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re: The SEC Rant about to undergo some changes...how can you be prepared?
Posted by Unbiased Bama Fan on 6/6/12 at 1:13 pm
The color schemes on these forums are giving me a fricking headache. Who the hell designed this?
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re: The SEC Rant about to undergo some changes...how can you be prepared?
Posted by Unbiased Bama Fan on 6/6/12 at 1:09 pm
This forum sucks more than Greg McElroy. Please go back to the old format.
re: Former NFL Player Nate Webster sentenced to 12 yrs today
Posted by Unbiased Bama Fan on 6/6/12 at 12:39 pm
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Prosecutors say Webster rejected a plea deal that would have sent him to prison for four years.
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re: Who are the luckiest fans in the sports world?
Posted by Unbiased Bama Fan on 6/6/12 at 11:43 am
Boston sports fans easily. Here's a list of all they've won since 2000.
New England Patriots: Three Super Bowl wins (2001, 2003, 2004) and five Super Bowl appearances (2001, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2011)
Boston Celtics: One NBA Championship (2008) and two NBA Finals appearances (2008, 2010)
Boston Red Sox: Two World Series wins (2004, 2007)
Boston Bruins: One Stanley Cup championship (2011)
New England Patriots: Three Super Bowl wins (2001, 2003, 2004) and five Super Bowl appearances (2001, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2011)
Boston Celtics: One NBA Championship (2008) and two NBA Finals appearances (2008, 2010)
Boston Red Sox: Two World Series wins (2004, 2007)
Boston Bruins: One Stanley Cup championship (2011)
Female masseuse dies in South Florida after collapsing at Chris Bosh's home
Posted by Unbiased Bama Fan on 6/5/12 at 5:06 pm
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A South Florida masseuse died at a hospital after collapsing at the Miami Beach home of injured Miami Heat forward Chris Bosh.
A police report says the woman, whose name wasn't immediately released, went to Bosh's home Monday. Bosh has been sidelined with a lower abdominal strain since May 13 and is scheduled to be a game-time decision Tuesday night on whether he makes his return in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals against the Boston Celtics.
Miami Beach police spokeswoman Vivian Hernandez says the department will conduct its standard death investigation, but there are no immediate signs of foul play. Police told USA TODAY Sports they were "jammed" with calls and that was all they can say at this time.
The woman initially appeared to be well but suddenly collapsed. Fire rescue workers responded and transported the unconscious woman to a nearby hospital, where she died Monday night.
The report says a friend of the victim told officials she had survived cancer about a year ago. The cause of the woman's collapse and eventual death weren't in the report.
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re: Official French Open Discussion Thread
Posted by Unbiased Bama Fan on 6/5/12 at 2:35 pm
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Also, I think Delpo was hurt. He wins the first two 6-3, 7-6; the trainer comes out; he loses the next three 6-2, 6-0, 6-2. That sort of thing only happens to scrubs, and JMDP isn't a scrub by any stretch of the imagination. He had to be injured.
Del Potro said the knee wasn't an issue during the post-match press conference. However, he might just be downplaying the injury because he doesn't want to make excuses for his poor play.
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Q. Just talk about the match. You got off to the great start, played the good tiebreak, and then looks like the knee started hurting, but then in the fifth set it looks like you moved better. Can you just take me through it.
JUAN MARTIN DEL POTRO: No, I think anyways I play a great match, even the third and fourth set. He start to play much better than in the beginning of the match and I feel his ball more in the baseline. He put me to run a lot in the third and fourth set. He made better match than me after the second set. I don't have any chance to win until the first game in the fifth set when I had break point. He play well points and he take the opportunity in the fifth set and he win.
Q. When you called the trainer onto the court, did he give you some painkillers for your knee?
JUAN MARTIN DEL POTRO: Yeah, but was to remove my tape just for be more tight. Nothing special.
Q. Are you saying that your knee did not affect your movement at all after the second set?
JUAN MARTIN DEL POTRO: No.
