Authentic games. Voting. Space: not a frontier, at least for man. All this and more in this week’s TMQ, after the jump…
Archive for the ‘Sports’ Category
TMQ Watch: November 4, 2014.
Wednesday, November 5th, 2014Administrative and other notes: November 5, 2014.
Wednesday, November 5th, 2014Happy Guy Fawkes Day. While you’re out and about, please remember poor Guido, the last man to enter the Houses of Parliament with honorable intentions.
It seems kind of fitting that that the holiday falls today. Beyond that, I don’t have much to say about the elections for reasons of time and inclination. Battleswarm is a good place to go if you’re looking for that.
I will be updating the contact pages on this site, but I’m going to wait until after the runoffs are over, everyone is sworn in, and they actually have pages to link to. If this does get past me for some reason, please yell at me until it gets done.
I’m going to avoid my usual “what China needs” snark here, because this is a little scary: Brittney Griner attacked in China by a man with a knife.
How did Peter Siebold (the other Virgin Galactic pilot) survive a bailout from 50,000 feet without a pressure suit? Bonus: quotes from Bob Hoover. The Bill Weaver story is also touched on briefly: a fuller account can be found here.
Things may be slow from Thursday until Monday. We will see.
Your loser update: week 9, 2014.
Sunday, November 2nd, 2014Didn’t pay much attention to today’s games because reasons.
NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Oakland
TMQ Watch: October 28, 2014.
Tuesday, October 28th, 2014Musical interlude that has nothing to do with this week’s TMQ. We just needed a musical interlude right about now, and we find this particular version of the song haunting. Yes, we’re in a mood.
This week’s column after the jump.
Obit watch: October 28, 2014.
Tuesday, October 28th, 2014Chivas USA.
“What?”
The other Major League Soccer franchise in LA.
Not to worry, though. In a fantastic example of “it’s not working, do it even harder!”:
Soccer. The next big thing. Any day now.
Your loser update: week 8, 2014.
Sunday, October 26th, 2014For various uninteresting reasons, we actually caught the last few minutes of the London game featuring loser favorites, the Detroit Lions. Rarely has “clown shoes” been a more accurate description.
TMQ’s football gods will be insufferable this week.
Tell us how you really feel, Steve.
Sounds like the Texans played well. And the Browns somehow managed not to be a factory of sadness this week. As much as I hate Buffalo, the game against the Jets filled me with glee, mostly because watching them struggle makes me even happier than watching Buffalo lose.
NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Oakland
I like the Raiders’ chances. Their next three games are against Seattle, Denver, and San Diego, none of whom should lose to Oakland.
Edited to add:
Detroit held 3 time outs and didnt use any at end of half — game only half over and already the Lions are phoning in.
— Gregg Easterbrook (@EasterbrookG) October 26, 2014
Heh. Heh. Heh.
TMQ Watch: October 21, 2014.
Thursday, October 23rd, 2014Pete and Repeat walk into bar in this week’s TMQ, after the jump…
Your loser update: week 7, 2014.
Monday, October 20th, 2014Oh, Cleveland, how could you?
NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Oakland
TMQ Watch: October 14, 2014.
Thursday, October 16th, 2014Not really feeling it this week. Sorry. Let’s just get started and see where this goes. This week’s TMQ, after the jump…
Random notes: October 13, 2014.
Monday, October 13th, 2014The New York Times may have killed their chess column. Or perhaps not.
Greg “Three Cups of Tea” Mortenson is trying to make a comeback. (Previously.)
The WP also has a longish story about the Navy silencer scandal, covered previously here.
At one pretrial hearing, a defense attorney for the auto mechanic, Mark S. Landersman of Temecula, Calif., accused the Navy of impeding the investigation by destroying a secret stash of automatic rifles that the silencers were designed to fit. Prosecutors immediately objected to further discussion in open court, calling it a classified matter.
The destroyed weapons were part of a stockpile of about 1,600 AK-47-style rifles that the U.S. military had collected overseas and stored in a warehouse in Pennsylvania, according to a source familiar with the investigation.
I really don’t have much to say, but the thought of a warehouse full of “AK-47 style rifles” brings a goofy smile to my face.
Your loser update: week 6, 2014.
Monday, October 13th, 2014It was a near thing, but Jacksonville managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Likewise Oakland.
So, six weeks in, NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Jacksonville
Oakland
TMQ Watch: October 7, 2014.
Wednesday, October 8th, 2014Now that we’ve finished banging our heads against the wall (for reasons that will become apparent shortly), let’s jump into this week’s TMQ…
Your loser update: week 5, 2014.
Sunday, October 5th, 2014NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Jacksonville
Oakland (bye week)
TMQ Watch: September 30, 2014.
Wednesday, October 1st, 2014Oddly, this week’s TMQ gets a link on the FARK sports tab. We can’t remember the last time FARK bothered to link to TMQ.
And what does the collective hive mind of the Daily Kos FARK have to say? That, and this week’s TMQ, after the jump…
The autumn wind is a pirate…
Tuesday, September 30th, 2014I love this time of year. The leaves are changing, if you live in one of those places. Around here, the temperature is getting to the point where you can consider doing stuff outdoors, or even dining on a patio if that’s your thing. The NFL season is picking up.
And we have our first NFL coach firing: Dennis Allen of the Oakland Raiders.
Allen also has the distinction of being the first coach hired and fired in the Mark Davis era.
I have a great deal of confidence in the Raiders ability to remain winless this coming week. The question I have is: what happens the following week? Do they get the dead cat bounce against the Chargers? I wouldn’t put it past them. Perhaps I should keep an eye on the line…