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March 01, 2010
SportsFilter: The Monday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
technically Canada got silver in women's curling
posted by Demophon at 08:48 AM on March 01, 2010
"Waking up"?
I'm pretty sure there are large groups of Canadians that haven't fallen asleep yet.
The tough thing is going to be the Olympic withdrawal. It's been the main addiction for Canada for 17 days.
posted by grum@work at 09:19 AM on March 01, 2010
Oops, my bad. Misread it somehow. Good catch Demophon.
posted by apoch at 09:25 AM on March 01, 2010
The tough thing is going to be the Olympic withdrawal. It's been the main addiction for Canada for 17 days.
Not just for Canada, I have been jonesing for some curling since the men's gold medal match. I tried playing Shuffle Bump on Pogo to come down slowly, but it just wasn't the same!!
Oops, my bad. Misread it somehow. Good catch Demophon.
No problem, just wanted to keep those pesky Canadians in their place. We don't want them getting too full of themselves. I mean it might start with owning the medal stand but where will it end? Those Canadians must be stopped!!!
posted by Demophon at 09:57 AM on March 01, 2010
Two from the Providence Journal:
Rhode Island's best college basketball team. - hard not to love RISD.
Why the America's Cup belongs in Newport - written by the Journal's version of Dan Shaughnessy, posting only because some of the anecdotes are decent.
posted by yerfatma at 11:26 AM on March 01, 2010
Great link on RISD, yerfatma.
posted by wfrazerjr at 03:30 PM on March 01, 2010
Great little story from Peter King about some shenanigans by the Saints staff at the expense of the Cowboys' contingent at the combine:
At the restaurant, word passed that Dallas owner Jerry Jones would have his Dallas group in this exact room Saturday night for a team dinner. Jones had even phoned ahead, according to a waiter, to make sure a magnum of a wine he loved, Caymus Special Selection cabernet sauvignon, was ready to be served at dinner.
Sean Payton told the waiter he'd like to have that wine, too. The waiter told him: Sorry, sir. We have only one bottle left, and it's reserved for Mr. Jones.
Payton said he'd like to have the bottle nonetheless. I assume there was much angst on the part of the wait staff at that point. My God! Who do we piss off? One of the most powerful owners in the NFL, or the coach who's the toast of the NFL, the coach who just won the Super Bowl?
Here came the bottle of Caymus Special Selection, and the Saints' party drained it.
But drinking Jones' wine wasn't enough. Payton gave the waiter some instructions, took out his pen ... and, well, the Cowboys party found at the middle of their table the next evening an empty magnum of Caymus Special Selection cabernet sauvignon, with these words hand-written on the fancy label:
WHO DAT!
On Friday night, the Saints' staff at the combine gathered in a private room at St. Elmo Steakhouse, an 108-year-old Indy landmark, for a final celebratory nod to the Super Bowl win over the Colts. This is a group that likes its wine, and likes to have fun.
World Champions XLIV
Sean Payton
posted by holden at 05:18 PM on March 01, 2010
That's funny. It has to hurt Jones a little bit that he had Payton as assistant head coach and didn't hold on to him.
posted by bperk at 06:21 PM on March 01, 2010
Dallas and New Orleans inescapably linked in the national lore once again. Lee Harvey Oswald and David Ferrie would be proud. Among others.
posted by beaverboard at 10:09 PM on March 01, 2010
Canada has to be waking up in a good mood. Gold medals in Men's and Women's Hockey and Curling.