FTW- The Katy Tompkins High School JV football team had quite a scare when one of their players was hurt so badly that Life Flight had to be called in to take him off the field. The injury occurred on the second-to-last play of the game against Woodlands High School; Tompkins was up 29-28, and Woodlands was poised to score and secure their first win of the season.
Instead of going through with the final play, however, the Woodlands players took a knee and intentionally lost. “I went over to the coaches and said our kids don’t really feel like finishing the game,” Tony Tademy, Katy Tompkins varsity coach, told the local ABC affiliate. “He said, coach, can I take a knee, and I said coach, that would be great. They came out and took a knee, a lot of class.” Alright, that's it. Time to pull the plug on youth football. Parents are already extremely skeptical of the potential ramifications of playing so it's probably for the best anyway. If teams and coaches are going to be so distraught by a serious injury that they can't finish one game deciding play then maybe they shouldn't be engaging in a sport that lends itself to serious injury. The decision - in and of itself - is classy, but I can't help but think a better way to honor a fallen member of the opposition would be to play out the remaining seconds of the game he gave up his body to win. It was certainly an act of sportsmanship, but if the high school kids that busted their ass for 59 minutes and 59 seconds weren't at least a little bothered by it then winning isn't nearly as valued as it used to be. I get that it's just a game - and a JV game at that - but if the results aren't more important than making an honorary gesture to someone that was well on his way to being tended to in a hospital then maybe these kids shouldn't be risking their short term and long term health for it. I suppose it could just be my competitive spirit, but - no matter what side I was on - I would've wanted to see that game end with a team out-executing the other one final time. Seeing it end unceremoniously because a bunch of kids and coaches couldn't handle watching one of the dangers they incur by participating play out in front of them just doesn't feel right. That kid put his general well being on the line for a win and now neither team feels like they won anything other than some fictitious moral struggle.
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In his June 17 deposition, lawyers asked Rose about consent. One of Doe’s lawyers read aloud that section of Rose’s sworn deposition—which is not available to the public—during today’s press conference. Here is that segment that was read aloud to reporters on the call:
Question: Do you have an understanding as to the word consent? Derrick Rose: No. But can you tell me? Question: I just wanted to know if you had an understanding. Derrick Rose: No. Nope, that headline wasn't some veiled joke at the expense of Derrick Rose implying that he raped a woman with a group of his buddies. It wasn't some humorous rational for his alleged actions like "he didn't rape her, he just doesn't know what 'no' means, haha, get it?". No sir. By all accounts that brilliant display of a one year education at Memphis came straight from the mouth of the person who received it. Dear God, did the kid learn anything throughout his short time there? I'm not even saying that the word for word definition of "consent" was something that should have been on the syllabus, but bullshitting your way around a question you don't know the answer to absolutely should have been. There was only one way for Derrick Rose to potentially not end up looking like a completely unintelligible buffoon in this situation, and he missed that life boat worse than Leonardo DiCaprio. C'mon Derrick, if someone asks you an easy question that you know you should know the answer to you don't just say "no", regardless of whether or not you're in a sworn deposition. The correct response is to act like what little intelligence you do have has just been insulted beyond repair. You don't have to know the meaning of elementary words to shame people into thinking you know the meaning to elementary words. Not understanding a term as basic as 'consent' when you've been embattled in a RAPE case for months on end is pretty stupid, but it's not nearly as stupid as not comprehending how bad that looks to anyone that has graduated 8th grade. It's not that I expected Derrick Rose to be someone who could crush a vocal test at any level, but I did expect him to realize that becoming offended is the best defense mechanism when you're trying to appear mildly literate. h/t Deadspin NYPost- For Sharon Stone, death did become her.
