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I found this piece by Deadspin declaring that sources were safe with them hilarious. They outed Jenn Sterger years ago, frequently post complete e-mail trails from their sources, and having a history of their sources being outed quickly by other outlets because they left too much identifying information in the piece (this part is more Gawker and Gizmodo related). poo poo, they just last week poo poo on the source of the Pelini tape. Anyways, I couldn't find a least trustful place to leak something than Deadspin.
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Niwrad posted:I found this piece by Deadspin declaring that sources were safe with them hilarious. They outed Jenn Sterger years ago, frequently post complete e-mail trails from their sources, and having a history of their sources being outed quickly by other outlets because they left too much identifying information in the piece (this part is more Gawker and Gizmodo related). poo poo, they just last week poo poo on the source of the Pelini tape. Never trust any media outlets. And don't forget that the Gawker/Rob Ford story got hosed up by CNN: gawker posted:Well, no. But when I emailed an acquaintance at CNN this afternoon, laying out much the same information I've offered above and asking for discretion and confidentiality lest we screw up a pretty loving great story about the mayor of the fifth-largest city in North America smoking crack cocaine on camera, he forwarded the email to his producer. The producer, in turn, asked CNN's Canada reporter about it. The Canada reporter—and this was a pretty loving big mistake—called a source who used to work in Ford's office. Within 40 minutes, word had gotten back to me that "CNN called Ford's office asking about a crack tape."
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Really, the Deadspin article is more "don't trust TMZ" than anything else. But there is a convenient thread in the comments with the author about their handling of the Pelini tape.
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Groucho Marxist posted:TBJ is moving from The Score and have been mum about anymore details. I wonder if they're a part of this NBA.com buyout business. BOOM http://www.nba.com/2013/news/10/02/nba-digital-welcomes-the-starters-tas-melas-j-e-skeets-trey-kerby-leigh-ellis/index.html
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Groucho Marxist posted:BOOM Who's the guy with the beard?
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morestuff posted:Who's the guy with the beard? JD, the director who doesn't ever appear in any video
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Groucho Marxist posted:BOOM Oh hey I didn't know T-Mac is going to be on NBA-TV now. Cool.
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Groucho Marxist posted:BOOM That's so great. Good for them. Really fell in love with TBJ the last couple years. Although if they lose their theme music I'll be sad.
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Jesus Christ. So I was just browsing through my news feed, and this hideous thing pops into my face. http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2013/10/05/really-necessary-tampa/dm6NP28fp60W8JjxfOPnuL/story.html
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Redeye Flight posted:Jesus Christ. So I was just browsing through my news feed, and this hideous thing pops into my face. Dan Shaughnessy wrote something stupid? The HELL you say!
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That is the least bad Shaughnessy column I have ever seen, its just bland and stupid instead of stupid and offensive.
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cross posting from the NCAA thread: http://www.sportingnews.com/ncaa-fo..._medium=twitter quote:EVANSTON, Ill. -- The game is superficial, another victory on a growing unbeaten streak with no end in sight.
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Twitter is pretty great, but I hope I never have to read something like this again. How does this become a story?
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morestuff posted:Twitter is pretty great, but I hope I never have to read something like this again. How does this become a story? If you insult sports media, sports media brings you to task, and they shape the narrative. Fuckin nerds man
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I don't want to live in an America where a jock can't tell nerds to suck it, nerds.
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Those nerds need to suck it, seriously. David Price rules.
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Yes, those nerds like former Major League baseball player Dirk Hayhurst. Says man who plays for manager Joe Maddon.
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Yeah I'm all for players being dicks to the media but all I get from this thing is that David Price seems like a douchey baby.
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Tender Bender posted:Yeah I'm all for players being dicks to the media but all I get from this thing is that David Price seems like a douchey baby. He apologized for it afterward. I'm not saying it was the right thing to do of course but poo poo happens and people say things they don't mean sometimes, and outside this incident pretty much everything that you can read about him says that he's one of the nicest guys in baseball so I'm inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt.
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Redeye Flight posted:Jesus Christ. So I was just browsing through my news feed, and this hideous thing pops into my face. If the Rays come back to win this series, Shaughnessy should never be allowed to say anything ever again after that and this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ij0ovv8AUw
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marioinblack posted:Shaughnessy should never be allowed to say anything ever again I agree
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sportsgenius86 posted:I agree Where do I sign?
