/I'm gonna tell you something") Maguire.
posted by Mookieproof at 12:21 PM on February 08
These just aren't that rare. Weird that someone would write a news story about finding one.
posted by Mookieproof at 09:49 AM on January 31
That goal against Bourque that grum described was in the playoffs, too ('92 I think)...and then he beat Andy Moog like a rented mule.
posted by Mookieproof at 01:10 PM on January 24
You still with us, jerseygirl?
posted by Mookieproof at 11:46 PM on October 16
Theo Epstein should have fired Grady Little in the middle of the eighth inning. After 17 years of hearing about the Clemens-McNamara dispute over getting pulled/asking out, Grady going out like that seems to me an awful lot like an abdication of responsibility. There's absolutely no way Pedro *asks* to come out; it's practically an affront to his manhood. And with Timlin having thrown 9 IP with 0 ER, I just don't get it. (I also don't get intentional walking Ruben Sierra, but that didn't end up hurting them.) Anyway, WOW. What a playoffs.
posted by Mookieproof at 11:44 PM on October 16
It's a good time of the year, but it's got nothing on April.
posted by Mookieproof at 03:02 PM on October 08
Marty shoots so well from his own crease, you have to figure that once he set up in the slot, with the way he handles his stick he was almost guaranteed to score five-hole before his sister-in-law could close it down.
posted by Mookieproof at 10:44 AM on September 25
How about Frank Robinson for guiding Les Expos, a team utterly shit upon by MLB at every turn, to a .500 record?
posted by Mookieproof at 01:50 PM on September 17
Terry Bradshaw is in the Hall of Fame and was MVP in two of the four Super Bowls he won. Phil Mickelson has a long way to go before he merits that comparison.
posted by Mookieproof at 10:54 AM on August 29
I watched the WUSA final yesterday and it was pretty damn good. (It also seemed to feature less diving than is commonly seen in, say, a World Cup game.) I watch women’s tennis. I could not possibly care less about the LL World Series. I think two things work against the popularity of women’s sports in North America. One is the “I could do that, too” factor—none of us can stop Shaq, none of us can play with Serena, but . . . I’m 6’4” and can play a little basketball. Legitimately or not, I tend to think that much of the WNBA would have trouble dealing with my size, and I think most guys think the same way, which doesn’t lead to respect for the game. I also think that Americans are generally only interested in watching “the very best” play. The World Cup arouses interest here every four years but MLS struggles because it only gets the best in the world when they turn 35. Americans don’t want to watch anything in which the stakes are not Being the Best in the World (see also the “World” Series). And being the Best Female(s) in the world is not as attractive because it is qualified. Yes, I'm talking out of my ass here, but then being a fan isn't really rational, is it?
posted by Mookieproof at 10:14 AM on August 25
Tampa Bay no longer Melrose's place.
Some reports indicate he had no philosophy for the players to buy into.