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Juventus/Livorno Serie A Matchday 4
September 24, 2009 by
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I am really curious about the Livorno players’ high jersey numbers. They started with only Nico Pulzetti sporting a single digit number. It reminded me of a spring training baseball team loaded with minor leaguers trying to make the big squad. The game featured lots of end...
The Golf Playoff Thing
September 24, 2009 by
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In theory, it is compelling this year. Two years ago, Tiger Woods could have skipped the Tour Championship as he already had the playoff thingy won. Last year, Vijay Singh only had to keep from drowning at some point in the four days and the $10,000,000 bonus was his. This year? Much...
The Kansas Kerfluffle
September 24, 2009 by
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Luke Winn wanders about half an inch down a limb at si.com and notes that Kansas’ image is hurt by the brawling between its football and basketball teams.
Uh, ya think, Luke? And let’s just say you and I arrived at the same place with your thoughts in this paragraph:
The...
Are the Phillies SURE…
September 24, 2009 by
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…that it wasn’t worth flipping Kyle Drabek for someone like, say, Francisco Cordero back before the trade deadline?
Sheesh.
11 blown saves for Brad Lidge now.
Less than ideal.
The immediate aftermath of Lidge’s last kerosene-on-a-raging-fire moment:
ESPN’s Fantasy Basketball Forecast
September 23, 2009 by
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Computer based? Person based?
Either way, amusing.
Follow this link and bask in the statistical projections for the 2009/10 Memphis Grizzlies. Apparently Zach Randolph and Allen Iverson’s arrival is going to turn them into the Paul Westphal Nuggets. ESPN is projecting them to...
Great Moments in Twitter: It’s Twitter’s Fault Edition
September 23, 2009 by
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That Washington backup and rookie who wasn’t even active for Washington’s craptacular 9-7 win over St. Louis on Sunday who called booing fans “dimwits” and asked how people who work “9 to 5 at McDonalds” could know what’s best for the team...
God Bless You, Mark Reynolds
September 23, 2009 by
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The inevitable links on the main sites are trumpeting that you broke your own mark for Ks in a season. And that’s noteworthy because, as Rob Neyer aptly nailed years ago, “strikeouts hurt our feelings”. So let me take this chance to remind those who wander by here...
Cy Greinke
September 22, 2009 by
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Hey Peter, Greinke just faced the Red Sox tonight. You still going to mark him down?
6 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 3 BB, 5 K
That takes his ERA down to 2.08, his WHIP to 1.06 and gives him 229 Ks in 216.1 IP.
If you don’t think that Greinke deserves the AL Cy Young, you’re delusional.
Or [...]
Tuesday Evening NFL Potpourri
September 22, 2009 by
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Tuesday afternoon has become a wonderful time to spin around the national sites and get further thoughts from the national chattering heads on the weekend just past. The best of the best, and some power rankings:
—Adam Schein at foxsports.com tosses up a column each Tuesday...
Great Moments in Twitter: Larry Fitzgerald’s Brother Edition
September 22, 2009 by
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Florio at profootballtalk all over the Twittery ruminations of Marcus Fitzgerald:
Among other things, Fitzgerald says that Larry “texted him pissed off” during halftime, even though the Cardinals were leading by 21 points. In the same tweet, Marcus Fitzgerald opined that...
Cecil Cooper as Fall Guy
September 22, 2009 by
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Kinda. Richard Justice writes a great piece in the Houston Chronicle on the deep systemic problems facing the Astros. To say that Cecil Cooper was the least of those problems is probably not accurate, but there are issues there which go WAY beyond his failings as a manager. Then again...
Score One for Lane Kiffin
September 22, 2009 by
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Maybe someday Kiffin will get the players in place to do something more than rope-a-dope with Florida and Urban Meyer in an effort to not get humiliated. Because, in the meantime, Kiffin still talks a good game.
The war of words since the desultory 23-13 Gator win on Saturday:
Meyer...
Would You Pay to See Rex Ryan Fight Mike Singletary?
September 22, 2009 by
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I think I would. Cage ‘em up and let them MMA each other. I’d plunk down $10 for that.
