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From the AP writeup about the rather touching story of that country's first Olympic medalist: Noor Ahmad Gayezabi said a silent prayer while watching the small family TV with his 13-year-old son. "Help Nikpai. Help Nikpai. Help Afghanistan." Then he watched his country win its first-ever Olympic medal. Rohullah Nikpai defeated world champion Juan Antonio Ramos of Spain on Wednesday to earn ...
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"RAYS CHOOSE TO PLAY THEIR OWN BASEBALL GAME INSTEAD OF SKIPPING IT TO WATCH BOSTON vs BALTIMORE ON DIRECTV" EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT! I've never heard of Chris Gentilviso. And I'm quite certain that I don't like him one little bit. Internal focus keeping Rays on top Young team more worried about own play than Yankees, Red Sox Rays Talent: [gets insulted and storms out] Rays: [lose ...
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Joe Maddon
Many apologies to Jack, whose post I am burying, but that freaking Easterbrook article just killed me. In the paragraph immediately preceding the one that Jack rightfully shit all over (while I'm here... wow, does he really think that things can't/shouldn't be measured to hundredths of seconds?), Gregg managed to shit some more nonsense out of his brain. While talking about Medal counts ...
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Australia
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Gregg Easterbrook
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If you're one of our twelve readers, you may remember this entry by Larry B, where he points out Easterbrook's inane rejection of decimal times for measuring speed at the NFL Combine. Now that pretentious d-bag is at it again ( Easterbrook , not Larry B): In other Olympic news, the timer said Michael Phelps swam the 100-meter butterfly in 50.58 seconds, Milorad Cavic swam it in 50.59 -- can ...
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Michael Phelps
Since Larry B's been slacking on his on-the-spot investigative journalism, I'll have to take over. He's probably too busy trying to score with all the Olympic athletes from Sweden who finished their events two days ago and have nothing to do but cruise the Beijing bar scene. Anyways. My gripes with Olympic coverage lately: 1. Soundbite re: a men's quarterfinal in the 200m: "If there was an ...
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Michael Phelps
(Sorry, my posting will be sporadic for the next couple weeks as I am in the process of moving... again. This will be my fifth time in the last two years, but hopefully the last time for the next three years. ANYWAYS, let's get to the joke.) Re: an article about Chad Johnson's recent injury, WWWBUKTN says: Maybe he will have to change his name to 'Oucho Cinco.' Savor this one, folks. It's ...
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Chad Johnson
Do you like boring human interest stories that are only tangentially related to sports? Yes? Fuck you. CATCHING UP WITH THE MAN WHO CAUGHT 756 When he was at the bottom of a pile of bodies, suffocating, with unknown hands clawing at his face and clothes, his leg pinned against a stadium seat, and blood gushing from his nose and mouth, Matt Murphy was just hoping he wasn't about to die over a ...
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Jemele Hill
Listen, I've been really pleased with your Olympic coverage so far. Really. You're doing a bang-up job. I just have one tiny little issue... I feel like I don't know quite what Michael Phelps's mom looks like. You know what I mean? It's like, I know someone's out there cheering for Michael. But who is she? What kind of hairdo does she have? Is she wearing too much makeup, or way too much ...
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Michael Phelps
My Seahawk fandom is not something that I try to keep secret, and it's a lot of fun to live in a city that shares the division that the Seahawks have won 4 years in a row. But by no means do I hate the Rams, their fans, or their writers. Oh wait - St. Louis writers are fat turds. Bernie Miklasz writes for the paper in these here parts and this article is a stinker. With rare exception, the ...
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Jay Mariotti
Steady. Careful. Gentle. After making this post and creating a post label that obviously expresses frustration about the whole Favre saga, how am I going to criticize this post ? Stick around an I'll show you. It's all a matter of delicate semantics- obviously the kind of stuff that makes for exciting blogoreading. Quick Question Is there anything more boring, in all of sports, than the ...
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Brett Favre
I'd like to personally thank ESPN for their implementation of the "Conversation" feature on their website. Never before have cynical people like me had access to the flat out dumb opinions of thousands of other sports fans worldwide. Better still, they're now reading select Conversation comments on Sportscenter! What does it take for your comment to make the cut and be seen and heard by ...
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Landon Donovan
Jim Thome
Paul Konerko
I've been more vigilant than you guys probably thought this past week and a half or so. The problem is that Jay Mariotti is over in China writing about the Olympics and such, and besides the fact that I think Michael Phelps is a complete toolbox (seriously, who rides around in a car with a stack of T-shirts, puts each on one at a time, takes it off, and throws it to the crowd? Maybe I'm just ...
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Chicago White Sox
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Jerry Crasnick
I'm sure the answer is "neither," but please read on anyways. You've come this far already- why not waste the next six minutes or so? To his credit, I will acknowledge that TMQ leads his first column of the 2008 season with a fantastic excoriation of Brett Favre. I couldn't agree more with his opinions on the matter. Of course, everything grabs the express train to Shitstown shortly ...
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Brett Favre
There's this theory I learned about in college called " The Banality of Evil ," that essentially says that that most people in the world who do evil things (ethnic cleansing, drug cartels, Matthew McConaughey/Kate Hudson movies) are completely oblivious to the lack of morality in their actions. Therefore, I present to you Scoop Jackson as proof of my thesis: "The Banality of Stupidity." USA ...
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Dayn Perry ? Dayn Perry? The FoxSports.com Dayn Perry? Surely you jest. Did he actually write a decent article that comes to a very sensible and logical conclusion? Next thing you know, Mike Celzic will reveal his fondness for VORP and FRAA. Re: the shoving match that took place in the Brewers' dugout between Prince Fielder and Manny Parra last week: As sure as the smog in Beijing, there's ...
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Manny Parra
Spinning through some Olympics coverage today, I found a worthwhile soundbite. Apparently Jim Caple is riding around on a bike to see how polluted Beijing really is . Folks, this is the kind of investigative journalism you can only get from the World Wide Leader in Sports. I think FJM here needs to up our travel stipends; as it is I think only Larry B is going to get to go from our staff and ...
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It's tough to believe that in just seven short weeks, preseason hockey will be attracting 4,000 people with nothing better to do to arenas all across North America. So to get back in the swing of things, let's stop off at Terry Frei's latest article to see what's not funny. If the New York Islanders get around to hiring Ted Nolan's successor by opening night, nine NHL head-coaching jobs will ...
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I halfway mentioned this in the comments section of an earlier post, but since it's kind of a slow sports night, I felt compelled to turn it into a full post. Here's the situation: you're on a plane that's minutes away from crashing. The pilots and other passengers have already parachuted to safety. The only two other beings on said plane besides yourself are none other than Brett Fav-ruh and ...
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Someone, anyone, tell me why this article needed to be written. I'll give you zero guesses, because there is no right answer and I don't want to waste either of our time(s). This year, wild card is hurting, not helping For the most part, the wild card has been a good thing for Major League Baseball. Correct. In fact, if I had to quantify it, I'd say the wild card has been good for MLB at a ...
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This was probably written by an editor and may come off as nitpicky, but I care not for such things. What follows is a blurb hyping a Jim Baker article that appeared on Friday's Page 2: The object isn't just to steal the most bases, it's also to avoid getting caught. Here's a look at baseball's all-time best. Preview for Jim Baker's next column: "The object isn't just to score runs, it's ...
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