The "Sports Articles Your Mom Enjoyed Last Night" thread

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ahhh forgot about that walter payton incident

thanks for the info. douchebag opportunist indeed. tbh if you just showed me a picture of this guy's douche-goatee i'd have guessed he was a whore

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http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-5 ... g-pa-town/

Winning football team gives hope to struggling Pa. town

(CBS News) CLAIRTON, Pa. - On any given Friday night or Saturday in the fall, you can find towns rallying around their local high school football teams. But just outside Pittsburgh, there's a football team that's rallying around its town. And in one way or another, they're both winning.

Clairton, Pennsylvania is a proud steel mill town. But more than 10,000 jobs have been lost over decades. Poverty is double the national average, and most of downtown is boarded up. The one public school is so small, the state might have closed it by now -- except for one extraordinary thing.

The Clairton Bears high school football team. This weekend the Bears are in the playoffs to win a fourth straight state championship, and their winning streak of 61 games is the best in America.

"Sixty-one games? Yes sir, its real good," said 17-year-old Terrish Webb, one of the team stars.

He said the secret is the team's seniors. They've played together since they were six years old in midget football, and grew up determined to win for themselves and for the town.

"Because if we lose, that's letting them down, so we owe it to the town to win," said Terrish.

Somebody might be inclined to say it's just football. But Terrish said: "I think it's more than football, because this football is taking us to college, helping us in the right path, so we think football is life."

"People may be arguing in the streets," he added, "but on Friday night, everybody is cheering for the Bears."

Part of the team's motivation is escaping the violence on the streets of Clairton. One of their coaches was killed four years ago. And Terrish was 11 when his father was murdered.

Now Terrish and several seniors have scholarship offers, and all 16 seniors have the grades and ambition and ambition to move on. And that had made them role models for future generations of Bears.

Tom McCloskey, a Clairton graduate who is now the principal, nodded in agreement that the one word about the senior class heard often is "respectful." "To themselves, to the community, to adults, and to their younger classmen," he said. He added, " I think it's unusual to see it in this many kids for this long of a time."

It's a lot to ask teenagers to improve a town, rescue a school and never lose, but that's who the Clairton Bears are. And a place long known for turning coal into hardened steel has done it again in the form of young men.

They just won their 4th straight state championship today with a 20-0 win. They extended their winning streak to 63 games. Amazing accomplishment by these young men.

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Golden State of Mind: The Giants, the Niners, the A's, and yes, even the Warriors made the Bay Area our sports city of the year

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/873 ... -city-year

A different strain of excellence is coming into focus, one that's been quietly incubating for a few years. The Giants won the World Series and the 49ers came within a few plays of the Super Bowl; the A's continued to be scrappy and unkillable, and the Warriors are beginning to feel relevant again. The Sharks remain a force (albeit a perennially underperforming one) in that bygone thing called professional hockey. The Raiders continue to not fall into a pit of lava.

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U.S. Olympian's Secret Life As Las Vegas Escort: Suzy Favor Hamilton worked as high-priced call girl for past year

DECEMBER 20---A three-time U.S. Olympian whose illustrious running career has included a Nike TV commercial, a swimsuit calendar, and ongoing promotional work for Disney has spent the last year doubling as a $600-an-hour call girl, an astounding secret life that she now regretfully calls a “huge mistake.”

Beginning last December, Suzy Favor Hamilton, 44, has worked with one of Las Vegas’s premier escort services, booking scores of “dates” in Sin City and other U.S. cities, including Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston.

While Favor Hamilton (seen at right) has used an alias, “Kelly Lundy,” when working as an escort, she inexplicably shared her true identity with several male clients, believing that her secret was somehow safe with strangers who paid for her company by leaving envelopes stuffed with cash on bathroom vanities in swanky hotels.

When approached by a reporter earlier this month in the lobby of a Las Vegas hotel, Favor Hamilton initially denied any connection with the escort service, Haley Heston’s Private Collection. But Favor Hamilton--who is married to her college sweetheart, a lawyer, and is the mother of a seven-year-old girl--eventually acknowledged her work as “Kelly.”

“I take full responsibility for my mistakes. I’m not the victim and I’m not going that route,” Favor Hamilton said. “I’m owning up to what I did. I would not blame anybody except myself.” She added, “Everybody in this world makes mistakes. I made a huge mistake. Huge.”

