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captaincavegirl has posted 1 link and 35 comments to SportsFilter and 1 thread and 2 comments to the Locker Room.
Rangers forward Avery Hospitalized Sean Avery suffers a lacerated spleen in Tuesday's loss to the Pens and is out of the playoffs.
posted on Apr 30, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
Puerto Rican Track Kills Losing Thoroughbreds In Puerto Rico, many thoroughbreds never make it off the track alive. "More than 400 horses, many in perfect health, are killed each year by lethal injection at a clinic tucked behind the Hipodromo Camarero racetrack, chief veterinarian Jose Garcia told The Associated Press after checking clinic log books going back seven years." Hipodromo Camarero, the territory's only thoroughbred racetrack, races a stable of 1,300 horses five days a week.
posted to Other at 12:01 PM CDT
Relax! Cleveland Cavaliers' LeBron James now has mom as an enforcer Why was anyone ever worried about the hard fouls issued to LeBron James? Cleveland fans don't have to worry about James as long as his mom is in the house.
posted to Basketball at 5:54 AM CDT
Thanks for the video link jojo. I'm surprised anyone gave that incident a second glance, it looks like Mama LeBron just being a fan to me. If I was a Cavs fan I'd have been screaming in the heat of the moment too. I'm glad she's that into it.
posted at 7:43 PM CDT on May 13
Clemens Get thumbs down for U.S. Olympic Team Bob Watson (U.S. General Manager) doesn't want the distraction from the team, and is not expecting to be overruled from higher ups.
posted to Baseball at 10:04 PM CDT
Seems odd to me that Watson would even make a public statement like that at this point.
I'm going to assume that a reporter asked him if Clemens was being considered, not that he made some sort of public address. This just seems to me like The Sporting News made the best headline they could out of it.
posted at 11:14 PM CDT on May 7
Rangers forward Avery Hospitalized Sean Avery suffers a lacerated spleen in Tuesday's loss to the Pens and is out of the playoffs.
posted to Hockey at 12:11 PM CDT
I've been trying to figure out when it happened but haven't seen anything as of yet. According to the article on the NHL's website, the Rangers don't know when it happened so apparently it's nothing obvious. The article I linked to states that he was unconscious and not breathing when he arrived at the hospital at 3am, the NHL's article states that the Rangers say he walked in on his own; talk about two different versions of a story. I guess we'll be waiting a bit for accurate details.
posted at 12:29 PM CDT on April 30
I look forward to seeing him back on the ice as I for one find him entertaining.
I'll second that.
I enjoy watching that little punk-ass too.
posted at 5:22 PM CDT on April 30
Bionic athletes and the future of sports A look at the future of sports -- a world where prosthetics can enhance athletic skill beyond current human capabilities:
posted to Culture at 2:41 PM CDT
A thought-provoking read, thanks for the post catfish. The author raises some good points but I seriously doubt that in the future athletes may choose to opt for prosthetics for a competitive edge. It will be interesting to see how the future of sports will deal with this issue. As far as I'm concerned, if the prosthetic allows athletes to compete at the level of the other competitors, great. But if their prosthetic gives them a super-human advantage (as in the case of the runner in the article) that's just not fair.
posted at 6:58 PM CDT on April 29
Clemens reportedly had affair with country star Roger Clemens has another potential scandal he's already denying. He reportedly had a affair with country singer Mindy McCready in a decade-long relationship that began when she was 15 and Clemens was a 28-year old with the Red Sox. This could be especially damaging as Clemens' defamation suit against Brian McNamee proceeds.
posted to Baseball at 9:54 AM CDT
Now that the Mrs. Daly situation has been thrown out there, be it true or not, I'd have to agree that it's time for the Rocket to let his lawsuit go. Or could it be that he wants so badly to save his professional reputation that he's willing to have his personal reputation completely trashed?
How long before Mrs. Clemens cuts her losses?
posted at 10:15 PM CDT on May 1
Cheerleader death renews calls for increased safety steps. "Figures show 50 percent of injuries to young women in high school athletics are from cheerleading," [state Rep. Peter J. Koutoujian, chairman of the Public Health Oversight Committee] said. "These girls don’t wear pads, and they’re pushing the boundaries at every turn. While the boys' sports, contact sports, get all the attention, there's a great deal of injuries these young women endure."
posted to Other at 5:50 PM CDT
The most alarming thing to me is that no one seems to know if there was medical personnel on site during the competition or not. Maybe it isn't a contact sport, but common sense should tell us that a competition that involves throwing people 15 feet in the air and relying on a couple of dudes to catch them should warrant an EMT or two.
posted at 7:40 PM CDT on April 21
Perfect? Despite Super Bowl loss, 18-1 football team wants "19-0" trademarks
posted to Football at 11:00 AM CDT
I'd like to trademark "Damn Patriots", "Stinkin' Patriots", and "God I hate the Patriots".
posted at 11:22 PM CDT on April 21
Sean Avery does his best to reduce the NHL to the level of the WWE (single link to a Youtube video). The NHL responds.
posted to Hockey at 10:53 AM CDT
I think the league did a good job with this one; from not calling anything at the time to adjusting the rulebook immediately. And I've got to hand it to Avery, he had a good plan, I'm just surprised no one thought of it sooner.
