Monzanator

Mertens out of WTA finals contention after a loss today.

[hide] Bronze Medal Match Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 30th 2018, h. 17:00 Serbia 1 3 United States Gold Medal Match Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 30th 2018, h. 20:30 Brazil 3 1 Poland [/hide]

Van der Breggen finaly gets that rainbow jersey. Long overdue IMO. It's clear the strenght of the Dutch team enables them to dominate. What the hell happened with that Deignan though? Since missing those drug tests and barely escaping a ban, she's been struggling for results. Coincidence?

[hide] Semifinals Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 29th 2018, h. 17:00 Brazil 3 0 Serbia September 29th 2018, h. 20:30 Poland 1 3 United States [/hide]

Poland needs 61 points tomorrow so basically only 3x25:20 promotes Italy. That will be very tough for them IMO.

We saw that last year, this team is uber shit without Rodgers. Mike McMcarthy is like a band of blind squirells drowning in acorns. From Favre to Rodgers? Sheesh... he coudn't do anything without #12 while Bellichick coaxed 11 wins off Matt fuckin Cassel and allowed Jimmy G to sign multi-millions dollar deal based on 6 quarters of work. That's coaching! Btw, the Matthews calls was BS but even more so the one in the Dallas/Seatte game on the Prescott hit. The league is getting awfully soft so they can help the QBs any which way they can. OL is getting downgraded every season while more and more pass rushers make instant impact. I'm surprised they haven't outawed the sacks yet! This is getting insane, I hate Matthews' arrogance but he got screwed big time. Scoop & pull? That's total garbage, the more the OL sucks, the more QB will be in trouble no matter how the league wants to cuddle them. Besides, as the Garoppolo injury shows, the season-wrecking injury can happen - and usually does - on a non-contact play anyway. The Barr/Rodgers stuff last season was a one-off but the league completely freaked out over it.

I don't follow cycling on daily basis, you probably means van Morsel - what's her full name? (I never remember that).

I read the 49ers forum and some complained why they deserved this? Sheesh... 5 SB in 13 years is more than overdue to suffer some bad luck. Now the only thing missing is Packers struggling without a QB but that won't happen until 2025 or sth