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/ ... ton-136952

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http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/story/_/ ... guard-2015

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Knicks' Carmelo Anthony needs to ignore taunts, grow up

NEW YORK -- For reasons only he can explain — but probably wouldn’t, at least not without an act of Congress — Jim Dolan made a few MSG Network employees perform a surreptitious duty during the Knicks’ game against Chicago on Friday night.

Two audio technicians were stationed at two corners of the court — one a few feet just behind the Knicks bench, the other diagonally opposite — and they were holding those umbrella-shaped contraptions known as parabola microphones, which fed the audio into a DAT recorder on the truck on the loading dock.

These guys had one directive from Dolan: Record every syllable Carmelo Anthony utters and absorbs while he’s on the court and on the bench, the Madison Square Garden CEO ordered them, and send the tape directly to me.

The purpose of this command was unclear, but Dolan must have had a good reason to eavesdrop on Melo’s interactions.
Was it to luxuriate in the poetic musings of his most valuable player, even though he is far from his most voluble player? Was it a teaching tool, so his coaches could school Melo on the potential hazards of courtside misconduct?

Or perhaps it was done to furnish proof to the NBA that his meal ticket is now a verbal target, particularly with notorious motormouths such as Joakim Noah and Nate Robinson in town that night for a full-court yakfest?

We may never find out. We only know that ever since Anthony proved vulnerable to the taunts of Kevin Garnett, the Knicks’ season has careened into a ditch — and that Anthony’s chief benefactor may believe that extraordinary measures are now needed to protect him.

The benefits were not evident Friday night, as the Knicks were smashed despite Melo scoring 39 points in his return from a one-game suspension — an impressive number, until you consider that 19 came in garbage time — and the defeat was their eighth in 13 games, which is the kind of slide that could get a coach fired in Brooklyn.

http://www.nj.com/ledger-dalessandro/in ... ow_up.html




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Why Longboards Suck: Some of them have handheld brakes.

And though the longboard was designed with downhill skateboarding in mind (which is incredibly dangerous and requires both balls and talent) they are more frequently found on city streets and on college campuses, in bike lanes and walkways, used as a sort of cowardly and silly compromise between biking and walking. The convenience and ease of use they provide is a major selling point. Not only are they easy to use; they’re incredibly limiting, too.

You can’t even ollie with a longboard. The simplest of tricks, the one that has enabled everything that street skateboarding has become, is by design simply impossible with a longboard. Even those that do have a tail are too massive to reliably take off, and so long that it would take a massive ollie to even guarantee your rear wheels clear the smallest of curbs. They’re the dodo bird of the skateboarding world. Unfortunately, unlike the dodo, they won’t go away.

Perhaps they’re more like the ostrich: not only flightless, but also oversized, stupid and cowardly.

http://theclassical.org/articles/why-longboards-suck




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Manti Te’o’s Dead Girlfriend, The Most Heartbreaking And Inspirational Story Of The College Football Season, Is A Hoax

Notre Dame's Manti Te'o, the stories said, played this season under a terrible burden. A Mormon linebacker who led his Catholic school's football program back to glory, Te'o was whipsawed between personal tragedies along the way. In the span of six hours in September, as Sports Illustrated told it, Te'o learned first of the death of his grandmother, Annette Santiago, and then of the death of his girlfriend, Lennay Kekua.

Kekua, 22 years old, had been in a serious car accident in California, and then had been diagnosed with leukemia. SI's Pete Thamel described how Te'o would phone her in her hospital room and stay on the line with her as he slept through the night. "Her relatives told him that at her lowest points, as she fought to emerge from a coma, her breathing rate would increase at the sound of his voice," Thamel wrote.

Upon receiving the news of the two deaths, Te'o went out and led the Fighting Irish to a 20-3 upset of Michigan State, racking up 12 tackles. It was heartbreaking and inspirational. Te'o would appear on ESPN's College GameDay to talk about the letters Kekua had written him during her illness. He would send a heartfelt letter to the parents of a sick child, discussing his experience with disease and grief. The South Bend Tribune wrote an article describing the young couple's fairytale meeting—she, a Stanford student; he, a Notre Dame star—after a football game outside Palo Alto.

