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Copernic: Sep 16, 2006; ...A Champion, who by mettle of his glowing personal charm alone, saved the universe...

Daulerio is a piece of poo poo again. NWS for boobs.

Naked Photo Of Someone Who's Probably Not Nick Saban's Daughter Is About To Go Viral posted:

]It started off with an email from a man named David: "Any interest in Nick Saban's daughter, who is a sophomore at Alabama, topless?" And then some other dude sent us the pic rapidly circulating around SEC cell phones. (NSFW)

And here's the photo with the accompanying email.

# ¿ Sep 17, 2010 17:57

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# ¿ May 7, 2024 17:40

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How does Steve Rushin get work?

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When a sportswriter stops writing about sports for three years, part of him goes into hibernation (tuning out the games), while part of him misses the metaphorical microphone that used to be his (but may never be again). At least that's how I sometimes felt during my absence from sportswriting: Half Rip Van Winkle (who slept for 20 years), half Rob Van Winkle (real name of Vanilla Ice).

Over time, devoid of an outlet, a man can let sports' manifold annoyances build inside him, until he wakes one day -- unexpectedly -- with more things on his chest than Flavor Flav.

It wasn't the big transgressions that began to weigh on me: The cheating, the lawbreaking, the lying. Those I'd come to expect. "The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a man only tells them with all his might," as Clemens said. (Samuel Clemens, not Roger.)

Rather, it was the little nuisances that piled up, threatening to undo me.

Until now, for instance, I've suffered in silence as players and coaches and commentators in the NFL have constantly referred to that entity by its full, formal name: "The National Football League." This is usually an attempt to lend drama, gravity or profundity to an otherwise banal statement. Jets coach Rex Ryan is fond of the locution: "This is the National Football League. Everybody's a good team." Vikings defensive tackle Kevin Williams told the Minneapolis Star Tribune this week: "You've got to play the game. This is the National Football League." ESPN analyst Cris Carter, yesterday: "In the National Football League, training camp is very, very important."

# ¿ Sep 22, 2010 17:24

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Crazy Ted posted:

Just leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeean back and

This put Colin Cowherd's voice in my head, drat it.

# ¿ Nov 5, 2010 15:18

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TMQ takes a bold stance against applause.

Easterbrook posted:

Stay in Your Seat: According to the White House transcript, President Barack Obama was interrupted by applause 79 times during last week's State of the Union address, including for such generic pronouncements as, "We need the fastest, most reliable ways to move people, goods, and information, from high-speed rail to high-speed Internet." The president received 45 standing ovations, including for such generic pronouncements as, "Let's fix what needs fixing and let's move forward."

Standing ovations for generic comments -- in 2010, Obama brought the crowd to its feet merely with the words "small business" -- have become part of political theater. Obama received 37 standing ovations during his February 2009 speech to Congress, and 46 standing ovations in his 2010 State of the Union talk. Members of Congress know that when the president speaks, standing to clap is a way to get television cameras to pan off the president toward them.

But there's a larger problem at work -- too many standing ovations at theatrical shows, awards ceremonies, all kinds of public events. The Oscars and Golden Globes stop so often for the audience to rise that the evenings are like aerobics classes for the Hollywood elite. Today's Broadway shows, no matter how bad, often end with standing ovations, while rare is the high school musical that does not conclude with the audience on its feet.

Standing ovations are supposed to acknowledge a remarkable insight or moving performance -- not merely that a politician spoke, or a curtain closed. Here, theater critic Terry Teachout argues that the rising frequency of standing ovations "devalues their significance." Once, performers dreamed of the day they would earn a standing ovation. Today, they expect standing O's for walking across stage. And though it's fun, as a high school kid, to see your parents standing to clap, realistically, rare is the high school musical or play that merits an ovation.

Why has the standing ovation proliferated? Your columnist thinks it's a form of self-flattery for the audience, a way of saying, "I picked a great show." If you pay $250 for a Broadway ticket for a musical version of "Hedda Gabler," and the show is wretched, you leave feeling like a fool. If you leap to your feet in a standing ovation, as if you've just attended a work of art, you don't feel so bad about that $250. When audiences stand to applaud, they are applauding themselves. Stay in your seat! Unless you've truly witnessed a moving performance, which does happen -- just not often.

