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April 22, 2010
SportsFilter: The Thursday 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.
The day to post this. So hard to pick just one player from some teams and I am sure some of these names boil your blood. The Browns could have put Courtney Brown on the list. Jermaine Stephans could have been the Steelers biggest bust. Screw you Huey Richardson.
posted by Debo270 at 08:15 AM on April 22, 2010
The Seahawks also could have listed "The Boz"
posted by Debo270 at 08:34 AM on April 22, 2010
For the Bengals, couldn't they just pick "The 90's"?
posted by tahoemoj at 10:09 AM on April 22, 2010
For the Lions, couldn't they just pick "any Heisman winner?"
posted by NoMich at 10:42 AM on April 22, 2010
I was thinking just about every draft pick during the Millen era.
posted by Ying Yang Mafia at 11:01 AM on April 22, 2010
Barry Sanders won the Heisman...just sayin...
posted by MeatSaber at 11:38 AM on April 22, 2010
So it was the Bengals of the 90's and the Lions of the 00's. Who will step up and set the bar for incompetence in the 10's?
And who wants to bet that it's the Bengals or the Lions?
posted by tahoemoj at 11:55 AM on April 22, 2010
Why Charles N'Zogbia never gives friends a lift.
posted by yerfatma at 12:06 PM on April 22, 2010
Legendary Russian hockey team Moscow Dynamo is close to collapse.
posted by rumple at 12:32 PM on April 22, 2010
NCAA will expand March Madness to 68 teams with a play in game for 16 seed in each section. Thank God the didnt screw this up.
posted by Debo270 at 01:58 PM on April 22, 2010
I can deal with 68 teams better than 92 or whatever number they were throwing out. Unless it's the play-in concept for the 8/9 bubble teams that had been thrown around, I still think 64 makes more sense.
posted by jmd82 at 02:21 PM on April 22, 2010
Olympic and World 400m champion LaShawn Merritt tests positive for a banned steroid, blames it on an OTC "male enhancement product". A suspension's sure to follow, along with jokes about whether he's being stiffed.
posted by etagloh at 04:30 PM on April 22, 2010
Favourite quote from that story:
"To know that I've tested positive as a result of a product that I used for personal reasons is extremely difficult to wrap my hands around."
If that were true, I doubt he'd having been taking those pills.
posted by wfrazerjr at 05:54 PM on April 22, 2010
Pirates' 20-0 loss is worst in franchise's 124 years The previous mark for the 124-year-old franchise for the worst loss was by an 18-run margin, set twice: The first came a century ago, with an 18-0 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies on July 11, 1910. The other was a 19-1 loss to the Cincinnati Reds on July 14, 1955. The crowd of 13,634 booed most of the afternoon, except for when some began cheering on the Brewers to go for 20 runs in the ninth inning. There was cheering when that 20th run crossed, too, followed by loud boos for the home team.
posted by tommybiden at 07:10 PM on April 22, 2010
Canadian Paralympic curling skip arrested in U.S. over counterfeit drugs .......
Jim Armstrong of Richmond, B.C., was arrested in Blaine, Wash., last Thursday while trying to pick up a package containing thousands of counterfeit Viagra and Cialis pills.
posted by tommybiden at 09:54 PM on April 22, 2010
Today's reason why NHL Playoffs are better than the NBA's: Ottawa Senators stay alive with triple-overtime win
posted by tommybiden at 12:03 AM on April 23, 2010
This is probably the biggest story in Australian sports this year. It involves cheating, corruption, betting rewriting history and Rupert Murdoch.
It will also be the end of rugby league in Melbourne. I predict.