How long until we find out Nate Diaz is fired from the UFC for this comment during the joint press conference with him and Conor McGregor?
Days before the two meet in UFC 196, Nate Diaz says the entire UFC is on steroids...
"They're ALL on steroids..."
(After which his mike was cut off and another had to be provided for the follow-up to his comment!)
Either Conor McGregor is going to kick your ass or Dana White is....
Thursday, February 25, 2016
Thursday, February 18, 2016
Manny Pacquiao... When I have good things to say about NIKE...
... you know the people they come out against are a problem.
Manny Pacquiao was seen as the one great hope to silence Floyd Mayweather.
Now that Mayweather has bought the thug off, Pacquiao has continued his homophobia.
In a statement that I am pretty much certain is false, he has invoked the animal kingdom to state God never intended relations between members of the same gender in any animal on Earth.
This is utterly idiotic on almost any conceivable level, but it's clear that, now with nothing to lose, Pacquiao is exposing himself again as a homophobic thug!
Well, guess what? Nike dropped him like a microphone!
Nike dropped Pacquiao for his homophobic rants.
We're headed to large-scale Gay Rights violence in this world. There is nothing else that can be said about it, with institutions like the Republican Party and NFL in this country and Manny Pacquiao in the Philippines speaking out against LGBT rights.
The day is going to have to come, by force.
And I apologize for going "here", but I have to:
And if it's such a problem to God, I have faith in my Lord and Savior that HE can straighten it out, because he created it in the first damn place!
God created LGBTs, people! Wake up. Every bit of the catechism that I studied (especially the "He knew you before you were born!" stuff and the like) indicates he created it!
Unless you, in your infinite "wisdom" (har de har har) want to tell me he didn't create LGBTs, you can shut the fuck up real good and quick.
Oh, by the way: That would mean there's another Creator out there. Parse THOSE ramifications.
EDIT TO ADD: HE'S DOUBLED DOWN -- AND THEN SOME!!!!
Yardbarker today:
He's allied himself, indirectly at the least, with the "Buggery Execution" guy -- he's beginning to quote the Bible and state that gays should be killed. (Leviticus 20:13 -- completely ignoring the entire concept of the New Testament stating that Jesus was basically making the whole situation anew through the presence and ministry of The Son of God.)
(Or do we then ignore Jesus forgiving the woman who was about to be stoned, only cautioning her to sin no more, among many, many other situations?)
Pacquiao, you've now gone and done it: I wish Marquez had killed you with the cold knockout. Thanks for nothing.
Manny Pacquiao was seen as the one great hope to silence Floyd Mayweather.
Now that Mayweather has bought the thug off, Pacquiao has continued his homophobia.
In a statement that I am pretty much certain is false, he has invoked the animal kingdom to state God never intended relations between members of the same gender in any animal on Earth.
This is utterly idiotic on almost any conceivable level, but it's clear that, now with nothing to lose, Pacquiao is exposing himself again as a homophobic thug!
Well, guess what? Nike dropped him like a microphone!
Nike dropped Pacquiao for his homophobic rants.
We're headed to large-scale Gay Rights violence in this world. There is nothing else that can be said about it, with institutions like the Republican Party and NFL in this country and Manny Pacquiao in the Philippines speaking out against LGBT rights.
The day is going to have to come, by force.
And I apologize for going "here", but I have to:
And if it's such a problem to God, I have faith in my Lord and Savior that HE can straighten it out, because he created it in the first damn place!
God created LGBTs, people! Wake up. Every bit of the catechism that I studied (especially the "He knew you before you were born!" stuff and the like) indicates he created it!
Unless you, in your infinite "wisdom" (har de har har) want to tell me he didn't create LGBTs, you can shut the fuck up real good and quick.
Oh, by the way: That would mean there's another Creator out there. Parse THOSE ramifications.
EDIT TO ADD: HE'S DOUBLED DOWN -- AND THEN SOME!!!!
