Drunkboxer posted:Does Cowherd believe any of the things he says? This is a honest question as I can't tell if he's loving with me, trying to make people mad, or if he actually thinks he's right. He is the sports equivalent of Glenn Beck.
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unhwillneverwin posted:He is the sports equivalent of Glenn Beck. He surpasses him. Cowherd can get me angry in like 30 seconds. There isn't even a period of amusement that sometimes accompanies listening to someone you think is an idiot. His face is so drat punchable too.
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Drunkboxer posted:He surpasses him. Cowherd can get me angry in like 30 seconds. There isn't even a period of amusement that sometimes accompanies listening to someone you think is an idiot. His face is so drat punchable too. Who is more punchable? That is tough to tell. This?  Or this? 
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http://deadspin.com/5715741/this-may-or-may-not-be-rex-ryans-wife-making-foot+fetish-videos So this is interesting to say the least... and it looks exactly like her to a T and sure as poo poo sounds like Sexy Rexy.
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I was just scouring the internet for "Jeff Bagwell steroids" stories and this was the first thing that came up http://baseballevolution.com/asher/bagwellconspiracy.html quote:At the beginning of the 2004 season, a buddy and I engaged in a debate about whether Jeff Bagwell used steroids. While initially not convinced that Bagwell used steroids, circumstantial evidence points not only to the conclusion that Bagwell used steroids, but also to the conclusion that he stands at the center of the baseball world as the steroid ring leader, the root of all steroid usage in the league. In fact, all major league steroid use can be traced directly to the Houston Astros first baseman. I think he's joking, but I want to believe this is real
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I'm sure you just couldn't be bothered to read through this butquote:Mark McGwire (the only untainted player in this whole controversy)
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it was written in 2004!~ yeah no i got through like 5 paragraphs
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 GOOD JOURNALISM TIME! I love lovely journalism as much as the next, but let's try and bring out some of the better pieces as well. Cultivating the minds of young goons with brilliant writing is just as important as infecting their minds with bad.  "Got To Do Some Coachin'": Frank Deford's Sports Illustrated piece on Arkansas Razorbacks head coach Nolan Richardson, now with the WNBA's Tulsa Shock (accompanying cast list) "Never Has Being a Sports Fan Felt So Stupid": Will Leitch's commentary piece on The Decision (published on New York Magazine's web page) "The No-Stats All-Star": Michael Lewis' New York Times piece on the statistical revolution of the NBA and -- at the center of the storm -- Houston Rockets forward Shane Battier "She's The One": Patrick Hruby's ESPN.com story on Natalie Randolph, the head coach of a Washington, D.C.-area high school football team and a former women's professional football player. 
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LARGE THE HEAD posted:"The No-Stats All-Star": Michael Lewis' New York Times piece on the statistical revolution of the NBA and -- at the center of the storm -- Houston Rockets forward Shane Battier This article is the reason I watch basketball now. It's really a shame that the Yao thing has killed Houston over the last few years, because they're a really solid team beyond that one glaring hole.
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Here's a recent piece I liked: The Social Network - Joe Posnanski - Posnanski takes on social media and self-promotion through the lens of Jose Canseco. Joe Pos posted:The pretenders often have jumpy feet. The man’s feet are still, his legs are still. It is his hips that he moves to shift weight — first back into the ready position and then, suddenly and violently, forward. Hitters and their coaches talk about weight shift. Jose Canseco shifts his weight without any apparent effort. This is the result of swinging a baseball bat a million times. The swing is a part of him.
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I got a subscription to SI as a gift, but I can't really stand the magazine since their editors ignore or possibly even encourage awful tortured over-written crap in all of their features in an attempt to gussy them up. Here's one cringe-inducing example from the recent article on Roddy White by Ben Reiter:quote:White called the move the Shanaz. It's pronounced like Lamaze, and White's opponent, his much larger opponent, was left breathing like a mother in labor after White used it to win his second consecutive state title. It's not pronounced like amaze, although that's what White did to the thousands in attendance at the Carolina Coliseum in Columbia that February day. Even worse is when there's some pointless tortured metaphor that carries throughout the whole feature.
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Yeah, they do that sometimes, just stick to the best writers. Usually Grant Wahl, Albert Chen, Gary Smith and a couple others. e: worst one I ever saw was on Mark Buerhle's perfect game, when the writer used Rock Star energy drink as bookends for the story. It went something like this: "He picked up a Rock Star energy drink before the game, just as he had done every other game ... [some 1500 words later] ... but it was HE who was the Rock Star on that fateful day." The broken bones fucked around with this message at 18:27 on Dec 29, 2010 |
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R.D. Mangles posted:I got a subscription to SI as a gift, but I can't really stand the magazine since their editors ignore or possibly even encourage awful tortured over-written crap in all of their features in an attempt to gussy them up. Here's one cringe-inducing example from the recent article on Roddy White by Ben Reiter: There was a demon that lived on the field. They said whoever challenged him would die. Their control would freeze up. Their delivery would buffet wildly, and it would disintegrate. The demon lived at #1 on the all-time list, seven hundred and sixty-two career home runs, where the ball could no longer move out of the way. He lived behind a zone through which they said no strike could ever pass. They called him Barry Bonds.
