SirFozzie

I think we have a winner for "Most petty way to deny opponent's celebration" In the second leg of the Peruvian championship, the home team was confident of a victory, having drawn the first leg away to their rival, 1-1. However, things they did not go their way, and they lost the second leg, 2-0 (and 3-1 on aggregate). The opposing team however, did not get a chance to celebrate on their rivals turf, as moments after the final whistle, the lights in the stadium went completely out, except for the LED advertising boards. The general belief is that it wasn't a "power outage", but someone backstage furious that their hated opponents were going to celebrate the title on their pitch. If so, they did get their wish, as the post-match celebration was cancelled due to the "power outage" (and as fighting broke out between rival fans). https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/nov/09/football-daily-email-universitario-alianza-lima-peru?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter edit: Now that I think about it, this does have some upsides, in that it allows the team to officially raise the trophy at home with their supporters this weekend, but kinda unfair that they didn't get to celebrate on enemy turf.. I think before the next derby between the two teams at that stadium, they should be allowed to reenact the trophy celebration, complete with confetti cannons, etcetera.

The story mentioned his camp was lining up a fight with Hearns, so he wasn't going to make life changing money, but he was going to be in the picture.. then UFC 1 happened

I was like "Wait, Dallas Page vs Swerve Strickland? That's random, even for Coach Tony!".. then I realized we're in the Boxing/MMA folder. Speaking of UFC, ESPN.com has a front page article about one of the fighters from UFC 1, Art Jimmerson, for years mocked because he thought that he could fight Royce Gracie with one boxing glove (protect his jabbing hand to keep the fight at a distance, and then throw the ungloved hand for the knockout blow when set up). He was apparently a top 10 boxer at the time, and was inline for some bigger money fights, but his boxing career was basically glass ceilinged by his UFC 1 loss (he admits in the interview he had no idea of what he was getting into, so much so that Big John McCarthy, who was travelling with the Gracie camp, actually showed him how outclassed he was backstage in a sparring session, taking him down. But I don't think anyone could really blame him, as at the time no one understood that UFC 1 was basically the Gracie's showing the world that no one who hadn't specifically trained to defeat Brazilian jiu-jitsu could compete with it in the UFC ruleset (such as it was at the time). Good to see he's had a good life and has no bitterness about what happened in UFC 1. edit: Link to article: https://www.espn.com/mma/ufc/story/_/id/38827608/art-jimmerson-one-glove-ufc-1 Oh, and speaking of early UFC's and people outclassed, myself and a few friends actually ordered the UFC 2 pay per view, and one of my friends (eric), who is a ninja-fanatic, had his eyes light up when he heard that Scott Norris's style of fighting was listed as "American Ninjitsu". He confidently turned to us and said "This guy knows ninjitsu. He'll beat this kickboxer (Pat Smith) easily!". Note: He did not win easily.He did not win. Instead, he got the ever loving CRAP knocked out of him, including quite possibly the most vicious elbow strike to a downed opponent I've ever seen (one of those where you hit the guy so hard that his head bounced off the mat back up into the elbow). I actually rewatched that fight just now and yeah, it's... eek. Needless to say, we teased Eric for YEARS after that

Yup. Amazing innings, considering the circumstances https://www.icc-cricket.com/video/3772821 179 runs out of 202 in the 8th wicket partnership. (Cummins had 12, 11 extras) watch that video. He can't even step into these shots near the end, just swinging for the fences.

Hoooooboy Australia are in deep stinky doo doo against Afghanistan, who will move into the knockout places with a win... edit: also, Shakib's World Cup is over, as he fractured a finger while batting.

yup, that's me. Already thinking about how to do an American Premier League file.

We've had people run out in a mankading style before, but we've never had a player timed out before. Cricket World Cup 2023: Angelo Mathews controversially timed out as Bangladesh beat Sri Lanka - BBC Sport Needless to say, things are a bit spicy.

Ref has completely and utterly lost control of Tottenham-Chelsea. For the rematch, when they march out, each pair of players (1 chelsea and 1 tottenham) should be wearing a Get Along Shirt.

I asked AI to sum up Giants fans misery this season in one headline, and it couldn't beat ESPN's blurb. "Sources: Giants fear Jones tore ACL in 30-6 loss"

Saw this from ESPN's Kevin Seifert: "Josh Dobbs didn't take a single rep with the offense in practice. No snaps from the center. Had never thrown passes to anyone and didn't know most of their full names. "That's for next week", he said." Apparently familiarity with a team is overrated.

radical thought: The NFL should take a page from the NHL and provide an emergency kicker ti be used by either team if their kicker gets injured in a game.

Pour one out for Dobbs. Man thrown in an impossible situation. Would be kinder to throw him to the Lions. And not the football kind either.

Cray (Valley) havoc and unleash the draw of War... Full time result in the FA Cup: Charlton 1, Cray Valley Paper Mills 1

Kohli ties Tendulkar's ODI centuries record. Somehow, this video seems appropriate when we consider Kohli's career. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EyyEBGLNGs

I think it was one of those "We don't want the fans to come in, knowing who's going to win the big matches, because, why would they come?" Kinda like what WWE did one time, when they had basically telegraphed Shawn Michaels winning the Royal Rumble to get the Undertaker, only to pull a swerve and get there through another method.

Celtics put up 75+ in the first half for the second straight game, and this is with Porzingis only taking FOUR first half shots. This team is special, so far.

Currently playing F1 Manager on GamePass, and Football Manager 24, because I'm a hopeless addict (FM24 will also be on gamepass if you don't want to buy it next week on full release)

yup, sounds like he was suffering froim Alzheimers No matter what you think about his personality, he's one of the greatest basketball coaches (pro or college) of all time

Should we talk about the City Edition Uniforms and the resulting on-floor designs for NBA's in-season tournament here or in the NBA thread?

To no one's surprise... Eddie Jones? He gone. (again) https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/67254778 Probably going to fuck off to coach Japan again

I can't even say England in Shambles (TM) because this has gone way beyond shambles. Megashambles? Gigashambles? Omnishambles?

Ok, that was a bizarre sequence. 4th and half a yard, the Colts try to draw them off side and take a delay of game penalty for a slightly longer FG, the Saints commit a penalty on the FG attempt, and the Colts then go for it on 4th and inches again and score a TD.

but it's going to give MMA fighters at the higher levels a thought that the UFC isn't the end all and be all. Why would I sign with UFC for a relative pittance when I can go other places that will give me the ability to maximize my earnings in boxing or whatever?

You know who's a bigger loser in this rather since Fury technically won the fight? Dana White. Just think of how many more PPV Buys he could have received for promoting Ngannou's next UFC fight?

Stallone is currently writing down notes for the Rocky reboot as a struggling MMA fighter, given a chance to take on the world's heavyweight champion in a boxing match.