Basically dunks on someone from Oklahoma City, beats his chest, and then pastes someone in the side of the head with the most flagrant elbow I've seen since Kobe in the 2002 Western Conference Finals!
When are we going to understand that one too many of these incidents and we get another Malice at the Palace, especially with the public riled up as much as it is today?
Get him off the court for good. You should've done that in Indiana!!
Monday, April 23, 2012
If this is true, is there ANYONE left who believes the New Orleans Saints should still exist?
The hits just keep on coming for the New Orleans Saints.
ESPN and Outside the Lines have unearthed this gem:
NEW ORLEANS -- The U.S. Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of Louisiana was told Friday that New Orleans Saints general manager Mickey Loomis had an electronic device in his Superdome suite that had been secretly re-wired to enable him to eavesdrop on visiting coaching staffs for nearly three NFL seasons, "Outside the Lines" has learned.
According to the report, these were his first three years as GM: Most of the 2002 season, and all of the next two.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have another Spygate allegation.
I'll let you read the rest of this for yourself, but I have one overreaching line of questioning:
If this is true, how in the blue Hell can you allow the New Orleans Saints to field a team next year? How in the Hell can you not seize the Saints franchise and basically dismantle it, if you are the NFL?
Forget just taking away the championship they won -- that should've been done already! If this is true, what else are going to find out about these guys?
ESPN and Outside the Lines have unearthed this gem:
NEW ORLEANS -- The U.S. Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of Louisiana was told Friday that New Orleans Saints general manager Mickey Loomis had an electronic device in his Superdome suite that had been secretly re-wired to enable him to eavesdrop on visiting coaching staffs for nearly three NFL seasons, "Outside the Lines" has learned.
According to the report, these were his first three years as GM: Most of the 2002 season, and all of the next two.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have another Spygate allegation.
I'll let you read the rest of this for yourself, but I have one overreaching line of questioning:
If this is true, how in the blue Hell can you allow the New Orleans Saints to field a team next year? How in the Hell can you not seize the Saints franchise and basically dismantle it, if you are the NFL?
Forget just taking away the championship they won -- that should've been done already! If this is true, what else are going to find out about these guys?
Thursday, April 19, 2012
So the NHL needs to pump ratings into the NBC Sports Network...
... and someone is going to have their career ended because of it.
Usually, one of the main differences between regular season hockey and the playoffs is that the bullshit of the fighting and the cheapies goes away.
This year, as many have reported, it's gotten bad.
REAL BAD.
And it sounds to me as if the "new transparency" of Brendan Shanahan has been stifled, in the name of trying to prop up ratings for the newly-rebranded "NBC Sports Network", formerly Versus.
Why? Let's take a look at some of the cheap shots just in this first round of the playoffs...
The worst offending team appears to be Sidney's Pittsburgh Penguins, who drew the Philadelphia Flyers in the first round of the Eastern Conference playoffs.
Game 3 might've been one of the dirtiest games in recent playoff history. With the Flyers winning the first two games in Pittsburgh, tensions were already high.
A fight breaks out (0:04 on this clip) after Philly scores to even the game, as someone gets a stick to the helmet, creating a brawl.
And then Sid the Kid gets mauled (0:30 on the same clip) and all Hell breaks loose again, leading to multiple penalties and some ejections. (Note how quick the refs try to protect Crosby.) In another clip of the fight, the announcer is heard talking about the "we're screwed" "Thousand-Yard Stare" by the Penguins.
And then a hit which should've gotten a year suspension (1:15): After a clean hit by Brayden Schenn,
Arron Asham appears to crosscheck him in the throat. Not satisfied with that, he then gives Schenn a punch to the back of the head on the ground. (Clear replay at 1:35)
Asham is immediately thrown off the ice -- MATCH PENALTY.
Asham has been suspended for four games.
That shit should've gotten A YEAR. That was a stick to the throat, following by punching a defenseless player.
At 2:10, another brawl, which, given the game and the score, they are VERY fortunate it didn't get to a mass brawl off the benches. (Again, the refs protect Crosby.)
So, what happens? Three players from the Penguins were suspended from Game Four.
Which, basically, was a rig-job as well. Philly won the first three games by a combined 8 goals, only Game 1 being really competitive.
