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ZerodotJander posted:Is there anywhere I can watch those 30 for 30 documentaries? I never heard about them until recently and a lot of them seem really really cool. They also air them at random times overnight on ESPN, U and 2. That's how I caught up on the ones I missed.
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The first 15 are $40 on Amazon right now, so I picked it up. Thanks!
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Feb 18, 2011 21:32
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http://www.fanhouse.com/2011/02/18/boy-who-refused-to-wrestle-a-girl-might-end-up-wrestling-history/ Holy poo poo this is one of the worst articles i've ever read. A 15 year old not wanting to wrestle a girl due to religious beliefs is apparently comparable to a grown man being a racist.
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Feb 18, 2011 22:10
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Deadspin fixed their site to include a scroll bar for the article headlines. Thank Christ. Site becomes 100% more readable.
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LARGE THE HEAD posted:Deadspin fixed their site to include a scroll bar for the article headlines. Thank Christ. Site becomes 100% more readable. And Tommy Craggs is still around to destroy Peter King in a thoroughly enjoyable written beating. Sometimes it may seem like we all pile on Peter King. But as long as he complains about coffee and other trivial poo poo while being a lapdog for the NFL and its owners, I say he is fair game. http://deadspin.com/#!5763588/one-thing-i-think-i-think-peter-king-is-the-latest-in-a-long-line-of-management-stooges
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Feb 22, 2011 15:30
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Yeah like what the hell is Craggs doing still writing for that site? Dude owns.
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Feb 22, 2011 16:05
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Badfinger posted:I don't know if people consider it "good" writing or not, but I really enjoyed the top article there "I was Teenage Hockey Message Board Jailbait". Here's hoping it turns out well for her. Was this worth the time?? I remember starting it but stopping because I knew I didn't have the time to finish it on my lunch. ForbiddenWonder posted:http://www.fanhouse.com/2011/02/18/boy-who-refused-to-wrestle-a-girl-might-end-up-wrestling-history/ His religious beliefs were that he'd look like an idiot if he lost and that it would be viewed as a freebie if he won. It's a trained competitor who qualified for states, not a random girl of the street. Piledrive her skull into pieces like you would for anyone else. It's a bit of a stretch to compare it in the way they did for that article though
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Feb 22, 2011 16:08
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THE MACHO MAN posted:His religious beliefs were that he'd look like an idiot if he lost and that it would be viewed as a freebie if he won. It's a trained competitor who qualified for states, not a random girl of the street. Piledrive her skull into pieces like you would for anyone else. Even if his reasons are BS, the comparison is pretty terrible and I'm not going to get on a 15 year for not wanting to wrestle a girl. She may be just as good or better, her skill is irrelevant. I've also never wrestled so I could just be entirely wrong in saying that could be awkward for reasons that I don't feel are sexist.
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Feb 22, 2011 16:49
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THE MACHO MAN posted:Was this worth the time?? I remember starting it but stopping because I knew I didn't have the time to finish it on my lunch. I enjoyed it, so I guess it was worth my time? Not sure what other qualifier you're looking for. 
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Feb 22, 2011 17:18
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unhwillneverwin posted:And Tommy Craggs is still around to destroy Peter King in a thoroughly enjoyable written beating. Sometimes it may seem like we all pile on Peter King. But as long as he complains about coffee and other trivial poo poo while being a lapdog for the NFL and its owners, I say he is fair game. That article owned; nice find. I still thought that Goodell piece was pretty good though.
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Feb 22, 2011 19:08
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Rick Reilly is now doing Simmons' mailbag thing, which is basically exactly like Simmons except with a lot more rear end in a top hat in it link quote:You wrote: Feels Villeneuve fucked around with this message at 18:35 on Feb 26, 2011 |
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Feb 26, 2011 18:31
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that's pretty funny, I can only imagine him replying to all those awful emails after a three martini lunch
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I was looking at Lyttle Lytton Contest, a version of the Bulwer-Lytton contest in which the goal is to write the worst-written sentence beginning a novel in 33 words or less, when I saw that someone nominated this [url=http://adamcadre.ac/10lyttle.html]Rick Reilly gem in their "found" category:quote:Some things are so small, so miniscule, so atomically insignificant, they can be seen only from three feet away using the Hubble telescope. The reveal of the whole Reilly passage kills me every time.
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Feb 28, 2011 06:25
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ESPN's Howard Bryant got arrested for domestic assault http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2011/02/howard_bryant_writer_for_espn.html quote:BUCKLAND – A senior writer for ESPN and the author of three books was arrested in front of Buckland Pizza and charged with assaulting his estranged wife and hitting a police officer who tried to subdue him, state police said.
