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http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/9338962/when-beautiful-game-turns-ugly When The Beautiful Game Turns Ugly - A journey into the world of Italy's racist soccer thugs. Pretty great.
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Deathlove posted:http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/9338962/when-beautiful-game-turns-ugly This is a pro-read, even if you're not a soccer fan Lazio 
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Deathlove posted:http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/9338962/when-beautiful-game-turns-ugly Was just coming here to post that. Great read. Wright Thompson kills it yet again.
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Groucho Marxist posted:In light of the recent PED baseball news, a radio station did a dumb urine testing stunt. In went wrong in the best possible way. I am all for dumping pee on Craig Carton.
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This is older than dirt but it came up again in conversation. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/the_bonus/09/18/coolbaugh0924/index.html A really touching story about Mike Coolbaugh, who died as a 1st base coach after being struck by a foul ball. A lot about the family he left behind, the guy who hit the ball that killed him, etc.
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Groucho Marxist posted:In light of the recent PED baseball news, a radio station did a dumb urine testing stunt. In went wrong in the best possible way. Actually, I think the best possible way would be to receive a positive result.
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Montaous Walton just wanted to play ball, so he made up a fake online persona, fooled the media, signed with an agent and ended up in handcuffs
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DeltaAttack2go posted:Montaous Walton just wanted to play ball, so he made up a fake online persona, fooled the media, signed with an agent and ended up in handcuffs This is an incredible story. Definitely worth reading all the way through; it's hard to believe that Walton is still at it, too.
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So while certain people at ESPN are riding high by recent events, the Schwab was laid off today: http://deadspin.com/howie-schwab-am...dium=socialflow Also, who wants to watch a TJ Simers sitcom http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Journal/Issues/2013/06/10/Media/Mandalay-Sports-Media.aspx
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They finally stumped him. Also isn't highlight express like the exact same thing as Sports Center?
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Blast Fantasto posted:They finally stumped him. It's what ESPNews used to be before they started putting SportsCenters and such over there. Also, the Schwab posted this on his Facebook: quote:After 26 years at ESPN, I am extremely disappointed to say farewell. I have been proud of my association and my work during my tenure. I was a loyal employee, displayed respect for others, worked with numerous charities, represented the company well. I always did everything asked of me and more. What did I get in return today … word that I should get lost. The only thing that mattered was my salary, which in my view was the lone reason I lost my job.
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I actually thought they canned that guy years ago. Dude had zero personality whatsoever on that trivia show.
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I'm about halfway through Dwight Gooden's newest autobiography. It is pretty good, nothing spectacular or new to report, but a light and easy read. The only thing I read that I didn't know about/remember was that during 1987 when people were questioning whether he was on coke he denied it and then told everyone to test him daily if they thought he was on drugs. Something that, given the fact that he was on drugs, wasn't the smartest move. Also he was asked by Strawberry to write an introduction to his (Strawberry's) biography (published in the 1980s) and he did without reading the book. Of course, Strawberry then went ahead in the book and said that Gooden was doing drugs during the World Series. Whoops.
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SB Nation's latest longform talks about the greatest sport of all time. MOTHERFUCKING BATTLEBOTS http://www.sbnation.com/longform/2013/6/18/4438250/battlebots-robot-wars-combat-oral-history
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Benne posted:SB Nation's latest longform talks about the greatest sport of all time. Truly the sport of kings.
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Someone help me write the Oral History of Slamball.
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MourningView posted:Someone help me write the Oral History of Slamball. Foreward  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWye6Ut8rY0
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Benne posted:SB Nation's latest longform talks about the greatest sport of all time. The pro-est read, right here
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MourningView posted:Someone help me write the Oral History of Slamball. SBNation already had an okay Slamball retrospective.
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MourningView posted:Someone help me write the Oral History of Slamball. It should just be the defeated moan of a child getting slammed on
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Mornacale posted:It should just be the defeated moan of a child getting slammed on We already have that thread http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3510886
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Frot Lesnar posted:We already have that thread http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3510886 
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So the St. Louis Post-Dispatch has been running a morning video series featuring Bernie Miklasz, their lead columnist. It's entitled "Breakfast with Bernie." In which the titular character seems to've just shuffled out of bed (where he wears a sports jersey as pajamas), pours some oatmeal and places it on his radiator, and then mumbles about sports into a webcam. Miklasz is a very talented writer even if he does get really lazy sometimes and cherry picks a few stats to make his case--a practice he's clearly smart enough to know better than. But...who thought this was a good idea? Poor guy looks like he'd rather be doing anything than this. 
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Writers who should never even be on camera being forced to record video from their sad apartments because people running websites demand more video content is one of my favorite trends. So awkward and uncomfortable.
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MourningView posted:Writers who should never even be on camera being forced to record video from their sad apartments because people running websites demand more video content is one of my favorite trends. So awkward and uncomfortable. SB Nation should be given some award for this. They give us Max Headroom Jump Cut Rob Neyer and 10,000 awkward nerds mumbling into webcams on college football sites.
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I'll just leave this here to avoid saying something really nasty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW_4aNTmLQ0
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jeffersonlives posted:I'll just leave this here to avoid saying something really nasty: Man, the way he dropped that so casually is kind of astonishing.
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I'd say we should start some kind of outraged protest but a) Joe Simpson gets away with this kind of stuff all the time and b) SportSouth/FSNSouth have kept Chip Caray employed and clearly don't have any judgment anyway
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holy poo poo
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jeffersonlives posted:I'll just leave this here to avoid saying something really nasty: Pro-level trolling right there.
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Pretty sure SNY had a shot of Joe Simpson calling the game yesterday while actually wearing a Braves hat, too.
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haljordan posted:Truly the sport of kings. I was doing this in the early-mid 2000's in local North East events + some California/Florida travel and it was a really fun time. Even though I have since stopped to do other things instead, I have considered jumping back in a few times but I just don't have enough motivation anymore.
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haljordan posted:Truly the sport of kings.
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Crazy Ted posted:IIRC the actual sport of kings is Australian Rules Football. No way, it's still definitely horse racing. What's more kinglike than watching a midget abuse a gigantic animal with a whip in order to make rich people slightly richer?
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TL posted:Pretty sure SNY had a shot of Joe Simpson calling the game yesterday while actually wearing a Braves hat, too. I don't understand why everybody gets so lovely about commentators not being totally neutral on local broadcasts. Also, the strained oblique thing has been a weird obsession of theirs for a couple years now. It started when 3 or 4 guys went to the DL within a couple weeks of each other in 2009 (or 2010), and in a game against the Angels, Nate McLouth watched a pitch go by, stepped back out of the batter's box, took a halfway practice swing and doubled over in pain. Then Terry Pendelton said something like "you don't go on the dl for pulled fat". Anyway, gently caress the Mets.
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BasicFunk posted:I don't understand why everybody gets so lovely about commentators not being totally neutral on local broadcasts. Its one thing to be homerish, its another to actively wish injury upon an opposing player.
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The_Hat posted:Its one thing to be homerish, its another to actively wish injury upon an opposing player. I wasn't really talking about the video at that point. Someone made a point that Simpson was wearing a Braves hat.
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TL posted:Pretty sure SNY had a shot of Joe Simpson calling the game yesterday while actually wearing a Braves hat, too. I don't see a problem with that specifically. Plenty of broadcast teams wear team polos or associated pins/doodads.
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Oh yeah, who gives a poo poo what the broadcasters are wearing, I'm pretty sure Len Kasper for WGN is always wearing some sort of Cubs shirt.
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I'm pretty sure Hawk Harrelson announces each White Sox game in a full uniform.
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