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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
Last night, I was sure that the Thunder would do to the Pacers what the Panthers did to the Oilers.
Close it out, leave no doubt. Well damn. What a job by the Pacers.
The prospect of Sunday's Game 7 feels like a NCAA tournament title game. Maybe Oklahoma-Kansas in 1988.
I can't watch Holmgren any more. He doesn't want to be there. He was strictly an onlooker last night. If he doesn't show up on Sunday, OKC is going to have to figure something out.
posted by beaverboard at 10:18 AM on June 20, 2025
For Boston sports fans staring into their beer:
Yesterday, Brad Marchand won the Stanley Cup and Rafael Devers went 2 for 5 and told the Giants he'd play wherever they wanted him to.
But all is not lost. Xander Bogaerts and Mookie Betts both went hitless, and a couple of days ago, Roman Anthony hit his first major league home run.
Wait till Anthony becomes a star and gets famous. Comedian Jimmy O. Yang will weigh in to let everyone know that naming a kid Roman Anthony is like if his mom had named him Cantonese Jimmy.
posted by beaverboard at 10:18 PM on June 18, 2025
In Taylor's 1st MLB game, he threw 11 scoreless innings, gave up a grand slam in the 12th.
Didn't that make him eminently qualified to provide care to Dave Stieb?
posted by beaverboard at 12:48 AM on June 17, 2025
Just keep sending them all to California.
I don't even care what the Red Sox do at this point.
I'm just waiting for the sunroof of a car parked on Landsdowne St. to open up and a Ukranian drone flies out, heading for the owner's box at Fenway.
posted by beaverboard at 04:20 PM on June 16, 2025
Speaking as a longtime resident of Bruins country, if that rascal Brad Marchand wins the Conn Smythe, I will throw up in a TD Garden popcorn bucket.
posted by beaverboard at 10:23 PM on June 10, 2025
Game One of the NBA Finals won just before the buzzer by the Pacers, who had trailed all game and staged a stunning comeback.
Game One of the NHL Finals won by the Oilers deep into overtime after they came back and tied the game in the third period of regulation.
Game Two of the NHL Finals won by the Panthers in two overtimes after the Oilers tied the game with seconds left in regulation.
The Oilers and Panthers have played the equivalent of three regulation games to decide two outcomes.
Carlos Alcaraz beats Janek Sinner in five sets after dropping the first two sets to win the longest (and some say best) French Open Men's Final ever played.
Sovereignty duels with Journalism down the stretch in an intense rematch of the Kentucky Derby and pulls away to win the Belmont Stakes.
We're in the middle of an anointed sports moment with something heroic happening almost every day. No telling what will happen next.
The US Open tournament is coming up. Ordinary golf is not going to cut it in the present context.
posted by beaverboard at 04:36 PM on June 08, 2025
The Cup has to go to Canada, so there can be a jubilant scene with the hockey fiend PM in Ottawa while the Clemson style McDonalds champions' banquet goes cold and gelatinous at the White House.
I'm worried about the NBA champs celebrating at the White House because those guys make so much money that they want to go to the Lawn to pump for investment and capital gains tax cuts. Shake a hand, smooth a perm, save a mil.
It took an extraordinary amount of tectonic shift for former staunch Republican Charles Barkley to finally declare that the GOP had lost their minds and jump ship.
A Black man from Alabama going to the mat for the Southern Strategy party of Nixon until all reason was abandoned.
What if the Pacers won and went to celebrate with Mike Pence?
posted by beaverboard at 07:15 PM on June 06, 2025
Dang, an all-Texas WCWS title game.
I love that the elite women's pitchers can throw all day in the mid to upper 70 mph range and then go out and start the next game if needed.
The Twins' Tom Kelly would have loved coaching this kind of ball, where you can go win a title with a couple of good arms.
posted by beaverboard at 01:28 PM on June 06, 2025
Thunder's gonna Knick.
You lose Game 1 at home to this Pacers group, it could be tough sledding.
Once again, Haliburton ran a bit quiet till the 4th.
A lot of guys go berserk in the 1st period and then vanish.
OKC has a good coach. He started Holmgren at the 5 and didn't get much out of him. Looking forward to seeing the Game 2 lineups. They need what Holmgren brings, when he brings it.
It's a crime that a game like that didn't have Kevin Harlan on the game call. Hell, I'd take Noah Eagle over Breen and Jefferson.
Think how colorful this series would be if the Thunder had never relocated and were still wearing Sonics unis.
posted by beaverboard at 11:40 AM on June 06, 2025
Eins! Zwei! Drai! Saitl! Fear!
posted by beaverboard at 11:15 AM on June 05, 2025
After the Knicks disassembled the Celtics in the playoffs, some folks probably thought that one of those head coaches would get the boot.
But I bet they didn't think it would be Thibodeau.
posted by beaverboard at 01:01 PM on June 04, 2025
Which reminds me, I'm still pissed at Tom Brady during Deflategate when the league demanded his cell phone and he told them it was given to an assistant and broken or lost instead of saying "Go to hell and get fucked, you have no authority, you're not getting my phone".
posted by beaverboard at 04:49 PM on June 03, 2025
Many thanks, tommy. So wild - today, the Boston Globe just published a piece on what happens when you travel outside the US.
I started scrolling through it and had to pause for a diversion when they got to the point of having to unlock your phone or give out your laptop password.
If it ever gets to that point with me, someone with an insignia will be swimming to Windsor using a recalled Ford airbag as a flotation device.
posted by beaverboard at 04:45 PM on June 03, 2025
If I crossed the border to go see a game and then wasn't allowed back into the US, are there affordable places to stay in and around Moose Jaw?
posted by beaverboard at 11:41 PM on June 02, 2025
SportsFilter: The Monday Huddle
In prior games, Tyrese was clever about holding the bulk of his scoring till later in the game.
Last night, he came out firing and nailed three threes in quick succession. He looked like he was feeling it and ready to will his team to a historic win.
That will only add to the sense of "what if" and "asterisk win" if there are some folks who are so inclined to peg that on the Thunder.
Siakam wasn't having any of that talk post game. He was all "shit happens; next man up".
I told my brother in law that Holmgren had to score at least 12 and grab 7 boards for a Thunder win. He had been invisible in Game 6. Actually a liability at some moments.
Holmgren did well and him showing up helped create the margin of victory.
I still wouldn't pay him, but I would defer to Presti if I was an OKC fan.
The edgiest folks weighing in were Seattle fans. "NO, THIS IS NOT THE SONICS SECOND TITLE. IT'S OKC'S FIRST TITLE."