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http://sportsargumentwiki.com/index.php?title=Category:White_athletes_whose_names_don%27t_sound_white Update with more similar guys (Willits is already on there and I think was the first one on there)
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I thought this was originally in this thread but it was in the NFL N/V thread. Definitely deserves to be here though: "Are NFL Head Coaches Benching Black QBs Faster Than White QBs?" (thanks japtor) Chock full of amazing sports journalism and scientific resesarch.
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Sep 20, 2010 21:13
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Wow Peter King my mind is totally blown 
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Aug 16, 2011 21:37
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That's a really solid article. No one can convince me that Randall Cunningham wasn't the greatest quarterback of all time, I know what I saw.
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Sep 22, 2011 20:28
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Groucho Marxist posted:"The nerds are winning. They’re stealing the game from those of us who enjoy examining the gray areas of sports. We’re about 10 years away from a computer program that will write stats-based opinion pieces on sports." We're 0 years away from such a program Okay, so it's not an opinion piece (which is obviously a huge technological leap), but it basically ingests stats and creates a halfway-decent-if-not-still-somewhat-boilerplate-looking article.
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Sep 22, 2011 21:00
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I might go from "Never read Deadspin" to "Occasionally reads Deadspin" so yeah that's an upgrade 
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Nov 29, 2011 00:17
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SWITCH HITLER posted:"Concepcion was the Ozzie Smith of his day" And even ignoring that, no he wasn't.
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Jan 11, 2012 00:33
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Cross-posted from the gif thread, but I just don't get why anybody would bother putting these words on paper even for an op-ed piece: City of Atlanta doesn't deserve win I guess Rob Parker's job is to be ESPN NY's crazy militant homer guy?
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Jan 11, 2012 17:06
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BackInTheUSSR posted:if he's going strictly by attendance to prove his point, how are miami and tampa not by far the worst? The Braves were in the upper 50th percentile in both years shown and it was important enough in his story to get the lead photo caption. Yeah I don't get why being average to above average in attendance for most things qualifies them as "the worst sports town" quote:Without question, Atlanta is the worst sports town in America. quote:Your typical Atlanta fan -- who is probably from another city since so few are actually from ATL -- will be preoccupied with something else. They might not even be sure what time the game is on. quote:The NHL wanted to believe Atlanta is a major-league city, a city that could support all four major sports. But it can't. Atlanta is now the first city in the NHL's modern history to lose two hockey teams. So sad.
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Jan 11, 2012 23:32
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Crazy Ted posted:Our favorite old baseball writer reveals why he didn't vote for as many names on the Hall of Fame ballot every year as he could have: I can't help but read this with your avatar reading the Murray Chass part out loud in my head
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Jan 17, 2012 07:14
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ElwoodCuse posted:Bats Jesus christ how did I forget about bats
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Feb 14, 2012 21:15
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toadee posted:Albert Pujols is literally not even on the list. I don't even know what is happening in this world. It is "bargain signings" so it's tough to put super-rich contracts on there
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Feb 19, 2012 02:53
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Tae posted:You know that Prince Fielder is there, right? On the "for player" part, which doesn't make any sense for a "bargain" list anyway
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Feb 19, 2012 02:56
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ElwoodCuse posted:https://twitter.com/#!/JoseCanseco/status/171799945173667840 oh my god yes
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Feb 22, 2012 08:14
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Feb 23, 2012 22:33
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stuart scott irl posted:as if I needed another reason not to read TFF It reeks of Stockholm Syndrome to me more than anything.
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Apr 26, 2012 19:19
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morestuff posted:Apparently a C-list columnist at ESPN is running scams on teenagers. Now former C-list columnist quote:Update, 6 p.m.: Sarah Phillips has been let go by ESPN. An ESPN spokesman just told me: "We've ended our freelance relationship with her." edit: and her latest twitter post is @SarahPhilli posted:
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May 1, 2012 23:20
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Toffile posted:I guess technically Jim Rome is a journalist. The "have you stopped beating your wife?" is somewhat of a classical example of a yes or no question that cannot be answered with a yes or no (assuming you've never beaten your wife). The correct (nerdy) answer is "mu".
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Jun 13, 2012 19:45
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Medical Sword posted:He literally didn't understand Cuban's point about Skip Bayless's opinions not being the same thing as facts "That's all I use on this program" Skip is gifted in that he possesses the ability to fool himself into believing himself.
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Jun 22, 2012 23:45
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Unsurprisingly Jon Heyman managed to cram several bad opinions into one articlequote:To summarize, Cueto has won no World Series and caused one Cardinals concussion. What should he expect? It's like the worst incarnation of the "lol rings" argument ever, in use to decide who plays in a largely pointless game anyway.
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Jul 3, 2012 00:47
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LARGE THE HEAD posted:If she was being raped then the dude in the video should've been arrested for rape, which obviously did not happen. ergo she wasn't being raped? 
