Pariah Posted January 11 Author Report Share Posted January 11 AI Creates Pro Sports Teams for Over 40 Worldwide Cities Without Them My favorite creation: an NHL team for Salt Lake city. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted January 11 Report Share Posted January 11 Oh my. ESPN has become a massive embarassment. https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/11/media/espn-returning-emmys-submitted-under-fake-names/index.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted January 11 Report Share Posted January 11 Great Britain wins cycling team pursuit gold at European Championships https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/67953370 Britain wins two track silvers at cycling European Championships https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/67941741 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted January 13 Report Share Posted January 13 Starlord 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted January 13 Report Share Posted January 13 Hey, battah, battah, battah...saa-wing battah! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted January 13 Report Share Posted January 13 Two other golds for Britain at the European cycling Championships https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/67971895 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 14 Author Report Share Posted January 14 On 1/12/2024 at 6:10 PM, Cygnia said: Yet another reason to despise the Dodgers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted January 14 Report Share Posted January 14 All they need now is someone called Oliver Fagin or two people called Fagin and Oliver. Meanwhile The 50th running of the Masters Snooker tournament has just concluded and Ronnie O'Sullivan won taking his total victories at this event to 8. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/snooker/67975674 Great Britain top meal table at the European Cycling Championships as Josie Knight takes gold in the women's individual pursuit https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/67976508 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted January 18 Report Share Posted January 18 Lots of intense matches at the Australian Open last night. A lot were were tie breaks, but this one was record breaking. slikmar 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 19 Author Report Share Posted January 19 (edited) Report: Entire Sports Illustrated Staff Has Been Laid Off Edited January 19 by Pariah ytpo (not mine) Cancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted January 19 Report Share Posted January 19 Novak Djokovic is the first man to play 100 matches at all four of the tennis Grand Slams. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/68027490 tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted January 19 Report Share Posted January 19 3 hours ago, Pariah said: Report: Entire Sports Illustrated Staff Has Been Laid Off The article's subscriber-only, but the headline and lead are enough. From Business Insider: Quote RIP Sports Illustrated. And RIP, magazines. Sports Illustrated used to be an enormously powerful magazine. Now it looks like it's dying. And the rest of the magazine business is... Digital, perhaps not...but print media, yes. And the digital market is horrendously overpopulated, IMO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted January 20 Report Share Posted January 20 It's not a hole in one, but.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 22 Author Report Share Posted January 22 She passed former Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski's record of 1,202 career victories earlier today. Tara VanDerveer becomes winningest coach in NCAA basketball history: Stanford legend recounts journey to 1,203 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted January 24 Report Share Posted January 24 MLB Hall of Fame balloting results announced. In: Adrian Beltre Joe Mauer Todd Helton We may now take a few minutes to watch Mr. P dance wildly. Popcorn optional. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 24 Author Report Share Posted January 24 It took six years, but I'm glad to see Todd Helton get in. He was a great player for a long time. The funny thing is that now this picture of quarterbacks at Tennessee now includes two Hall of Famers: (Helton, you may recall, helped recruit Manning to join the Broncos all those years ago.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slikmar Posted January 24 Report Share Posted January 24 They talked about Mauer also being a top rated, if not the top rated QB coming out of high school. Conjecture is if Twins didn't draft him (local boy) that he might have opted for football. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted January 25 Report Share Posted January 25 Oh dear. Ugly story coming out from hockey. https://apnews.com/article/hockey-canada-sexual-assault-leave-19fd7216d95efcd2a753911bc05e0dbb If police are going to press charges...this long after the fact, it makes me think they have a good body of evidence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted January 25 Report Share Posted January 25 Alexander Zverev Beats Carlos Alcaraz It's the biggest upset so far in the men's singles. For the women, it was Iga Swiatek. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted January 25 Report Share Posted January 25 #6 beating #2 isn't a shock. Surprise, ok, but nothing more. The Swiatek loss was a major upset...Noskova was #50 at the start of the Aussie. #30 right now. One thing I love about all the majors, is the massive jumps some players make. Dayana Yastremska, from in the 90s to +29...an *enormous* result. She had to qualify...#93 generally doesn't, but there were a number of players coming in with protected rankings. #29...that's a seed in the slams, and in the 96-player 1000's (or whatever the WTA calls em). Probably a seed in some 500s, certainly an entry. So her year's set...no minor events, all big ones. On the men, Borges of Portugal went from 69 to 47...which puts him in line to get into all the Masters 1000s. Not guaranteed to be in the 56-player draws, but likely; there's usually injuries. US kid Alex Michelsen...he's not even 20 yet...went from 91 to 73, meaning he's in the rest of the Slams, and can probably make 500s and 250s. MUCH nicer than Challengers. And a French kid, Arthur Cazaux, jumped from 122 to 83...also pretty much guaranteeing entry into all the Slams, and therefore promising a successful year. (Even first round Slam losers pocket BIG checks and points.) For those who don't follow tennis that much, there's a growing movement to reform things...for one thing, to *reduce* the amount the top players have to play. The schedule's insane, and the ranking system, which determines seeding *everywhere* now, forces players to play TOO MUCH. For the lower level players, a known issue is, if you're not in the top 100, making ends meet is HARD. So they're talking about splitting things into a top-level tour...the Slams, the 1000-level events, the year-end finals...and a second-level tour, with the 500s and 250s...and perhaps more of them. The idea is to funnel...say, the top 60...ONLY into the 1000s and slams, and open up more slots for younger players to make a living, by being in the 500s and 250s. With advancement and relegation processes, if they can manage it. Obviously, the 500s and 250s are concerned about a loss of prestige, so there's a WHOLE lot of work to do, but the system has serious problems now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted January 26 Report Share Posted January 26 (edited) Djokovic beaten by Sinner in semi final https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/68102923 Sinner will play Medvedev who fought back from 2 sets to 1 down to win. Edited January 26 by death tribble Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted January 27 Report Share Posted January 27 14 hours ago, death tribble said: Djokovic beaten by Sinner in semi final https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/68102923 Sinner will play Medvedev who fought back from 2 sets to 1 down to win. And if Medvedev wins, he jumps over Alcaraz to be #2...and create a clear 3-person contest for #1, which has been *extremely* rare. Djokovic has 9855 ranking points, Alcaraz 9255, Medvedev 8765, Sinner 7610...with another 700 to the champ. If Sinner wins, it might be the tightest top 4 in a very, VERY long time...but if it's Med, then...the top 3 separated by only 600 points is nearly a dead heat. Tennis is also seeing its new wave...and it's an incredibly BROAD wave. Djokovic is the old guy, of course, but after that...Medvedev at 27 is older than anyone else in the top 12. Dimitrov is #13 (32 years old), then 3 more under 27. And 23 or less? There's Alcaraz (#2), Sinner (#4), Rune (#7), and Ben Shelton (#16). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted January 27 Report Share Posted January 27 Something seemed to be ailing Djokovic during the whole tournament. Even when he was winning handily he seemed to be in some kind of discomfort. I guess it all caught up to him in the semifinal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted January 27 Report Share Posted January 27 Aryna Sabalenka wins the Australian Open against Zheng Qinwen https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/68109149 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 28 Report Share Posted January 28 West Indies beat Australia in a test match in cricket after 27 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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