Wednesday, May 15, 2013
SI: The 50 highest-earning athletes
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Read More...When welterweight Floyd Mayweather was No. 1 on Sports Illustrated’s Fortunate 50 last year—knocking out Tiger Woods, who had been No. 1 every year since SI started producing the list in 2004—it looked like a fluke, the result of the $85 million he received for his fights with Victor Ortiz and Miguel Cotto. Now Mayweather is proving that he belongs at the top. From just two bouts this year, one earlier this month and the other scheduled for September, he will earn at least $90 million, ...
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‹ First < 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 > Last ›What I notice most about this is that they are all black or biracial (I just checked Kaepernick to confirm that).
Maybe the fact they are 1st and 2nd year players has something to do with it. I think it has a lot more to do with style of play (which I am not explicitly linking to their race). Blaine Gabbert, Brandon Weeden, Andrew Luck, and Ryan Tannehill (to name a few other young QBs) don't appear on this list.
1. Eagles
2. Colts
3. Jaguars
4. Cardinals
5. Chiefs
This must only be on dropbacks.
Yeah it probably is. I don't claim it to mean much. But there's a lot of white boys in that list.
Russell Wilson reminds me of film of Fran Tarkenton, who was not biracial to my knowledge. He also has a good deal of Steve Young or young Aaron Rodgers in him. Of those three, he's the only guy I see regularly scrambling in order to keep looking down field and running only on designed plays or as a last resort. The other three, from my limited viewing, tend to pull it down and "run first" - aka the Micheal Vick experience.
also, it makes very little sense to amnesty briere, due to his contract. his cap hit for the next two years (after this one) is 13 million, but he'll only be paid 5. if you're a team like columbus or carolina or phoenix, and you're hemorrhaging money, trading for briere gives you $4 million per year against the cap that doesn't have to paid. that could be very attractive to a team that's having financial difficulty, which is purportedly what this entire lockout was about.
I agree with these comparisons. I would also say that I'm not a Seahawks fan, but Wilson has very quickly become one of my favorite players to watch. I was a little surprised to see him in this list, as he seems to me to be pretty smart about and effective at avoiding contact.
I don't understand this question.
Looking for some outside chances in the NHL that are paying big odds - roughie I realize is slang, sorry. I wrote that in a rush yesterday
Edmonton at 40 to 1 is a decent long shot.
Neither likely to cash, but the price is right.
Like Doug Flutie or Jeff Garcia!
Actually now that I look at it, at 6'1 Jeff Garcia wasn't as short as I remember him.
What is the educated opinion on Flutie? From the very biased Canadian perspective it was endlessly frustrating watching the Bills giving snaps to Rob Johnson while Flutie sat on the bench. Was he actually a viable NFL QB?
if you put 10 on washington to win 300, then bet 15 against in the 1st round, 30 against in the 2nd, 60 against in the 3rd, and 120 against in the SC finals, you should pay out +5 with a loss in the first round, +5 in the 2nd, +5 in the 3rd, +5 in the finals, and then +75 if washington wins the cup.
if multiply that by 10, you get +50, +50, +50, +50, and +750 if they win the cup.
of course the odds and the house can screw with that a bit, but that's generally the way i'd go.
I like the Doug Flutie comp too. I thought Flutie was underutilized in the NFL for the most part. Players can play.
That's about as solid an example of "selling jeans" as you will find in sports. Flutie could play, but was "too small", while Johnson was a pretty-boy quarterback who sucked.
I think Voracek has to play on the first line. He needs to play with finishers. Although I think a combo of Wellwood, Voracek and Simmonds would be interesting. Think Coots is going to be an overachieving scorer/grinder in the mold of many former Flyers like Sutter, Poulin, Brind'Amour, he fits somewhere in that type of role.
I think it's absurd to not make Giroux the captain. When your best player is clearly the team leader, it just seems silly not to do it.
if you put the C on giroux and put voracek on his line with hartnell, i'd have no problem with that, but i have a feeling about briere stepping up as a leader. unless giroux is much more interested in wearing the C than i think he is, he's gonna step up whether he's wearing it or not. but with briere, i think that giving him that leadership responsibility would bring out the best in him and seeing what he's done in the playoffs over his career, i think if you can get that briere in the regular season, it sets the right tone.
and in addition, i think briere is connected with almost everyone of importance on the roster. he signed with the team the same offseason as hartnell and timonen, he's mentored giroux and couturier and read, he's made multiple playoff runs with coburn, he's got the french canadian thing going with talbot. he's played on the same line as schenn and voracek and simmonds.
it just feels right to me.
oh, and if couturier develops into anything like rod brind'amour, that'd be something like a wet-dream.