“I feel that I did die,” the actress said in a cover story published by Closer after suffering from a subarachnoid brain hemorrhage in 2001. “This kind of giant vortex of light was upon me and — poof! I sort of took off into this glorious, white light.” Though she waited three days before going to the hospital, Stone revealed she reunited with friends from beyond the grave as she entered an unworldly vortex. “I started to see and be met by some of my friends … people who were very, very dear to me [who had died]. I had a real journey with this that took me to places both here and beyond,” Stone shared. “But it was very fast — whoosh! Suddenly, I was back. I was back in my body,” she continued. Stone has since recovered, having spent two years learning to walk and talk again. Despite her early brush with death, the “Basic Instinct” beauty no longer lives in fear of dying. “I get not to be afraid of dying and I get to tell other people that it’s a fabulous thing and death is a gift,” she said. “When death becomes you, as it will, it’s a glorious beautiful thing. I had an incredible sense of well-being and a sense that it’s just so near. Death — it’s very near and very safe. It’s not a far away or scary thing.” Genius! Absolutely genius. Sure, you've undoubtedly heard of Sharon Stone, but can you name 5 memorable films she's starred in. Exactly. Hell, I just did a quick browse through IMDB and I was only "pretty sure" I had seen a handful of her flicks. Her name is CLEARLY bigger than her accomplishments. Well, everyone knows there's only one tried and true way to make your career seem more impressive than it actually is, and that is to die. You think it's coincidence that the better half of the consensus 'Top 5 Rappers, Dead Or Alive' are the former instead of the latter? Well, Biggie is not longer with us, but I feel like even he would tell ya you're dead wrong. Death is a guaranteed boost in sales. Pretty sure that's why the 'Fast and Furious' franchise is still up and running despite being 3 sequels past anyone caring. The recently departed always defeat the odds of the afterlife and manage get ratings. Personally I can't think of a better way to utilize death for profit than to live through it. Of course - on the surface - it sounds like a made up load of bullshit from an actress who's been in a continuous slump since the late 90's, but don't say she doesn't have her details down pat. A glorious vortex of light? Interactions with her dearest of deceased friends? A two year recovery period that includes the relearning of basic motor skills? I've never died before, but that sounds exactly what I would expect a fateful, near death experience to sound like. Might be time to cue up 'Casino', 'Total Recall', and 'Basic Instinct', because Sharon Stone died once and that makes every movie she's so much as stepped foot on the set of an instant classic. Considering the laundry list of unheard of shit she's been in, it appears we all have a lot of man hours to put in to catch up with the now award winning career of the once-late, not-so-great Sharon Stone. DailyMail- An Iowa man who raped a toddler on camera will serve no time in prison.
Kraigen Grooms, 19, pleaded guilty on Monday to Engaging in a Lascivious Act with a Child according to KTVO, and was given a 10-year suspended sentence by the judge and just five years of supervised release. It is unclear if the sentence was part of a plea deal that was worked out between Grooms and prosecutors for Wapello County of the decision of the Judge Randy Degeest. Grooms was arrested in 2014 after an investigation led Homeland Security to believe that he had 'produced child pornography in which he photographed himself engaging in sexual contact with an African American baby girl 12 to 18 months old.' Federal agents said Grooms then uploaded photographs of the assault to the internet. See, now this is the type of story that could do wonders for race relations in this country. Time to stand up for the National Anthem everyone, because this teenage white kid suffering through a lengthy, stern talking to after molesting a black baby on camera is the surest of signs that justice no longer has a specific skin color. Some might think this lunatic deserves endless jail time after sexually assaulting someone that's not even old enough to wipe their their own shit, but the thing about correctional facilities is that we don't even know whether they are doing their job until years later. At least this way Kraigen is free to show us whether the non-consensual sex he forcibly had with a one year old before blasting pictures of it out to the entirety of the internet was just a minor series of slip-ups. Hey, everyone makes mistakes, right? When you think about it, this is really the perfect punishment and it doesn't at all trivialize the felony at hand. We should know in no time if the kid penetrating newborns and broadcasting the crime to as many people as possible still has psychopathic tendencies, or if some strict discipline - in the form of verbal criticism - was able to rid him of those extremely reparative character traits. Oppression? HA! Even the black people that can't speak English words yet are having due process work on their behalf to handcuff their rapists with full autonomy. That's right, the harshest discipline is leaving this kid to freely explore his own - increasingly predatory - vices. That's how you really send a message that fondling toddlers is bad. It's certainly not by sentencing him to a decade of getting fondled by people that make him look like a toddler. No sir. If I know anything about justice it's that it should never be that poetic. This Women That Was Basically Told She's Too Fat For A Refund On Her Couch Was None Too Pleased9/15/2016 Metro- A 17-stone (238 lb.) woman claims she was refused her money back on a ‘faulty’ sofa – because she is ‘too fat’.
Anita White, 51, from Derbyshire, complained to Harveys after her couch began sagging and discolouring just a year after she bought it. But the store rejected the refund after their inspection report stated that the sofa, which costed £1,594 as part of a set of two, had lost its shape due to both customers being of ‘quite large build’. Anita, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, then hired an independent inspector who claimed the sofa was ‘poorly manufactured’. I don't want to be the guy that says this because shaming people with multiple sclerosis isn't exactly my thing, but there are just some rights that fat people aren't privy to based entirely on the inconvenience of their size. Unfortunately - much like cheap, comfortable airline seating and the respect of their peers - refunds on year old couches just happen to be one of them. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the basic physics behind being a 238 pound human being and repeatedly sitting on something makes that something's foundation inherently compromised. That's really as simple as science gets. I don't know whether or not the piece of furniture in question had a manufacturing flaw, but I do know it wasn't manufactured with the intent that one big ass woman would repeatedly slump into the exact same spot on it over and over again for the entirety of 365 days. Maybe that's a shortsighted operating procedure, or maybe overweight people just don't mix well with things that have legs and benefit from balance. That seems like a good lesson for this women and her apparently hefty life partner to learn, and it's a damn shame that now they won't have to... Anita said that since the incident the company offered the couple a partial refund of £1,000, or store credit for the full price, however she refused as it would have left them out of pocket. A spokesperson for Harveys said to MailOnline: ‘Following the independent report supplied by Mrs White, we were happy to offer a reselection allowing them to go into the store and select another range. DailyMail- A heartbroken nine-year-old actor claims his school refused to give him two days off to film his first big TV role.
