Rex Ryan Flips off Dolphins Fans, Mike Florio Rides to His Rescue

New York Jets head coach Rex Ryan just had a Michael Vick moment. Remember Vick flipping off New Orleans Saints fans on this was to the tunnel after a game a few years back? Sure you do, because the mainstream and Internet sports media wouldn’t let you forget it. Vick was roundly pounded for his act, with many writers insisting [read more...]

Wait Wait Wait…. WTF did Mike Greenberg Say?!

The one morning I missed this fool he says this?! Believe me, there’s more to come…. …the “more to come…. Robert Littal of Black Sports Online is willing to give Mike Greenberg the benefit of the doubt? Littal writes: Mike Greenberg needs to address this immediately and not just with an apology, but an explanation of how it happened. Words like “Coon” are not [read more...]

Guns, Race, and Guns: Gilbert, Volunteers, and the Cost of Life in America

A Philadelphia fan holds up a sign for Gilbert Arenas. People in the United States – at least the U.S. – do not want to hear this. White people, Black people, people. But especially White and Black people. Black and White people. Even the juxtaposition – Black-White – is a contrivance, a sick trick of the mind. Racism exists today at its vile [read more...]

NFL Notes: Vince Young’s Success Might Spell Fisher’s Doom; Aaron Rodgers; Jamal Lewis to New England? Trouble in New York; Josh’s First True Test

Trouble in the Meadowlands for Sexy Rexy. - Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers has been sacked 31 times already this season, 14 by Minnesota defenders. Conversely, the Packers defense has only 12 sacks in eight games. With Matt Hasselbeck, Kurt Warner, Tony Romo, and Joe Flacco, coming up, Mike McCarthy had better demand his defense do something to get to the [read more...]

NFL Week 8 – Parity NFL Style: 7 Good Teams, 7 Bad Teams, 18 about.500; Replay Officials Keep Iowa In BCS Hunt

Indiana head coach Bill Lynch disputes a bad spot in the Hoosiers game against Iowa. First, kudos to ESPN for their Sunday Outside the Lines segment on Tom Cable. The Oakland Raiders head coach has an obvious history of abuse, toward women and now his assistant coach, Randy Hansen, who claims Cable broke his jaw. —————————— Next up, boo to ESPN for [read more...]

Stephen A. Smith, Mike Greenberg, and the Daily Skip Bayless (they all fit together)

An appearance on MSNBC’s The ED Show, a commentary on CNN.com ———- and now an appearance alongside Michael Meyers, a long-marginalized and forgotten, dusty, shaggy-ass lawn jockey, and founder of the New York Civil Rights Coalition (an oxymoron if there ever was one) on Fox News with Sean Hannity. While Meyers sprayed into the air right-wing odes to idiocy – “da libero [read more...]

Edgerrin James the Father and Man Is “E-Raced” From Sports Headlines

There are no excuses to be made; it is too late. The failure of mainstream or Internet sports news outlet to so much as mention the Edgerrin James story reported August 29 by USA Today’s Nate Davis from an August 28 article by Michael Silver at Yahoo Sports, and mentioned at length here at Sports On My Mind on September 2 is [read more...]

*Breaking* The LQ Club Trials from the Plaxico Burress Incident (and more on the political side of the incident)

A manager at The LQ Club in New York City was contacted Wednesday afternoon concerning the Plaxico Burres self-shooting incident. In response to the question, “Were employees at The LQ Club questioned by the police and were statements regarding the Burress incident given to the police, the manager responded: “I can’t answer your question specifically because I wasn’t there that night. But [read more...]

When Justice Looks More Like, “Just-us”

(Please excuse the original lead sentence about “a line from a Chris Rock joke in response to Quentin Tarantino’s overuse of “nigger” in Pulp Fiction.” The original headline was, “Nigger, Nigger, Nigger,  Nigger, Nigger, Nigger, Nigger.” The headline was obviously changed - and the Rock reference was removed.) On ESPN Tuesday night, Plaxico Burress cried on camera knowing his daughter will be born in late November [read more...]

*Breaking* Update: More from the Burress E:60 Interview (Club Allowed Burress to Enter with Gun)

UPDATE: More Burress interview excerpts: PB: It wasn’t like I was trying to hide it [the gun]. They know I have it. They pat me down and say, “Okay.” They let me in. With it. So that just …. (shrug of shoulders) JS: Security at the Latin Quarter patted you down, felt the gun, you produced it and they said, “Go right in?” PB: [read more...]

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