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Rutgers' coach Mike Rice Berates Players at Practice: In several dozen hours of video of Rutgers men's basketball practices obtained by "Outside the Lines," coach Mike Rice is seen hurling basketballs from close range at his players' heads, legs and feet; shoving and grabbing his players; feigning punching them; kicking them; and screaming obscenities and homophobic slurs.
posted by phaedon to basketball at 04:57 PM on April 02 - 16 comments
Money & March Madness: In 2011, PBS Frontline asked, "If everyone else is profiting from the multibillion dollar college sports business, why shouldn't the athletes?"
posted by phaedon to basketball at 10:11 PM on March 31 - 14 comments
Tony Romo stays in Dallas: 6-year extension worth $108 million. $55 guaranteed - 3 more than Flacco.
posted by phaedon to football at 04:35 PM on March 29 - 16 comments
The New Orleans Hornets are changing their names to the Pelicans: Look at the Pelican fly, come on Pelican!
posted by phaedon to basketball at 07:56 PM on December 04 - 13 comments
Torture or training? : Inside the brutal Chinese gymnasium where the country's future Olympic stars are beaten into shape.
posted by phaedon to olympics at 04:02 AM on August 25 - 2 comments
News outlets are reporting Pat Summerall has passed.
posted by phaedon at 05:19 PM on April 16
This tragedy will be procesed and people will move on. Another movie theatre will be shot up. More school children will be massacred. More buildings where people are working will be blown up or destroyed. It's almost like people are trying to out-do each other when it comes to these acts.
We wait until another sporting event, probably in a over-filled stadium next time, shocks us. And we know it will happen. It's just a question of when and where.
I just want to say I don't own a television. The type of world you are describing is largely the by-product of a system of information distribution that is designed to grab your attention as strongly and for as long as possible and make all the money it can doing so.
It is horror porn. One in which you are completely passive, everything is indeed hopeless, and you are waiting for the next stimulant.
So until cameras start following all the good things that are happening in this world, I don't think what you're watching in the news is an accurate reflection of anything. You are suffering from burn-out, you are overly sensitive to people that are talking about this with a sense of humor, and you are speaking about "we" and "us" with far too broad strokes, like the commentators on television. Speak for yourself.
posted by phaedon at 10:19 PM on April 15
I think it's probably ok to let a little dark humor slide, unless typing furiously at someone you don't know after such a brutal incident is your idea of rising to the occasion.
Please don't take any offense. If we can't do anything about what happened today, the least we can do is make sure to pour ourselves into our loved ones and each other in the kindest and most life-affirming way possible.
posted by phaedon at 08:23 PM on April 15
Nothing more satisfying than watching Michigan lose. Nothing.
There were a few moments there where it looked like Louisville couldn't put anything up in the paint, and Michigan was playing above the rim. But you knew after Louisville fell behind but managed to lay a smackdown before the second-half even started that it was all over.
posted by phaedon at 07:09 PM on April 09
I'm not even going to pretend like I can watch Michigan play. I could only watch the last 30 seconds and even that was a huge disappointment. What a shitty offensive foul call. The announcers wouldn't even entertain how shitty it was.
Louisville, my life is in your hands.
posted by phaedon at 11:54 PM on April 06
Now link to a highlight reel of Louisville in the second half and include the same warning.
posted by phaedon at 07:50 PM on March 31
posted by phaedon at 05:47 PM on March 18
Skip Bayliss is a fucking joke. It's a shame Sherman didn't have it in him to do a better takedown than that. Pretty shocking not only that ESPN would censor one of its best writers, but give something for all the other sports outlets to talk about.
posted by phaedon at 03:36 AM on March 16
Pepsi MAX & Jeff Gordon Present: "Test Drive"
posted by phaedon at 02:58 PM on March 14
Somebody please add a coffin to this video.
posted by phaedon at 07:10 PM on March 11
Wizards broadcaster mistakes airball for game-winner
posted by phaedon at 03:47 PM on February 28
As much as I want to hate NASCAR, there is something about the last ten laps, and the winner doing donuts on the Daytona logo, that gets me fired up like nothing else in sports.
posted by phaedon at 04:43 PM on February 24
Folkways, duly noted. However, I'm sure that you would appreciate that if a public person like Tebow were to speak at that church, it would in effect act as an endorsement of that church pastor's views. If the people at that church want to hear what he has to say, let them travel to a place less bigoted to do so. No reason for that asswipe of a pastor to reap any collateral rewards from Tebow's presence.
And yes, to speak to jmd82's point, a person like him is in an impossible situation. Therefore, it is completely within his "rights" as a religious speaker to choose where and when he speaks. And to think I would believe Jeffress's take on the situation.
posted by phaedon at 02:09 AM on February 22
The story behind Jason Collins' story: How it happened
Yeah it's strange. I think the younger me wouldn't have thought this was a big deal, but the older, more experienced version of me understands the difference between what is right and self-evident, versus what is. And how hard you have to fight for the basics sometimes.
Having said that, I'm curious to see how the bigger story evolves. Sports culture is a firm step behind the popular landscape in terms of the enlightened treatment of homosexuals as fellow human beings, and frankly the fact that Jason Collins is a nobody at the end of his career speaks volumes as to how much more work might need to be done.