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Has it been noted that ESPN have been floating $4million a year to keep Skip Bayless around? I can't find a solid link to it, but I've seen Richard Deitsch mention it a few times since before Christmas
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Personally, I don't want to live in a world where a TV network with a reach of 90 million viewers will pay someone who says that a high profile basketball player's rape trial gives him "sizzle" $4million a year. And that's before the unending shitshow that was the unending Tim Tebow fellatio
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Dec 31, 2015 08:07
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Well they're paying Stephen A Smith $3million a year so think about this: the hosts of First Take are earning a combined $7million a year
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Dec 31, 2015 16:52
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Criminal Minded posted:Has anybody mentioned yet that your username is totally outdated? yup, but I post so rarely no-one notices. And ShaneMacGowansNewTeeth is too long
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Vertical Lime posted:I wonder how many other people attracted to women will agree with his views on Adele can you elaborate on that, because I cant stand his voice either
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YeahTubaMike posted:I just went to The Ringer, and the first headline I saw was "Joe Buck Is Underrated". to be fair, he's improved a hell of a lot since calling Randy Moss pretend mooning Green Bay "The most despicable act in the history of mankind"
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Jun 1, 2016 19:14
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So I've been seduced by the myth that is "First Take" and being that I'm in the US for a week I thought I'd check it out and its not on main ESPN? Also, I saw Stephen A Smith on the post game after game 2 of the NBA Finals and ESPN are actually paying good money for a man to have a toddler tantrum on live TV?
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Jun 7, 2016 16:28
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Kalli posted:It's on ESPN2 every morning. They just replay it over and over again until like 2-3pm, and then a condensed one a bit later. Found it and His n Hers this morning. The first words Jemele Hill uttered were "now that's a hot take" and that was about as bad as it got. First Take also wasn't that bad but Smith seems to have some sort of automatic activated volume increasing switch. Skip didn't say anything terrible but boy his fake street poo poo got old fast
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Jun 7, 2016 20:13
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Yeah, I watched HQ yesterday and basically giggled the whole way through. Bomani plays the straight man role so well, but at the end of the wrestling segment Dan asked if anyone had checked if the two wrestlers are still alive and Bomani's look just slayed me completely
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Jun 7, 2016 21:16
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Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino always used to speak through an interpreter when he was Southampton manager. He knew English, but it wasn't strong enough to completely articulate what he meant but know he knows enough to ditch the translator
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Aug 9, 2016 19:30
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So I also saw Screaming A Smith's hot taek about Tebow playing baseball and I found it... actually amusing. But I then felt bad because the reason I found it amusing was because Screaming A Smith sounded like he was having a stroke or a seisure or in some sort of worst case scenario masturbating furiously in attempting to deliver the hot taek
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Aug 9, 2016 22:54
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DOOP posted:I thought Poch used the translator to openly gently caress with the media well that's probably the correct reason because gently caress knows the British media are loving poison
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Aug 10, 2016 07:37
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morestuff posted:It looks like J.A. Adande is leaving full-time sportswriting to head up a sportswriting program at Northwestern. Hasn't Kevin Blackistone gone back into teaching at a college?
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Aug 16, 2016 19:02
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Shea Serrano tries to explain to his biracial children the Colin Kaepernick conundrum and somehow his four year old gets the best line: “Daddy, I saw a witch at the mall today”
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Sep 4, 2016 11:51
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It's common knowledge that Liverpool the city hates The Sun newspaper for the defamation caused in the wake of the Hillsborough tragedy. Except now, people in the city are going one step further and trying to put it out of business
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Sep 15, 2016 20:04
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https://twitter.com/alexisdent/status/788184779359477760 I somehow guess Klemko will ride this storm out like the last time
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I swear he did a periscope about MSU basketball last night, this is all very weird. I'm not a native, but I've been reading his stuff since 2002 or 2003 or so
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Oct 21, 2016 19:31
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30 for 30 gave us 'Hillsborough' which when finally broadcast over here was universally praised as one of the finest pieces of journalism in recent memory
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Adun posted:It's just depressing that whenever I read the Ringer I can't help but think about how much better Grantland was my favourite Grantland piece was the minute by minute breakdown of how many times Kate Winslet tried to kill Leonardo Di Caprio in Titanic, and all I can do is giggle all the way through
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mistermojo posted:oh this isn't a parody is it?
