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kokaku has posted 11 links and 521 comments to SportsFilter and 0 links and 13 comments to the Locker Room.
Working for the clampdown: Asham gets 4, Neal and Backstrom get 1, Shaw got 3 yesterday. Is Torres next? Shanahan strikes back.
posted by kokaku to hockey at 09:41 AM on April 18 - 23 comments
Game Over: Contradicting some of baseball's most cherished clichés, statistics show that your team's fate may well be sealed by June 1. As Yogi Berra said, 'It gets late early out there.'
posted by kokaku to baseball at 09:43 AM on May 23 - 3 comments
NFL Lockout Looming: Baltimore Ravens cornerback Domonique Foxworth, Cleveland Browns linebacker Scott Fujita, and NFLPA assistant executive director George Atallah participated in a media conference call.
posted by kokaku to football at 08:36 AM on January 12 - 52 comments
2011 Pro Bowl rosters announced: Brady and Vick starting QBs. New England leads the AFC with six picks. Atlanta leads the NFC with seven.
posted by kokaku to football at 07:33 PM on December 28 - 13 comments
FIFA versus South Africa: a total victory: FIFA: US$3.5 billion in profit: "the most profitable in FIFA history." South Africa: $2.9 billion net loss. The meat of the article is in a 14 page PDF. An another data point against building for sports.
posted by kokaku to soccer at 02:58 PM on October 18 - 6 comments
See no prob w Totorella's interview - he's clearly, and rightfully, pissed at his players after the way they played. Why should he throw them under the bus for the press?
posted by kokaku at 04:27 PM on May 17
Rangers in 7
Kings in 6
(for the symmetry of #1 v #8 in the finals)
posted by kokaku at 06:57 AM on May 13
NFLPA continues giving unions a bad name
posted by kokaku at 09:58 AM on May 04
According to Wikipedia, there are 207 sovereign states. Wonder where the 212 number comes from. Either way, someone in every country in the world tuned in?
posted by kokaku at 07:36 PM on April 30
Rangers in 5
Devils in 7 (another OT winner - this year's Bruins?)
Blues in 5
Predators in 6
posted by kokaku at 09:07 AM on April 27
@grum - i'm telling myself 'look at all the free time i'll have now' (it only helps a little)
posted by kokaku at 05:53 AM on April 26
Even glass panes are being suspended
posted by kokaku at 09:33 PM on April 18
Though the Hossa hit wasn't called a penalty in the game. The refs can do a lot better at moderating the games and keeping things from escalating. At least the league is starting to respond which is something.
Still, it seems like the NHL needs to decide that the old ways of hard-hitting needs to give way to a more finesse game. Players are too big, too strong, and too likely to injure the way things are now, especially when left unconstrained.
posted by kokaku at 09:18 PM on April 18
Torres suspended pending Friday hearing
That makes it sound like he won't play in Thursday's game.
Also, Hradek on suspensions
posted by kokaku at 04:04 PM on April 18
Guessing we wouldn't be seeing this response without the reaction to the Weber hit. What Shanahan really needs to do is stop using injury as a basis for punishment. Start with 'a dirty hit is a dirty hit'; from there it's only a matter of how many games. Someone on SpoFi proposed escalating suspensions for each occurrence which sounds like a great start and would remove a lot of the arbitrariness.
posted by kokaku at 10:15 AM on April 18
@grum - do you do infographics?
posted by kokaku at 03:49 PM on April 17
And yet there's more games on than ever before. Last year, the B's games were regularly blacked-out in NYC because of the Rangers or Sabers, or the Capitals were deemed more important to show because of Ovie. This year, I have the B's on NBCSports even as the Rangers are on MSG and all the other games showing up somewhere too thanks to better scheduling. Who cares what ESPN does? I'm enjoying all this hockey.
posted by kokaku at 10:58 AM on April 17
I have no skin in these series, but Rangers' Hagelin suspeneded three games while Preds' Weber only fined $2500 for this. I am baffled by the NHL's disciplinary responses, especially making after-the-fact injury a deciding factor. The way they let some of these things go, it's only a matter of time before there's a non-concussion-related career-ending injury.
posted by kokaku at 09:34 AM on April 16
Jose Molina makes batters very angry.
One other thing to note - his body does not move - his glove moves quickly and minimally, but the rest of his body is still. It's like watching those nature films of a lizard nabbing a fly. I'm guessing if the umpire relies on the catcher's position to help determine the call (most likely subconsciously), then the lack of body movement and the quickness of the glove movement helps sell the final glove position.