On a day when ESPN.com already misspelled Jay Glazer’s name, now comes the above headline. The only surprise is that the story comes from Milwaukee, not Chicago, and the author isn’t listed as Abe Froman.
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Monthly Archives: February 2013
Detroit Sports Report: “I’m having a conversation with my brain”
As baseball returns, we remember with fondness Ernie Harwell’s opening of spring. (HT: NPR; It’s Always Sunny in Detroit)
Having relocated outside the Tigers’ Radio Network, I’m not sure if I’ll be equipped to do another Tigers diary like I did last year. (Brendan is planning a Mariners’ diary for this season, which should be a fun lens for observing Felix Hernandez’s elbow explode.) For now, tune in for some irregular updates on the Motown sports scene.
- Phil Coke meets his brain: MLive’s Chris Iott finally succeeded in arranging a corporeal meeting between Tiger reliever Phil Coke and the operator of @PhilCokesBrain to pleasing results.
- The Lions probably will draft the Honey Badger: That’s the only conclusion I can draw from the appearance of this article on the front page of the Free Press’ sports section today. After they drafted the notedly weed-addled Charles Rogers at #2 overall and that guy from Boston College who was a “good character guy” except that a google search revealed he’d been in two bar fights his senior year also in the first round, I would be surprised if they didn’t draft Tyrann Matthieu to replace Louis “Bob Sanders” Delmas.
In lieu of a Daytona 500 live blog, here’s a picture of Mark Martin and T.I.
Last year we brought you a live-blogging event of the first and biggest race of the NASCAR season, the Daytona 500. Resources and circumstances preclude similar coverage for this year’s big race, which certainly will be overshadowed by the disastrous crash that resulted in over a dozen fan injuries at the end of yesterday’s Nationwide race, however. Instead, we hope you’ll accept this photograph of pals Mark Martin and T.I. catching up this morning before the race.
We’ll be keeping an eye on developments at the track, so check back here and on twitter for updates.
Nascar’s Next Generation (via WSJ)
Nascar is a sport in need of a tuneup. Attendance has been slipping; viewership has been falling. But Sunday at the Daytona 500, America’s premier form of motor sports will be getting the overhaul it needs.
Daytona, the season’s kickoff extravaganza, marks the race-day debut of Nascar’s “Gen-6” Sprint Cup car, the series’s most innovative overhaul since 2007. … Read More
(via WSJ)
Previewing the 2024 Olympic Games
In news that has no one singing the blues, it was reported yesterday that the City of Memphis, Tennessee has been formally invited to submit a bid to host the 2024 Olympic Games. Rather than evaluate this proposal to make a proposal critically, let’s jump right to the best ideas to emerge from the brainstorming session the Memphis Olympiad planners held yesterday afternoon.
Tuesday Newsday
Women are at the NFL combine, the NCAA is demonstrating a lack of institutional control by accusing another school of a lack of institutional control, our pets’ heads are falling off, Neil DeGrasse Tyson is trying to explain the Russian meteor to Jon Gruden, and the Brooklyn Nets appear to have hired John Madden as their statistician.
Brooklyn Nets: Got Statistics
Brooklyn’s new logo may be drab, but those f*cking hoopsters got themselves a sabermetrician:
College football coaching: The easiest get-rich scheme ever
The internet is full of get-rich schemes. They require completion of complicated steps, and along the way, you’re sure to wittingly or unwittingly (but never Jason Wittenly– more on him later) divulge most to all of your private identificatory material and click on a few virus downloads in a process that never quite leads to that free ipad, college tuition, or $10,000 prize. Perhaps ironically in this Internet Age, the pound-for-pound best way to get rich fast without having to try too hard is completely offline. In fact, the less you know about technology, the better, I’d say. The trick is to be a mediocre college football coach for just a few years, then get fired. Here’s how a man named Derek did that very thing. Continue reading
The NBA All-Star Game is a joke
Caption contest in the comments.
Sports media member swings, misses at sports analogy
The football head injury conversation more and more people are having is a complicated and multifaceted one. One of the reachable conclusions is obvious, though: a confluence of related factors could conspire to bring about the “end” of football as we currently know it. Many people often immediately retort, “No!”, maybe because they like football a lot and don’t want it to end, but also, they say, there’s too much money in football, it’s too big of a business, and it’s way too popular and ingrained in our culture to go away. And the first person might then bring up boxing. To put the thesis statement at the end of this opening paragraph, the point, for those, like Jonathan Mahler, who might miss it, is that if a sport as widely popular and culturally ingrained as boxing could fall from prominence, so too could football; in other words, that football is America’s most popular, wealthy, culturally relevant sport is no defense to the claim that it might lose that status, because a once-similarly situated sport– boxing– did lose its status as such.
Mahler, a sports columnist for whatever Bloomberg View is, captured readers with the headline “Why Football Won’t Go the Way of Boxing (Yet)” and his thesis is that football won’t follow boxing’s decline because boxing’s decline was the result of television-related changes, not “brutality.” The issue that vitiates the analogy is not the specific reason for the decline, as Mahler believes, but it is the fact of the decline itself.
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