Did you enjoy the uplifiting story, the tale of a man who responded to adversity by becoming one of the top players of the game? If so, stop reading.

Manti Te'o did lose his grandmother this past fall. Annette Santiago died on Sept. 11, 2012, at the age of 72, according to Social Security Administration records in Nexis. But there is no SSA record there of the death of Lennay Marie Kekua, that day or any other. Her passing, recounted so many times in the national media, produces no obituary or funeral announcement in Nexis, and no mention in the Stanford student newspaper.

Nor is there any report of a severe auto accident involving a Lennay Kekua. Background checks turn up nothing. The Stanford registrar's office has no record that a Lennay Kekua ever enrolled. There is no record of her birth in the news. Outside of a few Twitter and Instagram accounts, there's no online evidence that Lennay Kekua ever existed.

http://deadspin.com/5976517/manti-teos- ... -is-a-hoax


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i wont say shit other than to post the article and note that there is more relevant shit in this article that any of you will remember (i do though)

article is titled "How the Erhardt-Perkins System Drives the Success of Brady, Belichick and the New England Patriots"
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/884 ... y-patriots

this is the only writer at grantland worth reading and i cannot tell you how this dude is continuing a streak of dominance

ps bows will be accepted via pm or in thread

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Nah fuck all that smug shit b. Cant come in here all high and mighty, actin slanderous and casually attempting to move the conversation onto YAC without getting down off that high horse and wipin your feet at the doormat first.

Manti Te’o was a sports hero, and his standout play this year demanded the details to flesh out that storyline. There’s a journalistic cliché: If your mother says she loves you, check it out. For sports hagiographers, it’s more like: If he makes a lot of tackles, don’t you dare check anything. Stardom demands that feature writers color in the lines with off-field greatness. And Te’o’s character, it seemed, was unimpeachable. After all, there had been all these stories about how humble and religious he was, and how he’d been led to Notre Dame to do something.

There must be sports villains to stand alongside the heroes, of course. That brings us to Pete Thamel’s other recent college football opus, and the other kind of confirmation bias. In the Oct. 22 issue of SI, Thamel and Thayer Evans wrote a cover story on Tyrann Mathieu called “Trials of the Honey Badger.” Mathieu, a 2011 Heisman Trophy finalist, was kicked off the LSU football team prior to the 2012 season, reportedly because he smoked marijuana. For the SI piece, Thamel and Evans went to Louisiana and performed the kind of dogged shoe-leather journalism that nobody bothered to do when reporting on Manti Te’o, humble Boy Scout. Their prize finding: Mathieu’s face appeared on a nightclub flyer, which might possibly constitute an NCAA violation.

In addition to playing the part of NCAA enforcers, Thamel and Evans want us to know that Mathieu is at a “crossroads.” “Three decades ago his father came to the same point,” they write, making a comparison that’s entirely unsupported by their reporting. The Honey Badger’s crime is smoking weed—he was arrested on marijuana possession charges after the SI piece came out—a practice that doesn’t land the typical college student on the cover of a national magazine. Mathieu’s father, by contrast, is in prison for killing a man. Thamel and Evans want us to believe, I guess, that Mathieu’s going to murder someone if he doesn’t straighten up.

The Honey Badger, like Manti Te’o, is a cartoon character. But since Mathieu found himself on the sports world’s naughty list—troubled athlete, at the crossroads—he was the athlete who got a vetting more suited for a presidential candidate.

And another great footnote from the same article

ESPN's Gene Wojciechowski, who voiced a five-minute video feature on Te'o's tragic losses, says he was unable to find Lennay Kekua's obituary or documentation of her car accident. He didn't follow up, though, because the Notre Dame player "said the family would prefer not to be contacted" and "at that moment, you simply think that you have to respect those wishes."

http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sp ... notre.html




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[naturalborn103]

i wont say shit other than to post the article and note that there is more relevant shit in this article that any of you will remember (i do though)

article is titled "How the Erhardt-Perkins System Drives the Success of Brady, Belichick and the New England Patriots"
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/884 ... y-patriots

this is the only writer at grantland worth reading and i cannot tell you how this dude is continuing a streak of dominance

ps bows will be accepted via pm or in thread

Bill Barnwell is good for Football and Zach Lowe is great for Basketball. Do you think that the article implies Brady is only product of his system? And what does it say about Manning no huddle?

