Digital Sportspage

Clinton's campaign hasn't been effective but people calling it one of all-time worst have very short memories. It's not even the worst of this primary season. Giuliani's master plan of sitting out the early primaries came up DOA, even without a clear GOP front runner emerging before FLA. It's hard t...

EZSnappin wrote:

AJColossal wrote: I think RS has to throw a few Springsteens, Costellos, Pettys, and Dylans into these lists whenever they can to not completely freak out and alienate the old fogey segment of their readership.

There's a non-fogey segment of their readership?

there's still a readership?

There was some real questionable clock keeping in that final 20 seconds. First 2 seconds elapsed on the onside kick? They even reviewed the play and didn't change the time. If you count from the time the Dallas player punched it until it is recover at best you have 14 seconds left. I can't figure o...

Airdog wrote:

johnvon314 wrote:Who was applauding at the end?

John

Maybe coach announced it was ice cream night and all the kids on the team were excited.

Mom says no ice cream until she finishes feeding you your chicken

One of the benefits of having a teenage daughter is hearing mainstream urban music. Rihanna's Good Girl Gone Bad has more hooks than a bait shop--it's just impossible not to like it. The new one from Chamillionaire is pretty solid for about 3/4s through. I like it better than Kanye's or the abysmal ...

Band of Horses' new one Cease to Begin is worth a listen. They get extra credit for having a song entitled "Detlef Schrempf". The jury is still out on Steve Earle's Washington Square Serenade . He seems to be happy, healthy and in love, which is great for him, and he's toned down the politics a bit ...

Besides, how many lovable Formula One champions do you know of? Jim Clark. The most humble gentleman ever to win the World Championship, by most accounts. And how could you dislike James Hunt? Smoked like an exhaust header, drank like the village drunk and shagged endless birds yet still won the 19...

Chip can paint over the "HAL" with "DARI" for next year's paint scheme.

The gameplay in the demo was very fresh. The new Tony Hawk game seems primitive by comparison. Strangely enough, Skate reminds me of the very first Tony Hawk demo for the PS1 (I think it was on a Jampack). It's not that the game is similar but it just has a uniqueness that's pretty rare today. I thi...

"It will be interesting to see how they fit their transporter into the far end of the paddock next year," commented one team boss at the Belgian Grand Prix on Friday. Can someone put that into American for me or German? There's a pecking order for garage & pit space that's based around placement in...

I think a lot depends on your bankroll and the table minimums. If you find a low limit game off-strip or in the daytime, you can be a bit more aggressive on come and place bets. But if I'm risking $50 on a roll, I could get knocked out pretty quickly, so I tend to stick to the Schottenheimer plan. C...

Walsh's football legacy is secure:

It's going to be tougher for non-luxury tax teams to compete in the West

WTF??? The Suns send Kurt Thomas and two first rounders to Seattle for one second round pick. The trade isn't official until it's reviewed by Tim Donaghy.

The NBA. I love this game.

Mrs Z is a huge Police fan, so sitting this tour out wasn't an option. I have to echo the kinda meh reviews of others but the problem wasn't the length. They played just about everything their fans would have wanted. If you needed a three hour show, Sting could have added in a few hundred extra "dee...

I'd add Husker Du and the Stone Roses to greggsand's list. Maybe XTC as well but that's probably even less likely.

If Husker Du did get back together, Mould and Hart probably would in separate tour buses by their West Coast dates.

The Smashing Pumpkins have sold out 13 dates here in SF starting next week, so I guess that qualifies as having that intangible x factor. If they were billed as the "Fester-Chamberlin Project", probably not so much. While it's possible to repackage the band, recovering the mojo is difficult. Sometim...

The 2007 versions of Sting, Copeland and Summers barely qualify as the Police anymore.

Bumped for the TK-Sams dustup at the Glen on Sunday and the 2008 USGP being apparently off the F1 calendar, at least at Indy. I'm waiting for Arni's take on the fight, but it's getting pretty common to see off-track activities get more attention than the race again. If two wrongs don't make a right,...

Reunited Squeeze sounding good at impromptu acoustic gig in advance of reunion tour: http://thattruncheonthing.blogspot.com/2007/07/cool-for-cats.html Oh, wait: There's no Paul Carrack. Can I call Squeeze reunited? :) Of course I can -- it's Difford and Tillbrook. Take care, PK No Jools, no Gilson ...

I also found out Neko Case is playing in my new UP home town over labor day weekend. Time to buy a zoom lens for the camera :wink: Get an X-ray lens so you can verify that the carpet matches the fiery drapes. :) Take care, PK On that note, new New Pornographers album Challenger has leaked. Haven't ...

Over the past few months, I've discovered lurking consumes 1/10th as much energy as posting, and more importantly, it generates less than 1% or the carbon based waste contained in my posts.

I'm game but would prefer a less frenetic pace than the last time around. Practice-qualify-race every other day got tired.

Bumped for Bump Day, which is always one of my favorite days of racing throughout the year, even when nothing happens. It's unbelievable there's been no racing chatter here for over a month. Belated congrats to the Super Aguri F1 Team and Takuma Sato for registering the team's first World Championsh...

The Clemens deal is absurd. Last year, he made 19 starts and averaged just under 6 IP per start. He can obviously still pitch but his upside is around 160 IP over 25 starts. It seems like a panic move on the part of the Yankees. They haven't played well at all but are still only 5 1/2 games back. Th...