TalktoChuck

I enjoy Caitlin Clark as much as the next guy, but her and her alone is not going to boost the WNBA in the grand scheme of things. If she comes in and just dominates everything then people will get bored real quick. She's not so talented that people will continue to just watch her. You need a rival or two to rise and battle with her.

While sometimes they are going a little overboard, I am all for the chippyness.

On 5/22/2024 at 1:51 PM, spartacat_12 said:

 

The Stars are loaded with veterans who have never won before, which is always a great story. I'd love to see Benn, Pavelski, Duchene, Suter all lift the Cup for the first time. Plus you have Pete DeBoer who has an 86-69 record in the playoffs, has been to multiple Cup Finals, and still hasn't won. 

If those veterans weren't also some of the least likable players in the league, you'd have a point. 

4 hours ago, HOOVER said:

Yeah, these are a lateral move.   I hated the old set, but these are a miss.

 

The helmet and numbers are an improvement, but the sleeve stripe, pant stripe, and ridiculous combinations ruin it.

I'm really looking foreward to the games where they wear the Throwbacks.  Those will be beautiful football games and I pray we get one of those Week 18 at Mile High against the Chiefs in all-White.

I'm also really looking forward to 5 years from now when they clean these up and dump the silly stripes and combos.

This is perfect right here:

 

Not sure what the maximum number of times they can wear it is, but I would expect them to wear them v. Pittsburgh and v. Oakland Vegas as those are the teams they beat in the '77 playoffs.

Might have to wait until next year for them against KC.

Anthony Edwards is flat-out amazing. He's a lot more fun to watch when he isn't playing your team, though.

On the other hand, KAT has to be my least favorite "good" player to watch to play. Dude is soft as tissue.

6 hours ago, Foxxtrot44 said:

It's very disappointing that despite all the snow related names in the contest, apparently no one in the organization has the cojones to push for the Utah Gnar. Or the plural, Utah Gnar Gnar. What a bunch of clowns!

Salt Lake Shredders would be pretty sweet.

On 3/11/2024 at 9:19 AM, MJWalker45 said:

Yeah, the amount of weirdness at LSU this year with players sitting out and leaving the team tells me there is a lot of strange goings on in the background there. 

As an LSU fan, Kim Mulkey is everything that is wrong with college sports. She sucks.

2 hours ago, 4_tattoos said:

From what I can tell the league's rules are closer to international competition and overseas pro volleyball than college

I believe the international/college libero rules are incredibly similar. So, that video should still help.

26 minutes ago, Sykotyk said:

And--as I was a novice to this sport before the PVF--I believe the libero cannot score a point, either. Has to be another player to get the ball across the net to score. If I understood it right.

Correct. They are not allowed to play the front row and are not able to block or attack. They also can sub in and out without counting towards the substitution limit.

Here's a video from the NCAA about the basic libero rules. I'm not 100% sure, but I doubt the PVF changed any of the college rules.

2 hours ago, infrared41 said:

The fact that I'm far more interested in watching my Toledo Rockets play Wyoming in the Barstool Sports Bowl 

Speaking of Toledo, they have a receiver named Junior Vandeross III. What the heck is up with that name??

Miami's football team used green and gold instead of green and orange during the 50s and 60s. I imagine the basketball team did as well., or at least a combination of green/gold/orange.

Logo Shak. It's been gone for awhile now.

6 minutes ago, dont care said:

Well now we know why new balance doesn’t have any big colleges or pro leagues contracts

They actually have a quite a few college contracts (Boston College and Denver to name a few) but they mainly stick to  schools with big hockey/lacrosse programs. And I don’t think they do football uniforms at all.

The polka dots are definitely a Bryant thing, as no other New Balance team uses them as far as I can tell.

9 hours ago, WBeltz said:

There’s something about it I don’t like. Perhaps it’s the Stanford script instead of the S, but I’m not feeling these. 

Yeah, the script on the helmet just doesn't feel like Stanford. I think the same red helmet with the old block S would look pretty sharp, though. The S needs to be bigger than what they used for those throwbacks.

The baseball team uses that block S on a red hat and it looks really good. 

10 hours ago, Silver_Star said:

 

That should of been silver and black so it would acknowledge his coaching time with the Raiders! This disappoints me that they chose brown and orange instead!!!

I imagine they're going for more of a bronze look once it's made into one of those plexi-patches, like the Walter Payton ones. I do agree that silver would have been better.

On 9/27/2023 at 8:30 PM, TrueYankee26 said:

 

Did they let the gator in or not? If they turned the gator away, we may be looking at another 100-year+ curse . . .

7 minutes ago, Lights Out said:

 

Damn, I miss Russell's college football uniforms.

28 minutes ago, tBBP said:

Has Arkansas ever gone cardinal*-on-cardinal* before? I can't recall ever having seen them in mono-red before (not that I've had much reason to notice until now)...nice little change of pace.

Back when they were going crazy with their uniform designs they would go mono-red quite often. With the return to their classic look, they tend to do it once or twice a year.

40 minutes ago, SFGiants58 said:

I can’t explain why, but I used to get him and Jake Plummer confused. I guess Broncos quarterbacks from the interregnum between Elway and Manning just meld together for me.

7 minutes ago, infrared41 said:

Same here.

Jake Plummer > Elway all day!

1 hour ago, Cujo said:

Wearing white at home really helped the Broncos last week. Good thing they didn't overheat in their orange jerseys, or else they'd have lost by 2 points!

While it was a hot day, the Broncos weren’t wearing white because of the heat. They did a 25th Anniversary Celebration for Super Bowl XXXIII, where they wore the white jerseys. 

On 9/11/2023 at 10:16 AM, Cujo said:

 

It's great to CU football relevant again. Enjoy this while it lasts. Coach Prime's stock is skyrocketing and other programs will come calling when the regular season colludes. Because we all know how college football goes, he really could be one-and-done in Boulder.

Chances are he'll be a two-and-done. Shedeur, Travis Hunter, and all his Jackson State guys have used their free transfer to get to CU and wouldn't be able to follow him out. After next season, pretty much all of his guys will either be graduated or draft-ready. 

6 hours ago, Dilbert said:

Then there is this national treasure

The true star of that movie was a Met, though.

It's become the standard look for the purple jersey over the last couple of years. They've worn those pants as far back as 2021, see the photo with the 2021 All-Star patch below, and maybe even before that.

I really don't like that any foul inside the box is an automatic penalty. This is undoubtedly a foul, for sure. But giving Wolves a penalty shot there seems absurd to me.

On 7/5/2023 at 8:58 AM, monkeypower said:

While we're still DuckJacked, two things I remember seeing in an internet post years ago that want to take the temperature of.

 

Firstly, everyone knows the Mighty Ducks name came from the movie and the in-canon reason being that Gordan Bombay named the team after his boss Mr. Duckworth as a way to get Duckworth to sponsor the team. The post I saw says Michael Eisner named the movie after his fraternity, which was Delta Upsilon and who's animal/mascot is a duck.

 

Eisner naming the movie after his fraternity seems plausible enough for me, but I don't know about the logo. 

 

When searching it now, the only thing that comes up is some old Delta Upsilon info webpage hosted on the Old Dominion University website claiming the Mighty Ducks name comes from the fraternity.

If the E:60 Once Upon A Time In Anaheim documentary is to be believed, Steve Brill had already come up with the Ducks name before finishing the script and pitching the movie to Disney.

On 5/30/2023 at 8:46 AM, FamousAtticus said:

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