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+1 Weedy.
Also, curious-is meth somehow considered a PED? I kind of doubt it, but wanted to ask anyway...
posted by Bonkers at 08:33 AM on July 17
Pam Ward?
Overarching debate spawning question-does it reflect poorly or well on young Richard that he's making out with cokeheads?
posted by Bonkers at 08:28 AM on July 17
Nothing to see here. Wins vacated are now the favorite penalty of the NCAA, since it is meaningless (it's not like the team that lost gets to add those wins to their books, and the offenders still get the glories they had at the time), and most of the time it gets rejected (see Oklahoma from Rhett Bomar). Texas Tech was ordered to vacate it's victories from either the late 90s/early 00s, and never did (they never put a deadline on when they have to report in). This will probably be overturned on appeal.
posted by Bonkers at 11:21 PM on June 13
Poor Dirk. It'll get better, dude. Just don't trust the ones who want the money.
From a purely analytical standpoint, I would think Dirk could have pulled a lot better-looking chick. Maybe she has a wonderful personality. Probably not, though.
posted by Bonkers at 11:45 AM on May 08
As a guy in his 20s, for me, Pat Summerall and Jon Madden will always be the sound of the big game on Sunday. If they were calling it, that was the game that you needed to be watching. His retirement also kind of means the end of an era for football announcing-I think he's the last guy of his generation of players/coaches to be in the booth.
posted by Bonkers at 04:17 AM on April 17
Boxers never retire, they just wait for a better deal to come along.
But I think this one will stick. He's got Golden Boy Promos to keep him busy, and hopefully, he can stick to making good fights happen, vice making good fights.
I am curious as to what his legacy as a fighter will be. I always thought of him as simply one of the most famous boxers (with Mike Tyson and Roy Jones, Jr.). I never thought of him as the best, or the toughest, or the greatest. But he always seemed to me to be the best promoter. And maybe that's enough, though.
posted by Bonkers at 03:59 AM on April 15
Shutdown Corner has a breakdown on all the rule changes.
Interesting how people are harping about the safety rules, but no one has mentioned the "Ed Hochuli Rule". To me, the biggest real change is the complete elimination of the wedge (speaking of the game going soft, flying wedges used to be a regular part of the game-along with people dying during games).
Agree with the stated beliefs that the rules are good overall for the game. People like to talk about the gaming becoming softer (and maybe it is), but it's also a heck of a lot faster, too. No one seems to be complaining too much about how exciting offenses still are, and the rule changes don't seem to be stopping teams like Pittsburgh from becoming dominant defensive forces.
posted by Bonkers at 12:44 PM on March 28
Shawn Kemp is impressed with young Travis Henry. Screamin' Jay Hawkins, on the other hand, is not. I find it hard to sympathize with Travis. At some point (probably child number three or four), you should get smart to this kind of thing, and re-evaluate your dating/mating habits and choices. The mantra before Western Pacific port calls on USS Midway was always, "Think with the big head, not the little head." But I've always found out the big head doesn't work too well after 10-12 Asahis/Sapporos/Bintangs/San Miguels/Tigers/etc (currently stationed in Yoko).
posted by Bonkers at 02:48 AM on March 16
He won't last long on the free agency market.
In a way, though, it represents the end of the Colts Dynasty in a way that Edge leaving didn't. Not that I don't think the Colts will continue to be successful, but I don't think people will see them in the same way anymore.
posted by Bonkers at 11:45 AM on February 25
Preface: I couldn't watch the game, due to a combination of work and location in the world. So I can't judge the beauty of the game.
With that said, I think that Big Ben will go to the HOF. Whether he should, better question. My initial gut feeling is no, but he still has time to prove himself as a truly great qb, rather than a talented guy with a great defense to help him. I feel that he will go into because people will remember him as the signature player on some very dominant teams. Sort of like Bob Griese. People remember Griese as a great quarterback, largely because he was associated with '72 Dolphins. Now I'm not saying Bob Griese sucked. He was a pretty good qb for some great teams. But his role was largely to hand off to good running backs.
