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For saying something stupid about Ray Rice, Screamin' A got a suspension half the length of Rice's for knocking out a woman. Makes perfect sense.

 

Thing is, if SAS hadn't dug himself a deeper hole with his Twitter explanation, he probably would have gotten out of this jam.  He's made similar comments in the past with no one saying a word.  He simply picked the wrong time to express his warped POV, along with slaughtering the English language.

 

Quit provoking people.

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I have to be honest... Beadle is a hypocrite. She said she loves the way Floyd Mayweather lives his life..uh hello..

 

Beadle also said that Erin Andrews used her stalking incident to basically advance herself.  And I don't think Beadle is totally wrong on that.  But yeah, she's hardly the strong voice that some want to make her out to be.

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Beadle is 100% right that Andrews used that incident to advance herself.  May not have been intentional ("hey, I can exploit this!") but she definitely did it.  She went from the really hot sideline reporter that nobody outside of ESPN had ever heard of to being all over the place telling everyone how "violated" and "exploited" she felt.  That exposure got her a higher profile and a lot more dough.  Good for her, negative into positive and all that.

 

But, yeah, Beadle is right on this topic (Screamin' A being a moron) but she's not exactly infallible on her opinions.

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I'm not sure that Beadle being wrong about something previously negates her being irrevocably correct about something currently. 

 

It makes her a hypocrite which I already said..  I was with her before I saw the Floyd Mayweather shit. Now it's clear that she talks just to talk.

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Made the mistake of checking ESPN for any basketball related podcasts. They really need to start this early?

 

PTI: 7/30/14
Michael Wilbon and Jason Whitlock weigh in on Kevin Durant's future with the Thunder
 
Around The Horn: 7/30/14
Tony Reali and the national panel talk about the Browns' QB situation, Kevin Durant's future
 
Durant isn't a free agent until 2016.
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If it helps it's cause Durant was asked about it so it's sorta hard for them to not talk about it.

Didn't help since I checked who asked and they work for ESPN. Could have just been talking about James though and it led to that question. Lof of airtime to fill.

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I'm not sure that Beadle being wrong about something previously negates her being irrevocably correct about something currently. 

 

It makes her a hypocrite which I already said..  I was with her before I saw the Floyd Mayweather shit. Now it's clear that she talks just to talk.

 

 

That's the job, though.. And this goes for Stephen A as well.  They are paid to talk about shit they really don't want to talk about and sometimes you slip up, say something stupid or contradict yourself.  It's funny to laugh at, but it's hard for me to call them hypocrites when they are asked to fill up hours on end with very little actual sports news.

 

It would be funny to see a list of all the ESPN on-air controversies.  I wonder how many of them occur during this time of the year; the dead time between seasons where the only relevant sport also happens to be boring as fuck.  Fucking baseball, man.

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Stephen A. Smith is human garbage.

About 10 years ago, there was a truly awful incident at La Salle in Philly, my alma mater. Two kids on the basketball team (one was Gary Neal) were charged with rape after sexually assaulting a girl at a summer party. A separate girl (who played for the La Salle woman's team) came forward and said she was assaulted the year before, reported the incident to both her and the men's coach, and they didn't do anything except sorta pressure her not to pursue charges. This is against the law, as well as moraly repugnant.

All three men's players were thrown out of school and arrested. Both coaches were fired.

SAS wrote a column at the Inquirer that started, "Ladies and gentlemen, do not send your children to La Salle University." And ripped the school for mishandling the incident.

Why?

Because the players weren't given a trial yet and "tarnished" with being guilty. And the coaches somehow were morally correct despite violating federal law detailing sexual incidents on college campuses.

He also was fired from the Inquirer and sued on get his job back via a union loophole. They thought he was overpaid and garbage and spending all of his time trying to get TV gigs.

The folks I know in the local media here all hated his guts. Also, the word on the street is his material was absolutely unreadable on a first draft.

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Favre has made up with the Pack, so of course NFLN is swooning over him.

I did like one guy pointing out that Favre got a pass for doing dumb shit that others got ripped for, even if his point was ignored.

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I know this means nothing and is nothing new, but it was kind of funny.  Flipping around today I landed on the promo for tonight's SportsCenter.

 

Four of the first five words in the promo were "Lebron."

 

"Lebron, Lebron, Lebron!  Does Lebron...." and then blah blah blah....

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What is everyone's hot sports take on LeBatard's suspension for the Thank You, LeBron--Love, Miami billboards in Cleveland?

As I put on the radio thread , ESPN ought to have a sense of humor, it was funny, for them a first. . . . 

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I'm leaning toward Tabe's POV.  LeBatard is one of the few national guys that doesn't have his head completely up his own ass, but this smacks of a stunt gone bad.  Now, ESPN should have known about it, because he had been talking about it for around two weeks on his radio show.

 

If LeBatard hadn't spent a decent amount of time talking about LeBron duping the Heat into thinking he was coming back, I'd give him a pass on this.  But if the Heat were caught off-guard by LeBron's departure, it's due to willful ignorance--not some con game that LBJ played.  Wade acknowledged that he had picked up on LeBron's vibes to go home.  The guy has been saying for two years that he wanted to return to Cleveland.  So either Miami wasn't listening or they tricked themselves into believing the wrong outcome.

 

I think LeBatard broke one of his own rules--he got caught up in the fandom.

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This reflects worse on ESPN than it does Dan. I posted in the radio thread that it's incredibly bizarre what ESPN thinks does and does not require punishment. Constant race baiting and misogyny is A-OK but a fun little joke on a billboard is over the line. There are very weird choices being made.

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