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The Hall of Fame Rejection Committee

Jaquandor — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 19:57:59 -0500

For reasons passing understanding, Buffalo sports-talk hosts Mike Schopp and the Bulldog have been eliminating three baseball players from the Hall of Fame each day, with the intent of eventually arriving at a single Hall of Famer. It's one of those sports-talk-radio things that makes sense while you're listening to the show, but when you're linking it on SportsFilter, you're hard-pressed to come up with a post explaining why it makes sense at all. Hmmmmm....

The NFL lowers the boom on Vegas parties.

Jaquandor — Sat, 31 Jan 2004 22:10:00 -0500

Apparently a number of Super Bowl parties in Las Vegas have to be cancelled because, according to the NFL, charging someone to be able to see the game on a large-screen TV constitutes copyright violation, in some way. I confess I am very fuzzy on just what the NFL's complaint here is. (NYT Registration required)

How many times has the team leading the Super Bowl at the half gone on to win?

Jaquandor — Mon, 26 Jan 2004 12:13:04 -0500

Find out in this article of useless Super Bowl trivia, with items numbered 1 to 38 and based on this year's matchup. One factoid that didn't get in this article is that this will be the Patriots' first Super Bowl appearance not played in the Superdome in New Orleans. (You're wondering if I have a life? I think it's pretty obvious that I don't!)

It was the Figure Skater, in the corridor, with a lead pipe!

Jaquandor — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 12:05:44 -0500

Ten years have passed since Tonya Harding's goons set out to "handicap" the competition, Nancy Kerrigan. Ten years, wow....that's a long time....[crickets chirping]....what? Skating's a sport! It is! Honest!

Are the NFL's fines for excessive end-zone celebrations racially motivated?

Jaquandor — Sun, 04 Jan 2004 18:42:28 -0500

This op-ed piece, from The Buffalo News, says Yes.

From Athens to....Athens!

Jaquandor — Wed, 26 Nov 2003 13:05:25 -0500

The Olympic Flame will make a pretty stunning relay this time out: Since the journey from where they light it (Greece) to the location of the Games (Athens) is so short, they're sending it literally around the world: the Flame will stop in every city that has hosted the modern Summer Games.

The Football Gods reward a Football Nomad.

Jaquandor — Tue, 25 Nov 2003 10:08:17 -0500

Yup, Gregg Easterbrook's Tuesday Morning Quarterback -- once of Slate, then of ESPN.com, and late of FootballOutsiders.com -- is on the move yet again. This time he lands, appropriately enough, at NFL.com.

Zen and the Art of Taunting.

Jaquandor — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 12:51:38 -0500

If you want to do some high-quality taunting, here's a primer on how to do it, with some quality examples, like the guy who sat right behind Phil Jackson at a game and read aloud from his book.

President Bush is Pedro Martinez!

Jaquandor — Thu, 13 Nov 2003 14:24:11 -0500

Politics aside, this has to be the weirdest political metaphor I've yet encountered. Mickey Kaus has some pretty strange thought processes. Basically, Bush is Pedro on the mound in a crucial game (like Game Seven of the ALCS); he's getting into a jam (Iraq); and the voters are playing the Grady Little role and have to decide whether to leave him in or take him out.

Will Mr. T and Dolph Lundgren be named as witnesses?

Jaquandor — Wed, 12 Nov 2003 17:35:39 -0500

A boxer who claims that his life was the inspiration for Rocky thinks that Sylvester Stallone's been profiting off his life story long enough. Yup, it's a lawsuit!

You can only buy this...

Jaquandor — Tue, 11 Nov 2003 21:21:35 -0500

...if you promise not to track down Steve Bartman and bean him with it. Yup, the Infamous Ball is up for auction.

"A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein."

Jaquandor — Tue, 28 Oct 2003 10:38:58 -0500

Looking for instances of dumb things said by Joe Theismann, I came across this list of dumb sports quotes said by lots of folks. Utter hilarity ensues when people try to use words they don't know.

Useless Factoids about the 2003 World Series

Jaquandor — Sun, 26 Oct 2003 08:07:34 -0500

Once again, Jayson Stark comes up with a bunch of goofy stats and nifty factoids about the World Series. My favorite is that while the Marlins now have two World Series championships in their franchise history, only one franchise in baseball has played fewer winning seasons than the Marlins have. (That would be the Devil Rays, with zero.)

Hey, wanna own a piece of baseball history?

Jaquandor — Mon, 20 Oct 2003 14:31:43 -0400

I mean, literally a piece of history? Donruss is cutting up a Babe Ruth jersey to put the swatches into packs of baseball cards. Is this desecration? A lame marketing ploy to jump-start a moribund sports-collectibles industry? A stroke of genius that will give some fans a tangible piece of the game?

It's a blitz!

Jaquandor — Sat, 18 Oct 2003 15:24:30 -0400

Gregg Easterbrook, writer of the Tuesday Morning Quarterback columns on ESPN's Page 2, has apparently been fired, apparently for some odd comments he wrote that imply some odd views on Jews in a non-ESPN column recently. This has been going around the left-side of the Blogosphere over the last few days, with speculation now being that since ESPN and Miramax are both Disney-owned companies, Easterbrook was actually criticizing his bosses.