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October 22, 2009
SportsFilter: The Thursday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
Raiders will be in the playoffs.
posted by yerfatma at 01:58 PM on October 22, 2009
Jordan's son refuses to wear adidas at UCF.
posted by bperk at 02:41 PM on October 22, 2009
Raiders will be in the playoffs.
Just the title alone made me laugh until it hurt.
Jordan's son refuses to wear adidas at UCF.
Is Marcus Jordan good enough of a basketball player to even demand to wear his fathers brand of sneakers?
posted by BornIcon at 03:50 PM on October 22, 2009
Is there another team called the Raiders? Baseball? Basketball? Hockey? Anything? 'Cause surely he can't have been talking about Oakland.
posted by graymatters at 03:54 PM on October 22, 2009
Marcus has his own wiki page.
Says he was rated 100th best shooting guard in country while in high school. Doesn't sound to me like he is worth the $3 million the school could lose. Maybe MJ needs to buy out the Adidas contract.
posted by graymatters at 04:00 PM on October 22, 2009
An aspiring Chinese place kicker is still a work in progress, but if there were ever a perfect name for the position, it is his.
posted by Howard_T at 04:01 PM on October 22, 2009
Doesn't sound to me like he is worth the $3 million the school could lose. Maybe MJ needs to buy out the Adidas contract.
I think the issue isn't just the $3 million that the school will get in cash, it is also the free product that they would be getting. The school's current contract only gets them the uniforms at cost, the new deal that they are supposed to be getting would supply the uniforms and clothing for all of the teams, so there is a bigger cost than just the $3 million.
What I have found to be a bit of a turn off about it is that little Jordan has taken on a bit of an air about him (pun not intended) when he says his gear will be Adidas, but his shoes are going to be Jordan brand in the article about this from the Orlando Sentinel. If the school promised Marcus he could wear Jordan's shame on them, if Marcus or Michael's people failed to follow up and verify this with Adidas, shame on them. There is plenty of shame to be spread around here but it would be a shame to see the UCF student body have to pick up a $3 million tab because one student is being selfish.
A random collegiate apparel note. I noticed during basketball games last year against UMass, that the URI mens and womens basketball teams wore gear from different companies. The men wore Nike while the women wore Adidas.
posted by Demophon at 04:18 PM on October 22, 2009
Looks like the WTA is becoming more and more like the WWE every day
In the last few months the WTA has seen a controversy about the size of a players chest, then we had Serena Williams threatening an official, and now we hear that a match may not have been on the up and up?!?! Somewhere Vince McMahon is beginning to feel threatened.
posted by Demophon at 04:47 PM on October 22, 2009
MLB gets a clue, plans to use veteran umps in World Series due to bad calls in playoffs.
posted by graymatters at 07:54 PM on October 22, 2009
Using veteran umps in the playoffs -- what crazy new innovation will Bud Selig think of next?
posted by rcade at 08:43 PM on October 22, 2009
Tour of California route announced. Should be a good one.