Toffile posted:

I kind of want to see what tortured logic lets a team move up the rankings while getting banned from a country.

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As long as the Nets are allowing Jay-Z to call their marketing shots — what a shock that he chose black and white as the new team colors to stress, as the Nets explained, their new “urban” home — why not have him apply the full Jay-Z treatment?
Why the Brooklyn Nets when they can be the New York N------s? The cheerleaders could be the Brooklyn B----hes or Hoes. Team logo? A 9 mm with hollow-tip shell casings strewn beneath. Wanna be Jay-Z hip? Then go all the way!

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Manager Davey Johnson tries to bench him for being hurt, and Harper confronts him and says, like a person with enough dignity to refuse welfare: Let me work.

Jim Caple posted:

In this summer's blockbuster sequel to the 2008 Olympic men's 4x100 freestyle relay, the French sealed the Americans in carbonite this time.

Four years ago in one of the most dramatic moments in Olympic swimming history, the U.S. team fired a proton torpedo into France's Death Star in the form of Jason Lezak, who overcame a body-length deficit to Alain Bernard in the anchor leg. That swim rallied the U.S. to victory, preserved Michael Phelps' eight-gold-medal run and possibly saved the Rebel Alliance.

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The Better Rays’ Josh Lueke Pitches, The More His Checkered Past Is Pushed Aside

You can hate Josh Lueke’s guts, but you have to appreciate the way he has persevered through the critical mistake he made and all the opportunities that have passed him by. Since his arrest, Lueke has stayed out of trouble and has never been regarded as a problem in any clubhouse he has been in.

And as Lueke finds success for the first time at the major level, we’ll be captivated by his dominating arsenal, and justifiably or not, his past will be forgotten as Rays fans watch him help their team win games.

Crazy Ted posted:

He believes the moon landings were faked, among other things.

NBC Sports posted:

The final is on ESPN. RT @BillSimmons "Radwanska! Bartoli!!!!! It's the Wimbledon Women's Finals on NBC!"

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Education is currency. That is how the NCAA operates.

Mahoning posted:

The Onion Sportsdome really nailed how dumb ESPN is. My favorite was in the PTI and Around the Horn-like show they did where each guy talked about which athlete they would kill and how.

If Fox Sports 1 brought back Sportsdome after it launches, it would be the best ESPN trolling ever.

Rick Reilly posted:

Just back from 4 months in Italy. All I wanna do is watch some Letterman, read some Simmons + see how my boy Bruce Jenner is hanging in.

C. Everett Koop posted:

In which PFTCommenter punks the BBC https://twitter.com/rajiniv/status/629421290974244864

Alain Post posted:

tinstaach posted:

https://twitter.com/JimMiller/status/834822693178466304

Jay's coming back home

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"Cleaning out the notebook while hoping Terry Anderson didn't have overdue library books: How long was it? When Anderson was captured, Wally Joyner was in Triple-A. Michael Jordan was finishing his rookie year. Ted Tollner and USC were Rose Bowl champs. Doug Flutie was the reigning Heisman Trophy winner. Jennifer Capriati was 9. And Cal State Fullerton was coming off an 11-1 football season.

"Wow! That long? On the other hand, Jack Morris had pitched his team to the most recent World Series victory, and the Clippers were missing the playoffs. So it was only yesterday."

trem_two posted:

Whitlock gets to do his shtick in the WSJ now

angrygodofjebus posted:

Yeah I haven't checked out the Toronto one or anything, but The Athletic Chicago has been great all around for a while. Scott Powers and James Fegan are both excellent, and I've always liked Jon Greenberg as well.

skaboomizzy posted:

https://twitter.com/espnpr/status/922548379175063552

"drat, looks like people know Barstool is a terrible site for terrible people and we can't ignore it anymore."

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Some women said that the environment at ESPN can be so hostile — and plum positions for female sports journalists so precarious — that they hid pregnancies and felt pressured to take short maternity leaves in order to protect their positions. One anchor even did her scheduled broadcast while she was having a miscarriage to prove her commitment to her job, according to former employees.

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In her complaint, Adrienne Lawrence describes a toxic environment at ESPN headquarters where men make unwanted sexual and romantic advances under the guise of networking or mentoring, and “mark” women as their own by spreading false rumors about sexual relationships with female employees. Lawrence accused John Buccigross, a longtime SportsCenter anchor whom she viewed as a mentor, of sending unsolicited shirtless photographs of himself and calling her “dollface,” “#dreamgirl,” and “#longlegs” in messages from 2016 reviewed by the Globe. Lawrence said she tried to remain cordial in the messages but at one point responded: “You need to wear clothes, sir.”

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Buccigross, roughly two decades older than Lawrence, acknowledged sending the photos but denied starting any rumors that the two were in a relationship. “I considered Adrienne to be a friend,” Buccigross said in a statement to the Globe. “I’m sorry if anything I did or said offended Adrienne. It certainly wasn’t my intent.”

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During her months-long audition, Sterger said an executive showed her a copy of a Playboy magazine that she had modeled for and then she was taken to a strip club by Matthew Berry, who was interviewing as a contributor for The Fantasy Show.

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Today, Berry said visiting the strip club “was not a smart decision and I regret going.” He described a photo from that work trip in which he is pointing at Sterger’s breasts as “personally embarrassing and I did not mean any offense.” Sterger said she had another uncomfortable encounter with Berry two years later, claiming that Berry made sexual comments when she visited ESPN to talk about a potential job opportunity — an accusation that Berry denies. When asked whether he had ever been suspended or disciplined for inappropriate behavior, Berry said, “I was talked to once about an alleged issue in 2007, which was ultimately resolved.”

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Stevens: Me, personally, I’m on Twitter, I see Chloe Kim, I’m thinking Khloe Kardashian, Kim [Kardashian], I don’t want to deal with that. So I missed out on the whole Chloe Kim thing. But it’s a good story. She’s into it, a little kid—I’m inspired by it.

Braden: Chloe Kim, famous for riding a very different board than Kim Kardashian.

Connor: No doubt, and in fact just to keep it on that tip, her 18th birthday is April 23, and the countdown is on baby, ’cause I got my Wooderson going. “That’s what I like about them high school girls.”

Stevens: I love it P-Con, I’m right there with you.

Connor: She’s fine as hell! If she was 18, you wouldn’t be ashamed to say that she’s a little hot piece of rear end. And she is. She is adorable. I’m a huge Chloe Kim fan.

Braden [laughing]: That’s it.

Stevens [laughing]: Did you just take a boner pill?

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So why would Elliotte Frickin’ Friedman care so passionately about the Vancouver market, and why would he launch such an impassioned defence of Linden and Benning from The Big Smoke?

Fair questions, yes? As for the answers, we’d suggest they lie somewhere in the towering arrogance of Toronto’s media titans and the uncomfortable relationship that exists between “insiders” and their sources.

Friedman is a made man in that world but his information sometimes comes at a cost. Consider his radio diatribe a down payment on his next scoop.

His relationship with Benning, however, is of little consequence to the faithful. The only relevant point in his screed is Linden and Benning can’t function in this environment; that their performance has been compromised by the suffocating negativity in Van City and, somehow, someway, that wall of noise is part of the reason the Canucks never win.

To you, Mr. Blogger, I can only say welcome to the club.

Akileese posted:

His actual punditry was rudimentary true, but he was also one of the few people shouting about how Hillary did not actually have this locked up and it was significantly closer than polls and models (including his own models) were saying it was. I'll give him credit there, but his actual political commentary (and most commentary to be fair) is just so cliche and bland. I do agree that the Upshot is doing some really awesome stuff right now.