Oliver McGonigle was set to star in a high profile advert for a pharmaceutical company this week until his headteacher allegedly pulled the plug. His mother Nicole McGonigle, 41, claims Oliver's school, Holy Family Catholic Primary School in Blackpool, refused to grant him the time off despite his strong academic record. However, his school and Blackpool Council have both said no performing arts licence application had been received, meaning they are unable to allow the young actor out of school. Nicole said Oliver was 'crushed' by the school's decision. She is now looking for alternative primary schools for her son. 'This was going to be his first TV role and he's heartbroken,' she said. 'He's cried himself to sleep for the past three days and he's been very down. Did I miss something? Have I really been out of school soooo long that the rules have changed this much? Since when did you have to convince anyone other than your parents to get a day off school? Back in the glory years (when 9 year old's weren't sobbing into their cereal over the inability to appear in pharmaceutical ads), it wasn't some bullshit attendance record that kept you from cutting class. It was the fact that said school might call your parents and you'd have to deal with them nagging you everyday for the rest of the semester. I feel like I'm in some sort of twilight zone where the administration of elementary schools actually matters. Back in my day no mother would ever be able to complain that her child wasn't allowed to skip school to become an actor in a crappy commercial, because she - and she alone - was the one handing out the permission slips. In fact, I'm not so sure that they still don't. I'm beginning to think that Nicole is in cahoots with the school to deny this kid his dream because she doesn't think he can achieve it, but she doesn't want to be viewed as the bad mother that she undoubtedly is. Seriously, even if this isn't some conspiracy against an overly sensitive 9 year old and his big screen aspirations, this mom sucks at motherhood simply because she couldn't even rant and rave an excused absence out of her son's stick-in-the-mud Catholic cult. Never mind the fact that any child actor worth his salts should be ready to drop out of organization education at the drop of a hat, because with pushovers as parents he really had no chance of hitting it big anyway. A California Teacher Lowered Her Students' Grades For Not Participating In The Pledge Of Allegiance9/15/2016 CBS- Leilani Thomas won’t say the Pledge of Allegiance to the Lower Lake High School American flag, or any other American flag. She is a Native American and argues the Stars and Stripes aren’t hers.
“It’s the reason, because of the history that happened here. On my land. My people’s land,” said Thomas. “I go by that and I don’t agree with it. So I’m not going to stand for the people who did this to my people.” Since the first day of school, Thomas and her friend chose to exercise their rights as Americans not to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in their first period class. Their teacher took exception to it. When the girls got their grades Friday, their participation scores were docked from a five to a three because they refused to stand. Thomas recorded her teacher’s explanation in class. “Here’s the deal. If you really, really have an argument and feel so strongly about, then I need to see it written out — your argument — in an essay form,” the teacher is heard saying. “Like, why? Why, because here’s the thing; those people, they’re not alive anymore. Your ancestors.” In the meantime, Thomas and her friend hope their stance serves as a real life lesson on free speech. “She says that it represents the military and that they risked their lives for us,” said Thomas. “And I always tell her, ‘Well, my people risked our lives for our land, for our freedom. For our rights.” Look, I think we can stop short of pretending that two girls in an upscale high school in Northern California are bringing about change by instigating the inevitable verbal abuse (disguised as Patriotism) that only teenage peers can provide. They do, however, have a legitimate gripe. I mean, we basically landed on Plymouth Rock and used the heads of natives to climb to the top of it. The very foundation of America as we know it was based on the trivialization of their people so I guess you could say they have a point, and it's a point that's only made stronger by their teacher's lack of a point... Students: "Okay teach, give us one good reason why we should feel obligated to stand?" Teacher: "Because your ancestors are fucking dead so they don't need your support." Oh, yikes. I think I would have stuck with the nauseatingly repetitive argument that a bunch of kids mindlessly chanting something that's been instilled in their brain since they started dressing themselves is the highest honor to the military. I'm sure our armed forces haven't gotten tired of getting dragged into the middle of this nationwide pissing match while being used as nothing more than a bargaining chip. Should have just went back to the well with that one, because "your ancestors were oppressed into extinction" isn't exactly the greatest selling point for the country responsible for it. Probably going to do a little better than "haha, your great-great-grandparents are dead!" if you want to justify docking students' participation grades for free speech. Just because she's the teacher doesn't mean she doesn't have a couple of things to learn herself. Like - oh, i don't know - basic human decency? The ability to expand on an argument without becoming wildly offensive? That would be a pretty good start for someone in charge of making America less stupid than it's become over this Colin Kaepernick craziness. P.S. Participate grades in high school? That's a bigger sign of our nation's downfall than anything else that took place in this story.
