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| Name: | Jim Hellwig |
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NFL owners approve six-year CBA extension FINALLY!
posted to Football at 9:18 PM CDT
Father of former ASU player sues ASU for not controlling his son? This is almost as stupid as that lady spilling coffee on herself and suing McDonalds because she got burned. The kid was college aged. He should be able to control whether or not he should go to a bar.
posted to Football at 10:41 AM CDT
Changed my post a little. We can't hold a university accountable for its students' actions. If we did, then it would never end. Soon enough we'd have people suing 30 years later because the school let some woman's husband go to bars as a freshman and led to his alcholism that made him an abusive spouse. And if someone starts learning subversive things at college, then should we sue the college for not censoring all writings that go through its doors?
Yeah, both scenarios might sound really ridiculous...but then again, you know what else sounds ridiculous to me? A woman suing McDonald's because she can't hold a coffee cup between her legs.
posted at 11:58 AM CDT on March 9
posted to Baseball at 12:27 PM CDT
"Told you so" never sounded so sweet.
posted at 1:11 PM CDT on March 7
Bonds Clarifies Retirement Talk Here we go already. He's already backing off comments he made earlier in the day."If I can play [in 2007], I'm going to play; if I can't I won't,"
posted to Baseball at 9:42 PM CDT
chico, please take a moment to see if Barry has ever made this kind of comment before. Go ahead, it won't take long.
Done? OK, now take your head out of his ass. Thanks.
posted at 11:57 AM CDT on February 20
Bryant Gumbel Torches Olympics "Count me among those who don't like them and won't watch them ... Because they're so trying, maybe over the next three weeks we should all try too. Like, try not to be incredulous when someone attempts to link these games to those of the ancient Greeks who never heard of skating or skiing. Try not to laugh when someone says these are the world's greatest athletes, despite a paucity of blacks that makes the Winter Games look like a GOP convention. Try not to point out that something's not really a sport if a pseudo-athlete waits in what's called a kiss-and-cry area, while some panel of subjective judges decides who won ... So if only to hasten the arrival of the day they're done, when we can move on to March Madness -- for God's sake, let the games begin."
posted to Olympics at 8:34 AM CDT
Please note that the Winter Olympics are on NBC, the network Gumble hates, and March Madness is on CBS, the network he works for.
Yeah, I BET its all about racism to Bryant...
posted at 11:15 AM CDT on February 17
ESPN names new MNF broadcast team. Oh my. This should truly be a Monday Nightmare.
posted to Football at 9:55 AM CDT
I agree with frazer here. Why not let Marv and Boomer take a shot or how about just keeping Patrick/Theisman/McGuire together? It seems like with MNF everyone feels the need to try and reinvent the wheel. Guys...the NFL is at the absolute pinnacle of its popularity. Just ride it and be happy with your #1 rating on Monday nights.
posted at 8:16 PM CDT on February 8
The Big Hurt Becomes an A Frank Thomas has been signed to a one year deal with the Oakland A's. It remains to be seen if Thomas will actually play or will get hurt in spring training and spend the rest of the season standing around the dugout looking pissed off.
posted to Baseball at 6:07 PM CDT
"Once we got Jim Thome from the Phillies the "Big Skirt" was obsolete."
Uh...Jim ain't exactly an iron man himself.
posted at 12:20 AM CDT on January 26
Mario...Out! again Lemieux is seventh on the all-time NHL scoring list with 690 goals and 1,033 assists in 915 career games.
posted to Hockey at 9:08 AM CDT
Mario isn't the greatest player of all time, but he's likely in everyone's top 5. How can you not like Super Mario?
I hope that, if anything, his retirement is the kind of kick in the pants that the city of Pittsburgh needs so they can git 'er done and keep the Penguins where they belong.
posted at 3:13 PM CDT on January 24
Kobe drops 81 for 2nd most in a game in history of NBA. Brought them back from 18 down to become the highest scoring laker, passing baylor's 71, now only 2nd to wilt's 100 in nba history. amazing.
posted to Basketball at 11:12 PM CDT
"When Jordoan got Pippen and Kerr and Paxson and Rodman..he started to win titles but that is NOT because he made those palyers better because in fact they were already really good players!"
Dude, look at some stats first. Once MJ left the game, did you hear ANYTHING out of any of the above-mentioned players? Rodman is the only one who did anything of note without MJ, and it should be noted that MJ won his first few titles WITHOUT Rodman.
And he won a title because STEVE KERR WAS ADDED TO THE TEAM? Please. They put talent around him and he made them into basketball players. As soon as his court guidance left, none of these guys did a thing. Unless you count Pippen pulling over those sheets in anger when the Blazers went down in the playoffs again.
posted at 1:47 AM CDT on January 23
Steelers Take Down Colts The Indianapolis Colts kept their perfect playoff record against the Pittsburgh Steelers -- 0-5 -- in a 21-18 loss in the AFC playoffs.
posted to Football at 3:26 PM CDT
Ok for one thing, let's not forget that about a decade ago Cower got the good calls against Indy to send him to the Super Bowl, so I don't feel badly about the poor officiating, especially since they won anyway.
And everyone is trying to stick this on Manning which is partially correct....HOWEVER, someone needs to step up here and mention the fact that Tony Dungy has yet to win a big playoff game as a head coach. His teams constantly choke in big games, Tampa had to send him packing before they could finally win it all. Will Indy have to do the same? I certainly feel bad for the whole situation he has been placed in now, but he continues to be paid to do his job and get this team all the way...there's no excuse for not making the Super Bowl this year.
posted at 9:27 PM CDT on January 15
This loss is on Dungy. They got away from the run early, they got out of their gameplan with plenty of 3 step drops instead of their normal 5, they let the Steeler's defense dictate the entire game up until the final few minutes of the 4th quarter. You can give the Steelers credit and rightly so...but how many years are Tony Dungy teams going to choke in the playoffs behind poor playcalling before someone blames Mr. Nice Guy for not getting it done and stops trying to shift the blame elsewhere?
