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Declan MacManus posted:"The first ballot is sacred. No one gets in on the first ballot. On the other hand, if you haven't already made it in to the hall of fame, I'm sure as poo poo not going to vote you in now." Please, Noted Woman Beater Jay Mariotti, lecture us more on sacred things.
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General Dog posted:Texas Monthly is loving fantastic most of the time. If anybody's seen Bernie, this is the story that it's heavily based on. It's pro click even if you've never heard of the movie. And now Deadspin, who purposely left Notre Dame out of their dumb weekly top 25 all season long and would largely refuse to even mention the name of the school in anything, has published an A-Z Hater's Guide to Notre Dame. You can guess how well written it is. Picked a good time to start riding the ND gravy train right when you know it will generate a ton of page views. I won't even link it here because I don't even want to give them the pageviews.
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So, ESPN's sourcing remains a total joke.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:on the other hand notre dame is loving terrible Yeah upsetting Notre Dame fans is the increasingly rare instance of Deadspin doing something good.
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Mahoning posted:And now Deadspin, who purposely left Notre Dame out of their dumb weekly top 25 all season long and would largely refuse to even mention the name of the school in anything, has published an A-Z Hater's Guide to Notre Dame. You can guess how well written it is. Picked a good time to start riding the ND gravy train right when you know it will generate a ton of page views. I won't even link it here because I don't even want to give them the pageviews. First-time Deadspin reader spotted
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I completely forgot until 5 minutes ago that USSMariner had a post make America's Best Sports Writing. It is, uh, a hell of a thing. e: It's also the first time a blog won a spot in ABSW. And it's for a  as all get-out post.
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Here's a piece of long-form on the Lingerie Football League
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Here's a nice a bloo bloo QBs need to be good ol' boys piece about Kaepernick because he has... tattoos!!! http://aol.sportingnews.com/nfl/story/2012-11-28/colin-kaepernick-tattoos-49ers-qb-start-alex-smith-stats-contract-draft Edit: apparently Benne posted this in NFL Week 14 N/V. Didnt check that thread first. Spoeank fucked around with this message at 03:56 on Nov 30, 2012 |
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Spoeank posted:Here's a nice a bloo bloo QBs need to be good ol' boys piece about Kaepernick because he has... tattoos!!! Holy poo poo this is the new worst
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Spoeank posted:Here's a nice a bloo bloo QBs need to be good ol' boys piece about Kaepernick because he has... tattoos!!! I can't even decide where to begin. Its the ourobos if lovely journalism.
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Spoeank posted:Here's a nice a bloo bloo QBs need to be good ol' boys piece about Kaepernick because he has... tattoos!!! Hahaha I came to this thread to post this.
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http://aol.sportingnews.com/nascar/story/2012-11-21/danica-patrick-dale-earnhardt-jr-nascar-most-popular-drivers
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Um, I don't really follow nascar at all, but isn't Dale Jr. consistently a top-10 guy? Like doesn't he make it into the Chase dealy every year? That seems fairly successful.
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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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stuart scott irl posted:Speaking of probable Redditors I guess Pete Abraham is angling at redemption I kind of get the point he's angling for, but to me it just reads, "I'm really loving lazy and I can't be bothered to do some research on who I'm voting in the Hall of Fame."
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Jackie D posted:Um, I don't really follow nascar at all, but isn't Dale Jr. consistently a top-10 guy? Like doesn't he make it into the Chase dealy every year? That seems fairly successful. Since 2004 he's won 4 races. Since 2007 Jimmie Johnson has won 5 overall championships.
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ElwoodCuse posted:Since 2004 he's won 4 races. Since 2007 Jimmie Johnson has won 5 overall championships. 5 in a row no less!
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Spoeank posted:Here's a nice a bloo bloo QBs need to be good ol' boys piece about Kaepernick because he has... tattoos!!! When even the usually terrible commenters realize how awful and racist you are, you know you've crossed a line.
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Update on the Colin Kaepernick article: per Matt Barrows, 49ers beat writer, Alex Smith, who was replaced by Kaepernick, has at least one tattoo. That takes it to another level Also, Gregg Rosenthal wrote a pretty good follow up to it, wherein he quotes Ma and Pa Kaepernick. http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap1000000103126/article/colin-kaepernicks-parents-dismiss-tattoo-criticism Spoeank fucked around with this message at 04:26 on Dec 1, 2012 |
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Yeah, but does it show with a game jersey on??
