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- 06/06/25
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
I can be forgiven for awaiting the start of the third period with dread and a sense of inevitability.
posted by beaverboard at 01:55 AM on May 27, 2025
It's not that there's no drama.
It's just that it's not competitive drama.
posted by beaverboard at 02:49 PM on May 23, 2025
Why Reggie Miller should not be calling the Eastern Conference Finals
posted by beaverboard at 06:51 PM on May 22, 2025
Good piece on Irsay in the Athletic was posted a few hours after his death.
I wish Bob Irsay had never owned a NFL team and I wish Carroll Rosenbloom had never traded the Colts to Irsay for the Rams.
But there's no guarantee that Rosenbloom would have kept the Colts in Baltimore since his Rams eventually fled LA for St. Louis.
posted by beaverboard at 01:28 AM on May 22, 2025
I'm hoping that last night was a bit of Raleigh rust and not a portent of what is to come.
Can a goalie have more than 5 holes?
posted by beaverboard at 07:55 PM on May 21, 2025
If I was a Leafs fan, I don't know what else I would have expected.
Just one Canadian team left. Go Oilers, so there'd be no doubt as to whether the Cup winner would be visiting 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Meanwhile, God saw Dallas was having so much fun (Stars' Cup run, NBA lottery win, WNBA top draft pick), that George Pickens was sent there to help compensate.
Note to Steelers: during the draft, decide which skill position player you would take if you could, then let another team draft him.
posted by beaverboard at 03:07 PM on May 19, 2025
I hear that the Scheffler tour made the most of its time in Charlotte this week.
posted by beaverboard at 07:16 PM on May 18, 2025
If I was a longtime Leafs fan, I don't know whether I would share your apparent enthusiasm for tonight's contest.
I'd likely be torn between anticipation and dread.
posted by beaverboard at 12:23 PM on May 18, 2025
Luke-embe Kornet-ombo
posted by beaverboard at 04:34 PM on May 15, 2025
Black Sox reinstated.
posted by beaverboard at 11:14 AM on May 14, 2025
A Pacers - Knicks Eastern Conference Final is going to revive all the Reggie Miller - Spike Lee business.
posted by beaverboard at 11:13 AM on May 14, 2025
When God Shammgod
Is on your squad
All other teams
Are as good as scrod.
posted by beaverboard at 09:51 PM on May 13, 2025
Lively exchange there. Thank goodness for screenshots.
Glad to see the guy has been suspended. And he has to face an in-person review.
Cifu's home base of Martin County is not bashful in support of the current regime.
The phrase "enjoy your poverty" from a prior post is a remarkably revealing statement that should be mandatory viewing for all those who have been misled and coerced into voting against their own interests.
posted by beaverboard at 02:08 PM on May 13, 2025
Please note that the Spurs got the second pick, so they damn near did it again.
If the draft is rigged to benefit San Antonio, it's probably to compensate for all the things Charles Barkley has said about its women.
posted by beaverboard at 12:41 PM on May 13, 2025
The day before this Mavericks conspiracy unfolded, Saints QB Derek Carr retired.
Unexpected things happening in New Orleans and Dallas in quick succession.
I have a call in to Oliver Stone's office about this.
Look for a major motion picture at some point in the future.
I tell folks that if the draft was rigged, Zion Williamson would have gone to Portland.
Ancestral home of the always injured.
posted by beaverboard at 12:39 PM on May 13, 2025
Zamboni Driver In Trancelike State Does Crop Circles After Third OT; Emergency Tim Hortons I.V. Being Rushed To Arena.
posted by beaverboard at 01:05 AM on May 12, 2025
Celtics are up by 26 heading to the 4th.
Knicks have them right where they want them.
posted by beaverboard at 05:37 PM on May 10, 2025
The only Coyote that would aspire to turn into a Mammoth is a character named Wile E.
Something about Utah...
When a team moves there and they don't change the name, it gets weird (Jazz).
When a team moves there and they do change the name, it gets weird (Mammoth).
The pale blue color is as lame for this team as it is for the Titans, UNC and Microsoft. Especially compared to some of the cool graphic design concepts that the Arizona team had.
And are messages on the arena's video board going to be called Mammograms?
posted by beaverboard at 11:49 AM on May 08, 2025
I've been telling folks about the legendary Atlanta airport Popeye's for a while and those who have partaken heartily concur.
But now, a writer at The Athletic has fallen in love with the Atlanta airport Bojangles chicken biscuit, which he says is incomparable.
