Some thoughts on last week: Put $5 on the Niners, -3, last night; they still found a way to give me a heart attack at the end of the game. Thank you, Jay Cutler, for sucking (he threw his 9th Red Zone INT yesterday!). My friend Rahul said it best about this abortion of a [...]
Currently watching the Bears getting called for not one, but TWO delay of game penalties on their 2-minute drill. They actually got called for a delay of game when lining up for a field goal with 6 seconds in the half while they still had a timeout remaining. Someone needs to be fired at half [...]
“Mr. Steinbrenner deserves another championship.” – Joe Girardi Halloween winners on the subway in Boston. I love this headline: FAT footballers to receive free Big Macs in Thai sponsorship deal. Somehow, I’m not sure this is exactly the best idea… Thailand’s top footballers will receive free burgers as part of their new three-year, £545,000 sponsorship [...]
“The biggest things in life have been achieved by people who, at the start, we would have judged crazy. And yet if they had not had these crazy ideas the world would have been more stupid.” – Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger. Wenger may not have been referring to the Snuggie specifically in the quote above, [...]
It’s not every day that I get to start off a post talking about whale penis. Apparently, someone thinks it’s comfortable. Some analysis of the unheralded Saints offensive line. Brett Favre – Tecmo Bowl Hero It turns out that yes, NBA players gamble during games. And some of them don’t want to pay up. How [...]
Why the Twins lost: It comes down to this: As a franchise, what do you aspire to be? If “world champion” is your answer, you cannot tolerate or coddle role players who botch bunts, run the bases poorly and miss signs or cutoff men — brainless mistakes that cost you runs, and games, especially against [...]
Real Madrid’s economic model looks unsustainable. Well, no shit. They don’t factor in bribing the government for hundreds of millions of dollars though. That usually doesn’t show up on the financial statements. At least they haven’t been caught betting on their own games yet. Anyone ever go to prison for the basketball games? As the [...]
Some Injuries May Hurt More Than Others. No, this isn’t about a guy getting kicked in the balls. More on Atletico Madrid, the most entertaining team the other side of the Atlantic. The original mission the FourFourTwo bosses gave La Liga Loca was to deliver a careful, detailed and thoroughly thoughtful thesis of what Porto [...]
“We only get one chance at this, with no do-overs. Life is, in effect, a non-repeatable experiment with no control.” – Tim Kreider The NFL and Nature The NFL has become so fast and efficient that last season, teams each scored 22.03 points per game, the highest since 1967, while all the league’s 32 teams [...]
If you are a fan of the show Mad Men, or a fan of the Sox,you’ll love this video parody via The Bostonist. The language used is the same I used towards the TV on Sunday as Tom Brady was on his ass….again. How about some two tight end shotgun, or a halfback/middle screen, Bill! [...]