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April 07, 2011
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.
grum, outcomes like the bonds trial remind me that (for the most part) the really good (at their jobs) lawyers never work for the government because, well, lawyers are pretty much all about the dinero.
posted by billsaysthis at 12:00 PM on April 07, 2011
No team has ever lost the first four five six games of a season and gone on to win the World Series. Red Sox fans can call it a season now.
posted by graymatters at 04:02 PM on April 07, 2011
The Red Sox have handed the Yankees an unbelievable opportunity. One week into the season and they can bury them to 0-7, 0-8 or 0-9.
posted by rcade at 05:13 PM on April 07, 2011
The "greatest player ever" (per TGH) only six shots behind leader after first round of Masters. Ian Poulter three shots further back.
posted by graymatters at 06:44 PM on April 07, 2011
As a Canadian, there's Paul Henderson's goal and then there is everything else.
Joe Carter in 1993 was pretty huge too.
posted by dfleming at 08:54 PM on April 07, 2011
Masters R1: Woods is in touch (he's never broken 70 in the first round so by his own standards he's off to a flyer), Mickelson could have shot 62 if all the putts that grazed the hole had dropped, or 83 if he hadn't got miraculous lies everytime he carved one into the jungle, Kaymer looks set to miss the cut for the fourth year in a row, and Rory...
For no particular reason, I decided to come home to Northern Ireland to watch this Masters, specifically to Holywood, my and Rory's home town (or village really). I'm supposed to be flying back to England on Monday, but if he wins the Masters, I suspect I'll still be too drunk to fly.
For the record though, ragged as Phil looked at times, he's still going to be the man to beat in my view.
posted by JJ at 04:54 AM on April 08, 2011
Latest update from the Barry Bonds trial.
The odds are stacked against the prosecution. Despite the years they have had to prepare for this trial, prosecutors struggled to make the case that jurors should believe -- beyond any reasonable doubt -- that Bonds knowingly lied under oath.
Seven years.
Fifty million dollars.
And the government is going to faceplant at the finish line.