General Sports thread

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

 

[Eagleboy2011]

wow

 

[AmericanCrow]

 

[AmericanCrow]

 

[GreyCrow]

It's a hard life

 

[AmericanCrow]

It's a hard life

I admit this summer has been really pretty awesome

 

[Cromulant]

Not even my golf game could make that place look bad.......

Well maybe it could.

 

[AmericanCrow]

Not even my golf game could make that place look bad.......

Well maybe it could.

My golf game makes courses like this cry

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

My golf game makes courses like this cry

Replace your divots

 

[brucetiki]

The British and Irish Lions are in town tomorrow night, taking on a combined Australia/New Zealand side.

With the aid of some ticket prices being dropped to $29 this week, looks like a crowd of 40,000 is expected tomorrow night (probably be a bigger crowd than the Port game on Sunday).

 

[Cromulant]

The British and Irish Lions are in town tomorrow night, taking on a combined Australia/New Zealand side.

With the aid of some ticket prices being dropped to $29 this week, looks like a crowd of 40,000 is expected tomorrow night (probably be a bigger crowd than the Port game on Sunday).

Plenty of supporters walking through the CBD this week, I did think of buying a ticket late but Union doesn't quite hold the same appeal for me as it used to.

Should be a good night for it.

 

[Vader]

The British and Irish Lions are in town tomorrow night, taking on a combined Australia/New Zealand side.

With the aid of some ticket prices being dropped to $29 this week, looks like a crowd of 40,000 is expected tomorrow night (probably be a bigger crowd than the Port game on Sunday).

Are there ANY Australians in the combined Australia/New Zealand side? Maybe 1-2 token selections?

 

[Cromulant]

Are there ANY Australians in the combined Australia/New Zealand side? Maybe 1-2 token selections?

More than half

Pay attention

 

[Vader]

More than half

Pay attention

I have no intention whatsoever of "paying attention" to Rugby Union.

Someone's having a laugh if more than half a combined Aus/NZ side is Australian. Man-for-man, there would be barely any Wallabies players who would be selected ahead of their All Black equivalent.

 

[Cromulant]

I have no intention whatsoever of "paying attention" to Rugby Union.

Someone's having a laugh if more than half a combined Aus/NZ side is Australian. Man-for-man, there would be barely any Wallabies players who would be selected ahead of their All Black equivalent.

So if youre not paying attention, then **** off

 

[AmericanCrow]

Little AC trying to make it thru to Friday from initial field of 144

First cut after second round on Wednesday, top 60 and ties

 

[AmericanCrow]

Decent start for Alex. Cut line for tomorrow currently sitting at +1

Probably needs a 72 to ensure safety. 70 would help for Thursday's final cut.

 

[AmericanCrow]

Guess I can get a second job as cut line prognosticator. Weather moved in and suspended play. However, looks like cut line will indeed be +2. Most of the field is done.

Alex started on back 9 for his second round. Tough stretch 16-18 unfortunately is his undoing. Just couldn't get putts to drop on front 9 (his back 9 today).

This was/is a big boy tournament. Ohio State, Kent State and a host of colleges with kids from Ohio are playing in it. Got a taste of what awaits him after his upcoming senior year of high school.

 

[Eagleboy2011]

AmericanCrow, What do you think? Like Newsome once said, "It's funny because it's true."

 

[AmericanCrow]

I honestly don't watch one single second of it--so I don't have any opinion whatsoever.

My guess is that their audience is girls, not middle-aged white guys like me. To that end, if it inspires girls to try to play hoops or sports in general, then it serves its purpose.

As for making money--I guess I look at it this way, if ALL it did was bleed money every year--league would be long gone. So either they are making money or getting handsome write-offs that make it "profitable" to own a club.

I do know, for example, that baseball owners in "small-market" cities like to claim poverty on a regular basis.

I am personally aware, through past work I have been involved with, that claim is FULL of bullshit. Owners cook the books to meet whatever agenda they want you to buy.

 

[AmericanCrow]

Truly there is no more consistently embarrassing sports organization anywhere in the world.

 

[AmericanCrow]

 

[Eagleboy2011]

RIP Bigfella. Gone but not forgotten.

 

[Cromulant]

When I was a kid, Hulkamania was peaking.

He was everywhere, on everything.

Sadly he diminished his own legacy a bit IMO, he was a campaigner to work with and a very weird unit away from the ring.

Still, the industry wouldnt be where it is today without Terry

 

[Eagleboy2011]