roadkill1292
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Pierce excoriated the NCAA's enforcement people yesterday, which is always appealing to anti-authoritarian types like me.
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Tracy Morgan was on BS Reportgreat Godfather joke(read in Tracy's voice)"I was doin a movie with James Caan. I walked up to him and said I was a big fan of the godfather. I love Sonny Corleone, even though he was a hothead. He would been alive if they had EZPass! Sonny would still be alive if they had EZPass!!"
Righetti
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Angry Bovine
Works for me, but looks like a modified layout, maybe you caught them in the changeover.
roadkill1292
Footballguy
Shane Ryan had some nice ideas about how to improve college basketball games. I especially liked his suggestion to decrease the number of timeouts allowed and I'm happy to see someone else arrive at the conclusion that some of our bigger sports are way overcoached.Without wanting to sound like a soccer apologist, which I'm not, being a free flowing contest between players is certainly one of the significant ways that soccer is better than American football and basketball.
Moe.
Footballguy
Good Posting Judge
Footballguy
I'm not a fan of this at all. What if you put every Big 10 team in the tourney together in the same bracket? Or every BE (RIP) team from a couple years ago? It really minimizes the impact of a power conference/team to ensure they only have 1 team in the FF.
Premier
Footballguy
Good Posting Judge
Footballguy
I'm all for this, I just don't think Duke should get their own bracket. It minimizes their douchey player legacy.
Joe Summer
Footballguy
I don't think it would be as much fun if you knew the Final Four was going to end up being Laettner/Hurley/Ferry/Redick.
Sweet J
Footballguy
Funny -- my daughter is 9 years old, and just finished reading the first harry potter book. We watched the movie over the weekend with some of her friends. At dinner last night, someone said something about Hermione being a goodie-two shoes in the first book/movie, and how they seem to just tolerate her. I said something along the lines of "Hermione definitely goes to duke when she grows up." I got blank stares all around.
roadkill1292
Footballguy
I certainly believe that much of the micromanaging at the end is because of press and public scrutiny. Coaches don't get criticized for calling timeouts, even though it might be the wrong thing to do -- see Michael Weinreb's Feb. 20 piece on West Liberty coach Jim Crutchfield for an interesting perspective on pace and timeouts.It hadn't occurred to me that so many coaches have been doing it this way for so long that kids today don't know anything different. It seems pretty stifling to me and one of the reasons for scoring being down so much in college ball. More coaching doesn't necessarily equal a better game and I could make the same case for football in another time and place.On an unrelated note, I see that Andy Greenwald begged off the Walking Dead reviews, and others, like John Lopez this week, have been great filling in.
Premier
Footballguy
How does giving Duke their entire doosh bracket diminish anything?
Rick James
Footballguy
Because Hurley, Reddick, and Laettner would probably win 3 brackets.'Premier said:
Good Posting Judge
Footballguy
Right!
Premier
Footballguy
But it's funnier this way!
JB Breakfast Club
Footballguy
least favorite 90s non-Duke player is easily Cleaves. LJ as a #2 seed was a surprise - didn't know there was hate for him. I found Juwan Howard to be more annoying than Jalen Rose too...
Bob Sacamano
Footballguy
I expected to see both Cardinal and Mark Madsen.
Joe Summer
Footballguy
GroveDiesel
Footballguy
With the moves that the Patriots have made today with zero Twitter activity from Simmons, there is no doubt in my mind he got a Twitter suspension.
Joe Summer
Footballguy
He's been tweeting through one of his alias accounts. Definitely suspended 
What do I get for cracking the case??
What do I get for cracking the case??
dparker713
Footballguy
While its weird that he's not tweeting on his main account, I don't think this is evidence that he's been suspended. What about his tweet on the alias account is different from normal? He's tweeting out a link to his podcast.He's been tweeting through one of his alias accounts. Definitely suspended
What do I get for cracking the case??
Joe Summer
Footballguy
This is the first time that he's done a new episode of The B.S. Report without announcing it on his main Twitter account.Something's up.While its weird that he's not tweeting on his main account, I don't think this is evidence that he's been suspended. What about his tweet on the alias account is different from normal? He's tweeting out a link to his podcast.He's been tweeting through one of his alias accounts. Definitely suspended
What do I get for cracking the case??
Rick James
Footballguy
I'm an ACC guy and I never hated Tyler Hansborough nearly as much as somebody like JJ Redick. Didn't realize he was hated that much.
Ghost Rider
Footballguy
Money talks, and I am sure Simmons makes more from ESPN than he has from any other job ever, so taking his medicine here is probably worth it to keep his job. But this must be killing him, considering how much he loves hearing himself talk.
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SI just named him the most powerful member of the sports media. I'm sure he'd have plenty of suitors if he wanted to leave ESPN.
Premier
Footballguy
Most definitely. Especially with Fox, NBC and CBS firing up cable networks and retooling their sports sites.
Please See Mine
Footballguy
Is any other network really going to give him any more freedom, though? Maybe Fox.
Good Posting Judge
Footballguy
If he wants to make a lot of money, he's going to have corporate masters to answer to. There's not much getting around it.
Other companies would probably give away the right to exercise control over his twitter account in exchange for his website, podcast, and tv traffic.
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pats3in4
Footballguy
Is he tweeting his opinions from there or is some intern posting links to his articles, podcasts, appearances, etc.?I went there briefly and it looked like a PR machine: "Read/hear/see Bill Simmons at..."He's been tweeting through one of his alias accounts. Definitely suspended
What do I get for cracking the case??
RUSF18
Footballguy
Joe wins.http://deadspin.com/espn-suspends-bill-simmons-from-twitter-after-em-first-453717304'dparker713 said:While its weird that he's not tweeting on his main account, I don't think this is evidence that he's been suspended. What about his tweet on the alias account is different from normal? He's tweeting out a link to his podcast.'Joe Summer said:He's been tweeting through one of his alias accounts. Definitely suspended
What do I get for cracking the case??
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
nice comment below: "ESPN - where we embrace debate, unless it's about how terrible we are."Joe wins.http://deadspin.com/espn-suspends-bill-simmons-from-twitter-after-em-first-453717304'dparker713 said:While its weird that he's not tweeting on his main account, I don't think this is evidence that he's been suspended. What about his tweet on the alias account is different from normal? He's tweeting out a link to his podcast.'Joe Summer said:He's been tweeting through one of his alias accounts. Definitely suspended
What do I get for cracking the case??
Tremendous Upside
Footballguy
Simmons, Rembert, House and Jalen are doing a live youtube stream all day off and on today
Just watched an hour, and it was really good...Jalen is incredible...Has great stories
They'll be back at 1:30 ET
http://www.grantland.com/live
Just watched an hour, and it was really good...Jalen is incredible...Has great stories
They'll be back at 1:30 ET
http://www.grantland.com/live
Swing 51
Footballguy
When We Held Kings - The oral history of the 2003 World Series of Poker, in which an amateur named Moneymaker turned $39 into $2.5 million and the poker boom was born Pretty Interesting
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9286395/the-oral-history-2003-world-series-poker-which-chris-moneymaker-turned-39-25-million
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9286395/the-oral-history-2003-world-series-poker-which-chris-moneymaker-turned-39-25-million
biggamer3
Footballguy
FoxSports really?
This is considered news now? Simmons was just giving his two cents to a city he probably knows nothing about.
shadyridr
Footballguy
Anybody know who this chick is?
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9406297/brad-pitt-world-war-z-bling-ring
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9406297/brad-pitt-world-war-z-bling-ring