"If this were anyone other than Avery, would this be a big deal?"
Yeah, for sure it would. I think this would be a WAY BIGGER deal if it was someone who doesn't have the reputation of being a little punk to begin with. Imagine if that had been say, Alfredsson or Selanne acting like that!
posted at 12:15 PM CDT on April 16
QMJHL mulls sanctions against Roy after brawl The son of legendary NHL goalie Patrick Roy could face discipline from the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League for his role in an ugly brawl during a first-round playoff game between the Quebec Remparts and the Chicoutimi Sagueneens. Roy coaches his son Jonathan on the Remparts and denies he encouraged the slugfest near the end of the second period in Saturday night's 10-1 thrashing from the Sagueneens.
posted to Hockey at 3:10 PM CDT
7 games? SEVEN???? I won't pretend to know anything about the QMJHL in particular, nor am I aware of the severity of suspensions handed down by that league in the past, but for that attack to give baby Roy just 7 games...now THAT'S classless. I don't know what number I'd have been okay with hearing but 7??? I'm speechless and a little bit sick.
posted at 8:41 PM CDT on March 26
And Your Dreams Come True, California Dreamin', Hot Fun in the Summertime, Good Vibrations Anaheim Ducks, Stanley Cup Champions. First West Coast team to win Stanley in 82 years.
posted to Hockey at 10:05 PM CDT
Ah, cities don't win Cups - teams do. The Ducks completely deserved to win, and whether or not anyone will notice/care outside that dressing room and the hardcores is a completely separate issue.
My sentiments exactly. The Ducks earned that cup and those that love hockey in southern California deserve to see their team skate the cup. It was an excellent season for the Ducks from start to finish.
Our socal teams may not have the support that they should, but it's growing and this cup victory is a good thing. Youth hockey in southern California has already exploded over the last few years, producing some very successful teams. This means a ton to us in socal, even if most of us don't know it yet.
Way to go Ducks!!!
posted at 2:06 PM CDT on June 7
Nick Saban to leave Dolphins for Alabama Nick Saban is 'Bama bound. Ending five weeks of speculation and two days of deliberation, Saban accepted the Alabama coaching job and abandoned his bid to rebuild the Miami Dolphins after only two seasons.
posted to Football at 11:25 AM CDT
As a Dolphins fan I'm disappointed about Saban, not because he was accomplishing anything, but because he still had time on his contract and his bailing out is just one more brick to the head. Every time it seems like the Dolphins and their fans have something to get optimistic/excited about (ricky, new head coaches, ricky again, culpepper...) we get smacked upside the head. I, for one, am getting a headache.
Maybe the next coach's contract will be a little harder to get out of.
posted at 2:43 AM CDT on January 4
Jayson Taylor feels that a suspension for steriods should include a ban from certain postseason awards. I personally agree. What do you think?
posted to Football at 11:32 AM CDT
regarding the idea of Jason Taylor going around complaining about Merriman...
Wednesday I read a slightly longer article that mentions that his statements were made during a conference call with reporters in Indianapolis. To make it seem like Taylor's stomping his feet and crying about the fact that Merriman has a chance of winning isn't really fair. If he was asked if he thinks that it would be fair if Merriman won, what would you expect him to say? He clearly thinks that such a suspension should disqualify Merriman from certain accolades, many others agree-all JT did was offer his opinion.
posted at 7:50 PM CDT on December 28
Just this morning I watched a recently tivo'd Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel that addressed this type of thing in America. According to that story, also-rans are often sold (for roughly $200) to someone who in turn auctions them off, many ending up in slaughterhouses and sold for human consumption in Asia and Europe. If I remember correctly, the slaughtering of horses was banned in the US fairly recently so now horses are trucked to either Mexico or Canada where the practice remains legal. There is now a bill working its way through congress that, if passed, will outlaw the transportation of horses across the border for the purpose of slaughter. One of the horse rescuers interviewed in the story claims that it would cost the owners of these horses about $60 to humanely euthanize them but many take the $200 instead.
Just because the American pallette and sensibilities are offended by horse meat, it doesn't mean that the rest of the world's should be.
I agree, but it's not just about the yuck factor. To refer again to the Real Sports piece, at least part of the problem with the slaughter of horses in the US is that that slaughterhouses use the same equipment to kill horses that they use on cows. Needless to say, the anatomy of cows and horses is quite different and the cow-killin' equipment is not as effective on horses, thereby resulting in more suffering for the horse.