September 24, 2010

SportsFilter: The Friday 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.

posted by huddle to general at 06:00 AM - 4 comments

Football Outsiders return to the subject of benching Quarterbacks.

"I think everyone in America, or at least Philadelphia, has come down with that disorder (anterograde amnesia) from the movie Memento. We can only remember things that happened in the last 10 minutes. We all have "Mike V." tattooed on our arms, but we don't know what it means. "

But my favourite from the article :

"By the way, Weinke threw 63 passes in a 2001 game, meaning he had two 60-attempt games in his career. Tom Brady has never thrown more than 55 passes in a game. Any playbook with 60 Weinke passes in it must also have a pentagram on the front."

posted by Mr Bismarck at 11:28 AM on September 24, 2010

Long thought to have been lost when networks erased tapes of old baseball broadcasts in the 1970s, the entire TV play-by-play of the seventh game of the 1960 World Series has been found in Bing Crosby's wine cellar.

posted by wfrazerjr at 01:55 PM on September 24, 2010

Announcer goes to top cardiac level calling this stunning goal scored by Yokoyama of Japan in recent U17 match.

posted by beaverboard at 03:26 PM on September 24, 2010

Bob Probert's brain the latest to be donated for CTE research.

posted by rumple at 04:19 PM on September 24, 2010

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