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"We are athletes, OK? We are athletes. We are not gladiators. This is not the Roman Coliseum": Kansas City Chiefs OT Eric Winston has something to say to Chiefs fans who cheered after Matt Cassel leaves the game with a concussion.
posted by kokaku to football at 10:08 PM on October 07 - 10 comments
Player Completes Perfect Set at Wimbledon: Yaroslava Shvedova played a flawless set of tennis, the best by a woman in at least 44 years, in the third round at Wimbledon. She won every point (24) and every game (6) in the first set against Sara Errani, winning 6-0, 6-4. The last pro to do it was Bill Scanlon in a first-round match in 1983. "To me, that's almost as incredible as Isner-Mahut," said Sam Querrey, one of the men's competitors.
posted by kokaku to tennis at 02:22 PM on July 01 - 2 comments
Working for the clampdown: Asham gets 4, Neal and Backstrom get 1, Shaw got 3 yesterday. Is Torres next? Shanahan strikes back.
posted by kokaku to hockey at 09:41 AM on April 18 - 23 comments
Game Over: Contradicting some of baseball's most cherished clichés, statistics show that your team's fate may well be sealed by June 1. As Yogi Berra said, 'It gets late early out there.'
posted by kokaku to baseball at 09:43 AM on May 23 - 3 comments
NFL Lockout Looming: Baltimore Ravens cornerback Domonique Foxworth, Cleveland Browns linebacker Scott Fujita, and NFLPA assistant executive director George Atallah participated in a media conference call.
posted by kokaku to football at 08:36 AM on January 12 - 52 comments
I feel like I need annotations to comprehend that comment
posted by kokaku at 08:43 AM on January 23
Strange that they didn't rise to a similar anger during the Bush admin.
posted by kokaku at 09:24 AM on January 17
Maybe they're figuring on reaching an agreement, skipping the season and having teams draw straws for the playoffs.
posted by kokaku at 12:24 PM on January 04
Also, HC Pat Schmurr and GM Tom Heckert of the Browns.
Maybe not official yet, but looks like HC Norv Turner and GM A.J. Smith of the Chargers are on their way out.
I cannot believe Rex Ryan keeps his job. Is that for lack of alternatives?
(though it seems there must be plenty of folks looking for jobs right now)
posted by kokaku at 12:33 PM on December 31
In NHL news, league makes new offer. Also, Long live the Kings.
posted by kokaku at 12:17 PM on December 28
1 year, $12m? It's good to be Youk.
posted by kokaku at 10:57 AM on December 12
NFL has lots of regional rivalries thanks to the scheduling. I'd vote Manning(s) v Brady.
posted by kokaku at 01:14 PM on December 10
So, as a Pats fan, I need to root for Denver based on the schoolyard logic that NE beat Denver beat Baltimore beat NE, thus is all cancels out? (since I'm expecting NE to drop at least one of the Houston-SF pair) I can live with that.
posted by kokaku at 08:08 PM on December 03
And yet head-to-head is first in all the tie breaking procedures. Is everyone using the same broken sorting algorithm? Unless this is because of a 3-way tie changing things.
posted by kokaku at 01:24 PM on December 03
Why is NE the #2 seed and Baltimore #3 when Baltimore beat NE in week 3?
posted by kokaku at 12:51 PM on December 03
This was a few days ago but I don't think it got posted
2007 v 2012 Patriots
posted by kokaku at 11:02 AM on November 26
That Sanchez fumble and the resulting TD return deserves Yakety Sax.
posted by kokaku at 01:11 AM on November 23
From Peter King Coaches have 45 active players each game. They don't have a "second team'' of the point-after-try unit. The PAT is one of the most risk-free plays in football. Rodney Harrison, the former Patriots safety now in the NBC studio with me on Sunday nights, didn't get taken off the kickoff team in routs. And Tony Dungy, who coached the Colts and Bucs, told me: "Jeff Saturday was my right guard on the PAT team, and I'd never think of taking him off. All my years in football, I never heard anyone, never heard Chuck Noll saying, 'Well, we better get Jack Ham off the PAT team.' It's not something I'd question.
posted by kokaku at 01:15 PM on November 19
SportsFilter: The Tuesday Huddle
Received in my email yesterday (thanks, dad - forwarded from a friend of his)...
THE VATICAN RAG
The Conclave of Cardinals may sound like a nickname for the St. Louis bullpen but it's actually the voting body that elected a new Pope (Francis I) to head the Roman Catholic Church on Wednesday evening. The conclave met to elect a replacement after Pope Benedict XVI resigned at the end of last month. Strangely enough, it takes a smaller percentage of Cardinals to elect a Pope (66 percent or 77 of the 115 electors) than it does to elect a player to Baseball's Hall of Fame (75 percent of the 563 eligible members of the BBWAA). Benedict XVI was the 11th Pope to have led the Church since Major League Baseball was founded in 1876. During Benedict's tenure of seven years and 315 days (2005-2013), Albert Pujols led all major-leaguers with 312 home runs. Barry Bonds holds the record for most homers hit during one Pope's reign, having clubbed 703 while Pope John Paul II led the Catholic faithful from 1978 to 2005. Below are the major-league home run leaders during each of the tenures of the 11 Popes who preceded Francis I:
Pope (Reign) Player HRs
Pius IX (1846-1876) Charley Jones 6
Leo XIII (1878-1903) Roger Connor 138
Pius X (1903-1914) Frank Schulte 73
Benedict XV (1914-1922) Babe Ruth 162
Pius XI (1922-1939) Babe Ruth 552
Pius XII (1939-1958) Ted Williams 482
John XXIII (1958-1963) Hank Aaron 174
Harmon Killebrew 174
Paul VI (1963-1978) Hank Aaron 437
John Paul I (1978) Jim Rice 13
John Paul II (1978-2005) Barry Bonds 703
Benedict XVI (2005-2013) Albert Pujols 312
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