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- 05/08/21
| Name: | bill pennington (no, not that one) |
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| Location: | Australia, but reasonably peripatetic |
| Member since: | June 26, 2004 |
| Last visit: | May 06, 2021 |
owlhouse has posted 164 links and 3,245 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
Does he know how to play American football?
Asking for a friend in Tampa Bay.
I'm sure he'd like the opportunity to chew that idea over.
posted by owlhouse at 10:04 PM on February 14, 2021
And Happy Jan. 2 to owlhouse
Thanks. And to what do I owe the pleasure?
/Straya Day is 26 Jan.
posted by owlhouse at 08:32 PM on January 03, 2021
Face melting tenor solo.
posted by owlhouse at 05:10 PM on December 03, 2020
Putting the journey into journeyman.
posted by owlhouse at 05:09 PM on December 03, 2020
The ever-eloquent Jorge Valdano on his World Cup-winning teammate.
posted by owlhouse at 10:04 PM on November 26, 2020
The best individual player, for sure. The best player? I think Pele might have just shaded him.
posted by owlhouse at 10:02 PM on November 25, 2020
a half year behind its normal time and in a different country
In 2009, the Indian Premier League was played entirely in South Africa following the terrorist attack on the touring Sri Lankan team in March of that year.
posted by owlhouse at 12:29 AM on September 16, 2020
I've said it before, and I'll say it again.
Neymar is a twat.
posted by owlhouse at 10:45 PM on September 14, 2020
I have only ever seen one MLB game. And the highlight was Big Bart Colon hitting a double.
posted by owlhouse at 12:03 AM on September 08, 2020
I nominate the Edmonton Ones That Got Away.
As anyone who followed my CFL tipping career in the Locker Room can confirm.
posted by owlhouse at 12:44 AM on July 22, 2020
Didn't something that happened around 1776 mean that you septics got rid of all your Royals?
Or is it just because of Wallis Simpson and Meghan Markle?
/I actually don't need to know.
posted by owlhouse at 02:18 AM on July 17, 2020
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!
posted by owlhouse at 01:33 AM on July 11, 2020
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
SportsFilter: The Sunday Huddle
Man United v Liverpool postponed as fans protest.
"A pessimist might observe that it's probably a stretch to expect a few guys with songs and banners to change the world for the better. An optimist would counter that it's possibly the only thing that ever has."