It's good to have choices. And connecting flights.
posted by beaverboard at 12:44 PM on May 03, 2025
If you're Nico Harrison and you hear the talk about the Lakers suffering for lack of depth, lack of size up front, needing to be better on defense, and needing to be in better shape next season, do you:
1) thump your chest and say hell yeah
2) quietly light a candle and do a little dance
3) ignore the chatter and move on
posted by beaverboard at 12:09 PM on May 02, 2025
Being an Edmonton Oilers fan in the playoffs is the equivalent of starting a weight loss plan with a sleeve of Oreos and a fistful of Ozempic pens.
posted by beaverboard at 11:53 AM on May 02, 2025
Varsho is something. If that had been a Dave Stieb no-hitter with two out in the ninth, it would have bounced off his butt for a double.
posted by beaverboard at 03:54 PM on April 30, 2025
Remember when Deion said he would intervene if the wrong team picked his son Shedeur?
Shilo saw how that went and he did his own intervention.
When you fire your dad and take up with the agent that got fired by Terrell Owens, that is a high score on the drastic meter.
Shilo and Travis Hunter end up on warm weather teams, like Deion said he wanted.
Shedeur, who was the main subject of Deion's management focus, ends up looking at Lake Erie up close.
posted by beaverboard at 05:32 PM on April 28, 2025
I fully expected the Sanders watch party being streamed worldwide to erupt in a cheer of "U-F-A!, U-F-A!".
posted by beaverboard at 01:44 PM on April 27, 2025
Seven picks came off the NFL draft board while Mel Kiper indulged in his pants wetting over Shedeur Sanders finally being drafted in the fifth round.
posted by beaverboard at 10:20 AM on April 27, 2025
Jor-El and Lara alert: Titans draft Kalel.
posted by beaverboard at 04:38 PM on April 26, 2025
It's finally official. Shedeur will be backing up Joe Flacco, Kenny Pickett and Dillon Gabriel on a team with a dysfunctional front office.
That's one of those warm weather teams that Deion said he wanted his guys to go to.
But hey, Shedeur is a lot cheaper and more ready to play than Deshaun Watson.
And if he keeps his college number, he's inheriting all the goodness that Tim Couch and Johnny Manziel imbued it with in Cleveland.
posted by beaverboard at 02:29 PM on April 26, 2025
There are a lot of reasons.
One is the limited coaching spectrum. It's tough to go from just your dad right to a NFL staff. Especially a staff that is seen as on the hot seat (Daboll et al.).
I think some teams just don't want him in their locker room. Or they think he'll crumble in their locker room (Steelers have some guys in their room that set the tone).
Some teams saw how the LaVar Ball factor played out in the NBA and said to themselves: That's the junior varsity. Deion Sanders is the varsity. Who needs it?
I think only a few pro teams would consider hiring Deion as a HC at this point. He needs a bigger body of non-insular work at Colorado or elsewhere in D1. He already said he doesn't want to coach pros because of the money factor. He feels that grown men with millions won't buy into his way of handling things. But he's already handling millionaires at the college level.
Deion was so sure of himself about all this and thought he could dictate trajectory because in his mind the value was so high. Said he didn't want his men to go to cold weather teams. He and his guys are lost in a fog of their own image and branding bedazzlement.
He got his wish with Travis. I still think the Jags overpaid, but it'll be fun to watch.
Stephen Smith and Rich Eisen may join Mel Kiper in a clinical wing if this continues deep into Day 3.
posted by beaverboard at 02:07 PM on April 26, 2025
I'm starting a Go Fund Me to buy a big gold chain for Shedeur Sanders on behalf of a grateful nation in the event that he goes undrafted and Mel Kiper has a massive coronary.
posted by beaverboard at 01:03 AM on April 26, 2025
I kind of wish there was a "Three and D" position in the NFL like there is in the NBA.
Guys like Will Levis and Anthony Richardson could line up as Atwater / Fulcher size DB's in nickel and dime packages.
Then they could come in and throw 60 yard TD strikes that blow your mind one or two times a game.
posted by beaverboard at 10:09 PM on April 24, 2025
The Jags having many needs...I don't know, seems like they overpaid a bit to move up to #2.