LBS- During a TV appearance, NFL Media’s Steve Wyche said a 49ers defender told him they had figured out the Rams’ offense.
“I had a 49ers player tell me when it came to the passing game for the Rams, they could tell by alignment and backfield motion after the snap, exactly what the Rams’ route tree was,” Wyche said. Nope, I'm not buying it. I know that it would go a long way in describing the Rams offensive futility on Monday night, but I refuse to believe that an NFL team was tipping off all it's plays prior to the start of them. Partially because it seems a little outlandish to be that predictable when you're supposed to have a playbook that's extensive enough to require weeks of studying, but mostly because saying their plays were doomed from the start gives them far too much of a pass for how shitty they looked after those plays started. No way I am letting Case Keenum sit back after missing his receivers by lengths of measurement that equate to the broad side of a barn in assurance that there is nothing he could have done better. Just look at this God forsaken drive chart....
I'll be damned if I am letting an unforeseen amount of ineptitude get blamed on pre-snap reads. No sir. Not when the signal caller responsible had some of the mind numbing post-snap reads I have ever seen in my life. That's not to say the 49er's didn't guess right more often than any professional team should. After all, their opposition only has one offensive player that could even be confused as dangerous, and the list of available plays was surely whittled down for a starting quarterback whose best known for getting blatantly concussed then completely ignored. Still, out of disrespect for that offensive abortion I watched on Monday night, I am going to stop short of letting the offense fall back on the "they knew all our plays" excuse like a kid who can't think of any other reason his friend keeps whipping his ass in 'Madden'. The 49er's having familiarity with the route tree is no reason for the route tree to look completely barren and fruitless before winter even makes it's way around.
There's no denying the fact that I was someone who was stood adamantly in defiance of Kevin Durant's decision to join the team that just embarrassed his former team in free agency. I understood that it was his right to do so, but it felt like he was taking the easy way out. Well, guess what? I have had a change of heart. No, I don't really have more respect for Kevin Durant or anything like that. However, I do finally understand why he did what he did. The guy is literally dying to be viewed as a winner. The fact that he's not eats at his insides. The feeling of insecurity that is a complete byproduct of not having an NBA championship ring is the driving force behind everything he does, says, and wears. You don't have to take my word for it, because his wardrobe choice for a Monday Night Football game that took place damn near a month after the Olympics ended speaks volumes. I don't say this often, but Draymond Green - in his "infinite wisdom" - is EXACTLY right. It's an absolutely ASININE move to wear your Gold medal anywhere that's not a public appearance predicated solely on the fact that your a Gold medal winner. Donning your international award around your neck when it's not asked of you is - without a doubt - thee most self conscious act these eyes have ever seen. A maneuver that makes the kid rocking his intramural championship tee so much that the iron-on letters are falling off before the next season even begins look like he's been there before. That's why I am now fine with the Golden State Warriors sleep walking their way to title. Not because it's going to provide entertaining basketball, but because achieving the ultimate goal will finally rid KD of his undying need to remind people that he's not a complete loser by - ironically enough - doing something that makes him look like complete loser. Christ Kevin, don't you realize you're making your country look bad by dwelling on a win that was basically a forgone conclusion? It's not that I ever had anything against Colin Powell. Quite honestly, I just didn't see all that much to him from a personality standpoint. I always kinda figured he was a straight laced, no frills type of dude, because I had no reason to think of him any differently. Well, it appears he's far more of a politician than anyone knew, because behind that rugged, take-no-prisoner's exterior lies a truck driver that has no qualms with firing expletives at any and all of his peers. If you had asked me before today how I thought Colin Powell would word "having sex with younger women" in the privacy of his own messages I'd bet the house that he would have went with "fornicating with ladies of a lower ilk". I'm glad he doesn't, because now I will never again have to think of him as the robot I always imagined he was. Nope, not anymore. From here or out his name will automatically associate with the phrase "dicking bimbos". Not sure if that's what the Former Secretary of State - that did such a stellar job hiding his true sense of humor in office - wants his legacy to be, but he should of thought about that before he spoke comedically of a former President's continued infidelity on a hackable source of information. This leak surely left him a little embarrassed, but he should take solace in the fact that the percentage of people that consider him a relatable political entity just expanded tenfold. P.S. Following "dicking bimbos" with the proper sourcing is much more characteristic of the Colin Powell I thought I knew. h/t TheHill Metro- A man sent his friend a ‘sad face’ emoji on WhatsApp after allegedly raping her.
