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For Basketball folk- @reggiecleveland can maybe answer this best.... what is the year round cost to "get noticed" ? And does a kid from Podunk (State/Territory/Province) have a chance to "make it" if they can't afford to showcase their talents?

I didn't intend this to be an indictment of soccer, that is just my experience. I was never a good enough basketbal player to be anything other than the 8th man off the bench when our coach ran a 12 man rotation. One of my "cousins" (our parents were best friends in college) was a gymnast and...

Spawned from a derailment in BBtL... this crosses multiple sports. From a personal level, I played soccer at a fairly competitive level for 3 seasons growing up.... and I know the cost was nowhere near what it is these days (I know, because I know my parents wouldn't be able to afford it)...

I am going to start a new thread in the general sports forum for the cost of athletics... I think it is a great topic of discussion. And the mods are always saying more threads are better...

Pasta now in a tie for 75th for most career hat tricks. T5 for active. And he started about a decade after everyone else in the top 5. (Hockey Reference still has Kovalchuk as 'active' . I guess he is still playing in the KHL, so he can always return stateside?) 1. Alex Ovechkin 2005-06...

Great question @Frisbetarian . Nice to see you around these parts again. Bruce said this after last night: I don't have too much to add as I never learned how to skate (picture a giraffe on ice to get a sense of what it looked like when I tried). But I think a coaching staff establishes a...

I am not sure how accurate it is, but the PFF Mock simulator has the comps as 96, 139 and 145.

We have yet to see if he can stab a ground ball and underhand it to first.

I was looking at the NBA.com box score/ made shots from last night, as I didn't get to watch the game. The PP 3, came off of a great secondary (hockey) assist from Nesmith. He had an open-ish 18 footer, but tossed it in to RW3, who kicked it to the corner to PP. I think earlier in this thread...

He's having a good second 9. Has it down to -1 on the day with 2 holes left.

Does Mahomes have the ability to adjust will be the biggest question going forward. TBay took the NE method of "beat us with your other players" -- basically ran the NE gameplan (double Hill, jam Kelce)-- the fact that their front 4 could get home was an added plus. Mahomes seemed to have no...

I light-hearted Smart related blurb from a Celts Q&A in The Athletic. The question is who would perform the second-best in Celebrity Jeopardy amongst the Celtics (assuming Jaylen wins). A portion of Jay King's response:

Great quote by Cassidy captured by Fluto today in the Athletic:

Not a GPG player. Pathetic. What a disgrace. </JE6>

And we all recall when Rory had given himself a worse lie when his ball had been stepped on, for the integrity of the game. https://www.golfchannel.com/news/rory-mcilroy-intentionally-made-his-lie-worse-so-wouldnt-feel-guilty If you act above reproach, you get treated as such.

Make the Flyers Blidh!

Thanks @TSC - you answered it perfectly for me.

I half- forgot about this game... grabbed my phone and saw them down 3-1. Looked back a bit later and saw it was 3-3. Immediately followed the rest here and on GameCast (leading to Carlo and Marchy goals). But-- more credit to cshea. My question, from a guy who can't skate... is Nick...

Agreed. Judging the NE TE's on one year (with injuries) with no offseason as "stink[ing]" is harsh. I think it has been said on this board how TE is one of the hardest positions to come into and make an impact as a rookie- needing to learn all the blocking schemes plus the entire route tree...

Thanks... my eyes were getting too dry anyways.