# ¿ Feb 1, 2011 16:30

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New boss in town? Time to sniff that crack!

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A lifelong love of baseball is the basis for Bud Selig's approach to job

...The current Milwaukee Brewers are the creation of a small boy who often went with his mother to watch a minor league team that carried the same name. The family business was an auto sales and leasing company in Milwaukee, Selig Ford, run by his father, Ben. The jump from Selig Ford to 19 years as the czar of the game of baseball is an American success story.

It happened because Bud Selig was, is, and always will be � first and foremost � a baseball fan.

# ¿ Apr 22, 2011 06:31

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Jay!

LA Times posted:

Former ESPN sports personality Jay Mariotti has been charged with three felonies -� stalking, domestic violence and assault -� after he confronted his ex-girlfriend the same day a court ordered him to stay away from her, prosecutors said.

He pleaded not guilty Wednesday to the charges: stalking, corporal injury on a spouse or domestic partner, and assault by means likely to produce great bodily injured. He was also charged with two misdemeanor counts of disobeying a court order. If convicted, he faces up to five years in state prison. His next court date is June 1 before Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Keith Schwartz.

In addition to confronting his ex-girlfriend at a restaurant Sept. 30 -- the day he pleaded no contest to one count of misdemeanor domestic violence -- prosecutors said he argued with his former girlfriend again outside a Venice restaurant April 15. He allegedly pulled a chunk of her hair out and grabbed her cellphone, while shouting at her, prosecutors said.

As part of a deal reached in the original case with the Los Angeles city attorney's office, six other misdemeanor counts against Mariotti were dismissed -- four domestic-violence-related counts, grand theft and false imprisonment.

In that case, Mariotti avoided jail time and was instead placed on three years' probation and required to perform 40 days of community service. He was ordered to complete a 52-week domestic violence course and stay away from the victim. He could face county jail time in connection for violating probation.

In addition to working at ESPN, Mariotti also wrote for the sports website Fanhouse.com, where he is known for criticizing athletes for their actions on and off the field. In the past, he wrote sports columns for the Denver Post and the Chicago Sun-Times. A nationally known sports personality, Mariotti has gained a reputation for his unsparing commentary about athletes on ESPN's "Around the Horn." He has not contributed to ESPN since his arrest.

The case stemmed from his arrest in August 2010 after a running argument between the couple that started at a club in Santa Monica after Mariotti accused his girlfriend of flirting with another man.

Police said the argument continued at the couple's Venice-area apartment, where Mariotti allegedly pushed and shoved the woman. During the altercation, Mariotti grabbed her arm, leaving marks, according to police sources.

Police were called to the apartment and found his girlfriend, who has not been identified, with cuts and bruises.

Mariotti originally was arrested on suspicion of felony domestic assault. He was released from jail on $50,000 bail. The police referred the case to the Los Angeles County district attorney's office, which determined that there was not enough evidence to charge him with a felony. The case was subsequently referred to the L.A. city attorney, eventually resulting in the no-contest plea.

# ¿ May 12, 2011 00:33

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haljordan posted:

From Dan Shaughnessy's article on how much of an ayehole Frank McCourt is:

McCourt might be a horrible owner, but is there any real proof that ANYTHING he did/did not do lead to the Bryan Stow incident? Unless there's footage of him fleeing the scene wielding a steel pipe, seems like a useless thing to include in the article.

There wasn't enough security at the games, lighting was poor, no one stepped in to stop drunks from getting out of hand. The Dodgers were even planning a series of half-off beer games when the Stow thing happened.

All of this is because of underinvestment in team operations and lack of management attention. And that's McCourt's responsibility. Plus he had no chief of security, good lord.

The LAPD ended up saying 'gently caress you' to McCourt and taking over security themselves.

You can't say any of this would've stopped the Stow thing, but there's no question McCourt is an rear end.

# ¿ Jun 28, 2011 01:04

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http://deadspin.com/5917795/how-to-...-atrocious-book

How do you write an article about JAY MARIOTTI and somehow come across as the bigger rear end in a top hat. Or at least, an rear end in a top hat of approximately the same size.

Copernic fucked around with this message at 21:48 on Jun 14, 2012

# ¿ Jun 14, 2012 20:20

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haljordan posted:

So basically Lebron James is worse than Hitler?