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Feb 28, 2011 17:18
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ESPN's article has his accountquote:"I am so sad today," Bryant said. "I am sad today because this attack on me by the Massachusetts State Police and the Buckland Police has made it necessary for me to defend untrue allegations and repair my reputation when one conversation with either Veronique or with me would have diffused the entire situation. Instead, the police chose aggression first over dialogue, threatened to taser me whenever I tried to speak, and all in front of my 6-year-old son.
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Feb 28, 2011 19:58
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I know this article is from a Yahoo! contributor, but it's really a work of art. There are people who really think like this.quote:How about Mike Cameron? Do you think he can hit more than four home runs? Mike is completely healthy, and will play in more than 48 games. Add 20 home runs to last years total, and don't forget about his glove in center field.
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Feb 28, 2011 20:41
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this is actually worse thoughquote:Do you think Josh Beckett(notes) is a six game winner or a 20 game winner? After an injury filled 2010 year, Josh has proclaimed himself healthy, and rearing to go. I think you can add 10 more wins to the 2010 total.
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Feb 28, 2011 20:53
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This is really bad but all I can see when I read that statement from Brayant is "I am so sad today," Bryant said.
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Feb 28, 2011 20:55
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leokitty posted:This is really bad but all I can see when I read that statement from Brayant is I have this conflicting gently caress the Po-Lice/Mass is a racist state thing going on that is in direct opposition to my gently caress Sportswriting/ESPN is the Worst thing. So much conflict.
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Feb 28, 2011 21:06
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Yeah I could easily see this being a crazy Masshole cop case just as much as a crazy ESPN dude case, I think we need more details.
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toadee posted:Yeah I could easily see this being a crazy Masshole cop case just as much as a crazy ESPN dude case, I think we need more details. I thought that in most U.S jurisdictions once there is a report of domestic violence the arrest has to be made and they'll sort it out down at the station? You don't help anybody by flailing your elbows around and resisting arrest since it has to be done. Based on the info in those 2 articles I would tend to side with the independent witnesses though. Smorgasbord fucked around with this message at 23:37 on Feb 28, 2011 |
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Feb 28, 2011 23:09
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:I have this conflicting gently caress the Po-Lice/Mass is a racist state thing going on that is in direct opposition to my gently caress Sportswriting/ESPN is the Worst thing. So much conflict. Yeah that's why I felt really bad for reading it that way. Fully aware of Mass cops. :|
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Feb 28, 2011 23:09
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Smorgasbord posted:Based on the info in those 2 articles I would tend to side with the independent witnesses though. I don't really want to disparage my Fellow Citizens of the Common Wealth of Massachusetts but I'm interested in what their races and ethnicities are before I go ahead and side with them.
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Feb 28, 2011 23:42
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:I don't really want to disparage my Fellow Citizens of the Common Wealth of Massachusetts but I'm interested in what their races and ethnicities are before I go ahead and side with them. So if they happen to be white then that must mean they made the whole thing up because they are obviously racist?
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Feb 28, 2011 23:53
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Smorgasbord posted:I thought that in most U.S jurisdictions once there is a report of domestic violence the arrest has to be made and they'll sort it out down at the station? You don't help anybody by flailing your elbows around and resisting arrest since it has to be done. Based on the info in those 2 articles I would tend to side with the independent witnesses though. Seriously, one time I got pulled over for having an inspection sticker 3 days expired and the conversation literally started with a city cop screaming 'ARE YOU loving INSANE YOUR UNSAFE PIECE OF poo poo COULD KILL SOMEONE GET THE gently caress OUT OF THE CAR'. That's not really an uncommon sort of exchange around here (although State Troopers are usually a little bit more tactful), so honestly the details need to be a bit more solid before I pass any judgments.
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Smorgasbord posted:So if they happen to be white then that must mean they made the whole thing up because they are obviously racist? yep that's what i said you big retard
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Smorgasbord posted:So if they happen to be white then that must mean they made the whole thing up because they are obviously racist? hahaha edit: like others have said I feel like this one could go either way stuart scott fucked around with this message at 00:18 on Mar 1, 2011 |
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toadee posted:Seriously, one time I got pulled over for having an inspection sticker 3 days expired and the conversation literally started with a city cop screaming 'ARE YOU loving INSANE YOUR UNSAFE PIECE OF poo poo COULD KILL SOMEONE GET THE gently caress OUT OF THE CAR'. That's not really an uncommon sort of exchange around here (although State Troopers are usually a little bit more tactful), so honestly the details need to be a bit more solid before I pass any judgments. What the gently caress? 
