Sunday - May 07, 2006
Through The Looking Glass
“Barbaro - Kentucky Derby ‘06”
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Permalink • Saturday - May 06, 2006
Run For The Roses
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| The Kentucky Derby is a stakes race for three-year-old thoroughbred horses, staged yearly in Louisville, Kentucky on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival. The race currently covers one and one-quarter miles (2.012 km) at Churchill Downs; colts and geldings carry 126 pounds (57 kg), fillies 121 pounds (55 kg).
The race, known as “The Most Exciting Two Minutes in Sports” for its approximate time length, is the first leg of the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing in the United States. It typically draws around 155,000 fans. The Kentucky Derby is one of the crown jewels of the elusive Triple Crown which includes the Belmont Stakes and the Preakness Stakes. For over 125 years the Kentucky Derby has been everyone’s race - from the dapper men and beautiful women, all in hats and sipping on frosty mint juleps, to the laid-back infield crowd who picnic on fried chicken and toss around Frisbees. They’re all there to witness the world’s premier horse-racing event. “Riders up” booms the paddock judge. The trainers give a leg up to the riders and send them out through the tunnel and onto the world’s most famous track as the University of Louisville band strikes up Stephen Foster’s “My Old Kentucky Home”.  —Visit The Official Kentucky Derby Website
Television Coverage Begins at 5:00pm EDT on NBC |
UPDATE: YAY! YAY! YAY! Me and four other people win the BIG PRIZE! Barbaro by seven lengths!
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Permalink • Sunday - April 30, 2006
Real Sports
I’m know I’m going to piss a lot of you off out there with this one but I can’t resist. Today’s topic is football-type sports. Here’s my take: (1) American football is not a sport - it is played by oversized, overpaid mental midgets encased in body armor and juiced up on steroids; (2) Rugby is something a bunch of drunken Irishmen and Welshmen dreamed up one day to give them a chance to wrestle and beat the crap out of some Englishmen - disguised as a game; (3) Soccer is for little girls, prissy little boys and pansy-assed Europeans - lots of running around kicking, screaming and crying.
No, for my money there is only one true game of “football” in the entire world - and it is called (oddly enough) “Footy" or Australian Football. It is played by real men in shorts and tank tops and no pads, on an oval field, with the most bizaare rules ever invented by kangaroos and instead of a stretcher and nurse on the sidelines they have an entire trauma center prepared at the drop of a hat to sew severed limbs back on and send the players back in with no time wasted. The season just started down-under in April and you can catch it on ESPN2 occasionally. You gotta hand it to the Aussies - their game is Darwin incarnate: survival of the fittest (and toughest).
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Permalink • Wednesday - March 22, 2006
Washington Generals
Mike Thompson—The Detroit Free Press
- National Review: “The Murtha Democrats”
- Boston Globe: “Democrats May Unite On Plan To Pull Troops”
- Weekly Standard: “There They Go Again”
- Columbia News Service: “Washington Generals Post 13,000th Loss To Harlem Globetrotters”
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Permalink • Thursday - March 16, 2006
Final Four
Bob Englehart—The Hartford (CT) Courant
- Iran Insists It Won’t Quit Nuclear Research
- U.S. Says A Nuclear Iran Can Be Threat Like 9/11
- Rice: Iran Is ‘Banker For Terrorism’
- Doctrine of Preemptive War To Be Reaffirmed
- March Madness This Year Is Mired in Mediocrity
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Permalink • Wednesday - March 15, 2006
Goat Rope
Eric Allie—Chicago
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Permalink • Tuesday - February 21, 2006
The Thrill Of Victory
Scenario: you’re a down-on-your-luck pickpocket in Turin, Italy. What are the odds that the next pocket you pick will belong to an Olympic athlete who can give you a twenty meter headstart and catch you without even breathing hard? This Olympic moment brought to you by one of Canada’s female hockey players. Who is 5’8”, 137 lbs of crime-busting cuteness…
Hockey Player Runs Down Pickpocket
February 20, 2006
(CALGARY SUN)
Gina Kingsbury is as fast on her feet as she is on her skates, especially when her wallet is stolen. The 24-year-old forward on the Canadian women’s hockey team ran down a pickpocket who took her wallet while she was shopping with her mother in downtown Turin late in the first week of the Games.