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http://www.npr.org/2013/10/09/230510417/sick-of-how-u-s-sports-are-run-take-a-look-at-europe Heard this while flipping through the radio dial going into work. I'm a little lost as to this. He kind of frames in a way that presents the FIA/FIFA/IOC as being more awful than the MLB, NBA NFL or NASCAR. I don't believe that's the case, I believe each party is kind of equally awful.
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FIFA and the IOC are absolutely worse than most North American sporting organizations.
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FuzzySkinner posted:http://www.npr.org/2013/10/09/230510417/sick-of-how-u-s-sports-are-run-take-a-look-at-europe FIFA also responded to a Brazilian plan to offer discounted tickets to kids and the elderly at next year's WC by basically saying "lol like gently caress you will". There are also about 350 other things that FIFA does that are worse than anything a North American sports league has ever done. Crazy Ted fucked around with this message at 14:37 on Oct 9, 2013 |
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Fauxhawk Express posted:FIFA and the IOC are absolutely worse than most North American sporting organizations. I'd agree. For the most part, as lovely as Selig, Stern, or Bettman can be, the scale of their shitiness is much less and pretty much doesn't generally go beyond the sport itself. (Public financing of stadiums aside).
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Sepp Blatter is worse than all North American commissioners combined.
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sportsgenius86 posted:Sepp Blatter is worse than all North American commissioners combined. Holy poo poo. quote:"Let the women play in more feminine clothes like they do in volleyball," he said. Then again it doesn't look like Sepp Blatter has almost killed off his league yet. So I mean that's gotta make them close right?
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FIFA isn't a league. Its closer to the NCAA than the NHL. The NCAA is hilariously corrupt as well, though on a much smaller scale.
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Toffile posted:FIFA isn't a league. Its closer to the NCAA than the NHL. The NCAA still brought in like $800 million last season, none of which was paid to the athletes that generated that income. Even if that's only 20% of what FIFA brought in, that's still an impressive layer of fundamental corruption.
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Sepp Blatter's response to being asked about Qatar not being gay-friendly after awarding them the 2022 World Cup was something to the effect of "well the gay fans shouldn't have sex then"
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That's actually the most benign thing I've heard about the Qatar world cup, what with the climate and the bribery and the slavery
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Declan MacManus posted:The NCAA still brought in like $800 million last season, none of which was paid to the athletes that generated that income. Even if that's only 20% of what FIFA brought in, that's still an impressive layer of fundamental corruption. They gave them scholarships and bagels, that's reimbursement enough.
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sportsgenius86 posted:Sepp Blatter's response to being asked about Qatar not being gay-friendly after awarding them the 2022 World Cup was something to the effect of "well the gay fans shouldn't have sex then"
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FIFA and FIA put anything that North America can come up with to shame.
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Their exploitation of under-developed countries is horrifying. How and why would you convince South Africa, Brazil, and Qatar to build these enormous architectural achievements without helping to provide an infrastructure that could not only maintain them, but put them to a justifiable use? Brazil is spending something like 4 billion just on refurbishing and creating stadiums and upgrading all of the airports in the country. That was South Africa's TOTAL BUDGET. It's kinda cool that Brazil is looking to build some stuff for long-term use, but what the hell is Cuiaba going to do with a 42,000-capacity stadium and a light rail??
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The broken bones posted:Their exploitation of under-developed countries is horrifying. How and why would you convince South Africa, Brazil, and Qatar to build these enormous architectural achievements without helping to provide an infrastructure that could not only maintain them, but put them to a justifiable use? Brazil is spending something like 4 billion just on refurbishing and creating stadiums and upgrading all of the airports in the country. That was South Africa's TOTAL BUDGET. Dude Mato Grosso is the new hotness come on.
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please, it's the rust belt of Brazil.
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The broken bones posted:Their exploitation of under-developed countries is horrifying. How and why would you convince South Africa, Brazil, and Qatar to build these enormous architectural achievements without helping to provide an infrastructure that could not only maintain them, but put them to a justifiable use? Brazil is spending something like 4 billion just on refurbishing and creating stadiums and upgrading all of the airports in the country. That was South Africa's TOTAL BUDGET. This loving happened in Japan and South Korea, all new stadiums built just for World Cup, 150 million dollars built for two hours of an event. The cities ended up creating teams to be tenants for the new stadiums. 
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If you want to see something really depressing, check out the venues from the Athens Olympics. It's been only 9 years and they're already falling apart. http://www.businessinsider.com/2004-athens-olympics-venues-abandoned-today-photos-2012-8?op=1 $15 billion well spent.
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