Pariah Posted August 27, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 27, 2021 Sounds like a pretty good day to watch football! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted August 28, 2021 Report Share Posted August 28, 2021 19 hours ago, Pariah said: Sounds like a pretty good day to watch football! The traditional football season in the rest of the world is August through May. Yes, that makes it a winter sport in the Northern Hemishpere. It's not even unknown to play with snow on the pitch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 28, 2021 Report Share Posted August 28, 2021 True. Although they usually clear the pitch of snow otherwise the match might be cancelled. Romain Bardet wins stage 14 of the Vuelta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 29, 2021 Report Share Posted August 29, 2021 Rafal Majka won stage 15 of the Vuelta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 29, 2021 Report Share Posted August 29, 2021 7 more gold for the British Paralympic team. Hannah Cockroft is one. And I saw her win in London in 2012. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spence Posted August 30, 2021 Report Share Posted August 30, 2021 On 8/27/2021 at 12:43 PM, Cancer said: This weekend here in Seattle is a novelty: a double-header of soccer games, both rivalry games (it is rivalry day in MLS). The opener is the women's teams, the Reign vs the Portland Thorns; the later game is the MLS match, Sounders vs the Portland Timbers. Forecast is sunny with highs in the 70s. Reign won. Sounders were kind of there and then made sure they lost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 30, 2021 Report Share Posted August 30, 2021 Yeah, that was the impression I had from pretty early on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted August 30, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 30, 2021 I don't claim to know a lot about this international 'football', but even I know that RSL's 4-1 loss at Vancouver was butt-whoopin'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 30, 2021 Report Share Posted August 30, 2021 Johnnie Peacock got joint bronze in his Paralympics race. He was narrowly beaten as all 4 were on the line. Costa Rica got silver and Germany got Gold and joint bronze. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted August 30, 2021 Report Share Posted August 30, 2021 Figure since this is high school, this fits here... High School Football Team May Have Lied to ESPN to Play on National TV Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 30, 2021 Report Share Posted August 30, 2021 India are having a good paralympics https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-58339652 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 31, 2021 Report Share Posted August 31, 2021 Fabio Jacobsen wins stage 16 of the Vuelta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted September 1, 2021 Report Share Posted September 1, 2021 Primoz Roglic wins stage 17 of the Vuelta and is back in the Red Jersey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted September 2, 2021 Report Share Posted September 2, 2021 Miguel Angel Lopez wins stage 18 of the Vuelta Dame Sarah Storey wins her 17th gold medal at the Paralympics and is the most successful paralympian who is still competing https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/disability-sport/58418157 Christiano Ronaldo breaks men's International goal scoring record with 110th and 111th goals https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58412201 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted September 3, 2021 Report Share Posted September 3, 2021 Magnus Cort Neilsen wins stage 19 of the Vuelta Britain has reached its Paralympics medal target of between 100-140 medals with 111 in total Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted September 4, 2021 Report Share Posted September 4, 2021 Clement Champoussin wins stage 20 of the Vuelta in a mugging. with several of the favourites watching ach other Clement made a v=break for it within 2 Km and won. This was the last competitive stage of the Vuelta as the last stage is a Time Trial. Miguel Angel Lopez quit the race with 20 Km remaining and as he was in the top three this is a big deal. Spitting out his dummy like a spoilt child is how some commentators have put it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spence Posted September 4, 2021 Report Share Posted September 4, 2021 I was able to watch the Gold Cup semi-final (USA vs QTR) and the final (USA vs MEX). The US won in extra time. Great game and a pleasant surprise when you consider the USMNT's past performance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted September 5, 2021 Report Share Posted September 5, 2021 Max Verstappen wins the Dutch Grand Prix which is the first time a Formula 1 Grand Prix has been run there since 1985. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/58455786 Final Paralympic Table. China got over 200 medals. Britain is second with 124 medals. Now the USA is either third or fourth. On Golds and Silvers third, on total medals fourth. The Russian paralympic Committee is either fourth or third. