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beaverboard
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Member since: April 27, 2007
Last visit: March 18, 2024

beaverboard has posted 21 links and 6,818 comments to SportsFilter and 0 links and 3 comments to the Locker Room.

Recent Links

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

Fools Rush In Where Scots and Augusta Members Fear To Tread: Notes and wanderings from the Waste Management Phoenix Open

posted by beaverboard to golf at 10:19 AM on February 28, 2018 - 1 comment

Recent Comments

SportsFilter: The Saturday Huddle

The Wolfpack is gonna put our man on an express train to Statin Island.

posted by beaverboard at 12:17 AM on March 17, 2024

SportsFilter: The Friday Huddle

Well, if I stop by a TGIF cocktail hour today, I won't be drowning my sorrows over this.

posted by beaverboard at 05:40 PM on March 15, 2024

SportsFilter: The Thursday Huddle

NC State shocks Duke! - continuous Bojangles and beer being delivered to 123 NoMich Drive

posted by beaverboard at 10:33 PM on March 14, 2024

SportsFilter: The Thursday Huddle

Seismic day in the hallowed NFC South.

Both Sam Howell and Desmond Ridder have been traded elsewhere.

posted by beaverboard at 06:50 PM on March 14, 2024

SportsFilter: The Thursday Huddle

I feel like I'm in a time loop when I wake up to the headline: "Padres Pull Off Blockbuster Trade".

posted by beaverboard at 01:15 PM on March 14, 2024

SportsFilter: The Tuesday Huddle

Leave it to Atlanta to herald the second coming of Jon Koncak.

posted by beaverboard at 12:21 PM on March 12, 2024

SportsFilter: The Monday Huddle

New Pittsburgh OC Arthur Smith must feel like he's won the sweepstakes getting to work with the likes of Mariota, Heinecke, Ridder, Rosen, and now Pickett, Wilson and Rudolph.

The Steelers have a history of mediocre QB's overachieving into a (temporary) state of pro football competence: Brister, Batch, Maddox, Duck Hodges, et al.

Also in that group is Neil O'Donnell, but I hate to bring him up as he is responsible for helping Barry Switzer win a NFL championship.

Edit: It shouldn't read Pickett, Wilson above. It should read Wilson Pickett.

posted by beaverboard at 09:51 PM on March 11, 2024

SportsFilter: The Sunday Huddle

Mac Jones is going home to rcade country. Traded to the Jags for a whopping sixth rounder.

Belichick would be psyched about the deal. The sixth and seventh rounds are where you find quality starters.

Mac could have a renaissance along the banks of the St. Johns.

But for now, some college ball fans won't waste any time telling Saban that his former Tide QB will be backing up a Clemson man.

posted by beaverboard at 12:13 AM on March 11, 2024

SportsFilter: The Friday Huddle

"Hell is empty and all the devils are here."

posted by beaverboard at 03:54 PM on March 10, 2024

SportsFilter: The Friday Huddle

For sports fans who always wanted something special named after Hope Solo, Bill Romanowski, Ron Artest or Pete Rose: astronomers have just announced the discovery of a new moon around Uranus.

posted by beaverboard at 07:27 PM on March 08, 2024

Russell Wilson to be released by Denver Broncos

Elway is a rich man by most anyone's standards, but he has been a major knucklehead about a few things through the years.

posted by beaverboard at 04:43 PM on March 05, 2024

Russell Wilson to be released by Denver Broncos

A record $85 million dead cap hit. (Walton family retail slogan: "Save Money. Live Better.")

John Elway traded away the farm to get Russell Wilson before parting ways with the Broncos.

Former Denver owner Pat Bowlen once owed John Elway less than a quarter of Wilson's dead cap hit in deferred salary.

He offered Elway a 20% ownership stake in the Broncos for the value of that deferred salary plus an additional $15 million in cash.

Elway declined the offer. Had he become an owner, his share would have been worth more than 10 times the value of Wilson's dead cap hit when the team was sold.

posted by beaverboard at 11:30 AM on March 05, 2024

SportsFilter: The Saturday Huddle

tahoe, are you bearing up ok with that blizzard? It must be a hell of a situation.

posted by beaverboard at 10:27 PM on March 02, 2024

SportsFilter: The Monday Huddle

The LA Clippers are rolling out a new logo and uniform design. Thank goodness.

The current blocky "LA inside a big C" logo looks like it was done on an Etch A Sketch.

It could be a maze for lab rats. Ballmer mediocrity.

However, the new logo kind of looks like a cruise ship full of cholera and norovirus cases headed straight for an innocent, unsuspecting dockside promenade.

posted by beaverboard at 05:06 PM on February 26, 2024

SportsFilter: The Monday Huddle

Yeah, big Cam's got his hat
Find out where it's at
It's not hustlin' people strange to you
Even if you do got a two piece custom-made pool cue

Yeah, you don't tug on Superman's cape
You don't spit into the wind
You don't pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger
And you don't mess around with Cam

posted by beaverboard at 04:34 PM on February 26, 2024