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- 07/04/08
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Aussie Rules Football Is Punchtastic! In connection to the previous post about Sean Avery, this is what Brodeur should have done to him. And we think American football players are tough. Truth be told, it was a really cheap shot..... but funny.
posted on Apr 16, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
Harry Caray's Been Gone For 10 Years It's been ten years since Harry passed away. A Hall member and one of the all time great baseball announcers, Harry made every game exciting. He worked for the St Louis Cardinals, Chicago White Sox, and Chicago Cubs where he is still beloved by all. Whether the game was 1-0 or 15-2, you just had to keep listening. He wasn't a cookie cutter announcer like is so prevalent today. I loved him and miss him. This Bud's for you Harry. God Bless You.
posted on Feb 5, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
An Instant Classic - Single link YouTube post. "Unbelievable. I knew he'd hole it."
posted to Golf at 2:42 AM CDT
Upon further review, He's out!!! MLB Pushes for some form of instant replay.
posted to Baseball at 12:20 AM CDT
Of all the major sports, I think baseball will have the hardest time making instant replay work, especially when it's about fair or foul home run calls. It's a big field with a small ball and we've all seen replays where you can't tell which side of the foul pole the ball sailed by. I think they're going to have to increase the number of cameras and probably mount one on top of both foul poles.
posted at 9:25 AM CDT on June 14
Crooked ref claims NBA fixes games Tim Donaghy, ex-ref convicted of betting on games, claims referees pressured to call fouls by league and sometimes do so on their own. NBA denies it.
posted to Basketball at 1:08 PM CDT
Good point irunfromclondes. I'd like to know if the jock on Big Brown had a prop bet in Vegas for his horse to finish last, especially in light of the fact that they found nothing wrong with the horse.
posted at 4:20 PM CDT on June 11
Johnson says he'll return medal Olympic great Michael Johnson says he was "shocked" by former teammate Antonio Pettigrew's doping admission and will return the gold medal the two of them helped the United States win in the 1,600-meter relay at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
posted to Olympics at 7:54 AM CDT
It's a team event and a member of the team cheated. The right and honorable thing to do is to give it back. I'm surprised the IOC didn't already negate the win and take away all four medals from the entire team. Cheating is becoming way too prevalent and acceptable. Maybe the only way to combat this cancer is to take away all the medals won by the entire track team. Make each participant aware that their actions affect everyone.
posted at 10:26 AM CDT on June 4
the IOC taking back medals
Who has the actual medal is immaterial. You take back the medal by wiping the team from the record books. You give no mention of their participation in the event whatsoever. You give the Gold to the Silver medalists, the Silver to the Bronze and the Bronze to the fourth place team. The Gold medals given to the cheaters have no value. It happened to Ben Johnson after his 100m dash Gold and the East German Women's Swim team when they found out that the 'Shemales' had Y chromosomes.
posted at 5:06 PM CDT on June 4
Canadian NHL teams mean money The six Canadian teams account for 31 per cent of the $1.1 billion (U.S.) in league ticket revenue, and have gone through league-leading double-digit increases over last season, according to the internal NHL report.
posted to Business and Law at 11:36 AM CDT
The article touches on it, but the weak U.S. dollar has a lot to do with this statistic. The Canadian dollar was about $0.65 just a few years ago, now it's about $1.02, a 57% increase. That 31% becomes 18% in old dollars. 18% is the percentage of Canadian teams in the NHL, so it sounds like both sides of the border are pretty equal. That said, as an 'Original Sixer' I'd like to see the NHL retract to areas where winter really exists.
posted at 1:50 PM CDT on May 30
they'll bring back the Winnipeg Jets...
Winnipeg Jets? Bobby Hull? Old time hockey? Hanson Brothers? Be still my heart.
posted at 2:59 PM CDT on May 30
Collins returns to Chicago: TNT analyst Doug Collins returns to the Bulls after being replaced by Phil Jackson in 1989. In February, Collins commented he wouldn't consider coaching for another five or six years. How things change.
posted to Basketball at 11:58 AM CDT
It seems to me that the two main reasons Collins was originally fired from the Bulls were his dictatorial nature and the tough discipline he tried to enforce. The team rejected him like the current Bulls rejected Scott Skiles for the same reasons. I think this is a hire destined to fail.
posted at 4:26 PM CDT on May 29
Fines will be imposed for clear cases of flopping: The league office has yet to determine exact fine amounts for offending flops and how fines might escalate for repeat offenders, but in-game arena observers and video reviewers will be instructed to report instances of theatrical flopping for potential punishment as part of postgame reports on officiating and other matters.
posted to Basketball at 11:35 AM CDT
I'd rather see the league start enforcing the travelling call. Flopping cheapens the game, but taking three steps from the free throw line to slam the ball makes a mockery of it.
posted at 4:32 PM CDT on May 29
Say It Ain't So, Chuckster A prosecutor says retired NBA star Charles Barkley will face felony charges if he fails to repay a $400,000 gambling debt to a Las Vegas Strip casino.
posted to Basketball at 12:32 PM CDT
Chuck is lucky that Bugsy's buddies don't run Vegas anymore or he'd be getting a different kind of letter. One with a horses head attached to it.
posted at 1:25 PM CDT on May 15
A dazzling Manny being Manny moment I saw this on ESPN this morning and burst out laughing as soon as I saw the high-five. There are few players who could get away with doing something like that.
posted to Baseball at 11:18 AM CDT
The guy in the stands is lucky he didn't have a beer or a dog in his hands or Manny might have grabbed it before he made the double play throw. You can't beat fun at the old ballpark.
posted at 1:22 PM CDT on May 15
Yankees fan kills Red Sox fan.
posted to Baseball at 2:44 AM CDT
She should be punished as severely as if she put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger.
posted at 5:19 PM CDT on May 6
From the looks of things here, it seems I'm not the only one blowing off work today to watch this match.
What a putt!
Rocco by one with two to play. Does anyone know what happens if this ends up in a tie again? Sudden death? Another 18 holes?
The Golf Channel had a doctor on that stated Tiger's knee is arthritic, so it's not going to get better. Unlike a football injury wear you tear an ACL, arthitis cannot be cured, so Tiger's future is questionable. Just like Johnny Miller's career was cut short, Tiger's could be, too....unless he has a knee replacement and becomes a Bionic Man.