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posted by Hugh Janus at 08:39 AM on April 24, 2018
Great! I have a soft spot for UMBC athletics since I attended Retriever lacrosse camp as a junior high schooler.
Dick Burns was the head coach.
posted by Hugh Janus at 10:18 AM on March 17, 2018
Free stew! He's really going all in.
posted by Hugh Janus at 07:28 PM on November 17, 2016
Like I said, that's the spirit!
When you preemptively dismiss any disagreement as childish and frame it as PC Kulturkampf, pretending you're taking the high road frankly stinks. It's a reactionary tactic that snuffs any chance for a reasonable exchange of ideas.
But that's not what you're after.
posted by Hugh Janus at 08:44 PM on June 09, 2016
For chrissakes, can't even this tiny little site off the beaten path be free from this childish culture of virtue signaling and moral purity posturing that's taken over everywhere else on the web?
That's the spirit!
The answer is no, there's no reason to make even more room online for the boorish, troglodytic, and sadly average attitudes of yesterday's man and his little brothers who wail and pout when the grown-ups tell them it's rude to measure a sportswoman's achievement by the angle of their erections.
posted by Hugh Janus at 07:34 PM on June 09, 2016
The hotel called 911 because her injuries needed treatment. During the call they told the dispatcher it looked like she'd been hit. That she eventually refused to testify is not an indication that nothing happened or that she made it all up. It is, in fact, prosecutors are frequently frustrated by such refusals. In some cases the evidence is clear enough that they can proceed without the victim's testimony.
In this case they clearly could not. But Reyes' employer could, after examining the public record and the results of their own investigation, punish him not for giving his wife a black eye, but for giving one to the Rockies and MLB.
That you see yourself as a victim of a vengeful ex-wife has no bearing whatsoever on the Reyes case. In fact, the comparison sounds like apples and oranges. Katherine Reyes refused to testify against her husband after treatment at a hospital, while the person in your story apparently faked injuries in order to gain an edge in divorce proceedings.
Having personal involvement in a vaguely similar situation probably makes your judgment of the Reyes story more heartfelt, but less reliable.
posted by Hugh Janus at 11:59 PM on May 14, 2016
When I was a kid I went to a Washington Diplomats summer soccer camp where Johan Cruyff was a coach. Well, it was more like an extended meet-n-greet than real coaching. But still, I met him, and later when I made Dutch friends I'd tell them about my having been coached by Cruyff. None of them ever really took it very well. I guess because I'm a Yank, not a very good soccer player, and because Cruyff was a legitimate national treasure.
Also my friends probably didn't like being reminded that, like all the other greats of his era, Cruyff was a big star in the NASL.
posted by Hugh Janus at 10:01 AM on March 25, 2016
Seriously, where are they?
Why would they bother, when you're around to do it for them?
It must be exhausting to constantly be the victim.
Exhausting for everybody when the constant victim's a perennial winner as well.
posted by Hugh Janus at 04:21 AM on January 10, 2016
Meadowlark Lemon taught me the difference between latitude and longitude in "Meadowlark Lemon Presents the World," sadly unavailable on the internet, but written about here.
This knowledge is quite useful. Thank you, Mr. Lemon.
posted by Hugh Janus at 02:22 AM on December 29, 2015
White guy says working for African-American man made him feel like a slave OH NO HE DIDN'T
posted by Hugh Janus at 09:39 PM on November 02, 2015
I'd love to see Blatter in jail and out of power, but major advertisers using financial pressure to oust an organization's leadership in the name of "a truly independent approach" is rich.
posted by Hugh Janus at 07:48 AM on October 04, 2015
You're right, hincandenza. I was lying. The Patriots didn't actually fuck my sister's dog. In fact, I don't even have a sister.
I do have a brother, however, and let me tell you what the Patriots did to his puppy....
posted by Hugh Janus at 12:37 AM on September 06, 2015
I think it would be for the best if he is promised reinstatement the day after he dies. Then he can be inducted posthumously to the Hall. No reward in this life for cheating, but his legacy is eventually honored. Problem solved.
That way if he really wants to be reinstated sooner rather than later, he has options.
posted by Hugh Janus at 08:58 AM on June 24, 2015
roll it all up into a large anal probe.
Aw, not again!
posted by Hugh Janus at 06:48 AM on May 02, 2015
Shit, if an 8-year old had the stuff to take the NBA to school, I'd be like, damn girl. Just do it.
