Headlines for May, 2009

Parting Shot: Rhoden on “Silly Age-Limit Rule”

Too often, we (meaning me!) focus on terrible statements by sports journalists and bypass the good ones. Moving forward I’ll be looking to sprinkle a little more of the good stuff out there. Today, William C. Rhoden made an appearance on ESPN’s The Sports Reporters, and succinctly summed up this “bogus system”. “The university of Memphis and John Calipari have some explaining to do. The [read more...]

Parting Shot: Rhoden on “Silly Age-Limit Rule”

Too often, we (meaning me!) focus on terrible statements by sports journalists and bypass the good ones. Moving forward I’ll be looking to sprinkle a little more of the good stuff out there. Today, William C. Rhoden made an appearance on ESPN’s The Sports Reporters, and succinctly summed up this “bogus system”. “The university of Memphis and John Calipari have some explaining to do. The [read more...]

White Pass: Jon Papelbon vs. Carlos Zambrano

  The above picture of Carlos Zambrano was plastered across the front page of ESPN’s website this afternoon (hat tip Monsoon). By day’s end Zambrano was given a 6-game suspension for slightly bumping an umpire (equivalent to a one-game suspension for a pitcher). ESPN has been all over every angle of the “story” the last two days and Milton Bradley appreciates the 48-hour reprieve!  But [read more...]

Sonia Sotomayor & Baseball: Diversity4Dummies

Prior to the Presidential election, I wrote “If Sports Were Like Politics” about how political absurdities would not last five minutes if subjected to the playing field. For all the debating about sports, few things in life that make more sense. Not so in politics. Take Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama’s judicial nominee. Ironically, she has been involved in quite a few judicial decisions [read more...]

Mike Tyson Tragedy Met By Disgusting Media

It was reported yesterday that Mike Tyson’s 4-year-old daughter died at a hospital Tuesday, a day after her neck apparently got accidentally caught in a treadmill cord at her Phoenix home. Police said Exodus Tyson either slipped or put her head in the loop of a cord hanging under the console. Her 7-year-old brother found her and told their mother. [read more...]

White Pass: Jonathan Papelbon Goes Nuts

This weekend in New York Jonathan Papelbon blew a save. And then “The Wild Thing” went wild. First he threw a tantrum (see end picture), and then he attacked a New York Post photographer with his towel after warning him… “Don’t take my fucking picture!”. As the picture indicates, the photographer didn’t listen. And ESPN never reported the incident. They didn’t reissue the picture or any story whatsoever, at a [read more...]

Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. ESPN’s Brian Kenny: The Loser is Juan Manuel Marquez

By now you have probably seen the heated exchange on video. When a contentious fighter (Floyd Mayweather Jr.) and a contentious broadcaster (ESPN’s Brian Kenny) go 12 rounds on air over 13 minutes, who is the victor? Boxing. Publicity for the sport is tough to come by when Manny Pacquiao’s marvelous destruction of Ricky Hatton can’t land a Sports Illustrated cover or even a top-inch text mention.  But since [read more...]

White Pass: The Andy Pettitte Fantasy Must Die

  In response to Jayson Stark and other ESPN reaction to Manny Ramirez’s 50-game drug suspension, last week D.K. Wilson wrote that there actually a more common use for the drug that Ramirez took. He added: “if there is one baseball player who should be innocent until proven guilty, it is Emmanuel Ramirez. We can ask him for proof of his innocence, but first we [read more...]

STARBURY: “I’d Rather Own Than Be Owned”

Photos from Slam Online  Stephon Marbury is not a perfect human being or basketball player, but rarely has an athlete had his flaws so greatly exaggerated, and his virtues so greatly ignored by a manipulative sports media. Marbury is a story of media narrative trumping truth, the imagery of a “towel over his head” as more powerful than statistical fact, and media scapegoatism more profitable than [read more...]

Manny Pacquiao! WOW!; Mayweather Back!

Just “wow”. What can you say? What can you write? As someone who thought Hatton’s pressure might pull off the upset ala Kosta Tszyu, I am tempted to write about Hatton’s “lack of head movement”, “lack of discipline”, or “poor game plan”. But the truth is… Manny wins this fight easily no matter how perfectly Hatton executes whatever strategy he concocts. Manny Pacquiao is in another boxing universe [read more...]

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