Sports: Football, Baseball, Bball, Hockey, Etc. Vol. II

[Jeff Wrangler]

That link says: The difference is that they have less or no body hair. The amount of hairlessness will vary for every person. A hairless bear can, however, sport a dashing full beard.

I won't speak for the rest of the country, but in these parts that's ... baloney. A hairy body is practically the definition of a bear. There might be muscles. There might be flab. But there will definitely be a hairy body.

[fritzkep]

I won't speak for the rest of the country, but in these parts that's ... baloney. A hairy body is practically the definition of a bear. There might be muscles. There might be flab. But there will definitely be a hairy body.

Definitely.

[fritzkep]

Darn.

[Lyle (Mooska)]

^^^
If this keeps up you're going to have to use stronger language.

[Lyle (Mooska)]

[fritzkep]

Grrr.

[Jeff Wrangler]

Phillies v. Diamondbacks.

[Lyle (Mooska)]

3 of the 4 teams moving on to the Championship series are all Wild Card Teams.
5 of the 6 Division winners are out. (Unfortunately, the one IN is Houston again.
Actually, they TIED for 90 wins each with the Rangers in their division but Texas
lost in the tie-breaker rules.) The 100+ game winning teams and division leaders
are all finished. Braves (W 104), Orioles (W 101) Dodgers (W 100).

So is there something wrong with this new system? Playing for 2nd in your division is fine?

[fritzkep]

Yeah, disappointing. Hope the major leagues don't go the way of the NBA, in which the playing season counts for very little.

[CellarDweller115]

Yup, it's that time of year!

October starts the Grand Prix of Figure Skating. 


Date                               Event                              Location   
October 20-22               Skate America                United States   
October 27-29               Skate Canada                 Canada   
November 3-5               Grand Prix de France       France
November 10-12            Cup of China                  China
November 17-20            Grand Prix of Espoo        Finland
November 24-26            NHK Trophy                   Japan
December 7-10              Grand Prix Final              China




As per the list above, the first stop is next weekend, Skate America.






The competitors are:


Men

Vladimir Litvintsev (AZE)
Stephen Gogolev (CAN)
Kevin Aymoz (FRA)
Nika Egadze (GEO)
Shun Sato (JPN)
Tatsuya Tsuboi (JPN)
Nozomu Yoshioka (JPN)
Deniss Vasiljevs (LAT)
Andreas Nordeback (SWE)
Ilia Malinin (USA)
Maxim Naumov (USA)
Andrew Torgashev (USA)

Women

Loena Hendrickx (BEL)
Xiangyi An (CHN)
Niina Petrokina (EST)
Mone Chiba (JPN)
Mana Kawabe (JPN)
Hana Yoshida (JPN)
Ekaterina Kurakova (POL)
Seo-yeong Wi (KOR)
Young You (KOR)
Amber Glenn (USA)
Isabeau Levito (USA)
Clare Seo (USA) (Added Aug 30)

Pairs

Lia Pereira / Trennt Michaud (CAN)
Annika Hocke / Robert Kunkel (GER)
Anastasia Vaipan-Law / Luke Digby (GBR) (Added Oct 13)
Irma Caldara / Riccardo Maglio (ITA)
Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara (JPN) (WD Oct 12)
Nika Osipova / Dmitry Epstein (NED)
Evelyn Grace Hanns / Danny Neudecker (USA) (Added Sept 15; WD Oct 13)
Chelsea Liu / Balasz Nagy (USA) (Added Aug 30)
Isabelle Martins / Ryan Bedard (USA) (Added Oct 13)
Valentina Plazas / Maximiliano Fernandez (USA)

Ice Dance

Holly Harris / Jason Chan (AUS)
Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha (CAN)
Natalie Taschlerova / Filip Taschler (CZE)
Katerina Mrazkova / Daniel Mrazek (CZE)
Evgeniia Lopareva / Geoffrey Brissaud (FRA)
Hannah Lim / Ye Quan (KOR)
Olivia Smart / Tim Dieck (ESP)
Oona Brown / Gage Brown (USA) (Added Sept 15)
Madison Chock / Evan Bates (USA)
Caroline Green / Michael Parsons (USA)



Event Times (EST) -  all events will be streamed live on Peacock.  The ISU (International Skating Union) also has a YouTube channel, I'm trying to find out if they are streaming the events live there as well

Friday, Oct. 20
7:30 p.m. - Pairs Short Program
8:53 p.m. - Men's Short Program

Saturday, Oct. 21
3:03 p.m. - Rhythm Dance
4:39 p.m. - Pairs Free Skate
7:16 p.m. - Women's Short Program
9:04 p.m. - Men's Free Skate

Sunday, Oct. 22
2:15 p.m. - Free Dance
4:00 p.m. - Women's Free Skate
8:30 p.m. - Prevagen Skating Spectacular

[killersmom]

Oh WOW this came up pretty quickly! I know you'll enjoy it!!

Also Chuck, if you find out about the YouTube broadcasting it, please let us(me) know! Thanks!

[CellarDweller115]

[Lyle (Mooska)]

For a change, I can actually watch some of this on Peacock+. However, in a lot of cases, the three hour difference from the ET times listed is problematic.

[CellarDweller115]

Oh WOW this came up pretty quickly! I know you'll enjoy it!!

Also Chuck, if you find out about the YouTube broadcasting it, please let us(me) know! Thanks!

Hello Auntie!

Apparently, the ISU YouTube channel will be streaming the competitions on their channel, you just need to subscribe to it, which is free.

https://www.youtube.com/@SkatingISU/streams


If you scroll down through the streams, you'll see two scheduled for tonight.  The pairs short, scheduled for 7:30pm my time....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EnXqcxr_ik


and the men's short, scheduled for 8:50pm my time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2ce_paTyEg

[Lyle (Mooska)]

Jeff, did you watch the game yesterday? Were you on pins & needles?
Objectively, it was a very exciting game.