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I poo poo on Deadspin earlier in the thread, but I've been enjoying their guest columns by former NFL player Nate Jackson.
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Primo Poster!!!! posted:Those portentous and tortured introductions always get about 100x better if you imagine them being said in Ridley's voice from the intro to "The Right Stuff." Then they built a small man, a DA, who said he could break Barry Bonds. And sportswriters came to the high-desert of California to write it. They were called assholes. And no one remembered their names.
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It's threads like these that make me glad to have discovered Instapaper.  Contribution-wise, the late David Foster Wallace's 2006 feature on Roger Federer holds stock for any number of talented sports people and how they've mastered the human body: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/sports/playmagazine/20federer.html?pagewanted=all
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This falls more on the editors than the writer, but good lord is the illustration paired with the latest Simmons column atrocious:
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Well, at least the art's better than the sports guy cartoon they used to have on Page 2.
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morestuff posted:This falls more on the editors than the writer, but good lord is the illustration paired with the latest Simmons column atrocious:
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Crazy Ted posted:What's better is that they probably paid someone decent money to do two utterly awful caricatures. The first one is at least somewhat recognizable as Peyton Manning. The one on the right, though? I thought it was a Dolphins uniform until I looked again and realized it was supposed to be Tom Brady.
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My roommate had lunch with Jemele Hill today, who sucks, but she said that Skip Bayless is not acting and legitimately believes everything he says.
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So, Onion SportsDome is premiering tonight on Comedy Central at 10:30PM eastern time. God knows that sports journalism is ripe for (and very much deserving of) some clever satire, and given that the Onion sports articles and blurbs tend to be fairly amusing, I'm actually optimistic that this could be good.
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The little trailers they've shown for it haven't actually looked that promising, but the actual sports section is so consistently brilliant that I'll give it a shot
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kaworu posted:So, Onion SportsDome is premiering tonight on Comedy Central at 10:30PM eastern time. God knows that sports journalism is ripe for (and very much deserving of) some clever satire, and given that the Onion sports articles and blurbs tend to be fairly amusing, I'm actually optimistic that this could be good. Set it up for DVR in case I'm not back from the game in time. Please be good.
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The show is taped a week ahead of time (or it was planned to, I am not sure if they've changed that) which I think is a big drawback.
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leokitty posted:The show is taped a week ahead of time (or it was planned to, I am not sure if they've changed that) which I think is a big drawback. A friend of mine who works at the AV Club told me they'd already filmed the entire season, so I wouldn't expect anything topical. I could have misinterpreted what she was saying, though.
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morestuff posted:A friend of mine who works at the AV Club told me they'd already filmed the entire season, so I wouldn't expect anything topical. I could have misinterpreted what she was saying, though. I don't think they've filmed the whole season, but I could find out. Either way, it's not going to be the TDS of Sports or anything.
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Watching sportsdome right now...I deem it "moderately amusing."
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zakharov posted:Watching sportsdome right now...I deem it "moderately amusing." I thought it was good but the A-Rod musical was a really weird bungling of a potentially great premise.
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stuart scott irl posted:Here are some writer opinions on Brett Favre's punishment from the new ESPNw -- ESPN for women!!!! but you see since women are saying this then clearly Brett Favre's texting pictures of his hog was both warranted and victimless. CASE CLOSED.
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Well you see this one time I saw women, ahem, "getting crunk" in a "nightclub" to some wildly inappropriate "hip hop." The lyrics repeatedly mentioned "bitch" and "ho," and the women loved it, so therefore all women love being degraded.
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zakharov posted:Watching sportsdome right now...I deem it "moderately amusing." I was hoping they'd do something topical and was pretty disappointed. I guess the a-rod musical was at the end? I turned it off before the end.
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More heavy hitting journalism from espnW (originally posted by Crazy Ted in the MLS thread).quote:IS THE UNION'S NEW SPONSORSHIP DEAL SEXIST?
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stuart scott irl posted:Here are some writer opinions on Brett Favre's punishment from the new ESPNw -- ESPN for women!!!! I am breaking from the herd here, but I do believe that they should have made a decision far earlier on Brett Favre than they did. Plus the punishment doesn't jive with the findings. The crime was... nothing? No conclusive evidence or however it was worded. FINE OF 50 GRAND! It's probably a worse outcome than not punishing him at all. At least they would be consistent between ruling and outcome. The editorializing about LOL SHOW HER YOUR DONG is dumb but I do feel like if the league could have completely covered it up they would have. e: Philly fans are dumb, water still wet. 
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I CHALLENGE THEE posted:More heavy hitting journalism from espnW (originally posted by Crazy Ted in the MLS thread). It sounds like she has an understandable perspective and is just reporting on some fans' reaction to the sponsorship news. I don't see the problem.
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morestuff posted:It sounds like she has an understandable perspective and is just reporting on some fans' reaction to the sponsorship news. I don't see the problem. It's just dumb and not news. People from
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