BallHype User Blog - tynansanger

Sex, Sports, and Caster Semenya

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:47:01 +0000

Semenya became accustomed to visiting the bathroom with a member of a competing team so that they could look at her private parts and then get on with the race. “They are doubting me,” she would explain to her coaches, as she headed off the field toward the lavatory.

tynansanger posted 22 days ago from newyorker.com

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The Lessons of the Cy Young Awards

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:43:06 +0000

Obviously, there is no substitute for pure talent. But in Greinke, Bannister’s teammate, we are seeing what can happen when off-the-charts talent meets sophisticated understanding of numbers.

tynansanger posted 22 days ago from bats.blogs.nytimes.com

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Why Deadspin Had to Publish the ESPN Horndog Glossier

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:36:43 +0000

"Serious journalism" was never Deadspin's job. Deadspin was created to expose corruption within the entire sports industry, how it conflates the coverage of sports, how far removed it is from the sports fan experience, and how it ultimately hurts sports fans.

tynansanger posted 10/22/2009 from bleacherreport.com

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NFL Coaches Are Too Clever for Their Own Good

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:44:05 +0000

Coaches get too cute with their playbooks, alternating between running and passing plays about 10% more often than they naturally should, according to a study co-written by Steve Levitt (Freakonomics) and Ken Kovash. Coaches' plan of attack sometimes gets too predictable: run, pass, run, pass

tynansanger posted 10/12/2009 from online.wsj.com

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10 Things a Broadcaster Must Do to be Adequate at the Job

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:40:47 +0000

The one job Bob Brenley hasn’t held is fan. Instead of complaining endlessly, I thought I would put together a little list of the important tools that any broadcaster needs to have to actually add something to the conversation.

tynansanger posted 10/12/2009 from blog.lovemyteam.com

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2009 Yankee Stadium Attendance Tracker

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 01:04:56 +0000

With the Yankees having trouble filling the expensive seats, now is as good of a time as ever to start a new Yankee Stadium attendance tracker. For now, we will just post the official attendance (based on the box score), the date & time and the weather conditions for that day.

tynansanger posted 4/18/2009 from newstadiuminsider.blogspot.com

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Cheering Fans, Thrilling NCAA Tournament Disgust BCS Officials

Thu, 9 Apr 2009 15:45:19 +0000

Claiming that...the sheer exuberance of college basketball fans was "a shocking and nauseating display of everything wrong with collegiate athletics," top BCS officials roundly condemned the NCAA Tournament Monday.

tynansanger posted 4/9/2009 from theonion.com

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Timelapse: Franklin Street after the victory

Tue, 7 Apr 2009 13:30:15 +0000

931 images were taken to create this timelapse of the chaos. This camera was set above the intersection of Franklin and Columbia on the rooftop of Spanky's restaurant after North Carolina's championship. By the Daily Tar Heel.

tynansanger posted 4/7/2009 from vimeo.com

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Why Jose Canseco Is The Sen. McCarthy Of Baseball

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:16:33 +0000

Let's stop calling Jose Canseco a Whistleblower and call him what he really is: a fearmongering, self-aggrandizing modern-day McCarthyite.

tynansanger posted 2/12/2009 from blogcritics.org

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Hater’s Guide to the Postseason: AFC 2nd Seed — Pittsburgh Steelers

Mon, 5 Jan 2009 17:35:10 +0000

Kissing Suzy Kolber presents...Night of the Asshole Fans.

tynansanger posted 1/5/2009 from kissingsuzykolber.uproxx.com

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Texas Tech at the Top? Michael Lewis Isn't Surprised

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 05:10:35 +0000

Mike Leach, the coach of Texas Tech, has led his team to the No. 2 ranking in college football, wowing everyone with a high-scoring innovative offense along the way. Three years ago, Michael Lewis saw this storm coming when he profiled the coach and his program for The Times Magazine.

tynansanger posted 11/15/2008 from nytimes.com

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Best Hockey Fighters For The Buck

Thu, 6 Nov 2008 14:39:00 +0000

The best fighter for the money is Colton Orr of the New York Rangers. Orr fought 34 times during the past two seasons (the most in the Eastern Conference), winning 21 of them (tops in the NHL). His $525,000 salary last year was only $50,000 above the league minimum.

tynansanger posted 11/6/2008 from sports.yahoo.com

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Keeping the News In Perspective

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:51:46 +0000

Instead of allowing for negotiating strategies — by saying you don’t want to go somewhere, you raise your asking price — instead of allowing for the struggles of youth, writers and bloggers write off General Managers while displaying a willful ignorance of the role a GM and his scouting staff plays.

tynansanger posted 10/26/2008 from riveraveblues.com

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Alex Rodriguez is the least clutch player in baseball

Mon, 1 Sep 2008 05:51:03 +0000

That's actually not hyperbole, according to sabermetrics. Finally, something stat nerds and old cranks can agree on.

tynansanger posted 9/1/2008 from sports.yahoo.com

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Eight Reasons This Is Not A Big East Preview

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:59:38 +0000

General Suckitude is one of them.

tynansanger posted 8/29/2008 from sportsyenta.blogspot.com

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Ebert to Mariotti: Don't let the door bang you on the ass.

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:36:36 +0000

Roger Ebert rips into Jay Mariotti for how he handled his departure from the Chicago Sun-Times. A must read.

tynansanger posted 8/28/2008 from poynter.org

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Rape Comes To Duke

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:16:18 +0000

Everyone knows that rape and Duke University are two great tastes that go great together. So it should be no surprise that top soccer recruit Ashley Rape will be joining the Blue Devils this fall.

tynansanger posted 8/27/2008 from withleather.uproxx.com

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Ten Reasons Why The Little League World Series Sucks

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:26:31 +0000

Haven't we just about had it with the LLWS? Here are 10 reasons it should go away.

tynansanger posted 8/25/2008 from deadspin.com

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NY Post Sportswriter likes to spank baseball players

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 17:17:58 +0000

New York Post sportswriter George King just can't get enough spanking! A tipster went back through King's baseball coverage and found that he takes every available opportunity to relate how the Yankees or Mets were "spanked." It's his favorite word! Just today King wrote about the "14-3 spanking administered by the Blue Jays." But that's just the beginning of his spankfest.

tynansanger posted 8/23/2008 from gawker.com

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Why Brett Favre Won't Make Jets Fans Forget About Joe Namath

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:12:54 +0000

Will Leitch compares Favre's Legacy to Broadway Joe's at his new digs.

tynansanger posted 8/18/2008 from nymag.com

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