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CBJSprague24 posted:Improvisational dancing on skates, too!
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The Russian form of hockey, 11 vs 11, should be a thing at the All-Star Game.
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Feb 9, 2015 05:11
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CBJSprague24 posted:The Russian form of hockey, 11 vs 11, should be a thing at the All-Star Game. 
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Feb 9, 2015 05:12
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Now that I would've bought a ticket to. I didn't know Dinamo Riga was Team KGB.
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Feb 9, 2015 06:16
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Watching this, I learned that the Medal Round in 1980 is different from modern day Medal Round at the Olympics. It was not the bracket-style nowadays, where: USA/USSR faces winner of SWE/FIN It was a pool as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_hockey_at_the_1980_Winter_Olympics#Final_round Don't just look at the scores. Read the article.
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Feb 10, 2015 04:27
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It actually makes their Gold even more impressive. Now you can play like garbage early in pool play and get lucky in the medal round. Back then you had to be on the entire tournament. I sort of like the old system better. Just looking back through old results, does anyone know why Canada didn't compete in 1972 and 1976?
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Feb 10, 2015 09:44
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Just watched the hockey one. Was pretty good. Nice to get an honest look into the Soviet system. In some ways Rocky IV wasn't that off the mark.Niwrad posted:Just looking back through old results, does anyone know why Canada didn't compete in 1972 and 1976? Canada withdrew from international competition for most of the 70s because of disputes about being allowed to use professional player, I think. davecrazy fucked around with this message at 13:07 on Feb 10, 2015 |
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Feb 10, 2015 12:57
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Hockles posted:Watching this, I learned that the Medal Round in 1980 is different from modern day Medal Round at the Olympics. A lot of people know that the USA didn't beat the USSR in the final game of the tournament - but the people who are aware of that rarely understand that the Soviets still won the silver medals. It took a long time (and finally, Wikipedia) to convince someone that this actually happened in a conversation I had during last year's Olympics.
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Yeah it's wild to see the Finns go from the finals to 4th place, and the consolation game was actually for 5th.
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Feb 10, 2015 17:20
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The ending left me curious as to what happened to the team as the USSR fell apart, and if the players still keep in contact or meet up. The Slate sports podcast had the director on today and he goes into more detail about a few parts of the movie, its pretty good if you are still curious about the film.
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Feb 10, 2015 21:40
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ESPN's airing a film on electronic football right now? 
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Mar 2, 2015 03:38
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C. Everett Koop posted:ESPN's airing a film on electronic football right now? It's basically part of a series of shorts on eccentric sports fans. It's alright. Apparently that tabletop football still gets made because I saw it at Games by James in the Mall of America on Wednesday.
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Crazy Ted posted:It's basically part of a series of shorts on eccentric sports fans. It's alright. Apparently that tabletop football still gets made because I saw it at Games by James in the Mall of America on Wednesday. I assume this one's titled Midwest.mov?
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C. Everett Koop posted:I assume this one's titled Midwest.mov? From what I can tell it's actually upstate New York. The reason why this group made it in is that they've been playing tabletop football together at the same place regularly since 1980.
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Mar 2, 2015 03:49
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"Dad's really close to buying the Maple Leaf Gardens toilet and plunger set!" This show's actually okay. EDIT: "I saw Ty Cobb's dentures and said 'I have to have them'" EDIT: "This toilet is evocative of Maple Leafs history" 
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Mar 2, 2015 04:06
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FInally got around to watching of Miracles and Men. It's really good. gently caress those Canadians were dicks. lmao. 
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Crazy Ted posted:EDIT: "This toilet is evocative of Maple Leafs history" 
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The best part was that the guy said it without any hint of irony. He was just referring to the people who presumably sat on it. He even referred to one player who was known to throw up into it before every home game. However, as a visual metaphor it's much more effective. In any event that was probably the hardest I laughed all weekend.