After buying souvenirs at an Olympic merchandise store, Kingsbury and her mother Marlise stopped at a pizza place and Kingsbury was placing her order at the window when the woman serving her started yelling and pointing. A man who had been standing behind her started running away.
“It just clicked that he had my wallet and I didn’t hesitate,” Kingsbury said. The 5-ft.-8, 137-lb. forward chased the culprit about 40 metres with Marlise running behind her loaded down with shopping bags. “I caught up to him pretty quick and put my hand on his shoulder and as I turned him he right away gave me my wallet back because I don’t think he wanted the public to see,” Kingsbury said.
“I was so stunned that I had my wallet, that I didn’t look at him, didn’t say anything, I just grabbed my wallet and walked away. I don’t know what I would have done if he didn’t give me my wallet.”
Kingsbury is relied on for her penalty killing and forechecking abilities on the Canadian team, which plays for gold today, so those skills came in handy.
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Permalink • Sunday - February 19, 2006
Quote Of The Week
“So try not to laugh when someone says these are the world’s greatest athletes, despite a paucity of blacks that makes the Winter Games look like a GOP convention.”
-- Bryant Gumbel, racist, neo-lib announcer for NBC
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Permalink • Thursday - February 16, 2006
Olympic Games Update
Meanwhile in Torino, Italy the Winter Olympics are going on. In keeping with our proud (?) tradition of making sure you are staying informed about all the news that is fit to print, we present the following Olympic update: so far the US has seven medals, the Russians have nine, the Norwegians have eleven, the East German judges have been retired, the Jamaican bobsled team is missing and the USA still has the best looking athletes ...
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When snowboarder Gretchen Bleiler was forced to sit out of the 2002 Olympics after narrowly missing the qualifiers, she vowed she would return—and return she did. This week, the sultry Bleiler captured the silver during her halfpipe Olympic run at Torino.
That’s not surprising considering the siren of the slopes is one of the top female snowboarders in the halfpipe, having won eight consecutive competitions in 2003; snagging wins at the 2004 X Games, Gravity Games and U.S. Open; not to mention placing first-place in World Cup competition at Bardonecchia, Italy, in 2005.
To top things off, the 24-year-old Aspen native was one of the first women to complete a 900—a two-and-a-half-revolution jump—snowboarding’s equivalent of a grand slam. This is the same powder princess, while training for the 2002 games, gave herself a black eye by slamming into the pipe during a practice jump.
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Permalink • Tuesday - February 07, 2006
The Official “We Wuz Robbed” Post
OK, Seattle fans! Here’s your chance to throw out the challenge flag and complain about one of the dullest Super Bowl’s in history. The NFL went to the replay booth upstairs, then huddled up to decide to stand by the officiating crew. Steeler’s coach Bill Cowher sums it up for you: “All I can say is: 21-10”. The Skipper says: “Just wait ‘til next year’s lingerie bowl, Bill”.
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Permalink • Monday - February 06, 2006
Super Steelers
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Permalink • Sunday - February 05, 2006
Official Super Bowl Discussion Thread
Memo From The Skipper: Blogging will be light today if not nonexistent. I have posted an editorial below for those of you who wish to engage in cussin’ and discussin’ weighty world problems on Super Bowl Sunday. In addition, there’s plenty of other crap on this page to talk about, from half-nekkid PETA protestors to naughty strippers to deranged Muslims to Hollywood losers to .... aw, you know the drill. Just find a topic and jump right in. If you just want to jawbone about any little thing that comes into your head, throw a comment out anywhere and see who bites.
The ship’s crew is officially on shore leave until 2200 hours tonight at which time the Shore Patrol will be out bashing heads and dragging drunken sailors and marines back on board for next week’s journey. In the meantime, the rest of us will be getting out our “terrible towels” or our “Mocha grande mint latte’s” for the eight hour marathon beginning at 1:00pm ET. Cheers!