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Jul 5, 2012 01:37
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morestuff posted:
How could they not pepper in a "quite frankly" in there? Come on Onion. Peeps got to do better.
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Sep 18, 2012 02:25
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The broken bones posted:Jeff Pearlman still struggling to get goatse out of his head c'mon tubgirl would have been a much better fit
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Sep 23, 2012 01:53
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How Biased Is Your Announcer? Nobody will ever guess who is #1 Though frankly the criteria they choose for deciding "homers" is pretty silly. Referring to a player by his nickname?
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Sep 26, 2012 17:01
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Grittybeard posted:Is this true though? This is from Posnanski who's been known to make mistakes, but he's got the Angels as being amazing after calling him up: They were 6-14: http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/LAA/2012-schedule-scores.shtml Trout's first game this year was the Angels' 21st team game: http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.cgi?id=troutmi01&t=b&year=2012
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Oct 4, 2012 02:00
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Spoeank posted:Edit: apparently Benne posted this in NFL Week 14 N/V. Didnt check that thread first. It certainly belongs here and not everyone reads all the weekly N/V threads, so keep posting in the relevant non-N/V threads
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Nov 30, 2012 19:50
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Toffile posted:Up until we discover that Te'o is homosexual and he created the narrative to help keep a relationship from a homophobic culture. The most plausible explanation for this convoluted deception, sadly
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Jan 16, 2013 23:21
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Crazy Ted posted:Speaking of Deadspin, maybe it's just me but I found this pretty entertaining. No, that is actually incredibly entertaining, and I love that they actually went through the process of interviewing folks involved with the show to figure out how it came to be what it was.
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Jan 19, 2013 00:09
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The_Hat posted:The comments on the Lueke article unanimously blast the author, temporarily restoring my faith in humanity Thus marking the first time in the history of the internet that comments on internet content restored faith in humanity instead of doing quite the opposite.
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Mar 19, 2013 18:51
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Chilly McFreeze posted:You thought that was Dave Cameron adding up the WARs? No, no. This is Dave Cameron adding up the WARs. Huh, I was all prepared to be  when the projected wins didn't add up to the right number but they actually do. I'm guessing he normalized it so that they would, since the definition of WAR doesn't really ensure that happening.
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Mar 27, 2013 18:30
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The B_36 posted:It was a great piece, but I don't see the connection to Sports Journalism...? The post right above it was about a Texas Monthly article which was re-published on Deadspin
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May 24, 2013 21:57
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Akileese posted:Just in case you didn't want Jon Heyman to be struck by a bus yet I present to you this flaming bag of dogshit. I was going to respond with a bunch of quotes of the worst parts but then I realized I'd be quoting 95% of the article. It's all the worst parts. gently caress this article in every way, jesus.
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Jul 8, 2013 15:15
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chunkles posted:So ESPN is adding Nate Silver, any thoughts? I'm vaguely familiar with him but have no real opinion. Good with putting numbers together, sometimes good at interpreting the meaning of them. That's kind of it.
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Jul 20, 2013 04:05
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Fire Nate Silver and bring back The Schwab 
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Jul 22, 2013 16:13
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AceFace905 posted:Equally hilarious when you figure that the only teams MLS have ever contracted were both from Florida San Jose did temporarily lose their team though via relocation. But then within a few years they got their team back.
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Jul 29, 2013 18:02
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Mornacale posted:Mike Vanderjagt, you say? http://sportsargumentwiki.com/index.php?title=Mike_Vanderjagt
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Sep 12, 2013 08:06
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Mr. Funny Pants posted:Holy poo poo, PFTCommenter is killing it. So perfect that I almost assume he pulled that from an actual PFT comment.
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Oct 11, 2013 19:04
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FairGame posted:I don't know what the policy is for posting content behind ESPN's Insider paywall, We used to have a whole thread dedicated to nothing but "here's an insider only article, give me the full text" which has since gone away. That said, your link is fine, since non-insiders will not see the content.
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GobiasIndustries posted:Are e-Sports actually becoming a legitimate thing? Why are these on the front page of ESPN with the NBA/NHL finals are going on? In monetary terms they're pretty legitimate given that an upcoming annual international Dota 2 tournament just beat it's own previous record prize pool of almost ~$11M and may surpass $15M or more (it's mostly crowdfunded from in-game purchases and there's still almost two months to the tournament), which puts it well ahead of all the major golf chamiponships (~$9-10M each). Whether or not they constitute a sport is a different story, but ESPN has televised poker forever and even random poo poo like cup stacking so... No Safe Word fucked around with this message at 23:35 on Jun 10, 2015 |
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ElwoodCuse posted:Has Cuban actually succeeded at anything besides "cashing out before the bubble burst"? HBO basically skewered Cuban with this character from Silicon Valley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IARfrdvIIMU It's spot-the-gently caress-on e: there's lots more than just that and you should watch the show it's really good
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