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kokaku
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Location: NYC
Member since: April 29, 2003
Last visit: November 16, 2009

kokaku has posted 3 links and 232 comments to SportsFilter and 0 links and 2 comments to the Locker Room.

Recent Links

Where's the consistency?: Not a suspension. Suspension. No suspensions (cheap hit at 1:24 into the video, injury-causing facewashes at 3:15). Suspension (0:50 into video).

posted by kokaku to hockey at 08:50 PM on April 19 - 8 comments

Newbie with great seats observes the game.: Curt Schilling gets great court-side seats and shares his observations as a sports star, but basketball novice (after some comments about the Red Sox).

posted by kokaku to basketball at 06:52 AM on June 10 - 16 comments

18 straight regular season wins: breaking the 70 year old record held by the Chicago Bears spanning 1933-1934 (link to a 2MB PDF). 21 straight wins including the playoffs and Super Bowl. A great accomplishment, but can they top Miami's perfect season? Is there anyone on the schedule who can break the streak?

posted by kokaku to football at 06:33 PM on October 25 - 11 comments

Recent Comments

Belichick Call Questioned in Pats' Loss to Colts

Terrible call, but the game never should have come down to that. All along there were bad play calls & clock management decisions. When your run is working well enough (between Maroney and Faulk), why have drives where you go all-pass and 3-and-out? They had a lead that was their's to blow.

This used to be a NE specialty - build a lead, and grind out the clock on the ground. Watching BillB this season and last (despite what he did with Matt Cassel), I'm thinking that Crennel & Weis had a lot more to do with the Pats success than they get credit for (even though the two of them have been disappointing as head coaches).

posted by kokaku at 11:28 AM on November 16

Redesigning the Worst NFL Helmet Graphics

The Pats helmet made me immediately think of this. If they're not going to bring back Pat the Patriot, I say go for it - the NFL needs to lighten up.

posted by kokaku at 10:27 AM on November 11

SportsFilter: The Tuesday Huddle

Debo - is it all games or just the AFC throwback games?

posted by kokaku at 11:29 AM on October 20

SportsFilter: The Thursday Huddle

What an amazing goal

posted by kokaku at 09:58 AM on October 15

Nadal and Roddick speak out against the 11 month tennis season.

Be like the Williams sisters - don't play so much. They have obvious scorn for the rankings system. That may only work for the top tier players. Lower ranked or unranked players may feel the need to play as much as possible to break into the ranks or move up the ranks.

posted by kokaku at 03:56 PM on October 12

Washington's NFL Team Orders Newspaper to Remove Negative Photos

As far as the fans... stop going to the games - a coordinated fan strike is the only way to motivate the owner to change things.

As far as the WaPo... bread & circuses! And they wonder why people don't read newspapers any more.

posted by kokaku at 11:39 AM on October 12

Angels Sweep Red Sox, Head to ALCS

It is somehow fitting that the Sox would go out because Papelbon finally gets burned. All season he's been wacky with control - walking guys, loading bases, almost always getting out of his self-created jams. Not this time. Sox have gotten soft - there was none of the fire that won in the playoffs before.

posted by kokaku at 10:14 AM on October 12

Pontiac Silverdome Up for Auction

Sportsfilter bake sale to purchase it and build something to rival Telemanjaro?

posted by kokaku at 12:32 PM on October 08

Browns agree to send Edwards to Jets

Are we sure it wasn't Browns agree to send Edwards to Jets?

Mind you, I have no idea why any of that would happen, but Google is fun on a slow day.

posted by kokaku at 12:00 PM on October 07

SportsFilter: The Monday Huddle

An interesting chat with Theo Epstein

posted by kokaku at 09:55 AM on October 05

SportsFilter: The Monday Huddle

Silly football stats from CHFF

posted by kokaku at 09:35 AM on September 28

NBA Referee Lock-out

I'd be curious to know how many tons of dollars the NBA is raking in relative to other years such that they feel they need to curb referee salaries.

posted by kokaku at 03:40 PM on September 21

Punter Hits Telemanjaro at First Cowboys Game in New Stadium

good job rcade - you own telemanjaro - now we just need to do a bit of work on cowboys hdtv

posted by kokaku at 03:05 PM on August 22

Bolt Wins 200 in World Record Time

irunfromclones, are you saying the real Usain Bolt is a short dumpy guy who created a superfast Bolt-bot that's winning all the races?

posted by kokaku at 08:01 AM on August 21

Big Papi press conference

Well said, hincandenza. Easy for all to judge, but nobody really has all the facts and we don't even know which facts we do have since they were released partially and illegally.

posted by kokaku at 07:44 PM on August 08