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| Name: | Rogers Cadenhead |
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| Location: | Florida |
| Social Media Account: | https://twitter.com/rcade |
| Member since: | January 23, 2002 |
| Last visit: | February 20, 2025 |
| Status: | editor |
rcade has posted 3,686 links and 14,277 comments to SportsFilter and 87 links and 689 comments to the Locker Room and 8 columns.
NBA Pickem Week 16: Can't Stop the Nuggets: There are nine NBA games on the national tube this week starting with a TNT doubleheader tonight of Celtics/Sixers and Suns/Spurs. In two nights the red-hot Nuggets host the Lakers. Pickem scores last week were grim for two fans of the same team, but Ufez still leads. Make your picks.
posted by rcade to basketball at 02:26 PM on February 20, 2025 - 5 comments
Victor Wembanyama Out for Season Over DVT in Shoulder: San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama will miss the rest of the season after a deep vein thrombosis (DVT) was detected in his right shoulder. The reigning rookie of the year was an all-star this season putting up big numbers: 24.3 points, 11.0 rebounds, 3.7 assists and a league-leading 3.8 blocks.
posted by rcade to basketball at 12:59 PM on February 20, 2025 - 1 comment
Former NFL Punter Chris Kluwe Arrested for Civil Disobedience: Chris Kluwe was outspoken when he was a Minnesota Vikings punter and continued to be Tuesday at a Huntington Beach, California, city council meeting. Kluwe spoke against a local library plaque sneaking in a tribute to MAGA, called the movement "profoundly corrupt" and "explicitly a Nazi movement," then declared he was engaging in "peaceful civil disobedience" right before he walked onto the meeting stage. He's charged with disrupting an assembly.
posted by rcade to football at 12:01 PM on February 20, 2025 - 1 comment
Daytona 500 Crash Sends Ryan Preece's Car Airborne: William Byron won the Daytona 500 after a last-lap crash took him from ninth to first. Shortly before that a crash sent Ryan Preece airborne at Nascar's biggest race. His car looked like it popped a wheelie then flipped over multiple times. Preece was OK but he said later that when it happened "all I thought about was my daughter."
posted by rcade to auto racing at 11:45 AM on February 17, 2025 - 3 comments
NBA Pickem Week 15: Short Week: There are six NBA games to pick during this shortened schedule before the NBA All-Star Game on Sunday, but only because we're adding some games on Wednesday that aren't on national TV. Enjoy the Heat and Clippers on your schedule along with the Dallas MASH Unit. Ufez leads the contest by 34. Make your picks.
posted by rcade to basketball at 09:39 AM on February 12, 2025 - 7 comments
If you listen to too much SiriusXM Fantasy Sports you start joining best ball drafts for the next NFL season in February.
Can't decide between Travis Kelce and Mark Andrews in the eighth round.
posted by rcade at 10:56 AM on February 20, 2025
The Mavericks got Dirk Nowitzki and Luka Doncic because they believed in European players when a lot of team execs were holding on to lazy old prejudices.
The Mavericks traded Luka because they hired a GM who still has those prejudices.
Nico Harrison's next job is going to be at Famous Footwear. If he approaches you ask for another salesperson to assist you.
posted by rcade at 04:59 PM on February 18, 2025
I watched it live on TV. There was a pause after the crash in which Preece didn't lower the net on his driver's side window. It was likely less than a minute but felt way longer.
It's an engineering marvel that these drivers walk away from crashes like that. I wonder how much it contributes to the level of risk drivers are willing to take.
posted by rcade at 01:49 PM on February 17, 2025
My picks:
Celtics by 14 (slam dunk)
Warriors by 10 (slam dunk)
Rockets by 10
Heat by 13 (slam dunk)
Thunder by 16 (slam dunk)
Clippers by 20 (slam dunk)
Was only going to pick the Rockets by 8, but all my other spreads were double digit.
posted by rcade at 09:45 AM on February 12, 2025
The game was bad but I did enjoy being reminded of how good Jalen Hurts is. I've been thinking of him as a game manager whose skills are overrated because of tush-push touchdowns. But he's crazy fast in the open field and some of those passes were every bit the equal of the guy on the other sideline.
posted by rcade at 02:11 PM on February 10, 2025
Dominant win for the Eagles. All season long people talked up the Lions as the superteam to beat the Chiefs, but Philadelphia was just as young and loaded with talent. As a born and raised Cowboys fan I'm about to go into a shame spiral because I rooted so hard for Philly.
posted by rcade at 10:03 AM on February 10, 2025
My picks:
Eagles by 7 (lock)
Passer: Patrick Mahomes
Rusher: Saquon Barkley
Receiver: A.J. Brown
Player with interception: Quinyon Mitchell
Player with sack: Jordan Davis
Player with first turnover: Patrick Mahomes
Super Bowl MVP: Saquon Barkley
Tiebreaker: 08/21/2025
I think the Eagles are the better team and that will finally be enough to stop the Chiefs from doing just enough to win, the way they have all season.
But what I'm really invested in is finding out whether Travis and Taylor began dating on 08/21/2023 because I think he will propose exactly two years later. Teen Vogue was cagey about the date. They call themselves journalists?
posted by rcade at 09:44 PM on February 08, 2025
Revised picks:
Suns by 13 (slam dunk)
Celtics by 8
Bucks by 7
posted by rcade at 07:36 PM on February 07, 2025
Wait a minute. Nobody told me they would win something! That changes everything.
posted by rcade at 04:48 PM on February 06, 2025
Some Mavs fans, particularly those running big social media accounts, are starting to say "it's time to move on."
No, thanks. I've been a fan since day one but I can't support a team that gifted their 25-year-old home-grown all-world superstar to the Lakers in the most lopsided trade in NBA history. I am done done done. Can't see myself rooting for a team with these owners while Luka continues to Luka in L.A. It's too much.
posted by rcade at 12:51 PM on February 06, 2025
Revised picks:
Thunder by 18 (slam dunk)
posted by rcade at 09:09 PM on February 05, 2025
Maybe the Mavs are better this year, assuming AD stays healthy, but the trade is a disaster for Dallas long-term. Luka's approaching his prime and AD is about to be on the decline. The Mavs had an all-world talent about to sign a five-year supermax.
The lack of draft picks in the deal is another reason the trade was catastrophically bad for Dallas. When the Nets traded Kevin Durant they got three players and five first-round picks: 2023, 2025, 2027, 2028, 2029.
posted by rcade at 04:19 PM on February 04, 2025
NBA Pickem Week 16: Can't Stop the Nuggets
Current Standings
My picks:
Celtics by 12 (slam dunk)
Suns by 10 (slam dunk)
Cavaliers by 7 (slam dunk)
Timberwolves by 7 (slam dunk)
Nuggets by 5
Celtics by 14 (slam dunk)
Warriors by 30 (slam dunk)
Cavaliers by 5
Thunder by 16 (slam dunk)
Why aren't my favorite team the Indiana Pacers getting any games?