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PotatoJudge
May 22, 2004

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Okposolypse posted:

Im sure it was Sewden or Canada that had the hottie but curling is mesmerizing for reasons untirely unrelated to that. You could naked rosie o'donnel's or mila kunis and either way that sport would still be captivating for unexplainable reasons.

Cassie now and forever! USA curling rules

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PotatoJudge
May 22, 2004

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DJExile posted:

are you serious :stare:

I mean I shouldn't be surprised but holy poo poo

Shitheads were tweeting that at links to the story, I never thought it would be used as a legal defense.

PotatoJudge
May 22, 2004

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Troy Queef posted:

Bud Collins, legendary tennis commentator and owner of a collection of pants that no doubt Craig Sager was envious of, passed away today at 86.

I loved NBC's Wimbledon coverage when I was a kid. Bud and Dick Enberg were a great duo in the booth.

PotatoJudge
May 22, 2004

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AsInHowe posted:

Is this something where damages are trebled?

No, in fact she was asking for $75 million and the jury dropped it to 55

PotatoJudge
May 22, 2004

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R.D. Mangles posted:

Anyone else here reading The Only Rule Is It Has To Work? I couldn't stand Lindbergh at Grantland because I thought he was incredibly tedious, but I'm about halfway through and really enjoying this. In case anyone here isn't a giant baseball nerd it's about two Baseball Prospectus writers who took over an independent league team for a season and tried to use sabermetrics to vault them to the top of their four-team league, but it's mainly about trying to run a professional baseball team as a giant baseball dork and it's really fun.

I got it from the library a few days ago and it started out a little slow but their plotting at the league's pre-draft tryouts was pretty cool. And holy poo poo, they got SportsVu to hook them up with a PitchF/X setup at their sub-Frontier League independent league home field. I'm looking forward to reading the rest, should be a nice way to spend the holiday weekend.

PotatoJudge
May 22, 2004

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Henchman of Santa posted:

So in Gawker news that genuinely sets a worrisome precedent, Univision is taking down any post that is the subject of litigation against them. Even the one about Chuck Johnson pooping on the floor in college. I get why Univision wants to do this in the immediate Hulkster aftermath, but imagine being successfully bullied by Chuck Johnson.

They also caved into the nut who claims to have invented email and to Mitch Williams even though Gawker's lawyers had that case 98% won.

PotatoJudge
May 22, 2004

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That's the high quality content that has 50,000 people glued to their TVs night in and night out

PotatoJudge
May 22, 2004

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morestuff posted:

The JFK assasination is why Troy Aikman got all those severe brain injuries

:drat:

loving magic bullet bank shot

PotatoJudge
May 22, 2004

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DO YALL WANT A BOXC posted:

jon bois is very good, i like his videos a lot

Card Show is great. Nanni getting not one, but two checklist cards in his early 90s NBA pack is a true flashback to childhood. And one of the checklists cards has a checklist for all the checklist cards so you can make sure you got them all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS4hdzPpqWI

PotatoJudge
May 22, 2004

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So Jon Bois is doing a very Jon Bois thing. I don't know how to explain it, I love it but I can see how someone might hate it:

https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football/chapter-1

PotatoJudge
May 22, 2004

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I really liked the articles they had on the guy caught moto-doping.

PotatoJudge
May 22, 2004

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FuzzySkinner posted:

https://twitter.com/KFCBarstool/status/896460973271384064

I wanna kick the rear end of everyone associated with that absolute poo poo hole of a website.

gently caress them.

I really wish PFTC and Big Cat were on another site.

PotatoJudge
May 22, 2004

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GoutPatrol posted:

In an almost unrelated note, everyone should read The Great American Novel by Phillip Roth, about a team in a fictional third major league that lost its stadium due to the war and had to have every game be a road game.

The Frontier League had a team like that for several years, it was made up of guys who didn't make the other teams in the league and they played all 70 something games on the road. The other teams used them as a place to grab a quick replacement for injured or cut players. They were terrible except for one year where they somehow almost made the playoffs.

PotatoJudge
May 22, 2004

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From one of the replies:

Willful ignorance is a drug and Clay is El Chapo

PotatoJudge
May 22, 2004

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Matt Ufford was one of the SBNation / Vox people let go yesterday. I enjoyed his stuff from the KSK days.

https://twitter.com/mattufford/status/966711600802607106

PotatoJudge
May 22, 2004

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Really good Sally Jenkins article about burning down the US Olympic Committee:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...m=.32580525f073

PotatoJudge
May 22, 2004

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Jon Bois back at it again, now with Dorktown:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiZfc0b2t3Q

PotatoJudge
May 22, 2004

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Important Jon Bois News:

https://twitter.com/jon_bois/status/994273174207500290

PotatoJudge
May 22, 2004

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Timby posted:

Didn't Drew Magary get both his Gawker/Gizmodo and GQ gigs because he commented on Deadspin as Kissing Suzy Kolber?

The KSK guys were all early Deadspin commentators, Magary was Big Daddy Drew.

