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Comment on Someone get me Lamar Odom’s Agent! by campo

campo — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 21:45:45 +0000

That first commercial is absolutely hilarious. In, the second commercial, he taps on the screen to type slam dunk, even though they just advertised the main feature of the phone being swipe to type.

Comment on Money and PEDs by Mickey Crivelli

Mickey Crivelli — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 03:49:29 +0000

nice. thx

Comment on A Unique Ownership Structure by campo

campo — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:05:05 +0000

Real Madrid and Barcelona have similar structures, the team executives are also voted on by the club members, and those are two very high budget franchises.

Comment on The Strasburg signing by rgdean

rgdean — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:21:07 +0000

Yeah- I think he gets a pro-rated salary for the rest of this season.

Comment on The Strasburg signing by campo

campo — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:06:50 +0000

Seems like a bargain compared to what NFL rookies get. I also expect he makes a fraction of that pay for every game he ends up playing in the minors.

Comment on NHL’s has a marketing problem by rgdean

rgdean — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:05:14 +0000

News: The NHL will likely host 2 outdoor games on Jan 1, 2010. The league must be one of the 6 people reading this blog.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/news/story?id=4270968&campaign=rss&source=ESPNHeadlines

Comment on A leason in how to turn away fans by ironicmathsolver

ironicmathsolver — Wed, 27 May 2009 05:27:16 +0000

Before even dealing with the disciplinary stuff, basketball has a more fundamental problem in the very definition of a foul. The most inelegant (yet consistently effective) play in the game is exemplified when Chauncey Billups flings himself sideways into a defender while driving specifically to draw contact and a foul. He is initiating the contact, the move is not in the direction of his drive, and the bump has no effect on his shot, yet he draws the foul an inordinate percentage of the time. We were taught back in high school that each player was entitled to his “cylinder,” that zone extending infinitely upward around a player who only raising his arms straight up to block a shot. At least up through the late 80s, the NBA consistently called an offensive foul on a driving player who dropped his shoulder or initiated contact with a defender who was not reaching beyond his own cylinder—this could be very consistently enforced and would more often than not result, correctly, in a no-call. In today’s NBA, a completely stationary defender with arms extended straight up (within his cylinder) can be called for a foul, simply because officials feel the need to perform the foul call leading to the 3-point play, as if they were baseball umpires selling the dramatic hammer on a close force out.

Anyway…it’s this departure from the fundamental rules of basketball that leads to so many players being utterly confused as to what constitutes a foul, and this is exacerbated by the sixth foul DQ that serves only to guarantee that the most exciting games—those that last into one ore more overtimes—are decided by a subset of each team’s roster rather than the full rotation of stars and role players.

Comment on Twitter me this by Team Websites « My Sports Ideas

Team Websites « My Sports Ideas — Sun, 10 May 2009 19:08:49 +0000

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