- 09:12 PM
- 09/15/25
It's too early to tell, but folks who were calling the NFC North "stacked" were maybe a bit premature.
Jared Goff may wish he still had Ben Johnson, and Johnson will surely wish he didn't have Caleb Williams.
I don't know if JJ McCarthy will become another Brock Purdy, but Caleb seems like he could easily become another Jeff George.
posted by beaverboard at 01:03 PM on September 10, 2025
For the Clips to be "bleeped", they first have to be "bleeped up", which it seems they are.
Ballmer way overpaid when he bought into the league. Donald Sterling was massively rewarded for being Donald Sterling. Ballmer paid an unprecedented premium in a compulsory divestment situation. Franchise sale prices had been cooking along at around the 500-600 million dollar mark and Ballmer comes in at 2 billion - to a seller with zero leverage. That blew the doors open and now franchise values are up beyond earth's atmosphere.
It's hard to part a fool from his money in a meaningful way when the fool has as much money as Ballmer does.
I wouldn't be disappointed if the NBA forced Ballmer to sell. If he does, he'll be rewarded the same way Sterling was.
posted by beaverboard at 09:41 PM on September 09, 2025
I got to see them all play back then. My late father in law filled out scorecards of the games and got a few sigs as well.
There's a stop light at the intersection of Rt. 28 and Eldredge Park Way in Orleans that lines up with the left field foul pole of the ballpark, which sits right on the NW corner of the intersection.
You did not want to be in a line of eastbound cars stopped at that light when Frank Thomas was at the plate.
posted by beaverboard at 02:45 PM on September 09, 2025
The jury is still out on whether when the Bills win a big game, it's because of Sean McDermott or in spite of him.
Last night, the Bills failed on not one, not two, but THREE two point conversion attempts after TD's.
Meanwhile, for the most part, the Baltimore kicker was looking like money.
But then he misses a PAT in the 4th quarter.
And the Ravens lose by one.
I can only imagine how many fights broke out within the groups of Bills fans who left early.
For God's sake, doesn't Buffalo have a Reich Rule in situations like this after what happened in 1993?
posted by beaverboard at 01:18 PM on September 08, 2025
Meanwhile, great to see Nick Folk still in the league swinging his steady leg, back with the Jets after cranking out the two best statistical years of his career with the Titans.
He had a good thing going with the Pats but idiot GM Belichick decided to draft a PK in the 4th round (apparently, no long snappers were available) and moved Folk on to Tennessee. Nick excelled in Nashville and the rookie in Foxboro sucked. Dumb draft choice. One of many.
Nick is only 40, so he's got a ways to go if he wants to get into the rock of ages Adam Vinatieri / Morten Andersen / George Blanda territory.
posted by beaverboard at 11:57 PM on September 07, 2025
The bigger story is whose idea it is.
Is the USTA obeying in advance or did they get a directive from somewhere in the government or the power elite?
posted by beaverboard at 02:37 PM on September 07, 2025
NFL post-game internal memo:
1) Don't put a franchise in the UK if you can't handle the weather in Philadelphia.
posted by beaverboard at 04:57 PM on September 05, 2025
Dallas post-game internal memo:
1) Have an opponent spit on Prescott before the start of each half.
2) Figure out if there may be a reason for the following, which was repeated throughout the broadcast: "Hurts, with all kinds of time..."
3) Either get Cee Dee Lamb some Lester Hayes Stickum or quit throwing him passes with Wallenda-level degrees of difficulty and high potential for serious collisions.
posted by beaverboard at 04:56 PM on September 05, 2025
Indianapolis being favored over Miami is strange. What am I not seeing there?
An off-season of steadily building impatience with former wunderkind McDaniel and ongoing dislike for longtime brunt Grier.
Home game for the Colts with a new DC and what should be a decent D overall.
Zach Wilson might miss the walkthrough looking for maturity at Ike and Jonesy's.
posted by beaverboard at 12:18 PM on September 03, 2025
If agent Jimmy Sexton's top 5 money earning college head coach clients (including Kalen DeBoer of Alabama) were fired without cause, the combined buyout total would be 340 million dollars.