So, what happens? Pittsburgh wins Game 4 by a 10-3 count with EIGHT UNANSWERED GOALS in a fairly clean contest.
Where'd that come from??? Why? Especially with three Pittsburgh players suspended and the series basically out of reach, how does that legitimately happen?
Game 5 Friday night in Pittsburgh. Oh brother...
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Another cheapie: This one has the offender banned until a hearing in front of Shanahan directly.
Perhaps he might want to explain how four referees didn't call a penalty on this play, including one right in front of the damnated hit!!
Phoenix and Chicago, in one of the dirtiest hits that friends of mine have ever seen.
First period, Raffi Torres takes out Marian Hossa, leaving his feet right in front of the official. (Replay at about 2:45 if you want to see it directly.) Hossa is taken on a backboard off the ice.
This is Torres' third PLAYOFF SUSPENSION since the start of the 2011 playoffs (see inset). He also left his feet in a January, 2012 incident after the two playoff suspensions for a head-shot that cost him two games.
But the trigger here that something is badly wrong in the league comes from two observations on this hit alone:
A Phoenix Coyote announcer has been death-threatted for defending the hit. His homer call was indefensible: "... as clean of a hit as you're going to get".
Earlier in the series, Blackhawk Andrew Shaw drew a three-game suspension for a shoulder-to-face hit on Coyote goaltender Mike Smith. The clip actually makes it look like a helmet-to-helmet hit!! (Sound familiar??)
------------------
On the NHL page right now at ESPN.com: Boston-Washington and all their cheap shots. The "picture" leading to the video? #19 for Washington taking a stick to his face by a Boston player.
Nicklas Backstrom got one game for a post-game cross-check in that same series after getting a match penalty in Game 3.
And the coaching staff believes that Backstrom, who has a concussion history, is being targetted for headshots.
----------------
And it's not just me who's saying it:
The NHL is
FUCKING
OUT
OF
CONTROL.
It may have started with this hit in the Detroit Nashville series, where it looks like Shea Weber takes Henrik Zetterberg's face into the glass at the end of Game 1. (Replay at 0:37 : Intentional shots to the back of the head and a grind into the glass). Weber got a $2,500 fine.
The ABC News article (linked at "OUT") says it best:
"In January, even as the league was touting the fact that fights-per-game had dropped to low levels not seen since the mid-70s, Toronto general manager Brian Burke groused out loud about having to send his enforcer, Colton Orr, down to the Leafs' American Hockey League affiliate.
Burke, who once held Shanahan's job, said his team was barely able to use Orr — he appeared in just five of Toronto's 39 games — because hardly anyone wanted to fight him. He predicted that abandoning the code that governed who fought and when would result in more players taking cheap shots and seeking revenge in even more dangerous ways.
"I wonder where we're going with it, that's the only lament I have on this," he said at the time. "The fear that if we don't have guys looking after each other, that the rats will take this game over."
Too late. They already have."
TheStar.com (linked at "OF"): "Less than a year after taking over from Colin Campbell and supposedly ushering in a new era of common sense justice for the NHL, it has become clear that Shanahan’s reign will be no more progressive and may in fact drag the NHL backwards."
Shanahan was one of the NHL's goons, to be sure.
The problem with this statement is that the NHL's main broadcast partner (NBC) is in serious, perhaps mortal, trouble -- and has been for some time.
Could the NHL, above Shanahan, have decided to let the "rats" take the game over because that's what people will watch to keep the NBC Sports Network -- and NBC -- afloat?
But it's the one linked at "CONTROL" that probably answers the question: The gang mentality which has taken over the actions of many fans has spread to the players, and The Bleacher Report puts it well -- respect for opponents is at an all-time low.
So low that I have a suggestion for Gary Bettman and Brendan Shanahan: ABOLISH THE POST-SERIES HANDSHAKES. You will get a major incident at one of these.
One famed Canadian columnist, Damien Cox (the TheStar.com link) has it right: The NHL is now looking like "a hillbilly beer league".
Usually, one of the main differences between regular season hockey and the playoffs is that the bullshit of the fighting and the cheapies goes away.
This year, as many have reported, it's gotten bad.
REAL BAD.
