8 Athletes Who Look Like Maurice Sendak ‘Wild Things’
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Not one, but two Pittsburgh Steelers on the list.
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March Madness Mascot Trivia
I made this contest for a pizza party at the office today. Let’s see how good you are:
1) Several colleges and universities are built on hilltops, but only one team in the tournament uses that as its mascot. Who are they (and why does their mascot look a bit like Grimace from McDonalds)? _______________________________
2) This year’s tournament has two “Blue” teams (with blue in the name), one is a tournament regular and the other is a solid mid-major. What are the two teams?
_______________________________ _______________________________
3) Michigan State wears Spartans on the front of their jerseys, but so does one other team, that’s a bit closer to home (being DC). Who are they? _______________________________
4) What Midwestern school might have decided that “amber waves of grain” might not be assertive enough, but stuck with similar subject matter? ___________________________________
5) This year’s tournament has a fair bit of wind blowing through it. Name the three schools with these breezy mascots:
Cyclones: ______________________________
Gaels: ________________________________
Gaels: _________________________________
6) We’re far from a full moon, but lupine teams show up in several brackets. Can you name the school associated with:
Wolverines: _________________________
Wolfpack: __________________________
Lobos: _____________________________
Bona-Wolf __________________________ (I swear I didn’t just make that up).
7) Two schools have “swash-buckling” mascots from out of history/literature..Who are they and what are the mascots?
________________________________ ________________________________
8) Four schools have variations on the color red in the name of their mascot. (Hint, all four mascots start with “C”). Who are they?
________________________________ _________________________________
________________________________ _________________________________
Bonus: Does this year’s tournament have more (pick one):
____ Cats (including big cats) ___ Dogs (including wolves ___ Other Mammals
____ Birds
Congrats to Chris Condon (the first set of correct answers) and Matt Golden (first all correct plus bonus).
The Washington Nationals racing presidents went on tour last night. (I bet they still wouldn’t let Teddy win).
To celebrate Presidents’ Day, mascots dressed as U.S. presidents compete in a race between periods of the New York Islanders-Ottawa Senators game at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum on February 20, 2012 in Uniondale, New York. The Islanders lost 6-0, with Erik Karlsson and Jason Spezza each scoring a pair of goals.
Photo: Bruce Bennett/Getty Images
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World Record of the Day: In what is fast becoming an annual tradition, the University of Alberta sought to reclaim the Guinness World Record for largest game of dodgeball for the third year in a row.
4,979 students, staff, and faculty members gathered to throw big red balls at each other for over an hour.
At the game’s conclusion, Guinness World Record rep Philip Robertson confirmed the record’s return to Edmonton, saying simply: I’ve never seen so many people throw dodge balls against each other before.”
Watch the opening volley of the game below:
A Tough Guy competitor runs through fire during the endurance race, on January 29, 2012. (Michael Regan/Getty Images) # (via Tough Guy 2012 - In Focus - The Atlantic)
The Tough Mudder? Maybe someday, if I can get into good enough shape.
The “Tough Guy Race”? Not a chance in, well…
First the Hoyas, now the Patriots — I’m learning to enjoy wins, no matter how ugly they are!
(Source: theagonyofdefeat)
Amazing comeback victory by the Hoyas! Lots of fun at Verizon Center tonight, just not for Marquette coach Buzz Williams (though he was certainly gloating when the Golden Eagles were up 15 earlier in the second half).
(via Marquette Golden Eagles vs. Georgetown Hoyas - Photos - January 04, 2012 - ESPN)
2011 NFL Rankings by ESPN
I like to get together with some internet pals over at Fark to discuss ESPN’s rankings every week. We were always complaining about how erratic they seemed, so I decided to start graphing the new rankings every week. This is the final product for this regular season. Teams are sorted on the left by their Week 1 rank. Sorry if it makes everyone go cross-eyed. That’s kind of the point. :)
I want to be your friend.
I wonder how this would compare to a sabremetric-esque ranking of teams (say Sagarin’s ratings). From the standpoint of college basketball teams, it seems like after the first month of the season, Ken Pomeroy and Jeff Sagarin’s ratings don’t fluctuate nearly as much as the AP or Coaches polls do.
On the other hand, one type is trying to assess teams, while the other is attempting to generate (and sell) pageviews, so that could account for the difference.
To the ever-growing list of life’s certainties—death, taxes, fourth-quarter comebacks by Tim Tebow—we can now add annual complaints about college football’s Bowl Championship Series. Last night, a panel of human voters, prone, as a species, to mistakes, and computers, prone, as devices, to a lack of emotion, selected Louisiana State and Alabama as title-game opponents. This means we will get to watch the Game of the Century again, two months after the last one, even if the first one, in which no one scored a touchdown, barely registered as the Game of the Evening.
- Reeves Wiedeman takes on the B.C.S.: http://nyr.kr/sQjIZB. If you’re on Twitter, click here to follow our newly launched @SportingScene account.
Bring on NCAA Football Playoffs!
Terry Francona reportedly could be out as Red Sox manager
- The changes on Yawkey Way could be coming quickly. Red Sox manager Terry Francona might be looking for a new job as early as today according to a report by Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports.
I suppose this was inevitable…
517 passing yards later, Tom Brady says “happy football season”!
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