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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, 2013 - 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, 2013 - 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, 2013 - 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, 2012 - 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, 2012 - 2 comments
posted by phaedon at 03:38 PM on February 02, 2015
Eli Manning's Footballs Are Months in Making [nyt]
posted by phaedon at 11:33 PM on January 22, 2015
if this ends up being true, I'm fucking done as a Pats fan.
5 bucks says if they beat Seattle in February, you're back on board.
posted by phaedon at 11:31 PM on January 22, 2015
posted by phaedon at 07:09 PM on January 22, 2015
It really doesn't sound like there's a statement on earth that is going to make you believe anything other than what you already do.
It's unclear what position you are trying to carve out. Sorry if you already did. Would you have me believe that this was accidental? A coincidence?
Because you're making it out to sound like I'm unreasonable.
An account of why 11 of the 12 balls were underinflated would suffice.
posted by phaedon at 06:26 PM on January 22, 2015
Towards the end, Brady also talked about playing the game with integrity, and yet, what's interesting is the Patriots have shown a pattern of creating the illusion that they are playing the game with integrity, meanwhile behind the scenes they are pushing the limits and occasionally breaking the rules.
Say what you will about sports in general, but this is a big difference.
posted by phaedon at 05:26 PM on January 22, 2015
He said specifically he was comfortable saying nobody in the organization did anything to the balls.
That's not true, he later qualified that by saying "to his knowledge." Look, I'm not trying to crucify Brady in particular. The guy can play the, "I just throw the ball" card. But Patriots, come up with an organizational response.
Truth is not an opinion. It is fact.
"Whatever." The point I'm making is that by intentionally obfuscating the details, he is portraying journalistic inquiries as "crazy" and "you can't listen to everybody." The point is there's one accurate version of the what happened that is actually true, and he's not providing it.
posted by phaedon at 05:21 PM on January 22, 2015
How can you say that you jokingly "prefer" a ball being inflated a certain amount, and then not realize mid-game there was something wrong with the balls? How do such preferences exist if there isn't some acknowledgment?
He's also saying he didn't alter the balls, but he's not coming out and saying nobody in his organization did.
He's also saying Belicheck things like "you know there are a lot of opinions out there and we have to focus." But yeah, there's also the one opinion that matters, the fucking truth. And you guys have a limited roster. And the ability to hold a meeting, and publicly report with certainty whether or not this was intentional. So figure it out.
You'd have to be an idiot to think this wasn't intentional. To me, it's very disingenuous.
posted by phaedon at 04:49 PM on January 22, 2015
It's fucking nuts how disingenuous Tom Brady is in this interview.
posted by phaedon at 04:31 PM on January 22, 2015
First timer.
Seattle by 21
New England by 9
Seattle
Wilson
Lynch
Amendola
posted by phaedon at 12:21 AM on January 18, 2015
THINGS ARE LOOKING UP IN SAN FRANCISCO
posted by phaedon at 04:21 PM on January 16, 2015
Remember when Ohio State and Michigan was a rivalry lol
posted by phaedon at 03:16 PM on January 13, 2015
Dez Bryant running onto field without helmet a worse no-call
posted by phaedon at 08:28 PM on January 05, 2015
Did you just seriously quote Dean Blandino?
posted by phaedon at 03:46 PM on January 05, 2015
Patriots Win Super Bowl 0x31 After Epic Last-Second Interception
Butler's in the game because Matthews is uncoverable and New England decided to shift its corner assignments in the second half, correct? This is my favorite Super Bowl ever.