Sporots

[funkyrhino]

Won absolutely nothing at the Ky Derby!! Damn it already I'll Have Another!

[Batman The Horse]

Jesus fuck can some old white dudes talk about a 2-minute horse race for HOURS. Also it was pretty great that some of the jockeys were taller than Bob Costas.

[chapina]

Big ups to Chelsea, FA Cup champs! Next up, CHAMPIONS LEAGUE! (And big ups to me, for finally getting Fox Soccer in HD!)

Bigs ups to me, because I finally got an HD tv and saw what I was missing with my first soccer game in HD. I waited too long... so many missed games!

[pollymaepry]

I am starting to think God might exist and they might be an evil witch who hates Chicago sports teams.

[stevenac]

I don't wanna jump the gun (though know in my heart I already have), but the Orioles are amazing right now. 5-1 on a road trip against the Yanks and the Sox. And today's game? Holee shit. I know nobody likes baseball and especially nobody likes the orioles, but i love them and i don't care who knows it!

Chris Davis is my boy

[scamboogah]

Really people? Nothing about what happened yesterday? That Manchester City finish is arguably one of the top 5 sports highlights in World history, instantly. Scoring ONE goal in extra time was crazy, Two to win the championship is fucking ridiculous. Manchester United were celebrating already.

[isoS]

I wish I had gotten to see it. Instead I had to read about it on ESPN.com, arguably the worst place for soccer news and recaps in the world.

[Bucho]

I barely even follow footsoccer these days when it's not packed with the highest of international stakes that come along with World Cups but that finale to the Premier League season was pretty much the most extraordinary sporting drama imaginable. It's a sport I find tedious at times but when it's played in circumstances like these there simply isn't another sport on the planet which offers this level of pure mass communal passion or this level of insanely gripping theater.

This was ludicrously entertaining and I must've watched the last 4 minutes about 10 times on my DVR, although, oddly enough, with a different commentator than this one - I guess this is an event too mammoth to be contained on a single network. Simply astounding.

Really people? Nothing about what happened yesterday? That Manchester City finish is arguably one of the top 5 sports highlights in World history, instantly. Scoring ONE goal in extra time was crazy, Two to win the championship is fucking ridiculous. Manchester United were celebrating already.

[Adult Ed]

I turned on that game around the 85th minute! Best 10 minutes of football I've seen in my life. In addition to the two goals, the Rangers goalie made an insane save off of a Balotelli header. I don't know how the final score of that game wasn't 1,000,000 - 2.

[isoS]

Mike Brown, ace coach, does it again. Why instill confidence in your team by trusting them at the end of a game when you can take three timeouts to let your younger, less experienced opponent catch their breath and retrench? I guess if Blake had hit his wide open shot Brown would look like a genius, but I hate the kneejerk end of game timeout.

Oh well, it was only the Lakers last and best chance to get in this series and they threw it away. Kobe, you're not aging well with the clutch turnovers and 20-foot misses. The Lakers led because of Bynum and Gasol -- maybe let them touch it in the last 2 min?

[isoS]

Mike Brown, ace coach, does it again. Why instill confidence in your team by trusting them at the end of a game when you can take three timeouts to let your younger, less experienced opponent catch their breath and retrench? I guess if Blake had hit his wide open shot Brown would look like a genius, but I hate the kneejerk end of game timeout.

Oh well, it was only the Lakers last and best chance to get in this series and they threw it away. Kobe, you're not aging well with the clutch turnovers and 20-foot misses. The Lakers led because of Bynum and Gasol -- maybe let them touch it in the last 2 min?

[chapina]

Tottenham gets screwed if Chelsea wins and it would be awesome for Bayern to win at home, but goddammit Chelsea is the underdog and beat Barcelona to get here, they got my heart.


Today on Fox, check it out!!

[Mr. Museum]

Penalties are the worst.

[chapina]

yay!!!!!! and Brad Friedel now has to sit through the postgame!

[Mr. Museum]

This sucks. The ONLY good thing about this is Tottenham gets jobbed out of their CL spot. This Chelsea team is garbage.

Scammy, are you still in Munich?

[isoS]

See Lakers, the inferior team CAN win! There's hope! Go Chelsea and Go Lakers!

[Adult Ed]

The Lakers have an early lead. Based on this round so far, I assume OKC will outscore the Lakers 40-3 in the 4th.

[scamboogah]

Scammy, are you still in Munich?

No, but I watched w/ a few people that are from there. Depressing game, since Bayern DOMINATED the whole game. They had 20-0 corner kicks at one point but just couldn't convert shit. Why Robben takes that penalty kick is anyone's guess.

Give Chelsea credit for playing super solid defense and collapsing all over Robben every time he tried moving to his left. Then again, fuck them. Dullest champs ever.

Speaking of dull champs, your nearly biannual champion Spurs! Fundamentally making basketball boring since 1998.

[isoS]

I've heard they're slightly less boring and score more? I dunno, I've only seen them play the lakers this year. They're certainly very good. I'm rooting for Duncan to win another (unless by some miracle the Lakers advance).

Maybe Chelsea was boring for most of 120 minutes, but Drogba's header and Cech's penalty save in extra time were pretty fucking dramatic. Given that penalty shoot outs are capricious by nature, I felt this was a karmic leveling for the 2008 final vs Man U.

[Couldn'tThinkOfaName]

Pretty much everyone remaining but OKC are far more boring to watch than the Spurs.