The two had met and struck up a friendship a few years earlier, and would often chat to each other on WhatsApp, Bradford Crown Court heard. Despite Falconer being in a relationship and having a young son, he often sent the then-20-year-old suggestive texts, asking her to send him naked photos and to give him oral sex. On the evening of May 16 last year, the young woman invited Falconer to her home where she lived with her parents. Falconer had sex with the woman after pulling her on top of him, despite her repeatedly saying ‘No, I don’t want to, stop, get off me,’ the woman told the court. She said she asked him to leave just before 10pm, and then Googled ‘I think I have just been raped’ and ‘was it rape’. She then sent Falconer a message on WhatsApp saying ‘U don’t understand how upset I am’, to which he replied ‘Me too :/ I’m sorry, don’t want our friendship ruined’. She then said ‘I told you I didn’t/couldn’t do it and you did it anyway’. He replied: ‘I’m sorry ;( I feel bad’. He also told her to ‘focus on the good you’ve got’, to which she responded: ‘Focus on the good? It’s like I’ve just been raped Ryan.’ I gotta tell you, this might be the perfect representation of all relationships that are forged online. The good, the bad, all of it. You just never know who you are talking to on the internet. It might be some guy that uses a casual request to come over as an invite to forcibly have non-consensual sex with you, or it might be a guy who genuinely cares about you and has no problem talking things out after someone comes over and forcibly has sex with you. Hell, as this case has proven, sometimes it might even be both. Seriously, Ryan may be a complete scumbag, but you can't say he didn't perform every one of his duties as an electronic pen pal. Untimely emojis? Apathetic apologies? Empty empathy? Pretty impressive from a guy that has a family he should be taking care of. Plus, if you're able ignore the fact that he sticks his penis in people without asking first then "focus on the good" is about as solid as friendly advice from a relative stranger can possibly get. I get it, the guy is a rapist. Still, I don't know too many other rapists that would try to comfort their victim afterwards. At least he's got that going for him. You can definitely do better than Ryan when using WhatsApp to finish rounding out your "social" circle, but - unfortunately - you can probably do worse too. A trusting sounding board that might rape you in real life from time to time, welcome to the never-ending paradox that is the worldwide web! The Life: Did you play hockey growing up?
Drake: Yeah, I did. I played for the Weston Red Wings. The Life: Were you pretty good? What position did you play first of all? Drake: Right wing. The Life: A fast little guy? Drake: Yeah, I was all right. I ended up making it to Upper Canada College hockey camp, which is where good kids get sent. The Life: And then what happened? Drake: And then I got cross checked in the neck and my mother wouldn't let me play anymore. The Life: And then you went into acting and played a guy that ended up in a wheelchair, so it was bound to happen eventually. Drake: There you go, in a wheelchair one way or the other. Perfect. So perfect. Why did Drake end up saying goodbye to such a "promising" hockey career at such a young age? His prototypical Jewish mother, Sandi, thought it was too dangerous. If there's one thing I know about coming up in the Graham household it's that there was an emphasis on avoiding pain - whether it be physical variety caused by a crosscheck or the mental anguish caused by the loving of a women. Anything that hurts poor Aubrey is immediately off limits. Is there any doubt that Drake went awkwardly into the boards and his mother already had one foot on the ice screaming his name before he even had a chance to pick himself up? No doubt that Drake's mother was about two decades ahead of the NFL on concussion protocol. Probably dragged him off the ice by the back of his jersey multiple times to make sure her baby had a 100% clean bill of health. Honestly, I have the sneaking suspicion that our boy Drake was one of those kids that was always hurt. I remember growing up there was always that one guy on the team. The guy that couldn't hit the ice without it turning into some sort of full scale production. The guy that would stay down, and his teammates instantaneous reaction would be to roll their eyes. Think about it. The dude is a millionaire a hundred times over. He's sleeping with diva after diva. Model after model. Living one of the most lavish lives on the Planet Earth. Then you turn on his music and you'd swear he's endured more collective heartbreak than every chick on a Spanish soap opera since 2003. If that exaggeration of misery isn't characteristic of the type of fragile dude that required an ice pack and the sympathy of every parent in the building every time he blocked a wrist shot then I don't know what the hell is. Just look at the kid in that picture and tell me he didn't show up to every single practice with a limp and a doctor's note. That's the only attitude I can think of that results in someone growing up to become a lovesick superstar singer that's embraced the role of the victim while fucking Rihanna in 'Marvin's Room'. h/t BarDown
Uproxx- Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig manned that position on Monday night, and when he caught the game’s final out, he turned to the bleachers, picked out a clutch of Dodgers fans, and lofted the ball toward them. Well, more accurately, he lofted it directly toward Gerharter’s face, knocking out her front tooth like you see above.