[naturalborn103]

Nah fuck all that smug shit b. Cant come in here all high and mighty, actin slanderous and casually attempting to move the conversation onto YAC without getting down off that high horse and wipin your feet at the doormat first.

Manti Te’o was a sports hero, and his standout play this year demanded the details to flesh out that storyline. There’s a journalistic cliché: If your mother says she loves you, check it out. For sports hagiographers, it’s more like: If he makes a lot of tackles, don’t you dare check anything. Stardom demands that feature writers color in the lines with off-field greatness. And Te’o’s character, it seemed, was unimpeachable. After all, there had been all these stories about how humble and religious he was, and how he’d been led to Notre Dame to do something.

There must be sports villains to stand alongside the heroes, of course. That brings us to Pete Thamel’s other recent college football opus, and the other kind of confirmation bias. In the Oct. 22 issue of SI, Thamel and Thayer Evans wrote a cover story on Tyrann Mathieu called “Trials of the Honey Badger.” Mathieu, a 2011 Heisman Trophy finalist, was kicked off the LSU football team prior to the 2012 season, reportedly because he smoked marijuana. For the SI piece, Thamel and Evans went to Louisiana and performed the kind of dogged shoe-leather journalism that nobody bothered to do when reporting on Manti Te’o, humble Boy Scout. Their prize finding: Mathieu’s face appeared on a nightclub flyer, which might possibly constitute an NCAA violation.

In addition to playing the part of NCAA enforcers, Thamel and Evans want us to know that Mathieu is at a “crossroads.” “Three decades ago his father came to the same point,” they write, making a comparison that’s entirely unsupported by their reporting. The Honey Badger’s crime is smoking weed—he was arrested on marijuana possession charges after the SI piece came out—a practice that doesn’t land the typical college student on the cover of a national magazine. Mathieu’s father, by contrast, is in prison for killing a man. Thamel and Evans want us to believe, I guess, that Mathieu’s going to murder someone if he doesn’t straighten up.

The Honey Badger, like Manti Te’o, is a cartoon character. But since Mathieu found himself on the sports world’s naughty list—troubled athlete, at the crossroads—he was the athlete who got a vetting more suited for a presidential candidate.

And another great footnote from the same article

ESPN's Gene Wojciechowski, who voiced a five-minute video feature on Te'o's tragic losses, says he was unable to find Lennay Kekua's obituary or documentation of her car accident. He didn't follow up, though, because the Notre Dame player "said the family would prefer not to be contacted" and "at that moment, you simply think that you have to respect those wishes."

http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sp ... notre.html




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Good article

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Kobe Bryant talks MJ, LeBron & 'Django'

Chris Palmer: Who would you most like to play one-on-one, either active or retired?

Kobe: Jordan. No question.

CP: What would happen?

K: I’m not sure, but he would win some and I would win some in a seven-game series. It would probably come down to the last few shots.

CP: You versus LeBron? Who wins?

K: Me. No question. As far as one-on-one, I’m the best to ever do it.

http://espn.go.com/blog/playbook/fandom ... ron-django




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Kobe Bryant talks MJ, LeBron & 'Django'

Chris Palmer: Who would you most like to play one-on-one, either active or retired?

Kobe: Jordan. No question.

CP: What would happen?

K: I’m not sure, but he would win some and I would win some in a seven-game series. It would probably come down to the last few shots.

CP: You versus LeBron? Who wins?

K: Me. No question. As far as one-on-one, I’m the best to ever do it.

http://espn.go.com/blog/playbook/fandom ... ron-django




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I always wanted to see you play Tracy McGrady.

I played T-Mac. I cooked him. Roasted him. Wasn’t even close. Ask him, he’ll tell you. When I was about 20, we were in Germany doing some promotional stuff for that other sneaker company and we played basketball every day. We were in the gym all the time. We played three games of one-on-one to 11. I won all three games. One game I won 11-2. After the third game he said he had back spasms and couldn’t play anymore.

