SirFozzie

Proving, yet again, it's never a good thing to start your sentence with "I'm not a racist, but..." http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/feb/17/arrigo-sacchi-no-racist-too-many-blacks-youth-teams “I’m certainly not racist and my history as a coach demonstrates that … But look at the Viareggio [youth] tournament I would say that there are too many black players. Italy has no dignity, no pride. It should not be possible that our teams should have 15 foreign players in the squad.”

Low scoring game, Scotland end 142 all out, and New Zealand make a meal of it, losing 7 wickets before they finally surpass the Scotland total.

Yeah, New Zealand are treating Scotland like this is a Road Warriors squash match on WCW Saturday Night. Scotland are 12/4, and unlike the last two teams to be in desperate straits early in their innings when batting first, I don't think New Zealand will let them off the mat.

Apparently Eddie Edwards broke his foot at the One Night Only tapings, no word on how long he's out

Wales beat Scotland 26-23, poor scotland, two good games, no points.

Kinda a fun stat: 300+ has been chased down five times in the Cricket World Cup. Of those five, three of them have been done by Ireland.

Ireland caused a bit of a last minute palpitation, but look to close things out.. and every time an associate team defeats a "Big 10" team, it's a giant fuck you to the ICC, because the next Cricket World Cup 2019 has reduced the field from 14 (this year) to 10.. possibly costing teams like Scotland, Ireland, and Afghanistan places.

Holy shit, West Indies are 90/5?

I was going to buy Offworld Trading Company, but considering one of the companies behind it is Stardock, whose CEO is generally known as an asshat (sexual harassment and a vocal supporter of "gamergate" ).. yeah, that money's staying in my pocket.

Gotta love the fan contests held, if you're wearing a certain brewery's t-shirt during the tournament and make a clean one handed catch in the crowd, you can win up to $1 million (18,000 for the catch, and then an extra 250K shared for each round New Zealand goes) edit: here's a catch from a previous New Zealand game worth $100,000. From the reaction of the folks around him, you think he'd had promised to share it with the folks around him. Don't think they could do anything like that here in the US, considering the stampedes that happen every time a big homerun is hit, it'd be impossible to verify it was a clean one handed catch (without glove)

Wow. Zimbabwe had to be thinking upset when they had South Africa down at 83/4. Nope. 256 run partnership by David Miller and JP Duminy, and South Africa finish at 339/4. India/Pakistan has started as well.. which is what a couple billion people are watching right now.

I picked up Evolve on PC (SirFozzie on Steam) we should try to reconstitute Team Leeroy Jenkins members on PC

England and Ireland make it 2 for 2, England easily dismissing Italy 47-17, and Ireland scuffling somewhat against a... not at their best French side, 18-11. and as teams cross the halfway point with their next game, it's likely that England-Ireland on March 1st will be an early title decider.

So, looks like two pretty big wins for the host nations as New Zealand (over Sri Lanka) and Australia (over England) post day 1 wins.

You could always try a bunch of dodgy sites . I wish that I had the money to spend $100 on the CWC

BT and Sky sports retain EPL rights for 7.8 Billion dollars over three years for 2016-19. This comes at a time when all twenty of the Premier League teams are in the top 40 world wide for richest club, where West Brom, 17th in EPL funding makes (already) twice as much as Bayern Munich from TV rights.

Dean Smith, we hardly knew ye... Dean Smith, former North Carolina Tar Heels coach, dies at age of 83 - ESPN The greatest college coach of all time? In my mind, at least on the Mount Rushmore of men's college basketball coaches (Smith, Knight, Coach K, Wooden). He will be missed.

Six Nations underway.,.. So, Scotland score the only try of the game against France, but poor play at the breakdown leads to France winning 15-8 thanks to five French converted Penalties. Ireland beat Italy pretty comprehensively and England survive a Welsh quick start and come back from being down at halftime 16-8 to win 21-16.

So, the Rnagers being clownshoes thing went in a new and exciting direction today, as they reveal in the press conference that they're being REQUIRED to play the five players they took on loan from Newcastle at the deadline http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/31145792

Can Any Lucha Libre fans dub in some lucha commentary (preferably with a martinete involved) over this? That's what came to mind after hearing it the spanish language folks http://screengrabber.deadspin.com/super-bowl-fight-super-bowl-fight-1683159133/+bubbaprog

I dunno.. I can understand them being disappointed they didn't win, but I dunno if throwing your coaches under the bus like this is a good thing: Terence Moore ‏@TMooreSports 23m23 minutes ago I’m in the Seahawks locker room. Wow. Talking about despair! Those who can speak are freely ripping that last play call. Big time

Great game.. I can respect the Seahawks for one hell of a game, that came down to the end.. But the Pats homer in me wants to rail about the classless jerks that seem to play for the Seahawks. Pretend you're dropping your pants after a touchdown? Sherman mocking Revis on the sidelines after they run a ref pick to free someone for a touchdown? Start a fight when you've lost? Seahawks acted like thugs. But wow, what a game, what a crazy fucking game. lowest of lows (Helmet catch part 2), highest of highs (Butler INT)

I think the Pats have a good chance in this One (then again, I would, wouldn't I?) But the Seahawks excel at making teams grind it out and taking away the big play... and the Pats excel at grinding it out. 24-21, Pats.

And considering today's NFL.COM report, Carter has apparently taken one two many hits to the head

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000466783/article/more-details-on-the-investigation-of-patriots-deflated-footballs Hahaha, and just intime for the superbowl, NFL.COM refutes previous reports that "all the balls were 2+pounds PSI below allowed", and that most were JUST below legal level. Conspiracy theorists are already pointing to the leak of Falcons noise sweetening investigation to try to distract people from the possibility of the Patriots skating