Sad to see a writer become lazy and gimmicky.

# ¿ Jun 22, 2012 19:46

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RICK. REILLY.

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I'm wearing something yellow Friday for Lance Armstrong. Not because I think he's innocent. He just gave up his chance to prove his innocence, so I suppose he isn't.

...

Maybe these riders are lying, maybe they're not. I don't care. I'm wearing yellow Friday because I want Armstrong to know what he meant to me, my family and the dozens of people I know who took Armstrong with them into those chemotherapy rooms and radiation labs and the darkest corners of their fears.

...

Fine. If he cheated, wipe him out of the record book. Make him pay back the first-place money he won all those years. He gave it all away to his teammates anyway. There's some irony for you. Plenty of those guys -- George Hincapie, Landis, Tyler Hamilton -- were suspected of, or admitted, using banned substance too.

But wear something yellow Friday just to return the favor. Wear something yellow to tell Lance Armstrong that they might be able to ban him for life, but they can't ban him from life. Wear it to tell him to keep going, to keep fighting for cancer-research legislation, to keep showing people through his Livestrong foundation how to fight through the red tape and get to the treatment that can cure them.

# ¿ Aug 29, 2012 17:45

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Rick Reilly.

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...Doesn't matter. The 81-year-old Washington Redskins name is falling, and everybody better get out of the way. For the majority of Native Americans who don't care, we'll care for them. For the Native Americans who haven't asked for help, we're glad to give it to them.

Trust us. We know what's best. We'll take this away for your own good, and put up barriers that protect you from ever being harmed again.

Kind of like a reservation.

# ¿ Sep 18, 2013 22:07

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Niwrad posted:

I found this piece by Deadspin declaring that sources were safe with them hilarious. They outed Jenn Sterger years ago, frequently post complete e-mail trails from their sources, and having a history of their sources being outed quickly by other outlets because they left too much identifying information in the piece (this part is more Gawker and Gizmodo related). poo poo, they just last week poo poo on the source of the Pelini tape.

Anyways, I couldn't find a least trustful place to leak something than Deadspin.

Never trust any media outlets. And don't forget that the Gawker/Rob Ford story got hosed up by CNN:

gawker posted:

Well, no. But when I emailed an acquaintance at CNN this afternoon, laying out much the same information I've offered above and asking for discretion and confidentiality lest we screw up a pretty loving great story about the mayor of the fifth-largest city in North America smoking crack cocaine on camera, he forwarded the email to his producer. The producer, in turn, asked CNN's Canada reporter about it. The Canada reporter�and this was a pretty loving big mistake�called a source who used to work in Ford's office. Within 40 minutes, word had gotten back to me that "CNN called Ford's office asking about a crack tape."

# ¿ Sep 29, 2013 05:40

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morestuff posted:

How do this many people actually listen to sports radio?

Because I am a man.

WSJ posted:

Politically correct, inadequate education, along with the decline of America's brawny industrial base, leaves many men with "no models of manhood," she says. "Masculinity is just becoming something that is imitated from the movies. There's nothing left. There's no room for anything manly right now." The only place you can hear what men really feel these days, she claims, is on sports radio. No surprise, she is an avid listener. The energy and enthusiasm "inspires me as a writer," she says, adding: "If we had to go to war," the callers "are the men that would save the nation."

Hey Dan first time caller, 5'8" 275. *ding*

# ¿ Jul 28, 2014 17:41

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zakharov posted:

https://twitter.com/RichSandomir/status/609454384389472256

See ya Whitlock

rough day for people pretending to be black

# ¿ Jun 12, 2015 21:22

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Blast Fantasto posted:

He isn't a public figure in any sense that matters, and he didn't even end up paying the escort. So the story basically amounted to "Hey, the former treasury secretary's brother almost bought a gay prostitute!

This is assuming the story is 100% true, which it probably isn't, seeing as how the source is really weird.

Also, this isn't exactly Deep Throat reporting. The guy contacted Gawker, they copy-pasted everything he sent them, and added a perfunctory denial from Geithner at the bottom. AND they let him be anonymous for some reason I cannot fathom at all.

# ¿ Jul 20, 2015 20:56

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Crazy Ted posted:

Hahaha good lord Craggs decided to immolate everything and publish Gawker's brand-new "Brand Book" that they were using to sell themselves to potential advertisers.

