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Benne posted:"Yeah, forget the 18 years of captivity and unspeakable horrors you went through, here's all the sports poo poo you missed!"
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# ? Sep 20, 2013 00:46 |
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It's even more depressing when you find out 2 or 3 editors at the paper also read that column and not one of them said "Holy gently caress, we need to burn this poo poo and forget it ever existed."
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# ? Sep 20, 2013 00:56 |
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Simmons vs Reilly would be ugly. They're both tools, but Simmons is not held back by his corporate masters nearly as much and can go anywhere he wants with criticism. Simmons was never as good as Reilly at his best and I'll be shocked if he ever becomes as bad as Reilly is now
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# ? Sep 20, 2013 01:28 |
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erezaka posted:Simmons was never as good as Reilly at his best and I'll be shocked if he ever becomes as bad as Reilly is now To be fair, Reilly was at his best doing feature stories, and that's something Simmons never really did. But yeah, Reilly now is barely a shadow of what he once was.
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# ? Sep 20, 2013 01:41 |
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haljordan posted:It's even more depressing when you find out 2 or 3 editors at the paper also read that column and not one of them said "Holy gently caress, we need to burn this poo poo and forget it ever existed." I had forgotten/never saw in the first place what the editor in response to that (linked in the UPDATE part at the top of the page) and it was amazing to me know the process that allowed it to exist on the Internet for our horror. Now I want to see (or maybe I don't) all the horrible articles that have been stopped by non-incompetent editors. Also in Zirin's post he linked to what he wrote a couple months ago about the article that compared Manziel to Rosa Parks and holy cow that one too. Basically I think we need an official Dave Zirin response anytime a horrendous article like these is published.
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# ? Sep 20, 2013 01:48 |
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Crazy Ted posted:There needs to be some kind of Sportswriting Hall of Fame with its own wing just for that piece. I remember reading it the day or two after it came out, and it never gets any less incredible as time goes by. The best part of that is his quarter-assed apology.
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# ? Sep 20, 2013 02:21 |
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Reilly's entire approach now is pretty much just "bootstraps" and now that he's gotten himself to the point that he makes millions each year, he writes everything under the impression that laziness is the only reason anyone else hasn't reached his heights. I have his first book of SI columns and it's loving absurd how much he's devolved. That ref suicide piece he did forever ago is still one of the best things I've ever read.
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# ? Sep 20, 2013 02:40 |
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It is always a treat to show people the ref column and be like, "Yeah, that's the guy that writes all those weird tooth jokes"
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# ? Sep 20, 2013 02:56 |
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I've never seen that O.C. Register column. Holy mackerel.
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# ? Sep 20, 2013 04:52 |
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erezaka posted:Simmons was never as good as Reilly at his best and I'll be shocked if he ever becomes as bad as Reilly is now Rick Reilly has always been really bad.
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# ? Sep 20, 2013 04:53 |
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Rick Reilly's expose on Marge Schott is one of the best pieces of sportswriting I've ever read.
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# ? Sep 20, 2013 04:54 |
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MourningView posted:Rick Reilly has always been really bad. Thank you for this. People always link his old stuff here to say how great he was in the 80s and it's the same awful, hackneyed similes and unfunny pop culture references and I feel like an alien because it is mostly complete poo poo.
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# ? Sep 20, 2013 04:59 |
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I guess I shouldn't say always because I'm probably too young to have read his earliest stuff for SI so maybe he had some decent feature stuff, but he's been bad for a really really long time. Those back page stories were almost always either formulaic sob stories or hacky attempts at being funny.
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MourningView posted:I guess I shouldn't say always because I'm probably too young to have read his earliest stuff for SI so maybe he had some decent feature stuff, but he's been bad for a really really long time. Those back page stories were almost always either formulaic sob stories or hacky attempts at being funny. I've read some decent/good features by him, but you're right - his columns were universally awful.
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# ? Sep 20, 2013 05:17 |
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I honestly think that if I would have read some of his really early stuff at the time, I would have agreed that he was a really promising journalist, but to see that he is now at this point is just really sad.
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# ? Sep 20, 2013 05:25 |
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Here are some things you can read and either pretend he didn't write them or boggle at the fact that they came from the same person who wrote about the Redskins. http://deadspin.com/5295590/rick-reilly-before-he-was-rick-reilly
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# ? Sep 20, 2013 05:26 |
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Vertical Lime posted:This is probably about as good of a rebuttal to that Reily column as there is: I read the column and was , then I made the cardinal sin of reading the comments
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# ? Sep 20, 2013 05:54 |
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Dave Zirin is awesome, he does a weekly sports show on XM that you can listen to in podcast form.
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# ? Sep 20, 2013 14:07 |
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MourningView posted:I guess I shouldn't say always because I'm probably too young to have read his earliest stuff for SI so maybe he had some decent feature stuff, but he's been bad for a really really long time. Those back page stories were almost always either formulaic sob stories or hacky attempts at being funny. Deadspin had a feature a while back about his best feature stuff. It's worth a read.