Nick Saban was (and is) a Jimmy Sexton client but never figured into that math because he didn't have a buyout clause in his contract when he was coaching.
Sexton made up for it when he negotiated a massive buyout for DeBoer that Bama never should have agreed to. They wanted to look brisk and decisive in replacing Saban and paid accordingly.
posted by beaverboard at 10:27 AM on September 03, 2025
If a sports editor ordered a new plot concept for The Wizard Of Oz:
"Horned Frogs Of Dykes Lick Heels Of Gold Digger's Daddy"
posted by beaverboard at 11:23 AM on September 02, 2025
RIP Alabama and Dallas great Lee Roy Jordan, who regrettably lived to see the Cowboys GM trade away Micah Parsons, but thankfully won't be around to witness the spectacle of boosters at his alma mater begging Coach Saban to come out of retirement and rescue the backsliding Tide.
posted by beaverboard at 04:41 PM on August 31, 2025
Noles send Tide home stunned.
There are people not getting any younger who have never known what it's like when all three of the big Fla. schools are nationally competitive at the same time.
The glory years would have been even more epic if Coach Bowden had cared enough about placekicking to recruit and develop reliable, sustained excellence at the position.
posted by beaverboard at 09:42 PM on August 30, 2025
Jerry Jones:
"those draft picks could get us, I'm talking top Pro-Bowl type players," the Cowboys owner said. "They could get us as few as three or as many as five outstanding players."
The Cowboys haven't drafted all that badly in recent years, so maybe.
But it sure sounds like Jerry has Johnnie Walkered his front office brain back into the Herschel Zone.
posted by beaverboard at 05:13 PM on August 29, 2025
The owner of the most valuable sports franchise in the world negotiates in the dumbest way possible with Parsons and his agent, so Micah goes to a community owned team in the league's smallest market with the second lowest operating revenue and gets an unprecedented contract.
If Jim Irsay was still alive and someone asked me if I'd rather have the Cowboys' ownership problems or the Colts' ownership problems, I'd have to think about it.
posted by beaverboard at 10:18 AM on August 29, 2025
Unreal photo.
Sort of looks like the facial masks that NoMich and I recently got at the man spa.
We chatted idly about what the Eagles could possibly see in Sam Howell.
posted by beaverboard at 01:47 PM on August 27, 2025
I feel a little bad for Daniel Jones.
There are only 32 GM's in the NFL. A player's chances of being rostered by an astute one are less than even odds.
Jones went from playing for a GM who decided the QB was worth paying before releasing him (Joe Schoen) to a GM who declared that he believed in Anthony Richardson the day before Jones was named the starting QB (Chris Ballard).
If the Daughters of Irsay decide to do some firing, I would can Ballard ASAP and give Coach Steichen a fighting chance to compete with a roster built by someone who knows what they're doing and doesn't have their career trajectory forever pegged to having the rug pulled out from under them by the retirement of Andrew Luck.
posted by beaverboard at 04:00 PM on August 20, 2025
I don't want Dolan to give the Federal Government any more technology based exclusionary ideas.
My money's on Morgan and Morgan. Their average annual revenue is at least 10 times Dolan's net worth.
Attorneys could have a lot of fun with this.
Such as announcing a Vendetta Day. All ticket holders show up in Guy Fawkes masks to thwart facial recognition devices.
I now see the task that lies ahead of me.
I have to find a way to dupe Alan Dershowitz into suing Madison Square Garden.
If that guy gets banned, Dolan will wish he'd never been born.
Dershowitz is in the "All About Me" Hall Of Fame along with the likes of Tonya Harding, Terrell Owens, and General Douglas MacArthur.
posted by beaverboard at 01:31 PM on August 15, 2025
Arlington, Texas remains the largest city in the US without a fixed route mass transit system.
Many tax dollars have gone into funding new sports facilities instead.
And we recently learned here on SpoFi about how abhorrent the Stars have become in imposing a stranglehold on the central Texas hockey community.