Q. We know that you never try and find excuses for a bad match and you always congratulate the winner, but we had the feeling that you were not moving as fast on the court during the fourth and the fifth set. Did you feel pain?
JUAN MARTIN DEL POTRO: No. What I felt was that Federer was playing his best tennis. As I said, he raised his level; mine started to decrease. We started at the same level. The match was very close. He took my serve on the first set; then I took his back. During the third and fourth set when his level raised, mine went down. In the fifth set I gave everything I had. I gave him an opportunity, and he took it.
re: Official French Open Discussion Thread
Posted by Unbiased Bama Fan on 6/5/12 at 2:23 pm
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If you can find a list of the most two set down wins in tennis history, you're a better man than I. I looked.
I'd imagine there are ten guys with more.
I actually found a thread about the topic on MTF (Menstennisforums). Only four players have seven or more career victories coming back from two-set deficits.
Most match wins coming back from two-set deficit
Boris Becker 10
Aaron Krickstein 10
Todd Martin 9
Roger Federer 7
Michael Chang, Kevin Curren, Wayne Ferreira, Andy Murray, David Nalbandian, and Lleyton Hewitt all have came back from two-set deficits six times. So it's pretty rare for a player to have more than seven victories from two-set deficits.
re: Official French Open Discussion Thread
Posted by Unbiased Bama Fan on 6/5/12 at 1:46 pm
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Guy from ESPN said that this was including all matches, not just majors.
I bet there are 10 guys who have come back from two sets down more than 7 times.
There aren't that many. The only five-set matches nowadays are Davis Cup and Grand Slam matches. The ATP YEC and Masters series finals also used to be determined by best out of five before they got rid of that format a few years ago. Still, that's not a lot of best out of five matches.
re: Official French Open Discussion Thread
Posted by Unbiased Bama Fan on 6/5/12 at 1:20 pm
Federer would have 20+ slams if he had the mental toughness of Djokovic or Nadal.
re: None of the Greatest in their Respective Sports played for 1 team....
Posted by Unbiased Bama Fan on 6/5/12 at 10:21 am
Lawrence Taylor >>> Reggie White. And LT played his entire career for the Giants.
Edit: Also, Jim Brown's considered by a lot of people to be the greatest football player to ever play the game and he spent his entire career with the Browns.
Edit: Also, Jim Brown's considered by a lot of people to be the greatest football player to ever play the game and he spent his entire career with the Browns.
re: 2012 MLB First-Year Player Draft | MLB.com | Day Three: Rounds 16-40
Posted by Unbiased Bama Fan on 6/4/12 at 6:18 pm
At least the Orioles have a good shot at getting Buxton or Appel now.
re: 2012 MLB First-Year Player Draft | MLB.com | Day Three: Rounds 16-40
Posted by Unbiased Bama Fan on 6/4/12 at 6:17 pm
Carlos Correa to Astros!!!! WOW!!!!!!!
re: 2012 MLB First-Year Player Draft | MLB.com | Day Three: Rounds 16-40
Posted by Unbiased Bama Fan on 6/4/12 at 1:37 pm
The Pirates need to draft hitters high at some point. You can have all the pitching you want but it won't matter if you have a lineup full of below replacement level players outside of McCutchen.
re: Official French Open Discussion Thread
Posted by Unbiased Bama Fan on 6/4/12 at 1:13 pm
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I don't think there's much chance that he gets through Federer/Djokovic back to back though.
Nole is a nightmare matchup for Del Potro. Djokovic has won 10 out of the 12 sets they've played against each other and the only time Del Potro's beaten him in five head-to-head matchups was when Nole was having problems with injuries late last year. Also, Del Potro has been Federer's pigeon after 2009. I think he's lost to him like four times already this year. He has no shot at getting to the finals.
re: Official French Open Discussion Thread
Posted by Unbiased Bama Fan on 6/4/12 at 12:44 pm
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If Rafa can get past the mental part he should beat Djok in 4. I don't know if he can, however, and I still have an awful feeling Djok wins it all. He's in Rafa's head the way Rafa used to be in Fed's. That Aussie Open loss for Rafa reminded me of the 5 set epic Fed lost to Rafa in Australia, just brutal.
