NEWS BLOOPER: “PUT THAT ON THE NEWS”

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NICE STORY

Soon to be 30-year-old rookie infielder, Rico Washington, has made the opening day roster of the St. Louis Cardinals. Washington is in his 11th year of professional baseball and until now he had never sniffed the Majors.

MATCH MADE IN HELL

 

I’m officially going to puke.

 People magazine continues its endless shilling for America’s Prostitute, Ashley Alexandra Dupre. For some inexplicable reason, the celebrity mag has went out of its way to portray the scandalized prostitute in an incredibly favorable light.

People has been a virtual PR machine for the Happy Hooker. Last week they ran a story about a spa trip she took with mommy. Past articles have included glowing conversations with former classmates of Dupre’s (not easy since she’s a ninth grade dropout), and reports of her middle school gymnastics career.  

Now People is promoting a possible reality show featuring Dupre and celebrity/reality tv icon, Donald Trump.

In a concept called “Lady or a Tramp” Trump will attempt to transform Dupre from a filthy, drunken, call girl into a “lady.”

Good luck with that.

Anyone who isn’t aware of what a disgusting skank Dupre is may want to check this out: (not for the squeemish)

http://mikeresponts.wordpress.com/2008/03/23/sickest-story-about-ashley-alexandra-dupre-so-far/

Hell, there are not this many photos, in existence, of ME passed out.

AOL BLASTS AP OVER ITS MMA IGNORANCE

 

There’s a great piece on www.Aol.com/fanhouse today. The author, Michael David Smith, maintains the information in a recent Associated Press article on MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) is not only ignorant, it’s dangerous.

The AP piece, entitled “Ultimate Fights Expand to Include Kids,” got a lot of play nationally. This despite Smith’s contention that,

 ”The piece is misinformed from the very first word.”

 Smith adds,

“The AP apparently assigns reporters who don’t understand the first thing about the sport to cover it.”

The AP story uses the old “human cockfighting” charge against MMA (a term originated by John McCain almost a decade ago.) The AP article fails to acknowledge numerous rules changes in UFC and other MMA organizations adopted in recent years. These organizations have adopted rules from various state boxing commissions to make the sport safer. Most MMA organizations now have Weight Classes, round limits and other standardized rules.

Smith also points out that the AP article uses charged and INACCURATE terms like “bare knuckle” and “sucker punches” in an article about six-year-olds. Smith points out there is no such thing as “bare knuckle” fighting with six-year-olds. Even in the picture that ran in the AP article THE KIDS ARE WEARING PADDING.

Smith contends that such bad reporting actually hurts and misinforms fans. No paper in the U.S. has a writer whose PRIMARY job is covering MMA. Therefore papers often simply run AP reports. When the original article is so ignorant and stereotypical it not only hurts the sport, but misinforms readers about a sport many of them are interested in.

Further, numerous tv stations also picked up on the inaccurate AP story. And The Drudge Report (read by 10’s of millions of people) ran the inaccurate article in its entirety.

As Smith points out, “When the AP gets MMA wrong the entire mainstream media follows.”

STARBUCKS REFUSES TO PAY BARISTAS

 

Via The Huffington Post:

Starbucks Chief Executive Howard Schultz says the coffee chain will not pay its California baristas back for tips they shared with shift supervisors, defying a San Diego Superior Court ruling last week.

Schultz, in a voicemail message to employees Wednesday night, called the ruling unfair and said,

“I want to personally let you know that we would never condone any type of behavior that would lead anyone to conclude that we would take money from our people,” the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported Friday.

EXTREME MAKEOVER OF GOLFER NATALIE GULBIS NEARS COMPLETION

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MEDIA CRITIC

 

 Charles Barkey has never been short on opinions. Recently, on the Dan Le Batard radio show Barkley had these words of criticism for several media types,

“Seems to me that the white guys don’t know anything about the sports and all the black guys want to talk about race … Jay Mariotti, Skip Bayless, they don’t know anything about sports. Jason [Whitlock] and Jemele Hill, they always talk about race, because they know that’s controversy.”“If it wasn’t for guys like myself, all these quote, unquote, sports fans would be listening to Skip Bayless, Jay Mariotti, Mike Lupica - the little midget … I like ESPN a lot, but they want to dominate the world.”“I’m not going to let all these losers, like Bayless and Mariotti and Lupica … they can say what they want to. I’m gonna say what I want to. They’re going to deal with it or they’re going to shut the hell up. I don’t care.”

