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I just finished reading Upon Further Review, which is a book where a bunch of people wrote about what-ifs in sport, and it's mostly pretty good, but Jon Bois' chapter, entitled "What If Basketball Rims Were Smaller than Than Basketballs?", is one of the funniest things I've ever read in my life
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Howard Bryant was on Fresh Air yesterday talking about his book Heritage on the history of black athlete activism. I found the whole interview fascinating, but particularly the part about the decline of activism from about the 80's- 2012(MJ, OJ, Tiger, etc.). I found this quote pretty fascinating: quote:
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Jun 21, 2018 20:52
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I read an article once that basically said "Michael Jordan might not have actually said 'Republicans buy shoes too', but he hasn't done much to dispel the notion that that's what he believes"
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ElwoodCuse posted:I read an article once that basically said "Michael Jordan might not have actually said 'Republicans buy shoes too', but he hasn't done much to dispel the notion that that's what he believes" Hasn't Michael been fairly vocal post-retirement? I thought I remembered him supporting the Eric Garner protest with the I can't breathe shirts
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Hasn't Michael been fairly vocal post-retirement? I thought I remembered him supporting the Eric Garner protest with the I can't breathe shirts My memory of it was a pretty mealy mouthed solution is somewhere in the middle kind of thing. I think he helped set up a foundation to Foster "communication" between at risk youth and the police or something like that.
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Scaramouche posted:My memory of it was a pretty mealy mouthed solution is somewhere in the middle kind of thing. I think he helped set up a foundation to Foster "communication" between at risk youth and the police or something like that. Pretty much. The gesture was nice, but he's not really that vocal about anything these days.
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Jun 21, 2018 21:13
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Jon Heyman, in light of the domestic abuse allegations against Roberto Osuna, wonders when Osuna will be able to return to the team, instead of, you know, the domestic abuse. It ends in an even shittier way, somehow:quote:There’s also been a widely-held assumption and perception out there that whatever penalty he receives would be mitigated by the 36 games he’s already missed, but that isn’t necessarily the case. Though the players union can challenge any ruling, and MLB prefers the union to sign off on rulings for that reason, he’s been on paid administrative leave to this point, and there’s a loss of pay during MLB-issued bans. MLB also doesn’t need a conviction to issue a lengthy ban. https://frsbaseball.com/mlb/blue-jays/heyman-mlb-denies-jays-request-as-osuna-wait-continues/
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clean ayers act posted:Howard Bryant was on Fresh Air yesterday talking about his book Heritage on the history of black athlete activism. I found the whole interview fascinating, but particularly the part about the decline of activism from about the 80's- 2012(MJ, OJ, Tiger, etc.). Yea people make a huge deal of the Robinson thing but Tiger won the 97 Masters and then 2 days later the anniversary ceremony happened. He got invited on less than 48 hours notice.
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morestuff posted:Pretty much. The gesture was nice, but he's not really that vocal about anything these days. Kind of hard to blame him, just crying on camera once was basically enough to rewrite his legacy for a generation
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Jun 22, 2018 00:10
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sportsgenius86 posted:Yea people make a huge deal of the Robinson thing but Tiger won the 97 Masters and then 2 days later the anniversary ceremony happened. Huh, i didn't realize that. Still, it takes some balls to basically tell the President you're too busy to be a guest of honor.
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clean ayers act posted:Huh, i didn't realize that. Still, it takes some balls to basically tell the President you're too busy to be a guest of honor. There’s stuff about it in the book Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian wrote about Tiger, which I recommend. The reasoning was basically a mixture of “you didn’t want me before the masters, so you don’t need me now” and the fact that Earl pushed him his whole life to do what he did at that masters so I think he just needed to crash right after.
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mentholmoose posted:Jon Heyman, in light of the domestic abuse allegations against Roberto Osuna, wonders when Osuna will be able to return to the team, instead of, you know, the domestic abuse. It ends in an even shittier way, somehow: I'm actually surprised to learn that Osuna is not represented by Scott Boras.
