Forum: Games and Sports

Well, it looks like 8 of the teams that make up Formula 1 have had enough of Max Mosely and the demands being placed on them from the budget cap. They are going to form their own Championship in 2010 before the budget cap kicks in. When that...

Well, not straightaway, and there may be a few complaints about the idea, but it looks like the NFL are seriously thinking about it. London SuperBowl talks here Could make the half time show interesting and I wonder if they will change the...

The England Ladies Cricket team has just won their Cricket World Cup for the third time. Congratulations all round to an excellent performance. Now if only the men could catch up, they only have three to go.

It's that time again when England and Australia clash over cricket. First Test: England v Australia at Cardiff Jul 8-12 (11:00 local, 10:00 GMT) Second Test: England v Australia at Lord's Jul 16-20 (11:00 local, 10:00 GMT)

So the new season is coming up soon and so all the English Premier league teams are unveiling their new strips. Mainly to cash in on the fans buying them but hey. And so we come to Newcastle Utd and their abberation of an away strip. It's...

Well, it looks like Ferrari went out and found someone to take over from Massa while he recovers. It looks like Michael Schumacher is going to be back in Formula One after all. Story here He may be 40, but he still has more skill than most on...

The rules are fairly simple, quote the previous post and finish it off with something new and original and then start a new quote. I'll start with "To be or not to be..."

Well, according to sources, details of the gender testing that was carried out on the world 800m winner Carster Semenya shows that she is actually a hermaphrodite. Note, this is still alleged and an official statement has not been released....

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...

Well, it looks as though two of the principles in the Renault team deliberately engineered a crash in the Singapore Grand Prix allowing their other driver to win the race. Considering they changed the stop strategy of Alonso to provide maximum...

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...

So, 4 choices of city. Chicago Madrid Rio de Janeiro Tokyo So which one fo these fine cities deserves it and will they regret getting it in a couple of years time. Considering we have had a couple of presidents, some royalty, prime...

Well, it looks as though we have the NFL invading London yet again with the New England Patriots vs Tampa Bay Buccaneers It will probably pick up a large crowd along to watch the fun and games, but is the NFL really that desperate to expand it's...

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...

Ok, so what's going on with Tiger Woods? He manages to crash his car at 2am at slow speed into a tree/hydrant outside his house. His wife has smashed the back windows to get him out. Umm, yeah. Sure. So is he having an affair and did his...

it's been 15 years since an innocuous grey box was released in Japan which has become one of the world's biggest brands. It has become part of everyday life and was a very large part of making console gaming a mainstream experience. It sold more...

So given that a lot of his sponsors have already left, who should be Tiger Woods have sponsorship from. Frosties - appealing to Adults to bring out the Tiger in you. The Tiger Woods 2010 game from EA is actually a romance sim instead of a golf...

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...

Anyone else following this? Is it going to be another Federer vs Nadal final or is someone else going to step up. The quarter finals are Federer v Davydenko Djokovic v Tsonga Roddick v Cilic Nadal v Murray

Coming up on the 7th February is one of the biggest sporting days of the calendar, the Superbowl is upon us again. So who do you think is going to win The New Orleans Saints or the Indianapolis Colts? Are you going to be doing anything...

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 =...

A bit of a watershed for English football at least and I hope it leads to better things. Football (no, not the US Gridiron version, proper football) is a notoriously macho sport and is considered pretty sexist and homophobic. However, we have now...

A really sad day for English Premier football but one that has been expected for a while. Having lived beyond their means for the last few years, debts have finally caught up with Portsmouth FC and the club has now gone into administration...

The World Cup is beginning on 11th June in South Africa. England will aim to stop 30+ years of hurt and win it once again. I'm looking forward to having matches played at a reasonable time of day instead of at 5am Then again, Brazil and Spain...

Does anyone else on the board play videogames and is anyone else looking forward to E3? We should have Demos of PS3 Move, Xbox 360 Natal (or whatever codename they decide to use for it), or possibly a slim version as well, a new Nintendo...