“ESPN rode all those clowns out there everyday like they’re experts in every sport … first off, they’re not experts in every sport. Trust me - Jay Mariotti, Skip Bayless, and now, Jemele Hill - they’re just people giving their opinion.”

NEWS BLOOPER: FEMALE ANCHORS SPEWS ON AIR

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NFL TO DISCUSS BAN ON LONG HAIR?

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National Football League owners are meeting in Florida next week. Among the topics being discussed is player hair length.

 On a more serious note, there is the possibility of a work stoppage, either through strike or lockout, looming on the NFL horizon.

For years the NFL has been considered the ideal business model in sports. That may no longer be the case. Financially ignorant media types have hailed the NFL for its policies of revenue sharing and instituting a salary cap.

KARL MARX

Despite its socialistic policies, several NFL teams like Buffalo and Jacksonville are in deep financial trouble. This has led to NFL teams accumulating an incredible $6 BILLION in debt. In baseball, teams like the Royals and Marlins may not be competitive on the field, but their franchises turn a huge profit. In the NFL some teams may actually lose money and there is a widening gulf between the have and have nots.

This has led several owners to lobby the league to take a militant stand in its next labor negotiations. NFL owners have the abilty to opt out of their current labor deal. This would result in an uncapped year in 2010 and a potential lockout in 2011. To keep the current deal the league needs approval of 24 of 32 franchises.

Yahoo! Sports quotes an NFL union official as advising players to reduce their debt and save money in anticipation of a lockout.

Unlike their baseball bretheren, NFL players have been historically weak in labor negotiations. Several stars, including Joe Montana, have actualy crossed picket lines to play in league games as scabs.

SCAB

THE WHITEST TOWN YOU KNOW

 

“EXCUSE ME, STEWARDESS, I SPEAK JIVE.”

For years Eugene, Oregon has been known as Track Town USA.  Now they may want to change the city’s nickname to The Whitest City in America.

Embarrassingly, the City passed a resolution recently mandating its employees to receive training in how to speak to black people.

This year Eugene will host the US Olympic Track & Field Trials for the fourth time. The trials determine which American track athletes will go to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.

The Trials are expected to attract about 17,000 people per day while injecting $16 to $18 million into the local economy.

When it comes to track history, Eugene, Oregon stands alone.

The University of Oregon is not only the home of legendary track star, Steve Prefontaine… 

They are also the town where Nike founder, Phil Knight went to college.

What the city does NOT have is an African American population.

African Americans make up less than 2% of Eugene’s population. So, city officials have ordered their employees to undergo sensitivity training (to better relate to the hundreds of African Americans in town for the Olympic Trials.)

They’ve even formed an organization to help educate local townspeople on diversity. They’re called “Blacks on Track,” and are made up of 23 members. The group will work on how to make all athletes, especially those in the African American Community, feel at home. Member Betty Snowden says,

“We’ll let them know where they can get their services be it good soul food, a hair cut, or religious services. And that they feel welcome.”

The city’s attempt at political correctness has been met with scorn and derision from the Right and the Left.

A sampling:

Fox News has been gleefully running video of this story all day.

And the guy from blackentertainmentblog. com went so far as to call the people of Eugene, “You dumbass bastards.” Michael Vass was incredibly offended that people in Eugene feel that he needs a translator.

Before now, the University of Oregon was most famous as the location of the filming of the movie Animal House.

That would mean the most famous person ever to set foot on campus in Eugene is this guy:

The kids who attend school at the University of Oregon are now doomed to go through life with the label as the real life “The Whitest Kids You Know.”