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    Image of ArkansasFred ArkansasFred
    02:16 PM

    In reply to Life & Style Goes Fishing For Tiger Tales
    Exchange their contact info for the scoop on what really happened during Candi and Tori's shocking reunion.
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    Image of UpstateUnderdog UpstateUnderdog
    02:15 PM

    In reply to Life & Style Goes Fishing For Tiger Tales
    A.J., don't you mean dirty Italian sausage?
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    Image of The Sports Hernia The Sports Hernia
    02:14 PM

    In reply to Life & Style Goes Fishing For Tiger Tales
    Hi A.J.

    My name is Rachel Maresca and I love happy hour at Sutton Place.
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    Image of Theodore Donald Kerabatsos Theodore Donald Kerabatsos
    02:14 PM

    In reply to Life & Style Goes Fishing For Tiger Tales
    Give her the number to Pizza Hut!
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    Image of Juancho Juancho
    02:12 PM

    In reply to Life & Style Goes Fishing For Tiger Tales
    She wants you, AJ. She WAAAANTS you.
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    Image of UpstateUnderdog UpstateUnderdog
    02:16 PM

    @Juancho: Agreed, the exclamation point at the end of her last sentence is a dead give away.
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    Image of The Sports Hernia The Sports Hernia
    01:42 PM

    In reply to An Angry And Bewildered Nation Watches Rick Reilly® Ruin SportsCenter
    Rick Reilly has watched Overboard far, far too many times.
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    Image of AzureTexan AzureTexan
    01:19 PM

    In reply to An Angry And Bewildered Nation Watches Rick Reilly® Ruin SportsCenter
    In other annoying-guy-in-anchor-chair announcements, ABC News welcomes Gilbert Gottfried to its weekday-evening broadcast.
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    Image of I Like Cheap Beer I Like Cheap Beer
    01:00 PM

    In reply to An Angry And Bewildered Nation Watches Rick Reilly® Ruin SportsCenter
    Three took an epistolary approach:

    I'm not a dumb guy. I also acknowledge that I'm not the smartest guy in the world either. As such, I admire Tommy's command of the English language, as it exceeds mine. But can we please get a link to the definition of your more obscure lexical decisions?

    [dictionary.reference.com]
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    Image of Chris Hanson's Axe Chris Hanson's Axe
    01:03 PM

    @I Like Cheap Beer: When he said "existential," that means "personal and philosophic." When he said "peppy," that means "excited." When he said "idiom," that means "your mom."
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    Image of Bobby Big Wheel Bobby Big Wheel
    12:47 PM

    In reply to An Angry And Bewildered Nation Watches Rick Reilly® Ruin SportsCenter
    ESPN has responded to your complaints and Rick Reilly will be reassigned to a daily feature known as "Bart's People."
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    Image of ArkansasFred ArkansasFred
    12:44 PM

    In reply to An Angry And Bewildered Nation Watches Rick Reilly® Ruin SportsCenter
    The only worse way to start the morning is to wake up, hungover, next to a sexually spent Kathy Griffin.
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    Image of MarkKelsosMigraine MarkKelsosMigraine
    12:56 PM

    @ArkansasFred: That is truly vile.
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    Image of StuScott Booyahs StuScott Booyahs
    12:44 PM

    In reply to An Angry And Bewildered Nation Watches Rick Reilly® Ruin SportsCenter
    I found him witty and entertaining. *looks at the floor*

    /Hans Moleman
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    Image of Chris Hanson's Axe Chris Hanson's Axe
    12:37 PM

    In reply to An Angry And Bewildered Nation Watches Rick Reilly® Ruin SportsCenter
    The best part is that Herschel Walker wrote each and every one of these.
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    Edited by Chris Hanson's Axe at 12/10/09 12:37 PM Chris Hanson's Axe was starred Chris Hanson's Axe was unstarred
    Image of MarkKelsosMigraine MarkKelsosMigraine
    12:35 PM

    In reply to An Angry And Bewildered Nation Watches Rick Reilly® Ruin SportsCenter
    Tommy, can you give us a cross section of Twitter reviews of Sarah Palin's book?
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    Image of Chris Hanson's Axe Chris Hanson's Axe
    12:44 PM

    @MarkKelsosMigraine: Some of them liked it, some of them hated it, and the conglomerated moose lobby totally lost their shit.
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    Image of Chris Hanson's Axe Chris Hanson's Axe
    11:59 AM

    In reply to The Machine Won: 10 Preposterous Moments From SI's 1996 Tiger Woods Profile
    It seemed like a stretch.

    The thing is, no, it didn't.
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    Image of AzureTexan AzureTexan
    11:36 AM

    In reply to The Machine Won: 10 Preposterous Moments From SI's 1996 Tiger Woods Profile
    Good lord, Gary Smith wouldn't even turn on his Selectric II typewriter if it wasn't going to be an 80,000-word hagiography in the second-person voice.

    "You are Doogie Gautama, M.D., and you are about to bed this plastic Aphrodite in efforts to shed your adolescence, to do away with your attenuated youth, but also to spread your great and glowing goodness, to extend your philanthropies across this fine Mother Earth. . . . "

    Gawwwwd!
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    Image of Juancho Juancho
    12:00 PM

    @AzureTexan: Gary Smith is the most earnest writer in America.

    Why do so many sportswriters (or guys with columns) go this rout? Mitch Albom, Bob Greene, Gary Smith, Reilly, Bissinger...is it a baby boomer thing?
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    Image of AzureTexan AzureTexan
    12:08 PM

    @Juancho: You're right. The problem is that their brand of journalism — loose term — fails to take into account that human beings are friggin' animals who do horrible nasty stuff to each other when they and their P.R. flacks aren't feeding the writer a line.

    I grant you, it's hard to write a good profile — hatchet job? puff piece? something in between — but at least their kind of uber-earnest approach is being outed by meta-narrators like Deadspin, "The Daily Show," etc.
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    Image of Sheed's Bald Spot Sheed's Bald Spot
    12:41 PM

    @AzureTexan: I think you hit the oft-missed nail on the head. Writing a perfect profile is pretty much impossible, because no one person can get a complete, objective view of another. People (these writers) seem to forget the need for critiques, and end up swinging wildly in one direction or another. Dialogue is necessary to paint a true picture of someone, especially if they're famous.

    If only somebody would step up to play devil's advocate to the Tebow apostles...
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    Image of AzureTexan AzureTexan
    12:48 PM

    @Sheed's Bald Spot: Well-stated. I agree.

    And sadly, from what I've seen, those devil's advocates have extended no further than Deadspin — but at least DS has developed a big reach and a huge impact.
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    Image of Sheed's Bald Spot Sheed's Bald Spot
    12:52 PM

    @AzureTexan: And our dick jokes have swollen accordingly.

    But yes. Here's to fighting the good fight.
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    Edited by Sheed's Bald Spot at 12/10/09 12:53 PM Sheed's Bald Spot was starred Sheed's Bald Spot was unstarred
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