I guess they must have decided a while ago to get rid of him, but that it wouldn't be a good idea to do it during the lockout? Does this make it more, or less likely that the rumoured Luongo trade happens?
interesting that RG III will miss 8 to 12 months of a season that starts and ends in 8 to 12 months, plus playoffs.
Hedging is for noobs. Of course, outrights are also for noobs, so whatever I guess.
The conventional wisdom is that bad weather means more running, but Brady loves passing in it. Defenders can't get traction to rush him or to cover receivers on breaks. Case in point: he threw 6 TDs in a blizzard in 2009.
Hee, hee, hee, hee.
I'm having a real hard time thinking about hockey again. I put it so far out of my mind that I can't recall basic facts, player's names, or even the sites I normally read about it.
NHL tickets may be cheap, Caps tickets are not. If you want to go I'd suggest picking out a few games that look promising (Winnipeg or Minnesota, not the Flyers or Penguins) and check stubhub the day before the game (or even the day of the game). You might get lucky.
Forecast is for a high of 19 in Denver on Saturday, which may be an instance of the weather helping the visiting team. It was a warm autumn here, and it turned out that every Broncos home game was played in 50 degrees or above. I have the feeling that the Ravens are going to be better adapted to cold conditions than P. Manning & Co.
I don't know if that's true, but if it is, the CW is dead wrong. For the reasons you note. Offensive players know the plays, so know where they're going; defensive players don't, and as such are reactive - receivers make cuts more easily than defenders can follow them, for example. So for an offense like the one Brady runs, bad weather is your greatest ally.
In other words bad weather favors the offense ceteris parabus. Of course for many (most?) teams you don't see this working properly because they're not used to it - compare the Vikings, who practiced indoors all week before playing at Lambeau, and do so regularly, to the Pats, who practice outdoors always.
if i were san fran i would be wondering how the young qb handles weather if it happens.
CW usually is. Maybe it's no longer conventional wisdom (which is slowly going by the wayside) but it always seemed to be me it used to be.
For this same reason, I'd argue that this is where you see a running penalty in slippery conditions, as running backs need to quickly react and cut into gaps to be effective.
Kaep played his college ball at Reno. Reno has plenty of cold weather, and is a particularly windy place - there's even a name for the strong prevailing afternoon wind (the "Washoe Zephyr"). And the WAC had plenty of other cold-weather, early-snow away stadiums back in Kaep's day.
there is a difference between cold and wind and cold and rain
not looking to parse words. but quarterbacks discuss this all the time. cold is not really a concern for most qbs
wind matters if your qb has an arm like joey harrington.
but rain is a whole different issue. and then, according to the interviews i have read/heard, cold begins to matter
cold/rain is challenge for qbs
Not that that has any relevance to the NFL.
But playing football in a thick snow has got to be one of the funnest athletic activities for a group of 8 or so people. Right up there with curling.
I guess the backdrop makes it look like it was taken at Christmas time.
It's from Dave Bolland's wedding in July. I believe more recent reports are that Byfuglien is actually in decent shape for camp, which makes me sad. I'll have to console myself with Fat Lucic and Tyler Seguin's filthy Swiss apartment.
i cannot imagine that he would leave notre dame for this job, but there is a not insignificant number of connections between him and the eagles franchise. he coached 3 current eagles when he was at cincinnati (jason kelce, brent celek, and marty gilyard), and since he's been at notre dame, he has sent guys like michael floyd, kyle rudolph, and harrison smith to the NFL, and while none of those 3 were actually drafted by the eagles, the eagles were fairly strongly connected to them during the pre-draft process.
so, while it does seem to be kind of random for the eagles to interview him at this time, there is a current that connects them beneath the surface.
It's nothing more than him trying to get a better contract from Notre Dame. Like Bill O'Brien did (now he gets say in who the next AD is, 'cause that was never a problem at PSU!). Nothing to see here, move along. Looks like Notre Dame isn't buying it, which is smart by them.
Ah yes. I knew I had seen it somewhere.
this is some classic stuff
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