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As Jason Whitlock once said, learn the rules so you'll know when and how to properly break them. He also said some lucky lady is gonna feel a couple inches of pain tonight so he probably should've taken his own advice. Copernic posted:rough day for people pretending to be black 
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Truly Undefeated. 0-0.
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Jun 12, 2015 21:23
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Copernic posted:rough day for people pretending to be black 
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Jun 12, 2015 21:24
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Copernic posted:rough day for people pretending to be black lmao
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Jun 12, 2015 21:24
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http://www.espnfrontrow.com/2015/06/update-on-espns-site-on-race-and-sports/quote:As we continue to move forward in the process of creating The Undefeated – a new ESPN site focusing on race and sports – we have collectively decided to make some structural adjustments that will maximize the skill sets and strengths of our team, leading to the best possible output for the site and for all of ESPN. To that end, Jason Whitlock will now be entirely focused on what he does best: creating distinctive and compelling content, which will live across various ESPN platforms. Jason’s thought-provoking perspective has always been a hallmark of his work and this will allow him to completely devote his time and energy to that. As a result, he will make significant contributions to multiple ESPN entities and programs. Since returning to ESPN, Jason has been instrumental in assembling the foundation of a strong editorial team, formulating the vision for the project and collaborating with our digital product team to develop the blueprint for the site.
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Jun 12, 2015 21:34
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Speaking of vanity sites, it looks like Woj is trying to put one together.
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Jun 12, 2015 21:41
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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? 350k+ people watch like 5 hours of league of legends during their season for 4 straight days. The world championship sold out the Staples Center in under a day in 2013 and like 25 million people watched it. They are 18 months past becoming a legit thing.
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Jun 12, 2015 21:43
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Hahaha wow. If Woj's personality is anything like the opinion columns he puts out for agents, teams and players, that's gonna be a disaster.
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Jun 12, 2015 21:44
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Badfinger posted:350k+ people watch like 5 hours of league of legends during their season for 4 straight days. The world championship sold out the Staples Center in under a day in 2013 and like 25 million people watched it. They are 18 months past becoming a legit thing. I am thoroughly mystified by anyone wanting to watch someone else play video games but I acknowledge the world is passing me by.
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Jun 12, 2015 21:51
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zakharov posted:I am thoroughly mystified by anyone wanting to watch someone else play video games but I acknowledge the world is passing me by. I like watching people compete and enjoy the aesthetics of some video games as they are played. That's about as deep as it goes.
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Jun 12, 2015 22:09
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morestuff posted:Speaking of vanity sites, it looks like Woj is trying to put one together. JoeDumarsPressReleases.com is available. I hope this means Jason Whitlock can go back to recording 4 unedited podcasts a week. His Fox Sports podcast was my favorite podcast by a mile.
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Jun 12, 2015 22:27
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zakharov posted:I am thoroughly mystified by anyone wanting to watch someone else play video games but I acknowledge the world is passing me by. You watch wrestling! I watch cars drive! It's a competition with compelling gameplay and drama. It also has an extremely high skill ceiling but extremely low barrier to entry. The average player is as far away from the cream of the crop as the average basketball shootaround is from Jordan, but after you watch a game you can get much closer to emulating something they did than I ever got to dunking.
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Jun 12, 2015 22:40
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EVO's fun as poo poo to watch and it sucks I'm gonna miss it this year due to moving but I know nothing about LOL and those other games so yeah, I can see why they'd be rough to watch.
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Jun 12, 2015 23:32
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When you get down to it it's probably not inherently any more silly than watching a bunch of grown rear end men hit a ball with a stick and play what is basically glorified musical chairs. All sports are pretty dumb on the most basic level.
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I think, for me, the difference is that Cleveland is an actual place, Manziel is an actual person, and that pass on third down actually happened, whereas Naxxramas is not a real place, Kel'Thuzad isn't a real person, and I never got injured by Shadow Fissure. I'm somewhat I actually had to look those names up though.
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Jun 13, 2015 00:54
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A huge draw of sports is the physicality and the spectacle. IMO
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Jun 13, 2015 01:02
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Alain Post posted:A huge draw of sports is the physicality and the spectacle. IMO You would like professional wrestling 
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Jun 13, 2015 01:05
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Everyone needs their dumb poo poo to yell at.
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Jun 13, 2015 01:05
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R.D. Mangles posted:Everyone needs their dumb poo poo to yell at. Yeah but that doesn't mean that all dumb poo poo is going to be popular.
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Alain Post posted:A huge draw of sports is the physicality and the spectacle. IMO With video games, it's often stupid fast reaction times, prediction stuff, and ridiculous aim/mechanics.
