Dec 26, 2013

Dec

by sportschump at 4:30 AM (6234 Views / 0 Loves) 7 Comments

I can’t help but wonder when we are going to stop rewarding mediocrity.

For example, I guess I kind of sort of understand the world of marketing. That’s more my uncle’s field than my own. My uncle’s a man who spent his entire career pimping fast food, soft drinks and amusement parks, and rather successfully so. He could probably tell us what makes an athlete marketable having worked with so many in the past.

But I would swear the ones he worked with in his day were worth a damn. So many these days are not.

Please continue at: http://sportschump.net/2013/12/26/rewarding-the-chuckers/12721/

Nov 16, 2013

stfu McCain

Nov

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by irish at 2:14 PM (7258 Views / 0 Loves) 4 Comments

john, john, john... why so serious?...

Senator John McCain weighs in on National League MVP vote
By Mark Townsend | Big League Stew – 17 hours ago

As we’ve learned over the years, Arizona Senator John McCain isn’t shy about expressing his thoughts and opinions pertaining to his favorite sports teams and their rivals. In fact, it was just in September that McCain called the Los Angeles Dodgers ‘overpaid, immature, arrogant, spoiled brats’ after they decided to celebrate their NL West division championship by jumping in the swimming pool at Chase Field.

Strong words, but certainly not surprising coming from the loyal Arizona Diamondbacks...

Oct 1, 2013

We're On Twitter, bkitches

Oct

by craig at 10:00 PM (8236 Views / 0 Loves) 5 Comments

@DSP_bkitches

I expect a bunch of followers now, bkitches.

Aug 24, 2013

The sportswriter who blogged his suicide

Aug

by limeytech at 10:27 AM (8459 Views / 0 Loves) 6 Comments

) -- Martin Manley hated waking up early, but on his 60th birthday he did -- or more likely, never went to sleep the night before.
At 5 a.m. he entered a police station parking lot in a suburb of Kansas City, Kansas, walked to a spot beneath a tree on its far south end and pulled out his phone.
He dialed 911.
He said this:
"I want to report a suicide at the south end of the parking lot of the Overland Park Police Station at 123rd and Metcalf."
Then, the blogger and former sports reporter for the Kansas City Star pulled out his Saturday Night Special, a .380 pistol, and shot himself in the head.
The statistics -- Manley loved statistics; his "efficiency index" is still used by the NBA to rate players -- tell us that about 150 other Americans committed suicide that day, that somewhere around 38,000 of them will do so this year.
But...

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