And it sounds to me as if the "new transparency" of Brendan Shanahan has been stifled, in the name of trying to prop up ratings for the newly-rebranded "NBC Sports Network", formerly Versus.
Why? Let's take a look at some of the cheap shots just in this first round of the playoffs...
The worst offending team appears to be Sidney's Pittsburgh Penguins, who drew the Philadelphia Flyers in the first round of the Eastern Conference playoffs.
Game 3 might've been one of the dirtiest games in recent playoff history. With the Flyers winning the first two games in Pittsburgh, tensions were already high.
A fight breaks out (0:04 on this clip) after Philly scores to even the game, as someone gets a stick to the helmet, creating a brawl.
And then Sid the Kid gets mauled (0:30 on the same clip) and all Hell breaks loose again, leading to multiple penalties and some ejections. (Note how quick the refs try to protect Crosby.) In another clip of the fight, the announcer is heard talking about the "we're screwed" "Thousand-Yard Stare" by the Penguins.
And then a hit which should've gotten a year suspension (1:15): After a clean hit by Brayden Schenn,
Arron Asham appears to crosscheck him in the throat. Not satisfied with that, he then gives Schenn a punch to the back of the head on the ground. (Clear replay at 1:35)
Asham is immediately thrown off the ice -- MATCH PENALTY.
Asham has been suspended for four games.
That shit should've gotten A YEAR. That was a stick to the throat, following by punching a defenseless player.
At 2:10, another brawl, which, given the game and the score, they are VERY fortunate it didn't get to a mass brawl off the benches. (Again, the refs protect Crosby.)
So, what happens? Three players from the Penguins were suspended from Game Four.
Which, basically, was a rig-job as well. Philly won the first three games by a combined 8 goals, only Game 1 being really competitive.
So, what happens? Pittsburgh wins Game 4 by a 10-3 count with EIGHT UNANSWERED GOALS in a fairly clean contest.
Where'd that come from??? Why? Especially with three Pittsburgh players suspended and the series basically out of reach, how does that legitimately happen?
Game 5 Friday night in Pittsburgh. Oh brother...
------------
Another cheapie: This one has the offender banned until a hearing in front of Shanahan directly.
Perhaps he might want to explain how four referees didn't call a penalty on this play, including one right in front of the damnated hit!!
Phoenix and Chicago, in one of the dirtiest hits that friends of mine have ever seen.
First period, Raffi Torres takes out Marian Hossa, leaving his feet right in front of the official. (Replay at about 2:45 if you want to see it directly.) Hossa is taken on a backboard off the ice.
This is Torres' third PLAYOFF SUSPENSION since the start of the 2011 playoffs (see inset). He also left his feet in a January, 2012 incident after the two playoff suspensions for a head-shot that cost him two games.
But the trigger here that something is badly wrong in the league comes from two observations on this hit alone:
- Four officials missed the play completely.
- One was right in front of the incident and should've seen everything -- called NOTHING.
A Phoenix Coyote announcer has been death-threatted for defending the hit. His homer call was indefensible: "... as clean of a hit as you're going to get".
Earlier in the series, Blackhawk Andrew Shaw drew a three-game suspension for a shoulder-to-face hit on Coyote goaltender Mike Smith. The clip actually makes it look like a helmet-to-helmet hit!! (Sound familiar??)
------------------
On the NHL page right now at ESPN.com: Boston-Washington and all their cheap shots. The "picture" leading to the video? #19 for Washington taking a stick to his face by a Boston player.
Nicklas Backstrom got one game for a post-game cross-check in that same series after getting a match penalty in Game 3.
And the coaching staff believes that Backstrom, who has a concussion history, is being targetted for headshots.
----------------
And it's not just me who's saying it:
The NHL is
FUCKING
OUT
OF
CONTROL.
It may have started with this hit in the Detroit Nashville series, where it looks like Shea Weber takes Henrik Zetterberg's face into the glass at the end of Game 1. (Replay at 0:37 : Intentional shots to the back of the head and a grind into the glass). Weber got a $2,500 fine.
The ABC News article (linked at "OUT") says it best:
"In January, even as the league was touting the fact that fights-per-game had dropped to low levels not seen since the mid-70s, Toronto general manager Brian Burke groused out loud about having to send his enforcer, Colton Orr, down to the Leafs' American Hockey League affiliate.
