Babbling 'brook

You're absolutely right about the Colts, who started life based in Baltimore. The Colts now play in Indianapolis. The Browns moved from Cleveland to Baltimore to become the Ravens and the good people of Cleveland retained the name of the team and were granted the next expansion franchise to found a ...

Part of the problem is that the teams don't 'belong' to the cities in which they're based. Each team is an independent, privately owned (with the exception of the Packers, who are owned by the citizens of Green Bay) franchise. This has meant that franchises have moved their bases - often to very dif...

The only football I get to see is Channel 4 and BBC and I'm hanging out for the last Monday in October which is the only time I'll get to see the Cards play before the Superbowl. I use these fellows for streaming http://www.epl424.org/. All of the matches are available each weekend, so I get to wat...

The Brumbies choked at the last hurdle at the weekend. Jake White might become available soon

Didn't leave a tip and won't be back. And that was on a Tuesday evening. I dread to think what it's like at the weekends. made me think back to an episode of QI I was (re-)watching recently. In the States you still leave a tip if you are on the receiving end of bad service, but the norm is to leave...

Had a similar experience on Sunday when Guns N Roses closed a festival I attended. Axl kept introducing his band members as an excuse for him to slime off backstage to do whatever/whomever he was doing. The band-member was then tasked with playing some pap to keep the crowd from mutiny until Axl dei...

This is quite an interesting thread. At this point I suspect even the dogs in the street know that Kidney needs to go. It is likely to be a case of 'when', not 'if' and it may well be that the talk in 10/12 Lansdowne Road has turned to the really important question: 'who is the right person for the ...

O'Brien: Kidney not to blame by Michelle Fortune , 27 June 2012 Sean O'Brien has leapt to the defence of Declan Kidney in the wake of Ireland's humiliating 60-0 defeat to New Zealand in the third and final Test. .... In soccer when coaches start to get 'votes of confidence' (admittedly usually from...

I was talking to someone recently about the fact that we should get a Kiwi in as national coach, to complement the three Kiwis who are looking after three of the provinces from next year. I was talking theoretically, and didn't have a name in mind, but the guy I was talking to had a name - he sugge...