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/disability-sport/58267874 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted September 5, 2021 Report Share Posted September 5, 2021 The final part of the Vuelta was late as it was a Time Trial into Santiago de Compostela. Primoz Roglic won making it the third time he has won in three years. Deceuninck Quick Step won the Sprint jersey as they did at the Tour de France this time with Fabio Jacobsen and Michael Storer won the Mountains Jersey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted September 5, 2021 Report Share Posted September 5, 2021 Any tennis major has a few stories of players making enormous moves, and leapfrogging significantly in the rankings. This year: --on the womens' side, we've got a pair of 18 year olds. Emma Raducanu of England has made the round of 16; she'll play later. She's gone from 150 in the world to 100. That's a huge jump; top 100 means automatic entry (not having to qualify) at all the Slams. LOSING in first round in the Slams is still a major payday; if you play in all 4, you make about $175K. Leylah Fernandez took out Osaka earlier...and *just* beat Kerber to reach the quarters. Another 18 year old, and I swear, she looks 16. She moves from 73 to inside the top 50...which is also big. Top 50 generally gets you an entry into ALL the WTA events, including the equivalent of the mens' Masters 1000 events which have smaller draws. But they pay quite nicely, and between the Grand Slams and those events, there's a LOT of cash and ranking points to continue up the ladder for a while, or at least remain near that level. --on the men's side, first, there's Carlos Alcaraz...another 18 year old kid. He's been moving up all summer, so less of a move at the Open. The movers...Jenson Brooksby of the US has made it into the round of 16. He's climbed from 99 to 80, so pretty safely into all the Slams, and should be able to get into some of the 500-rated events. Alcaraz is currently playing Peter Gojowczyk in the round of 16. He's 32, but most likely a long-term journeyman...140 in the world. He's climbed to 100. And the winner either way will jump QUTE a bit more. The last one is Botic van de Zandschulp...try saying that one 3 times fast. Another journeyman...25. Made a mild move this year, but mostly still not a full Tour-level player at 117. Beat Schartzmann (the 11 seed) to make the quarters...and he's jumped up to 62 in the live rankings. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted September 6, 2021 Report Share Posted September 6, 2021 On the flip side, this is beyond the pale! Sloan Stephens flooded with hate mail after 3rd round loss If you watch the video, you'll see this has happened to other players as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spence Posted September 6, 2021 Report Share Posted September 6, 2021 2 hours ago, tkdguy said: On the flip side, this is beyond the pale! Sloan Stephens flooded with hate mail after 3rd round loss If you watch the video, you'll see this has happened to other players as well. Pretty much the norm for modern times. Regardless of what you do or say there will be someone that will take offense and send hate mail or hate whatevers. The worst ones are the contortionists who find offense about nothing on someones else's behalf. Anonymity has opened the flood gates and I don't know why anyone is surprised. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted September 6, 2021 Report Share Posted September 6, 2021 The US Open announced it would have quiet rooms and counselors onsite for the players. The story I saw was on Fox News. The comments I saw...the first maybe 20 of em...were universally caveman level. None were as crude or threatening...I suspect even Fox wouldn't publish those, as they could be held liable for them...but completely clueless. Yeah, this has been building. We don't hear about it that often, but...from time to time stories do come out. I suspect it's worse in the individual sports, only in that all the blame or credit is clearly focused on the one person. Hopefully FB will boot a lot of these people...certainly the one actively threatening should be banned. But it's too easy to get back on right now. And do we really want proof of identity to sign onto a social media site? I had to send pics of my license to sign onto a poker site...but that involves money transactions. That's different. Unfortunately, tho, I think ultimately some form of ID verification will have to be enforced eventually. The tiny fraction of <BLEEEEEEPPPPPP>s will force it on the rest of us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted September 6, 2021 Report Share Posted September 6, 2021 6 hours ago, Spence said: Pretty much the norm for modern times. Regardless of what you do or say there will be someone that will take offense and send hate mail or hate whatevers. The worst ones are the contortionists who find offense about nothing on someones else's behalf. Anonymity has opened the flood gates and I don't know why anyone is surprised. Not surprise, disgust. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spence Posted September 6, 2021 Report Share Posted September 6, 2021 8 hours ago, tkdguy said: Not surprise, disgust. Truth tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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