The OV35 Sports Thread

[Jtbny]

Gruden is getting punished for what he said 10 years ago. On a private email. And probably 80% of NFL thinks this way. Yet, Joy Reid makes homophobic slurs on Twitter, which is a public forum, yet keeps her job as a race baiter on MSNBC because her Twitter was "hacked." Seriously. Did you hear her last September that she would never take the vaccine and this September chides Nicki Minaj, sista to sista.

They actually have emails dated from 2018. The emails were sent to Allen as part of the discovery during the WFT investigation. MSNBC and the Raiders each run their own businesses as they see fit. Not sure why you're even attempting to make the comparisons here but both incidents can be bad while the outcomes remain different. Life isn't fair.

With that said this to me was the NFL slow leaking to stick it to Gruden. The first email leak he was able to survive so they upped the game. I'm also going to guess his resignation was prompted by more threats of leaking emails that would/could be even more embarrassing and possibly to Davis himself. Now they will stop, IMO.

[x-trainer ben]

Well tonight is the night, my SF Giants play their rivals the "Doyers" to try and advance to the next round against Atlanta.
The bats have gone a bit cold, but it is a home game and the ace is on the mound so hopefully the intangibles help them out for a win.
If not, they exceeded expectations with 107 wins when 72 were predicted at the start of the season.

Go Giants!

[AlBHappy]

Well tonight is the night, my SF Giants play their rivals the "Doyers" to try and advance to the next round against Atlanta.
The bats have gone a bit cold, but it is a home game and the ace is on the mound so hopefully the intangibles help them out for a win.
If not, they exceeded expectations with 107 wins when 72 were predicted at the start of the season.

Go Giants!

Good luck, Ben. I have no skin in the game and no beef with the Dodgers. When they win 107, you expect to be in the World Series. Yes, the Red Sox have exceeded expectations, but like the Giants and the Dodgers, have been very successful this century. World Series or bust.

The Red Sox are going to have their hands full with Houston.

I just hope it's not a 4 hour marathon.

[mtpockets]

[Jtbny]

Well tonight is the night, my SF Giants play their rivals the "Doyers" to try and advance to the next round against Atlanta.
The bats have gone a bit cold, but it is a home game and the ace is on the mound so hopefully the intangibles help them out for a win.
If not, they exceeded expectations with 107 wins when 72 were predicted at the start of the season.

Go Giants!

I was rooting for your guys. Shame either team had to go home.

[x-trainer ben]

I was rooting for your guys. Shame either team had to go home.

Yeah the rookie pitcher(Doval up and down in the minors 4 times this year)hit Justin Turner in the 8th, which was like throwing an interception late in the 4th quarter of the game.
Huge choke by him with Scherzer coming up in the 9th.

[AlBHappy]

Yeah the rookie pitcher(Doval up and down in the minors 4 times this year)hit Justin Turner in the 8th, which was like throwing an interception late in the 4th quarter of the game.
Huge choke by him with Scherzer coming up in the 9th.

Walks kill so do hit by pitches. So do called 3rd strikes for the 2nd out of the 9th. Bad check swing call, but he was 0-17 lifetime against Scherzer. He had no chance. I stayed up until 12:45 watching. Disappointing way to end. Giants scored 10 runs in 5 games. Offense was dormant. Evan Longoria is a shell of his former self.

[x-trainer ben]

Walks kill so do hit by pitches. So do called 3rd strikes for the 2nd out of the 9th. Bad check swing call, but he was 0-17 lifetime against Scherzer. He had no chance. I stayed up until 12:45 watching. Disappointing way to end. Giants scored 10 runs in 5 games. Offense was dormant. Evan Longoria is a shell of his former self.

0-17 eventually turns into 1-18, i have seen it many times; just as mr. playoffs Justin Turner was long overdue for some typical Justin Turner like behavior.
My point was that this rookie killed the teams chances and extra innings was a huge possibility after the 8th and 9th.
Other than Mookie, not much was going on and the Giants defense was on point.

[AlBHappy]

Mission accomplished. Took a split in Houston. That was a LONG game. These players have zero self awareness. 13 minutes to warm up. Cut the crap. Then gives up a grand slam to Devers. Awesome.

Nathan Eovaldi is now 3-0 this postseason. 5 down 7 to go.

Is this the year the Braves close?

[mtpockets]

[x-trainer ben]

I don't always watch every playoff baseball game but i like Dusty baker because he managed the Giants in 02 and is a Bay Area guy.
The Astros put out a pitcher i have never heard of before and through 6 innings he had no hits against him and 6 strikeouts with a 1-0 lead.
I watched until it was 3-0 then fell asleep, and once again......... this franchise makes it to the big dance.
Houston is a run scoring machine, and year after year is scary at any point in the game:

cliffs: they are never out of it.

[Oceanside]

I've got Herring outpointing Stevenson...

It's actually one of the better/more intriguing fights this year, at least for me.

[AlBHappy]

Red Sox bats went ice cold. Great pitching by the Astros. At least the Braves put away the Dodgers last night. What a 7th inning for the Braves. Dodgers had 2nd and 3rd, 0 out down 4-2 and the Braves pitcher, struck out the side including Pujols and Betts!

[x-trainer ben]

Gf is a big Washington Nats fan and we have been watching the Braves all year, they have great relief pitching.

