Tag Archives: Sport

18-1

February 4, 2008 – 7:06 pm

Great link from Daring Fireball for the book ’19-0: The Historic Championship Season of New England’s Unbeatable Patriots’. I particularly like the user-added tag of ”dewey defeats truman” (go and vote for it now) and the apparently unhacked fact that users who looked at this also bought “Lost: Season 3″ I’ve tagged this as Sport, [...]

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Superbowl

February 4, 2008 – 7:42 am

Just finished watching the game (no, I didn’t stay up, I recorded it) and without wanting to sound like Greg Easterbrook, trying to trademark the character sequence (it’s hardly even a phrase) “19-0″ is an insult to the footbaling gods, who clearly responded.

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Bigby

October 31, 2007 – 10:10 am

Just watching the Packers-Broncos game and noticed a player called Atari Bigby. Atari is a Japanese word meaning attack, but clearly that’s not its most prominent use. Perhaps in another decade or so we’ll have a Nintendo Morris in the league. I’m guessing XBox 360 Jones may not make it past college.

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Lateral

October 29, 2007 – 10:31 am

This clip is entertaining enough, but the commentary is great – I can only assume that the commentator had bet heavily on the result. (HT: Daring Fireball)

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Gone Wolves

October 11, 2007 – 9:44 am

In a slightly disorientating experience yesterday, I watched the Timberwolves lose to the Celtics last night on British TV. Not only was I watching it when none of the many Minnesotans I work with able to (they were at work), but KG, the player synonymous with the Wolves for the last decade, was playing for [...]

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