And I agree, Manning can win the big one, but much like Elway, he will need a COACH who can win the big one first.
posted at 4:03 PM CDT on January 16
Manny isn't going anywhere! I've said it all along. The guys is just weird. Great hitter but weird. As a Red Sox fan I would hate to lose Many even after all the drama. I know a lot of Dominicans, being Puerto Rican myself, and one thing I've experienced first hand is how flaky they are when it comes to business. Not to say all are the same but just my personal accounts. Don't know why but I'm just happy to hear it from the horses mouth. He ain't going no where.
posted to Baseball at 10:07 AM CDT
No no no no no, Shaq leaving is by no means a Ruth-level blunder. The babe still had many, MANY years of Hall of Fame-level play in him. In Shaq's case, he had last year left in him and even this season his minutes are heading south. Three good years tops out of Shaq...that is not a curse-level transaction.
I'd say a much more comparable trade to Ruth would be the Dodgers dealing away Pedro for DeShields. Brrrrrrrr...
posted at 2:55 PM CDT on January 6
Ex-Ohio State Star Runner Wanted for Armed Robbery Maurice Clarrett is wanted by Police on Sunday after being accused of using a gun to rob 2 people behind an alley in Columbus, Ohio.
posted to Football at 1:43 PM CDT
A pioneer? Yeah, what I'll always remember him for is almost screwing up the NFL by destroying an age requirement that makes college and pro football soooo much better than the NBA and NCAAB. And why? So he wouldn't have to go to class (not that he did anyway) and he could start getting rich and spending tons of money ONE YEAR earlier. Or perhaps it was after he figured out he wasn't going to be able to play at any 1-A school? That's why I hate him, and I am realy enjoying watching karma come back to bite his sorry ass.
And as for the racism stuff...people like RZA don't realize that as soon as they step on their soapbox all they do is bring more attention to the racist comments. It's like mentioning your major competitor in advertising...you do it and people say "so what is this other product that they keep mentioning?" You keep mentioning racism and you do it in such polarizing terms and all you're gonna do is get each side more pissed off and firmly entrenched in the belief that the other side is stupid/backwards/hippies/whatever and cannot see your argument. You sound holier-than-thou because you are.
posted at 1:41 PM CDT on January 2
Russian Heavyweight Valuev Returns Champion’s Belt to Ruiz The agency said that one of Ruiz’s ringside team tried to keep the belt which did not fit the Russian boxer, but was prevented from doing so. However, a short time later, Valuev agreed to give the old belt to his defeated opponent as a souvenir.
posted to Boxing at 2:55 AM CDT
chicobangs I'll apply to be World Champion. Now I only weigh 165 lbs., BUT, if accepted for the position of Champion of the World, I will eat a LOT of food and get up to speed in no time.
Also, I'll be holding a lot of press conferences bashing my opponent, then drop out of fights due to knee injuries until the title is stripped from me. Then I'll go on ESPN and claim that the title was robbed from me and I will no longer partake in an unjust system, thus finishing my career undefeated.
posted at 10:31 PM CDT on December 23
McNabb fires back at NAACP prez's criticism that he's "mediocre" Personally, i'm not an eagles fan, but i'd say mcnabb is much more than mediocre. From reading the prez's opinion piece on mcnabb, it seems as though he tries to connect mcnabb's decreased scrambling during games and an old soundbyte of mcnabb saying that "everybody expects black quarterbacks to scramble." I think it probably had more to do with the qb playing with injuries, as opposed to him selling out.
Of course, the prez also loses me with quotes like these "Just think how the whole media circus could have been avoided had you had the courage to offer only a tiny fraction of your bonus this year to Owens and running back, Brian Westbrook."
posted to Football at 7:20 PM CDT
"Is it me, or do some african americans do alot to keep racism alive themselves"
Now there's a psychological spin on things for you...it seems to me that there's a common thread here between races. Higher class (economically) blacks and whites tend to shy away from talking about racist issues while the lower class don't. And I don't mean talk about them intelligently, either.
Lower class whites tend to use racist jokes much more often and lower class blacks tend to discredit rich blacks as being out of touch with them, thus not "truly" black. At least from 20 years of living in the south, this is what I see.
WHat makes this NAACP fellow's comments surprising, then, is that he is from the higher class that should be smart enough to be setting an example by not publicly talking about things like this because they know it just shouldn't be mentioned in today's society...trying to get racism out of the media, especially the sports media and the newspaper that the lower class reads, is a big step toward getting rid of the problem. This guy just set that back a few steps. Obviously whoever mentioned ESPN as being a culprit for always talking about McNabb in terms of black quarterbacks is absolutely right. I'd like to see a QB of ANY COLOR put up the numbers McNabb did and take a team to the NFC Title game with Fred Ex and Todd Pinkston.
Wow for some reason that post sounded really communist to me. I better take a shower
posted at 11:36 AM CDT on December 15
bdaddy, it's all about the size of the city. Just think about it this way...if every person in the entire city of Jacksonville bought one piece of Jaguars merchandise, only one in five people in Atlanta would need to buy Falcons' gear to match (and actually) pass their sales numbers.
When you take that into account and include every aspect (TV, radio, etc.), then you can see why even if a small market team is beloved by their fans, they will normally never be as lucrative as a crappy team in an apathetic big city.