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October 22, 2015
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.
ESPN is successfully ruining Grantland.
posted by Mr Bismarck at 11:26 AM on October 22, 2015
I only listen to one Grantland podcast -- Cheap Heat, about pro wrestling -- and they have been super careful to not say anything about the elephant in the room since Simmons was fired. I think it came up once, and they said, "Well, we're just peons in a studio, we don't know anything, moving on..."
posted by Etrigan at 12:07 PM on October 22, 2015
Ref Chosen For El Clsico Claims He Was Ordered To Favor Real Madrid
posted by Etrigan at 12:41 PM on October 22, 2015
For the NBA Pick 'Em I need a well-respected Vegas line. Any recommendations?
You should find something you like here.
posted by tommybiden at 03:45 PM on October 22, 2015
The Kansas City and Toronto libraries are waging a Twitter war
posted by tommybiden at 09:12 PM on October 22, 2015
The state of cricket in West Indies has Sir Garfield Sobers quite upset.
This was shared on Facebook by my cousin in Trinidad. His father was a pace bowler good enough to have played for Barbados.
posted by Howard_T at 10:39 PM on October 22, 2015
I'm upset about the state of cricket in the WI, its a tragedy and I can't see any way to fix it in the short term. For thirty years the WI teams were the gold standard in tests, now they're somewhere south of NZ.
posted by deflated at 11:23 PM on October 22, 2015
I think I've reached the point where I'd rather watch Curtis Painter or JP Losman play quarterback than Colin Kaepernick.
During the first half of tonight's game, hornets flew in and out of Tomsula's mouth, established a colony, raised a new brood of queens, and then left for the winter. He never noticed.
posted by beaverboard at 11:32 PM on October 22, 2015
The state of cricket in West Indies
Indeed, but some of it has been self inflicted through poor administration.
They still have some terrific players, and I hope they can get things sorted.
posted by owlhouse at 05:46 AM on October 23, 2015
There's a post on WI cricket's problems over at The Economist's Game Theory blog.
I Just tried the link in Incognito to make sure it works for everyone, but let me know if there are problems-- I'm assuming there's a Twitter link or similar that will get through the gate.
posted by yerfatma at 08:53 AM on October 23, 2015
WI cricket's problems
When you have Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Windward Islands, Leeward Islands, and Guyana all involved, you are bound to have any number of problems. My 'Bajan and T&T cousins are always complaining about one thing or another that one of the other nations in the WI has done. How a group of really tiny nations with few resources can have the provincial attitudes of the West Indies is beyond me. I'm not aware of any corruption in the WI Cricket Board, but if the CONCACAF mess is any indicator, there is very likely to be some.
posted by Howard_T at 06:54 PM on October 23, 2015
For the NBA Pick 'Em I need a well-respected Vegas line. Any recommendations?