Yardbarker today:
He's allied himself, indirectly at the least, with the "Buggery Execution" guy -- he's beginning to quote the Bible and state that gays should be killed. (Leviticus 20:13 -- completely ignoring the entire concept of the New Testament stating that Jesus was basically making the whole situation anew through the presence and ministry of The Son of God.)
(Or do we then ignore Jesus forgiving the woman who was about to be stoned, only cautioning her to sin no more, among many, many other situations?)
Pacquiao, you've now gone and done it: I wish Marquez had killed you with the cold knockout. Thanks for nothing.
When Title IX goes wrong...
(I'll have another Title IX story here later -- the big bombs going off with respect to Peyton Manning and the University of Tennessee.)
For all of the advancements of Title IX with respect to the rights of women and their ability to have the opportunity to participate in equal sports on an equal level, there can be some glaring drawbacks.
One of the largest (and I've believed this for literally decades!) is the concept of girls' basketball, and what usually happens when supposed high-school "games" are actually mismatches of the first order.
I posted about this before, about a "game" in my area that ended 161-2 about 12 months ago.
Well, we have another one: Gilmour Academy 108 - Northeast Ohio College Prep 1. (Deadspin, including a Twitter photo someone wanted to have the game put on SportsCenter!!!)
And from the Deadspin article, the coach, Bob Beutel, is a real beaut himself:
It's clear that many schools, at all levels, only have girls' basketball to legally justify boys' basketball under Title IX. It's clear by the statement of NE Ohio College Prep (which said all the "right things") that it was pretty clear there was no point in holding this contest.
Yes, I would go so far that, if the only alternative to satisfy Federal Law is to disgrace these girls by putting them in this position simply to be legally allowed to field a boys team, disband them both!
There is ZERO educational value -- NONE! -- in 108-1 or 161-2. Coaches have been fired and suspended for putting up some of these ridiculous scores (the 161-2 coach was banned for two games as a result, but a cursory study indicated such blowouts were common for his program!).
Be interesting to see if this "championship team" can continue it's run. They have either been district champions or runners-up in their district of Ohio the last seven years running. That was actually the first round of their playoffs!
In this cockamanie system the state of Ohio has dreamed up, three teams were randomly assigned byes, and this team, the #1 seed (19-4 -- and they actually did a holiday tournament in Washington DC this year, in which they played two teams from Georgia and one from California (losing twice!) also has wins of 92-15, 73-24, 75-32. and 78-37 in just the month of December alone!
As for their opponents, it's almost clear this is a college-prep charter private school, part of an 8-school network in three states. There is nothing on this network's website which even indicates the athletic teams in the school at all! The Cleveland article states the team ended it's season at 1-12.
Really... This is on the sanctioning body: WHY WAS THIS ALLOWED TO TAKE PLACE?
For all of the advancements of Title IX with respect to the rights of women and their ability to have the opportunity to participate in equal sports on an equal level, there can be some glaring drawbacks.
One of the largest (and I've believed this for literally decades!) is the concept of girls' basketball, and what usually happens when supposed high-school "games" are actually mismatches of the first order.
I posted about this before, about a "game" in my area that ended 161-2 about 12 months ago.
Well, we have another one: Gilmour Academy 108 - Northeast Ohio College Prep 1. (Deadspin, including a Twitter photo someone wanted to have the game put on SportsCenter!!!)
And from the Deadspin article, the coach, Bob Beutel, is a real beaut himself:
“Our intent was to not run anything up, and we took steps to not disrespect our opponent,” Gilmour coach Bob Beutel said. “They went 0-for-28 from the field and 1-for-4 from the free-throw line. We let them shoot.”No, at some point, the only way not to "disrespect the opponent" is either to stop the game or not let it take place at all. Beutel claimed in a Cleveland interview that he was actually subbing JV players into the game in the first quarter. ESPECIALLY if this is true, how in the fucking Hell do you allow this to go on, as a sanctioning body, much less the schools involved???
It's clear that many schools, at all levels, only have girls' basketball to legally justify boys' basketball under Title IX. It's clear by the statement of NE Ohio College Prep (which said all the "right things") that it was pretty clear there was no point in holding this contest.
