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Rove!
Footballguy
Sterling was about to get a lifetime achievement award from the NAACP...
http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/04/donald-sterling-los-angeles-clippers-naacp-award
you can't make this stuff up...
http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/04/donald-sterling-los-angeles-clippers-naacp-award
you can't make this stuff up...
Mr Capicollo
Footballguy
All I know is that I'd let him graze his cattle on my protected land for free.
Baloney Sandwich
Footballguy
Mission Accomplished
Henry Ford
Footballguy
Yes, but in all fairness he's also got terrible taste in women.
SaintsInDome2006
Footballguy
What's funny is all the statements that are coming in now from people who say 'oh yeah hes been known to be a racist a33hole for years' from everyone, from Rollie Massimino to Baron Davis.
But this gets broken by TMZ, not a sports or news network or paper. Reminds me a bit of the Tiger Woods situation, same thing, 'oh yeah there were stories about his whoring around for years...' But then when the tabloids get a hold of it, oh now the professional journalists will talk about it.
That is strange. I remember when the tabloids were pretty much hack stories that weren't even close to accurate. One of them wrote a story once, I forget exactly how long ago it was, but it purported to have a picture of Princess Diana as a man. Even as a young kid, I found out pretty quickly that they were full of horse apples.
Rove!
Footballguy
what is it about the modern culture of journalism that keeps these things under wraps?
Mr Capicollo
Footballguy
It's not that big of a mystery. The tabloids like sensational stuff. Ordinarily that limits them to Hillary screwing space aliens, but occasionally that gives them the freedom to break "real" stories that the mainstream media is too nervous to handle. The John Edwards affair during the 2008 presidential election is a prime example of that.
The fact that the Enquirer broke that story blew my mind, because I figured they were on par with the Weekly World News, just in color. I still distrust the tabloids on principle, but it still makes one think.
SaintsInDome2006
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Not sure it's "modern" in politics and sports. In the old days, the beat writers knew a lot of stuff they didn't print. Think about JFK.
Did the Nixon scandal change all of that?
Baloney Sandwich
Footballguy
Did Sterling's girlfriend break the law by recording their conversation and releasing it without his knowledge?
pats3in4
Footballguy
Mr. Pickles
Footballguy
http://deadspin.com/exclusive-the-extended-donald-sterling-tape-1568291249
You know about the black Jews and white Jews, right?
You know about the black Jews and white Jews, right?
Rove!
Footballguy
comfortably numb
Footballguy
So he is a racist dong and she is a gold digging trashy ho. They deserve each other.
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got_nugs
Footballguy
Underachievers
Footballguy
Sterling is probably no more racist than your a average NBA player. Sir Charles says that the NBA is a "black" league, but nobody jumps on that bit of obvious racist statements. Pretty tough to take racism seriously when those types of double standards exist.
hxperson
Footballguy
So.......you think the average NBA player and Charles Barkley would get mad at their wives/gf's for posting pictures with white people on Instagram, and tell their SO's to never bring white people to basketball games? And you think if people found out that they did that, everyone woudl be ok with it?
Underachievers
Footballguy
Not sure if they would get mad or not but you obviously entirely missed the point I was making. Do you think if Ryan Braun called MLB a "white" league, that the world would not go ballistic and call him out on it?
comfortably numb
Footballguy
I'm on my phone so it's a little tough to do the whole linking thing...but can someone link a picture of an apple and a picture of an orange to help you see how your analogy doesn't really match?
hxperson
Footballguy
Perhaps, but that has nothing to do with Donald Sterling. I completely got the point you were making, and was pointing out how irrelevant it was.
bigbottom
Footballguy
How about we don't try to manufacture hypothetical situations and instead stick to what was actually said by the guy who said it. Do you think Sterling is racist, yes or no? Do you think the NBA should take some form of action against him, yes or no?
comfortably numb
Footballguy
Where was the outrage when Braun beat a hispanic man with a bat???Underachievers said:
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Dr Oadi
Footballguy
I ain't sayin she a golddigger but she ain't messin with no broke
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-sterlings-wife-describes-girlfriend-as-gold-digger-in-lawsuit-20140426,0,4883913.story#axzz30AjlKBqA
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-sterlings-wife-describes-girlfriend-as-gold-digger-in-lawsuit-20140426,0,4883913.story#axzz30AjlKBqA
SaintsInDome2006
Footballguy
Where is the absolute best and fullest transcript of this tape online?
SaintsInDome2006
Footballguy
Dr Oadi said:
This reminds me a little bit of the movie Major League.
SaintsInDome2006
Footballguy
The Clippers are going to tank their series over this, aren;t they?
Also - did Chris Paul really know nothing about what this guy was about when he signed up for the long haul with them? Yes the Hornets traded him but he had the choice of where to go and then he later also re-signed with them rather than go somewhere else.
This was an interview Baron Davis did the week before the Sterling reports hit:
http://grantland.com/the-triangle/baron-davis-on-donald-sterling-he-called-me-a-*******/
The players talk amongst themselves quite a bit, there had to be scuttlebutt or knowledge that Sterling was who we now know him to be.
