Score one for Hockey. Even though I can’t understand a word of this video it’s still amazing to see a referee do some as courageous as this. My hat is off to this guy, wherever he is.
Unfortunately I don’t think Americans (or anyone for that matter) having the knowledge that refs in Hockey can perform CPR is going to boost the popularity of the sport all that much.
Still though, this is pretty awesome.
I know for a fact no one follows Women’s College Basketball. I know this story has absolutely zero appeal to 90% of our audience. However, something of this nature deserves a little burn simply because it will NEVER happen in any of the sports we DO follow. Oh, and I know we’re all uncomfortable with women that can bench more and also beat you in one-on-one with ease.
The University of Connecticut’s Women’s Basketball team has been ranked #1 for the past 30 weeks. 30 weeks! They have not lost a game since February 5th, 2008. We’re talking close to 2 years now. They’re 8-0 this year with and avg. margin of victory around 40 points. I mean this is just freekin’ ridiculous. They probably won’t lose again this year. This kind of domination is unheard of in big four college and professional sports.
Basically, we can conclude the following. A.) Geno Auriemma has the easiest job in the world. Obviously, he had to build the team to this point, but when you haven’t lost in about 22 months and you win games by 40, what exactly stresses you out? B.) Unfortunately, we don’t need to watch Women’s Hoops this season. The title has already been decided. Sorry, guys guess you’ll have to settle for Grey’s Anatomy. and C.) They should think about making the jump to Division II Men’s Hoops. Now that would be interesting to watch……..
As easy as it is to poke fun, this is truly an amazing story and accomplishment. It’s almost unfair because it appears as if it isn’t going to change anytime soon…..
There aren’t a lot of guys in the league with great jump shots nowadays, and there aren’t a lot of guys who have ever been able to shoot as well as Glen Rice. This was one of my all-time favorite Heat NBA moments, when Glen Rice dropped 56 points against the Orlando Magic. Rice wasn’t a slasher or a guy who was going to take a lot of people off the dribble, so it’s pretty amazing that he was able to score 56 points in a game on mostly jumpers. I miss Glen Rice. Lots.
Apparently the NCAA has been a bit laxadazical when it comes to concussions. I myself never knew the rule, but it looks like the NCAA is going to crack down on this whole concussion nonsense.
Hoping to beef up policies for handling concussions, an NCAA panel is recommending a new rule that would sideline an athlete for at least the rest of the day if he or she loses consciousness or shows other worrisome symptoms during competition.
I don’t know about you, but to me this seemed like a “duh” move. Last I checked, brains were pretty important to this whole living thing humans do. Any coach or player risking themselves for a game would be or is an idiot, it’s that simple. Continue Reading »
Man is this story awesome and I’m 100% surprised it didn’t happen way sooner. It was bound to right?
According to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fidelity recently axed four league commissioners in the Fantasy Purge of ’09.
Cameron Pettigrew, who worked as a “relationship manager in a private client group” (which sounds a lot like the job description of a fantasy commish), was among those terminated:
“Firing a guy for being in a $20 fantasy league? Let’s be honest, that’s a complete overreaction,” said Pettigrew, who lives in Grapevine and has an MBA from the University of Texas at Arlington. “In this economic time, especially. To fire people over something like this, it’s just cold.”
That does seem cold. But multi-billion-dollar financial services corporations are not generally known for their warmth. Apparently there are anti-gambling rules in place at Fidelity
Um, with all due respect Cameron, you’re an idiot. In fact, in this economic time the most important thing you should be doing is trying to drum up business, not worry about whether or not you should play Ben Roethisberger or David Gerrard depending on matchups.
Cold? It’s cold to fire someone for spending most of their time online talking smack and trying to make trades? Hell there’s an entire show on this on F/X (The League – which is actually pretty funny).
This is nearly like George Costanza having sex in the office, getting fired and saying “was that wrong? should I not have done that?” Clearly you’re walking a thin line when you’re surfing porn and checking fantasy stats all day. These guys were just called out on it and got what they deserved.
In the same token the article does nothing to describe their performance at work. Bottom line, these guys are in sales and if they were doing well it shouldn’t matter. As the saying goes, “if you’re outperforming your quota you can take a shit on your manager’s desk and it wouldn’t matter.” Unfortunately we don’t know if these guys were doing well or not. I can only assume it was affecting their performance.
And to all the guys in my fantasy league. Get to work you deadbeats.
Brian Kelly is a Bearcat no more. He has ceased to be… a Bearcat.
Cincinnati, as Kelly’s egged house would indicated, was and probably still is pissed and understandably so. It’s not like Cincinnati was some group of rag-tag kids, waiting for a cheesy sports drama to be made of them. This program has become legit. So where should the folks at Cincinnati turn now for their savior? Who will keep this once 2nd-tier Ohio school, now powerhouse of the Buckeye state (a bigger deal than it sounds), at the top?
Central Michigan’s Butch Jones, of course!
Chippewas coach Butch Jones will be named the next Cincinnati coach, three people briefed on the decision told ESPN.com’s Joe Schad on Tuesday. Jones will succeed Brian Kelly, who was hired by Notre Dame after leading the Bearcats to a 12-0 record this season.
In case you haven’t been briefed, Kelly coached the Chippewas before Cincinnati. Apparently the Bearcats aren’t familiar with the adage, “History repeats itself.”
Look out for Butch Jones to be selected as the new Michigan coach in about two years.
[via ESPN]
Because I feel that that’s somehow still an argument that people make. It’s ridiculous. LeBron James is a great player, but he’s simply not as good as Kobe Bryant. Everything points to Kobe being the superior player, especially considering what he did last night.
CHICAGO (AP)—Whether he was in the trainers’ room or on the court, Kobe Bryant couldn’t escape the pain. He did a better job avoiding defenders.
Bryant scored a season-high 42 points despite a broken finger, and the Los Angeles Lakers won for the 12th time in 13 games, beating the fading Chicago Bulls 96-87 on Tuesday.
A broken finger on his shooting hand, and Kobe goes out and drops 42 like it’s nothing. Kobe is simply a cold-blooded killer who will do whatever it takes to win a basketball game. You simply can’t say the same thing about LeBron.
Kobe’s won four championships, while LeBron has never been to the finals. Kobe is one of – if not the – best perimeter defenders in the league. He has as complete a game as a basketball player can have, while LeBron, after about 6 years in the league, still doesn’t have a post-up game.
The McCourt divorce, as expected, has turned rather ugly; Frank has accused his wife of damaging the Dodgers.
Frank McCourt has accused his estranged wife of undermining the Dodgers’ business operations, claiming in a court filing Monday that Jamie McCourt could “continue to seek to damage the Dodgers” so long as she presents herself as a co-owner of the team.
Of course, Frank doesn’t actually say what it is Jamie is doing to damage the Dodgers, and I can’t imagine it’s much worse that some of the transactions the Dodgers have made over the past few years. Because unless Matt Kemp and Andre Ethier are fatigued from double-teaming her, Frank should probably look somewhere else to place blame for any Dodgers shortcomings.
I mean, the Andruw Jones and Jason Schmidt signings were pretty atrocious – it’s Colleti that Frank should be after, not his wife.
Either way, I’d love to see Frank bring in a cardboard cutout of his wife and peel away a piece of clothing from it after every Dodger win a la Major League. And what’s the over/under on number of days before Manny realizes that it’s just a cardboard cutout and not a real person? I say somewhere around 30.
[LA Times]
