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midwat
May 6, 2007


"Competitive eating is a disgrace," King tweeted as he powerchugged 10 venti caramel frappuccinos.

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soggybagel
Aug 6, 2006
The official account of NFL Tackle Phil Loadholt.

Let's talk Football.
Gross? Sure. Disgraceful? Mostly ironic given he covers the NFL.

Codependent Poster
Oct 20, 2003

soggybagel posted:

Gross? Sure. Disgraceful? Mostly ironic given he covers the NFL.

I guess you haven't heard of the competitive eating circuit covering up the severity of concussions!

Ramadu
Aug 25, 2004

2015 NFL MVP


Kalli posted:

I appreciate being able to laugh at yourself.

https://vine.co/v/eJWZr7O9Eim

Hahahahahahahha that is awesome, Kornheiser burned the shiiiiiit out of him there

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Whitlock bailed on a NY Magazine profile at the last minute

Dutchy
Jul 8, 2010
I was pleased to see Bill Barnwell writing about baseball today on Grantland, giving him a chance to branch out and write about run differential.

MourningView
Sep 2, 2006


Is this Heaven?
every time you click on his archive it should just be THERE IS A LOT OF LUCK INVOLVED IN SPORTS written in like 72 point font rather than actual links to his articles.

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually
Relatedly, Simmons' twitter account has staggered back to life. I guess NBA free agency was too much for him to maintain radio silence.

AsInHowe
Jan 11, 2007

red winged angel

FMguru posted:

Relatedly, Simmons' twitter account has staggered back to life. I guess NBA free agency was too much for him to maintain radio silence.

The no-compete Twitter banishment might have only run through the draft.

curried lamb of God
Aug 31, 2001

we are all Marwinners
2015 Body Issue photos are out:

http://espn.go.com/espn/bodyissue

Blast Fantasto
Sep 18, 2007

USAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!


It's going to be a good day.

MourningView
Sep 2, 2006


Is this Heaven?
This is one time I 100% believe Broussard just because it's too hilarious not to be true.

Blast Fantasto
Sep 18, 2007

USAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

MourningView posted:

This is one time I 100% believe Broussard just because it's too hilarious not to be true.

It's hard to imagine anything funnier than Mark Cuban furiously texting and driving around Houston with Chandler Parsons in the backseat trying to calm him down.

Zeeman
May 8, 2007

Say WHAT?! You KNOW that post is wack, homie!
Come on, Mark. Who's to say you didn't get his address last night while crying into your phone?

MourningView
Sep 2, 2006


Is this Heaven?

Blast Fantasto posted:

It's hard to imagine anything funnier than Mark Cuban furiously texting and driving around Houston with Chandler Parsons in the backseat trying to calm him down.

He is angry because he was actually furiously CYBERDUSTING and no one is promoting his #brand

ElwoodCuse
Jan 11, 2004

we're puttin' the band back together
Has Cuban actually succeeded at anything besides "cashing out before the bubble burst"?

MourningView
Sep 2, 2006


Is this Heaven?

ElwoodCuse posted:

Has Cuban actually succeeded at anything besides "cashing out before the bubble burst"?

His basketball team has been mostly very good

ElwoodCuse
Jan 11, 2004

we're puttin' the band back together

MourningView posted:

His basketball team has been mostly very good

Yeah but the Mavericks are his toy, he's an entrepreneur, not a basketball guy.

No Safe Word
Feb 26, 2005

ElwoodCuse posted:

Has Cuban actually succeeded at anything besides "cashing out before the bubble burst"?

HBO basically skewered Cuban with this character from Silicon Valley:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IARfrdvIIMU

It's spot-the-gently caress-on

e: there's lots more than just that and you should watch the show it's really good

Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

Acguy Supremacy
Here, have a summary on the most entertaining day of the off-season in any sport ever: http://www.sbnation.com/nba/2015/7/8/8917523/deandre-jordan-signs-clippers-emojis-cards-mavericks

MourningView
Sep 2, 2006


Is this Heaven?

No Safe Word posted:

HBO basically skewered Cuban with this character from Silicon Valley:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IARfrdvIIMU

It's spot-the-gently caress-on

haha this owns

But yeah as far as business stuff goes his one huge "success" was a giant flop that he happened to have really good timing on. Which hey good for him, but he is not exactly a visionary.

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually

MourningView posted:

But yeah as far as business stuff goes his one huge "success" was a giant flop that he happened to have really good timing on. Which hey good for him, but he is not exactly a visionary.
I always admired the fact that when he sold his company to Yahoo for a pile of Yahoo stock, the first thing he did was run to the stock market and dump his shares of Yahoo as quickly as he could. He was one of the few people in the middle of the dotcom boom who realized that it was a fragile bubble and got out ASAP, lots of other people in his position rode their shares of pets.com, etoy, or Time-Warner-AOL all the way into the ground.

WayAbvPar
Mar 11, 2009

Ah- Smug Mode.