According to one of the comments that follow this Defector piece (the comments are almost as blistering as the piece itself), no one in Arlington cares about the Cowboys.
The article includes this insight into area highway conditions:
"Every Dallas resident has a fetish for sitting dead-stopped on a 10-lane highway alongside a bunch of other unhappy people, all driving the largest car available."
At least things are trending upward in one other sporting region of the continent.
posted by beaverboard at 04:52 PM on August 11, 2025
That whole bit in the Isaac clip about the K-Ball prep is illuminating.
It'll be interesting to see if someone breaks Tucker's record during the regular season.
posted by beaverboard at 12:41 PM on August 11, 2025
Immortality confirmed: The LSD fueled no-hitter that Dock Ellis threw in 1970 was a clue in today's Boston Globe Crossword.
1970 was a banner year in sports.
posted by beaverboard at 12:35 PM on August 10, 2025
Cam Little kicked a 70 yd. field goal for the Jaguars yesterday.
It's not in the record books because it was not kicked during a regular season game.
But it was even a more historic kick than the numbers indicate.
Tom Dempsey kicked a record setting 63 yd. FG in 1970 that was all the more remarkable because he kicked it in the sultry air of outdoor Tulane Stadium in NOLA.
But it was kicked in November, when weather conditions in Louisiana are more moderate.
Most of the massive moon shots that Elam, Prater and McManus kicked for the Broncos were struck in the thin, high altitude air of Denver, where the ball carries farther.
Justin Tucker's record 66 yarder was kicked in a controlled environment, indoors at Ford Field in Detroit.
Cam Little's kick was nailed outdoors in August in Jacksonville on the banks of the St. Johns River, a short distance inland from the sea air of the Atlantic.
That is some thick, wet, heavy ass air. The idea that Little made a 70 yard kick under those conditions is mind boggling. I'd say tack on another 5 yards for degree of difficulty and give him the record.
The whole thing is fitting poetic justice. It wasn't that long ago that the Jags' Asshole In Chief, Urban Meyer, kicked PK Josh Lambo in the leg during an August practice and said: "Hey dipshit, make your fucking kicks" before releasing Lambo (one of the best all time kickers in franchise history) from the squad.
posted by beaverboard at 10:38 AM on August 10, 2025
Bonus points for Carolina fans with Steve Smith and Jake "You" Delhomme being in the booth for the game call.
posted by beaverboard at 04:15 PM on August 09, 2025
Call me a total fair weather bandwagon stooge.
I was fed up to my eyeballs with Shedeur Sanders (and one-man clown car Mel Kiper) during the draft, but now I want to see him light it up and win the job. Or at least have the fans asking the Joe Milton question: "Why isn't this dude playing?"
He got off to a good start last night.
posted by beaverboard at 12:50 PM on August 09, 2025
Sports journalism keeps sinking further into the morass of inane clickcontent.
The Athletic has just added this feature.
Dumbest bunch of shit I can imagine anyone coming up with.
Actually, I can imagine someone being dumb enough to come up with it. I just can't imagine someone being dumb enough to partner with it.
posted by beaverboard at 04:54 PM on August 05, 2025
I had no idea Marv Levy was 100 years old. And still cranking.
I don't know how brutal the paywall is for non-subscribers, but The Athletic ran a piece on Marv that's worth reading if you can access it.
One record that I hope not to see tied or broken anytime soon is that of the Bills going to four straight Super Bowls, but the Chiefs have a chance to equal it this coming season.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6525126/2025/08/01/marv-levy-100-birthday-buffalo-bills/
I tried embedding the article as a text link as that didn't work, so just posted the bare link by itself.
posted by beaverboard at 10:21 AM on August 03, 2025
Not sure if anyone watched the Chargers - Lions exhibition game but dang, it looked to me like Jim Harbaugh, the coach who optimized Alex Smith and Colin Kaepernick as bona fide NFL QB's, is on his way to working a bit of the same magic with Trey Lance.