I think Ben is a lot better qb than Bob Griese was. But when people think of these Steeler teams, they will probably think of Big Ben, the Defense, and Hines Ward (not necessarily in that order, though). Since you can't send an entire defense to the HOF (and is there anyone on that D now that you would send? Polamalu (sp?)? Harrison? Nobody immediately sticks out to me), Big Ben will be the default, IMHO. Of course, I could be wrong, too...
posted by Bonkers at 09:12 AM on February 02
And thus ends an era in Denver.
Though I think the SD-Den game was very much a pink-slip bowl. Which ever head coach had lost that game was going to be fired, imho.
posted by Bonkers at 01:59 AM on January 01
Agree with Drood. Though, given the disparity between the two boxers, it's amazing that it was as close. Also, it reveals how utterly broke boxing is, that a washed up former champ can take a much bigger belt holder (even if the belt and the organization are not worth it's weight in bank certificates right now).
posted by Bonkers at 06:42 AM on December 22
Personally, don't think anything should be done to mess with extra points.
But if we must mess with anything, I agree with etagloh. Make them try a drop-kick.
The only other way I'd mess with kicking would involve rigging nets around them, so that like in the non-functional AFL, a wide kick is still in play. Would make things much more exciting for the Devin Hesters of the world.
posted by Bonkers at 05:46 AM on December 22
Past Steroid usage in baseball=Outrage. Controversy. Firestorm.
Past Steroid usage in football=Ehhhh. Move along.
Granted, Mandarich sucked as a pro, but it is fascinating how steroid use is treated in football and baseball.
posted by Bonkers at 08:22 AM on October 03
I'd be willing to bet he will get a good severance/retirement package out of it, though.
Though, honestly, this guy is smart. He knows that he has made himself a lot of endorsement deals now, and plus, as mentioned, he gets to stay with his team. And a classy move, too, bravo to Joseba Etxebarria.
posted by Bonkers at 08:13 AM on October 03
Addendum to previous: way to get yourself for suspended for nothing.
posted by Bonkers at 05:02 AM on August 24
C'mon, shouldn't the referee been able to defend himself? Isn't he supposed to be an expert in taekwondo as well?
In a serious vane, good job to Matos, way to get yourself suspended. Well done.
posted by Bonkers at 05:00 AM on August 24
Fantasy football just became another degree lamer.
posted by Bonkers at 05:19 AM on August 16
Oklahoma Rogers and Hammersteins Oklahoma The Musical Oklahoma Wherethewindcomesroaringdowntheplains Oklahoma T. Boone Pickens Oklahoma Boomers Oklahoma Pokes (in honor of the other college team, plus it can be shortened to Oklapokes) Oklahoma Territory(sp?) Oklahoma team-formerly-known-as-Seattle-Supersonics Oklahoma Hypersonics (the last two just to piss off Seattle residents) Of the ones presented, Barons and Marshalls aren't that bad, actually. Which is why I don't think they'll go for them.
