A little something for all the folks who hang out in the FARK Sports tab:
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Archive for the ‘Sports’ Category
TMQ watch: October 25, 2011.
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011Your loser update: week 7, 2011.
Monday, October 24th, 2011NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Miami
Indianapolis (Wow.)
St. Louis
TMQ watch: noted.
Thursday, October 20th, 2011One of the suggestions TMQ has been making for reducing concussions in football is expanded use of “anti-concussion” helmets, as well as better fitting mouth guards.
With that in mind, we wanted to point out this article in today’s LAT:
It is fair to point out that TMQ has never suggested this equipment will totally prevent concussions. However, the article indicates that the alleged benefits may have been overstated: the Riddell Revolution helmet, which TMQ has endorsed, only reduces concussions by 2.6%, not the 31% Riddell claims.
Edited to add: Also worth noting: this NYT article about the death of Ridge Barden, mentioned in this week’s TMQ.
TMQ watch: October 18, 2011.
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011The more TMQ columns we observe, the more we think Gregg Easterbrook needs a good editor.
After the jump, this week’s TMQ:
Your loser update: week 6, 2011.
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Miami
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Random sports (and other) notes.
Monday, October 17th, 2011I wasn’t planning to say anything about the Texas Rangers: last year was significant, this year, well, what can you say other than that they’ve gotten good?
However, I can’t help but take the opportunity to gloat a little here, since it appears that a Rangers/Cardinals World Series has John Gruber extremely upset. Poor guy.
Loser update tomorrow: Miami plays tonight.
Somewhat buried lead: the MP-5s were converted to fire blanks only.
I am not an MP-5 armorer, but I would guess: probably none. I doubt any of those parts are serial numbered like AR lower receivers. And I’m curious where the LAT reporter got his information.
TMQ watch: October 11, 2011.
Tuesday, October 11th, 2011Let’s start off this week with a video:
The reasons why will become apparent. (Also, we have a couple of friends who are students of ti kwan leap.) After the jump, this week’s TMQ:
Stoops to conquer.
Tuesday, October 11th, 2011OK, maybe not so much.
Mike Stoops out as coach at the University of Arizona.
41-50 over seven and a half years, and UA is 1-5 so far this season.
(Hattip: Thanks, FARK.)
Your loser update: week 5, 2011.
Sunday, October 9th, 2011NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Miami (bye week)
Indianapolis
St. Louis (bye week)
Obit watch: October 8, 2011.
Saturday, October 8th, 2011I always respected the man, mostly for his ability to make Pete Rozelle and the rest of the No Fun League miserable. I don’t expect you’ll hear a lot of “No, that’s God; he just thinks he’s Al Davis” jokes, but if he did make it to Heaven, I hope he has a decent quarterback.
TMQ Watch: October 4, 2011.
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011One of WCD’s favorite quotes is from the late Arthur Schlesinger Jr.:
The notion that authority is entitled to reverence per se is the most subvervise of all notions in a free society. “There is not worse heresy,” Lord Acton wrote, “than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.” Authority is entitled only to the respect it earns, and not a whit more.
After the jump, this week’s TMQ:
Your loser update: week 4, 2011.
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Miami
Indianapolis
Minnesota
St. Louis
Obit watch: October 1, 2011.
Saturday, October 1st, 2011Peter Gent, former Dallas Cowboy and author of North Dallas Forty
Turn out the lights, the party’s over…
Thursday, September 29th, 2011…and the Astros finish the season at 56-106.
Their .346 winning percentage doesn’t quite qualify for the list of worst teams in history, but we’re sure the Astros tried their best to make the list. We salute their efforts this season, and hold out hope for 110 losses next year.
Edited to add: We would like to point out that the Texas Rangers, our gold standard for futility in baseball, had the following records in their early years:
1972: 54-100, .350 winning percentage.
1973: 57-105, .351 winning percentage.
1974: 84-76, .525 winning percentage.
Yes, even at their most rock bottom and pathetic, the Rangers have never lost as many games in a year as the Astros did this year.
TMQ watch: September 27, 2011.
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011Did TMQ spend the off season reading epic fantasy novels? (WCD wonders if Easterbrook is a big Game of Thrones
Seriously, “great heroes”? “Muscular men with square jaws”? “gleaming heroes”? Who is TMQ talking about? After the jump…