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| Name: | bill pennington (no, not that one) |
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| Location: | Australia, but reasonably peripatetic |
| Member since: | June 26, 2004 |
| Last visit: | July 14, 2020 |
owlhouse has posted 164 links and 3,233 comments to SportsFilter and 11 links and 756 comments to the Locker Room.
Women's World Cup 2023: You're all welcome to join us down under in three years' time. Note that I only have a couple of spare rooms so book early. :-)
posted by owlhouse to soccer at 11:04 PM on June 25, 2020 - 5 comments
Icarus: A new film exposes the level and scope of state sponsored cheating by Russia in the London 2012 and Sochi 2014 Olympics. And the limited ability of anyone to do anything about it.
posted by owlhouse to olympics at 08:47 PM on July 23, 2017 - 1 comment
The Table Never Lies: Are Brentford one of the first Moneyball-era football clubs, and can they make it work?
posted by owlhouse to soccer at 09:50 PM on February 20, 2017 - 4 comments
From Computer Game to Professional Football Analyst: One young man's gaming obsession turns into a proper paid job.
posted by owlhouse to soccer at 07:57 AM on September 29, 2016 - 1 comment
Mud and Glory: "Of a wet and thunderous sodden Saturday they couldn’t put on any lights fifty-two years ago, there weren’t any to put on. It grew much darker and blacker in vilest intensity with coagulated punch-ups going oddly unnoticed due to the annoying and most profound darkness that at least cost nothing. The dark has always been on the house I think you’ll find. Dark and mud sponsored the game of life back then before the new artificial grass authorities put the kybosh on free thinking."
posted by owlhouse to culture at 04:38 AM on September 20, 2016 - 3 comments
Launceston is in Tasmania (the South Island). Looks like it will indeed host some group games.
But if you want to drive there from here in Sydney, it's about 9 hours to Melbourne, then an overnight ferry crossing of Bass Strait in the middle of winter, then a short drive from Devonport. Or you could fly direct in about 90 minutes.
The matches will also be held in the middle of AFL season, so you could catch some games of that, too.
posted by owlhouse at 11:11 PM on June 28, 2020
About as far as New York is from Chicago. :-)
posted by owlhouse at 07:26 PM on June 26, 2020
Yet to see any evidence of teams "living" by the David Luiz.
The world's most expensive defender, but not in the way your team was hoping...
posted by owlhouse at 11:46 PM on June 18, 2020
You'd think tennis might be an early returning sport also.
Only if you play from in front of the baseline.
/I'll see myself out.
posted by owlhouse at 11:01 PM on May 05, 2020
I'm not sure Vanuatu has an ice hockey arena.
posted by owlhouse at 10:38 PM on April 27, 2020
They still needed someone who could shoot.
posted by owlhouse at 06:30 PM on April 10, 2020
RIP. Saw the Globetrotters at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney circa 1974. Great fun.
posted by owlhouse at 08:09 PM on March 29, 2020
I watched The English Game (https://www.netflix.com/title/80244928) on Netflix last weekend, very interesting short series from Julian Fellowes (Downton Abbey) about the turning point in football when payers started getting paid.
I just started watching this week. It's a bit plodding, and the characterisation is weak, but it does combine two of my favourite things: the beginning of the labour movement and football.
posted by owlhouse at 08:08 PM on March 29, 2020
This is the kind of sports administrator that makes me want to Chuck all over my Blazer.
posted by owlhouse at 10:43 PM on March 12, 2020
From Korea with a twist.
posted by owlhouse at 09:11 PM on October 27, 2019
Tres chic.
posted by owlhouse at 09:08 PM on October 27, 2019
The Braves were Fried to the Max.
posted by owlhouse at 11:33 PM on October 09, 2019
As someone points out in the comments, Ricky Ponting previously achieved top ranking in all three formats. And Kohli has to hope Steve Smith has a bad run in the next three Ashes tests.
Kohli is a great batsman, no doubt. The current Indian team should be built around him, however the game's governors in India (the BCCI), some of the press ans some of the public appear not to appreciate him very much. He's not as spectacular as Tendulkar, but infinitely reliable.
posted by owlhouse at 12:06 AM on December 09, 2017
I think the intercontinental playoffs showed that CONCACAF and CONMEBOL may not be as strong as the countries' individual rankings suggest.
It could have been worse for us, but we have a chance. Although finishing second would probably give us Argentina in the Round of 16.
posted by owlhouse at 09:51 PM on December 01, 2017
SportsFilter: The Wednesday Huddle
It's probably the hardest of the Nordic languages. It doesn't seem to have the semi-connectivity that Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian do.
Finnish is in an entirely different language group to the other Nordic/Germanic and even Indo-European languages. It sits in it's own family, Uralic, along with Estonian, Hungarian, the Sami languages and some indigenous languages of Siberia. And yes, it is hard!