Age requirements are just there to protect the mortals. Slamdunk Godlet is on her way.
posted by Hugh Janus at 09:56 AM on April 10, 2015
However, that cheap shot and calculated no-call probably galvanized Wisconsin and united any neutral spectators in their outrage. It was nice to see the cosmos step in after the refs took a pass.
posted by Hugh Janus at 08:40 PM on April 05, 2015
My dad refers to Raftery's schtick as "non-stop basketball blather" from a "sound-effects man."
Some kisses... are s-s-sweeter than wine!
posted by Hugh Janus at 08:18 PM on April 04, 2015
Over the years historic ships and other things have been added.
Not to quibble, but I think they moored the Chesapeake around when Harborplace opened, and the Torsk and the Constellation were there much longer. They do keep adding new ones from time to time, and there are always those big weekends when the Danish fleet comes for a visit.
The big reason they put Camden Yards down there was that the harbor crowds would benefit the ballpark and vice versa. I mean, nobody was making a day of it out at Memorial Stadium, but you can go down early and get overpriced lunch at Harborplace and then walk up to see the O's play. Anyone with their head on straight goes to Lexington Market for crabcakes, though.
But the Inner Harbor was totally a tourist attraction for a long time before the Camden Yards refit -- it was the Baltimore tourist attraction, I should say. Sure, building ballparks helped business, but Mr. Rouse's Harborplace development was the earlier revitalizing element that set the stage for bringing the stadiums, which of course in their turn helped bring gameday crowds to the inner harbor.
I'm sure the AVAM brings in hordes of football fans slavering for outsider art, as well.
I think the biggest success of Camden Yards and PSINet Stadium is the nice egress to streets and highways. Compared to other local football venues, traffic is a breeze.
posted by Hugh Janus at 01:17 AM on February 22, 2015
Say it ain't so, Jerry!
It's like when we heard Hank Aaron was on speed:
posted by Hugh Janus at 07:39 AM on February 07, 2015
Tom Brady, welcome to Sportsfilter! I hope you aren't trying to go incognito here. The "Bradyman" handle is a dead giveaway.
Good game!
posted by Hugh Janus at 01:50 AM on February 02, 2015
That was a moronic play call.
posted by Hugh Janus at 10:08 PM on February 01, 2015
This is pretty cool. Now, if they were playing Cosmic Encounter that would be really cool.
posted by Hugh Janus at 09:06 AM on January 17, 2015
That's hilarious. I will never again see Diego Costa without thinking of your dream. What an image.
posted by Hugh Janus at 08:46 AM on December 23, 2014
Look, I know even putting this in the huddle is a big, big stretch, but see, it's sports related! And I woke up laughing, so here it is.
Last night I dreamt that I scored in my debut game for Barcelona. The game was a blur, and after some teammate backslapping and applauding the ultras, I headed for the tunnel to the locker room.
Only, the tunnel didn't lead to the locker room. It led across a public square to a sort of communal locker room shared by all the youth teams and their opponents of the day. Of course, the kids were excited to see me, but I was really tired of wearing my sweaty kit and cleats so I made a hasty exit through a side door...
...which led to the top of a cliff. Peering over the cliff I could just make out some sort of religious procession below. There were quite a few soccer fans on the cliff with me, and just to my left was a group of Norwegian soccer players, who were also wearing their uniforms. I said, "Boy am I glad to see you guys, do you happen to know where the players' entrance to the Bernabeu is?" And they shot me a look like shut the FUCK up do you even know where we ARE? and the crowd around us loomed in like a riot waiting to start.
So I loudly corrected myself, asking where the players' entrance to the Nou Camp was, and they said "Oh, it's under the pitch." I looked down again at the marchers below and wondered if I had mistaken Roman legion regalia for the monstrance and canopy of Catholic processional. No matter, I needed a shower, so back to the stadium!
At the stadium I finally made it to the sub-level and it was like a shopping mall. I happened to recognize the hostess of one of the chain restaurants, Francesca (or Rita, I was sleeping so I'm not sure) and asked her if she knew where the players' entrance was. She said sure, but she couldn't leave her post, so she called Sergio over and he agreed to take me.
