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iospace posted:And until they actually hand out a punishment that actually carries heft and not just a slap on the wrist, it'll continue to happen. They can't. There was plenty of talk inside the NCAA if they even had the authority to punish Penn State because they can only enforce competition rules. SMU did violate competition rules. Penn State did not. Baylor, I think, didn't either.
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Sash! posted:They can't. There was plenty of talk inside the NCAA if they even had the authority to punish Penn State because they can only enforce competition rules. SMU did violate competition rules. Penn State did not. Baylor, I think, didn't either. Ah, ok. Still poo poo though and allows stupid drivel like the PSU comeback narrative. Unrelated: Challenge time! Rank the "big name" sports personalities (for clarification: has their own show, is a ATH regular, or is a network's #1 broadcast team for a given sport), the size of their egos, and a comparable object. I may throw in an avatar for the best one. 
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Starting the 15th, UFC will have Todd Grisham of all people on play-by-play and doing some studio work. Sounds like he's not Goldberg's replacement though.iospace posted:Unrelated: Challenge time! Rank the "big name" sports personalities (for clarification: has their own show, is a ATH regular, or is a network's #1 broadcast team for a given sport), the size of their egos, and a comparable object. I may throw in an avatar for the best one. Jason Whitlock's ego is almost as big as Jason Whitlock.
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algebra testes posted:Did they mention it was Goldberg's last show on the weekend at all during the broadcast? He had about 3 seconds to cram in "I'm Mike Goldberg don't forget me please" at the very end of the event
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Mahoning posted:Great, now we're gonna get talking heads on FS1 saying that basketball isn't being played the way James Naismith intended. Honestly I'm all in favor of bringing back the ladder to the NBA.
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Vertical Lime posted:The Chris Berman retirement news is finally official You know, I'll miss the guy in a way. He was good at doing highlights, but really not much else.
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Vertical Lime posted:The Chris Berman retirement news is finally official
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Josh Lyman posted:Probably means he'll still be covering the Masters. ... I can not see Chris Berman covering golf. At all. He's way too excitable for it!
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iospace posted:You know, I'll miss the guy in a way. He was good at doing highlights, but really not much else. I'm crossposting this here because he wasn't the same after NBC's contract meant an end to NFL Primetime 
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Vertical Lime posted:I'm crossposting this here because he wasn't the same after NBC's contract meant an end to NFL Primetime Whoa, what's that from?
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Lol yeah, sure Chris, Primetime made football famous and people would ALWAYS tell you it made them a football fan.
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DJExile posted:Whoa, what's that from? probably that Oral History of ESPN book
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It's also what really put Berman on the map, moreso than any of the other things he did at ESPN, which was a lot since he's been there since the jumpoff. It's also why there were serious rumors/consideration towards Berman going to NBC the last time his contract was up, since it'd let him take the Dan Patrick role of their SNF coverage, which effectively replaced Primetime. Odds are Trey Wingo will take over all of their coverage, which makes as much sense as anything, and Berman will come and go as he pleases. I know he's far past his prime and has become a characture of himself, but it's hard to overstate how much of an influence he was on ESPN and therefore sports culture as a whole.
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Holy poo poo Berman is only 61? That means he was twenty loving four when he started at ESPN. That's crazy. Have some USFL highlights. Apparently he didn't come out of the womb with all the woops and rumblin bumblin stumblin stuff after all.
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So here's some Boston bullshit from some thin skinned Boston babymen: Bomani Jones this morning had a segment on his radio show where he talked about how Boston goes nuts over gritty white dudes (the most obvious segment ever). WEEI and apparently Stephen A Smith have gone nuts over it because it means Bomani Jones just called everyone in Boston a kkk member. Bomani's been pretty much tweeting about it all day and it's all basically this: https://twitter.com/bomani_jones/status/817016050936147968 https://twitter.com/bomani_jones/status/817089116236087298
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Kalli posted:So here's some Boston bullshit from some thin skinned Boston babymen: The best part was when someone tweeted the award Toucher and Rich won and was like "do you have this?!" Bo just responded with a picture of his Emmy. The second best was the show saying "enjoy pulling a 0.0 in Boston, you racist!"
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Cash Monet posted:So is that dude's real name "Toucher?" Tough break. It's Toettcher. He's the same guy who led off a live interview with Rick Pitino that he stinks and he ruined the Celtics and then dropped him from the phones. OJ MIST 2 THE DICK fucked around with this message at 23:54 on Jan 5, 2017 |
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Josh Lyman posted:Lol yeah, sure Chris, Primetime made football famous and people would ALWAYS tell you it made them a football fan. Chris Berman showed me it was okay to be weird.
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I'm gonna go against the grain and say gently caress Chris Berman. I never gave a poo poo about NFL Primetime, even during the period of my life when I was a huge NFL fan. He thought he was the face of ESPN when it was actually Dan Patrick, Keith Olbermann, Stuart Scott, and Craig Kilborn that everyone knew and actually cared about. Berman has always been the creepy uncle at ESPN.
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ElwoodCuse posted:Man, of everything the NFL has done on and off the field in the past like, 25 years, what WASN'T utterly dickish? The Red Zone channel, I guess? Also, Berman and Primetime might have been a big deal back in the 90's but credit where credit is due, George Michael Sports Machine had Sunday NFL highlights on lock years before Boomer was dropping a fistfull of Du-Du-Dus and waiting for that "POP!" to kick in.
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DJExile posted:http://awfulannouncing.com/ncaa/today-in-real-or-fake-bill-simmons-launches-weird-anti-nick-saban-podcast-tirade.html How did Bill Simmons become popular anyway? Also, is The Ringer still a thing er no?
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iospace posted:How did Bill Simmons become popular anyway? He was the common man way back when, just a guy with a platform shooting the poo poo about sports when not everyone in the world who wanted to blog about things could. Right place, right time basically. I think I've said this before but he still has some decent ideas, 30 for 30 has been generally awesome, grantland was good at what it did. Both of those were his babies. I just have no desire to ever read or hear from the man himself the last few years.
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