Author Topic: A random thread for sport things that don't really warrant a thread of their own  (Read 126472 times)

Cudzoziemiec

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I've just discovered a new (to me) sport. Beach rugby.
Riding a concrete path through the nebulous and chaotic future.

Wowbagger

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Is that a sport designed for ladies to ogle beefcake?
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Eccentrica Gallumbits

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7 minutes in, and Scotland aren't losing yet.
My feminist marxist dialectic brings all the boys to the yard.



"He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." ~ Freidrich Neitzsche

Andrij

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Possibly England's most impressive sportsman: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23724904
;D  Andrij.  I pronounce you Complete and Utter GIT   :thumbsup:

Jen Ennis is 'opening' a new Adidas store in Leeds today, 3pm.
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Possibly England's most impressive sportsman: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23724904

Good basis for a new 'Ripping Yarn'.
Working my way up to inferior.

British tennis player Dan Evans makes it to the third round of the US Open.

Never heard of him before, but good on him.

Wowbagger

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Today is John Wisden's 187th birthday. For some reason Australians may have a superstitious fear of this.
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Wowbagger

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Last night's match was Southend United's 4th consecutive loss.
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It doesn’t matter where you start. Just start.

Eccentrica Gallumbits

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bobb and I were up at the Commie today and Wednesday watching Edinburgh diving club's internal competition. Grace Reid is a member of that club - she came 6th at the last Commonwealth Games. I'll be surprised if she doesn't get a medal next year; she's outstanding. Some of the younger ones look very promising too.
My feminist marxist dialectic brings all the boys to the yard.


Cudzoziemiec

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My Spanish is dodgy, but Cristiano Ronaldo is only 2 goals from breaking Ferenc Puskas' record for goals in La Liga.
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El portugués lleva 154 goles en 145 partidos; el húngaro los marcó en 180. En este curso de los 32 goles del Real Madrid, 15 son de Cristiano (el 47%).
So it's not only the Premier League that's dominated by foreign players!
http://www.dalealplay.com/informaciondecontenido.php?con=507030
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My stepson completed his second Ironman on Saturday, at Panama City BEach, Florida.  In 11hrs, 16 mins and 15 secs.  An improvement of some 2 1/2hrs on his first attempt 3 years ago.  Major improvement was in cycling leg, average up from 15mph to 20mph.  And his run was around 10mins/mile instead of 12.   :thumbsup:
We are making a New World (Paul Nash, 1918)

Golf.

Going to Old Trafford on Saturday. Good news-its free and corporate and food and drink will be taken on board.
Looking forward to Swansea doing a repeat performance .
Bad news -5 pm kick off means late journey home on overcrowded TPE train.

Yay- just got two tickets for Scotland v England  at Murrayfield. There is a God after all. :)

Eccentrica Gallumbits

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Steven Gerrard, what a guy.
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It's a wonderful gesture but I'm just a bit surprised that he's done it all so publicly.  Maybe he's trying to encourage other overly-rich sportsmen to do the same sort of thing, in which case, I hope it works!

Basil

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Hm.  Bit bored, no work tomorrow.  I may stay up and watch the Super  Bollix thing.
Popped over the road for Twiglets and Minstrals.  :P
Admission.  I'm actually not that fussed about cake.

Basil

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Nah.  Fell asleep on the settee before it started.  Woke up just as the first quarter was coming to the end.  Watched a couple of minutes of the second quarter.  Couldn't get into it.  Went to bed.
Admission.  I'm actually not that fussed about cake.

citoyen

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City vs Chelsea, eh? Blimey.
"The future's all yours, you lousy bicycles."

Wowbagger

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How long is it since the team at the top of the premiership were 5 - 0 down?

Edit: I have just read that Arsenal's heaviest defeat at Anfield was 5 - 0 in 1964.
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Eccentrica Gallumbits

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bobb and I were up at the Commie today and Wednesday watching Edinburgh diving club's internal competition. Grace Reid is a member of that club - she came 6th at the last Commonwealth Games. I'll be surprised if she doesn't get a medal next year; she's outstanding. Some of the younger ones look very promising too.
And James Heatley of EDC beat Tom Daley last weekend.
My feminist marxist dialectic brings all the boys to the yard.


citoyen

  • Occasionally rides a bike
Geraint Thomas vs Mark Lawrenson (posted here rather than elsewhere due to foopball content):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/26117493
"The future's all yours, you lousy bicycles."