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December 08, 2020
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.
Thank you for noting and remembering that. Vivid memories flooding back.
I called people I knew who lived in NYC. They weren't home. They had gone to the spontaneous vigil at the Dakota.*
*I later learned - none of us had phone answering machines at that point.
posted by beaverboard at 10:38 AM on December 08, 2020
A lawsuit has been launched by leading Rugby Union players who are suffering early onset dementia, most likely resulting from CTE. The Guardian article includes an interesting graphic showing tackles have almost tripled since 1987.
posted by rumple at 01:41 PM on December 08, 2020
From the You'd think they'd know better dept: The match between Paris St-Germain and Istanbul Basaksehir was abandoned after a match official was accused of using a racist term towards one of the away side's backroom staff.
posted by billsaysthis at 06:19 PM on December 08, 2020
Demba Ba confronting the ref is one of the sports moments of the year.
Chris "Mad Dog" Russo has an 18-year-old son who is a Jags fan and he called dad's show to rant and rave about Gregg Williams.
posted by rcade at 07:39 PM on December 08, 2020
Forty years ago today, a lot of us learned John Lennon was killed from Howard Cosell during Monday Night Football.