February 5, 2012 – Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Someone check on Tim, he might be dead.
I'll be updating this semi-neverly.
Kind of a bad pass by Brady. Not the worst, but certainly not the best, or even the mediocrest.
Thanks everyone.
Except Vodkanut. We get it dude, you're nuts about Vodka. Just cool out.
Thanks, fixed.
The 2012 NFL Hall Of Fame Class Has Been Announced
February 4, 2012 – As per Adam Schefter, the honorees are Jack Butler, Dermontti Dawson, Chris Doleman, Cortez Kennedy, Curtis Martin and Willie Roaf. No Bill Parcells and no wide receivers.
It's true. "OMG" is, like, my sixth favorite sentence opener.
That is pretty funny, now that you mention it. I'm sure they were falling over themselves to get it in before anyone else without a second thought about all those hand wringing concerns about the state of news coverage in the "push button publishing" age or whatever it was they were lambasting back then.
I prefer that spelling too, but I dumbed it down for you lowly commenters.
It doesn't make it the opposite of those things either, though. Look to Ben Roethlisberger's cock for instruction--there is gray area everywhere.
It's just seedy and not pleasant. But we can't go around saying [X] shouldn't be reported just because it's seed and not pleasant. Does it have to be reported? Of course not.
You should listen to the whole thing (obviously) but things really heat up around the 15 minute mark.
Hang on, you want a thread for the football game, too? Your greed knows no bounds.
No I think it was the Dallas Morning News. At least that's what was linked here last night I believe.
That's definitely true and a noble aspiration, but there is a difference between being complicit in a cover up and not actively searching out seedier stories. Sportswriters are not the world's moral compass. They're as big of fuck ups as the athletes the cover some times. Whether it's Mitch Albom or Jay Mariotti.
I don't need the rose colored glasses of the old purple prose, but I also don't need guys hiding in bushes trying to catch someone up to no good. Not saying that's what happened to Hamilton in this case, just in general. Josh Hamilton drinking in the middle of the winter is pretty far outside the scope of a sports writer's beat.
I sort of agree, but from a different angle. Who cares? It's not like a person ever gets "cured" of alcoholism. This is pretty much par for the course, no?
His evangelism also makes the relapses more train wreck-y.
It's the best sports movie ever. I am absolutely throwing Rocky II in now.
I didn't disagree with the premise of protecting the brand and ensuring against fraud. In fact, I said that was a problem that should definitely be addressed. Obviously that's a smart thing to do. What I was getting at is, the arrogance of baseball sending a man down to say "Hey, we'll take our business elsewhere" and then thumping his chest afterward ("I think that hit home with them"), when we all know they won't. Sports are a meritocracy and if the best baseball players are from the Dominican Republic, that is where baseball teams will go to find talent. If they stop, it won't be for any reason other than they found better players, in more supply, elsewhere.
