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Big Ten nixes fall college football season, eyes spring: Big Ten conference presidents and chancellors voted Tuesday to postpone all fall sports seasons, including football, amid the coronavirus pandemic with the hopes of playing in the spring.
posted by bender to football at 10:17 AM on August 12, 2020 - 1 comment
An 82-game season? A universal DH? Key takeaways from MLB's 2020 proposal: MLB owners approved a proposal that aims to have Major League Baseball back in early July. Commissioner Rob Manfred reportedly plans to present the proposal to players Tuesday.
posted by bender to baseball at 09:31 AM on May 12, 2020 - 2 comments
VAR Has One Job, And It's Failing Miserably At It: The most common complaint against VAR—or any form of video review in sports—in one of aesthetics. If referees insist on stopping the game for several minutes to double check every key play, the thinking goes, all the drama and intensity and emotion of the biggest moments will be lost, and the celebrations of fans will be replaced by hesitance and trepidation while they wait to confirm that what they just saw with their own eyes actually happened. It’s a fine argument, one that at least a strong minority of sports fans would agree with. But most leagues around the world have chosen to ignore it. If the game gets delayed for a bit, they’ve decided, that’s okay, because it’s a small price to pay to avoid controversy and make sure officials are making an objectively correct call.
posted by bender to soccer at 04:34 PM on June 24, 2019 - 8 comments
Altuve Ruled Out on Fan Interference in ALCS Game 4: Mookie Betts tries to make a play at the wall on a Jose Altuve hit, and the umpires rule that a fan interfered and call Altuve out.
posted by bender to baseball at 09:22 AM on October 18, 2018 - 20 comments
Mesut Özil is leaving the German National Football Team over DFB's reaction to a photo he took with Turkish President Recep Erdogan in May.: Mesut Özil tweeted a three-part statement Sunday regarding the photo incident, his Turkish heritage, and the backlash he has received--particularly from DFB President Reinhard Grindel. He concluded, "It is with a heavy heart and after much consideration that because of recent events, I will no longer be playing for Germany at international level whilst I have this feeling of racism and disrespect. I used to wear the German shirt with such pride and excitement, but now I don't."
posted by bender to soccer at 01:27 PM on July 23, 2018 - 4 comments
I saw on Twitter that this is the first ever playoff game where a team had 0 kicks and 0 turnovers--that every possession ended in either a touchdown or end of half. I'd hazard a guess that there aren't a lot of regular season games that meet those criteria either. Very impressive by the Bills, and I'd imagine extra satisfying that it happened against New England.
posted by bender at 01:33 PM on January 16, 2022
My picks:
49ers by 3
Chiefs by 10 (lock)
Rams by 4 (lock)
So that's not a great start, not picking the first 3 games. Better make some locks.
posted by bender at 01:28 PM on January 16, 2022
Preview of tonight's Chargers-Raiders game pic.twitter.com/G3RHm7t1Ko
— Grant Wahl (@GrantWahl) January 9, 2022
posted by bender at 05:39 PM on January 09, 2022
Well, -10's all around on the Jags!
posted by bender at 04:11 PM on January 09, 2022
My picks:
Broncos by 4 (lock)
Eagles by 3
Bengals by 8 (lock)
Packers by 11 (lock)
Vikings by 8 (lock)
Giants by 6 (lock)
Colts by 18 (lock)
Steelers by 5
Titans by 12 (lock)
Saints by 7 (lock)
Bills by 18 (lock)
Rams by 7 (lock)
Patriots by 7 (lock)
Cardinals by 17 (lock)
Buccaneers by 7 (lock)
Chargers by 7
posted by bender at 01:59 PM on January 08, 2022
I appreciate Australia standing their ground here. If you're going to have a policy in place for public safety, your reasons for allowing individual exemption from it have got to be more compelling than "sports star wants to play in a tournament."
posted by bender at 09:47 AM on January 06, 2022
My picks:
Bills by 14 (lock)
Giants by 7
Bengals by 6
Titans by 10 (lock)
Colts by 17 (lock)
Patriots by 20 (lock)
Buccaneers by 5
Eagles by 5
Ravens by 10 (lock)
Broncos by 7
49ers by 17 (lock)
Cardinals by 7
Saints by 12 (lock)
Seahawks by 5
Packers by 14 (lock)
Browns by 4
posted by bender at 07:59 PM on December 31, 2021
Revised picks:
Packers by 14 (lock) posted by bender at 01:34 AM on December 24, 2021
My picks:
Titans by 7 (lock)
posted by bender at 03:14 PM on December 23, 2021
My picks:
Chiefs by 3
Raiders by 10
Colts by 4
Bills by 7 (lock)
Cardinals by 18 (lock)
Jets by 2
Cowboys by 6
Eagles by 5
Titans by 3
Jaguars by 2
Broncos by 14 (lock)
49ers by 17 (lock)
Rams by 8
Packers by 5
Saints by 9
Vikings by 10 (lock)
posted by bender at 03:35 PM on December 16, 2021
In that visualization, there's a big spike in shots from way downtown in the 2015-16 season, which seems interesting.
posted by bender at 10:39 AM on December 16, 2021
My picks:
Vikings by 3
Ravens by 7
Titans by 10 (lock)
Chiefs by 10 (lock)
Saints by 4
Washington by 4
Falcons by 4
Seahawks by 6
Broncos by 17 (lock)
Chargers by 10 (lock)
Bengals by 3
Bills by 5
Packers by 10 (lock)
Cardinals by 15 (lock)
posted by bender at 10:38 AM on December 09, 2021
My picks:
Saints by 3
Falcons by 3
Cardinals by 10 (lock)
Bengals by 5
Vikings by 4
Dolphins by 10 (lock)
Jets by 3
Colts by 7
Raiders by 4
Rams by 17 (lock)
Ravens by 16 (lock)
Seahawks by 12 (lock)
Chiefs by 10 (lock)
Bills by 7 (lock)
posted by bender at 08:41 AM on December 09, 2021
Saints by 3
Falcons by 3
Cardinals by 10 LOCK
Bengals by 5
Vikings by 4
Dolphins by 10 LOCK
Jets by 3
Colts by 7
Raiders by 4
Rams by 17 LOCK
Ravens by 16 LOCK
Seahawks by 12 LOCK
Chiefs by 10 LOCK
Bills by 7 LOCK
posted by bender at 12:01 AM on December 05, 2021
NFL Playoff Pickem Round 2: Hand the Ref the Ball Edition
My picks:
Titans by 7 (lock)
Packers by 13
Buccaneers by 3
Bills by 5
Passer: Tom Brady
Rusher: Derrick Henry
Receiver: Tyreek Hill
Player with interception: Kevin Byard
3/3 in games I picked last week"too bad I didn't pick the first three. Go Titans!