Yes, I would go so far that, if the only alternative to satisfy Federal Law is to disgrace these girls by putting them in this position simply to be legally allowed to field a boys team, disband them both!
There is ZERO educational value -- NONE! -- in 108-1 or 161-2. Coaches have been fired and suspended for putting up some of these ridiculous scores (the 161-2 coach was banned for two games as a result, but a cursory study indicated such blowouts were common for his program!).
Be interesting to see if this "championship team" can continue it's run. They have either been district champions or runners-up in their district of Ohio the last seven years running. That was actually the first round of their playoffs!
In this cockamanie system the state of Ohio has dreamed up, three teams were randomly assigned byes, and this team, the #1 seed (19-4 -- and they actually did a holiday tournament in Washington DC this year, in which they played two teams from Georgia and one from California (losing twice!) also has wins of 92-15, 73-24, 75-32. and 78-37 in just the month of December alone!
As for their opponents, it's almost clear this is a college-prep charter private school, part of an 8-school network in three states. There is nothing on this network's website which even indicates the athletic teams in the school at all! The Cleveland article states the team ended it's season at 1-12.
Really... This is on the sanctioning body: WHY WAS THIS ALLOWED TO TAKE PLACE?
I had a lot of good things to say about NHL discipline....
I'm beginning to retract more than a few of them, though...
We seem to be having a large-scale problem with the NHL, at this point, and it seems to be centering around stuff at the head.
Both Gary Bettman and the concussion stuff.
Bettman declined Wideman's direct appeal to him (Deadspin), and kept his suspension at 20 games. He also announced he did not believe Wideman's statement he was concussed.
It was already noted on Calgary's first broadcast after the initial announcement of the suspension that Bettman could've increased Wideman's penalty -- so, if he does not believe Wideman was concussed, why did he not ban Wideman from the sport for an offense that, even for a first-timer, is a life ban offense?
If you don't believe Wideman, and you believe that he sent a text message stating he hated the refs on top of it (which opens up another can of worms, as the NHL basically was able to get their hands, supposedly, on such a text message), WHY THE HELL IS WIDEMAN NOT BANNED?
Look, I still agree that I believe that Wideman was concussed (and where the fuck was Player Safety on the hit which preceded this, which concussed him?), so this is only operating under Bettman's assumption that Wideman was not concussed and probably had a (again, in Bettman's mind) vendetta against the officials:
This will go before the arbitrator, but someone needs to ask both sides of the question: Was Wideman concussed? If he wasn't, how do you justify keeping the suspension at 20 games? The official involved is still not back with the league, to my understanding, as of this writing.
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And then another Deadspin gem from the NHL, showing that Brendan Shanahan and Player Safety are slipping, and badly.
Radku Gukas of Philadelphia was banned for three games in December for a check to the head.
Just in the month of February (and you can find all videos of the incidents on the Deadspin article):
We seem to be having a large-scale problem with the NHL, at this point, and it seems to be centering around stuff at the head.
Both Gary Bettman and the concussion stuff.
Bettman declined Wideman's direct appeal to him (Deadspin), and kept his suspension at 20 games. He also announced he did not believe Wideman's statement he was concussed.
It was already noted on Calgary's first broadcast after the initial announcement of the suspension that Bettman could've increased Wideman's penalty -- so, if he does not believe Wideman was concussed, why did he not ban Wideman from the sport for an offense that, even for a first-timer, is a life ban offense?
If you don't believe Wideman, and you believe that he sent a text message stating he hated the refs on top of it (which opens up another can of worms, as the NHL basically was able to get their hands, supposedly, on such a text message), WHY THE HELL IS WIDEMAN NOT BANNED?
Look, I still agree that I believe that Wideman was concussed (and where the fuck was Player Safety on the hit which preceded this, which concussed him?), so this is only operating under Bettman's assumption that Wideman was not concussed and probably had a (again, in Bettman's mind) vendetta against the officials:
- He gets up from the hit.
- He slams his stick on the ground.