When I first saw that picture I felt bad. I mean, how could I not? Clearly this chick was bullshitting with her friends at a ball game and happened to catch an errant line drive to the teeth. That could happen to anyone. Except for the fact that this couldn't happen to anybody, because she didn't get hit with a line drive at all. She got "hit" with a ball that was lofted in her general direction by a player showing his out-of-town fans a little good will. Yasiel Puig literally sent this chick to the hospital by gifting her a keepsake. I don't even comprehend how that happens. What did she try to catch the ball with her front teeth? Did she have something against her fully functioning smile? I embrace all type of sports fans, but if the light tossing of a souvenir baseball into the crowd is going to necessitate an emergency dental visit then maybe it's time to stay away from the baseball diamond awhile. You can come back when you have an ounce of awareness or anything that can even be confused with hand-eye coordination. Staring up at the ball as it comes crashing through your mouth not only seems like a terrible strategy, but it's undoubtedly going to make a Major Leaguer feel guilty for trying to do something nice. From here on out Yasiel Puig is going to be hesitant in giving away game ending pop-ups and it's all because one girl couldn't figure out how to put her hands up as something was headed towards her face. Might not be the biggest deal in the world, but don't tell that to all the kids sitting rows off right field in Los Angeles because they might vehemently disagree. Trent Dilfer- "The big thing that hit me through all of this is that this is a backup quarterback, whose job is to be quiet, and sit in the shadows." Colin Kaepernick- "I just heard briefly about it. ButI think that’s one of the most ridiculous comments I’ve heard. The fact that you say, ‘You’re a backup quarterback, stay in your place’ … that’s an issue. To me, you’re telling me that my position as a backup quarterback and being quiet is more important than peoples’ lives. I would ask him to really have a conversation with the families of people that have been murdered and see if he still feels that way. Because I’d bet you he doesn’t. Just because he hasn’t experienced that type of oppression." Trent Dilfer- “My wife and I had been introduced to some really disturbing stuff and other social injustices, childhood slavery in our country," he said. "And I'd gone to a couple conferences and seminars where we got really deep into the details about these issues.It became a passion of ours to help fight this battle of childhood slavery around the country and I had a very big platform in Seattle and I could have leveraged being a Seattle Seahawk, being a NFL quarterback, done a lot to get that message out there, but I chose not to at the sake of not wanting to disrupt the team and I didn't want to draw attention to myself, and I didn't want to take it away from Matt, the rest of our team and our preparation to win.” First of all, that picture above is just perfect. Seriously, read through this back and forth that's being enabled by multiple news outlets and tell me you wouldn't stare at Trent Dilfer the exact same way that Randy Moss is in that screenshot. Second of all, did Trent Dilfer just try to use the fact that he was once a silent enabler of child slavery to make himself sound like a superior teammate to Colin Kaepernick? Where are we? Is this still the United States? Do we really have a child slavery epidemic that's gone largely undiscussed by virtually everyone? And you're telling me Trent Dilfer knew about it this whole time and didn't say anything because he didn't want his football team to feel mildly uncomfortable?! I can't be certain, but the idea of him valuing his own locker room's cohesiveness over the lives of innocent kids might not be something he wants to bring up after the fact. It doesn't do the worst job of making his point for him....as long as his point is that doing what is expected of you is more important than doing what's right. Hey guys, say what you want about Trent Dilfer cowardly sitting on his hands as young Americans worked their hands to the bone as part of the age old practice of treating human beings as property, but don't say he didn't do everything he could to keep his team blissfully ignorant. Sure, that basically equates to nothing, but that's how backup quarterbacks contribute to successful organizations! A bunch of traumatized teenagers might owe Trent Dilfer the beatdown to end all beatdowns, but the Seattle Seahawks owe him credit for a couple of 9-7 seasons. No, he didn't throw a single meaningful pass or anything, but he did let a couple imprisoned kids die just so that his starting quarterback could rest peacefully without worrying about horrific societal issues. Take notes Colin, because if you want to get Chip Kelly to the promised land then you're just going to have to sit on your hands and completely ignore the fact that black people have been given a raw deal in this country since it's founding. It's about time Colin Kaepernick decided what's more important to him, bringing awareness to oppression or the job security of the white dude that profits off the hard work of him and his primarily African American peers. We know what Trent Dilfer would choose and - not for nothing- you can barely notice the blood on his hands while you're looking at his Super Bowl ring. h/t MSN Metro- A former city mayor has admitted to the rape of a four-year-old girl but claims she was a ‘willing participant’ who initiated sex, according to reports.
Richard Keenan, a ‘dedicated’ Christian who served as mayor of Hubbard, Ohio, in 2010 and 2011, faces multiple counts of rape and attempted rape of a child. He confessed to members of his family and a social worker that he was guilty of abuse over a three-year period, but claims his four-year-old victim ‘initiated sex’, the Youngstown Vindicator reports. Sad. Just sad. You think you live in a world where everyone has the right to due process and then a former mayor has sex with a child and no one takes him seriously when he gives his side of the story. It's a real shame that everyone just assumes he's victim blaming like there aren't 4 year old floozies loitering on every corner in their overly suggestive 'OshKosh B'Gosh' overalls. I gotta tell you, public opinion really hasn't accounted for how frighteningly fast these young girls are growing up these days. That 4 year old has probably seen more shit than I had seen at 8 years old. That's why I can't believe everyone is so quick to dismiss that she was the one who instigated this. Especially when the other consenting party is an honest Christian man like Richard Keenan. He would never rape a child, he just plays by the rule that you can't rape the willing. If we are going to start pointing fingers then how about we consider the fact that this little girl probably curiously tugged on his pant leg to get his attention. Is there any doubt she looked up at him with those pure, innocent eyes from just below his waistline? Sounds like a classic case of seduction if we are being honest. How could he restrain himself when an adorable little girl was basically begging for something she had undoubtedly had no idea existed? I mean, I'm not saying the guy is completely innocent here. Chances are the signs he was getting from a person that can only tie her own shoes because the "laces" are made of velcro were read wrong. Just don't tell me those signs weren't there, because neither were you. He may look like his inbred cousin, but as far as I know this guy was stalking out playgrounds like Sandusky. He was just minding his own damn business, going about his day, and this conniving little vixen ran up on him asking where her mommy was. Whatever happened after that is nothing but hearsay.
