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October 14, 2025
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.
I can't believe that almost 3 million people are squeezed into Qatar, with Iceland being almost 10 times larger in size.
posted by beaverboard at 01:03 PM on October 14, 2025
The Titans are hell bent on regarding the Vrabel coaching tenure as a blip and continuing their commitment to Whisenhunt / Mularkey - based mediocrity after firing Brian Callahan by naming Mike McCoy the interim coach, while the pool of possible successors includes names like Matt Nagy and Arthur Smith.
No word on the availability of Adam Gase or Norv Turner as yet.
I don't know what a "splash hire" for the Titans would be. Bobby Petrino? Dan Hawkins? Lord help Nashville.
posted by beaverboard at 02:18 PM on October 14, 2025
[Tiny] Cape Verde clinches country's first-ever World Cup spot
The city of Brocton, MA, and the south coast region of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut have been called the "Eleventh Island" because of the large number of immigrants from Cabo Verde. They form the largest population of Cabo Verdeans in the US. If Cabo Verde can make it to a game played in Gillette Stadium, the place will be rocking.
posted by Howard_T at 03:46 PM on October 14, 2025
[Tiny] Cape Verde clinches country's first-ever World Cup spot The archipelago of volcanic islands off the western coast of Africa, with a population of 525,000, secured one of the nine automatic spots for the continent. It will be the second smallest country by population to feature in the tournament after Iceland in 2018.