Then again, maybe Lance's showing is a natural uplift that some players get when they escape the Cowboys' morass of self induced mediocrity.
posted by beaverboard at 09:12 PM on August 02, 2025
My first thought was that I hope that there's a Phil Knight or T. Boone Pickens out there somewhere who will show their money and make this right.
Then I decided that this makes me mad enough to hope that someone steps up and handles it Texas style.
Off Duty Officer Hockey Mom to Responders Outside Arena: "I Just Got To The Point Where I Wanted To Measure The Side Of That Zamboni With A Clip Of Armor Piercing Rounds".
posted by beaverboard at 10:19 AM on August 02, 2025
This is one of my favorite classic film moments.
England on the brink of war in 1938 with chaps traveling the continent worrying about home.
posted by beaverboard at 09:48 AM on July 31, 2025
I hope I can be forgiven for glancing at the link title and thinking for a brief moment that Cricket was Jordon Hudson's nickname.
posted by beaverboard at 09:42 AM on July 31, 2025
Looked like Gilbert Arenas was well on his way to establishing a viable media presence with podcast, YT videos, etc., but has now been arrested on gambling charges.
These days, if you're gonna judge, you'd better have some stamina. Cause there's no shortage of opportunities.
If I was gonna judge Zero, I guess I would have started back with the live weapon in the locker room. I'm too old and tired to run the flag up now.
Tahoe probably has the best perspective on the confluence of gambling and sports. To me, it seems like at some point, all the money, wagering and athletic endeavor is just going to melt into one big cauldron where anything goes anytime, any league, conference, or division.
posted by beaverboard at 04:29 PM on July 30, 2025
The things we're going to have to do someday to convince the world that a majority of folks don't want the US to be a pariah nation...
At this point, if FIFA said: "we thought we were on solid geopolitical footing for 2026 but we were wrong and have decided to just stage the World Cup in Canada and Mexico", I would totally understand their reasoning.
posted by beaverboard at 11:22 PM on July 29, 2025
When yesterday's Women's Euros final went into the 70th minute, I said to a friend: "If it goes to penalties, I'll take England".
But alas, I didn't say it to anyone in Clark County, Nevada.
posted by beaverboard at 09:01 AM on July 28, 2025
In the runup to the Open, I became captivated by the golf course at Royal Portrush.
I watched hole by hole previews filmed by drone cam in muted golden light and the place seemed utterly magical.
I could not conceive of how a long hitter would be able to keep a ball anywhere near in play.
I would just want to walk the course, to heck with hitting a wee ball about.
Fast forward to yesterday and today, watching the tournament on TV: the magic is not there, displaced by a dreary monotone of seacoast weather and players garbed in drab tones. They don't show much of the dramatic features of the golf course. Plus the scoring seems almost unreal against that topography. In some cases, boringly efficient. I've lost interest in it.
I'll give it another go after the cut is made, hopefully, my interest will be rekindled. It is indeed fun tuning in the tournament just as the first real rays of daylight are coming through our windows.
posted by beaverboard at 12:51 PM on July 18, 2025
This got my attention because this type of thing seems to happen so much.
The death of people who have done remarkable things in rather routine circumstances.
For instance, Steve Fossett circling the world in a balloon and then dying while taking a small plane out for a spin.
Legendary rock climber Ammon McNeely sitting down to watch a sunset and falling off a cliff.
Someone once said (can't remember who, maybe Chuck Yeager) that it's the ordinary stuff that'll kill you, not the heroic stuff.
posted by beaverboard at 10:49 PM on July 17, 2025
Alberta Tourism Council may have missed an opportunity by not dubbing in the sound effect "Banff! Banff! Banff!"
posted by beaverboard at 09:31 AM on July 17, 2025
RIP Dave Parker. Loved that guy, loved those 70's Pirates teams. And the unis. A perfect combo of elements.
Dave wasn't the first player to have his own walkup music, but he was definitely one of the first to make it a thing.
