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I can remember that prediction being made at least 25 years ago. SI trots it out every few years.

I think that's why it struck me so pointedly. It's not everyday that you see this stuff unfold before your very eyes with a bunch of 5-10 year olds. Interesting that you bring up how young kids are when they start sports these days. We are having to deal with a competing league this year because...

I spent all day Saturday evaluating kids for a flag football draft, and a couple of things stood out to me that relate to the subject matter of this board. These were kids in grades K-5, in an affluent suburb that is mostly white. It is competitive, but not insanely so. We play to win, but keep...

http://blogs.ajc.com/uga-sports-blog/2012/08/16/ugas-hall-is-proving-recruiters-wrong/?cxntfid=blogs_uga_sports_blog AJC article about Merritt Hall, currently #1 on the depth chart at fullback. It's pretty obvious why Hall wasn't recruited by anyone. Everyone knows why, yet can't say it. Oh...

:amen: My favorites are "how can steroids help you hit a baseball? You can either hit it, or you can't"; and "what good does extra muscle do you in basketball?" or "Getting big muscles would just make you run slower." Our local DWF call in show hosts were adamant for years that PEDs gave no...

I can't believe this is even controversial at this point Doesn't the presence of Angel Heredia in Bolt's career pretty much seal the deal on this? Maybe Bolt will show up at the blocks one day with a syringe hanging out of his butt cheek so whatever doubt that remains can be removed. Bolt and...

Amazing how they're all more muscular than Ben Johnson was at the height of his juicing. :icon_confused:

I'm actually taking that one almost as a positive. At least it showed Wes Welker scoring a td on the idiot neutered dad's phone, and the little girl was at least clinging to the white guy. It could have been a lot worse. Meanwhile, Deion Sanders??? He's a 44 year old man! Do the DWFs even...

"the hive" got me laughing. Perfect description of what they do. Every time a black does well in a predominantly white sport like tennis, golf, swimming, gymnastics, whatever, the media goes to this same template. Gabby is sitting there as an Olympic champion, and what a Bob Costas sees is a...

Did Obama tell Phelps "you didn't win those medals"? Probably. Ervin looks Jewish (which he is), and that makes him difficult to use as anti-white sports propaganda. Blacks and DWFs will not see him as black, so his value to them is minimal. If that isn't the height of irony, I don't know what...

That was highway robbery! Just watched it. Serious home cookin'. It looked like a clear victory for the Ukrainian, and the "Brit" seemed genuinely shocked that he won. :icon_eek:

HAHAHA! When I posted that about yams, I honestly had not read your post yet.

Well, that was a pretty weak joke on my part, but they do have a history of cheating in swimming, and getting caught. I'll confine my comments to swimming, because that's the international sport I follow the closest. The East German women were cheating throughout the 70s and 80s. That is not...

I want confirmation that those Chinese are "women". Somebody else take a look, I don't want to know that badly. :laugh: It really would be fascinating to learn how they are doing it. Obviously, they think they have something that can get past the testing. They are also counting on political...

Cullen Jones holds the current U.S. record in the 50 meter freestyle at 21.40.

I'll go a little against the grain and say that I love the Olympics, even if it is covered in a nasty way, and is mostly about money. It's about the only time that sports like swimming, water polo, wrestling and fencing get a lot of attention. I realize that it's about to get really track...

My quick and incomplete look at the head to head boxing results to this point indicates that when it's black vs. white, the white fighters are dominating. I'll admit that it was a quick perusal of a handful of weight classes, and I was going on my own snap judgment of what constitutes "white"...

The Russians are winning about the number of medals one would expect. They aren't the Soviet Union anymore, so medals won by Lithuanians, Georgians, Ukrainians, various stans etc... don't count for them. I would expect the Russian total to expand as we get into the field events. The Germans...

I don't know about Wieber's family background, but a lot (dwindling) of Lebanese are not ethnically Arab. If the grandma came from Muslim stock, probably so; if from Maronite or Greek Orthodox, probably not. Like Wieber, I have a Lebanese grandmother; like Doug Flutie, John Elway, and Mitch...

If you add up the medals won by the former Soviet states, I think you get 18 at this point. As the field events get going, I would look for that to increase significantly. Meanwhile, the Germans have dropped in total medals every Games since 1992, from 82 in Barcelona, to 41 in Beijing. Maybe...

What Missy Franklin managed to do was really amazing. That was a very quick turnaround, she had a terrible start in the 100 back, and still nearly broke a 2009 (tech suit aided) world record. That was an epic finish. She just kicked everybody's ass in the final 15 meters. She seems to me like...

Lochte humbled again I hate to keep picking on this guy, but Vanilla Ice makes me sick. The Frenchman, Yannick Agnel, beat the living snot out of Lochte again, and everybody else in the 200 free, winning by a full body length. That guy is having a helluva meet! The Chinese star must have had...