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Son the whole shit is buckwild. He's a total sociopath. I couldn't decide which quotes to pull because there were so many fuckin gems. How about the part where he talks about his biggest pet peeve being dog shit? Its surreal. Only thing weirder is Palmer doing the interview on his usual fuckboy shit. The way the questions are asked, it feels like an episode of


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Still moving reflexively in the rubble: By force of lifetime habit, Lance Armstrong still trying to shape his own narrative

The one absolute truth that has emerged about Armstrong over the past 15 years, much of which I spent observing him at close range, is that he is one of the world's most gifted actors. There was no manifesto like an Armstrong manifesto, no gimlet-eyed stare-down any more Oscar-worthy.

Beware of the sudden conversion. Beware of loose ends that are too neatly cauterized. Beware of a man who is powering past the mile markers of the past two decades, up the latest mountain of his life, at such dizzying speed -- pages fall off the calendar! -- that it's clearly impossible he could be doing it naturally. The legions of people he bullied and knifed and misled are not so easily dropped.

Beware of myth-making. That's what wrong-footed so many about Armstrong in the first place.

Forget about trying to judge his contrition level. Here's the thing: It doesn't matter. Oprah's interview, with all due respect to her and her efforts to do a credible job, is window dressing. Armstrong can make a valuable contribution to the body of knowledge about doping whether he's sincerely sorry or not. But very little of what he said Thursday night leads me to believe he's ready to do that.

http://espn.go.com/sports/endurance/sto ... -spectacle



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CTE found in living ex-NFL players

Brain scans performed on five former NFL players revealed images of the protein that causes football-related brain damage -- the first time researchers have identified signs of the crippling disease in living players.

Researchers who conducted the pilot study at UCLA described the findings as a significant step toward being able to diagnose the disease known as Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, or CTE, in living patients.

"I've been saying that identifying CTE in a living person is the Holy Grail for this disease and for us to be able make advances in treatment," said Dr. Julian Bailes, a Chicago neurosurgeon and one of the study's co-authors. "It's not definitive and there's a lot we still need to discover to help these people, but it's very compelling. It's a new discovery."

Dozens of former players -- including 34 who played in the NFL -- have been diagnosed with CTE, a neurodegenerative disease linked to dementia, memory loss and depression. The disease, which researchers say is triggered by repeated head trauma, can currently be confirmed only by examining the brain after death. CTE was discovered earlier this month in the brain of former Chargers linebacker Junior Seau, who committed suicide last May by shooting himself in the chest.

The UCLA researchers used a patented brain-imaging tool to examine Fred McNeill, a 59-year-old former Vikings linebacker; Wayne Clark, a 64-year-old former back-up quarterback; and three other unidentified players: a 73-year-old former guard; a 50-year-old former defensive lineman; and a 45-year-old former center. Each had sustained at least one concussion; the center sustained 10.

http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/ ... first-time



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Kobe Bryant talks MJ, LeBron & 'Django'

Chris Palmer: Who would you most like to play one-on-one, either active or retired?

Kobe: Jordan. No question.

CP: What would happen?

K: I’m not sure, but he would win some and I would win some in a seven-game series. It would probably come down to the last few shots.

CP: You versus LeBron? Who wins?

K: Me. No question. As far as one-on-one, I’m the best to ever do it.

http://espn.go.com/blog/playbook/fandom ... ron-django




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i don't think there has ever been a baskeball player who could so simultaneously be lovable and hateable at the same fucking time saying the same statement coming off both ways...incredible

[Reason]

this was actually pretty entertaining:

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/888 ... hoto-diary

[Hayzoos]

Ya I read that yesterday... I don't see why people complain about Bill Simmons. He may be a bit of a corn ball, but his articles are pretty entertaining to read.

On that note, has anyone read his book? If so, how is it? Been curious for a while.

[naturalborn103]

People complain cause he is an idiot. You just look for entertainment and then have fun, but want actual basketball talk he really really sucks.

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People complain cause he is an idiot. You just look for entertainment and then have fun, but want actual basketball talk he really really sucks.

No shit you fuckin moron

Complaining about him not getting in depth and technical is like eating a cheeseburger and expecting it to be like a steak. You should know what to expect. You're pretty dumb though so I shouldn't expect you to understand.

[naturalborn103]

I don't see why people complain about Bill Simmons.

I was responding to this statement you hook nosed fat fuck.

People complain cause he is an idiot. You just look for entertainment and then have fun, but want actual basketball talk he really really sucks.

No shit you fuckin moron

Complaining about him not getting in depth and technical is like eating a cheeseburger and expecting it to be like a steak. You should know what to expect. You're pretty dumb though so I shouldn't expect you to understand.

