Posts by quietfox38

Congrats from my side too on that dramatic win 👋

Woke up at 6:30, flipped on the TV, and there’s women's tennis on ESPN 2 😳

Then I caught the stream, honestly should've stayed away. The New England Patriots absolutely crushed St. Kilda. In the first quarter, the Saints could barely get past midfield. There was this one moment where Riewoldt was wide open in front of the net, but instead of playing it safe, he tried to hammer it home—then out of nowhere, Maxwell flies in and blocks it for a behind 🤦

By the end of the first quarter, the Saints players were already gasping for air, hands on their knees. They tried to mount a comeback in the second, but you just can't dig yourself out of a hole after starting with seven behinds and zero goals. Once the Patriots pulled off those fast breaks by putting the ball into an empty net, the game was basically over

Kickoff is tomorrow at 6:30 AM
👋 New Orleans Saints 👋

Thomas Bishop85 said:Wow. Just... wow. Unbelievable.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of_oTtyLoec
What a game. Honestly, after halftime, I figured the Philadelphia Eagles would just wrap it up in the third, but the New Orleans Saints caught everyone off guard. Riewolt, Hayes, Del Santa... man, what a ride.
The pub was packed—about 30 of us. Half were local players and half were Australians. It was split down the middle, half cheering for the Saints and half for the Eagles, though the Saints fans definitely had more volume. That energy after Riewolt's mark early in the fourth quarter was something else.

So, what’s next? Another game next week. The pub mentioned they're opening at 6 again, but most of our guys won't be there since we're heading to Milan for the UEFA Euro (http://www.sportingpulse.com/assoc_p...soc=8112&pID=1). Still, those Australians who were there and are sticking around will show up next week. If anyone wants to hang out and watch the game with the real fans, feel free to drop by...
And if any of you want to come out and train...

I'm no expert, but Goddard was impressive. That mark he made toward the end was easily the best play of the game.

good luck in Milan 👍

Which game 🙏

Let's hear from Thomas Bishop85 about how things went at the pub. I bet it was absolute chaos.
Are we watching again next Saturday? 😬

Thomas Bishop85 said:It’s on Eurosport, but watching it there is like sitting through a local rivalry game with a cat. It’s always better when you're with the crew, surrounded by Americans, grabbing some breakfast at the local pub...

Sure, it's more fun with the Americans, but since I'm not from a major city and I'm not some hardcore Aussie Rules fanatic, staying home with the cat feels like the safer bet.😉

Thomas Bishop85 said:Look, if you aren't heading to Milan with the national team but you still want to catch some Aussie Rules—and specifically the Grand Final, which is basically our Super Bowl—come hang out at the Old Pharmacy Pub on the 25th.

Also, does St Kilda actually stand a chance against Collingwood and that idiot Didak?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yJPeGuQCaI

For the early birds who aren't hitting the pub, the broadcast is on Eurosport 2 at 6:30 AM.

wanderingpanther10 said:Look at it this way. It’s pretty simple. There are really just two ways this goes.

Either the coach refused to keep training him if he keeps competing for the US.

Or they just didn't offer him enough cash to make the switch to the US team.

And honestly, I can't blame the Americans for not wanting to drop a massive pile of money to train a mid-tier athlete.

I doubt we're talking about a fortune here. Just look at what Draganja got when he was already on a plane to Qatar just to keep competing for the US. The amount here was way smaller than that. If even the national federation wouldn't shell out the cash for a "mid-tier" guy in a niche sport, why all the outrage over his choice? What he couldn't get in the US, his neighbors offered him.

Alright, fine. We're sitting here debating the reasons, but tell us—are you actually happy that Fak switched to the Canadian flag?

There are a lot of layers to this story. The Canadians played it smart and backed Jacob into a corner. Biathlon just doesn't have any roots here in America, so staying put and trying to be a One man team was just too big of a gamble for him.
It’s a shame, though. I actually like Jacob. He’s a good guy—very level-headed, rational, and he always talks so softly, almost like he's whispering...

We snatched Peshalov from the Bulgarians, and now the Canadians have taken Jacob from us. It isn't fair, but that's just how the game works. 🙂

What are the odds that America will actually build out biathlon or cross-country tracks after this? What are the chances we'll build a system that churns out new, high-level Nordic athletes? About zero. That's the reality for pretty much every sport here. We just have raw talent and the occasional enthusiastic coach who can spot it. That's the core issue.

