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Better Know An Iowa Football Opponent 2010: Minnesota Golden Gophers (Part One)
The off-season is a long and tiresome trudge, so how can we best get through it? By looking ahead to next year, of course. So, in the spirit of forward thinking, we present a team-by-team look at Iowa's 2010 football opponents (with looks at Illinois and (maybe) Purdue thrown in for good measure...
Evolution of a record
I have long been fascinated by the evolution of sports records. On the individual sports level they are gradually but inexorably chipped away from one generation to the next. The 100-metre sprint is a classic example (on the men's side, that is; the less said about FloJo the better). When I was...
Sawchuk
Six attackers, frantic to even the score, the rink tips, bodies piling onto me. Fergusonhacks my bad elbow, his look says, Here’s bone for your jar. Hooks my feet from under me, lands on my legs. I punch at the back of his head and get this whiff of hair cream. All of this in silence. Nothing...
All-Time Shutout Leader: Martin Brodeur vs Terry Sawchuk
When I started following sports more than 25 years ago, there were records that seemed unbreakable to me: Bob Beamon's 29-foot 2.5-inch long jump in the Mexico City Olympics; Roger Maris hitting 61 home runs in 1961; and Terry Sawchuk's 103 career shutouts. Beamon's record lasted 23 years, Maris'...
Joel Piñeiro Turns Into Greg Maddux For One Night: Cubs 0, Cardinals 3
Who would have guessed that last night's Cubs game would end before the Blackhawks game? (That one didn't turn out so well, either.) In last night's game preview, I said I figured it might be among the fastest games of the year because both pitchers, Ted Lilly and Joel Piñeiro, threw strikes...
Chris Waters throws a shutout
I said after his major league debut that Chris Waters would probably never pitch another game so good. He was doing a great job proving me right until tonight, when he threw a four-hit shutout of the Blue Jays. It was the first (and likely only) complete game shutout for an O's pitcher in...
Perspective
The Cubs were shut out by the Nationals 2-0 this afternoon -- the first time they have been shut out this year. That took 25 games. For perspective, here's a list of the first game in which the Cubs were shut out in the twelve seasons before 2008: 2007: game 11 2006: game 23 2005: game...
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