- 06:25 PM
- 11/19/08
| Name: | Kurt Loeprich |
|---|---|
| Homepage URL: | http://www.jockularocracy.com/ |
| Location: | Clovis CA |
| ZIP Code: | 93611 |
| Gender: | M |
| Member since: | January 31, 2003 |
| Last visit: | August 18, 2004 |
kloeprich has posted 9 links and 146 comments to SportsFilter and no links and 61 comments to the Locker Room and has written 1 column.
Transsexuals in the Olympics. If the designer steroid thing doesn't work out...
posted on November 14, 2003 - Go to the detail view for this result
Notre Dame to the ACC? Or maybe the Big 10? Apparently the Irish are getting a little worried about dance partners.
posted on November 13, 2003 - Go to the detail view for this result
More Friday Fun. Anyone care to run a marathon? Or would you rather be a duck?
posted on October 17, 2003 - Go to the detail view for this result
Maurice Clarett to Grambling? Why not straight to the league? (By way of a federal courthouse, that is.) Why not Youngstown State? Any of you Ohio SpoFiers have any idea what's going on with this kid?
posted on September 08, 2003 - Go to the detail view for this result
The End of My Colonial Preoccupation Review of the Colonial's first two days
posted on May 25, 2003 - Go to the detail view for this result
Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. Nearly a year and a half after being traded to the Bills (seems like it's been much longer) Drew Bledsoe completes a pass that he's been dying to make: papers on his old Massachusetts home, a 26-acre manse in the posh Boston burb of Medfield. The estate boasts 11000 square feet of living space, 20 rooms, 6 baths, 2 half baths, 7 bedrooms, a wine cellar, a gym, 4 fireplaces, a sauna and pool. The new owner? Curt Schilling.
posted by jerseygirl at 10:25 PM on December 23
Transsexuals in the Olympics. If the designer steroid thing doesn't work out...
posted by kloeprich at 03:53 PM on November 14
Damn Greeks. I have to replan my whole trip now.
posted at 04:19 PM on November 14
Pro Football Overtime has officially outstayed its welcome.
While it may beat the alternative, cries to change the way OT is played in the NFL are getting louder. Though hardly a new issue, this recent article in the New York Times (registration and first born son required) speaks to the righteous fury of every angry fan who's had to watch their team lose in OT without ever having a chance to field the offense. The NYT is hardly alone in its indignation and I can't help but feel the same way.
While it could reasonably be argued that the excitement and intensity of an NFL OT is tough to beat, the real bottom line has likely more to do with network scheduling than drama; not quite what I would consider the prime consideration of an athletic competition. Call me old fashioned.
And what about issues of fairness? When the flip of a coin has a 99.9% mathematical certainty of affecting the ultimate outcome of OT, the game becomes a lot more luck and a lot less skill.
Unsurprisingly, the inertia bound NFL says "Meh" to the whole issue, so proponents of OT reform will just have to wait until a Superbowl or Conference Playoff is decided by one lucky return and one lucky field goal to see the League shamed into improving the system.
Kvetching about the sad state of NFL OT has become an almost yearly event. Maybe it's time to think outside the box?
posted by forksclovetofu at 10:31 AM on November 13
I'm late returning, but what the hell... Kloeprich, the NFL doesn't want a full extra quarter because of the game's physically-punishing nature. Horseshit. If the NFL really cared about the "physically-punishing" nature of the game they wouldn't have four preseason games. It's about money. The networks provide the money, and they want a quick resolution so that games don't bleed over into the telecasts of other games or into prime time programming. Plain and simple. God forbid you should be watching a tight overtime game on FOX when CBS is cueing up the first quarter of the Bengals-Jets.
posted at 06:31 PM on November 13
Notre Dame to the ACC? Or maybe the Big 10? Apparently the Irish are getting a little worried about dance partners.
posted by kloeprich at 05:33 PM on November 13
I've read that ND's recent football failings have endangered their BCS exemption. The threat of that would go a ways toward explaining why they would join a conference.
posted at 06:18 PM on November 13
Pro Football Overtime has officially outstayed its welcome.
While it may beat the alternative, cries to change the way OT is played in the NFL are getting louder. Though hardly a new issue, this recent article in the New York Times (registration and first born son required) speaks to the righteous fury of every angry fan who's had to watch their team lose in OT without ever having a chance to field the offense. The NYT is hardly alone in its indignation and I can't help but feel the same way.
While it could reasonably be argued that the excitement and intensity of an NFL OT is tough to beat, the real bottom line has likely more to do with network scheduling than drama; not quite what I would consider the prime consideration of an athletic competition. Call me old fashioned.
And what about issues of fairness? When the flip of a coin has a 99.9% mathematical certainty of affecting the ultimate outcome of OT, the game becomes a lot more luck and a lot less skill.
Unsurprisingly, the inertia bound NFL says "Meh" to the whole issue, so proponents of OT reform will just have to wait until a Superbowl or Conference Playoff is decided by one lucky return and one lucky field goal to see the League shamed into improving the system.
Kvetching about the sad state of NFL OT has become an almost yearly event. Maybe it's time to think outside the box?
posted by forksclovetofu at 10:31 AM on November 11
What's interesting about the NFL's format is that for some reason ties at the end of regulation are bad, but ties after a 15 minute OT are okay. That being the case, why not just play one full quarter of football for every OT? That way each team would get the ball (probably multiple times) and if they tie, they tie. This would most likely result in more ties than we get now, but would seem to be more true to the game.
posted at 05:58 PM on November 11
Ok. I swear I am not ... Ok. I swear I am not MeTa-Bitching. He's a new guy, so he probably just doesn't know, so maybe by discussing it, we can help him (and others) out. [more inside]
posted by jerseygirl at 04:37 PM on November 11
After about the third link I got lost and wandered aimlessly around the Internet for about an hour before I finally found my way back. By then I was too tired to post anything. Maybe it's just my short attention span, but when I see all those links I tend to fade away. Anyway, what was the question?
posted at 05:37 PM on November 11
SpoFi Fantasy NFL Week ... SpoFi Fantasy NFL Week 8. vagabonds ride Moss and Moss to top spot, scoring nearly 10 points a game more than the number two Spacemen. Four teams sit at 6-3 with four regular season weeks to go, while four others fight for the last two playoff spots. [table inside]
posted by danostuporstar at 07:20 AM on November 11
On behalf of Corpse and Grum, I would like to ask that the other teams in the league stop scoring so many points against us. Bullies.
posted at 05:25 PM on November 11
You're Out! Mexico's baseball team elimated the defending champion US team from next year's Olympics with home run in the top of the ninth for a 2-1 win.
posted by kirkaracha at 09:00 PM on November 08
Valium is right, and while I don't think we'll see any notable pros in the 2008 qualifying I bet there's a ton of pressure to upgrade the quality of the minor leaguers 'assigned' to the team. After the US came out of the 1992 games without a medal there was a huge push to allow pro's on to the squad - which they were finally able to do in 2000. This has to be an even bigger blow.
posted at 12:04 PM on November 08
USA Today columnist Christine ... USA Today columnist Christine Brennan offers new details today on Peyton Manning's locker room mooning incident from 1996. Evidently, he also scored a touchdown on female trainer Jamie Ann Naughright. As she testified in a lawsuit deposition: "It was the gluteus maximus, the rectum, the testicles and the area in between the testicles. And all that was on my face when I pushed him up. ... To get leverage, I took my head out to push him up and off."
posted by rcade at 03:25 PM on November 07
Near as I can tell, malice has yet to be proved. All I'm reading is that a judge has found enough evidence to deny a dismissal. The original act certainly appears to be more than the "mooning" Manning tried to characterize it as, but that's not the issue here. Manning did something stupid and then followed it up with the even stupider act of writing about it after it was settled. Perhaps he really did believe she had a vulgar mouth and maybe she even had one, but was it really necessary to put it in print? Who edited that book? And I have a real hard time believing that being accused in Manning's book of having a "vulgar mouth" cost her a promotion. But since it looks like she has a pretty solid defamation case why not pile on? Her lawyers are just adding fuel to the lawsuit bonfire. There will be another, bigger settlement and hopefully Peyton will keep his mouth shut here forward. Personally, I'm not ready to crucify Manning just yet, but that may be tainted by having Christine Brennan as the town crier. Her Title IX screed has so worn me out that I tend to discount anything she writes.
posted at 03:07 PM on November 07
Whitey-drivel. Self-links. ... Whitey-drivel. Self-links. Happening frequently lately. Are new users just not getting it?
posted by jerseygirl at 09:21 AM on November 06
When I die, I would like to go peacefully, in my sleep, like my Grandfather did. Not screaming and yelling like the passenger in his car. I knew this thread would get productive eventually.
posted at 11:48 AM on November 06
SpoFi Fantasy NFL Week ... SpoFi Fantasy NFL Week 8. Spacemen separate from the pack, while Dusted Off begins to fall into it. One-third of the league is within a game of .500 with six regular season weeks to go.
posted by danostuporstar at 08:07 AM on October 30
grum: I'm just saying I'm not as bad as it looks dano: that's what we all say, grum =) Well, not all. My team is much worse than it looks. By all rights I should be 2-5. Got to love those reception points.
posted at 12:20 PM on October 30
More Friday Fun. Anyone care to run a marathon? Or would you rather be a duck?
posted by kloeprich at 06:08 PM on October 17
Or both. I finished with :56 remaining on try two. Should be easy to beat.
posted at 06:11 PM on October 17
Extreme Ironing. Has to be seen to be believed. I don't know whether to be awed, amused or sad. (via Coudal Partners)
posted by worldcup2002 at 12:14 PM on October 17
Don't get steamed Ufez, WC is just trying to smooth things over.
posted at 03:27 PM on October 17
If you see a post on ... If you see a post on SportsFilter to anything from SportsFanMagazine or Greg Wyshynski, it's a self-link that will be deleted quickly. He shows up here frequently to pimp his own work.
posted by rcade at 07:48 AM on October 16
Sorry I'm late to the fray - I stopped to pick up the swords and pitchforks. I'm afraid the boiling oil was on backorder. Line forms to the left...
posted at 03:40 PM on October 16
John Lott, a controversial ... John Lott, a controversial scholar known for his gun research and creating fictitious people to compliment his own work, has published research on whether the media wants black quarterbacks to do well.
posted by rcade at 10:13 AM on October 14
John Lott isn't doing himself any favors peddling this sort of crap. This doesn't even classify as junk science in my book. Positive and negative phrases that appear within 50 words of a quarterback's name? Please. wfrazejr: the math is correct the 10% points is not determined by subtracting 61 from 67 but by taking the percentage difference - i.e. 10% of 61%. All this 'study' might reveal is that some writers occasionally identify black QB's as such. Which, of course, is clearly a case of media bias favoring of black QB's. Great find rcade.
posted at 11:20 AM on October 14
Jgirl - some time back a friend in the industry told me that the home guarantee has become almost a staple in the contracts of big time MLB and NBA players. The stipulation is not yet in vogue in the NFL because trades are a so infrequent. And not to be indulgent but, good post by the way.