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November 13, 2011
SportsFilter: The Sunday 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.
Cricket writer Peter Roebuck dead in mysterious circumstances.
He was always an odd character. But hardly the greatest cricket writer of his generation, despite what some fawning tributes are saying.
I suspect there will be more to this story, given some of the rumours that have been around Roebuck over the years.
posted by owlhouse at 11:31 AM on November 13, 2011
I think the less mainstream online cricket writers have done a better job of dealing with Roebuck's death: he was clearly a man uneasy in his own skin. But now's not the week to look lightly on that.
posted by etagloh at 12:29 PM on November 13, 2011
This may be armchair coaching, but I cannot fathom any situation where Ray Rice only carries the ball five times while Joe Flacco has 52 attempts. If the Broncos game is any indication that ratio should be the other way around.
posted by Ying Yang Mafia at 12:15 AM on November 14, 2011
Saw Aggers tweet about Roebuck's death yesterday and while I don't know Roebuck, for some reason my spider-sense started to tingle.
Wonderful to see Vettelbot finally have something go wrong in Abu Dhabi today.
Too bad the only other driver I don't like seeing win won... *sigh*
posted by Drood at 01:40 AM on November 14, 2011
grum: That was an amazing punt return. Wow. Thanks for sharing it!
posted by Joey Michaels at 01:49 AM on November 14, 2011
Somebody check #3's jersey for teflon spray.