July 14, 2015

SportsFilter: The Tuesday 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

This is a funny and well-written piece on Australian Test Cricketer Shane Watson, a "galloping fridge"

The thinking around how to play Watson has been some of the knottiest, most complex intellectual work produced in Australia this century. [burn!]

In sympathy with these sudden, jolting shifts across the spectrum of play, Watson's management of his own body has been, perhaps inevitably, similarly confused: bulky one day, lissom the next, he's never hit on the best strategy to tune his frame this fragile tuba to its optimal pitch. It's almost as if the man, having tested seemingly every position in the batting lineup and experimented with wildly divergent styles of bowling and muscular conditioning, has ended up estranged from himself. He's become a stranger to his own physique.

In the process, he's also become a stranger to the Australian dressing room.

posted by rumple at 01:40 PM on July 14, 2015

Tiger Woods still has his sights set on Jack Nicklaus' majors record.

"I'm still young".

posted by rumple at 01:44 PM on July 14, 2015

My favourite recent piece on Shane Watson.

posted by Mr Bismarck at 02:07 PM on July 14, 2015

He has his defenders though.

posted by owlhouse at 04:37 AM on July 15, 2015

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