AFL Beat 2020 Season Round 8

ballsofsteelandfury - July 28, 2020July 27, 2020

This week... We have a shitload of games in a row: We have more upsets: and a soccer game broke out: Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! This was a very interesting week off the footy pitch as the schedule for Rounds 9, 10, 11, and 12 was announced shortly before I posted the

Your July 26 Lesser Footy Open Thread: It’s Decision Day!

Wakezilla - July 26, 2020July 24, 2020

Welcome to Decision Day! With the exception of one game, every match has positional repercussions. Most importantly, the Top 4 and relegation are all on the line today! What sucks is that the league should have tried and flexed the games around so that not all games are playing at once.

Looking at the Table – Sabado Lesser Thread

King Hippo - July 25, 2020July 24, 2020

There's really fuckall to do until Most Glorious el beisbol Cardinals start around 2p (banner pic in honoUr, also since it pisses so many off that maybe we can has extra clubhouse participation??). That's because all the Premiership fixtures are tomorrow morning. So sad. Everton's match is on CNBC, which

CFL Beat – Quarantine Edition: The 50th Grey Cup

The Maestro - July 23, 2020July 20, 2020

Hi again, folks. The CFL Beat is back this week with a look at the CFL's 1962 championship game - the first Grey Cup game to ever be broadcast on American TV, hereafter referred to as "The Fog Bowl!" Date: December 1st and 2nd, 1962 Venue: Exhibition Stadium, Toronto, ON Attendance: 32,655 Winnipeg Blue

Your July 22nd Lesser Footy Open Thread: Getting over the hump

Wakezilla - July 22, 2020July 22, 2020

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Hello Sports fans and Work Procrastinators! Happy hump day! To celebrate the midweek's most sexiest day, we have a triple header-- with the two most important matches of the week happening-- and one really important match going on in the Championship. Match 1: The "Please Don't Choke Please Don't Choke Please Don't

MLL Mid season update

Game Time Decision - July 22, 2020July 22, 2020

Hi all, as we are now more than half way through the MLL season after 4 days of play, it's time for an update. At this point it looks to be a show down between Chesapeake and Denver. The game tonight between them will be a good one. At the

Marble League Rolldown: Events 6 & 7

Senor Weaselo - July 21, 2020July 20, 2020

We return to the Rolldown, described by someone on the Jelle's Marble Runs subreddit as "Comprehensive. To the max." This week another two events were on the schedule as we watched to see whether another team wanted to join the Minty Maniacs, O'rangers, and Crazy Cat's Eyes in the upper

Your July 21st Lesser Footy Open Thread: Avoiding Relegation

Wakezilla - July 21, 2020July 21, 2020

Hello sports fans, gamblers and procrastinators! As you can see from the featured image, longtime sponsor of the Scousers, Carlsberg, have created a commemorative beer can to celebrate Liverpool's first EPL title in decades. I personally like that Carlsberg added the asterisk on the beer can because we all know LiVARpool

Premier Lacrosse League Season preview

Game Time Decision - July 21, 2020July 20, 2020

Hi all, as we continue down the path of "sports" starting up again, this week we'll be looking at the Premier Lacrosse League ( PLL) as they start their "season". Similar to the MLL from last week's post the season for the PLL will be shortened and take place from

AFL Beat 2020 Season Round 7

ballsofsteelandfury - July 21, 2020July 21, 2020

This week... A media star is born: A big surprise happens: and Robbie Gray has ice in his veins and teammates on top of him: Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! This was a very interesting week on the footy pitch. We had upsets, we had an After The Siren kick to win a

Your Matchday 37 Lesser Footy Open thread: The Penultimate match

Wakezilla - July 20, 2020July 20, 2020

Hello Sports fans! We've got a lesser footy double header on the menu today. But first, a quick thought about yesterday's Manchester United/ Chelski match. All week, leading up to yesterday's game, many rival fans of United have been pissing and moaning about United getting the VAR decisions and penalty kicks. I've

Looking Forward to Shempions Entropy (and Other Lesser Matters)

King Hippo - July 18, 2020July 17, 2020

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The Athletic recently published a long-form discussion of how any of the participants (ok, maybe not the ones who dug deep holes before the 2nd leg of a tie got played - ie, Chelski) could win the abbreviated, neutral-as-WICHITA Shempions format. It got me (and the Clubhouse's other Lesser enthusiasts) thinking