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| Name: | Tom Clancy |
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yerfatma has posted 229 links and 8986 comments to SportsFilter and 17 links and 1217 comments to the Locker Room and 1 column.
The Best Hitter You've Never Heard Of: Cienfuegos' own Jose Abreu.
posted by yerfatma to baseball at 01:10 PM on February 22 - 0 comments
The Best Ivy League Players of All-Time: just one more reason to miss Bob Ryan when he retires (from The Globe anyway) later this year.
posted by yerfatma to basketball at 09:33 AM on February 15 - 2 comments
Mets Ban Reporter: for the crime of reporting on the Mets.
posted by yerfatma to baseball at 07:54 PM on February 06 - 4 comments
The Ultimate Football Draft: and the season's (simulated) results.
posted by yerfatma to soccer at 12:15 PM on January 26 - 9 comments
Colts Hire Chuck Pagano as Head Coach: The Indianapolis Colts have chosen Baltimore Ravens defensive coordinator Chuck Pagano to be their new head coach, succeeding Jim Caldwell. Pagano, 51, has never been a head coach. He was coordinator this year for the Ravens after three years coaching defensive backs and had prior stints with the Cleveland Browns and Oakland Raiders.
posted by yerfatma to football at 07:45 PM on January 25 - 1 comment
Should ESPN be obligated to report on the blackout conversation?
posted by yerfatma at 10:51 AM on February 21
I'm hoping Henry will now come out to say he supports Luis Suarez unconditionally, just to make things even better.
posted by yerfatma at 06:36 PM on February 20
If the first thing you think of when you hear the phrase "chink in the armor" is race, then the problem is in you.
What if the first thing I think of when the phrase comes up about an Asian-American person is race? You're being a bit too clever for me there. You're saying you have the exact same reaction to:
"Hulk Hogan has a chink in his armor."
and
"Jeremy Lin has a chink in his armor."
That seems incredibly worldly of you.
posted by yerfatma at 02:11 PM on February 20
But for an apples to apples comparison, only those should be included.
I don't think such a thing is possible. There seems to be a giant hang-up/ national insecurity in England that because World Cups have tended to be won by teams whose manager is from the same country that it must be so and England's lack of homegrown management bespeaks an endemic failure that points to some fatal flaw in the national character.
If we're asking for apples-to-apples, consider this, based on square miles:
Germany: 113% the size of the entire British Isles Spain: 160% France: 214%
Italy is slightly smaller, the Netherlands and Portugal are much smaller. I think the countries might be slightly different culturally and linguistically as well. I love stats as much as 97% of the next guys, but this feels like the sort of manufactured stat that serves no purpose other than to start arguments at a bar.
posted by yerfatma at 03:27 PM on February 19
Because the other countries in the comparison aren't direct analogies. Should be only count Bavarian coaches in the Budesliga? I'd also argue that the Dutch and Portugese leagues are tough comparisons because there just isn't the same amount of money available. Some of the percentage of foreign coaches is the amount of money available to pay for the world's best talent.
Alternatively, why not include the MLS in the comparison? Lot of foreign flags in that list.
posted by yerfatma at 02:05 PM on February 19
That seems completely skewed by the fact the league is "English" while it sits in the British Isles. It's still the biggest foreign-coached league, but 13-7 is less eye-catching than 17-3.
posted by yerfatma at 10:24 AM on February 19
Le Pétomane's muse, no doubt.
posted by yerfatma at 02:40 PM on February 17
Josh Hamilton talks "makeover" on The Glenn Beck Show. Just because it was fun to type.
posted by yerfatma at 01:20 PM on February 17
posted by yerfatma at 12:47 PM on February 17
"Furtwrangler", really?
posted by yerfatma at 09:39 AM on February 17
the scheduled starter got the flu . . . The Bird was non-Asian and didn't play in New York
+H1N1
posted by yerfatma at 07:22 PM on February 16
grum's said pretty much everything I think. Just wanted to add it's a sign of pure professionalism and a good organization that the widow found out from the reporter doing the story.
posted by yerfatma at 04:54 PM on February 16
All I am saying is his ethnicity is a big factor in how big this story is.
It's a factor, but not much of one. It's a goddamn underdog story. Just about everyone loves that. And not just an underdog, but one who, as insomnyuk notes, scored more points in his first 5 games than any player ever. That's kind of newsworthy regardless of his skin color.
posted by yerfatma at 04:53 PM on February 16
SportsFilter: The Wednesday Huddle
From that first thread, "I'm glad NBC doesn't have the rights to NHL hockey." - rcade.