What analytics can tell us about the role of fighting in hockey
What’s clear from the research is that if any league were to try to take fighting out of the game and make no other changes,
it would mean that we should expect the game to be rougher, and perhaps
more dangerous, as Smith suggests. However, it should be possible to
offset this change by having referees call games more tightly, at least
with regards to these “egregious” penalties. If referees can resist the
urge to “put their whistles away and let the players decide the game”,
especially when the play starts getting “chippy”, then players won’t
have to resort to fighting.
While this will undoubtedly have the effect of more penalties being
called, which some might not like, it would also reduce the need for
players to police the game themselves. Of course, the extent to which
the referees are able to do this depends in large part on whether
players can hide their bad behavior from the sightlines of the refs.
(SI.com)
Monday, March 28, 2016
The Tour Could Benefit From A New Leader
Tim Finchem says he's likely to step down at end of 2016
[I]n the last year of a four-year contract extension, the 68-year-old commissioner surprised observers by announcing a new one-year deal through June 2017 that he said he does not expect to complete.
“The length of the contract is really a placeholder,” Finchem said Sunday while visiting the WGC-Dell Match Play in Austin. “I wouldn’t anticipate staying that long. My plan would be—and that assumes I can make progress on my projects—to step aside at the end of this year.”
(GolfDigest.com)
[I]n the last year of a four-year contract extension, the 68-year-old commissioner surprised observers by announcing a new one-year deal through June 2017 that he said he does not expect to complete.
“The length of the contract is really a placeholder,” Finchem said Sunday while visiting the WGC-Dell Match Play in Austin. “I wouldn’t anticipate staying that long. My plan would be—and that assumes I can make progress on my projects—to step aside at the end of this year.”
(GolfDigest.com)
Did You Know - The Masters Tournament Edition
18 Things You Didn't Know About Augusta National and the Masters
4. There's a natural spring between the 13th and 14th fairways that spouts gold dust when it rains.
Complete list (Golf.com)
4. There's a natural spring between the 13th and 14th fairways that spouts gold dust when it rains.
Complete list (Golf.com)
How The Hell Did A Human Being Consume All Of This In 1 Sitting?
A Dude Who Weighed 400 Pounds Posted His Daily Taco Bell Order And How The Hell Can Someone Do That To Their Body??
(BroBible.com)
2 7-Layer BurritosHe even says he sometimes put that back twice in a day. FUCKING TWICE.
2 Beef Grilled Stuffed Burritos
- 860 calories
- 32 grams of fat
- 2,030mg of sodium
Nachos Bell Grande
- 1,440 calories
- 64 grams of fat
- 4,280mg of sodium
Chicken Quesadilla
- 760 calories
- 38 grams of fat
- 1,300mg of sodium
Cheesy Potato Burrito
- 510 calories
- 27 grams of fat
- 1,200mg of sodium
Carmel Apple Empanada
- 490 calories
- 22 grams of fat
- 1,300mg of sodium
Total
- 310 calories
- 15 grams of fat
- 310mg of sodium
- 4,370 calories
- 196 grams of fat
- 10,420mg of sodium
(BroBible.com)
Dedication & Preserverance Paid Off
The Quinnipiac Way: How a college hockey power was born
HAMDEN, CT — Rand Pecknold took the job as men's hockey coach at the school that’s hard to pronounce (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) because it meant $6,700 and a position in the sport.
"I easily could’ve quit," he says. "Nobody would’ve blamed me. We had nothing. I couldn’t feed the guys when we went on the road. We didn’t have a budget to play a full schedule. This was about as Mickey Mouse as it gets."
So he slogged through midnight practices at the town rink in Northford, CT. He got home at 2:30 a.m., slept until 6 a.m., woke up, taught at a local high school and came home for a three-hour nap. At 6 p.m. he'd drive 71 miles to the Quinnipiac University campus to recruit players and try to figure out how to bolster his team. Then he started it all over again with practice at midnight.
“It was one of the hardest years of my life,” Pecknold told SI.com while sitting in his office at the TD Bank Sports Center, under a whiteboard with not-quite-erased diagrams. “And there we were with one win, and I’m like, ‘What am I doing?’”
Now, 22 years later, Pecknold has taken his team from the bowels of a public rink that had a curtain separating the home and visiting locker rooms to the top of the NCAA rankings, the number one seed heading into this weekend’s national tournament. It’s been the turnaround of a lifetime, from 1-12-1 in his first 14 games as coach to 29-3-7 this season and the cusp of the national championship. But this is not just about the boys. It turns out the program that started in the town rink now has something else: a pretty damn good women’s team.