Burke, who once held Shanahan's job, said his team was barely able to use Orr — he appeared in just five of Toronto's 39 games — because hardly anyone wanted to fight him. He predicted that abandoning the code that governed who fought and when would result in more players taking cheap shots and seeking revenge in even more dangerous ways.
"I wonder where we're going with it, that's the only lament I have on this," he said at the time. "The fear that if we don't have guys looking after each other, that the rats will take this game over."
Too late. They already have."
TheStar.com (linked at "OF"): "Less than a year after taking over from Colin Campbell and supposedly ushering in a new era of common sense justice for the NHL, it has become clear that Shanahan’s reign will be no more progressive and may in fact drag the NHL backwards."
Shanahan was one of the NHL's goons, to be sure.
The problem with this statement is that the NHL's main broadcast partner (NBC) is in serious, perhaps mortal, trouble -- and has been for some time.
Could the NHL, above Shanahan, have decided to let the "rats" take the game over because that's what people will watch to keep the NBC Sports Network -- and NBC -- afloat?
But it's the one linked at "CONTROL" that probably answers the question: The gang mentality which has taken over the actions of many fans has spread to the players, and The Bleacher Report puts it well -- respect for opponents is at an all-time low.
So low that I have a suggestion for Gary Bettman and Brendan Shanahan: ABOLISH THE POST-SERIES HANDSHAKES. You will get a major incident at one of these.
One famed Canadian columnist, Damien Cox (the TheStar.com link) has it right: The NHL is now looking like "a hillbilly beer league".
Monday, April 9, 2012
Well Surprise, Surprise, Surprise: Baylor truly joins the big programs -- BUSTED!!!
Baylor's football and two basketball programs combined this year for the most wins in NCAA history -- EIGHTY.
We now know why -- they've been fucking the system for at least 3-4 years now.
They've been under investigation by the NCAA for at least that long, and their all-World women's basketball player (leader of the first 40-win season in NCAA history) appears involved.
ESPN reports that Baylor University has been the subject of an across-the-board athletic investigation by the NCAA for impermissible contacts. You can only contact people in a certain time period a certain number of times, and Baylor (probably in the process of trying to make itself relevant in the NCAA sporting world) decided to circumvent that, the NCAA alleges.
What's more, women's PoY Brittany Griner was the start of all this, as Baylor is alleged to have improperly contacted her and her father when they were recruiting her.
This, alone, should be grounds, if proven, for nullification of this year's national title and all the awards Griner won, since she never should've been eligible to play at Baylor. (They were reported by Griner and her father, so she should've disqualified Baylor and chosen to play elsewhere...)
But isn't it funny... When we get a program who's trying to get "in" (I'm looking at you Boise State football -- thanks for nothing!!!), it always seems to come down to this.
EVERY
DAMN
TIME.
If proven, strip the title.
If proven and you can tie the football program to this, strip this year's Heisman from the soon-to-be #2...
(As of now, it's just the mens' and womens' basketball programs...)
We now know why -- they've been fucking the system for at least 3-4 years now.
They've been under investigation by the NCAA for at least that long, and their all-World women's basketball player (leader of the first 40-win season in NCAA history) appears involved.
ESPN reports that Baylor University has been the subject of an across-the-board athletic investigation by the NCAA for impermissible contacts. You can only contact people in a certain time period a certain number of times, and Baylor (probably in the process of trying to make itself relevant in the NCAA sporting world) decided to circumvent that, the NCAA alleges.
What's more, women's PoY Brittany Griner was the start of all this, as Baylor is alleged to have improperly contacted her and her father when they were recruiting her.
This, alone, should be grounds, if proven, for nullification of this year's national title and all the awards Griner won, since she never should've been eligible to play at Baylor. (They were reported by Griner and her father, so she should've disqualified Baylor and chosen to play elsewhere...)
But isn't it funny... When we get a program who's trying to get "in" (I'm looking at you Boise State football -- thanks for nothing!!!), it always seems to come down to this.
EVERY
DAMN
TIME.
If proven, strip the title.
If proven and you can tie the football program to this, strip this year's Heisman from the soon-to-be #2...
(As of now, it's just the mens' and womens' basketball programs...)
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