When walkup music got to the point where pesky .250 bat choking contact hitter Craig Counsell was tracking Jimi Hendrix's "All Along The Watchtower" as a walkup, I said OK, this shit has gotten way out of hand. Commissioner's office should have said "No. You can use Barry Manilow or The Bee Gees. Not Jimi."
posted by beaverboard at 04:41 PM on June 30, 2025
The Ballad of Ace Bailey
Wanted to play for the Wizards (?)
Wanted to play for the Nets (?)
Wanted to play for the Pelicans (?)
Dissed the Sixers (?)
Told top 5 lottery teams not to draft him.
He'll be welcomed by Jazz fans with the same open arms as Kobe, Nowitzki and Rodman were. Someone will send him a house special from the Michael Jordan Pizzeria.
When the Jazz go on the road, he'll be playing for one of the most hated teams in the league.
When he eventually leaves the team to go elsewhere, he'll be hollered at mercilessly on his return to SLC.
The fun never stops.
posted by beaverboard at 10:45 AM on June 27, 2025
Mary Poppins coverage of the NBA Draft:
Cooperdallasflaggballisticdukeapotheosis
posted by beaverboard at 12:19 PM on June 26, 2025
White Sox fans have an extra gear.
So do White Sox owners.
First of all, the asshole Sox fan who taunted Marte should be identified, the same way that shirtless Sox fans William Ligue and his 15 year old son were identified when they came out of the stands at Comiskey and attacked Royals 1B coach Tom Gamboa in 2002, causing permanent hearing loss.
The taunter of Marte deserves the same team scrum that enveloped the Ligues. Send the players up into the stands. No problem. Frontier park, frontier justice.
The thing that got me about the Ligues was that when they were shown being hauled off by the cops, they didn't show any signs of real extreme damage. Yet I'm sure that at least some of the Royals players were wearing spikes that day.
Not to be outdone by the unruly stooges in the stands, Sox owner Bill Veeck and his son staged the infamous Disc Destruction Night at Comiskey in 1979. They just wanted to bring in a few extra fans with a simple gimmick to plump the paid gate a bit. And what would the Veecks be known for if not their zany promotional gimmicks?
Instead, over 50,000 people showed up to watch a pile of disco records get blown up on the field in between games of a double header. The Sox lost the first game to the Tigers and had to forfeit the second game when the fans stormed and wrecked the field and had to be dispersed by riot police. The Sox finished a few games below .500 that year. Those were two of games in the loss column.
That was also the era of the Sox trotting out the ugliest MLB uniforms on record, which anyone can look up. I'm not going to link to them. Fisk and Zisk and all the other guys had to endure the ignominy of trying to compete in those togs. For that, they should have gotten paid at least what the average bat choking pinch hitting utility infielder gets paid today.
posted by beaverboard at 04:23 PM on June 25, 2025
Steve Ballmer paid a record 2 billion to Donald Sterling for the Clippers even though Donald was being forced to sell the team and had little leverage to speak of.
You don't bring a Brinks truck to a fire sale. Ballmer way overpaid.
Then the Clips put together a Herschel Walker trade with OKC to get Paul George. Where OKC is now is the result of that trade. Besides SGA, OKC GM Sam Presti has a trove of draft picks that would make Danny Ainge want to burst into tears and chew on a wet towel.
Presti's first wave of mega talent (Harden, KD, Westbrook) have all turned into high priced wanderers with baggage that for the most part have not delivered their NBA teams to the promised land.
And if OKC hadn't tanked in the 3rd quarter of Game 7 of the 2016 WCF with the Warriors and lost their chance to go to The Finals, KD might well have stayed put in OKC instead of signing with Golden State.
The Lakers just got sold and have roster issues. Not top contending anytime soon.
Against this backdrop and remembering that Rick Carlisle brought Dallas a title via the toughest playoff road in NBA history and this year almost pulled off what would have been the most momentous Finals upset in history with the Pacers, any complaints on the part of Mavs fans are strictly junior varsity. Be glad for what you had when you had it, and for what you're about to get later today.
posted by beaverboard at 12:54 PM on June 25, 2025
In prior games, Tyrese was clever about holding the bulk of his scoring till later in the game.