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Spoeank posted:Update on the Colin Kaepernick article: per Matt Barrows, 49ers beat writer, Alex Smith, who was replaced by Kaepernick, has at least one tattoo. That takes it to another level
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Tattoos are great. The high school closest to my house has 9th graders with full sleeves. It's hilarious.
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Things Peter King will steal to pad his sports column: -baseballs from small children -factoids from better sports writers -twitter feeds from dead shooting victims http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/nfl/news/20121217/week-15/?sct=hp_wr_a2&eref=sihp (go to Page 4) hcreight fucked around with this message at 15:52 on Dec 17, 2012 |
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The Classical has an oral history of Fire Joe Morgan that's a fun read. Parts II and III are coming later in the week.
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morestuff posted:The Classical has an oral history of Fire Joe Morgan You had me at hello. Good first entry; very excited for the next two parts of the series.
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morestuff posted:The Classical has an oral history of Fire Joe Morgan that's a fun read. Parts II and III are coming later in the week. All three parts are up now, but all of you are morally obligated to go read the FJM Supercross post right now.
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This is my favorite FJM post.
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R.D. Mangles posted:All three parts are up now, but all of you are morally obligated to go read the FJM Supercross post right now. Yeah this one is the best and I had somehow completely forgotten about it. The best part of that Oral History is that it's inspired me to dive back into the FJM archives.
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R.D. Mangles posted:All three parts are up now, but all of you are morally obligated to go read the FJM Supercross post right now. quote:"Whether viewing superbike races on TV or from the grandstands or paddock, you will never find one of us screaming "You suck!" at a racer." Just kind of letting that soak a little bit. Perhaps it's because it's not as mainstream as other motorsports, but I can attest that booing, or the type of behavior he's describing is pretty common place in any mainstream racing series, worldwide in fact. Just ask any NASCAR fan about Jimmie Johnson, Formula 1 fan about Sebastian Vettel or IndyCar fans about the RedCars. What a moron. FuzzySkinner fucked around with this message at 07:41 on Dec 21, 2012 |
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I think I like the Superbike one better overall, but I remember this paragraph from the first time I read this article, and it's still amazing today: quote:You are telling me that you needed to hire someone to tell you that Greg Maddux might be a good pitcher? I mean, the guy is old, but...he's Greg Maddux. You play in Dodger Stadium, which is pretty friendly to pitchers, generally. He's Greg Maddux. You needed a 70 year-old scout, with all of his accumulated baseball knowledge, to tell you that Greg Maddux might help your team? He's Greg Maddux.
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The sheer WTFness of the superbike piece is a sight to behold, but this paragraph in the Plaschke column evisceration always slays me:quote:Just like good scouts do. Good scouts never use scouting tools. They trust their goddamn eyes, and their guts, and their spleens. Why? I can't get past "dargbloomit!" without laughing.
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Between this article about student athletes having mandatory finance checks which are probably violations to civil liberties, and his recent article on how truly lovely public stadium financing is, I'm starting to really like Patrick Hruby's Serious Issues articles. http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/40769854/
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Badfinger posted:Between this article about student athletes having mandatory finance checks which are probably violations to civil liberties, and his recent article on how truly lovely public stadium financing is, I'm starting to really like Patrick Hruby's Serious Issues articles. Every time I try to get into college football, I'm reminded that it's a kafkaesque, ludicrous nightmare.
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midwat posted:Every time I try to get into college football, I'm reminded that it's a kafkaesque, ludicrous nightmare. Yeah it's great, what else are you waiting for?
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General Dog posted:Yeah it's great, what else are you waiting for? A decent team in the northeast.
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midwat posted:A decent team in the northeast. Good luck with that. Hruby's article is brilliant because, while he did a fair bit of original reporting, he basically indexed a dozen articles that all talked about the same thing in a more narrowed scope. It is a huge problem, but no journalist really took the time to step back (probably because MATH IZ HARD OKAY).
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midwat posted:A decent team in the northeast. Cuse, UConn, and oh why even bother it's a dead zone for recruiting
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Declan MacManus posted:Cuse, UConn, and oh why even bother it's a dead zone for recruiting At least Cuse has been good in the past - it's not inconceivable that they could have a resurgence in the future. This year's team wasn't terrible, but that's really only because of the QB.
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