Is this where we talk NHL?
Now that we've gotten cracking on having our own team here in SEA, I'm going to have to start following the sport.
Novak Djokovic tossed from the US Open after hitting line judge with the ball. If this wasn't 2020, this would be the single biggest sports scandal of the late summer.
Between this and his Covid tourney earlier this year, Joker is on pace to hit for the cycle in 2020-ness. Too bad the season ends after the US Open or he'd have a legit shot to take home "Peak 2020 Sports Figure."
As it stands, he's in the running with:
Urlacher
Kirk Cousins
Rudy Gobert
Dana White
Vince Mcmahon
Kyrie Irving
Curt Schilling (!)
Zach Plesac
Lou Williams
But Joker is all out of season and CFB hasn't gotten going with the craziest crazies yet and neither has the NFL.
My money is on any Trumper who still has lots of visibility to go:
Mike Leach
Jerry Jones
Bob Kraft
Brady
Who knows what they'll say/do in the next 90 days?!
Oof. Victoria Azarenka upsets Serena Williams. I guess the upside is that if Naomi Osaka wins in the finals, she's not going to get booed.
Hey there! I'm looking for cycling help. Is there a GWJ group for this?
Thanks!
Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin starting a NASCAR team with Bubba Wallace as their driver. In this case, if the ceiling is the roof, the car's probably mangled to shit.
Bubba...don't get in that car!
They shoulda piped in boos for Bettman.
Sorry we couldn't get you a cup. Now I have to kind of hope you get one with the Caps. Eugh.
I love this. Due to the vagaries of how Gymnastics is scored (I believe), Simone basically can't lose with this trick, because she can land it, and the difficulty score is so high that even if she doesn't land it well, no-one can get a score anywhere close.
Also, as they note, it is absurd that the main concern for this trick is "will you be able to get enough air" and she f*cking over-rotates it.
Hopefully this doesn't end up being known as "In Before the IOC Bans It Because a Black American Woman Can Do It."
Oh, the Figure skating model.
Well, she was a black French woman, but still…
What a f*ckin' day of sports.
50FR (men's) US Olympic Trials tonight.
Nathan Adrian.
Michael Andrew.
Caeleb Dressel.
Dressel's tat game on point.
War Adrian.
You're not wrong.
But where them nails at?
Since this covers all college sports, I'll put this here: Supreme Court rules against NCAA caps on student athlete education-related gifts and benefits. Yeah, this Supreme Court unanimously ruled against the NCAA.
Japan's emperor 'extremely worried' about Olympics amid pandemic
I'm no Monarchist, like, in any way, and yet I'm still a little surprised at how absolutely certain I am that IOC officials think they are far, FAR more important, even in Japan, than the Emperor of Japan is.
Ex-Blackhawks players weigh in on sex abuse allegations: 'Front office staff should be in jail'
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh.
Super exciting finishes yesterday in the World disc golf championships for both the men and the women. I was able to watch the women live, but then i went out and played a round myself during the men's final round. The last card on hole 18 produced the top play on Sportscenter last night:
Am I the only one hoping that Sha'Carri Richardson is indeed the second coming of Flo Jo?
She's facing a thirty day ban over testing positive for marijuana.
Anyone getting banned for weed in the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand And Twenty-One is... well.
Also insert obligatory "no-one has ever done anything faster on weed" joke here.
Anyone else in the spot where you both think weed should absolutely be decriminalized everywhere, but also that people getting banned for knowingly breaking anti-weed rules should have made better choices? That's where I'm at.
To be fair, I saw something online that THC can be used to help come down from the effects of actual PEDs.
So I hate this, but I also fully understand anti-doping agencies going super-duper OD to try and keep things clean.
Lord knows, if she was Russian, I'd be like "WELL OF COURSE THAT'S WHY"
I've heard that CBD oil can reduce inflammation. I would neither be surprised if it does or it doesn't. On the one side you've got the drug banners, on the other side you've got snake oil salesmen.
Anyone else in the spot where you both think weed should absolutely be decriminalized everywhere, but also that people getting banned for knowingly breaking anti-weed rules should have made better choices? That's where I'm at.
Right there with you.
In other Other Sports news, I've been "getting into" golf more and by "getting into" I mean I will occasionally read golf news and watch final rounds on Sunday for naptime because I'm old.
Seems like Phil Mickelson is mad at the city of Detroit, where he plays this weekend for the big entertainment event as he's paired with TB12 against Rainier Woflcastle and Aaron Rodgers. A Detroit newspaper wrote an article about a gambling fiasco from 15 years ago (where Phil was the victim) and he's taken offense, declaring he won't play there again.
This guy.
To be fair, I saw something online that THC can be used to help come down from the effects of actual PEDs.
I've heard that CBD oil can reduce inflammation.
Eventually there will be derivatives that are proven to work with good science, but until then there's absolutely some opiate-like effective from marijuana as it binds to some of the same receptor sites.
That said, we aren't there yet and I doubt anyone using weed or CBD is getting a leg up on anyone much in the way you can take Ibuprofen, Acetaminophen, etc to help manage pain and inflammation. It's only banned because it's illegal pretty much across the world for recreational purposes.
Still, if Richardson was using it to get high before the Olympics. Wow. That's one bad choice that you're gonna have to live with for a long time. Even if the rules are dumb, damn, that's a lot of hard work flushed down the drain.
She said she used because of the stress of losing her mom (?).
She said she used because of the stress of losing her mom (?).
Some folks drink, some folks smoke.
Legalizing weed in track and field competition is all good if you’re running in a straight line.
Legalizing weed in track and field competition is terribly dangerous if you throw the javelin.
Where do we draw line.
This is getting mercilessly dunked on, but also, the "Stoned Javelin Toss" is instant appointment viewing.
My contention is also that the Stoned Steeplechase would be the funniest Olympic event.
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