Oh, so benching C.J. Spiller in favor of Travaris Cadet - a player that has been cut by the Saints time and time again - was nothing more than a decision related to a specific game plan, huh Sean?
Ha! If you believed that then you're actually the perfect Saints fan. A willfully blind sucker that is a glutton for the punishment of having your team spend significant chunks of it's available money on shiny new free agents only to actively find ways not use them before lying directly to your damn face about why they aren't being used. Welcome to the club! Honestly, you were probably better off arriving prior to 2009. What is going on? What the FUCK is going on? C.J. Spiller finally gets fully healthy and shows some promise in the preseason after doing absolutely NOTHING to earn his over inflated paycheck last year, and NOW he gets cut?!? I had to watch that bum eat millions for 200 snaps that ended up being worth no more then 2-3 productive plays, and now I have to watch the investment made towards him continue to hamper this team financially? I'm not trying to act like C.J. Spiller was going to turn this club's fortunes around because...well...this team's biggest issue is not at the running back position. Still, his release signals another failed high priced pickup in a long line of failed high priced pickups. At some point the paltry success rate of players that looked like they were sure to fit the team's plans has to fall on someone other than those players. Look at the one party that is the common denominator in all these defunct marriages, and it appears there is a very clear problem within the organization. I don't know if it's Mickey Loomis for handing out too much money to undeserving guys, or Sean Payton for souring the relationships with said guys, but someone's got to answer to the handfuls upon handfuls of players that are getting paid by the Saints despite not being on their fucking roster. Seriously, their salary cap is so full of dead money that it might as well double as the mafia's burial ground. How the hell do they expect to be even remotely successful throughout the remaining years of Drew Brees career if they keep starting every season with one foot in the fucking grave? People talk about it being hard to compete when you have a quarterback making a buttload of money, but it's a hell of a lot harder when you could pay TWO more starting quarterbacks with the amount of money that you CAN'T use. I don't give two shits about C.J. Spiller. I care about what he represents, and that is a front office that doesn't know the rooter from the tooter when trying to pick out a prized pig. Jimmy Graham? Junior Galette? Brandon Browner? C.J. Spiller? Should I just add Jairus Byrd to the list now? There's no way his incompetent ass isn't next. I am not saying that the players in question didn't deserve to be moved/cut, but someone has to do a FAR better job of vetting whether or not they deserve to be signed in the first place. The failure to do so is literally in the process of costing the New Orleans Saints the remainder of whatever semblance of a "window" they have left. P.S. I know Sean Payton likes to fancy himself a Bill Belicheck disciple, but he's turning the Saints into a drunk version of the Patriots by cutting players for shock value and incurring insurmountable debt in the process. Derrick Rose's Rape Accuser Is Looking To Use Evidence That Proves He Cheated On His SAT's9/13/2016 BSO- On September 8th, Rose filed docs explaining his accuser is trying to introduce witnesses related to his NCAA University scandal in the upcoming trial. The woman informed the court she plans to call the custodian of records of NCAA – to give testimony of the NCAA University of Memphis public infractions report from 2009 and his failure to respond and the penalties that were imposed, along with the custodian of records of Educational Testing Service in relation to allegations Rose cheated on standardized college entrance examination and his failure to respond.
