death tribble Posted May 10, 2023 Report Share Posted May 10, 2023 Kaden Groves won stage 5 of the Giro d'Italia https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/65548695 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted May 11, 2023 Report Share Posted May 11, 2023 (edited) Mads Pedersen wins stage 6 of the Giro d'Italia https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/65562753 EDIT: Added BBC link Edited May 11, 2023 by death tribble Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted May 11, 2023 Author Report Share Posted May 11, 2023 Opinion: Stephen A. Smith's cringeworthy take on concussions, Anthony Davis injury is irresponsible Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted May 12, 2023 Report Share Posted May 12, 2023 (edited) Davide Bais wins stage 7 of the Giro d'Italia https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/65575147 EDIT: to add BBC link Edited May 12, 2023 by death tribble Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted May 13, 2023 Report Share Posted May 13, 2023 Ben Healy wins stage 8 of the Giro d'Italia https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted May 13, 2023 Report Share Posted May 13, 2023 Tom Slingsby wins the SailGP Grand Final for Australia https://www.sail-world.com/news/261554/SailGP-Australia-wins-third-Grand-Final Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted May 14, 2023 Report Share Posted May 14, 2023 (edited) Remco Evenepoel wins stage 9 of the Giro D'Italia which like stage 1 was a time trial https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/65591251 EDIT: And is out of the race wit Covid. That really opens it up. Ineos lost Ganna with Covid as well. The virus is going to be a potential game changer in the Tour and Vuelta as well. Edited May 14, 2023 by death tribble Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted May 14, 2023 Report Share Posted May 14, 2023 On 5/11/2023 at 3:03 PM, Pariah said: Opinion: Stephen A. Smith's cringeworthy take on concussions, Anthony Davis injury is irresponsible The best part of watching the Knicks fail miserably was seeing SAS reduced to spluttering incoherence. The worst part was realizing practically everything he says isn't much better. At one point, I didn't think he was down to the level of a Bayless, a Whitlock, or a Cowherd. Now....? Far too often, he's giving them a run for their money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted May 15, 2023 Report Share Posted May 15, 2023 14 hours ago, unclevlad said: At one point, I didn't think he was down to the level of a Bayless, a Whitlock, or a Cowherd. Now....? Far too often, he's giving them a run for their money. I'm not even a sportsball watcher of any sort and those four idiots make me wanna shank a TV whenever one is blathering on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted May 15, 2023 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2023 The fairest thing you can say about Skip Bayless is that occasionally he'll say something so profoundly idiotic that it will make Stephen A. Smith look like a Nobel prize laureate. And vice versa. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted May 15, 2023 Report Share Posted May 15, 2023 Mutually assured idiocy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted May 15, 2023 Report Share Posted May 15, 2023 42 minutes ago, Pariah said: The fairest thing you can say about Skip Bayless is ...his brother got all the talent and the brains. Logan D. Hurricanes 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted May 15, 2023 Report Share Posted May 15, 2023 Kind of a strange, nasty, ugly issue happening at the Italian Open in Rome right now. Evening session. It's been raining; well, clay courts can handle some rain. There's 3 matches going on. In 2 of them, the play's been stopped, and at this point, the players have left the court altogether. In the Musetti vs. Tiafoe match...they're still playing. Tiafoe's IRATE. Jim Courier has expressed concern about safety...heck, that was 20 minutes ago. You can slide on dry clay; wet clay can clump and stick, and *that* is a badly sprained ankle just waiting to happen. More rarely, a nasty knee injury that can cost you MONTHS. OK, they FINALLY just suspended it. FAR too late. Courier's very critical of the organizers' inconsistency. Why did 2 matches stop 20-30 minutes earlier, but despite Tiafoe's vociferous objection AND the fact that 2 other matches were stopped...the organizers didn't stop play on this one. Elsewhere, earlier in the day, Hungarian player Fabian Marozsan entered the Italian Open at #135 in the world, and never having won an ATP world tour level match. He faced #1 (in live rankings, #2 seed) Carlos Alcaraz...and won. In straight sets. 2nd set tie breaker, he was down 4-1 but ripped off 6 straight points to take the match. It's earned him a nice, but not yet huge, jump in the rankings, as this was the round of 32...not *that* many points. He's moved up 20 spots to #114, tho, which could get him into the French. Next up is Coric; if he can back up this stunner, he'll move just inside the top 100, which should get him automatic entry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted May 16, 2023 Report Share Posted May 16, 2023 In a few weeks, the Stanley Cup will be awarded to a team from one of the hockey hotbeds...Raleigh, NC; Dallas; Miami; or Las Vegas. How is this possible??? Las Vegas is actually, it looks like, the furthest north...just a few minutes (of longitude) north of Raleigh. Strange days indeed. Another potential issue: bad ice. This might've been fixed but it's tricky to maintain the ice when there's a full house, and in the kinds of temperatures that can be expected, particularly by the time the finals take place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted May 16, 2023 Report Share Posted May 16, 2023 I was living in Tampa when they when their first Stanley Cup. The meltdown from the hockey world over that was more entertaining than the matches. