Lesser Sports

Your College Football Week One Evening Open Thread

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Welcome back to Balls' Saturday Open Thread Madness (trademark pending)! Because I was born in Mexico and I like bugging Americans that don't like soccer, here is tonight's Liga MX schedule (all times Pacific and home teams listed first): 5:00 PM - Tigres UANL v León (Univision, TUDN) (Match of the Round

BattleBots Beat: Okay, Panic

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Welcome back to the Beat! Last time out, Yeti made Redshirt sad, Bronco went retro, and HyperShock still couldn't beat Bite Force. That's okay, nobody else currently in the field can! This has been your reminder that the only robot to beat Bite Force in 3+ seasons is Chomp with

CFL Beat: Week 12

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LaboUr Day is coming up this weekend - hope you all enjoy the day off. For CFL fans, this weekend is one of the best of the year, featuring some classic rivalry matchups that have been running for years. Labour Day, of course, also marks my return to work, which

AFL Beat 2019 Round 23

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This week, Here we go!! Who's #1? And who got the last spot in the Eight? Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! Round 23 Recaps and Highlights We've come to the end of the Home and Away Season! Next step: Finals! Who is in? Who is out? Who plays who? Lotsof things happened this week.

Your “Perhaps Lesser Footy is better than Greater Footy after all” Thread

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Good morning everyone! By the time this post airs, your pal Wakezilla will be up and atom, off on his vacation to Portland, Oregon, followed by staying in a cabin at CanNon Beach (Oregon's coast). Jesus, I have never deserved a vacation more than this year. I got promoted in April

CFL Beat: Week 11

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This is now officially the back half of the CFL season. While the old-timers claim that things don't really start until Labour Day around here, I think that many things are already quite clear - the Lions and Argos won't make the playoffs, and likely the Ottawa REDBLACKS as well.

AFL Beat 2019 Round 22

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This week, Vroom vroom!! Happy Tigers And someone hangs ten... Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! Round 22 Recaps and Highlights This week, we had quite possibly the two best games of AFL in a long time. The matchups of #1 vs #2 and #3 vs #4 lived up to their billing. However, there

BattleBots Beat: Some of This Might Go Badly

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Welcome back to the Beat, where we get severals, nay, fews of +1s on the Reddits! Good news, I haven't gotten angry cease & desist messages from anyone, so… yay? Anyway, last time was the midseason roundtable where robots got together and yelled their opinions on this season. As for

CFL Beat: Week 10

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We're almost halfway through the CFL regular season, and based on what I've seen thus far in 2019, I can't think of a bigger letdown than the BC Lions. It's a shame, really. We've been accustomed to all five teams in the West Division being extremely competitive, and considering the

AFL Beat 2019 Round 21

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This week, SNOW GAME!!! Seriously, for the first time EVER there was snow at an AFL game! And yes, Scotchy and Yeah Right, that was the final score... Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! Round 21 Recaps and Highlights This week, we had quite a few firsts. There was, as you