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Hartford Whalers: From Heartbeat to Heartbreak: Whalers and Canes fans on here may want to check this out. Almost an hour run length so maybe not for casual quickie viewing.
As a former Hartford resident, I remember what the downtown area was like during hockey season when the Civic Center was rocking.
In the early 80's the UConn men's basketball team played some of its games there, but they hadn't hired Jim Calhoun and become nationally prominent yet, so the Whalers were absolutely the main game in town.
posted by beaverboard to hockey at 11:20 PM on December 20, 2024 - 4 comments
RIP Franco Harris: An icon and hero of my adolescence. Heading into the 1972 Draft, Franco was seen as a workhorse and his Penn State backfield mate Lydell Mitchell was seen as the skill stud. It was stunning when the Steelers drafted Franco well ahead of Mitchell, but they knew what they were doing. Lydell did OK for the Colts, but Franco ascended to the pantheon of immortals. He was a major tone setter for the great 1970's Steeler rosters, which caused great pain to Cowboys fans and others. I was somewhat ambivalent about the team until they handled the Fran Tarkenton Vikings in the Super Bowl. Then I got on board. Anyone who took care of Tark was deserving of a thumbs up in my book. With several teammates and coaches already deceased, I'm glad that Terry Bradshaw is still around and able to clearly articulate his thoughts and feelings in great detail as people reminisce about Franco and those Pittsburgh teams.
posted by beaverboard to football at 11:41 AM on December 22, 2022 - 2 comments
I Don't Want Cooperstown, I want Shaughnessy: Curt Schilling's thoughts on baseball immortality and settling scores.
posted by beaverboard to baseball at 01:58 AM on January 27, 2021 - 5 comments
Chargers Team Doctor Punctured Tyrod Taylor's Lung: Broadcasters during the Chargers/Chiefs game on Sunday were mystified by the last-minute absence of quarterback Tyrod Taylor, who wasn't on the injury list but did not make the start. Coach Anthony Lynn revealed that Taylor missed the game because the team doctor accidentally punctured his lung while administering a painkiller injection for Taylor's cracked ribs. He's out indefinitely.
posted by beaverboard to football at 04:26 PM on September 23, 2020 - 2 comments
I Was the Fastest Girl in America, Until I Joined Nike: Elite runner Mary Cain's harrowing tale of breakdown in the grips of the Nike training program.
posted by beaverboard to general at 07:34 PM on November 08, 2019 - 3 comments
The clinical name for it is Minnesota Syndrome.
Latrell Sprewell did the same thing when the Timberwolves offered him a contract because he "had a family to feed". When he couldn't sign elsewhere, he lost the entire value of that contract offer.
Then there's the Curse of Joe Smith on the Wolves, which is the reverse: agreeing to play for below market money in exchange for an illegally engineered future mega payday. The league found out, the team got burned. And so did Joe.
If I owned a pro sports team in MN and had a player I was uncertain of, regardless of the sport, I'd try to see if the Knicks would take him. Heck, they took Towns, it's at least worth a call or a text.
posted by beaverboard at 09:53 PM on September 10, 2025
It's too early to tell, but folks who were calling the NFC North "stacked" were maybe a bit premature.
Jared Goff may wish he still had Ben Johnson, and Johnson will surely wish he didn't have Caleb Williams.
I don't know if JJ McCarthy will become another Brock Purdy, but Caleb seems like he could easily become another Jeff George.
posted by beaverboard at 01:03 PM on September 10, 2025
For the Clips to be "bleeped", they first have to be "bleeped up", which it seems they are.
Ballmer way overpaid when he bought into the league. Donald Sterling was massively rewarded for being Donald Sterling. Ballmer paid an unprecedented premium in a compulsory divestment situation. Franchise sale prices had been cooking along at around the 500-600 million dollar mark and Ballmer comes in at 2 billion - to a seller with zero leverage. That blew the doors open and now franchise values are up beyond earth's atmosphere.
It's hard to part a fool from his money in a meaningful way when the fool has as much money as Ballmer does.
I wouldn't be disappointed if the NBA forced Ballmer to sell. If he does, he'll be rewarded the same way Sterling was.
posted by beaverboard at 09:41 PM on September 09, 2025
I got to see them all play back then. My late father in law filled out scorecards of the games and got a few sigs as well.
