Forum: Games and Sports

http://www.idlemafia.com/index.cgi?b...6&page=1#48584 The game setup is randomly chosen from one of three possible setups as detailed below: 1 Mafia Goon, 1 Mafia Roleblocker, 1 Sane Cop, 1 Sane Doctor, 5 Townies 2 Mafia Goons, 1 Sane...

Duke Nukem Developer 3D Realms shuts down The article links to a post by Joe Siegler. Since the 3D Realms forums are overloaded, I'll quote it here: It's not a marketing thing. It's true. I have nothing further to say at this time. Crap.

If they moved to the SEC or ACC, or even Big 10, what realignment dominoes would that set off?

Although I said I'd be sticking around after stepping down as mod, I haven't really been here all that much, and as a result, I've let the Feud sit idle for the past few weeks. I apologize for that, and to keep things moving smoothly I think it...

Oh sweet. It looks as though one of the most prestigious teams ever to grace Formula one will be back in 2010. More here, but it looks like with the withdrawal of BMW Sauber, they were chosen to fill the spot. I look forward to seeing the...

Ok, who replaced England with this bunch of winners. Beating Sri Lanka and South Africa to lead the group after the 6-1 drubbing at the hands of the Aussies not so long ago. I can't say we have a chance to win it, because we should be losing...

Ok, so the latest rumours are that with the departure of Jenson Button to McLaren, that Schumacher will be returning to the new Brawn/Mercedes team. Of course he would be under the guidence of Ross Brawn again and we know how good a team they...

He was the best commentator of rugby union and possibly one of the best across all sports. Extremely knowledgeble about all the players in the game, with a legenday attention to detail, he had a rich scottish brogue voice, which only added to the...

The ATP, the governing body of Men's Tennis, is looking at adding a new championship in addition to the four majors. The idea being mooted is to get rid of the Davis cup, which appears to have a really strange format anyway and replace it with a...

Due to the increase in the number of teams and amongst the other rules changes, the new points socring system has been agreed by the FIA for the next season. 1st = 25 pts 2nd = 18 pts 3rd = 15 pts 4th = 12 pts 5th = 10 pts 6th = 8 pts 7th =...

Here's the game - you don't have to play it to listen to the song: http://jayisgames.com/games/biomass/ We've got, from what I can tell Music: "Little Bitty Pretty One" (or whatever that's called) "At the Hop"

Of these 2 women, who's lifting ability is more impressive: Stephanie (6'5, 250 lbs) Benchpress: 265 lbs for 35 reps Squat: 470 for 15 Deadlift: 700 for 5 Legpress: 950 for 5 Amanda (5'4, 140)

Last Year I ran a Fantasy Football league on the SDMB and so I am cross posting on to here to see if anyone else is interested. If anyone is interested it is on http://fantasy.premierleague.com. I have renewed the group and have set up access. ...

It seems that Pakistan's wicket keeper decided that he would rather not hang around in Dubai and caught a plane to London. He is currently in police custody citing death threats against him and his family since he refused to co-operate with match...

Well it looks like Pacquiao is laying claim to be the best boxer on the planet follownig his round by round demolition of Margarito and Haye won in a very, very one sided match against Harrison. Anyone see either of these matches, although to...

Right. Now that WEC is no more, I've finally started looking into it. Man, these tiny guys are amazing. Some of the best fighting I've ever seen - definitely some of the most exciting. If you haven't seen it yet, check out Anthony Pettis' kick...

Let's say ESPN wanted to try the following schedule rules for 2016 1.Every stadium visited 2.Every team gets a road game 3.No match ups duplicated Are there enough Sundays and Wednesdays to pull it off?

Kerri Strug sprains her ankle on her first vault, goes on to win the gold medal for her team with the second one, even though she basically has to land on one foot. Amazing. fFn47a_Ny0Y

A new challenge has been set up by Mercedes to allow 24 lucky people to race David Coulthard, the F1 grand prix driver. The catch, David Coulthard will be trying to do 10 laps as fast as possible in a real SLS AMG. Once that is done, the 24 people...

A massive pileup at the Las Vegas IndyCar 300 race involving 15 cars ended with the loss of life of Dan Wheldon, who was a well respected driver. Tributes to him have been coming in from all forms of motorsport including Formula 1 Its been...

If anyone is interested in wasting more time in yet another online game, I will be running a new Mafia game on idlemafia shortly.

According to a trade calculator I found, the #1 pick is worth 3,000 points. How much are: the starting, back-up and #3 QB worth? To make the trades I tried worth it, the values needed are: 525 for the #3 1683 for the backup 2256 for the...

I'm still trying to figure out the rules of this game. I'm not ashamed to be thinking of Rachel Weisz in the movie *Chain Reaction* with that dude. Action: Lock one of the sliding glass doors on a condo common area, when someone is outside...

There was a team that had consecutive road games, both on East Coast I believe. The team, the Raiders I believe, stayed on East Coast to prepare for second game. Why don't more teams do this?

In a sports league with 8 games, how many different ways can their home and road games be distributed? I think it's (2^8)/2

What time of day do most teams hold practice? I'm especially curious about non-revenue sports.