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Tag Archives: Sport
A dirty truth about sports
Pearls Before Swine:
Well that’s reassuring….
I’m really glad to see something like this happen to a Major League Baseball player, because that’s pretty much the nightmare scenario that went through my head in grade school gym class every single time someone hit the frakking ball … Continue reading
Tales in the Photo
OK, there’s a photo making the rounds on the Internet via various sports fansites and gossip whatevers. It’s of a nicely-dressed blond woman making an effort-filled obscene gesture in the face of one of the opposing team’s players at an … Continue reading
O tempora! O mores!
Dear baseball players of the world: You are ruining everything! So some dope interrupted the Murdoch family’s stammering and mumbling today by “throwing a pie” at Rupert Murdoch, which actually meant waving a styrofoam plate in Murdoch’s direction as some … Continue reading
Is Gonzaga Porkins, then?
March Madness explained by invoking Star Wars: Of course, the fact that a geek like this has to ask why Luke has a grenade on Hoth with which he blows up an Imperial Walker is disappointing. Come on, pay at … Continue reading
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Super Thoughts
A few random thoughts on the Super Bowl…. :: This was the first football I’ve watched since week four or five of the regular season. I haven’t watched this little football in a single season since the mid-1980s, and in … Continue reading
How I’d fix the Bills and the NFL (but really, screw sports, anyway)
OK, I’m finally getting back to the “Gimme a Title!” game that I launched way back a couple months ago before I got all “Meh, I got a book to finish!” and stuff. I got two suggestions that were quite … Continue reading
Cartoon Violence for Men
I’m thinking a lot about football lately, in light of the recent ‘Bounty’ scandal involving the New Orleans Saints, their coaches, and their players, who engaged in a system of paid incentives to players for injuring opposing players. Saints head … Continue reading
On Whitney and the Anthem
In comments to the previous post on Whitney Houston, Kerry asks why I didn’t post the video of Houston’s now-iconic performance of The Star-Spangled Banner at Super Bowl XXV. It’s a fair question, worthy of a couple of answers. First of … Continue reading
Oh yeah? How ’bout a giant SPOON, then?
Yesterday, I posted to Twitter thusly: Win hockey, you get a giant cup. Win Wimbledon, you get a giant plate. What’s needed is a sport where the winner is awarded a giant fork. Well…wouldn’t you know it. Behold the prize … Continue reading