In there time, Sony has come up with some genius marketing, and tbh this is pretty much up there as a tribute to gamers. Maybe nearly as good as "Double Life", but the fun is spotting all the cameos. mdWkKKSckNk

Muttiah Muralitharan has decided to retire from Test Cricket after Galle Test against India, although he may continue to play in the ODIs after that. He is the leading wicket taker in both Test Cricket and ODIs, and I would not put it past him to...

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. ...

According to humans, this is the cute story of a long tailed macaque monkey adopting a young ginger kitten in the forests of Bali. What do you think they are saying?

Its only been 13 years in the making, but it looks as though patience will be rewarded. Coming in 2011 from Gearbox, Duke Nukem Forever is back. It has been seeen and played and gives hope to everyone who has been waiting for so long. I hope...

A question that came up over the weekend and I didn't have an answer for. Can you name any strong lead female character in a videogame who has a family and background which exists and is interacted with during the game? The catch. She has to be...

A couple years ago, Liverpool FC, one of the greatest of the English Football Clubs with a long and proud history was bought by a comple of Americans called Hicks and Gillette using debt financing and a little bit of their own money. After a...

Everyone has good days and everyone has bad days and some days always appear better than others. All you have to do is list the days of the week in your order of preference. For me, it's Saturday Friday Sunday, Monday

It has happened a few times in football (soccer to the yanks), where a player is transferred between clubs. Not just any clubs though, lifelong hated rivals, which means that the player is villified for a long time afterwards. It is usally made...

It's that time again, where one of the oldest rivalries takes place. Last time, England won 2-1 when Australia came to visit in 2009. But last time England travelled to Australia in 2006/07, Ossie bowler Glenn McGrath got his wish with a 5-0...

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...

I have no idea if there is any on the board even interested in golf, so this will probably sink like a stone. I only watch the major events anyway. This coming weekend sees one of Golf's premier tournaments taking place at Augusta with all the...

So is anyone watching the French Open at Roland Garros? I'm looking forward to seeing if Djokovic can maintain his winning streak and win the French Open from Nadal. Hopefully Andy Murray will put in a good showing, but now having said that, he...

A new study has come out showing what a lot of people already suspected, that the head impacts in Gridiron are a problem and causing serious psychological and neurological problems. The same also goes for other hard hitting sports like rugby and...

Has anyone else been following the build up to the fight on 2nd July. It seems that Haye has gone to extreme lengths to try and rattle Klitschko and get under his skin. including the following "Downfall" skit. XMIR-7LifIs Then again 3 of...

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...

Horror is such a subjective theme, but here are twenty tweets for you to identify. Each one is something that a major character from a horror story, either a book or film, might have sent out at some time. Assuming, of course, that they would have...

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

I saw this on another board recently: The Broken Picture Telephone Game. One person writes a short description, then the next person has to draw a picture of the description, then a third person writes a description for the second person's drawing,...

I understand the basics, because they seem similar to a game we learn in school called Rounders. Use a bat to hit a ball and move between bases without being run-out (sorry, thats a cricket term, I don't know if it is the same for baseball or...

It's really quite simple - you decide on a name, pick the gender and outfit and send your Brute out to battle, gladiator style. Fights give XP, which in turn give new weapons, skills or even pets. They are also automatic, so you don't get to play...

I tend to waste quite a bit of time in front of the computer, not really doing anything, and have found three excellent puzzles that I like to think help keep my brain at least slightly active. Everyone knows Sudoku - there's tons of online...

So I've signed up with some friends for a 'korpen'-team. It's an amateur football league, with fairly lax rules, 7 v 7 on a small field. I know I need the exercise, but I can't just run. The boredom would kill me faster than any heart condition. ...

ivan astikov mentioned a desire for some MMA discussion, and since I'm a fan as well, I figured I'd start this up as a general thread for all things MMA. I'll start: UFC96 man, am I ever glad they stopped with the silly names. Domination!...

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...