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October 23, 2026
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.
Dalton Knecht just signed with the Knicks and fans are already saying that if they repeat, Dolan won't give him a ring.
Good teams are not always owned by good people.
I wonder if there's a spectrum comparing and contrasting the caliber of a star player with the caliber of the team owner.
Brunson and Dolan. Lillard and Dundon. Bijan and Blank. Herbert and Spanos. Aho and Dundon. Maxx Crosby and Halloween Davis. McBride and Bidwill. Dahlin and Pegula. Trout and Moreno. Yamamoto and Walter. Allen and Pegula. Bryce and Tepper. Denzel and Haslam. And so much more.
If you pull up the Chiefs and say Hunt and Hunt, you start to see a little more balance.
In the match made in heaven category: Kawhi and Ballmer. Together forever in our hearts.
posted by beaverboard at 08:36 PM on October 23, 2026
The assistant coaches didn't get a ring? Did I get that right?
posted by NoMich at 08:37 PM on October 23, 2026
The assistant coaches didn't get a ring? Did I get that right?
Yes and no. The boxes were empty, but the reason is that the assistant coaches hadn't been fitted for the rings. Some thought this was rather tacky. The internal phishing email shows a lack of trust in your employees, but it's actually not a bad idea for locating security vulnerabilities and training people to avoid them.
posted by Howard_T at 12:59 PM on October 24, 2026
Yeah, every corporation has to do infosec stuff like training videos and this email thing. It's tied to being able to charge customers money.
posted by NoMich at 01:12 PM on October 24, 2026
The battle for worst owner in sports continues to rage on unabated: Email sent to Knicks employees featuring offer for a free commemorative championship ring turns out to be internal phishing "test".