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C. Everett Koop posted:ESPN's airing a film on electronic football right now? Washington Post had a really interesting/bizarre article a while back about it. I'll see if i can find it. Here we go: http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifes...b57f_story.html
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I was randomly flipping through channels in a hotel room when I came across that group of shorts on ESPN. Had no idea it was new or anything, but it's definitely worth a watch for anyone who enjoys 30 for 30s. It was really interesting to learn about the owner of California Chrome and how he "lucked into" a horse of that caliber. Dude also has a serious thing about horses 
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JackssWastedLife posted:Dude also has a serious thing about horses Horse people are loving loony. Every single one of them.
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Mar 3, 2015 16:26
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RIC loving FLAIR
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Ric Flair talking about heeling it up makes this a great doc no matter what
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Mar 16, 2015 02:06
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Wake Forest is literally like, the light side of Duke. The schools are really similar but we're not goddamned assholes.
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Mar 16, 2015 02:08
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This is turning out to be very good. I had no idea why I would want to watch a doc. about Laettner and Duke, but son of a bitch..they've sold me on it.
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Mar 16, 2015 02:12
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Laettner doing his interviews for the doc in a CHRISTIAN LAETTNER t-shirt is fantastic.
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Mar 16, 2015 02:21
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Every time I see and hear Laettner I keep thinking it's Bill Simmons
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SA2K posted:Every time I see and hear Laettner I keep thinking it's Bill Simmons  THAT'S who he's reminding me of.
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SA2K posted:Every time I see and hear Laettner I keep thinking it's Bill Simmons Not just in appearance, but that loving voice too.
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Mar 16, 2015 02:38
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I don't give a poo poo about any of these people and this isn't doing anything to make me care.
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Mar 16, 2015 02:46
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SamuraiFoochs posted:Wake Forest is literally like, the light side of Duke. The schools are really similar but we're not goddamned assholes. This post kinda makes Wake Forest alumni seem like assholes.
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Mar 16, 2015 02:55
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That was tremendous.purkey posted:This post kinda makes Wake Forest alumni seem like assholes. A lot of them are actually, and I can be one, but I'm not a Duke brand of rear end in a top hat. Duke really is a prejudiced, elitist, awful place. Wake has some smug people around, but I've never met a Wake alumnus who wasn't a generally affable person, and nobody around the ACC hates Wake which says a lot. Of course if we had the level of success Duke has had maybe people would hate us too, who the hell knows? I guess my only point is with things like academics and being a small private school Wake is similar to Duke in a lot of ways but nobody hates us which is nice.  Sorry for coming off like a bit of an rear end in a top hat though. I guess it just surprises me how similar Wake and Duke can be while also being so, so, so different is all. 
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AsInHowe posted:Laettner doing his interviews for the doc in a CHRISTIAN LAETTNER t-shirt is fantastic. He does young kids' basketball camps that naturally use his name. Poonerman posted:This doc is incredibly disjointed I'm currently catching the replay and the arguments/points of debate just feel stupid. Not amusingly stupid or funny stupid, just stupid.
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Mar 16, 2015 04:21
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I thought it was really good, maybe I'm alone.
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That was....okay? I don't know, something was just off about it. It felt like it jumped around subjects a lot, like going from the tournament, to something else, then back to the same tournament. Also, there is something so incredibly sad about the two guys that were, like, professional Duke haters. Maybe, it's because I don't have a strong opinion about Duke one way or another, but seeing these two guys talk about how much they hate Duke, or that one guy talking about his Youtube video was so pathetic to me. They should have cut the both of them, and featured more rambling Ric Flair footage.
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Boomer The Cannon posted:11 vs 11 on a soccer-pitch sized rink
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Mar 16, 2015 05:56
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I wasn't even alive in 1992, but I sense the bit where they said "Kentucky wasn't supposed to be there and everyone was rooting for them" is bullshit. Confirm/deny?
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SpiritualDeath posted:I wasn't even alive in 1992, but I sense the bit where they said "Kentucky wasn't supposed to be there and everyone was rooting for them" is bullshit. Confirm/deny? Kentucky was a 2 seed. EDIT: And ranked 6th going into the tourney. And had won the SEC championship by a lot. RC and Moon Pie fucked around with this message at 06:34 on Mar 16, 2015 |
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