- I also heard on sports radio this morning that the NBA cannot force Sterling to sell. I don't know why they could not force someone else to take over management though like the 49ers did with DeBartolo or the Reds with Marge Schott.
Also - did Chris Paul really know nothing about what this guy was about when he signed up for the long haul with them? Yes the Hornets traded him but he had the choice of where to go and then he later also re-signed with them rather than go somewhere else.
This was an interview Baron Davis did the week before the Sterling reports hit:
http://grantland.com/the-triangle/baron-davis-on-donald-sterling-he-called-me-a-*******/
The players talk amongst themselves quite a bit, there had to be scuttlebutt or knowledge that Sterling was who we now know him to be.
- I also heard on sports radio this morning that the NBA cannot force Sterling to sell. I don't know why they could not force someone else to take over management though like the 49ers did with DeBartolo or the Reds with Marge Schott.
Mr Capicollo
Footballguy
Different leagues have different ownership rules, different rules for voting, commissioner powers, etc.
Also, I seem to remember an umpire collapsing on the field during a Reds game, and Schott's handling of it led to her getting ousted, though I can't be sure.Different leagues have different ownership rules, different rules for voting, commissioner powers, etc.
Baloney Sandwich
Footballguy
So reports are out there that Magic and his Dodger Partners want to buy the Clippers. I certainly wouldn't put it past that group to have reached out to this gold digger and plan a way to set up Sterling to expose himself as the racist pig he seems to be in order to force the sale.
SaintsInDome2006
Footballguy
MaxThreshold
Footballguy
Mr Capicollo
Footballguy
Magic IIRC is already a part-owner of the Lakers along with the Bus family as of 5-10 years ago. I don't see him selling out of the Lakers to buy the Clippers, especially as a Lakers legend.
As for the valuation of the Clippers, their primary value is that they're part of a highly successful league with huge TV revenues. While they're in a first class facility in one of the world's major media markets, the truth is that they'll always be second class citizens here behind the Lakers, who are certainly a national brand and likely as close to a worldwide brand as basketball has. The Clips' actual market is probably more on the order of a regional team like Cleveland or Atlanta than "Los Angeles".
As for the valuation of the Clippers, their primary value is that they're part of a highly successful league with huge TV revenues. While they're in a first class facility in one of the world's major media markets, the truth is that they'll always be second class citizens here behind the Lakers, who are certainly a national brand and likely as close to a worldwide brand as basketball has. The Clips' actual market is probably more on the order of a regional team like Cleveland or Atlanta than "Los Angeles".
roadkill1292
Footballguy
I remember thinking sort of along these same lines when Traci Lords revealed that she had been underage during her early career, forcing everybody to dump their tapes of her and leaving her own produced versions the only ones on the market. "Tricky tricky Traci", I remember thinking. "So devious, so nasty, so wonderful."
SaintsInDome2006
Footballguy
Funny, they started out as the Buffalo "Braves" which would probably be a controversial name today if it has remained in Buffalo.
Sterling would have done well to try to create a real rivalry with the Lakers but they have been so bad for so long that it's on the order of UT vs Rice or something of that nature, it's certainly no Cubs-Chisox.
Clippers fans have been saddled with mismanagement for years and years, he could have been removed for that years ago, there is no worse franchise. I agree there is no reason for a Magic to want to get involved in that much less take on his beloved Lakers.
The Clips play in an arena where they have to cover up their co-tenants' banners for crying out loud. And how many Clippers banners of any kind are there? It's truly pathetic.
44 seasons, two division crowns (none before last year), .382 win %, 10 playoff appearances never going further than the quarters (conference semis), hold the league record for most losses in a season.
http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/LAC/
I'd say just send the team to a city that wants NBA basketball - Seattle, KC, St. Louis, Vancouver, Cincy, anywhere - and get new ownership in the process. They almost need a whole new city, ownership, colors, logo, name, everything to wipe away what has got to be the worst history in any pro sport anywhere. This is just the final bone thrown on the garbage heap.
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lod01
Footballguy
It wouldn't be the first time something like that ever happened. When rich greedy people want something, not much in the way of tactics is off the table.
btw this little tramp had to know from the word go that he was racist. Talk about a gold digger. She put up with all of it in order to live the high life.
They are both losers at life. Rich loser but losers all the same.
NewlyRetired
Footballguy
SaintsInDome2006
Footballguy
Yeah I agree these are some sordid individuals, but the Magic angle is getting kind of conspiratorial. Is this being treated seriously?
I think a better theory is that maybe (if true) Sterling was fully aware of Magic's desire to get the team and that that was part of the source of his hatred for Magic in his diatribe.
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Binky The Doormat
Footballguy
B*itch set me up!!
Baloney Sandwich
Footballguy
Magic certainly wasted no time going from being linked in the initial story to saying the NBA has no place for someone like Sterling to expressing his desire to own the team. I would think the gold digger would have had more leverage to get money out of Sterling just by having the tapes instead of leaking them to TMZ. So who benefits the most by the tapes being leaked to the press? The group that wants to own the team.
Cliff Clavin
Footballguy
Sir Charles is right. The NBA is a black league.Underachievers said:
