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- 11/20/09
| Name: | Dusty Davis |
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| Homepage URL: | http://www.dustydavis.com |
| Location: | Southern California |
| Gender: | nuts |
| Member since: | February 20, 2003 |
| Last visit: | November 20, 2009 |
dusted has posted 84 links and 1499 comments to SportsFilter and 44 links and 872 comments to the Locker Room.
Brett Favre Mic'd Up: Damn Steven, what they got you in for?
posted by dusted to football at 04:29 PM on November 20 - 5 comments
Antoine Walker broke, arrested for writing bad checks: Antoine Walker entered the NBA's maximum-contract financial elite in 1999, the year Boston signed him to a six-year, $71 million deal. As Rick Pitino, then the Celtics president and coach, put it, Walker "will never have to worry about money again in his life." Pitino's prediction, like so many things about his tenure with the Green, proved way off the mark.
posted by dusted to basketball at 06:15 PM on October 28 - 31 comments
Brian Cashman: The Bad Lieutenant: Matt Taibbi rips Cashman as only Taibbi can: They all made a show of preferring some other situation before quietly, somberly almost, taking the big money and going to New York. Basically, Brian Cashman hired a team full of Brian Cashmans, i.e., guys who passed up the girl they really liked to marry the Boss's bucktoothed, cross-eyed daughter.
posted by dusted to baseball at 11:54 PM on April 28 - 16 comments
Casino Host and Wingman to the All-Stars: Mr. Jones generally travels with a large group of friends as well as the athletes, and it frequently expands to 20 strong. Mr. Jones always elects one local friend to be his "chief of staff," charged with making sure everyone in the group is trustworthy and preventing stragglers from glomming on.
posted by dusted to culture at 11:37 PM on February 16 - 1 comment
Dead athletes' brains show stunning damage: Researchers using new technology to study brain tissue from dead NFL athletes say they're surprised at how extensive the damage is from concussions. Far from innocuous, invisible injuries, concussions confer tremendous brain damage. That damage now has a name: chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Some of the symptoms include "...depression, sleep disorders and mental fatigue."
posted by dusted to football at 01:00 PM on January 27 - 17 comments
Did any of you watch all the way through? I couldn't make it past about 20 seconds.
posted by dusted at 05:52 PM on November 19
That was amazing. "Ironically, it might be that when we start taking female athletes seriously..." followed immediately by "look at that pic from the NYT, she is smokin' hot."
I am both laughing and shaking my head.
posted by dusted at 02:34 PM on November 19
I miss motorsports... edit: meaning MotoGP, World Superbike and Formula 1, in my case.
posted by dusted at 01:44 PM on November 14
I've never understood the hatred of Iverson. None of us really know any of them, but he seems far more sincere and genuine than your average Kobe / LeBron type. He doesn't have that Disney Channel polish, but that just makes him interesting. He works hard, takes lots of punishment, plays injured, and is a phenomenal talent. He should be a starting point guard in the NBA.
posted by dusted at 08:11 PM on November 10
Man, I love the Pats redesign. I think we need more Captain America in ... uh, America.
posted by dusted at 05:03 PM on November 10
Ben Spies won the World Superbike title last week in Portimao, Portugal, winning it in his rookie season. Next year he races in MotoGP, the top-level series, and last weekend he had a one-off wild-card ride in the MotoGP season ending race in Valencia, Spain. He finished seventh after only three hours on the new motorcycle.
posted by dusted at 09:32 AM on November 09
I was thinking the same thing, irunfromclones... I expected a lineman or a tight end to get top honors.
posted by dusted at 04:40 PM on November 05
You say "I will council my son to realize that not all are as well educated as he is" and "He led by example" followed by "i could care less how long you have been on here."
That's the crux: you could care less, but expect us to care greatly about your concerns, and you insult us in the meantime!
I grew up in a fundamental Christian environment, surrounded by Christians of all kinds. There were good, humble people trying to live their own lives well, and there were the people obsessed over the minor sins of others. I'm just guessing, but from what little I've read of your comments here, you fit into the latter group. You need to take a good look inward and see what you're actually teaching your son with your example.
Peace.
posted by dusted at 03:40 PM on November 05
Interesting that this happens after Toyota returned to profitability. I can only guess that the losses over the last year or two unsettled them... but then why sign the Concorde Agreement?
posted by dusted at 09:33 AM on November 05
And the FIA will sue... it sort of worked in MotoGP to keep Hayate (ne Kawasaki) around for a year.
posted by dusted at 05:57 PM on November 04
I'm surprised the game continued. Tossing referees out of the way seems a little over the top.
posted by dusted at 12:34 PM on November 04
I watched the whole race live on universalsports.com - I'm kind of a running dork. It was pretty amazing how there was a pack of 10-12 one minute and then just 4-5 the next. A few surges later it was just Meb and Cheruiyot. I didn't understand why Meb was sobbing after the race until I read a bit more about what had happened...
Meb's training partner Ryan Shay died in Central Park in the Olympic Trials in 2007, right near the finish line to Sunday's race. Meb had a hip stress fracture after that race that had him crawling around, unable to walk. He fought back from career-threatening injuries to just get to the starting line. He'd never won a marathon ever before.
Which is just a long way of saying "thank God these ignorant pricks said something." Now we can learn more about Meb and appreciate him even more.
posted by dusted at 11:29 PM on November 03
I watched the video several times and all I could focus on was a severe case of male pattern baldness. Poor Manu!
posted by dusted at 01:30 AM on November 03
My mom wouldn't let me grow a mullet, no matter how much I pitched a fit at the barber shop. I love my mother.
posted by dusted at 04:24 PM on October 31
Brett Favre Mic'd Up
I think he yelled that at Stephen Peterman, an offensive guard also from Mississippi, that must have been filling in on the defensive line, hence the "overtime" comment.
Not all fun and games, though - Peterman is out for the season after a bad ankle injury in the game.