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# ? Sep 20, 2013 14:55 |
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davecrazy posted:Deadspin had a feature a while back about his best feature stuff. It's worth a read. Here it is. quote:Freshman Chadd Smith knows why he's hanging from his closet shelf by his fingers at three in the morning, with his legs bent and spread. It has to do with football. The Citadel hadn't lost the Wofford game since 1958. In fact, it had never lost the Wofford game at home. But tonight it did. As usual, somebody has to pay. As usual, it's the freshmen. That part he understands. What Smith wants to know is, What is it? What is that coldness I feel now and again down between my thighs?
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# ? Sep 20, 2013 14:59 |
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SI published a rebuttal (sort of) to the Riley column. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1140310/1/index.htm
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# ? Sep 20, 2013 16:28 |
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That whole Citadel article is worth a read. I wonder how their fake army is doing these days? Oh... quote:Tyler Phillips has said he was hit with a broom and rifle butt, spit on, kicked in the back, and was told by an upperclass cadet that he would light him on fire. He said he struggled for a long time to heal from the damage inflicted on him at the school. quote:That complaint was lodged in 2007 by a teen who accused ReVille of watching porn and masturbating with young boys at The Citadel’s summer camp five years earlier. The school closed the matter without notifying police, following an internal investigation that yielded no action. Way to make Texas A&M look sane, guys.
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# ? Sep 20, 2013 16:29 |
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Deadspin found a Reily column from 1991 where he took the other side of the Native American names issue: http://deadspin.com/rick-reilly-just-wrote-the-worst-thing-lets-remember-1344712914/1355593340@marchman
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# ? Sep 20, 2013 16:33 |
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Maybe that was before he had a Native American father-in-law and became an authoritative voice on the issue.
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# ? Sep 20, 2013 17:31 |
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Grittybeard posted:That whole Citadel article is worth a read. I wonder how their fake army is doing these days? Oh... The Citadel story is absolutely horrifying. How did Reilly go from writing stuff like that and the story about the high school ref to the drivel he puts out today? It's a real shame.
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# ? Sep 20, 2013 18:28 |
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axeil posted:The Citadel story is absolutely horrifying. How did Reilly go from writing stuff like that and the story about the high school ref to the drivel he puts out today? It's a real shame.
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# ? Sep 20, 2013 18:47 |
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davecrazy posted:SI published a rebuttal (sort of) to the Riley column.
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# ? Sep 20, 2013 19:32 |
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Josh Lyman posted:Whaaat? So Reilly really wasn't being sarcastic? Let's do it this way. Why do you think that article doesn't reflect his actual beliefs on the issue today?
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# ? Sep 20, 2013 21:26 |
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# ? Sep 21, 2013 02:05 |
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Jesus christ baby!
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# ? Sep 21, 2013 02:11 |
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Slut shaming professional athletes, that's. . . interesting.
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# ? Sep 21, 2013 02:14 |
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Haha oh man how he's getting back at people right now on twitter. Hilarious.
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# ? Sep 21, 2013 02:33 |
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Drunk Canuck posted:Haha oh man how he's getting back at people right now on twitter. Hilarious. I think he got tired of the trolls
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# ? Sep 21, 2013 03:06 |
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I looked at a few of the replies and by far the most annoying is the concept this is "illegal cash." It is not illegal, it is against the NCAA rules. If my job had a rule I couldn't drink a beer after work, and I did, that is not illegal. It is against the rules of my employment sure, but I cannot be arrested for it. There is nothing illegal about someone paying you 100 bucks an hour to wash a car. It is against some (bullshit) rules regarding your scholarship, but again, it is not illegal.
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Ribsauce posted:I looked at a few of the replies and by far the most annoying is the concept this is "illegal cash." It is not illegal, it is against the NCAA rules. If my job had a rule I couldn't drink a beer after work, and I did, that is not illegal. It is against the rules of my employment sure, but I cannot be arrested for it. There is nothing illegal about someone paying you 100 bucks an hour to wash a car. It is against some (bullshit) rules regarding your scholarship, but again, it is not illegal. Who the gently caress is SiennaSoup? Jesus Tap Dancing Christ, it's like a real life PFTcommenter. God what an imbecile.
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# ? Sep 21, 2013 03:34 |
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Imagine if sportswriters told athletes to stop telling the media they took PEDs Also ESPN is probably going to have a word for him for that analogy
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# ? Sep 21, 2013 04:11 |
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I like the point that that jerkoff has made a living off of college athletes. Where does that put him on his little food chain?
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# ? Sep 21, 2013 04:14 |
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sba posted:I like the point that that jerkoff has made a living off of college athletes. Where does that put him on his little food chain? Someone responded: "does that make you a pimp?"
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# ? Sep 21, 2013 04:17 |
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The broken bones posted:Someone responded: "does that make you a pimp?" He's not really a pimp, more an advertiser to attract johns. A barker maybe?
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Thaddius the Large posted:He's not really a pimp, more an advertiser to attract johns. A barker maybe? Those guys on the Vegas strip who hand out the little cards.
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