When did I complain about him not getting in depth and technical??? I complained that what he says about basketball is idiotic. It may be not as dumb as saying everyone comes back from ACL surgery stronger then before, and if they don't it is just work ethic, but still very dumb.

Relating it to food.. What a surprise. Fat fuck.

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while i enjoy this hayzoos vs nattyborn rivalry as much as anyone else can and will let this convo ride, let me just get back on topic:

bill simmons' book is good. it's not amazing writing technically or poetically but it is usually entertaining and engaging, and he did SO MUCH RESEARCH ("Over time, he supplemented what he learned from Bird by marinating himself in hoops media: in his bibliography he says he consulted nearly 100 books and about 400 game tapes, along with “every relevant N.B.A. feature from 1954 through 2000 in Sports Illustrated.” YouTube is singled out for its “unbelievable help.”) that he does uncover some gems i never knew about


however, the shit that makes bs lame is also prevalent in this book. his constant need to use pop culture references and comparisons/analogies can get annoying...

i dug this review up for you that is very accurate...here's an excerpt:

"But that ultimately is what’s so frustrating about it. Simmons has the writing chops to transcend the genre he’s established and maybe even turn out something that approaches his (and pretty much every sentient basketball fan’s) favorite hoops book, David Halberstam’s “Breaks of the Game,” but he doesn’t seem to want to. Thus, at various points in the book, he’ll arrive at some remarkable but overlooked chapter in N.B.A. history — like the episode in which the players selected for the 1964 All-Star Game threatened to sit it out two hours before tipoff unless the league agreed to a pension plan — and simply express his disbelief that no one has made an Emmy-winning documentary about it, instead of going to the trouble of telling the story himself. Similarly, his reliance on pop culture references, one of the hallmarks of the fan-as-scrivener genre, has become a crutch. He spends three pages on a pointless analogy between Kobe Bryant and the cheesy ’80s movie “Teen Wolf” and compares the Suns’ desperate efforts to trade Amare Stoudemire to Spencer and Heidi’s shopping “their fake wedding pictures,” as if anyone reading his book in five years will know who Spencer and Heidi are (something Simmons himself acknowledges in a jokey footnote)."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/books ... .html?_r=0

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Thanks I think I might check it out. Sounds like good toilet reading material.

[Reason]

good toolet reading material for sure...will just take u like two hundred poops to finish it

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A Miami Clinic Supplies Drugs to Sports' Biggest Names

Open the neat spreadsheet and scroll past the listing of local developers, prominent attorneys, and personal trainers. You'll find a lengthy list of nicknames: Mostro, Al Capone, El Cacique, Samurai, Yukon, Mohamad, Felix Cat, and D.R.

Then check out the main column, where their real names flash like an all-star roster of professional athletes with Miami ties: San Francisco Giants outfielder Melky Cabrera, Oakland A's hurler Bartolo Colón, pro tennis player Wayne Odesnik, budding Cuban superstar boxer Yuriorkis Gamboa, and Texas Rangers slugger Nelson Cruz. There's even the New York Yankees' $275 million man himself, Alex Rodriguez, who has sworn he stopped juicing a decade ago.

Read further and you'll find more than a dozen other baseball pros, from former University of Miami ace Cesar Carrillo to Padres catcher Yasmani Grandal to Washington Nationals star Gio Gonzalez. Notable coaches are there too, including UM baseball conditioning guru Jimmy Goins.

The names are all included in an extraordinary batch of records from Biogenesis, an anti-aging clinic tucked into a two-story office building just a hard line drive's distance from the UM campus. They were given to New Times by an employee who worked at Biogenesis before it closed last month and its owner abruptly disappeared. The records are clear in describing the firm's real business: selling performance-enhancing drugs, from human growth hormone (HGH) to testosterone to anabolic steroids.

Interviews with six customers and two former employees corroborate the tale told by the patient files, the payment records, and the handwritten notebooks kept by the clinic's chief, 49-year-old Anthony Bosch.

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2013-01-31 ... est-names/

Long read, but really well reported.



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i want some igf-1

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i respected and liked ed reed a whole lot before reading this article. now i'm in awe of him:

http://espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs/2012/st ... lain-sight