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Jan 12, 2017 22:25
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What are the chances that Dan Wetzel, Charles Robinson and Jeff Passan get picked up somewhere where it's not hard to find their actual pieces, because Yahoo's current layout is loving hot garbage
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I'm just wondering what angles Stephen A Smith, Ace reporter at large, has uncovered that the rest of the sporting media haven't
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Apr 19, 2017 15:52
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Akileese posted:Bart Hubbuch, previously of the NY Post before getting fired for a tweet, put out a piece on Gambling, Robert Kraft, and the hypocrisy (GASP!) of the NFL on the matter. The Murdoch empire nixed the article and wouldn't publish it. It's a pretty good read. and in honour of this, as a filthy Brit, I just placed a £5 bet on the divisional winners
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Henchman of Santa posted:Hey remember how Royce Young's wife was carrying a baby with no frontal lobe to term in order to donate the organs? not going to lie, I teared up at the start and really didn't stop all the way through
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Apr 27, 2017 22:38
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Spoeank posted:In which a broke brained racist brit tries to intertwine politics and sports well, imagine my shock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72KbeqN7pZ4
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Jul 13, 2017 23:17
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Bomani's timeline when he gets PFT Commenter on his show is a veritable loving goldmine of laughs
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Jul 19, 2017 22:53
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Giants vs Pats 1 was good because it's the first and only Superbowl where one side had odds where you could actually make decent bank if they won, and the Giants were 9/2 when I laid £20 on them. Most of the time the odds of an outright winner are so close it's not even remotely worth it
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Aug 9, 2017 22:57
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Feels Villeneuve posted:Pats/Giants II was not great but it was hilarious that Eli Manning somehow got two Super Bowl rings against Tom Brady. All I can really remember from the 1st aside from winning money was that absolutely monster first drive the Giants put together
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DJExile posted:That huge 4 player TMNT game ate a ton of mine same here, many many pounds I spilled into that thing
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Mahoning posted:Nah man, McNulty and Bunk go to an Orioles game with his kid and see his ex-wife sitting behind home plate with her new boyfriend. I think there's another Orioles game maybe in the season about the school district? Could be wrong about that one. One of the journalists in season 5 is sent to Orioles opening day and makes up a story about a disabled kid trying to score tickets, which might be what you mean
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In another shining example that Hot Takes are not just an American problem but an international one, former England international Stan Collymore says all political protests and symbols in sports should be banned
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We don't do it here except before cup finals and international matches, and even in a five day cricket match the anthem is played at the start of the game, not at the start of every day's play
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Mahoning posted:I remember being linked to a lot of good content from Yahoo Sports to the point where I bookmarked it and started going on it every day. It was so poorly designed and/or ugly that I found myself struggling to find the good content or the things I wanted to read. At least compared to other sites I frequent. So i unbookmarked it. I follow the three decent writers they have left (Passan, Wetzel and Robinson) on twitter and wait for them to publish the links there then read it. It's design is so poor that you can't tell who's written what
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https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/920819307214491649 https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/920859119413878784
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AsInHowe posted:I will make one up later, if no one is done so. I follow most of the Detroit papers on twitter, but holy poo poo, this tweet from this afternoon actually stopped me right in my tracks https://twitter.com/kimberkoz/status/954066895522713602
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I've been a juror on a court case involving sexual assault on a child, and hearing the victims statement read out by the prosecution lawyer was one of the most awful, emotional things I've ever experienced and I don't wish to experience it again. I genuinely feel for everyone except the scumbag who did this, because listening to each victim is going to be so draining for everyone
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El Gallinero Gros posted:I used to be a social worker, and some of the stories they told us as a way of mentally prepping us for the realities of the field were horrifying. The police officer and social worker who were assigned the case were actually in tears when it was read out & I was just about holding it together. Without going too much into the details, all of us on the jury actually asked and were allowed to exit the court through the backdoor as the defendant's family were waiting outside, then we all went down the pub. We barely spoke, but the only thing we could agree on was that the sentence was almost painfully low for the crime, and that with hindsight we should have convicted him on all three counts and not just one. But still, hearing what I did over those four days was more than enough
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