posted by Bonkers at 03:34 AM on July 30
I agree that physiological benefits from abstinence prior to the fight are overrated (and have known that), but what about mental aspects? Namely, self-discipline, gained from strenghtening will power? Certainly a useful skill for any athlete. (I'm trying to come up with a counter-argument for this debate, and this is the best I can come up with so far)
posted by Bonkers at 10:12 AM on July 18
There's a few things that I see holding MMA back the most right now. This is coming from the perspective of a guy who is a pretty decent fan of boxing, just to explain where I come from on this (one quick thing-I notice a lot of people talking about how boxing has declined in American society, and how this is due to brutality. This is true. But it is not just boxing's violence that drove people away, it was also the terrible management of boxing itself. I think UFC right now is about a thousand times better-managed and run than any of the alphabet soup of boxing organizations). 1. The Bloodsport perception, largely unfairly earned, about how brutal the sport is. Witness large elements of this discussion. Kimbo Slice (3-0 now, BTW) I think actually hurts them in this regard because he is regarded as a brawler, a skilled street thug rather than a true fighter (and that perception is reinforced in a lot of MMA circles, as well). As long as Kimbo Slice continues to be the prime attraction for MMA Heavyweights (in this regard, I feel like MMA follows boxing-the Heavyweight Champeen of da Woild is considered the premiere fighter, even if there are much more talented guys in the lowerweights), MMA won't be taken seriously as a sport and not glorified barfights, which hurts the truly talented guys in lower divisions/other networks (I am aware that EliteXC is really Jay-V compared to UFC/WEC, but then again, which of them has big network TV deal?). 2. The fights. MMA fights tend to be real short, a lot of times not going out of the first round (at least from the ones I've seen). To me, this is a drawback because I'm used to the longer stretch of boxing matches, where we go up to 12 rounds, and a fight has time to build up momentum and atmosphere. Now, the shorter fights make for safer environments for the fighters, and probably make for better television, as well, but don't help the transition in the meantime. 3. The different organizations. Refer to boxing on how well it works out to have numerous groups giving away titles. And the earlier comment about perceptions especially applies here. A vicious screw up on PRIDE fighting or EliteXC hurts UFC and WEC, because no one can tell them apart. 4. Last but not least, stars. As boxing and tennis have shown, it's hard to make an individuals sport huge if you can't make people recognize the stars. Sure, there's a few in both (Floyd Mayweather and De La Hoya in Boxing, Sharapova, the Williams Sisters, and Federer in tennis), but for the most part these people are unknown to us. So it is in MMA-guys rise up and appear. The real thing that hurts this is the lack of major network television deals-UFC has tried to supplant this with cable shows, which I think has helped out a lot. Now, UFC has to try and develop some of those stars into people who can transcend the sport and become huge outside of it, to help market itself (as it's trying to do with Chuck Liddell).
posted by Bonkers at 12:17 AM on June 01
Maybe they can compete in the Developing Nations Football Championship instead. Man, I love The Onion.
posted by Bonkers at 08:53 PM on May 27
Amazed she made it in, as she doesn't meet Playboy's normal requirements (ie huge fake boobs). Interesting article from Times Online about life on the women's tour, featuring our lovely and liberated Miss Harkleroad.
posted by Bonkers at 08:46 PM on May 27
I think this was a better trade. Leon does not agree with me, though.
posted by Bonkers at 02:01 PM on May 24
Which would explain how international teams were able to field good basketballs so quickly...
posted by Bonkers at 09:08 PM on May 20
Did she thank her teammates, like is required of all athletes in victory speeches? She certainly could have.
posted by Bonkers at 07:18 PM on May 12
Mel Kiper thinks he's got a nasty streak, technically sound, and great explosion off the snap, but doesn't feel he can pull and get around the edge. Todd McShay, on the other hand, feels he's a liability on pass pro. Overall, a good late day pick for someone willing to let him develop, put him in an NFL-weight room, and teach him some pass protection technique.
posted by Bonkers at 08:43 PM on April 27
The worst overall number one pick? The first number one overall pick. In a similar vein of argument, you could probably argue for John Elway, inasmuch he didn't help out Baltimore too much.
posted by Bonkers at 08:10 PM on April 24
Greg Maddux will go down as the greatest pitcher of this generation. Because he will kill and eat any one who challenges him. On a serious note, it is interesting to think about how he will be viewed in 20 years vs. Roger Clemens, he of steroid fame.
