When time is running out and you’re in range for a game-tying field goal you have two objectives: 1) score a touchdown, or at least a field goal; 2) run time off the clock so that your opponent doesn’t have a lot of time left to mount a game-winning drive. (more…)
1) NCAA Basketball tournament and the Final Four
2) The World Cup
3) Major League Baseball playoffs and the World Series
4) NFL Football playoffs and the Super Bowl
5) NBA Basketball playoffs and championship series
Should never even be considered a “playoff” nor a “system”: The BCS for College Football
After the Super Bowl I was furious. Now I’m just sad. We (the Seahawks) were given a freebee with Romo’s bobble and played a solid game against a team that was supposed to blow us out. The game could have gone either way hinging on any play (for both teams). If it were a blowout it would have been much easier to watch, this was just too intense for us to lose. But, it was a well-earned win by Chicago. Congrats to those guys.
But the truth is that these playoffs are turning out to be pretty dang good. And it’s all NFC for me at this point. Go Saints or Bears!
This is the first time in several years that I haven’t participated in fantasy football. I hadn’t planned to skip out this year but as it turns out, I’ve been grateful that I did because I have enjoyed this NFL season more than any season in recent memory, despite Denver’s collapse. (more…)
The BCS can suck it. Boise State’s win over Oklahoma last night was the greatest football game I’ve ever seen. (more…)
Seriously, is there anyone out there who thinks the BCS is good for college football? (more…)
I know we just had a sports post but after watching last night’s Bears/Cardinals game, one of the most entertaining football games I’ve ever seen, I figured this would be a good place to discuss sports comebacks. Last night is truly what sports are all about (even though I was cheering for the Cards). (more…)
The AFC is very strong and very competitive. Here are seven solid AFC teams that I can see making the Superbowl: Baltimore, Cincinnati, Denver, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, New England, and San Diego. And I wouldn’t count Pittsburgh out. Baltimore (my local team) and Denver (my favorite team) both have a lot of room for improvement on the offensive side of the ball. I have more hope for Denver because they’ve shown that they can run the ball and Plummer will certainly get better (he’s had slumps before), while Baltimore hasn’t been able to run for two-and-a-half years now and McNair still doesn’t look like he ‘gets’ the new (to him) offense. Neither New England nor Indianapolis are playing as well as they did last year and they are 4-1 and 5-0, respectively, so watch out if they hit their stride. (more…)
As I’m sure you all know the Seahawks played the Bears last night in what was anticipated to be one of the biggest games of the early season. Considered the best team of the NFC I was happy to be talking some trash on behalf of my Seahawks. It was especially sweet because my good friend is a huge Bears fan (his brother-in-law is John Tate who plays left tackle for them) and we had been planning on watching it together. In addition, the only guy in my office that follows football is a Bears fan so I had this other outlet to express how much better of a person I was because I liked the Seahawks and he had to suffer being a lowly Bears fan. I kinda felt sorry for them that my Hawks were going to do such a number on their beloved team. (more…)
As a child growing up in the 80’s I loved both football (Seahawks) and baseball (New York Mets, because my neighbor liked them, because they won the Series in ‘86). I consider that decade to be when football and baseball uniforms had it right, unlike today where they all look virtually the same. Sports are entertainment and part of that entertainment is the costume. Stir-ups should be part of the baseball costume (not anymore). Real color (something other than dark blue) and juxtaposition of color should be part of the costume (not anymore). New uniforms just don’t have the soul that the old ones did.
The following is a number of comparisons of current uniforms to their former counterparts: (more…)
Watching game 5 of the NBA Finals tonight, I realized that in my mind, veteran NBA coach Pat Riley and Michael Douglas occupy the same territory. I’m not sure when or how this happened, but I know that if The Pat Riley Story were ever made into a feature motion picture, I just can’t see anyone other than Douglas playing the title role. From there, it was a short skip and a jump to this post.
One of my first memories of belonging to a “nation” was in 1982. We were on holiday in France. Every night we would sit around the radio to listen to the BBC World Service to hear the latest news from the Falkland Islands. At 6, I knew that there was a nation that was “good” — Britain — and I belonged to it. There was also a nation that was “bad”: Argentina. (more…)
Kulturblog fave Zhang Yimou has been tapped to oversee the opening and closing ceremonies at the 2008 Olympics. He has committed to the project full-time, saying that he will not direct any new films until after the Olympics are over. He will finish his current project, “The City of Golden Armor.”
Steven Spielberg has also signed on as a creative consultant.
All I can say is that taking two years out of a directing career to produce an overblown production that would be more suitable for the Vegas strip seems like a baaaaad idea from my perspective. Who cares about national pride? I want my movies!
Twelve hours from now, 20,000 runners will be lining up to run the 110th Boston Marathon. These runners will have spent countless hours nursing blisters and black toenails and obstinate IT bands through daily and long weekend runs, looking forward to this day with quiet trepidation. (more…)
I’m not exactly sure which came first for me, my love of football or football cards (chicken or the egg). I imagine there was a time before the Seattle Seahawks were the focus of my pre-pubescent life but I don’t remember it. (more…)
Winning the whole game. Up by 17 at one point. All they had to do was make one more shot in the final three minutes… or hold onto the ball at the end… or ANY OTHER ACTION EXCEPT WHAT HAPPENED! This was one of those moments (remember the Super Bowl) that every single thing that could have gone wrong, did. Like the forces of unfairness were rising up against my team.
It now officially sucks to be a Seahawks AND Gonzaga fan.
I effing hate sports.
March Madness has arrived! Duke will win the tournament. Discuss.
Anyone who watched the Superbowl with any amount of objectivity will admit that the refs were on the Steeler’s side the whole game. The supposed pass interference, the two bogus holding calls, the Steelers not-touchdown, etc. The problem is that there really isn’t anything you can do as a Seahawk fan. You know that the Seahawks really dominated the whole game (except for THREE plays… can you name anything else the Steelers did well the rest of the game other than those three plays?), the refs made such bad calls I just don’t know how to not sound like a whiner when I emphatically tell you that the refs gave the game to the Steelers.
The Seattle Seahawks are going to the Super Bowl!
The Seattle Seahawks are going to the Super Bowl!
The Seattle Seahawks are going to the Super Bowl!
The Seattle Seahawks are going to the Super Bowl! (more…)
I wonder if Cobra Commander would be a good president? The PSA films at Fensler Films (NSFW) seem to suggest that he has a plan that’s better than GI Joe’s politics of failure. I wonder also if Cobra has a 
plan to save Social Security.
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More likely, they would just kill the old and the sick with some sort of death ray. That will make it difficult for Cobra to take some of the swing states, particularly Florida.
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