It's still better than when they had Longo and a bunch of no-names

[hide] First Round September 29th - October 4th, 2018 24 Nations, 4 Groups, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Nations from each Group will qualify for the Second Round Group A Date & Time (GMT +9) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 29th 2018, h. 13:10 Mexico 2 3 Cameroon September 29th 2018, h. 15:40 Germany 1 3 Netherlands September 29th 2018, h. 19:20 Argentina 0 3 Japan September 30th 2018, h. 13:40 Cameroon 0 3 Germany September 30th 2018, h. 16:10 Argentina 3 1 Mexico September 30th 2018, h. 19:20 Japan 2 3 Netherlands October 1st 2018, h. 13:40 Germany 3 1 Argentina October 1st 2018, h. 16:10 Netherlands 3 0 Cameroon October 1st 2018, h. 19:20 Mexico 0 3 Japan October 3rd 2018, h. 13:40 Argentina 0 3 Netherlands October 3rd 2018, h. 16:10 Mexico 0 3 Germany October 3rd 2018, h. 19:20 Japan 3 0 Cameroon October 4th 2018, h. 13:40 Netherlands 3 0 Mexico October 4th 2018, h. 16:10 Cameroon 2 3 Argentina October 4th 2018, h. 19:20 Germany 1 3 Japan Group B Date & Time (GMT +9) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 29th 2018, h. 13:40 Bulgaria 0 3 Italy September 29th 2018, h. 16:10 Turkey 3 1 Canada September 29th 2018, h. 19:20 China 3 0 Cuba September 30th 2018, h. 13:40 Canada 1 3 Italy September 30th 2018, h. 16:10 Cuba 3 2 Bulgaria September 30th 2018, h. 19:20 Turkey 1 3 China October 2nd 2018, h. 13:40 Italy 3 0 Cuba October 2nd 2018, h. 16:10 Bulgaria 1 3 Turkey October 2nd 2018, h. 19:20 China 3 0 Canada October 3rd 2018, h. 13:40 Turkey 2 3 Italy October 3rd 2018, h. 16:10 Canada 2 3 Cuba October 3rd 2018, h. 19:20 China 3 0 Bulgaria October 4th 2018, h. 13:40 Bulgaria 2 3 Canada October 4th 2018, h. 16:10 Cuba 1 3 Turkey October 4th 2018, h. 19:20 Italy 2 3 China Group C Date & Time (GMT +9) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 29th 2018, h. 13:40 Russia 3 0 Trinidad and Tobago September 29th 2018, h. 16:10 Azerbaijan 0 3 United States September 29th 2018, h. 19:20 South Korea 1 3 Thailand September 30th 2018, h. 13:40 United States 3 0 Trinidad and Tobago September 30th 2018, h. 16:10 Azerbaijan 2 3 South Korea September 30th 2018, h. 19:20 Thailand 1 3 Russia October 2nd 2018, h. 13:40 Russia 3 0 Azerbaijan October 2nd 2018, h. 16:10 Trinidad and Tobago 0 3 Thailand October 2nd 2018, h. 19:20 United States 3 0 South Korea October 3rd 2018, h. 13:40 Azerbaijan 3 0 Trinidad and Tobago October 3rd 2018, h. 16:10 South Korea 0 3 Russia October 3rd 2018, h. 19:20 Thailand 1 3 United States October 4th 2018, h. 13:40 Trinidad and Tobago 0 3 South Korea October 4th 2018, h. 16:10 Thailand 3 2 Azerbaijan October 4th 2018, h. 19:20 Russia 3 2 United States Group D Date & Time (GMT +9) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 29th 2018, h. 13:40 Puerto Rico 0 3 Brazil September 29th 2018, h. 16:10 Dominican Republic 1 3 Serbia September 29th 2018, h. 19:20 Kazakhstan 3 0 Kenya September 30th 2018, h. 13:40 Brazil 3 0 Dominican Republic September 30th 2018, h. 16:10 Kazakhstan 0 3 Puerto Rico September 30th 2018, h. 19:20 Kenya 0 3 Serbia October 1st 2018, h. 13:40 Dominican Republic 3 0 Kazakhstan October 1st 2018, h. 16:10 Puerto Rico 3 0 Kenya October 1st 2018, h. 19:20 Serbia 2 3 Brazil October 3rd 2018, h. 13:40 Puerto Rico 1 3 Dominican Republic October 3rd 2018, h. 16:10 Kazakhstan 0 3 Serbia October 3rd 2018, h. 19:20 Kenya 0 3 Brazil October 4th 2018, h. 13:40 Serbia 3 1 Puerto Rico October 4th 2018, h. 16:10 Dominican Republic 3 0 Kenya October 4th 2018, h. 19:20 Brazil 3 0 Kazakhstan [/hide]

Hah! Payback for the Montana/Rice years. Keeping 49ers irrelevant for just a little longer... Patriots lost a second game by a double-digit margin for the first time since 2002! Is the Evil Empire shaking? Too early to tell since Lions are coached by NE's ex-DC who knows them inside out.

They're just milking the money out of this, volleyball is a very hermetic sport. Do we really need to see Poland vs Serbia rematch within three days? FIVB has lost the plot ages ago. It's equally boring as Italy vs Cuba World League finals in the early 90s You can make these teams play 12 matches instead of 6-7 and the same teams will always prevail.