posted by Bonkers at 06:16 PM on April 15
Some of the better predictions. "Everything will become more specialized. On defense, you'll get pass rushers and run defenders, first-down and third-down defensive ends. You'll see relief quarterbacks." —Tom Flores, Head Coach, Oakland Raiders Except for the QBs, Flores was right on. "I don't think there'll be a franchise in a poor-weather area without a domed stadium. And you won't see franchises moving into 50,000-seat baseball-oriented stadiums." —Tex Schramm New England, Buffalo, Soldier Field and the Frozen Tundra are the holdouts, but pretty close. The move away from the universal stadium is well underway. "It's a very tough, very hard game, and I think more and more it's going to be played by the so-called underprivileged. It's too tough, too physical a game for a society that's become so affluent. Kids can get the same great cardiovascular exercise from soccer." —Marv Levy I think this was more true during the 80s, but I don't think it's as prevalent anymore. Not necessarily true because of the toughness aspect, as opposed to the speed that coaches were able to draw out of places like Miami and LA. The coaches will begin to dress alike, and maybe there will be a machine out there doing the coach's job. It'll be second and four, the guy will punch a button on his chest and—wonk, wonk, wonk—he'll say, 'O.K., run off tackle.' " —John Madden, Former Coach, Oakland Raiders Not quite, but a lot of coaches do now have scripts for various situations. "First, they've got to figure out ways to make more of the positions more glamorous. The field must be divided into different colored zones. There's got to be more strategy put into football. It's got to be more of a war game. I'm really very concerned about football because I've loved it all my life, and if it doesn't move ahead, we are going to be a country of soccer players in 2000." —Vintage Byron Donzis Quite wrong, even though this guy was right about better safety equipment. And what else do the NFL seers envision for 2000 A.D.?... The feeling is that rosters will grow, but the schedule will not (you believe that?), and that the NFL won't expand abroad because the foreigners wouldn't be sufficiently interested in an American game played by Americans. No, even in 2000 the referees won't use TV replays to assist them in making their calls.-From the article. 1. Wrong. 2. Wrong. 3. Wrong, but still in an only limited fashion. 4. How very wrong. "No one in the game has even suggested there might be a black head coach in 2000." From the article. Glad to see this one was wrong. Overall a good article.
posted by Bonkers at 01:14 PM on March 26
I know that I don't know a lot about hockey, and I understand that hockey is a tough, hard-nosed sport, but after an incident like this, doesn't it become time to start mandating full-coverage face masks, like I see a lot of in NCAA hockey? I cannot contemplate why the NHL allows players to skate with only visors on, or nothing but helmets. At some point, it becomes time for the league to step in and say, you will wear this for your own protection.
posted by Bonkers at 08:22 PM on February 11
I thought the G-Men had lost it when they utterly abandoned the blitz on the 2nd Half NE touchdown drive. Then Manning made his move, and the G-Men held out. Congrats to the New York Giants.
posted by Bonkers at 10:03 PM on February 03
Greg Maddux makes Anton Chigurh look like a baby sleeping in its crib.
posted by Bonkers at 07:43 PM on January 30
That's nothing. Mr. T eats grown men's balls, and has since the early days of the Internet.
posted by Bonkers at 11:34 PM on January 26
I love how this post is categorized.
posted by Bonkers at 07:55 PM on January 10
Clinton Portis, once again, establishes himself as the master of the inscrutable.
posted by Bonkers at 07:45 PM on January 04
A few years ago, I worked at Raymond James Stadium during Bucs games as a fundraiser for my college . And I quickly stopped being shocked at how drunk and obnoxious fans got (though in fairness to the NFL, I think that's more of the Bucs, because since the Culverhouse days, the Buccaneers have been marketed as a reason to come out and drink). As for the NFL games, should we really be surprised that they've become scenes for fans to become drunken idiots? The league markets itself as a huge frat party, complete with the Official Beer of the NFL™! and stripper whores, er, um, cheerleaders! So that's the attitude that the NFL is going to try and attract. Compare, with say, baseball, who tends to market itself with nostalgia (how many advertisements for baseball season featured a child in them? Was I the only one who noticed that?) for summer and simpler times (which is partly why I think MLB is getting hammered so much now-people still value the old numbers). As for the solution, it was all ready hit on by a couple of people in the forum. One, beer-free sections (the Family section, as it's known in Ray-J), and when it starts affecting the bottom line, then the league will crack down on it (at least as hard as they are now cracking down on the players).