We walked quite a distance until we turned a corner and Sergio beamed up at me, wide arms proudly gesturing toward our destination: a noisy sports bar with a bright neon sign naming it: THE PLAYERS' ENTRANCE.
posted by Hugh Janus at 07:36 AM on December 23, 2014
Damn good piece of writing on Bernard Hopkins.
posted by Hugh Janus at 08:03 AM on November 02, 2014
Flag 'em all and let God sort it out.
posted by Hugh Janus at 09:43 AM on September 30, 2014
Too bad the kid didn't puke all over the strength coach. The price of vigilantism.
posted by Hugh Janus at 02:24 AM on September 30, 2014
Fire them all! Every last one of them!
posted by Hugh Janus at 02:13 AM on September 30, 2014
Not really sports news exactly, but the balcony of my new apartment has a nice view of Mazda Stadium, home of the Hiroshima Toyo Carp baseball team. Plus bullet trains whizzing by.
We can sit on the tatami with the window open and listen to the crowd roar. The Carp have been winning of late so the stadium is packed for every game. We're getting married later today. I'm sure I'll post more here about NPB as I inevitably become a fan.
posted by Hugh Janus at 08:14 PM on July 30, 2014
Canada vs USA in Denver tonight, televised.
I could only find TV listings for the lax World Cup semis and finals. I hope the Iroquois make it, because they're a team I'd really like to see.
posted by Hugh Janus at 11:10 AM on July 10, 2014
I like the guy peeking through his fingers and then deciding to cover his face some more. So true.
posted by Hugh Janus at 08:51 AM on July 10, 2014
I just wonder what gold is.
posted by Hugh Janus at 08:19 AM on July 10, 2014
Haha yes!
posted by Hugh Janus at 02:28 PM on July 09, 2014
I'm picturing a six-year-old in a nattily tailored suit with salt and pepper hair and a pensive expression.
He's more of a pint-sized Erwin Rommel:
posted by Hugh Janus at 12:08 PM on July 09, 2014
My six-year old nephew says he saw it coming, "because without Thiago Silva they had no defense, and without Neymar they had no offense."
I told him he was pretty astute and he said, "I pay attention to Jose Mourinho."
posted by Hugh Janus at 09:19 AM on July 09, 2014
Shit, the ref stopped painting lines for almost all the Colombian free kicks in the second half, while continuing to paint them when Brazil was kicking. Was he afraid he'd run out of shaving cream?
Not to mention the yellow card he gave for James' first bad tackle, in which there was clearly no contact at all. Seemed like a strange choice against backdrop of consistent cynical and violent Brazilian back line challenges going uncarded. Of course the Colombians eventually retaliated.
And it looked to me like Julius Caesar ought to have been awarded a red card instead of a yellow.
I'm no fan of Colombia but the refereeing made that game look fixed.
posted by Hugh Janus at 12:00 PM on July 05, 2014
I don't think Brazil needed the ref's help to win, but they sure got it.
posted by Hugh Janus at 08:48 PM on July 04, 2014
Everyone else gets the Mesut Ozil = Peter Lorre vibe, right?
As long as you'll indulge my Toni Kroos = Dr. Mabuse trip.
posted by Hugh Janus at 03:25 PM on July 04, 2014
Klinsmann's onto a good thing for the future of USA soccer by bringing in young Germany-based players. As they progress in their club careers and find themselves playing in Italy or England, when they get homesick for their Mutti or when their families would rather live in the place they grew up, that place will be near where they're playing and they won't be lured away from the highest level training and competition by the promise of big secure MLS contracts and the inevitable big-fish-in-a-small-pond slide to mediocrity that playing and practicing among slower, lower-skilled players has encouraged in Bradley, Dempsey, and Donovan, among others.
Now of course, Bradley looked awesome at Roma because he had an awesome group of players to deliver the ball to, and of course he now has to do a lot more running all over the park to fill the gaps that his old club side would always have kept sealed, but you can tell by his clumsy first touches and his relatively slow decision-making (relative to when he was at the top of his game in Europe) that playing in the MLS has hurt his game. He can afford to be lazy now, which he never could do in the Eternal City.
Ditto Dempsey on his return from England. The USA's two best players will never be what they once were. They took themselves out of the highest levels of competition, which would have helped their national team the most, in exchange for job security, money, and the comfort of taking it easy playing at home.
I'm not gainsaying this decision. These guys have good reasons for taking the contracts they did, even setting aside questions of comfort and family. With those thoughts in the mix, with families who may have been tired of living in Europe and with players wondering about the natural instability of playing for top teams who might exercise transfer options at any time or bench them when someone better or more expensive comes along, I'm sure these guys made good, solid, calculated personal choices.