- He goes over.
- He puts two fists into the official's back, cross-checking the official down.
This will go before the arbitrator, but someone needs to ask both sides of the question: Was Wideman concussed? If he wasn't, how do you justify keeping the suspension at 20 games? The official involved is still not back with the league, to my understanding, as of this writing.
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And then another Deadspin gem from the NHL, showing that Brendan Shanahan and Player Safety are slipping, and badly.
Radku Gukas of Philadelphia was banned for three games in December for a check to the head.
Just in the month of February (and you can find all videos of the incidents on the Deadspin article):
- February 2: Is tossed for a major for clipping Lucas Lessio of Montreal. The refs completely botch the call, and probably had to call the penalty on orders from Toronto. Replay shows not only a hip to the knee, but an official RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE PLAY with no problem with the hit, or so it seemed. Lessio had just been called up to the NHL (he was in his first NHL game), and only returned to play last night after the injury.
- February 11: Another cheap shot, another injury, another rookie! Daniel Catenacci of Buffalo. Elbow to the side of the head. Injured reserve on the 12th. The Sabres demanded a hearing, and got none!
- February 16: Bobby Farnham of New Jersey. Third ejection in two weeks for Gudas. Blindside interference cheap shot. Match penalty for intent to injure.
@NHLPlayerSafety HEY! Radko Gudas... Three cheap shot ejections in two weeks. Suspension or explanation, please!! #FuckGudas— Michael Falkner (@darkstar7646) February 18, 2016
Time for the bear to come out of hiberation...
Been quite a bit of low-level stuff, and about two high-level stories in the last couple of weeks.
Thing is, this has been about the first time in eighteen months I've had some degree of lull in the blog.
And the thing is, there's been SOME stuff (and two real biggies -- Peyton and Pacquiao), but it's been somewhat quiet on the front.
Time for me to delve into some of it, though...
Thing is, this has been about the first time in eighteen months I've had some degree of lull in the blog.
And the thing is, there's been SOME stuff (and two real biggies -- Peyton and Pacquiao), but it's been somewhat quiet on the front.
Time for me to delve into some of it, though...
Tuesday, February 9, 2016
Super Farce 50: Peyton Manning: Corporate Whore To The Very End
And do people want to know why that game was so obviously rigged for Denver?
What does the corporate whore quarterbacking Denver do about the moment the game ends?
He hugs Papa "Thirty-Two Car Moat" John.
Then, in the interview on-field, as they are setting up the stage for the presentations, Manning breaks league rules (and maybe Federal Law?) by shilling for Budweiser during the interview.
But why not? Has there been another player so obvious in carrying water for the league for the last God Knows How Many years?
And this goes back to when he was BMOC of the University of Tennessee, or does anyone want to remember the fact he basically teabagged a female trainer in 1996, and had to pay more about it when he wouldn't shut the fuck up about it under court order in 2005?
Peyton Manning is a Corporate Whore. He is the perfect latest representation of the Corporate Era.
None of this should surprise you -- nor should the fact he was handed a ring on the way out.
What does the corporate whore quarterbacking Denver do about the moment the game ends?
He hugs Papa "Thirty-Two Car Moat" John.
Then, in the interview on-field, as they are setting up the stage for the presentations, Manning breaks league rules (and maybe Federal Law?) by shilling for Budweiser during the interview.
But why not? Has there been another player so obvious in carrying water for the league for the last God Knows How Many years?
And this goes back to when he was BMOC of the University of Tennessee, or does anyone want to remember the fact he basically teabagged a female trainer in 1996, and had to pay more about it when he wouldn't shut the fuck up about it under court order in 2005?
Peyton Manning is a Corporate Whore. He is the perfect latest representation of the Corporate Era.
None of this should surprise you -- nor should the fact he was handed a ring on the way out.