He is going this far because his boss wouldn't let him keep up a story about the outing of the private-citizen brother of a public figure.

By his boss do you mean.... HITLER????

E: this is the source.

Copernic fucked around with this message at 21:34 on Jul 20, 2015

# ¿ Jul 20, 2015 21:29

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R.D. Mangles posted:

guy who writes all of his columns from the perspective of an illiterate moron is somehow the best sportswriter in America

Is PFTCommenter's real identity a secret?

# ¿ Aug 7, 2015 18:23

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howe_sam posted:

Chris Ryan's cohosts the Hollywood Prospectus podcast with Greenwald and has an eminently punchable voice.

Litman also did the reality show podcast and Food news, both with Dave Jacoby.

I've seen a lot of the Grantland sports writers sing Mallory Rubin's name in praise.

I will miss the hell out of NBA After Dark. Every sport should have a relaxed podcast dealing primarily with the goofy off the field drama. Sports is soap opera for boys, lets act like it.

# ¿ Oct 12, 2015 18:58

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Spoeank posted:

Good, gently caress Gawker

the lesson here is never hire AJ Daulerio.

# ¿ Mar 19, 2016 00:07

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KFBR392 posted:

Pete Thiel is a massively wealthy self-loathing gay libertarian, almost by definition anything he's involved with that also involves the government or a government process on the other side will see him on the wrong side of things.

Billionaires suing publications and journalists into oblivion is extremely hosed up and is becoming more common. Especially because the point is not to win, its to make the journalists' life hell, deplete their assets, and make it less likely they'll try to hold billionaires accountable in the future.

See this.

This suit should've been settled ages ago for Hogan's actual damages, but it wasn't, because the point was to destroy Gawker for a completely unrelated thing.

E: Forgot this one.

# ¿ May 25, 2016 22:03

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Henchman of Santa posted:

It's a joke because he is a massive about NBA minutiae and he clearly misses social cues sometimes when interviewing. But if you actually listen to him talk he's clearly just an awkward guy. And the thin skin thing is an epidemic among sports journalists.

The best thing about Lowe is that his podcasts get into actual subject matter within maybe thirty seconds. It's bizarre that, e.g., Jonah Keri or Will Leitch have nearly ten minutes of "housekeeping" bullshit before starting the actual podcast. Not even self-promotional stuff. Like, three minutes on podcast scheduling issues.

# ¿ Jul 28, 2016 16:05

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FistEnergy posted:

Came here specifically to post this. That's a hell of a headshot from another famous sports personality. What did Bill do to piss him off so hilariously?

Also check the Tweet replies

I think this is because Simmons has been whining for the past year and a half about Cris briefly -- BRIEFLY -- mentioning DeflateGate during the Pats Super Bowl. Like, a solid 1 1/2 years of whining that he mentioned it during a Pats drive. He had Al Michaels on as a guest and just crapped nonstop on Cris.

# ¿ Nov 14, 2016 22:51

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Vertical Lime posted:

I think Keepin' it 1600 sticks around (even if they're understandably very shook right now) that seems to be the most popular non-Simmons podcast in that network

HOMER: Yeah, that's right, Barney. This year, I invested in pumpkins. They've been going up the whole month of October. And I got a feeling they're gonna peak right around January. And bang! That's when I'll cash in.

# ¿ Nov 15, 2016 00:42

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BWV posted:

ESPN should've just signed PFT. Let him be an on air personality and show up during game day or pre game shows. Give him a podcast with Stugotz and you basically got the same thing. Sure they'll lose the listener base he already developed at barstool but it saves PFT and ESPN the shame of being associated with such a gross organization.

Everyone assumes that PFT doesn't REALLY want to be associated with Barstool, and there's no evidence of that at all. People just want it to be true because they like PFT. He works for Barstool, he gets paid by Barstool, chances are he's a piece of poo poo like Barstool.

# ¿ Oct 17, 2017 23:15

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# ¿ May 7, 2024 17:40

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MourningView posted:

I'm pretty sure Dan Rubenstein (who also does The Solid Verbal outside of SBN) was one of the people let go but he hasn't said anything about it on Twitter yet

should've been Spencer Hall.

# ¿ Feb 23, 2018 21:09

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