SportsFilter: The Tuesday Huddle

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AFC Wimbledon Win Promotion to League One: Fourteen years ago, fans in Wimbledon lost their football club to Milton Keynes in a franchise relocation -- something that never happens in England. Fans held public tryouts and began a new club, AFC Wimbledon, which started at the ninth level of the English football pyramid, the Combined Counties Football League. Today, the AFC Wimbledon Dons won a playoff at Wembley to earn promotion to the third level, League One. They will share a division next season with MK Dons. AFC Wimbledon have plans underway to build a 20,000-seat stadium at the site of their old Plough Lane ground.

posted by rcade to soccer at 01:15 PM - 8 comments

NHL Playoff Pick 'Em: Stanley Cup Round: The Stanley Cup Final between the San Jose Sharks and Pittsburgh Penguins begin tonight at 8 p.m. EDT. Five players in our NHL Pick 'Em contest are within 5 points of the leader, NoMich.

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SportsFilter: The Monday Huddle

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SportsFilter: The Sunday Huddle

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SportsFilter: The Saturday Huddle

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SportsFilter: The Friday Huddle

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Vin Scully recites the speech about baseball from "Field of Dreams".:
This should be played in every MLB park before the last game of Scully's career.

posted by grum@work to baseball at 08:27 PM - 3 comments

Baylor fires Art Briles over criminal coverups: Details are still a bit thin but apparently Coach Briles protected multiple players on his Baylor football team from sexual assault cases. Baylor President and Chancellor Ken Starr is now just Chancellor, athletic director Ian McCaw has been sanctioned and placed on probation but Briles' assistant coaches all remain in place, at least for now, including Kendall Briles. The details are nauseating so I'll leave them out of the post.

posted by billsaysthis to culture at 01:39 PM - 2 comments

SportsFilter: The Thursday Huddle

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Putting the Journey Into Journeyman: One man's path into professional football, from Manchester City to Tulsa.

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SportsFilter: The Wednesday Huddle

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SportsFilter: The Tuesday Huddle

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SportsFilter: The Monday Huddle

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Did the Starting Gate Injury Break Barbaro's Leg?: On Preakness weekend, Tom Scocca asks a question on Deadspin about a tragic moment in the race a decade ago. Kentucky Derby Barbaro broke a leg in 20 places during the race. The injury is treated like something that happened during the race, but Barbaro crashed through the gate and stumbled before the start. "The mystery, then and now, is how everyone was so sure that Barbaro didn’t get hurt on the false start," Scocca writes. "It wasn’t because he got a thorough checkup before reloading. Nor was it because it’s normal for a strong and healthy horse to spontaneously break down out of the gate."

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SportsFilter: The Sunday Huddle

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SportsFilter: The Saturday Huddle

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SportsFilter: The Friday Huddle

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Premier League Fantasy 2015-16 final results: Congratulations to Red Loop, who easily outpaced Holden for this year's title. Sadly, it's another Europa League finish for myself while third and fourth went to the colorfully-named Tuscaloosa Dumplings and Lovren's Clown Shoes.

posted by billsaysthis to fantasy at 09:56 AM - 7 comments

British Open Drops Muirfield for Not Admitting Women: Muirfield has been dropped from the rotation of British Open courses after the club that owns it refused to end its ban on female members. A vote that could have allowed women to join the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers failed to get the necessary two-thirds vote, so when Phil Mickelson lifted the Claret Jug three years ago at Muirfield, it could be the last. A group that defeated the vote said, "A traditional resistance to change is one of the foundations of our unique position in golf and our reputation." Only one of the other nine courses that gets the Open has a gender restriction. Royal Troon, this year's site, has separate men's and women's clubs.

posted by rcade to golf at 08:51 AM - 4 comments

SportsFilter: The Thursday Huddle

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SportsFilter: The Wednesday Huddle

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SportsFilter: The Tuesday Huddle

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SportsFilter: The Monday Huddle

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NBA Playoff Pick 'Em: Conference Finals: The Raptors will take on the so far unbeaten Cavaliers and the (surprise!) Thunder face off against the Warriors. Standings and picks for the conference finals inside.

posted by Ufez Jones to basketball at 07:08 PM - 19 comments

Manchester United Match Cancelled by Bomb Scare: The last weekend of the Premier League season is supposed to be played with 20 matches that all start at the same time, but there was no match at Old Trafford today between Manchester United and AFC Bournemouth. An "incredibly lifelike explosive device" was found in the stands before kickoff. A delay for a security sweep turned into a cancellation and a "controlled explosion" was performed. Security concerns at soccer venues in Europe are high after the Stade de France was a target in the Paris attacks last November in which 130 were killed.