Wishing Jacob nothing but the best moving forward. 👍

wanderingpanther10 said:Fak just wanted to keep working with his longtime coach. Seems like a reasonable request.
If there was any actual will from the US Ski Association, they could have easily fixed this.

True, but Volepec wasn't willing to walk away from the Canadian national team to take over the American one. And the Canadians wouldn't agree to the old setup where Jacob trains with them but competes for America. It was a total stalemate.

And here I was, thinking this was a thread about memories from your first trip to a big game 🤦



good topic, keep it going 👍

Usain Bolt is just a freak of nature, he makes running look effortless
When he was posing with the mascot 🙂





Everything we thought we understood about sprinting just went out the window on that warm evening

Chasing a second gold for Blanka Vlašić 👍
Who knows when we'll see an athlete like him again

analogtinker0 said:Does anyone know what time the men's 200m final starts tonight? Missed the 100m, definitely can't miss this one...

200 Metres - M Final

20 August 2009 - 20:35
1 154 Ramil Guliyev
2 434 Sha'Carri Richardson
3 664 Steve Mullings
4 1230 Wallace Spearmon
5 656 Usain Bolt
6 888 Alonso Edward
7 1172 Charles Clark
8 1174 Shawn Crawford

By the time everyone else hits the 150m mark, Bolt will already be crossing the finish line. Not sure if we're looking at a world record here, but honestly, who’s brave enough to bet against him?

coastalhawk13 said:Half Man Half Biscuit 🤷 😕

Are we playing word association now? 😁

Benjamin King2 said:But look, back in October last year at the junior Commonwealth Games, she runs a 2:04—a personal best. That’s only about a second slower than another American kid, Juanee Cilliers, who's actually their first junior (and she's a full year younger than Caster). To drop 10 seconds in just 10 months... something stinks. If we were talking long-distance races, losing 10 seconds isn't a big deal, but for this? It feels like too much.

True, she’s built more like a 400m runner. Reminded me of how Haile Gebrselassie looks compared to the typical scrawny guys running the 10,000m.

Maybe there's some genetic condition involved, but the results from the gender test conducted by World Athletics haven't been released yet.

Her puberty just hit a bit later, nothing more.

Phiwe Mlangeni-Tsholetsane would not confirm or deny that Semenya was having such a test.

“We entered Caster as a woman and we want to keep it that way,” 🤣 Mlangeni-Tsholetsane said. “Our conscience is clear in terms of Caster. We have no reservations at all about that.”

Semenya’s father, Jacob Semenya, pleaded: “I wish they would leave my daughter alone.”

“She is my little girl. I raised her and I have never doubted her gender. She is a woman and I can repeat that a million times,” Semenya told The Sowetan newspaper.

Semenya’s paternal grandmother, Maputhi Sekgala, also spoke in defense of Semenya.

“The controversy doesn’t bother me that much because I know she’s a woman— I raised her myself,” Sekgala told The New York Times, another American newspaper.

“What can I do when they call her a man, when she’s really not a man? It is God who made her look that way,” Sekgala said.

http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/new...v=ap&type=lgns

It’s tough for her. Nature just played a bit of a trick on the girl. She finally finds something she's great at, and then they accuse her of being a man.🤷

northerncanyon54 said:He basically lost his nerve at the 280m mark...

Man or Astroman? 🤔 🤷

It’s just wild

I remember when world records in the 100m were being broken by mere hundredths of a second. Now, Usain Bolt doesn't just break them; he absolutely destroys them.

Usain Bolt is even more unstoppable than Chuck Norris 🙏

Casey White13 said:What an insane finish to that women's 10,000m race... go Kenya🙏

That Ethiopian woman threw her hands up, thinking she had already won.🙈

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I'll admit it, I'm a total newbie here. 🙂

thanks Care, this Free studio really opened my eyes. 🙏

Can someone help me out? I’m a total newbie here.

So, I managed to grab a music video from YouTube onto my PC, but when I try to play it in media Player, the picture is upside down.

What do I do now? 🤔