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Jun 13, 2015 01:12
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R.D. Mangles posted:Everyone needs their dumb poo poo to yell at. have you been thibs this whole time
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Jun 13, 2015 01:19
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League of Legends is the worlds greatest sport and the desperate scrabblings of 30 year old men on web board explaining that actually, it's for nerds couldn't possibly slow its ryze. Welcome to the future. Welcome to the Gragas Century.
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Jun 13, 2015 01:31
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Kibner posted:With video games, it's often stupid fast reaction times, prediction stuff, and ridiculous aim/mechanics. Nobody watching me put poo poo in Excel and I'm using all three of those skills!
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Jun 13, 2015 03:50
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Sash! posted:Nobody watching me put poo poo in Excel and I'm using all three of those skills! are you streaming it?
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Jun 13, 2015 03:52
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And are you competing against someone else that is also streaming?
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Jun 13, 2015 03:59
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Excel is basically the frisbee golf of esports
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Jun 13, 2015 16:09
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Keven. Just. Keven posted:League of Legends is the worlds greatest sport and the desperate scrabblings of 30 year old men on web board explaining that actually, it's for nerds couldn't possibly slow its ryze. Welcome to the future. Welcome to the Gragas Century. I have no problem with the concept of eSports, but man, I just can't get into watching League of Legends or any other MOBA. Whatever though, they're reasonably popular, it's cool.
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OrangeKing posted:I have no problem with the concept of eSports, but man, I just can't get into watching League of Legends or any other MOBA. Whatever though, they're reasonably popular, it's cool. Ain't nothing wrong with that. That's like me and baseball. It just doesn't do anything for me.
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Jun 14, 2015 00:16
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ESPN literally shows a spelling bee every year, not to mention stuff like a hot dog eating contest, pool, bowling, poker, nascar, golf, competitive cup stacking, and even chess but people like to draw a line at e-sports for some reason. Seriously though, the spelling bee is super dumb. ESPN should show those high school math competitions too while they are at it, and maybe the finals for a national debate club competition.
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Jun 14, 2015 15:39
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The spelling bee is not dumb 
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Jun 14, 2015 15:46
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No joke I would watch high school math competitions. Math owns.
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Jun 14, 2015 15:53
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I don't know if it's in the Sports Journalism but the Hogan vs Gawker case is coming up and they just be the latest fallen opponent to Hulkamania.
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Jun 14, 2015 16:05
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So It Goes posted:ESPN literally shows a spelling bee every year, not to mention stuff like a hot dog eating contest, pool, bowling, poker, nascar, golf, competitive cup stacking, and even chess but people like to draw a line at e-sports for some reason. If you didn't think the Gokul/Vanya showdown was one of the sports events of the century then get the gently caress out of SAS
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Parlett316 posted:I don't know if it's in the Sports Journalism but the Hogan vs Gawker case is coming up and they just be the latest fallen opponent to Hulkamania. Let me tell you something brother, he killed Andre the Giant in front of 2.9 million screaming Hulkamanicas in the Pontiac Silverdome brother, he can kill Gawker media in the court of law
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Jun 14, 2015 18:06
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He's going to be in trouble when the lights go out in the court house and they start playing Brutus "The Beefcake" Barber's courtroom entrance music.
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I hope Gawker dies so that I never have to accidentally end up on Jezebel when I'm reading something on io9, and I'm willing to sacrifice Foxtrot Alpha for this.
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Sash! posted:I think, for me, the difference is that Cleveland is an actual place, Manziel is an actual person, and that pass on third down actually happened, whereas Naxxramas is not a real place, Kel'Thuzad isn't a real person, and I never got injured by Shadow Fissure. But Manziel isn't actually a Brown and LeBron isn't actually a cavalier (probably) so I guess those sports are invalidated as well.
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Sash! posted:I hope Gawker dies so that I never have to accidentally end up on Jezebel when I'm reading something on io9, and I'm willing to sacrifice Foxtrot Alpha for this. I feel dirty going over when I stumble on a neat foreign car article on their car site
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R.D. Mangles posted:He's going to be in trouble when the lights go out in the court house and they start playing Brutus "The Beefcake" Barber's courtroom entrance music. Hogan and Gawker will shake hands in the barbershop and then hogan's newly repaired hips will deliver a superkick/legdrop combo
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GoutPatrol posted:Hogan and Gawker will shake hands in the barbershop and then hogan's newly repaired hips will deliver a superkick/legdrop combo If I was Gawker's legal counsel, I'd call Hogan to the stand and then play Macho Man's "Be a Man Hulk" at him until he agreed to drop his lawsuit. I would be a terrible attorney.
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