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SportsFilter: The Sunday Huddle

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SportsFilter: The Saturday Huddle

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Rockies SS Jose Reyes receives 52-game suspension for domestic violence incident: Reyes was arrested in Maui, Hawaii for an incident that occurred in October of last year. His wife told police that he pulled her off of a hotel bed, grabbed her by the throat, and slammed her into a sliding glass door, after which she was treated at a local hospital. However, criminal charges were dropped after she refused to testify against him.

posted by Ufez Jones to baseball at 07:00 PM - 5 comments

NHL Playoff Pick 'Em, Round 3: The third round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs begins tonight at 8 p.m. EDT when the Tampa Bay Lightning play the Pittsburgh Penguins in the East. The other series begins Saturday when the San Jose Sharks visit the St. Louis Blues. Our NHL Pick 'Em contestants should pick the winners of both series, the number of games and some bonus categories.

posted by rcade to hockey at 02:16 PM - 18 comments

SportsFilter: The Friday Huddle

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SportsFilter: The Thursday Huddle

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Grosse Ile H.S. lacrosse team accused of killing animal before game: Members of the Grosse Ile High School lacrosse team are under investigation by police and the school district after allegations surfaced Monday that some of the teens killed an animal prior to a game.

posted by tommytrump to culture at 05:49 PM - 4 comments

SportsFilter: The Wednesday Huddle

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Turning Prodigious into Pros: The Oak Hill Story

posted by billsaysthis to basketball at 12:24 AM - 0 comments

Texas City Will Build $62.8 Million High School Football Stadium: Voters in a school district in McKinney, Texas, north of Dallas have approved $62.8 million to build a new high school football stadium. The 12,000-seat facility will be the most expensive high school stadium in the country, according to Sports Illustrated.

posted by rcade to football at 11:03 AM - 3 comments

SportsFilter: The Tuesday Huddle

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'So, let’s build a pro soccer team from scratch ...': Foursquare founder (and Boston Marathon cheater) Dennis Crowley founded Kingston Stockade FC this year. It's a 4th-tier semi-pro soccer team based in slightly-upstate Hudson Valley, New York, and he did it all for about $50K. He writes about why he did this, how he went about it, and how this sort of thing will end in a U.S. Men's World Cup win.

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SportsFilter: The Monday Huddle

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SportsFilter: The Sunday Huddle

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Nyquist Favorite to Win Today's Kentucky Derby: The Kentucky Derby is being run today at Churchill Downs in Louisville. The race begins at 6:34 p.m. EDT after four hours of coverage on NBCSN from noon to 4 p.m. and NBC pre-race festivities from 4 p.m. The favorite after the first day of betting is No. 13 Nyquist at 2-1, who could become the first unbeaten juvenile champion since Seattle Slew in 1977. No. 11 Exaggerator was the 5-1 second choice, followed by #5 Gun Runner (9-1). USA Today has the odds for all 20 horses.

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SportsFilter: The Saturday Huddle

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AHL Team Soaks Portland for $34M for Arena Renovations, Leaves After Two Years: The Portland (Maine) Pirates have decided to move to Springfield, Massachusetts, breaking a five-year lease on the taxpayer-funded Cross Insurance Arena after two years. Escape clauses built into the contract limit the team's payout for breaking the lease to $100,000, which is 0.3% of the cost of the renovations.

posted by Etrigan to hockey at 03:11 PM - 1 comment

Joe Paterno (and Penn State) may have known about the sexual abuse of children by Jerry Sandusky as far back as 1976.:
The line in question states that one of Penn State's insurers has claimed "in 1976, a child allegedly reported to PSU's Head Coach Joseph Paterno that he (the child) was sexually molested by Sandusky."

posted by grum@work to football at 08:23 AM - 10 comments

SportsFilter: The Friday Huddle

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One Night in Leicester: ESPN sent Wright Thompson to Leicester on the day the Premier League title was clinched. He found a city among the most demographically mixed in England, with different groups who kept to themselves until an impossible run brought them together: "For some lifelong Leicester fans, this season is a kind of requiem, the glory reminding them of glories past, one more piece of their pre-World War II lives that never returned after the bombs stopped falling and the nation buried its dead. 'They're in their estates,' [local sociologist John] Williams said. 'They're in the Saffron Lane area and the Braunstone area. They're in the white housing projects on the edge of the city, and they used to be connected to the game and now they're disconnected. They can't afford to go, and other people have come in to take their places.'"

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SportsFilter: The Thursday Huddle

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SportsFilter: The Wednesday Huddle

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SportsFilter: The Tuesday Huddle

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SportsFilter: The Monday Huddle

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Leicester City One Step Closer to Immortality: Leicester City drew 1-1 at Man United Sunday, bringing the Foxes to the brink of the Premier League championship. Tottenham must beat Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on Monday to keep their hopes alive, something Spurs hasn't done in 24 straight matches. Bookmakers offered 5,000-to-1 odds before the season on Leicester City winning the title, which will cost them $14 million if it happens. One of the people who made that bet is the actor Tom Hanks, who bet £100 pounds and stands to win £500,000 ($730,000).

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SportsFilter: The Sunday Huddle

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