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June 08, 2010
SportsFilter: The Tuesday 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.
Bad timing.
NBA and NHL championship games on the same nights (with long breaks).
MLB just waiting for Strasburg (plus no perfect games).
CFL is a month away from regular season.
NFL has nothing to talk about.
The rest of the world is just waiting for the World Cup to start.
posted by grum@work at 12:12 PM on June 08, 2010
Plus, I guess, no one really cares about the French Open.
posted by grum@work at 12:17 PM on June 08, 2010
Cormac Eklof, a former pitcher for the Irish National Baseball team, Has provided version 5.0 of his World Cup Cheat Sheet for Americans, in which he compares each World Cup team to an American counterpart in another sport. Eklof writes on the Boston Irish blog site, and I was steered to this via Eric Wilbur of the Boston Globe. There are some amusing and interesting comparisons
posted by Howard_T at 12:25 PM on June 08, 2010
Ten things that will happen if the USA beats England on Saturday.
Number 4 is frightening.
posted by Mr Bismarck at 01:02 PM on June 08, 2010
version 5.0 of his World Cup Cheat Sheet for Americans ... "South Africa could go the entire World Cup without scoring a goal. With Benni McCarthy listed as your star man', It is not completely out of the question"
Especially as McCarthy isn't going to the World Cup. Although rumour has it he already scored.
posted by Mr Bismarck at 01:18 PM on June 08, 2010
From the Upward Mobility Department:
Daunte Culpepper has just signed with the Sacramento UFL franchise.
Going from being a Lion to a Mountain Lion.
Or, to help Daunte earn extra bonus points on the bootstrap chart, going from being a Raider to a Mountain Lion.
posted by beaverboard at 03:12 PM on June 08, 2010
What's a "Soccaroo"?
Maybe that's just the way you septics pronounce it.
posted by owlhouse at 05:31 PM on June 08, 2010
posted by geekyguy at 05:34 PM on June 08, 2010
Ten things that will happen if the USA beats England on Saturday.
I really hope I'm not the only person that, upon skimming through that article, read item number 1 wrongly the first time through and found himself alternately squicked and a little turned on.
posted by Ufez Jones at 10:28 PM on June 08, 2010
Slow sports week?
In addition to the things grum listed, I sense that rcade must be taking a vacation. He really has borne the brunt of posting most of the links the last few months.
posted by mjkredliner at 08:16 AM on June 09, 2010
Haha - Fuck you, June 7th. You get NOTHING.
posted by WeedyMcSmokey at 05:54 PM on June 09, 2010
Slow sports week?