Unless they plan to win the division and their 2026 first rounder won't be as juicy as this year's pick.
posted by beaverboard at 09:22 PM on April 24, 2025
When the look says you're not sure whether you should be in the Federal Witness Protection program.
posted by beaverboard at 11:33 AM on April 16, 2025
Great read, thanks for posting.
posted by beaverboard at 11:26 AM on April 16, 2025
I like seeing a player win that way because Augusta starts its playoffs right at the same hole that you may have just messed up on, so if you win the way Rory did, you are deserving.
I like that Justin Rose guy, what a class individual, I wish he was 10 years younger so we could see more of him in his prime.
Every year that goes by, more and more people learn more about how Augusta operates and become more disenchanted. I'm just tired of all the pettiness and control freakism.
And CBS - the bird calls you piped in when they were getting ready to tee off at 18 at the start of the playoff were way over the top. Ridiculous Gilligan's Island shit. I'm going to Ace Hardware to decompress with the parakeets.
posted by beaverboard at 11:57 AM on April 14, 2025
Who knows what'll happen the rest of today and tomorrow, but I just happened to glance at the Masters leaderboard.
Rory McIlroy is 5 under through 5 at the moment, with the odds swung firmly in his favor.
Now fair befall you.
posted by beaverboard at 03:35 PM on April 12, 2025
It was moose and squirrel.
Or he sold his controlling stake in SpoFi to Patrick Dumont.
posted by beaverboard at 05:40 PM on April 11, 2025
Rot in Hell, ring kissing LA Dodgers.
posted by beaverboard at 04:56 PM on April 08, 2025
American Pokemon 2025: Gotta Ditch 'Em All.
posted by beaverboard at 04:53 PM on April 08, 2025
Sending a Geno Auriemma motivational DVD to Duke to show them when and when not to take your foot off the gas.
If you're up 30 with under 2 to go, OK, you can sub some people in.
posted by beaverboard at 11:00 AM on April 07, 2025
To dismayed US citizens thinking of jumping ship but concerned that they may not be able to weather the seasons up north:
I'm a New Englander and I know for a fact that this spring, there are Canadians thinking about lawn mowers a lot earlier than I am.
posted by beaverboard at 10:53 AM on April 07, 2025
Thank you, Houston.
posted by beaverboard at 11:53 PM on April 05, 2025
Seems like there should be an undercard for the upcoming Lauren Betts - Sarah Strong bout.
posted by beaverboard at 12:27 PM on April 04, 2025
I'm a big fan of the 1983 America's Cup race, when the Australian challengers finally broke through and won thanks to Ben Lexcen's brilliant winged keel design that provided a novel advantage but still kept their yacht within the strict 12 meter guidelines.
So this bat development is right in my wheelhouse, you might say.
posted by beaverboard at 12:17 PM on April 02, 2025
Good point Howard. Excellent idea.
So good in fact that now I know why the league hasn't called you in as a consultant. You think too well.
posted by beaverboard at 12:09 PM on April 02, 2025
If Duke were to win both hoops tournaments, I would have to go on a liquid diet.
posted by beaverboard at 07:24 PM on March 28, 2025
My deepest apology that we're even in a situation like this.
But that doesn't excuse staff being goons first and management then having to initiate damage control after the moment goes viral.
There's an air of unsustainability and foreboding to the current corrosive moment. 45/47 has made ten times as many enemies as 35 ever did. Where there's been one Luigi, others may follow. Not a desirable scenario, regardless of how it was brought on and by whom.
posted by beaverboard at 09:59 PM on March 27, 2025
Three Triangle teams in the Women's Sweet 16, UNC-Duke will be large.
But not bigger than NCSU if they can beat LSU.
posted by beaverboard at 10:04 PM on March 24, 2025
Some of the blowout scores in the women's tournament have been downright vulgar.
When a team is up by 60, don't they have any Carol Burnett mop ladies they can sub in to keep the score reasonable?
posted by beaverboard at 11:56 AM on March 23, 2025
I've never seen a person have an odyssey and transformation as remarkable as his.
The introverted fighter that shows up in Zaire with his German Shepherd and the loquacious grillmeister can't be the same guy.
What a path.
posted by beaverboard at 11:32 PM on March 22, 2025
The only positive thing Gretzky has going for him these days is his resemblance to Southern Calif. guitar legend Hank Easton.
posted by beaverboard at 06:01 PM on March 22, 2025
Walking off the court, those Clemson Tigers looked about the same way they did when they got beat by Tate George's buzzer beater back in 1990.
posted by beaverboard at 01:31 PM on March 21, 2025
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