Those choices hurt their quality of play, though, right when they were in top form. That's why Klinsi's concentration on guys who really are based in Europe, or young guys with strong ties to European club systems, makes sense to me. Our national team will improve the longer we can keep our top players in Europe, away from the MLS.
posted by Hugh Janus at 11:57 AM on July 03, 2014
Obviously not, because he's not on the team.
posted by Hugh Janus at 06:36 PM on July 01, 2014
"Can't you see the size of these choppers? With one shrug of my shoulders I once bit fifteen bedridden children during a charitable visit to the orphanage I founded, what do you expect? I had my mouth open because I wanted to compliment Mr. Chiellini on his lovely eyelashes and dammit if my teeth didn't make trouble again. I am a victim of genetics! My father was a donkey! Anyway I'm sorry if anybody feels bitten, how about letting me play again?"
posted by Hugh Janus at 10:53 PM on June 30, 2014
An important part of punishing Suarez is to force any team he plays for to reflect on the wisdom of continuing to employ a serial biter. And to force the fans to reflect on their support for such, etc.
If having him on Liverpool hurts the team that much, then perhaps they should hire someone to replace him. There must be a way out of his contract triggered by his bringing the game into disrepute or his serving such long suspensions.
He's important to his team, but the team knew when they brought him on and when they renewed his contract that he was prone to long suspensions for abberant on-field behavior. He scores a lot of goals, though, so the calculated risk seemed worth it.
That risk played out well until now. Them's the breaks.
posted by Hugh Janus at 10:43 AM on June 27, 2014
Me: "Damn, five minutes of extra time? That's generous."
[4 and a half minutes later]
Me: "Well, fuck."
posted by Hugh Janus at 09:04 PM on June 22, 2014
Red Tails! Tuskegee Airmen for a majority African-American city! P-51 flyby during national anthem! US Army Air Force insignia on helmets! Military appeal! Go from most racist to least racist overnight!
Everybody's opposed to thought policing. This isn't that, though.
posted by Hugh Janus at 11:56 AM on June 18, 2014
Clint Dempsey has another goal.
posted by Hugh Janus at 08:34 AM on June 18, 2014
1) He has existed from the morning of the world and shall exist until the last star falls from the night.
2) Although he has taken the form of Derek Jeter, he is all men as he is no man.
3) He's a god now.
posted by Hugh Janus at 05:34 PM on June 01, 2014
That's the greatest thing I've ever seen, yerfatma.
posted by Hugh Janus at 10:13 AM on May 30, 2014
Cool. I'll be on my yacht, ciao for now.
posted by Hugh Janus at 10:36 PM on April 30, 2014
There are no slippery slope arguments.
There are only slippery slope fallacies.
posted by Hugh Janus at 08:20 PM on April 30, 2014
Okay, okay! I'll fire up the goddamn time machine already. But this is the last time, Leominster! I hope you're satisfied!
posted by Hugh Janus at 12:34 PM on April 30, 2014
Slippery slope, indeed: there is no rational argument or demonstrable mechanism to support the idea that an inevitable follow-on effect of Sterling's ouster will be other owners with "views on stuff" forced to sell their teams after saying racist shit on record.
I may be misunderstanding you, though.
Perhaps you mean that Sterling was planning to sell the team soon anyway, so he deliberately said what he said with the knowledge that his girlfriend was recording it, knowing that Magic Johnson would hear it, so that when the league inevitably forced Sterling to sell the team, Magic would be honor-bound to enter the bidding war, driving the price up no matter who ends up buying the team, thus increasing Sterling's profit. That's some devilish shit right there, do you think the girlfriend's in on it?
Set-up of the century. I think you're onto something.
posted by Hugh Janus at 05:21 PM on April 29, 2014
Ooooooh! Cha-cha-cha, cha-cha-cha, cha-cha-cha, cha-cha-cha!
posted by Hugh Janus at 04:54 PM on April 29, 2014
Hey now, there are plenty of honest, hardworking anuses out there.
posted by Hugh Janus at 03:45 PM on April 29, 2014
The strike zone?
posted by Hugh Janus at 10:51 PM on April 23, 2014
I would definitely tune in for that.
posted by Hugh Janus at 07:54 PM on April 21, 2014
Ramires' blatantly intentional elbow to Larsson's face in retaliation for what he thought should have been a penalty minutes before should see him suspended for the rest of the season.
posted by Hugh Janus at 08:47 AM on April 20, 2014
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