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| Name: | Rogers Cadenhead |
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| Location: | Florida |
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| Last visit: | August 02, 2025 |
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rcade has posted 3,719 links and 14,345 comments to SportsFilter and 87 links and 689 comments to the Locker Room and 8 columns.
He Who Controls the Ice Controls the Universe: The Dallas Stars have used a monopoly on ice rinks in North Texas to take control of youth and recreational hockey, crush dissent by players and coaches and wring out ever-increasing profits from what used to be a community good. Some of their execs carried out a hotel kickback scheme for themselves. How far are they taking this insanity? When one dad explored coaching for an independent rink instead, a Stars official banned his daughters from all of their rinks. The girls are 5 and 7.
posted by rcade to hockey at 03:38 PM on August 01, 2025 - 3 comments
Pitcher Switches Teams in Middle of Doubleheader: Seranthony Domínguez was just traded to the other team during a doubleheader. "After the first game, I was in there with the guys, and they call me and they tell me, 'Hey we got you traded. Go to the next dugout,'" Domínguez said. After being traded he pitched an inning for the Toronto Blue Jays against the Baltimore Orioles, who swapped him for minor league pitcher Juaron Watts-Brown. This happened once before in 1922.
posted by rcade to baseball at 04:44 PM on July 30, 2025 - 1 comment
CFL Pickem Week 7: Garney Hensley Edition: The CFL's complete football monolopy on television has one last week. The Montreal Alouettes play the Calgary Stampeders tonight at 9 p.m. Eastern, followed by Edmonton/Saskatchewan Friday, Winnipeg/Toronto Saturday and Hamilton/B.C. Sunday. Ic23b leads in the contest. Make your picks!
posted by rcade to football at 01:45 PM on July 24, 2025 - 9 comments
CFL Pickem Week 6: Not Really Week 6 Edition: Our Canadian Football League contest returns for the Friday night clash between 4-1 Calgary and 3-1 Winnipeg. Pick that game and the two to come during the weekend. No one got any points in the last round that we picked, which is kind of amazing.
posted by rcade to football at 02:44 PM on July 18, 2025 - 3 comments
Stratospheric Skydiver Felix Baumgartner Dies in Paraglider Crash: Felix Baumgartner, who in 2012 became the first human to break the sound barrier with only his body, skydiving from 24 miles over New Mexico and achieving a descent speed of 843.6 mph, died Thursday in a paraglider crash off the coast of Italy. He was 56.
posted by rcade to extreme at 06:24 PM on July 17, 2025 - 10 comments
I've successfully avoided learning anything about cricket because I know I'll devote as much time to it as I did the Premier League when I began watching in 2006 on Fox Soccer. That first decade was glorious. I learned so much but still can't tell when a handball is a ball to hand.
Dallas/Fort Worth has Major League Cricket in Grand Prairie and something proposed for Allen. I might have to check it out if I'm visiting family at the right time to see matches.
posted by rcade at 08:40 PM on July 31, 2025
Ryno was one of the greats. It was a shame that only his final season had interleague play.
His game would be well-suited to today's MLB. He had 32-54 steals his first six seasons in Chicago.
posted by rcade at 10:20 AM on July 29, 2025
You missed game 3, Tommybiden. Or something went awry on the form.
posted by rcade at 02:20 PM on July 24, 2025
My picks:
Stampeders by 8
Roughriders by 14 (lock)
Blue Bombers by 10 (lock)
Lions by 3
My CFL expertise is a work in progress. I spent an embarrassing amount of time on a 4 a.m. thought exercise wondering why Vancouver doesn't have a team when it's such a big city. In lieu of apology I am picking B.C. this week.
posted by rcade at 02:18 PM on July 24, 2025
posted by rcade at 01:45 PM on July 24, 2025
The new Packers president is Ed Policy, which sounds like a name any organization could count on for informed leadership. I haven't been this jealous over an advantageous surname since I met Java book author Peter Coffee.
posted by rcade at 12:25 PM on July 24, 2025
posted by rcade at 03:51 PM on July 19, 2025
My picks:
Blue Bombers by 9
Roughriders by 8
Tiger-Cats by 17 (lock)
posted by rcade at 02:45 PM on July 18, 2025
Watching Felix step off that ladder and fall to Earth on livestream is one of my all-time top five moments in sports history.
posted by rcade at 10:04 AM on July 18, 2025
This is amazing. Tarnasky could've been a lot rougher on the drunk who kept charging him without even trying to throw a punch.
posted by rcade at 01:38 PM on July 17, 2025
My picks:
Blue Bombers by 13 (lock)
Tiger-Cats by 14 (lock)
Alouettes by 15 (lock)
Redblacks by 3
The Redblacks are my Canadian Jaguars. I will keep picking them until they start winning.
posted by rcade at 03:15 PM on July 03, 2025
They're always in the previous week's pickem link, but I try to also include them in each new thread.
posted by rcade at 07:50 PM on June 28, 2025
My picks:
Alouettes by 20 (lock)
Roughriders by 20 (lock)
Redblacks by 10 (lock)
Picking Ottawa means this is the weekend that Toronto gets right with ball.
posted by rcade at 02:55 PM on June 27, 2025
He Who Controls the Ice Controls the Universe
This is one of the craziest things an American sports franchise has ever done. They started out with the understandable goal of helping a youth hockey infrastructure grow in a place that didn't offer much. Then they embraced every cutthroat and greedy tactic of the travel team/advanced youth sports racket. It is way out of hand.
It also is alienating a lot of parents and players who should be prime Stars fan base potential. Dumb on all levels.