posted by Bonkers at 04:24 PM on December 23
1. Ditto Weedy. His comments, as usual, are some of the most insightful and well-spoken of the debate (though I think I can expalin why the NFL gets a pass due to a: the fact that it doesn't rely so much on individual numbers as much as team accomplishments-note how many people are suggesting that the appropriate punishment consists of placing asterisks on the achievements of the named athletes or even of the whole era-b: because football is in its own Summer of '98 Home Run Chase, and no one wants to stop the good times, and c: as aforementioned by tieguy, people expect NFL players to be big, fast, human bullets, flying into brick walls). 2. So what was the Mitchell Report supposed to do? Name Names? It succeeded, albeit very few, and most of them were journeyman (I hear a lot of people asking about all the names not on the list). The biggest is obviously Clemens. Was it there to prove that people did PEDs? If so, mission accomplished. But due to limited returns, they were not able to prove that other people DIDN'T use steroids, which is what I think it was really meant to do. 3. Nobody seems happy with it. The Fans are unhappy that there aren't more names, and want more blood. The Players want to get their names off the list, or at least want to be crucified based off some real evidence. Bud Selig clearly isn't happy, because even though Sen. Mitchell wanted to move past the punishment and forgive and forget, Selig wasted no time in announcing the unilateral right to punish people based on his whim. The media is happy, because it allows them to fill a slow sports time (bowls not being played yet, basketball and hockey still in its meaningless phases, and pro football not yet into the playoffs). 4. Where do we go from here? I think in the end, we'll have to write it off to history, and say, this is an era where a lot of people did steroids. Can we say that anyone honestly thinks that this is all the guys who did PEDs were named on Thursday? If we assume that most of the players around did use PEDs, then can we really say that there was an advantage gained? Maybe the best way is to consider this was the steroid era, like the dead-ball era (but with Kirk Radomski). To answer Nakeman's question: Pettitte's response can be found here: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8TI5VC80&show_article=1 On edit: For some reason, whenever I try and link an article, it never shows up on the post. Does this happen to any one else?
posted by Bonkers at 08:59 PM on December 15
Lloyd Carr, thanks for playing, good bye, so long, have a nice retirement.
posted by Bonkers at 04:43 PM on September 01
I have a few problems with the current witch hunt brewing up about steroids in sports (note: my commentary will talk about football a lot because that is the area I have the most familiarity). A. Agree with tahoemoj. Congress, you have far better things to worry about. B. If we want to start kicking over rocks, we're going to find a lot of bugs. Let's look at football, for example. From the 70s until the 90s (and up to today, judging by Shawne Merriman and Rodney Harrison, and the dozens of other guys who have been caught using) pro football was awash in performance-enhancers. For college ball, the same is true from the mid-80s to today. Do you really want to go back looking through those eras? C. How do you punish people who used back in the day? For football, does one user on a team discount the teams accomplishments? If he's a backup, probably not, but if he's a starter, what then? Do you want make John Elway 0-5 in Super Bowls because Bill Romanowski(sp?) admittedly used steroids? What about the Steeler teams of the 70s (Steve Courson, who said that he and about 75% of the team's offensive linemen were juiced) and the 80s (Jim Haslett, coach and admitted former user)? Where does the line go? D. We didn't care at the time, why should we care now? Everyone loved the home run race between the equally inflated Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa. No one thought to ask if this was achieved naturally or artificially (although I remember even at the time it was known that both used supplements). Even now, we don't care too much in football, where no one blinks an eye at 6-5 240lbs guys running 4.4 40s, or guys putting on 30lbs of muscle in a summer without losing speed. We know, deep down in the depths of our hearts, that these things do not occur naturally ("...hitting a pro weight room." Yeah, right. "That kid has great genes." If Genes are the names of his suppliers, then yes."). But we seek entertainment. We want bigger, faster, stronger, more impossible feats every week. But when the truth comes out, everyone will act shocked and morally outraged. Please.
