There's been a bunch of talk recently about how Boston now has a championship in all four major sports in less than a decade, and has anyone else ever done that? ( Read more... )

Some statistics for you from World Cup pool play ( Read more... )

i am having a hard time answering this question, and my google-fu is failing me ( Read more... )

whoever wrote this caption wins all the internets evar:

http://msn.foxsports.com/soccer/pgStory?contentId=10176472#sport=FOX%20SOCCER&photo=10175816

From the world Cricket headlines:

"Collingwood suffers buttock niggle"

( What I THINK that means, and a bonus quote from the story )

i found a sport that uses more referees than derby: college paintball! they have NINE zebras on the field during play.

(of course, the reason i know this is that i was watching the 2008 college paintball national championship on television yesterday. did you know that there are several cable channels just for college sports?)

fraterrisus: Why don't they pinch run for Big Papi here?

(Convienently, the television shows us all of the players that are on the Red Sox bench.)

miss_chance: Well, all of those players are technically faster than Papi...

fraterrisus: Right, but a long fly ball to right field could score my grandmother.

miss_chance: I was about to say "Your DAD scores with your grandmother," but that ( Read more... )

well, fuck ( Read more... )

today started off with a trip to Broomstones Curling Club for their winter open house. missmhart and i got to slide on the ice, throw a couple of rocks, and practice sweeping. it all ended far too quickly, and while i am tempted to join up, i doubt that i will want to haul my ass out there once a week for curling ( Read more... )

I'm sitting in the gym at NU getting ready for the CAA Women's Volleyball championship game between Northeastern and Delaware (go Huskies!)

The marching band, while warming up... strikes up the Time Warp. I'd recognize that chorus anywhere, even if it is in the wrong key...

ETA: Other highlights include the Muppet Show theme song, and Zoot Suit ( Read more... )