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Jun 22, 2018 14:37
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SBNation now doing straight up advertisements for Mountain Dew
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Jun 22, 2018 16:55
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They gotta pay those greedy union writers somehow lol
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Jun 22, 2018 17:08
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It's not like sponsored content is a new thing for online outlets. My favorite is when Duracell had the A/V Club do an inventory of 10 Times Batteries Were Important in Pop Culture or something like that.
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Jun 22, 2018 17:09
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It's part of a running joke where they go to junkets and only ask dumb brand-related questions
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Jun 22, 2018 17:27
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morestuff posted:It's part of a running joke where they go to junkets and only ask dumb brand-related questions
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Jun 22, 2018 17:33
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After all, what is all sports journalism but talking about brands competing with each other
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Jun 22, 2018 18:01
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that's a pretty fuckin' weird joke. "Ha ha ha! Look how funny we are giving free ad space to Mountain Dew! Ha ha! Hey look it's Mountain Dew! This athlete is drinking a Mountain Dew!"
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Jun 22, 2018 18:14
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Okay, so lets compare some NBA players to Mountain Dew flavors. Who would be your main mountain dew flavor?
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projecthalaxy posted:After all, what is all sports journalism but talking about brands competing with each other I mean, it's good work if you can get it. Let me fix that: Darren Rovell posted:This is the most important work being done in sports reporting today. *-probably not actually a Rovell quote, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was.
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Jun 22, 2018 18:22
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The joke would be better if they were asking everybody about Diet Rite or Stewart's Key Lime or something
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Jun 22, 2018 18:31
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DJExile posted:that's a pretty fuckin' weird joke. Check out this guy who's never seen Wayne's World
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Henchman of Santa posted:Check out this guy who's never seen Wayne's World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCN7-6PcdYY
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Jun 22, 2018 18:32
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The funniest brand based joke was that Shaq quote about Reebok and Pepsi
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Blast Fantasto posted:Okay, so lets compare some NBA players to Mountain Dew flavors. Who would be your main mountain dew flavor? What's really important is the favorite Mountain Dew flavor of each character on The Wire.
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Zeeman posted:I just finished reading Upon Further Review, which is a book where a bunch of people wrote about what-ifs in sport, and it's mostly pretty good, but Jon Bois' chapter, entitled "What If Basketball Rims Were Smaller than Than Basketballs?", is one of the funniest things I've ever read in my life I agree with every aspect of this post. I haven’t broken into a giggle fit at a book in a long time, but this did it. Don’t seek it out— just read through and come to it when you come to it. It’s much funnier that way, I think. There’s also a companion podcast that did audio versions of some stories, including Robert Siegel’s report on the Brooklyn Dodgers’ 2018 move to LA, Jesse Eisenberg’s lament for single-handedly ruining the Phoenix Suns when he was a kid, and Steve Kornacki calling a sports show from a future where Bledsoe never got injured and Brady never played.
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It's not that they're asking about a brand at random. They are choosing to ONLY discuss the brand that is sponsoring the interview in the first place. The first one was Josh Rosen, at a junket sponsored by Tostitos. They only asked him questions about the type of chip he liked or his nacho layering preferences.
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Neodoomium posted:It's not that they're asking about a brand at random. They are choosing to ONLY discuss the brand that is sponsoring the interview in the first place. The first one was Josh Rosen, at a junket sponsored by Tostitos. They only asked him questions about the type of chip he liked or his nacho layering preferences. Don't keep us in suspense!
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Oh! poo poo. He's a big fan of pulled pork and guacamole but is trying to cut down on queso. https://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2018/4/27/17286724/josh-rosen-nfl-draft-interview-nachos
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44 Gizmodo staffers just took buyouts. I don't know which Deadspin writers that includes but some of Splinter's best (Pareene, Clio Chang) are gone.
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DJExile posted:Burke's ability to pull what seemed like petabytes worth of sports clips and get them immediately uploaded was honestly impressive and he's one of the rare people i'm sad to see leave whatever gawker is called nowadays
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Compete is also shutting down for all you eSports people out there
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