posted by Bonkers at 08:23 AM on September 01
Julio Franco will end up on some other team; it's a bylaw of MLB that he has to be on some team. Rickey Henderson will probably help the Mets. Bonkers is always glad to hear that Rickey is helping people become good like Rickey. But yerfatma could be right, too.
posted by Bonkers at 05:50 PM on July 12
What a terrific story. Anyone want to give me odds on the kid being a big-time prospect some day? Probably about the same as him turning into Todd Marinovich.
posted by Bonkers at 03:21 PM on July 01
Ditto Grum. Also, money in a different way. If you have a quality pitcher, you're going to manage him better, reduce his pitch counts, and generally work harder to maintain your investment. Additionally, players generally take better care of themselves now, being full time athletes.
posted by Bonkers at 02:24 PM on June 27
Submit him for a sad and somber Mustache Wednesday for Every Day Should be Saturday.
posted by Bonkers at 04:27 PM on June 24
Oh those pig-ignorant cack-gobbed Yank wankers! A phrase which has now entered my regular lexicon. Other than that, I agree with Mr Bismarck.
posted by Bonkers at 01:25 PM on June 16
Lebron's game is beef bold, to be sure. But c'mon Detroit, at some point in the first OT, you had to have realized that no one else was going to score, and make some kind of defensive adjustment. Double team him, triple team, heck, put four guys on him and then just have one guy standing by to pick up rebounds in case any of the other Cavs try to shoot. Do something, don't just sit their and watch this happen.
posted by Bonkers at 12:02 PM on June 02
Soon, someone will be saying Allison is ''asking'' for the attention because of the clothes she's wearing Fine, Tommy, I'll be that guy. Allison is just like almost every other girl in my generation, neglected for attention from her daddy and desperate to seek affirmation from men through her body. In other words, she wants guys to ogle her, and is really nothing more than a whore. I mean, c'mon, is it a coincidence that her chosen sport involves a long pole? I think not. She's practically begging to be raped by some dude who read about her on the internet, perhaps even on this very thread. On a lighter and much more serious note, I am impressed that this has turned into a flame spray over women's images and the internet, and not one about Title IX, and whether women in sport deserve coverage like this. As Weedy alluded to, sex and sports are interwoven, and the fact that people are arguing how she should deal with this instead of suggesting, as I have not here, that she could stop pole vaulting and avoid unwanted attention, is a good sign in women's sports, I think. On a second more serious note, if not one as light as the first, high-schools/colleges around the nation: are you taking notice of this, and maybe thinking about preparing athletes for something like this (especially colleges), and are you taking steps to prevent what happened in one of the links LBB pasted (the one about the dude imitating a reporter)? No, you cannot keep weirdos on the internet from jacking off over pictures of your young female athletes, and you cannot keep those pictures from appearing on the world wide web. But you can help those young women (and young men, as the case in the future may be) prepare themselves for something like this, and are services available for them if they should happen? They're YOUR athletes, so take care of them.
posted by Bonkers at 09:51 PM on May 30
Bonkers thinks Ricky would be a perfect pitchman for any number of old-age products, from Geritol and Ben-Gay to Cialis and See-bond. What person could not love and trust the smiling visage of Rickey hawking adult diapers?
posted by Bonkers at 06:00 PM on May 09
The best retort from a player to a fan was reported by the immortal Paul Shirley. The player involved was Bo Outlaw, who was being heckled by a fan, using some variation of the ever popular, "You Suck!". Bo has enough of this, and asks the fan, "Sir, do you know who I am?", which elicits the response, "Hell yeah, you're Bo Outlaw!" Bo thinks upon this for a few seconds, and then says. "You know who I am. But I do not know who you are. There's a reason for this. No one cares who you are."
posted by Bonkers at 05:40 PM on May 09
De la Hoya looked very undisciplined in his flurry attacks, and they didn't seem to do very much. He never looked like he was able to consistently hit Mayweather. Mayweather didn't take any risks, and mainly stayed away from the Golden Boy. The Bautista-Medina fight on the undercard was the best fight of the night, I think.
