Talk:September 2006 in sports

NCAA football 2006

I've begun doing top-25 NCAA scores. Last year, we linked to pages on the universities themselves. This year, I think we should link to pages on the football team when those exist and to the schools' athletics programs when they do not. In other words, link to Ohio State Buckeyes football, but if that's a redlink, link to Ohio State Buckeyes. -- Mwalcoff 01:38, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

• Comment: I agree with what you're doing, but would like to add something. There are a few schools that don't yet have athletic program articles, much less football program articles. In those cases, they should still link to the schools, at least until an athletics article exists. — Dale Arnett 01:36, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

6 September Euro 2008 qualification matches

Someone else will have to update the scores as I'll be offline for a week from Wednesday afternoon! -- Arwel (talk) 00:07, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

No one true "football"

I hate to bring this up again, but I think that at the very least we should not use "Football (soccer)|Football" on the same day we have American and/or Canadian football news. I think "Football (soccer)" should be used without the pipe trick in this case. -- Mwalcoff 23:16, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

I disagree, for the reason that you don't see Liverpool playing American football, right? Or the New England Patriots playing soccer. Once you see Chelsea, it's understood that it's soccer, when its the Packers, it's American football. --Howard the Duck 05:30, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

North American sports score conventions

Just want to remind editors that when reporting scores for games in North American sports such as Major League Baseball, American football, college and pro basketball, and even Major League Soccer, it's standard to list the winner first, no matter where the game was played. I've had to fix a couple of scores recently because the convention wasn't followed. — Dale Arnett 01:32, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Baseball

Shouldn't we be adding baseball scores as well? If it's too much of a pain, I'll volunteer to do it. Jasonn 19:35, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Last year, we added games of potential playoff-race impact late in the season. We might want to wait another week or so considering the bottleneck in the NL wildcard race. -- Mwalcoff 22:52, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Well, I see Euro qualifying, rugby, Philippines NCAA basketball, and NCAA football being listed each day. I don't think we should include simply teams in the playoff hunt. Jasonn 23:32, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

The difference is there are 162 baseball games in a season. That's why we haven't put in every MLB game (or every basketball or hockey game). -- Mwalcoff 23:51, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

I agree that we should limit MLB to games of "higher significance." At the same time, at the risk of violating WP:CSB, I do think that we could do without the Philippines NCAA basketball. --After Midnight ⁰⁰⁰¹ 00:35, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

I was the one adding Philippine NCAA (and UAAP) Basketball, and I've added only the games after the first and second rounds. I'll be adding all games of the playoffs. So that's about 25 "important" games out of 185 total games, a measly 7-8% (hey, even (I think) all FA Cup matches were posted here last year). --Howard the Duck 12:38, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

I very much doubt that we reported all the FA Cup matches - nearly 700 clubs enter the competition. I can believe that we may have listed all scores from the Third Round at the beginning of January, when all the big clubs join in. -- Arwel (talk) 22:10, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

I stand corrected, but we should really be featuring some sports news you people may have never heard of. That's why the portal's created in the first place. --Howard the Duck 18:27, 21 September 2006 (UTC)