Magnus

Been a while since I actually commented on these forums, so I just wanted to come in and say "Suck it, Gary. You lost your precious."
 

...although I know Meruelo retains the right to reactivate the Coyotes, this has been a long time coming. Cities shouldn't have to bankrupt themselves to keep a sports team afloat.

As I say this, my own city of Sudbury, Ontario is putting forth plans to probably demolish and rebuild our own arena using $200 million in loans. FML

Frankly, I'm just happy the SEC doesn't get into the championship game this year. The bias is strong in the selection committee.
Hopefully with 12 teams in the playoff going forward, we'll at least see all the Power 5 conference champions make it, with a couple surprises.

Has this ever happened before? Teams representing all 8 possible seeds making the 2nd round?
I just noticed, and thought it might be significant.
https://ibb.co/fr936h8

If I may be so bold...https://postimg.cc/hfgGsWBV

On 3/19/2023 at 9:31 PM, tigers said:

 

 

And yet has more spectators at the ground than four or so other sides.

 

No flaw, just maw (more)

I'm not going to knock the fervour of the fanbase because the city of St Louis clearly loves their football and hates that it lost its NFL franchise - twice. That is for sure a :censored:ty thing for any sports fan. I'm just talking about winning, tigers.

4 minutes ago, McCall said:

How so?

Just ragging on them because they lost their home game against DC. Tight to the end, but this is my way of turning that St Louis chant on its head.

Just one question: Why no fiesta colours for the Spurs championship balls?

Let it be said now. 

The Kaw is the FLAW.

I think we might as well just rename this league the Roughnecks Football League starting 2024 (assuming the league survives). 

2 minutes ago, infrared41 said:

Now Ohio State needs to win to make the championship game a match up between a team that lost its conference title game and a team that didn't even make its conference title game. That would be a perfect illustration of the absurdity of the current system.

Agreed!

Also - let all 10 conference champions qualify for the 12-team expanded playoff. Then let one independent and one championship loser in. It's a "playoff", not a "popularity-off". You win, you should get in.

Everybody do the Michigan rag...

Someone once mentioned a change to the NBA schedule that I liked, so here's another pointless realignment, along with remembering that schedule idea.

Pacific Division: Blazers, Lakers, Clippers, Kings, Warriors
Midwest Division: Jazz, Suns, Nuggets, Thunder, T-Wolves
All other divisions remain the same

The idea was: 44 games per season, with a mid-week game and a weekend game each week for 22 weeks.
Teams would play the opposite conference once and the same conference home and home, which works out to 43 games, and then one more game against a designated rival.
(I figure Minnesota would pair with Chicago or Milwaukee for game #44).

Of course, ticket prices would probably increase dramatically to compensate for the lost revenue, and the TV network deals would all have to be scrapped and renegotiated. 

Alternatively, I would suggest:
80 game season (20 divisional games, 30 conference, 30 cross-conference)
Only a slight bump in ticket prices is required here.
 

Yay Argos win!

I hope that Schooners franchise gets here soon though. 2 bye weeks in the first 6 weeks is just awful.

Way to go, Punt-real!

Argos win home opener thanks to a missed field goal.

Glad to avoid the sweep, if only to make Embiid cry again.

The Florida Panthers have 57 wins this season. Kill me now.

On 2/23/2022 at 3:00 PM, Sport said:

 

You're talking about "Bettman .500", which is when a team has more wins than losses in the loss column, but if you add their overtime losses to the loss column then they're really under .500. The Red Wings are 23-22-6, which looks like a fine record to noobs, but they've still only won 23 out of their 51 games. 

 

I'm talking about being actually above .500. The Blue Jackets (and Dallas too since you included them) are legitimately above .500. They've played 50 games and they've won 26 of them. And I only brought that up because I would've been very surprised with that record at this point in the season if you'd told me last September. 

Yeah. I'm with you there. 23 regulation wins out of 51 games is definitely less than a .500 record. 

On 2/21/2022 at 10:42 AM, Sport said:

 

The Blue Jackets have somehow accidentally won more games than they've lost, but are 9 points out of a playoff spot. We've entered the dreaded Doug MacLean zone. 

I guess that's the problem with computing win% to include games where a team has actually lost the game.
Looking at those standings, Detroit as well has "won" more games than it has "lost", as have Anaheim and Dallas.

On 1/27/2022 at 1:50 PM, BryanSmalls said:

 

 

It's working perfectly. Hope they continue on their current path.

Trust The Process(TM). Oh wait, is this the wrong sport?

2 hours ago, Sport said:

 Can I make two simple pitches for the Bengals?

1. Stan Kroenke 

 

2. If the dang ass Cincinnati goddamn Bengals can win the f***ing Super Bowl then anyone can. 

3. It'll give Bearcats fans some form of redemption, if they follow both NFL and college ball.

Nice Raptors win tonight. Enjoy your weekend off, boys.

8 hours ago, DustDevil61 said:

I’m so happy for the truly long-suffering Bengals fanbase. They’ve put up with more crap than just about any other fanbase in the last 30 years. 

*Browns and Lions fans* Excuse me?

On 2/1/2022 at 12:49 PM, Ridleylash said:

Holy :censored:, it actually happened. Brady's retiring.

Good riddance.

Not sure if posted, but Washington's NFL team are now the Commanders.

I wonder how many Bearcats fans are also Bengals fans. This must seem like redemption.