PotatoJudge
May 22, 2004

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algebra testes posted:

Unavision looking into selling Deadspin, Onion etc
Related:
https://twitter.com/libbycwatson/status/1016859871147421696

PotatoJudge
May 22, 2004

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Coco13 posted:

Part 2 of 'Fighting In The Age of Lonliness' is up and man, that's a hell of a twist ending for this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fkd6xumhVms

This bit from episode 3 is so good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxC39OVZ9fM&t=866s

PotatoJudge
May 22, 2004

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DJExile posted:

that is literally everyone telling that kid not to swing at Faulk, goddamn, lmao


E: Spencer Hall's breakdown of everyone involved in that picture is very good

quote:

Faulk played every season of his NFL career for the New England Patriots, by the way. That is a rarity I now attribute to Faulk simply refusing to be cut. Starting in 2009, Bill Belichick probably informed Faulk annually that they were letting him go. Faulk replied with “nah” and the exact expression seen in that photo, and that was that. Faulk left the room still a Patriot, and Belichick just had to deal with that.

PotatoJudge
May 22, 2004

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Timby posted:

Sounds pretty serious, whatever it is. Hope he recovers; even though his real effort has been going to GQ and he's been phoning it in at Deadspin for quite some time, his stuff is generally pretty fun to read. His book, Someone Could Get Hurt, is amazing, too.

The Hike is a really good, quick read.

PotatoJudge
May 22, 2004

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Spencer Hall with a great obit for Mean Gene Okerlund:

https://www.sbnation.com/wrestling/2019/1/2/18165293/mean-gene-okerlund-wwe-interviews-took-wrestling-seriously-so-we-could-too

PotatoJudge
May 22, 2004

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https://twitter.com/edsbs/status/1101999993823641600

Spencer Hall roasting Trey Wingo worse than Wingo roasted that poor innocent steak

PotatoJudge
May 22, 2004

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General Dog posted:

What happened to the plate

https://twitter.com/edsbs/status/1102017884962934785

PotatoJudge
May 22, 2004

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Henchman of Santa posted:

Spencer Hall is shutting down EDSBS and sent it off as only he can:
https://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2019/7/31/20729397/free-bird

I hope they keep doing the Shutdown Fullcast, as it is the only college football podcast on the internet.

Question answered!

https://twitter.com/edsbs/status/1156655243842789376

PotatoJudge fucked around with this message at 21:15 on Jul 31, 2019

PotatoJudge
May 22, 2004

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Fauxhawk Express posted:

I've long since moved on from football, but god drat I loved EDSBS. Spencer's meltdown after the UF/UGA game in '07 will never not be funny to me.

https://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2007/10/27/georgiaflorida-a-summary

Shove a tree up my rear end sideways and call me a national park

PotatoJudge
May 22, 2004

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In other coming to an end news, Magary's GQ contract is up and his last column was posted today:

https://www.gq.com/story/fake-media-ecosystem

PotatoJudge
May 22, 2004

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When afootballwebsite.com is up it will be part of Vox but not SBNation and will have:


Alex Kirshner
Brian Floyd
Bud Elliott
Holly Anderson
Jason Kirk
Richard Johnson
Ryan Nanni
Spencer Hall
Steven Godfrey

As its writers / podcasters / whatevers. It launches on the 21st.

PotatoJudge
May 22, 2004

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https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wjwa8m/the-golden-state-warriors-are-the-biggest-herbs-in-the-nba

Burneko got an article up on Vice Sports. I don't know if this is a one-off or freelance thing, or if he will be there full time.

PotatoJudge
May 22, 2004

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Cross post from the NCAA thread, but one of SBNation's writers is from Evansville and he spent the week before the UE / UK game with Walter McCarty: https://www.sbnation.com/2019/11/18..._source=twitter

He also wrote an article a few years ago on the 40th anniversary of the plane crash that killed the team and coaching staff right as UE had moved up from Division II to I: https://www.sbnation.com/2019/11/18..._source=twitter

PotatoJudge
May 22, 2004

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https://www.npr.org/2019/12/22/7905..._medium=twitter

Drew interviewed about the W&S guide, the death of Deadspin, & his brain exploding.

PotatoJudge
May 22, 2004

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BubbaProg (who is still doing his insane screen captures) has the top 10 Deadspin posts of the '10s

https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1209546777399058434

PotatoJudge
May 22, 2004

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NOSE

2 RARE EARTH MAGNETS

It had to have been one on each side, and man, that had to have hurt.

PotatoJudge
May 22, 2004

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Another recap of the Death of Deadspin, this time from Samer: https://www.cjr.org/special_report/deadspin-gawker-gomedia.php

PotatoJudge
May 22, 2004

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Be sure to click fast, apparently it goes away after Feb 2.

PotatoJudge
May 22, 2004

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amenbrotep posted:

I'm not American so it never really came up on my radar. I only heard about Vick maybe a year or two ago at most.

You missed what was at the time the greatest pseudonym, Ron Mexico.

Later passed by Carlos Danger, Pierre Delecto, and Joanie Pepperoni, the name a cop used when people tried to hire a hitman off the dark web.

PotatoJudge
May 22, 2004

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Holy poo poo

https://twitter.com/Lucas_Shaw/status/1227284688999342080

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PotatoJudge
May 22, 2004

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Jon Bois has a new podcast! He covers a topic near and dear to all of our hearts:

https://twitter.com/jon_bois/status/1228076546474356736

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