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dfleming has posted 18 links and 1066 comments to SportsFilter and 3 links and 156 comments to the Locker Room and 1 column.
According to Forbes' Fab 40: Tiger Woods still has the richest brand among athletes...and still by a very wide margin. The Yankees surpassed Man U as the richest team brand and the most valuable overall brand in sports is the Super Bowl. No word on whether the BAR (brand above replacement) advanced stats were used in this analysis.
posted by dfleming to golf at 06:38 AM on October 05 - 0 comments
'Thank God It Just Popped Back In': Boston Celtics guard Rajon Rondo gruesomely dislocated his elbow with 7 minutes left in the third quarter Saturday night against the Miami Heat and was taken to the locker room. He returned and one-armed the entire fourth quarter of the crucial 97-81 win, bringing the series to 2-1 Heat.
posted by dfleming to basketball at 01:44 PM on May 08 - 9 comments
Memphis come back from 16 down, win in OT: Zach Randolph's 21pt/21reb performance has the upstart Grizz up 2-1 over the Thunder.
posted by dfleming to basketball at 08:55 PM on May 07 - 3 comments
Mike Kelly: of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers was relieved of his duties as coach yesterday. It turns out, he's not very good on or off the field.
posted by dfleming to football at 08:54 AM on December 18 - 4 comments
Ron Artest: sounds off on drinking during games and fighting Ben Wallace anywhere, anytime. In a lengthy interview for the December 7 issue of Sporting News magazine, Artest, best known as the central figure in the infamous Malice at the Palace in 2004 bared all, including a startling admission that he drank alcohol during games as a member of the Chicago Bulls, for whom he played from 1999-2002. "I used to drink Hennessy at halftime," Artest says in the interview, which hits newsstands this week. "I (kept it) in my locker. I'd just walk to the liquor store (near the stadium) and get it."
posted by dfleming to basketball at 12:38 PM on December 02 - 10 comments
Of the last 150 first rounders, only 4 were goalies.
posted by dfleming at 10:15 PM on May 10
They hit Hamels in his next at bat.
It's too bad it wasn't later in the game...one of those 100+ MPH Henry Rodriguez fastballs would've left Hamels down a rib.
posted by dfleming at 01:29 PM on May 07
Having Jay-Z associated with the franchise is going to do ridiculous things for merch sales...every record he puts out is a multi-platinum shopping list for wannabe all-stars.
posted by dfleming at 03:15 PM on April 30
Is that really relevant though?
Well, it's early, but going 8 games under .500 means you have to dig that much further up to make it.
Boston last year would've been post-season team 5 at 90-72, which means the rest of the way they'd have to go 83-57 to get to that level. That's quite doable, but the longer the mediocrity lasts, the better you are going to have to be the rest of the way.
So yeah, there's certainly a lot of ball to be played and you can get 90 wins a number of ways, they just really need their $240 million man to start playing a little less like their $3.8 million man.
posted by dfleming at 03:06 PM on April 30
I'll say this; if you're talking about a contract where Pujols is perhaps going to be significantly declining on the back end, you've got to win up front to achieve the kind of results that would make it worth it from an owner's perspective (the other being attendance, which I have no stats on.)
Pujols' performance will likely improve, and his overall numbers might even out, but who cares about production if the team isn't in the realm of making the playoffs?
The Angels have dug themselves a pretty epic hole for 22 games in. 9 games back from a very good Rangers team. He's certainly not alone in his ineptitude, but having hit .133 with RISP while the team goes 7-15 is a pretty colossally bad way to start your new contract.
posted by dfleming at 12:35 PM on April 30
It's on the right field side, isn't it? Plus, the right side of the infield is 1st and 2nd base. Of course, you hit left-handed from that side...
It looks like he swerved towards the mound and tried to do an end around.
posted by dfleming at 03:16 PM on April 23
Is that a beer bottle in the right batter's box? It would explain a lot.
posted by dfleming at 02:48 PM on April 23
That was ugly and that will likely result in a pretty big suspension.
Also, probably too early for the explosion, but this angle really does catch how his claim not to have seen Harden is pretty silly. Harden's left arm is on him well before he's following through.
posted by dfleming at 09:32 PM on April 22
...and while he was being a total knob, the other team came down the ice and scored.
He's from my hometown, I've met him a couple of times. Calling him a knob is actually quite charitable.
posted by dfleming at 09:30 PM on April 22
Here's a fairly high-level synopsis of the 2011 revenues and expenditures.
$72 million in grants to organizations and athletes; $25 million in salaries; $14 million on printing, catering and trips; $5.2 million in programs and services outside of the U.S.; $5.5 million to the IOC; and another like $70 million somewhere else in their $191million total expenditures, while pocketing $60 million in profit for the year in 2011.
So yeah, I think Cuban has a point that there is a lot of money being spent, not a lot of it directly on athletes...although one synopsis on one year's tax return isn't terribly telling.
posted by dfleming at 11:44 AM on April 22
Looks a lot more like a swing here.
posted by dfleming at 11:30 PM on April 21
It was Raffi's third suspension in a year and he wasn't remotely remorseful for it. He's still calling it finishing his check.
Torres has gone from a gritty, character player to a predator on the ice in the last few seasons. I'm neither surprised nor can I muster up a whole lot of sympathy for how harsh the punishment is. He's hitting people straight in the head (see the hit on Brian Campbell last year and the hit a few years earlier on a Sharks player that's in the video) when they're totally defenceless and doesn't see how the hits are wrong. That, to me, is a big problem for the NHL.
posted by dfleming at 01:53 PM on April 21
Neither would be a perfect solution and there will always be regrettable incidents no matter the regulations.
Sure, but if people wait for perfection, nothing's ever going to be there. The current approach doesn't work...something's gotta give.
I agree entirely with you that policing the game differently is a problem, but these types of incidents happen during the year too. A counter-measure of some kind, whether it a suspension that threatens your own career or allowing more fists to your face, might have a positive effect...or it might not. But given where we are today, it's hard to imagine something worse occurring.
posted by dfleming at 02:04 PM on April 18
The more this develops, the more I think the instigator penalty has done way more harm than good. Time was, Bob Probert was waiting to kick the living snot out of you if you touched Hossa...now, you wait for punishment that's largely arbitrary and, in the case of a concussion, regularly shorter than the injury you caused.
Intent to injure should have a mandatory 10 game minimum. Whether or not you were successful and even if the process is as arbitrary as it is now, at least you could put it in the back of players' mind that the penalty is way more severe than the short-term payoff. Repeat offenders lose half a season, then a season, then they're gone from the game.
posted by dfleming at 11:54 AM on April 18
SportsFilter: The Wednesday Huddle
He's getting better!
True dat; 3 for 4 with two infield singles last night...he's finally replacing Chone Figgins' production in the Angels' lineup.