Stuart Scott, Edward Brooke- a third famous African American man will die soon?
Didn't Scott do a hard-hitting bit on race and/or domestic violence earlier this year? Or am I thinking of a totally different guy? I don't know any other reason I'd have an association with his name (since I, of course, don't even have cable).
Man, Rich Eisen announcing Scott's death on the NFL Channel is both touching and heartbreaking.
It was probably unfair for the infant Deadspin to make Stuart Scott the talisman of its you-just-don't-get-it-do-you-old-man? hatred for ESPN, when the booyah of the Booyah Years wasn't as bad as everything else about ESPN:
Lipsyte says he received close to 20,000 emails during his time as ombudsman. Lots of viewers complained about specific on-air issues--why is this person still on the air, or why does ESPN hate my favorite sport, particularly if that favorite sport is hockey. But what really bothered ESPN's core audience, Lipsyte says, was "the intrusion of what they called societal issues into what was, in a way, kind of a sacred place. People so often come to sports as this sanctuary from the real world, where they can sit in their living room with their family and not be assailed by anything that will upset them." For some, that upsetting thing was the sight of football player Michael Sam kissing his boyfriend to celebrate being drafted. Other viewers had a bigger-picture complaint. Lipsyte says that most ESPN watchers don't want to confront the "reality that the pleasure that you are getting is at the terrific physical and often emotional cost of those commodified ballplayers," that "we really don't want to think these people are real people; and then when they do emerge as real people, they hit their girlfriends and we get very exercised and we want them executed." For Lipsyte, that is where sports journalism must go. He says, "It's there, in that junction between what sports are supposed to be for some people--Never-Never Land, this Oz--and what it really is, which is a kind of window on reality."
touching and heartbreaking
Ditto Hannah Storm on ESPN.
2: Maybe Cris Carter on Adrian Peterson, who talked about how his single mother did the best she could but we know better now how to safely and effectively discipline kids?
And it's sort if cracking me up that ogged had to post "I know we have a 300-comment LSD post going, but perhaps some of you have heard of ESPN!" I'm no help as I only pay attention to the sportscasters to mock what they say, so I have no clue who he was.
8 -- You got image-pwn'd by Stormcrow at the end of another dead thread, but the framing of your link is better (no thanks to you, though). I'm sure scholars of visual rhetoric and/or people interested in viewing of the pure face of evil will be pondering that one forever, but there's something about guy PLUS Jerry Jones PLUS tie no jacket silverhair that is so much more together than the sum of their parts.
How did "sweater" get deleted? I meant "sweater guy."
Who are you, the comment grader? I saw Stormcrow's link, but the caption is what made this one funny, and I decided to link it because the tweeter is often funny. Adding value, my friend.
I prefer to think of myself as a comment gourmand.
Yeah, I feel really sad about Stuart Scott dying. He filled a role in the culture that if he hadn't come along, might not have been filled by anyone.
Is that Christie? I can't imagine a NJ politician being caught cheering for Dallas.
Yes, that's Christie. It's a been a topic of controversy.
Did he coin the "cool as the other side of the pillow" phrase? I always liked that.
The only phrase I ever heard him associated with was "Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee."
But not directly associated, which is why he is still considered relevant to people outside New Jersey.
16: There's some controversy about that. It shows up in this story, which first appeared (in the late, lamented [?] Might Magazine) in 1997, but Scott said in 1998 he came up with it himself.
8-12: Ogged's tweeter added value.
You should post it four times. It's that awful.
Wanting the Eagles to lose is a natural thing.
Eagles fans tried to murder Santa Claus.
To be fair, Santa Claus was drunk.
Not everybody leaves out just milk and cookies.
Autoplay warning on the link at 21-23. Why do websites to that?
Because of the Philadelphia Eagles.