I don't think Djoker's in Rafa's head at all. I mean Rafa has won the last two matches on clay pretty convincingly. Also, the Aussie Open has always been Rafa's weakest slam while the plexicushion surface suits Nole's game perfectly and Rafa pushed him to five there. I remember Djoker completely dominating him in the fourth set in Australia yet Rafa was able to win that set by saving a ton of break points which showed his mental toughness. Nole will have to elevate his game to beat Rafa because I don't see Rafa lowering his level on clay anytime soon. He's a buzzsaw right now.
re: Official French Open Discussion Thread
Posted by Unbiased Bama Fan on 6/3/12 at 8:07 am
Djokovic is in big trouble down two sets to love against Seppi.
re: Official French Open Discussion Thread
Posted by Unbiased Bama Fan on 6/3/12 at 6:19 am
Holy crap. Seppi's about to serve for the set against Djokovic.
re: Drive Inn Theaters
Posted by Unbiased Bama Fan on 6/2/12 at 3:30 am
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there is one in baltimore that supposedly has the biggest screen in the country.
I've been meaning to check it out
Bengies. I go there all the time.
re: Official French Open Discussion Thread
Posted by Unbiased Bama Fan on 6/1/12 at 5:43 pm
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He is 20. In tennis, if you're an elite talent it's crystal clear by the age of 20 that you're an elite talent. With Harrison, it's about as clear as mud.
I don't love Harrison's game at all. What are his weapons? He reminds me of a poor man's Giles Simon. I don't get what all the hype is about. I see him as a top 20 player and nothing more.
You're absolutely right about Harrison. I've never been impressed with him whenever I've seen him play. The only young player I really like is Milos Raonic. Now, that kid has weapons. That's why I laugh at people who think Djokovic and Nadal only have a few years left to win slams because of their age. Who are the great young players that will knock them off their perch in the next five years? There aren't any. Federer's considered a late bloomer yet he still beat Sampras in Wimbledon at age 19 and was a top 15 player in his teens. None of the current teenage crop comes close to matching Federer's feats at an early age. It sort of reminds me of the late '90s, early '00s when an aging Agassi and Sampras racked up slams because the caliber of players born in the late '70s were unbelievably weak. I believe Djokovic and Nadal still have plenty of years to win slams especially Djokovic since he doesn't have the mileage on his body that Nadal does.
re: Official French Open Discussion Thread
Posted by Unbiased Bama Fan on 6/1/12 at 5:31 pm
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Assume:
(i) Lucy Longevity has lots and lots of trophies in her trophy room.
(ii) Sarah Sparingly has lots of trophies herself, but far fewer than Lucy.
(iii) Sarah will kick Lucy's arse in tennis every single day of the week and twice on Sunday.
Which of these is the most important consideration? If you're ranking players, do you rank Lucy or Sarah higher? What you're telling me is that you rank Lucy higher, and I think that's silly. That's like ranking Robert Horry as a better basketball player than Bernard King.
On my list, since Sarah is better at tennis than Lucy, I'm ranking her above Lucy. I like the alien test because it allows for a more meaningful apples to apples comparison. It really focuses the analysis.
Except three's definitely not the case. I believe peak Serena's probably the best ever but she's not often at her peak. I mean Serena's only 10-7 against Jennifer Capriati, 8-6 against Justine Henin, and 7-6 against Martina Hingis. None of those three players could shine Steffi Graf's shoes yet they were able to have a respectable head-to-head record against Serena. And the Robert Horry/Bernard King comparison might be the dumbest comparison ever. Unlike tennis, basketball is a team sport. You can compare tennis players statistically because it's an individual sport. You don't rely on teammates to win matches. You're out there all by yourself unlike a sport like basketball where Horry was lucky enough to win rings playing with prime Shaq, Hakeem, Kobe, and Duncan.
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