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December 07, 2011
SportsFilter: The Wednesday 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.
Cathedral HS (Boston, MA) lost the state title after a TD was disallowed due to a celebration penalty. The Mayor thinks it's ridiculous.
I almost always side with the players on this sort of stupid stuff, but while I agree that it sucks to be on the wrong side of it, the problem was that he celebrated before scoring. If he's in the endzone nobody cares. I do, however, find the AD's explanation amusing.
Cathedral's athletic director James Lynch said the quarterback's instinctive move to raise his hand for a few strides as he approached the end zone could not be reasonably interpreted as excessive celebration, taunting or malicious.
"I just give people the analogy: imagine a basketball player making a clutch three-pointer right at the end of the game, and he turns around and he just kind of shakes his fist in the air kind of thing," Lynch told The Associated Press on Tuesday. "And it was simply just that and it was nothing else ... I don't think it was anything further than just excitement on the player's behalf."
I know that I instinctively hold my fist up while running.
posted by bender at 06:15 PM on December 07, 2011
Good news for Sir Alex Ferguson... He doesn't have to worry about Barcelona any more this season.
posted by Mr Bismarck at 06:33 PM on December 07, 2011
Face it, grum, Murphy is just a loser. It's not so much how he plays as it is the fact that the team loses when he's in net. I mean, just look at his record. He's winless!
posted by tahoemoj at 07:17 PM on December 07, 2011
Good news for Sir Alex Ferguson... He doesn't have to worry about Barcelona any more this season.
Without Vidic the United back four look completely useless. Against City they were the same - to say the defending was juvenile would be an insult to schoolboys everywhere.
posted by owlhouse at 08:38 PM on December 07, 2011
chicobangs won on Jeopardy tonight!
posted by insomnyuk at 10:35 PM on December 07, 2011
I'm really surprised to wake up and not see headlines about rioting in Manchester. I guess they've gone all prawn sandwich and lazy in Manchester.
posted by billsaysthis at 11:44 AM on December 08, 2011
United's fans were still driving back. To Kent.
posted by Mr Bismarck at 04:45 PM on December 08, 2011
And City fans tore apart Moss Side, but no-one noticed the difference.
/Boom-tish.
posted by owlhouse at 11:17 PM on December 08, 2011
Example of why assigning wins and losses to a single player (in any team sport) is ridiculous:
Mike Murphy of the Carolina Hurricanes was assigned the "loss" for last night's game against the Calgary Flames.
He played just over 8 and a half minutes of ice time. He made two saves, and allowed zero goals.
Yet, he was the official "losing" goalie.
Why?
He came in when Carolina was trailing 6-4, late in the third period (after Ward gave up the 6th goal). He made two saves, and they pulled him for an extra attacker with less than 2 minutes remaining in the game. Calgary scored an empty net goal, making it 7-4. They put Murphy back in the net. Then Carolina scored two goals in the final 30 seconds of the game, making the final score 7-6.
The 7th goal was determined to be the winning goal, and since Murphy was the last goalie of record on the ice before the winning goal was scored (while he was actually OFF the ice), he was assigned the loss.
So Murphy has the distinction of being the only goalie in NHL history to have a loss on his record (and a losing record) without ever allowing a goal of any kind (regulation, overtime, shoot out).