I'm not going to lie to you guys. You may not have known this, but I actually have no idea how to build a fool proof case against a professional athlete that is charged with rape. That's why my opinion, as logical as I think it happens to be, is nothing more then hearsay. Still, I don't think I am the only one that feels the way so I'll throw it out there anyway. If you're trying convict someone of having non-consensual sex with you wouldn't the first order of business be to provide evidence that they had non-consensual sex with you? Don't get me wrong, I am all for defaming a little character along the way, I just don't think you're going to get the desired reaction when you tell a courtroom that a professional basketball player cheated on a standardized test during his youth. Something tells me a jury isn't going to be swayed by a point guard needing a little assistance in analyzing an analogy. I mean, it could be a worthy point of reference if your'e trying to get him retroactively suspended from game's played during his single season at Memphis, but it's probably not getting him any closer to a jail cell. Not to demean this woman's strategy, but if she immediately goes after him for being an idiot that can't do basic arithmetic it looks worse for her side than it does his. Maybe just stick to hammering home damning text messages about forced group sex, and pressing the guy whose known for impossibly stupid quotes into prosecuting himself with even more impossibly stupid quotes. I know I didn't pass the bar, but I don't think that's necessary to see that there's more incriminating aspects of a potential rapist's past than his inability to do reading comprehension. The Two Guys That Rushed The Stage During DWTS In Protest Of Ryan Lochte May Be On To Something9/13/2016 Look, I'm not exactly sure if 'Dancing With The Stars' is looking to expand it's target audience, but if they want to get people like me tuning in then they need more of this. Fuck the two-steps and tangos, give me ultra-serious activists hopping on stage and embarrassing celebrities by reminding those in attendance of their biggest character flaw. Seriously, you want entertainment? I can't think of anything more entertaining than two Spanish guys walking on the stage during the live taping of a show with shirts featuring a 'No Smoking' symbol through the name of one of the participants and matter of factly declaring that person a liar. So true. So simple. So effective. Say what you want about the priorities of these weirdos that tuck their t-shirts into their khakis and choose to spend their time stalking dim-witted American swimmers that lied about their drunken excursions overseas to make themselves look "cooler". At least they just made this crappy show that panders to the brainless "reality" consumer something that I could get into. Promise me the "surprise" of random people popping up out of nowhere to disparage celebrities for their pasts, and I could actually force myself to sit through the waltzes and foxtrots. Let's stop pretending it's some travesty that someone confused Ryan Lochte on television, because a confused Ryan Lochte is the type of Ryan Lochte that gets RATINGS... The Hypocrisy Of The Guy Burning A Brandon Marshall Shirt Outside The Broncos Facility Is So Perfect9/13/2016
"He's got the right message about oppression and his people. He's got the wrong format."
You know what? Sometimes the only way to teach a professional athlete how to properly support what they believe in is to show them yourself. That's why I couldn't think of a better person to give Brandon Marshall a glimpse into the error of his ways than the old man whose mode of disagreement is t-shirt burning. Honestly, who is more in tune with appropriate and inappropriate displays of protest more so than the guy who expresses himself primarily through arson? After all, It's not that he doesn't understand that the oppression of African Americans is still a very real thing that still exists in society, it's that he thinks kneeling during the National Anthem is a childish, immature way to bring attention to one's self instead of the actual issue. Not going to lie, he's got a pretty solid argument. Especially since his retaliatory actions have been nothing if not upstanding. Maybe, just maybe, if Brandon Marshall were paying attention he would see that the only way to truly promote your message is to stand outside the offices of a business with a piece of merchandise that represents one of their employees, douse it in lighter fluid, and torch it to ashes. As a white man in American I don't feel I am at liberty to say whether or not kneeling during the National Anthem is the wrong format. However, if this outspoken old dude with too much time on his hands has taught me anything it's that jovially setting fire to things that symbolize those that have done you wrong out of principle certainly is the right format. Come on Brandon, be a man use your lighter to make your case. I guess that means setting an American flag ablaze, but it was the veteran's idea so it looks like you have to do it if you really care about equal rights for your people...
Uproxx- “These 33 years have been nothing but a blessing,” Wayne said on the show. “I have never—never’s a strong word. I have never, never dealt with racism and I’m glad I didn’t have to.” Tunechi added that he didn’t know if being a star made him immune to racism, but he now knows racism does exist despite racism not being his reality, continuing, “I would have to say I thought it was over. I still believe it’s over, but, obviously it isn’t.”
Nice try FS1! You think just because you gave yourself a succinct little program acronym we are going to forget which news corporation's umbrella you fall under? As far as am concerned, Lil' Wayne is just the sports equivalent of Stacey Dash. A high profile African American that is either just stupid enough - or whose opinion is just affordable enough - to get on camera and do a complete disservice to their entire race. Lil' Wayne must have smoked himself into an alternate reality, because if you truly believe that the black man from New Orleans with 35 face tattoos and multi-colored dreadlocks has never been a victim of racism than you actually fit the profile of a FOX loyalist. You could almost see the disappointment on Sterling Sharpe's face. Maybe that disappointment stems from the fact that he works for a parent company that thinks Colin Kaepernick slots neatly in between ISIS and homosexuality on the collective list of threats to America. Maybe it stems from the fact that he now earns a living trying to play nice with black public figures that are completely undermining the difficulty of the black experience because their memory only goes back 5 minutes. Whatever the case may be, this had to be thee single most counter productive Colin Kaepernick conversation the world has ever seen. I guess we shouldn't be all that surprised considering it was mediated by Skip Bayless, but still - it's a good thing no one of (any) color watches FS1 or they would have been ready to put their remote through their television when Lil' Wayne was getting ready to eulogize racism because he has white fans. P.S. Skip Bayless telling Lil' Wayne he's a "deep thinker on these issues" is the most insulting thing that's ever been directed at my intelligence. |
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