Where: Ford Field, Detroit
Coverage: ABC
Pregame: 1:00pm ET
Kickoff: 5:00pm ET
Halftime Show: The Rolling Stones
Official Beer: Carlsberg, Tuborg
Odds Courtesy Of: Bodog, Linesmaker.
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Permalink • Sunday - January 15, 2006
NFL Update
Saturday’s Games:
- Denver - 27, New England - 13: The New England Patriots are out of the running after two straight Super Bowl victories. No team has won three straight and now the Patriots blew their chance. See ya next year.
- Seattle - 20, Washington - 10: The Redskins had a pretty good season this year. I think they’ve finally gotten over the really bad Steve Spurrier years. However, they were just no match for the Seahawks who just keep rolling along. The bad news is Shaun Alexander, the NFL’s MVP, had to leave the game early with a concussion.
Today’s Games:
- Pittsburgh at Indianapolis at 1:00pm ET. The Colts will have their hands full with the fired-up Steelers. This one will be a great game. Can the Steeler defense clamp down on Peyton Manning? My guess is no, they won’t. They’ll make it difficult for Manning but the Colts will prevail. My prediction: Colts - 23, Steelers - 17.
- Carolina at Chicago at 4:30pm ET. The Panthers tore up the NY Giants last week and are riding high. However, Chicago is at home and they’re 7-1 for the season at Soldier Field. It’ll be a tough defensive struggle between two of the best defenses in the NFL. Penalties and mistakes will win or lose this one. My prediction: Bears - 17, Panthers - 13.
Update - 3:20pm CT: DANG! SO far, the Skipper is 0-1. The Colts choked again and the Blitzburgh Steelers shut ‘em down, 21-18. I was pretty close on the score ... only in reverse. My Ouija board needs some fine tuning. Peyton Manning still hasn’t won the big one. Maybe next year ...
Update - 7:00pm CT: OK, that’s it! I’m turning in my Magic Ouija Board. I am officially 0-2 today now that Carolina beat Chicago by a score of 29-21. I seem to vaguely recall there was avery good reason why I never, ever bet on football. Now I know ...
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Permalink • Thursday - January 05, 2006
Yellow Rose Of Texas
PASADENA, Calif. (AP)—Vince Young bounced on his toes, trying to buy himself some time and searching frantically for a way to win a championship. And then he took off. With the national title down to a final play, fourth down and 5 yards to go, Young scrambled untouched for an 8-yard touchdown with 19 seconds left and the No. 2 Longhorns stunned No. 1 Southern California 41-38 in the Rose Bowl on Wednesday night.
“Do whatever it takes,” Young said. He did it all—and made sure that Texas was second no more to USC and its Heisman Trophy twins, Reggie Bush and Matt Leinart. It was the ultimate revenge for Young, the bitterly disappointed runner-up to Bush for the Heisman Trophy last month. At the Heisman presentation, Young had a blank stare and reluctantly clapped after he lost in a landslide to Bush. After winning the biggest team prize of all, he beamed with a satisfied smile, hugging anyone he could find.
On a night when he ran for 200 yards and passed for 267 more, Young capped a performance that Texas fans will remember forever by scoring his third TD and running for a 2-point conversion to end Southern Cal’s 34-game winning streak and deny the Trojans an unprecedented third straight national championship. “It’s so beautiful,” Young said as he received the MVP crystal. “Don’t you think that’s beautiful? It’s coming home all the way to Austin, Texas.”
The Longhorns were a unanimous No. 1 in the final Associated Press Top 25 and won the Bowl Championship Series title with the victory in the Rose Bowl. “This is what it’s all about, 41-38 in the final game,” said Leinart, the Trojans quarterback and Heisman winner a year ago. “You couldn’t ask for anything better. This was a great football game. We gave our hearts, they gave their hearts, and they came out on top.”
The Longhorns (13-0) won their 20th in a row. USC (12-1) lost for the first time since a triple-overtime defeat to California on Sept. 27, 2003. Its 34-game winning streak is tied for sixth all-time in Division I-A, behind Oklahoma’s 47-game run from 1953-57.
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