At any rate, Rex Ryan had this to say about San Francisco’s charge that the Jets have tampered with SF’s quixotic pursuit of a contract for Michael Crabtree:
“I think...
Not Miami’s Night
September 22, 2009 by
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Control the ball for 45 minutes? Check. That’s three quarters of ball possession, by the way.
Run 88 plays? Check.
Convert 15 third downs? 15 for 21. good lord. Toss in 1 of 1 on 4th down for good measure. Check.
239 yards rushing? Check.
Still lose the game? Check.
It was a...
There’s Still a Pennant Race (actually, two?)
September 21, 2009 by
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The Tigers/Twins tussle to slide in from the AL Central you know about. And Detroit picked up a big win yesterday to stem some of the bleeding and pad their lead back to three games over Minnesota. Critical game, had they lost, of course, their lead would have been down to one game...
NFL Week Two 2009: The Local Look (Losers)
September 21, 2009 by
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In Tennessee, 0-2 is troubling. David Climer in the Tennessean:
There was a lot of that going around. A team that prides itself on meticulous preparation and attention to detail came undone, with blown pass coverage assignments that left Houston receivers running free. Clearly, the...
NFL Week Two 2009: The Local Look (Winners)
September 21, 2009 by
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Let’s start in Denver, where Josh McDaniels has wiped the difficulty of the off-season off the map with a 2-0 start over what passes for professional football in Ohio. Woody Paige on Kyle Orton’s day in the Denver Post:
In the second half Sunday, Orton moved up the list...
NFL Week Two 2009: The National Take
September 21, 2009 by
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“Digging for gold”
(thanks to Rex Kramer in the Swamp for the screen capture of Jerry Jones heading to his own personal bank last night)
Fun week for 16 teams and their fans, less so for the other 16 teams and their fans, as tends to be the case in the NFL. Here’...
That’s Gonna Hurt His Prospect Ranking
September 20, 2009 by
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Top SF Giants prospect, 19-year-old Angel Villalona, is the prime suspect in a murder of a man in the Dominican. From mlb.com:
A police spokesman in La Romana, in the east region of the Dominican Republic, told the AP that Villalona, 19, is the prime suspect in the shooting death...
BYU #7 ? Really? – Let’s start the polls in October
September 20, 2009 by
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If you had BYU +27 than you can cash a winner today. The problem was they were giving the Seminoles +7.5 How surprising was this to most people? The pick distribution for Yahoo’s College Pick ‘em had BYU at 82% giving the points.
Last week Bobby Bowden was being castigated...
Your 9/20/2009 NFL Pregame Potpourri
September 20, 2009 by
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Some of the good stuff to peruse (in case you missed it) in the hours before week 2 kickoffs:
—Don Banks with a great read (as usual) looking back at the six teams that passed on Adrian Peterson in the 2007 draft. The upshot? The Raiders, Browns, and Lions get a pass for passing...
USC’s Kryptonite
September 20, 2009 by
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Unranked Pac 10 teams on the road early in the season.
Freaks. them. the. ****. out.
The latest? Washington 16. USC 13. Former USC assistant Steve Sarkisian serves notice on his old school and the rest of the Pac 10. UW looks to be on the road back.
The Game Within the Game
September 20, 2009 by
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Brian Kelly has clearly established himself as one of the top coaches in college football. What he has gotten done at the University of Cincinnati is remarkable. The Bearcats are off to a 3-0 start after knocking off 24th ranked Oregon State in Corvallis last night. That’s one...
Speaking of Detroit’s Collapse
September 19, 2009 by
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The lead is now down to two games.
And Minnesota’s starter? None other than Mister Delaware’s homey Carl Pavano, who was able to only allow two runs off of 11 hits in seven innings in large part because he didn’t walk anyone.
Guess Who’s Back?
September 19, 2009 by
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Jake Peavy!
I don’t know if I’d be starting him, but with the White Sox six out and Detroit collapsing, I guess Crazy Kenny Williams figured he needed to get his prized acquisition on the field.
The line? 5 IP, 3 H 3 ER 2 BB 5 K.
Two of the runs happened in the second,...
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