Lesser Sports

Your “Boots on the Ground 2: Australian Boogaloo” Tuesday Night Open Thread

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Rev is off tonight. I'm sure it's completely unrelated to last night's tilt featuring his wooly mammals and their LOLjob. That was worth any monkey paw tomfoolery, though. As you may have heard, A-A-Ron's achilles is indeed torn, meaning he is out for the whole season. I'll try and limit my

Are You Ready For Some Football and Boots on the Ground?

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Picture originally from here, modified expertly by me Are you ready for some football? Want to be specific about which kind?  Because I have been at a LOT of football games these past few weeks, none of them of the "gridiron" variety. And virtually every minute of it was fucking awesome.

CFL Beat: Week 14

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School is back, and I'm still in denial about it. Unlike in the South, it's highly unusual to be teaching when the humidex hits 104 degrees... so the start of this school year has been especially unpleasant from a weather perspective. I sure hope some In league news this week: The

Balls Magazine Volume 20 (and Open Thread!)

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On Labour Day Weekend, I am in the middle of enjoying a four day weekend thanks to having Friday off for some strange reason that I'm not going to argue with my employer about. I decided to organize a golf tournament on Friday with some coworkers for fun, pride, and

Huzzah September and a Full Sportsball Day

King Hippo -
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Autumn, indeed, is proof that God loves us.  Football everywhere, y'all. Team Knifey host Everton early in the morning (7:30, USA).  Midweek, the Toffees very narrowly averted disaster (ie, losing in the Cursed Caribou Cup to team #92 out of 92 in the English Football League).  But fuck it, at least

CFL Beat: Week 13

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Hi folks! It's me! I'm finally back from my whirlwind European vacation, and let me tell you - the jet lag has been REAL. Perhaps it had to do with all the cheap Euro booze or the desire to keep avoiding the reality of getting back to the classroom for

Lesser Week el Tres, JV NFL Week Nil Open Thread

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Apparently, 26 August is National Blow Notre Dame Day (congratulations to those who celebrate).  Not much other excuse for them playing bad-even-for-their-recent-history Naval Academy crew...with essentially the ENTIRE slate to themselves.  Seriously, this is absolute monkey feces.  But I get ahead of myself, we have good Premiership action first. Cherries host Spurs

CFL Beat: Week 12

Game Time Decision -
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It's your last week for the replacement (me)  for the replacement writer (Don T) of the CFL beat.  Maestro should be back and refreshed and mad at how bad I did.  Satisfaction guaranteed or your money back and since this gig don't pay in anything but a few likes, sucks

CFL Beat: Week 11

Game Time Decision -
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So, remember when last week Don T stepped in for the still vacationing Maestro and did a great job.  Well, prepare to be underwhelmed. So, we've now got a Canadian talking about a Canadian league and playing Canadian music.  This will make the CTRC (Canadian TV and Radio watchdog) happy.  And

Balls Magazine Volume 19

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The last time I played golf, it was the 4 club tournament in July. To refresh your memories, here are the four clubs I chose: 5 Wood 7 Iron Pitching Wedge Putter I ended up shooting an even 100, which I was very happy with. Unfortunately, due to work commitments and some work around the

CFL Beat: Week 10

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Well, hello. Your friendly neighboUrhood Maestro is on sabbatical in Europe with Lady Maestro. You get me for a sub on this instalment of CFL Beat, for which I gladly volunteered my talent. Which won’t be necessary after all. Maestro, being generous and dutiful, left a post skeleton (great), and