[hide] Third Round September 26th - September 28th, 2018 6 Nations, 2 Groups, the 1st and 2nd Nations from each Group will qualify for Semifinals Group I Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 26th 2018, h. 17:00 Brazil 3 2 Russia September 27th 2018, h. 17:00 United States 2 3 Russia September 28th 2018, h. 17:00 Brazil 3 1 United States Group J Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 26th 2018, h. 21:15 Italy 3 1 Serbia September 27th 2018, h. 20:30 Poland 3 1 Serbia September 28th 2018, h. 21:15 Italy 3 1 Poland [/hide]

I don't recall that plan Anyway, this format simply doesn't work, the final six makes no sense, go straight from Top 12 to semis or maybe QFs.

The schedule is out, guess what... Italy play on Wednesday and Friday with a day off in between

If Italy had Russia and USA in their group, the SF would be in doubt. Getting to the SF was the paramount task, as many people predicted the hosts group is vanilla compared to the power house in the other.

More theories: Poland vs Italy on Wednesday, Serbia vs Poland on Thursday and Italy vs Serbia on Friday. Let's see if that sticks

Probaby used hot & cold balls again. This trick is getting old

Rigged Italy plays Serbia & Poland... our journalists literally called this yesterday...

[hide] Second Round September 21st - September 23rd, 2018 16 Nations, 4 Groups, the 1st Nation from each Group and 2 best 2nd placed Nations between all Groups will qualify for the Third Round Group E Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 21st 2018, h. 17:00 Netherlands 1 3 Russia September 21st 2018, h. 21:15 Italy 3 0 Finland September 22nd 2018, h. 17:00 Netherlands 3 1 Finland September 22nd 2018, h. 21:15 Russia 3 2 Italy September 23rd 2018, h. 17:00 Russia 3 0 Finland September 23rd 2018, h. 21:15 Italy 3 2 Netherlands Group F Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 21st 2018, h. 17:00 Brazil 3 0 Australia September 21st 2018, h. 20:30 Belgium 3 2 Slovenia September 22nd 2018, h. 17:00 Australia 1 3 Belgium September 22nd 2018, h. 20:30 Slovenia 0 3 Brazil September 23rd 2018, h. 17:00 Slovenia 3 1 Australia September 23rd 2018, h. 20:30 Belgium 0 3 Brazil Group G Date & Time (GMT +3) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 21st 2018, h. 17:00 United States 3 1 Canada September 21st 2018, h. 20:40 Bulgaria 3 2 Iran September 22nd 2018, h. 17:00 Iran 3 1 Canada September 22nd 2018, h. 20:40 Bulgaria 2 3 United States September 23rd 2018, h. 17:00 United States 3 1 Iran September 23rd 2018, h. 20:40 Bulgaria 3 0 Canada Group H Date & Time (GMT +3) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 21st 2018, h. 17:00 Serbia 3 2 France September 21st 2018, h. 20:40 Poland 3 0 Argentina September 22nd 2018, h. 17:00 Serbia 3 0 Argentina September 22nd 2018, h. 20:40 Poland 2 3 France September 23rd 2018, h. 17:00 France 3 0 Argentina September 23rd 2018, h. 20:40 Poland 3 2 Serbia [/hide]

If Magda Linette reaches the final in Hiroshima she'll become the highest ranked WTA player. A. Radwanska has been the highest ranked player since October 2006

Huh? Wozniacki winning a singles GS was far less surprising than Ostapenko or Samantha fuckin Stosur! Hell, Ostapenko winning was more surprising than Osaka too.

I blame Cornet's memory lapse. This is a non-issue nobody would even talk about if she knew which side is which. Why are we even talking about this now? Let's move on.

Umpires they don't set the rules, they only enforce them. Women flashing their sports bra used to be called sexist before, now when it's prohibited suddenly that's sexist too? Pure bullshit. Those politically correct morons need to make their minds up.

No gonna happen. Remember the 2009 US Open? Boycotting Indian Wells for 10+ years because she got booed by the crowd? She hasn't learned her lessons at all and in fact it only gets worse now that she's no longer the ultimate WTA dominatrix.