There's a stop light at the intersection of Rt. 28 and Eldredge Park Way in Orleans that lines up with the left field foul pole of the ballpark, which sits right on the NW corner of the intersection.
You did not want to be in a line of eastbound cars stopped at that light when Frank Thomas was at the plate.
posted by beaverboard at 02:45 PM on September 09, 2025
The jury is still out on whether when the Bills win a big game, it's because of Sean McDermott or in spite of him.
Last night, the Bills failed on not one, not two, but THREE two point conversion attempts after TD's.
Meanwhile, for the most part, the Baltimore kicker was looking like money.
But then he misses a PAT in the 4th quarter.
And the Ravens lose by one.
I can only imagine how many fights broke out within the groups of Bills fans who left early.
For God's sake, doesn't Buffalo have a Reich Rule in situations like this after what happened in 1993?
posted by beaverboard at 01:18 PM on September 08, 2025
Meanwhile, great to see Nick Folk still in the league swinging his steady leg, back with the Jets after cranking out the two best statistical years of his career with the Titans.
He had a good thing going with the Pats but idiot GM Belichick decided to draft a PK in the 4th round (apparently, no long snappers were available) and moved Folk on to Tennessee. Nick excelled in Nashville and the rookie in Foxboro sucked. Dumb draft choice. One of many.
Nick is only 40, so he's got a ways to go if he wants to get into the rock of ages Adam Vinatieri / Morten Andersen / George Blanda territory.
posted by beaverboard at 11:57 PM on September 07, 2025
The bigger story is whose idea it is.
Is the USTA obeying in advance or did they get a directive from somewhere in the government or the power elite?
posted by beaverboard at 02:37 PM on September 07, 2025
NFL post-game internal memo:
1) Don't put a franchise in the UK if you can't handle the weather in Philadelphia.
posted by beaverboard at 04:57 PM on September 05, 2025
Dallas post-game internal memo:
1) Have an opponent spit on Prescott before the start of each half.
2) Figure out if there may be a reason for the following, which was repeated throughout the broadcast: "Hurts, with all kinds of time..."
3) Either get Cee Dee Lamb some Lester Hayes Stickum or quit throwing him passes with Wallenda-level degrees of difficulty and high potential for serious collisions.
posted by beaverboard at 04:56 PM on September 05, 2025
Indianapolis being favored over Miami is strange. What am I not seeing there?
An off-season of steadily building impatience with former wunderkind McDaniel and ongoing dislike for longtime brunt Grier.
Home game for the Colts with a new DC and what should be a decent D overall.
Zach Wilson might miss the walkthrough looking for maturity at Ike and Jonesy's.
posted by beaverboard at 12:18 PM on September 03, 2025
If agent Jimmy Sexton's top 5 money earning college head coach clients (including Kalen DeBoer of Alabama) were fired without cause, the combined buyout total would be 340 million dollars.
Nick Saban was (and is) a Jimmy Sexton client but never figured into that math because he didn't have a buyout clause in his contract when he was coaching.
Sexton made up for it when he negotiated a massive buyout for DeBoer that Bama never should have agreed to. They wanted to look brisk and decisive in replacing Saban and paid accordingly.
posted by beaverboard at 10:27 AM on September 03, 2025
If a sports editor ordered a new plot concept for The Wizard Of Oz:
"Horned Frogs Of Dykes Lick Heels Of Gold Digger's Daddy"
posted by beaverboard at 11:23 AM on September 02, 2025
RIP Alabama and Dallas great Lee Roy Jordan, who regrettably lived to see the Cowboys GM trade away Micah Parsons, but thankfully won't be around to witness the spectacle of boosters at his alma mater begging Coach Saban to come out of retirement and rescue the backsliding Tide.
posted by beaverboard at 04:41 PM on August 31, 2025
Noles send Tide home stunned.
There are people not getting any younger who have never known what it's like when all three of the big Fla. schools are nationally competitive at the same time.
The glory years would have been even more epic if Coach Bowden had cared enough about placekicking to recruit and develop reliable, sustained excellence at the position.
posted by beaverboard at 09:42 PM on August 30, 2025
SportsFilter: The Monday Huddle
I spent a good bit of my adolescence watching that guy play. RIP.