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted May 16, 2023 Author Report Share Posted May 16, 2023 Carolina and Dallas have already won Lord Stanley's Cup (the Stars on the infamous "creased lightning" goal). Florida played in the finals in 1996, when they lost to the newly-relocated Colorado Avalanche. Vegas has only been around for a six years, but have already been to the Cup finals (vs. Washington in 2018). So there's some history for all four teams. Sadly, this means that the longest Canadian drought will be extended for another year. The last Canadian team to win the Cup was the 1993 Montreal Canadiens. (Though you could make the argument that every Cup has been won by a Canadian team, since nearly half the players in the league are from Canada.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted May 16, 2023 Report Share Posted May 16, 2023 Good thing Canada's so polite or they might say something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted May 16, 2023 Report Share Posted May 16, 2023 A pity the Kraken lost game 7 against Dallas. As a franchise they are new, but Seattle does have a hockey history: the Seattle Metropolitans won the Stanley Cup in 1917. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted May 16, 2023 Report Share Posted May 16, 2023 (edited) Magnus Cort won stage 10 of the Giro d'Italia https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/65610903 EDIT: Added BBC link Edited May 16, 2023 by death tribble Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted May 16, 2023 Report Share Posted May 16, 2023 1 hour ago, Pariah said: Sadly, this means that the longest Canadian drought will be extended for another year. What's sad about it? Turn out the lights.... The party's over... They say that all good things must end...... It's the Law of Conservation of Championships. They had WAY MORE than their share. The bill became due, and they haven't paid in full yet. (It is kinda freaky tho, especially given hockey's unpredictable nature.) 15 minutes ago, Cancer said: A pity the Kraken lost game 7 against Dallas. As a franchise they are new, but Seattle does have a hockey history: the Seattle Metropolitans won the Stanley Cup in 1917. Did you keep your ticket stub from the game? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted May 16, 2023 Report Share Posted May 16, 2023 Among the things lost in the fire in 1983. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted May 17, 2023 Report Share Posted May 17, 2023 Pascal Ackermann wins stage 11 of the Giro d'Italia but Tao Geoghegan Hart out after a crash https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/65620656 Other riders are out with Covid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted May 17, 2023 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2023 The NHL's days in Arizona may be numbered. Coyotes’ arena denied by voters, future in Arizona looks bleak As an aside, there's an Olympic ice hockey arena in the Salt Lake valley that seats just over 10,000. That's pretty small for the NHL, but it's about twice the capacity of the college arena where the Yotes are playing now. And there's an ownership group in place that's looking to build new venues to bring the NHL and/or MLB to SLC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted May 17, 2023 Report Share Posted May 17, 2023 I don't live in the Phoenix area, so I have no reason to feel any pain if they move. I suspect residents are generally taking a more jaundiced eye, tho, WRT any such agreements. There's a growing perception that...no matter how good the agreement might look like, the overwhelming benefit is to the team, and the risk is on the taxpayers. Another angle is if sports has become oversaturated and overpriced...and hockey in a fringe market would tend to be a place where we see it. There's a plausible connection between the Broncos selling for, what, $4.5B, and the Commanders for $6B...and fan pushback, across ALL sports. Even in hockey...the median total cap is $73M. Obviously, this doesn't hold a candle to the NFL, NBA, or MLB...but it's still a LOT of money, and means even hockey salaries are something almost none of us can aspire to. Now toss in the Chargers abandoning their base. The Raiders moving 3 times in 40 years...that might sound like it's infrequent, but with these mega-stadium deals, the liabilities related to them extend out decades. Or perhaps another way to put things....the perception that there is no such thing as loyalty in sports. There's far too many cases of this. Players have no loyalty to teams. Teams have shown they have no cities. It's all about chasing the megabuck, and there's only one way to do this...exploit the fans. Directly or indirectly...exploit the fans. So why should fans have loyalty to the teams? Why should non-fans support them, because they're going to be paying for it too? Tampa: everyone hates the Trop, every day, in every way. But they can't get an agreement to fund a new place. Oakland: Same. Vegas: we'll see whether they'll support the new stadium for the Raiders or not. That said: I believe they've pushed hard enough to force the team to reduce taxpayer costs. DC: ehhh, this is arguably more complex, as it's harder to say whether it's a reluctance among the fans, or Snyder demanding too much, or...aother plausible argument is, WHERE? And at what cost? That entire area, DC and the bedroom cities, is pretty darn saturated. So Phoenix isn't that surprising. There's also little doubt in my mind that hockey's likely a very distant fourth, FAR behind the Cards, Suns and D'backs. And, whether the metro area is really capable of supporting 4 teams. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted May 18, 2023 Report Share Posted May 18, 2023 Nico Denz wins stage 12 of the Giro d'Italia https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/65638137 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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