That is the question. The TDGP’s local Bloomington chapter is having their annual fantasy football draft tomorrow. It’s a really big day. We were going to get a party ball, but it was a rip off. So we got some high lifes, some quiche, some bloody marys, a will, and a way. The best player [...]
Entries from August 31st, 2008
To Darren McFadden or not to Darren McFadden?
August 31st, 2008 · 2 Comments · Doc Hollywood
Tags:Fantasy Football
The LPGA: Racist, Xenophobic, or Just Stupid?
August 30th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Seamus McGee
You’ve probably heard about the new LPGA rule requiring players who have been on tour for at least two years to be able to speak English or face a suspension. You’ve probably said to yourself, like almost every article I’ve read about the policy, “Wow, that’s kinda racist” (for the record, Padraig Harrington and [...]
Tags:LGPA·Racism·Xenophobia
Just a Regular Ole' Thursday Afternoon
August 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Doc Hollywood
Remembering Kevin Duckworth
August 27th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Rawley
Sad news in the sports world, as Kevin Duckworth unexpectedly passed away Monday night. The center best known for his years with the Portland Trailblazers, Duckworth contributed to some of the most exciting years in the history of the franchise. Growing up in Indiana, I was not connected to professional basketball in the [...]
Yo, Philips: Tell me how my ass taste!
August 25th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Ground Possum
As millions of idiots clamor to determine who had the most impressive Olympic performance – Michael Phelps or Usain Bolt (the clear omission of Ethiopia’s Kenenisa Bekele invalidates the whole process for me) – largely lost in all the message board posts, newspaper columns, and TV punditry is the fact that Bolt put a major [...]
Tweaking the Olympics, Intermission
August 22nd, 2008 · 5 Comments · Seamus McGee
Race walking. When I see one man pass another at 5 miles per hour, I see the face of God. Please, IOC, if you have any mercy, put this sport to sleep.
Tags:Olympics
Tweaking the Olympics, Part 2
August 21st, 2008 · 1 Comment · Seamus McGee
More events:
5. Fix the gymnastics scoring. Judging in sports is inherently problematic. We all understand this—part of the fun of watching sports is complaining about officiating. But when two athletes tie on an apparatus, let it remain a tie. Don’t have a tiebreaker based on dropping the lowest remaining score [...]
Tags:Olympics
In-Sain Bolt
August 20th, 2008 · 7 Comments · Ground Possum
Days after basically cabbage-patching his way down the last 20 meters of the men’s Olympic 100-meter final, one he ran in a world record time of 9.69 seconds, Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt has just set another world record by winning the men’s 200-meter final in 19.30 secs. He beat Michael Johnson’s mark by .02 [...]
Tags:Olympics·Usain Bolt
Tweaking the Olympics, Part 1
August 19th, 2008 · 9 Comments · Seamus McGee
The Olympics are pretty good. I spend too much time watching them—I simply can’t pry my eyes away from preliminary men’s water polo. But the Olympics aren’t perfect. They could use some adjustments, in terms of both the events themselves and the American broadcasting (I don’t know how good the broadcasting is [...]
Tags:Golf·Olympics·stupid sports
