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Thứ Sáu, 11 tháng 12, 2015
Thứ Năm, 10 tháng 12, 2015
“I may have a masters degree but the offside rule is beyond me”, said no woman ever.
"You like football? Really? Wow!"
"But do you genuinely like football or do you just say that to get guys?"
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"OK, so do you actually understand The Offside Rule?"
Which as everyone knows, is next to Einstein's theory of relativity in terms of intellectual difficulty.
"I bet it's all those guys running in shorts you like, aye? Aye? ? ?"
Oh, if only kicks were that easy to come by.
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink didn’t get a job at Port Vale because the chairman of the club feared he would be subject to racist abuse.
Norman Smurthwaite, chairman of Port Vale Football Club, has revealed he passed up the opportunity to give Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink a job as manager in 2013 because he was scared the club's own fans would be racist towards the Dutch legend.
Subsequently, Hasselbaink took on a job at Burton, and is now the manager of Queens Park Rangers.
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Smurthwaite says he was ready to give Hasselbaink a job at Port Vale, but chose not to because the club was under investigation by the FA for racist chanting.
"I didn't take him [Hasselbaink] because of the racial issue the club had got. I didn't think it was fair on him," Smurthwaite told the Mirror.
"Can you imagine the poor bloke getting abuse, along with the normal abuse if results were going against him?"
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Smurthwaite said he felt Hasselbaink would have done well at the club, but a "small minority" of fans would have reacted negatively to his appointment as manager.
"He would have been right for the club without doubt but I don't think the club would have been right for him.
"Ninety-nine per cent of our fans are excellent but a small minority leave us with policing and other issues."
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The Golden State Warriors have won the first 23 games of this NBA season, extending their regular-season winning streak to 27 games. That's good enough for second place among the NBA's best streaks, which the Miami Heat also achieved in 2013. (Or third place, if you don't count the Warriors' four wins at the end of last regular season.)
But to tie the NBA record — 33 straight, set by the 1971–72 Los Angeles Lakers — the Warriors will have to win their next 10 games. What are the odds of that happening?
About 40%.
To arrive at that estimate, BuzzFeed News combined per-game projections produced by FiveThirtyEight's "CARM-Elo" statistical model. CARM-Elo gives the Warriors a 70% chance of beating the Boston Celtics on Friday, and an 87% chance of beating the Milwaukee Bucks in their next game after that.
Multiply the probabilities for the Warriors' next 20 games, and you get the following odds for the Warriors extending their streak to X number of games:
League officials encouraged teams to extend protective netting.
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MLB officials on Wednesday recommended teams extend protective netting along baselines to reduce the likelihood of fans being hit by foul balls and broken bats. League and club executives are currently meeting in Nashville for the annual Winter Meetings.
The netting will shield "all field-level seats that are located between the near ends of both dugouts" — the ends of the dugouts located closest to home plate — "and within 70 feet of home plate."
MLB began re-evaluating netting placement at ballparks after a lawsuit filed in June by an Athletics season ticket holder who said she feared for her safety sitting in a section where many foul balls and some bats hurtled into the stands during games.
A week before the lawsuit was filed, a Red Sox fan was hit in the head with a shattered bat and spent a week in the hospital before being discharged.
In a statement, MLB explained further recommendations to teams:
• * Although clubs already provide warnings to fans about the dangers posed by batted balls and bats entering the stands and the need to pay attention to the action on the field during each at-bat, the Commissioner's Office recommends that clubs continue to explore ways to educate their fans on these issues and is providing clubs with resources to assist them in this area.
• The Commissioner's Office will be working with the clubs and online ticketing sellers to identify ways to provide customers with additional information at the point of sale about which seats are (and are not) behind netting.
Immediately after the MLB's recommendation, the Phillies and Dodgers announced they would extend netting in their respective ballparks. In a statement, the Phillies said they "plan to replace all of our existing netting with newer material which is as strong, but thinner and more easily viewed through."
During a press conference Tuesday, MLB Chief Baseball Officer Joe Torre hedged on the netting issue, but said, "We don't carry guys off the field; we certainly don't want fans in the stands to not stay healthy."
In a statement Wednesday, Commissioner Rob Manfred said:
"It is important that fans have the option to sit behind protective netting or in other areas of the ballpark where foul balls and bats are less likely to enter. This recommendation attempts to balance the need for an adequate number of seating options with our desire to preserve the interactive pre-game and in-game fan experience that often centers around the dugouts, where fans can catch foul balls, see their favorite players up close and, if they are lucky, catch a tossed ball or other souvenir."
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