No Safe Word posted:

HBO basically skewered Cuban with this character from Silicon Valley:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IARfrdvIIMU

It's spot-the-gently caress-on

e: there's lots more than just that and you should watch the show it's really good

Agreed on both counts. The character is the about the funniest part of S2, which is really saying something. The show is brilliant.

Harlock
Jan 15, 2006

Tap "A" to drink!!!

ElwoodCuse posted:

Has Cuban actually succeeded at anything besides "cashing out before the bubble burst"?
Shark Tank is really fun and cool

I would say his general appeal stems from being a sort of 'everyman' despite being worth 3 billion dollars

Harlock
Jan 15, 2006

Tap "A" to drink!!!

Speaking of the body issue, here's the two best words in capitalism: corporate synergy

http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/13223119/marvel-super-hero-edition

Was Taters
Jul 30, 2004

Here comes a regular

Harlock posted:

Speaking of the body issue, here's the two best words in capitalism: corporate synergy

http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/13223119/marvel-super-hero-edition

Considering the body issue is usually really good about including a paralympian, I'm surprised Marvel didn't include Bucky.

Dexo
Aug 15, 2009

A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.
God Bless Jason Whitlock.

http://screengrabber.deadspin.com/retire-now-1717128101

Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

Acguy Supremacy
well then

Blast Fantasto
Sep 18, 2007

USAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Future Jason Whitlock inspirational email quote:

“You isolate the woman, you get her away from her family and friends. You don’t want them talking any sense into her. You don’t want her knowing she’s making a mistake.” - Whitlock

Thaddius the Large
Jul 5, 2006

It's in the five-hole!

God, he was starting to recite his own version of the D.E.N.N.I.S. system. The J.A.S.O.N?

Spring Break My Heart
Feb 15, 2012

Blast Fantasto posted:

Future Jason Whitlock inspirational email quote:

“You isolate the woman, you get her away from her family and friends. You don’t want them talking any sense into her. You don’t want her knowing she’s making a mistake.” - Whitlock
That's a joke.

Captain Internet
Apr 20, 2005

:love: HOTLANTA :love:
IS WHERE YOUR HEART IS

INSPECTAH DECK posted:

That's a joke.

It's a joke that is in terrible taste, but I am pretty sure he wasn't tacitly recommending tricking women but rather making a self deprecating jab at himself that he has to trick women because he is an awful mistake.

Harlock
Jan 15, 2006

Tap "A" to drink!!!

Jason Whitlock loves the Dennis system.

Benne
Sep 2, 2011

STOP DOING HEROIN

INSPECTAH DECK posted:

That's a joke.

Whitlock's jokes are as bad as his sports opinions

trem_two
Oct 22, 2002

it is better if you keep saying I'm fat, as I will continue to score goals
Fun Shoe
Relevant Jason Whitlock content for today: https://web.archive.org/web/20090709162516/http://msn.foxsports.com/tennis/story/9757816/Serena-could-be-the-best-ever,-but-

BWV
Feb 24, 2005
Probation
Can't post for 6 hours!
If Whitlock was funny, or had a reputation as someone who wasn't always "telling you what it is" he could've pulled off a joke like that. instead he just seems creepy.


quote:

BBWs — Big Booty Women — do not write me angry e-mails. I'm only knocking Serena's back pack because it's preventing her from reaching her full potential as an athletic icon. I am not fundamentally opposed to junk in the trunk, although my preference is a stuffed onion over an oozing pumpkin.

Right now I'd put on Serena on par with Paris Hilton. I know that's harsh. Serena's accomplishments are far more substantive than Hilton's. But Paris Hilton doesn't have one discernible skill (that I can publish in this column without earning it an R rating). Hilton's monumental overachievement is her accomplishment of becoming a celebrity.

Serena's greatest feat might be avoiding establishing herself as the greatest tennis player of all time.

BWV fucked around with this message at 17:04 on Jul 11, 2015

Glamorama26
Sep 14, 2011

All it comes down to is this: I feel like shit, but look great.
Man, I hate when I get a bad case of OOZING PUMPKIN.

Parlett316
Dec 6, 2002

Jon Snow is viciously stabbed by his friends in the night's watch for wanting to rescue Mance Rayder from Ramsay Bolton

INSPECTAH DECK posted:

That's a joke.

Yeah you have to explain it to the rest of these guys.

ChickenMedium
Sep 2, 2001
Forum Veteran And Professor Emeritus of Condiment Studies

BWV posted:

If Whitlock was funny, or had a reputation as someone who wasn't always "telling you what it is" he could've pulled off a joke like that. instead he just seems creepy.

I always enjoy a giant disgusting blubber golem of a man telling women they aren't attractive enough.

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zakharov
Nov 30, 2002

:kimchi: Tater Love :kimchi:

Parlett316 posted:

Yeah you have to explain it to the rest of these guys.

Maybe it's a "joke" that's also lovely and offensive?

Especially given Whitlock's history of being an idiot.

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