(SI.com)
HAMDEN, CT — Rand Pecknold took the job as men's hockey coach at the school that’s hard to pronounce (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) because it meant $6,700 and a position in the sport.
"I easily could’ve quit," he says. "Nobody would’ve blamed me. We had nothing. I couldn’t feed the guys when we went on the road. We didn’t have a budget to play a full schedule. This was about as Mickey Mouse as it gets."
So he slogged through midnight practices at the town rink in Northford, CT. He got home at 2:30 a.m., slept until 6 a.m., woke up, taught at a local high school and came home for a three-hour nap. At 6 p.m. he'd drive 71 miles to the Quinnipiac University campus to recruit players and try to figure out how to bolster his team. Then he started it all over again with practice at midnight.
“It was one of the hardest years of my life,” Pecknold told SI.com while sitting in his office at the TD Bank Sports Center, under a whiteboard with not-quite-erased diagrams. “And there we were with one win, and I’m like, ‘What am I doing?’”
Now, 22 years later, Pecknold has taken his team from the bowels of a public rink that had a curtain separating the home and visiting locker rooms to the top of the NCAA rankings, the number one seed heading into this weekend’s national tournament. It’s been the turnaround of a lifetime, from 1-12-1 in his first 14 games as coach to 29-3-7 this season and the cusp of the national championship. But this is not just about the boys. It turns out the program that started in the town rink now has something else: a pretty damn good women’s team.
(SI.com)
Power Rankings: Threats to the Capitals are surfacing - ESPN.com
5. Los Angeles Kings
- Clinched a playoff berth. The Kings have seven games remaining and next face the Sharks on Monday. They are 6-3-1 in the past 10 games. On Saturday, the Kings snapped a three-game losing skid with a 6-4 win over the Oilers. Tyler Toffoli had two goals and two assists in the win.
- Clinched a playoff berth. The Ducks have eight games remaining and next face the Oilers on Monday. Forward Rickard Rakell has reached the 20-goal plateau for the first time in his NHL career.
- On the verge of clinching a postseason berth. Have seven games remaining and will face the Kings Monday night.
Congrats To The Caps
Capitals win Presidents' Trophy
Washington clinches top spot in NHL after defeating Blue Jackets
(NHL.com)
Washington clinches top spot in NHL after defeating Blue Jackets
WASHINGTON -- The
Washington Capitals clinched the Presidents' Trophy with a 4-1 win
against the Columbus Blue Jackets at Verizon Center on Monday.
Washington is atop the NHL standings with 113 points and guaranteed home-ice advantage for the entirety of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
Washington is atop the NHL standings with 113 points and guaranteed home-ice advantage for the entirety of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
(NHL.com)
I Have A Better Chance Of Winning The Lotto Than This Happening
Formula One Might Replace Ferrari's Home Grand Prix With New Race In Las Vegas
Ecclestone told The Daily Mail that the organizers for a new
grand prix in Las Vegas already have a contract with F1. However, he
explained that they’re not looking to add any more races to the
schedule, so one will have to move:
(Jalopnik.com)
“I don’t think we have to have an Italian Grand
Prix,” misguided elf-king of Formula One and infinitely wrong man Bernie
Ecclestone told The Daily Mail.
Tifosi, it’s time to get out those pitch forks and torches.
Monza—historic wonderland and Ferrari’s home race Monza—could be
replaced by Las Vegas.
(Jalopnik.com)
I Thought It Was For Your Loose Change Or Key(s)
What is that small pocket on jeans for?
On their blog, Levi Strauss & Co. explain the pocket and its function:
On their blog, Levi Strauss & Co. explain the pocket and its function:
“The first blue jeans had four pockets—only one in back and, in the front, two plus the small, watch pocket. Originally included as protection for pocket watches, thus the name, this extra pouch has served many functions, evident in its many titles: frontier pocket, condom pocket, coin pocket, match pocket and ticket pocket, to name a few.”(FoxLA.com)
Good Luck With Your Mission
Upstart GENESIS Brand Aims Straight At The Germans With Plans To Build A Supercar!
Mercedes-AMG has the GT coupe, Audi has the R8 and BMW has the i8, and now it seems Hyundai’s upstart Korean prestige brand, Genesis, is interested in developing a rear-drive tyre-shredding supercar too.
The Hyundai-owned company plans to roll out four
passenger vehicles and two SUVs over the next five years but the car
that will really put the fledgling brand on the map is a supercar.
The man who oversees all new car designs for the Genesis car brand, former Audi stylist Peter Schreyer, revealed that a hard-core halo car was on the agenda for the company but that “all these things take a little bit of time”.
