SportsFilter: Garfield's blog

Bowman Ditches Detroit for Blackhawks

garfield — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:16:49 -0400

Didn't see this coming.

EPL Fantasy 08-09 Open for business

garfield — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:03:10 -0400

Pssst. Sign up. Pass it on. Don't tell squealy. Games start August 16. League Name : Spofi Code : 84936-22714

Leafs offer Tavares contract in effort to circumvent NHL draft

garfield — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:30:47 -0400

With the Toronto Sun calling for JFJ's head this morning, could this be a ploy to save his job, or might it actually work out?

NHL 07-08 Prediction Thread

garfield — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:04:45 -0400

Have it at. What say you? Who'll make it that didn't last year. Who falls out of the 'real' season. Who makes it to the SCF? Whatever else you want to Nostradamusize about, this is the place to do it.

HGH + The Clear = HR(50%)

garfield — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:38:29 -0400

A Tufts physicist and baseball fan will publish an article in the upcoming issue of the American Journal of Physics detailing how a small increase in muscle mass could increase the amount of home runs a professional-baseball-level player would hit by over 50 percent.

"I prefer the whore that is your sister"

garfield — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 12:01:27 -0400

= Headbutt

Bettman Buggers Up Balsillie's Bid

garfield — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:08:32 -0400

Canadian billionaire Jim Balsillie has accused NHL commissioner Gary Bettman of forcing the owner of the Nashville Predators to break off discussions about the sale of the team to Balsillie

Yashin Laughin' all the way to the bank

garfield — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 08:34:51 -0400

The four years left on the deal are worth $26.45 million, according to Newsday. Under the NHL collective bargaining agreement, the Islanders can buy Yashin out by paying two-thirds of the remaining amount ($17.63 million) over the next eight years. The salary-cap hit will be some $2.2 million per season over that time.

Jackpot

garfield — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:13:39 -0400

Despite long odds, the Penguins will be in Pittsburgh for the next 30 years housed in a new arena they will pay next to nothing for. "Make no mistake about it -- without expanded gaming in Pennsylvania, the Penguins would be gone. The first puck would have been dropped next year in Kansas City."

Down with Bettman

garfield — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:18:36 -0500

Why the wee one must go.

Constructive Criticism

garfield — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:31:48 -0500

"When you burn the village to save it once, people come back. When you take out part of the village, rebuild it, and then napalm it over the course of a bitterly public, year-long firefight, people leave...With all due respect to the NHL's more fan-friendly policies, Chairman Mao seems to forget that you can't make a Great Leap Forward when your foundation's sagging."

NHL#s > NBA #s. So says Dallas Mavericks' owner Mark Cuban

garfield — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:28:04 -0500

"I would be doing the same thing if I was the NHL. And suddenly your numbers are bigger than basketball's."

S(he) failed

garfield — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:21:19 -0500

Test reports sent to the Indian Olympic Association on Sunday said Soudarajan "does not possess the sexual characteristics of a woman," The Times of India reported.

Hockey...er...Ball.

garfield — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 18:16:51 -0500

Hockey stats leave alot to the imagination. Hopefully, not for long. Fans of the game are embarking on a statistical revolution: expanding the limited scope of current player data, and establishing entirely new standards for measuring true on-ice productivity. Greg Wyshynski talks to the man behind hockey-recap.com, my new favorite resource. hockey fans are being mislead by the current numbers. He calls plus/minus "worthless"

NHL and Google sittin in a tree. A W E S O M E

garfield — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 13:29:28 -0500

"NHL will provide in-season full-length games on delay to Google Video at http://video.google.com/ nhl.html. Google also will receive select NHL classic games...This is the first time Google Video has worked with a major professional sports league in such a manner." [via]