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March 13, 2015
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.
Not to mention that Qatar is hardly much better on this kind of scorecard.
posted by billsaysthis at 10:35 AM on March 13, 2015
The Dodgers (or Ned Colletti) can't take a joke.
posted by yerfatma at 12:33 PM on March 13, 2015
Dontrelle Willis officially retiring at the age of 33.
posted by Ufez Jones at 08:20 PM on March 13, 2015
The Dolphins have traded Receiver Mike Wallace and a seventh round draft pick to the Minnesota Vikings for a fifth round draft pick.
This is a pure salary dump, as Wallace is due to get $12m next season. With Hartline and Gibson also released, the Dolphins don't have much for Tannehill to throw at next year, outside of 2014 draft pick Jarvis Landry and former Saint Kenny Stills who was acquired today for Danell Ellerbe and a draft pick, (another salary dump, this time of $6m).
Landry had a pretty good season, but isn't really #1 receiver material.
In vaguely-related news, I'm currently GMing the Dolphins in video game "Front Office Football 7" and life is copying me to a weird degree. Firstly, I franchised Charles Clay one night, then woke up the following morning to find the real Phins had done the same. Then I traded Wallace to the Vikings, straight up for a fourth rounder and then used the freed cap space to sign... Ndamukong Suh.
If Jeff Ireland was still in the role I'd suspect he was just copying me.
posted by Mr Bismarck at 12:52 AM on March 14, 2015
"FIFA vice president Jeffrey Webb said a World Cup cannot be held in Russia with the current level of racism that exists in the country." Seems like that would have been something to bring up before awarding the Cup. Maybe they can just host it in winter to fix the problem.