[steffo99]

[x-trainer ben]

Whoa she is incredible, was this half marathon recently?
She was flying at 4:47/mile!
62:52 omg

[steffo99]

Whoa she is incredible, was this half marathon recently?
She was flying at 4:47/mile!
62:52 omg

Yeah, yesterday or something. Craziest thing I've seen. Strongest race (by points) of all time in any running event for women. 1 min faster than an old local legend here (male) that used to win these in the 80's at like 63 minutes. Our best female runner was in the race and set a national record at 68 minutes I think.

[steffo99]

Great fights in the UFC...excited about Khamzat Chimaev and hope they put him against a top rank soon. Smesh!!!

[steffo99]

So good to see Glover after all this time come back like that as well...at 42!
Probably Jon Jones, being the cheating wife beating pussy he is, will try come back to lightweight now. Dont see him ever take a fight against Francis. These type of ppl need to feel they have an advantage to do anything.

[Oceanside]

So good to see Glover after all this time come back like that as well...at 42!
Probably Jon Jones, being the cheating wife beating pussy he is, will try come back to lightweight now. Dont see him ever take a fight against Francis. These type of ppl need to feel they have an advantage to do anything.

Just watched the replay on ESPN plus because I had to work today....

Glover getting a title on one hand is good, but his title reign is gonna be massively in the shadow of everything Jones did....

let's face it, anyone who holds that title for the next ten years is gonna be compared to Jones..

it's basically gonna be a consolation prize for awhile.

[steffo99]

Just watched the replay on ESPN plus because I had to work today....

Glover getting a title on one hand is good, but his title reign is gonna be massively in the shadow of everything Jones did....

let's face it, anyone who holds that title for the next ten years is gonna be compared to Jones..

it's basically gonna be a consolation prize for awhile.

Agree his dominance over lhw was complete, even though questioned in 2 fights and he didn't look all that great his last 2,...just looking forward to see where he scurries off to now. All I want is Franci's fist to connect once...easier said than done..I know...but what I look forward the most ...just don't think he will ever take the fight.

[Oceanside]

Agree his dominance over lhw was complete, even though questioned in 2 fights and he didn't look all that great his last 2,...just looking forward to see where he scurries off to now. All I want is Franci's fist to connect once...easier said than done..I know...but what I look forward the most ...just don't think he will ever take the fight.

I'm equally interested in how Dana handles this Jone/wife beating incident as I am Jones moving up the HWT..

The Hwt division is pathetically shallow IMO, so top 3-4 right out of gates is probably a given..

but like I said...it's gonna be interesting if Jones goes to court and is found guilty ?

what will Dana do ?

[PhDPepper1111]

Yeah, yesterday or something. Craziest thing I've seen. Strongest race (by points) of all time in any running event for women. 1 min faster than an old local legend here (male) that used to win these in the 80's at like 63 minutes. Our best female runner was in the race and set a national record at 68 minutes I think.

Truly amazing!

Phew, last weekend was finally a bit of recovery for both my NFL teams with the Seahawks and Niners finally playing well, and even more importantly, Brady got beat! :P

[mtpockets]

Jones is a drunken coward and a sh!tstain on the MMA community. It wouldn't hurt my feelings if he never got to fight professionally ever again. Of course that will never happen especially with the UFC, Dana will swing the way that benefits his wallet and if the UFC dropped him he will just fight elsewhere for less bucks.

[steffo99]

Jones is a drunken coward and a sh!tstain on the MMA community. It wouldn't hurt my feelings if he never got to fight professionally ever again. Of course that will never happen especially with the UFC, Dana will swing the way that benefits his wallet and if the UFC dropped him he will just fight elsewhere for less bucks.

Just fantasizing ofc...but would be cool if they can give some special sauce to Khamzat Chimaev at some point (or maybe he just needs to lift a tiny bit) and make a desperation fight for a broke Jones at 205, a year or so from now when he's spent everything on strippers. He hasn't fought in awhile so that bank account must be draining out at some point.

[steffo99]

More flying than jumping...

[mtpockets]

Any Predictions??

In the Main I am going with Usman over Covington. I like both but Usman is the man, I'd like to see him take this.


Co Main, I gotta go with Rose, I think she will have her hands full though..

Going with Billy Q and of course my man Gaethje

[steffo99]

Ok, feeling bold so picking some upsets:

Colby - feel he has to make it now or never, and gambling that he has made some adjustments and possibly been the more motivated of the two leading up to this one.

Weili - seems unlikely to get caught in a smilar fashion again and if not could go on to smash as usual.

Gaethje - able to take such a beating, will be hard to put away. Unsure how their wrestling stack up though.

Don't know/care so much of the other ones, but will keep a curious eye on how Pereira does.

[Oceanside]

Any Predictions??

In the Main I am going with Usman over Covington. I like both but Usman is the man, I'd like to see him take this.


Co Main, I gotta go with Rose, I think she will have her hands full though..

Going with Billy Q and of course my man Gaethje

I wouldn't be terribly surprised if Edgar hangs up the gloves if he takes another loss..

Can't call Gaethje & Chandler but I don't see that fight going longer than 3-4 minutes..

I can see Zhang taking Rose to school and stopping her late..

I don't see Covington beating Usman.

[Mark1T]

Yeah, no. I agree with Mr. Ocean, that Kamaru will out-class Covington. I will bet on this.

Edgar, go out swinging.

It is written.