Category: Sports

… for other sports.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNmPybFK2_o

Committed to the team [photo].

Yes.

Washington Redskins Owner Bans Fan’s Signs.

Here’s the source article.

And a great piece about the team from a two-time Pulitzer winner: Monday Night Football.

Alas, this play doesn’t appear to matter in the longer scheme of things, but these umpires get paid to get it right, don’t they. This wasn’t even close.

ALCS Gm 4: Yanks catch a break on controversial play [short video].

It’s being titled the worst call of all time.

Only three major league franchises have never been to a World Series.

Washington Senators/Texas Rangers (49 seasons)

Montreal Expos/Washington Nationals (41 seasons)

Seattle (Washington) Mariners (33 seasons)

What is it with franchises related to Washington?

Peyton Manning telling Bob Costas about watching Eli play:

“I get so into it. I get so worked up. I remember last year they were playing Philly, or maybe it was two years ago. They beat them and he drove them down there late and I remember standing on top of the bed, yelling at Toomer or one of his receivers because they ran a wrong route, and Joe Buck is just ripping Eli, just because that’s what he seems to enjoy doing.

“So I’m yelling at Joe Buck, ‘Just call the play-by-play, Joe! Let Aikman do the commentary.’ I said to myself, ‘Peyton, what are you doing? Why are you on top of the bed yelling at the TV?’ I’ve got a game here in four hours against New England or something . . . But you know what, I love watching him play. That’s the first thing I do after a game when I get to the locker room. I’m asking for the Giants score.”

As reported by Neil Blast, Newsday. They have the video.

The best part, of course, is the dis of Joe Buck.

Back in July near Miami, 12-year-old Jennifer came away with Phillies player Ryan Howard’s 200th home run ball. Florida Marlins officials asked her to give up the milestone ball so Howard could autograph it.

Turns out the team pulled the old switcheroo on Jennifer, handing her a polished, new ball autographed by Howard. She didn’t buy the trickery and went home and told her mom, who asked the Phillies for the ball she gave up. After a long struggle, which included a lawsuit, she’s finally gotten the Phillies to back down.

Consumerist has more.

Malcolm Gladwell writes about Football, dog fighting, and brain damage in this week’s New Yorker. An excerpt:

“Lately, I’ve tried to break it down,” [Kyle] Turley said. “I remember, every season, multiple occasions where I’d hit someone so hard that my eyes went cross-eyed, and they wouldn’t come uncrossed for a full series of plays. You are just out there, trying to hit the guy in the middle, because there are three of them. You don’t remember much. There are the cases where you hit a guy and you’d get into a collision where everything goes off. You’re dazed. And there are the others where you are involved in a big, long drive. You start on your own five-yard line, and drive all the way down the field—fifteen, eighteen plays in a row sometimes. Every play: collision, collision, collision. By the time you get to the other end of the field, you’re seeing spots. You feel like you are going to black out. Literally, these white explosions—boom, boom, boom—lights getting dimmer and brighter, dimmer and brighter.

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Hey hey hey goodbye

“Detroit led Minnesota by seven games on Sept. 6.”

SI.com

Major League Baseball played all but one of its 2,430 regularly scheduled games this season — the Pirates and Cubs were rained out just this last Thursday night.

Today, the last day of the season, five of the 15 games went into extra innings. It’s as if they didn’t want it to be over.

The Tigers face the Twins Tuesday in what they call the play-in game.

 

Eli Manning left a souvenir on a column in the locker room of the new Dallas Cowboy’s stadium.

From Deadspin.

[A]n important point that everyone outside the U.S. knows but that few resident Americans take seriously: It has become a tremendous nuisance, and often a humiliation, for foreigners to get through U.S. customs-and-immigration clearance. Lots of people still want to immigrate to the US, but people who have a choice are often glad not to travel here. (How to imagine this, if you hold a US passport? Think of your most unpleasant TSA screening experience, and multiply it by a hundred — with an extra dose of, Why should we think you’re not a terrorist?…) …

James Fallows on one of the reasons at least why Chicago did not get the Olympics.

… was played 106 years ago today. The Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Boston Pilgrims 7-3.

Cy Young was the losing pitcher that day but went on to win two games as Boston—later the Red Sox—won the best-of-nine series, five games to three.

As, for the second week in a row, a key member of my fantasy football team has been taken off the field with an injury, I just want you to know that for a small consideration I will agree not to add you to my roster.

Think of it as injury insurance.

Sincerely,

NewMexiKen
General Manager of The Rattlers

Pulaski [Academy] hasn’t punted since 2007 (when it did so as a gesture of sportsmanship in a lopsided game), and here’s why: “The average punt in high school nets you 30 yards, but we convert around half our fourth downs, so it doesn’t make sense to give up the ball,” Kelley says. “Besides, if your offense knows it has four downs instead of three, it totally changes the game. I don’t believe in punting and really can’t ever see doing it again.”

He means ever.

Sports Illustrated has the story on the coach that never punts. He doesn’t even have a punter on the team.

… this time of year. Not only is the weather the best, but we’ve got the Rockies chasing the Dodgers, Notre Dame at Michigan, UCLA at Tennessee, Tiger up by 7 at the BMW, and even tennis when it isn’t raining.

When I die and go to heaven it better be mid-to-late September or early October all the time. Otherwise how could it be paradise?

Usain Bolt 100m 9.58 world record Berlin 2009 HD video

The Italian audio makes it even more exciting!