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leokitty posted:What the gently caress? Massachusetts cops. I was working pizza delivery a few years back and a local cop followed me for two miles from the pizza place to the apartment complex I was delivering to, blues and twos come on, first words out of his mouth are "so how much ya had to smoke tonight." Also this just recently happened in my hometown: http://www.eagletribune.com/local/x1221300892/Report-Salisbury-police-chief-gave-cash-for-sex
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leokitty posted:What the gently caress? Yeah it was really cute, that guy looked seriously unglued too, like I was scared for my life for a minute. Another time they impounded my car for being abandoned when it was parked outside of my apartment on the street (it was driven to work daily). When I got to it at the city impound they had rifled through all the poo poo in my glovebox, left it strewn around the inside of the car, stolen all the spare quarters I had for the pike, and to top it off, they stole my loving t-top's. I swear there's like HBO TV series levels of corruption, nepotism and unaccountability in nearly all facets of local government around here.
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jeffpearlman: I believe in Howard Bryant 100%—a good friend and good person. Case closed, nothing to see here.
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So, who has read ESPN's Fiction Issue? What do you all think about it? I can't be too hard on a company that bills itself as Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, but it's pretty fascinating stuff so far. Miguel Batista's short-fiction piece was a clever story and an interesting read.
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LARGE THE HEAD posted:So, who has read ESPN's Fiction Issue? What do you all think about it? What, really? They did this?
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The broken bones posted:What, really? They did this? It's sitting on my nightstand right now, so yes, really.
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 GOOD JOURNALISM TIME! "Heaven Help Marge Schott", by Rick Reilly (Sports Illustrated, May 20, 1996). Don't know how many people really knew about her beyond the "million dollar niggers" line, so here you go. Also features the best last three sentences of a feature story I've seen in quite some time. "The Rabbit Hunter", by Frank DeFord (SI, January 26, 1981). DeFord on Bobby Knight, then at his prime at Indiana. I love DeFord's writing so, so much. Wear your tie, Bobby. "My Roger Ebert Story", by Will Leitch (Deadspin, May 1, 2010). Holy loving poo poo, this story's a year old! And it's not really about sports. Still owns, though. "Blazers Top 40: No. 30, Billy Ray Bates", by Jason Quick (The Oregonian, December 24, 2009). Jason Quick is the Portland Trail Blazers beat reporter for The Oregonian; Billy Ray Bates is a former NBA shooting guard who has garnered cult status among avid NBA fans that know about him. This story is not a happy one.
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LARGE THE HEAD posted:"The Rabbit Hunter", by Frank DeFord (SI, January 26, 1981). DeFord on Bobby Knight, then at his prime at Indiana. I love DeFord's writing so, so much. Wear your tie, Bobby. It makes me kind of sad to read DeFord's old pieces - all of which are some of the best feature writing I've read - and his current columns, which are nothing if not vanilla. I dunno if it's an age thing or if it takes a different kind of writer to do a weekly column or what, but it's a striking difference. For the record, here's my fav. DeFord piece: Frank DeFord goes bowling.
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Nodoze posted:jeffpearlman: I believe in Howard Bryant 100%—a good friend and good person. quick call him a retard and see what happens
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barkingclam posted:It makes me kind of sad to read DeFord's old pieces - all of which are some of the best feature writing I've read - and his current columns, which are nothing if not vanilla. I dunno if it's an age thing or if it takes a different kind of writer to do a weekly column or what, but it's a striking difference. I think a lot of it is the latter. The pieces are short, they contain opinions, and he's not expected to do much investigative reporting. I'm sure he can still crank out a story from time to time, but the fact that his columns are called Sweetness and Light is  as all get-out.
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I CHALLENGE THEE posted:quick call him a retard and see what happens I asked him how I could trust him not to write a disingenuous piece about me if I engaged him in discussion and he got waaaay bent out of shape. He really takes everything too seriously.
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Listen I know this is the same story Reilly has been writing for 20 years but I thought it was cute. http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=6170690 ALSOAs I've said before, I'm an editor at my college paper and have seen some horrors of student journalism. I want to share the worst thing I've ever seen. It's not sports related but I don't care. It's about UCF potentially removing the arboretum to add more buildings. Which is awesome. I will highlight the ending: quote:Let the Arboretum perish, and UCF will no longer stand for opportunity. Let the Arboretum perish, and UCF will stand for hypocrisy.
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