Last night, he came out firing and nailed three threes in quick succession. He looked like he was feeling it and ready to will his team to a historic win.
That will only add to the sense of "what if" and "asterisk win" if there are some folks who are so inclined to peg that on the Thunder.
Siakam wasn't having any of that talk post game. He was all "shit happens; next man up".
I told my brother in law that Holmgren had to score at least 12 and grab 7 boards for a Thunder win. He had been invisible in Game 6. Actually a liability at some moments.
Holmgren did well and him showing up helped create the margin of victory.
I still wouldn't pay him, but I would defer to Presti if I was an OKC fan.
The edgiest folks weighing in were Seattle fans. "NO, THIS IS NOT THE SONICS SECOND TITLE. IT'S OKC'S FIRST TITLE."
posted by beaverboard at 05:39 PM on June 23, 2025
Last night, I was sure that the Thunder would do to the Pacers what the Panthers did to the Oilers.
Close it out, leave no doubt. Well damn. What a job by the Pacers.
The prospect of Sunday's Game 7 feels like a NCAA tournament title game. Maybe Oklahoma-Kansas in 1988.
I can't watch Holmgren any more. He doesn't want to be there. He was strictly an onlooker last night. If he doesn't show up on Sunday, OKC is going to have to figure something out.
posted by beaverboard at 10:18 AM on June 20, 2025
For Boston sports fans staring into their beer:
Yesterday, Brad Marchand won the Stanley Cup and Rafael Devers went 2 for 5 and told the Giants he'd play wherever they wanted him to.
But all is not lost. Xander Bogaerts and Mookie Betts both went hitless, and a couple of days ago, Roman Anthony hit his first major league home run.
Wait till Anthony becomes a star and gets famous. Comedian Jimmy O. Yang will weigh in to let everyone know that naming a kid Roman Anthony is like if his mom had named him Cantonese Jimmy.
posted by beaverboard at 10:18 PM on June 18, 2025
In Taylor's 1st MLB game, he threw 11 scoreless innings, gave up a grand slam in the 12th.
Didn't that make him eminently qualified to provide care to Dave Stieb?
posted by beaverboard at 12:48 AM on June 17, 2025
Just keep sending them all to California.
I don't even care what the Red Sox do at this point.
I'm just waiting for the sunroof of a car parked on Landsdowne St. to open up and a Ukranian drone flies out, heading for the owner's box at Fenway.
posted by beaverboard at 04:20 PM on June 16, 2025
Speaking as a longtime resident of Bruins country, if that rascal Brad Marchand wins the Conn Smythe, I will throw up in a TD Garden popcorn bucket.
posted by beaverboard at 10:23 PM on June 10, 2025
Game One of the NBA Finals won just before the buzzer by the Pacers, who had trailed all game and staged a stunning comeback.
Game One of the NHL Finals won by the Oilers deep into overtime after they came back and tied the game in the third period of regulation.
Game Two of the NHL Finals won by the Panthers in two overtimes after the Oilers tied the game with seconds left in regulation.
The Oilers and Panthers have played the equivalent of three regulation games to decide two outcomes.
Carlos Alcaraz beats Janek Sinner in five sets after dropping the first two sets to win the longest (and some say best) French Open Men's Final ever played.
Sovereignty duels with Journalism down the stretch in an intense rematch of the Kentucky Derby and pulls away to win the Belmont Stakes.
We're in the middle of an anointed sports moment with something heroic happening almost every day. No telling what will happen next.
The US Open tournament is coming up. Ordinary golf is not going to cut it in the present context.
posted by beaverboard at 04:36 PM on June 08, 2025
The Cup has to go to Canada, so there can be a jubilant scene with the hockey fiend PM in Ottawa while the Clemson style McDonalds champions' banquet goes cold and gelatinous at the White House.
I'm worried about the NBA champs celebrating at the White House because those guys make so much money that they want to go to the Lawn to pump for investment and capital gains tax cuts. Shake a hand, smooth a perm, save a mil.
It took an extraordinary amount of tectonic shift for former staunch Republican Charles Barkley to finally declare that the GOP had lost their minds and jump ship.