Super Farce 50: Observations From The National Bloodfeast
- I can't believe, for the life of me, anyone outside of the Carolinas or Panther fans even thinking of betting for or believing Carolina would win. This was so obviously The Peyton Manning Retirement Party, and the only thing which surprised me is that they gave Carolina no "hope spot" in the entire game to indicate it was going to be viewed as a two-way contest. It was clear that the NFL felt Peyton Manning such a broken man physically that they could not count on him doing One More Drive at the end, so the game was effectively done the way it was.
- You know I'm doing this one: It was evident from the go that the officials and New York were in full charge of the game from whistle to whistle. The worst call, though, was probably the biggest -- and it was in the first quarter. We had a Calvin Johnson ruling again, and the rule worked as intended: It set the table for Carolina to be hamstrung for the rest of the game with a shit call. First play, second Carolina drive with about seven minutes to go in the quarter, Newton passes to Cotchery for 25 yards. The pass is ruled incomplete on the field, and Carolina challenges. The replay shows a clear Calvin Johnson situation, but the blazes if I can find where the ball actually contacts the ground. Ruling on the field "stands", meaning there was no conclusive evidence (even with all of the extra cameras used for the Super Bowl) that the ball never touched the ground?????? Two plays later, fumble into the end zone for the touchdown, and Denver never looks back.
- Aqib Talib should've been thrown out of the game. Before he should've, though, he was involved in an incident in which he got a separate unsportsmanlike conduct penalty, and the cameras catch what, to me, was a 50-50 situation. Both players were unsportsmanlike, yes. Yes, Talib took his chinstraps and threw them down during the exchange, but that wasn't anything more than offsetting -- the penalty gave Carolina a fresh set of downs it could do nothing with, but indicated the officials and New York were understanding the flow of the game and trying to offset Denver a bit.
- But it was the play before Carolina's lone touchdown that should've been the end of Talib's night. A 13-yard pass from Newton to Brown to the Denver 2 is only stopped by Talib taking Brown by the facemask and helicoptering him to the ground. Not only should he have been tossed as a function of a flagrant dangerous facemask, but the only reason the touchdown was stopped (for one play) was his foul. The referees should've awarded the six and tossed Talib.
- Cam Newton appeared to get away with intentional grounding at least twice. One of the things which should've indicated to viewers paying attention that the game was Denver's was something else: Newton didn't even really attempt to use his speed and the like for the entire first quarter!
- The long punt return that led to Denver's second field goal had two problems: One, it did look like the punter got a fair degree of nailed on the situation (even running into the kicker would've nullified the return if nothing else). Two, there was all sorts of confusion, and almost certainly a penalty for failing to give Norwood the opportunity to catch the ball, fair or otherwise. Deadspin noted five Panthers avoided tackling Norwood during the return -- though I might only count the last three, as I think the first two probably interfered with his ability to catch the ball.
- There was a play with some question on it in the third quarter at 13-7 Denver just before Carolina missed the field goal There was a flag for a defensive holding situation, but it was picked up, stating there was no foul -- and no one decided to actually get the public to look at it to see what the confusion was.
- Not to mention that Carolina felt Talib had committed his fourth penalty of the game by jumping offside on the missed field goal.
- The game was one of the dirtiest in Super Bowl history, as SEVEN 15-yard penalties were accepted -- it was clear the officials were given orders to call the chippy nature of the NFL tightly, but the penalties just seemed to highlight the violent nature of the game...
- ... a game so violent that, by about three minutes to go in the third quarter, there were at least three ANNOUNCED players with concussions in the locker room.
- If there was any remaining doubt that the game was The Peyton Manning Retirement Party, the announcers were not only saying they did not believe Carolina would be able to score twice (at 16-7), but were already beginning to talk "The End" for Manning at the start of the 4th quarter.
- Another key bad call was when Ted Ginn Jr. got MUGGED in the 4th quarter on a driver which led to Carolina's field goal, but a touchdown makes it a 2-point game.
- The final straw (and the announcers noted it) was on the fumble that gave Denver it's final touchdown, a fumble in which Cam Newton did not go into the pile to get. In the Super Bowl... Cam Newton played his role to the hilt -- and if Carolina (or Newton with another team) gets back real soon, don't think that won't weigh in his favor.
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