(AutoSpies.com)
Mercedes-AMG has the GT coupe, Audi has the R8 and BMW has the i8, and now it seems Hyundai’s upstart Korean prestige brand, Genesis, is interested in developing a rear-drive tyre-shredding supercar too.
The man who oversees all new car designs for the Genesis car brand, former Audi stylist Peter Schreyer, revealed that a hard-core halo car was on the agenda for the company but that “all these things take a little bit of time”.
(AutoSpies.com)
It's Not Dead, It's Way Too Diluted
Is AMG dead?
Big changes are afoot in Affalterbach, even if it's all about perspective.
The first sign that trouble was afoot was at the release of the renamed and facelifted SLC-Class recently. Out was the SLK55 AMG with its naturally-aspirated 5.5 liter V8 pumping out 415hp and almost as much torque, and in came the SLC43 with a bi-turbo 3.0 liter V6 engine with 362hp and 384lb-ft. Even more brutal is that the new GLE43 Coupe uses that same engine. It's a gigantic coupe-shaped SUV that somehow gets to be an AMG when equipped with its base engine in the US - an engine that, in a car that big, honestly should be its base engine.
Now that these marketing folks had gotten their first sweet taste of titillating buyers with AMG scribbled on the back of (and about 20 other places on) regular old Benzes, personally I think they just couldn't help themselves. Just as Cadillac has V-Sport, BMW has M-Sport, Lexus has F-Sport, and Audi has the letter S, Mercedes marketing too had crossed over to the dark side of badge-fluffing.
(AutoBlog.com)
Big changes are afoot in Affalterbach, even if it's all about perspective.
The first sign that trouble was afoot was at the release of the renamed and facelifted SLC-Class recently. Out was the SLK55 AMG with its naturally-aspirated 5.5 liter V8 pumping out 415hp and almost as much torque, and in came the SLC43 with a bi-turbo 3.0 liter V6 engine with 362hp and 384lb-ft. Even more brutal is that the new GLE43 Coupe uses that same engine. It's a gigantic coupe-shaped SUV that somehow gets to be an AMG when equipped with its base engine in the US - an engine that, in a car that big, honestly should be its base engine.
Now that these marketing folks had gotten their first sweet taste of titillating buyers with AMG scribbled on the back of (and about 20 other places on) regular old Benzes, personally I think they just couldn't help themselves. Just as Cadillac has V-Sport, BMW has M-Sport, Lexus has F-Sport, and Audi has the letter S, Mercedes marketing too had crossed over to the dark side of badge-fluffing.
(AutoBlog.com)
You Tell Em' Geno!
Geno Auriemma rebuffs critics who say UConn’s dominance is bad
Hall of Fame Connecticut coach Geno Auriemma took some time at his team’s pregame press conference for its matchup against Texas in the Elite Eight to address questions about whether UConn’s dominance of women’s college basketball is bad for the game.
Addressing the question that he and his player have often faced during the school’s current 72-game winning streak, Auriemma said that he doesn’t see how his team’s strong play is hurting the sport.
“When Tiger [Woods] was winning every major, nobody said he was bad for golf,” Auriemma said via ESPN. “Actually he did a lot for golf. He made everybody have to be a better golfer. And they did. And now there's a lot more great golfers because of Tiger.”
(SI.com)
Hall of Fame Connecticut coach Geno Auriemma took some time at his team’s pregame press conference for its matchup against Texas in the Elite Eight to address questions about whether UConn’s dominance of women’s college basketball is bad for the game.
Addressing the question that he and his player have often faced during the school’s current 72-game winning streak, Auriemma said that he doesn’t see how his team’s strong play is hurting the sport.
“When Tiger [Woods] was winning every major, nobody said he was bad for golf,” Auriemma said via ESPN. “Actually he did a lot for golf. He made everybody have to be a better golfer. And they did. And now there's a lot more great golfers because of Tiger.”
(SI.com)
A New Way To Eat It On The Go
How To Make An In-N-Out Breakfast Burrito
The ingredients for one extremely filling burrito are simple:
In the mean time, get your tortilla of choice (over-sized), smear the spread all over, give a bottom layer of french fries, then top it all with your 4x4 burger mixture. After you wrap up the magic, I like to throw the entire burrito back on the skillet for a good browning on both sides.
(FoodBeast.com)
The ingredients for one extremely filling burrito are simple:
- 4x4 In-N-Out Burger
- 4 Eggs
- Fries
- Extra Cheese
- Side of spread
In the mean time, get your tortilla of choice (over-sized), smear the spread all over, give a bottom layer of french fries, then top it all with your 4x4 burger mixture. After you wrap up the magic, I like to throw the entire burrito back on the skillet for a good browning on both sides.
(FoodBeast.com)
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