A Black man from Alabama going to the mat for the Southern Strategy party of Nixon until all reason was abandoned.
What if the Pacers won and went to celebrate with Mike Pence?
posted by beaverboard at 07:15 PM on June 06, 2025
Dang, an all-Texas WCWS title game.
I love that the elite women's pitchers can throw all day in the mid to upper 70 mph range and then go out and start the next game if needed.
The Twins' Tom Kelly would have loved coaching this kind of ball, where you can go win a title with a couple of good arms.
posted by beaverboard at 01:28 PM on June 06, 2025
Thunder's gonna Knick.
You lose Game 1 at home to this Pacers group, it could be tough sledding.
Once again, Haliburton ran a bit quiet till the 4th.
A lot of guys go berserk in the 1st period and then vanish.
OKC has a good coach. He started Holmgren at the 5 and didn't get much out of him. Looking forward to seeing the Game 2 lineups. They need what Holmgren brings, when he brings it.
It's a crime that a game like that didn't have Kevin Harlan on the game call. Hell, I'd take Noah Eagle over Breen and Jefferson.
Think how colorful this series would be if the Thunder had never relocated and were still wearing Sonics unis.
posted by beaverboard at 11:40 AM on June 06, 2025
Eins! Zwei! Drai! Saitl! Fear!
posted by beaverboard at 11:15 AM on June 05, 2025
After the Knicks disassembled the Celtics in the playoffs, some folks probably thought that one of those head coaches would get the boot.
But I bet they didn't think it would be Thibodeau.
posted by beaverboard at 01:01 PM on June 04, 2025
Which reminds me, I'm still pissed at Tom Brady during Deflategate when the league demanded his cell phone and he told them it was given to an assistant and broken or lost instead of saying "Go to hell and get fucked, you have no authority, you're not getting my phone".
posted by beaverboard at 04:49 PM on June 03, 2025
Many thanks, tommy. So wild - today, the Boston Globe just published a piece on what happens when you travel outside the US.
I started scrolling through it and had to pause for a diversion when they got to the point of having to unlock your phone or give out your laptop password.
If it ever gets to that point with me, someone with an insignia will be swimming to Windsor using a recalled Ford airbag as a flotation device.
posted by beaverboard at 04:45 PM on June 03, 2025
If I crossed the border to go see a game and then wasn't allowed back into the US, are there affordable places to stay in and around Moose Jaw?
posted by beaverboard at 11:41 PM on June 02, 2025
How can you even think about the NBA with all the exciting pre-season preparations being made by the University of North Carolina football program?
posted by beaverboard at 12:08 AM on June 02, 2025
At some point, the Canadian end of a super long distance Cup Finals (Edmonton, Vancouver) is going to have to prevail.
I remember the Rangers - Canucks mid 90's Cup Final. It was pre-internet and the games in BC were hard to keep track of if you were on the East Coast of the US and couldn't watch them. Spinning through radio and TV channels just to try to get a late night final score.
posted by beaverboard at 05:30 PM on May 30, 2025
I do like those Canes dark unis.
Are the Canes at the point that the Buccaneers were at when they deep sixed Dungy and brought in Gruden?
If the Oilers close out the Stars, I think they'll have home ice this time. Not that the Panthers seem to care about that.
posted by beaverboard at 06:44 PM on May 29, 2025
Report: Wild's Kirill Kaprizov rejects NHL-record contract offer
The clinical name for it is Minnesota Syndrome.
Latrell Sprewell did the same thing when the Timberwolves offered him a contract because he "had a family to feed". When he couldn't sign elsewhere, he lost the entire value of that contract offer.
Then there's the Curse of Joe Smith on the Wolves, which is the reverse: agreeing to play for below market money in exchange for an illegally engineered future mega payday. The league found out, the team got burned. And so did Joe.
If I owned a pro sports team in MN and had a player I was uncertain of, regardless of the sport, I'd try to see if the Knicks would take him. Heck, they took Towns, it's at least worth a call or a text.