posted by Bonkers at 03:47 PM on May 06
Batboy, clubhouse assistant, equipment manager, and steroid provider? Man, this kid is very useful to have on the team. Every club should have someone like him around.
posted by Bonkers at 06:16 AM on April 28
I think it's a great tribute, spontaneous, sympathetic, and quietly respectful. Well done to the Nationals. Now, if only they had won...
posted by Bonkers at 03:11 PM on April 19
It's a problem of perception for Drew. He has two strikes against him: One, he never was mentioned among the greats of his era. When I think of great QBs of the 90s, I think Brett Favre, I think Steve Young, but I don't think of Drew Bledsoe. Two, he arrived in a time that was a little bit of a stopgap, between the ending of the dynasty that was Marino/Kelly/Elway, and the rise of the QBs of today, like Brady and Peyton, who highlight their era. Bledsoe just lacks the idea in most people's heads that he is a great qb.
posted by Bonkers at 05:03 PM on April 12
The question now becomes whether the two teams keep the guys in question. Pacman is now open for the 2008 season, but not this one. He doesn't make a lot of sense to keep him on the roster for this year. Even more so with Chris Henry, who was not as sensational a player but was also paid less. He's notenough of a playmaker to be worth holding a roster spot on him for 8 weeks.
posted by Bonkers at 02:43 PM on April 10
Good stuff, definitely something to think about. One never does think of cheerleading as dangerous. I think some of there comments about injuries are overstated (the one specifically about a lot of injuries are not treated major hopsitals but at clinics could be echoed about so many things in life), but the danger is unavoidable.
posted by Bonkers at 05:13 PM on March 31
The comments from Sonny Vaccaro are intersting, but there isn't much new here for us to digest. I wish he would present a more detailed idea of his briefly-mentioned suggestion of paying the players. In general, I agree with most of his sentiments, but I would like to see more than what sounds like a bitter screed, and some ideas and recommendations presented with that screed.
posted by Bonkers at 02:25 PM on March 26
Poor Matt Schaub. He'd better start taping his knees up now. I still believe David Carr is a good QB, and this will be shown eventually. But he's not a good qb when he gets sacked all day long. He may want to give up the career for his physical health alone.
posted by Bonkers at 07:15 PM on March 23
What is this, pain and injury night on SpoFi?
posted by Bonkers at 07:57 PM on February 27
Stalker Tapes Erin Andrews, Releases Video on Web
First off, and most importantly-to Erin Andrews (though I doubt you read SportsFilter), I am sorry that you happen to be female and attractive, and 95% of the sports world stops caring about you beyond that. I am sorry that men are sometimes evil, evil people. In general, I am sorry.
Secondly, this was somewhat inevitable. It's only really bad now because an unstated line was crossed (and as Hunter S. Thompson said, the only people who know where the edge is are those who have crossed over it)-someone broke into Erin's bubble. As the blog Sports Media Watch discusses in a post, we had been approaching the line before, and everyone was in on the joke: Consider recent headlines about Andrews. Last week, she was struck in the face by a fly ball. Cue the unsurprising, sophmoric headlines: "Erin Andrews has balls flying at her face," "Erin Andrews Takes It In The Face," "Erin Andrews can take balls to her chin," and "Sportscaster Erin Andrews gets a facial." The last headline comes not from a blog, but from the Dayton Daily News.
Except the joke isn't funny anymore.
Everyone feels horrible right now, but no one was willing to say before hand, "Hey, maybe we should appreciate EA for being a decent sideline reporter, or for working real hard at her job and taking all the ogling and leering on an even-keel, rather than wearing a burqa while doing football games, which is what most of our first instincts would be while placed in the same position." No, we had to wait until it became obviously wrong before we said something.
And again, Erin, I'm sorry you have to go through this. On behalf of sports fans and decent human beings everywhere, I promise that if we catch the guy who did this, we will flay him and set him on fire, or something else equally deserving.