lethalweapon3

There is such a tremendous dumbing down of online content now. Between the "Bleacher Reports" and companies like Yahoo! not even paying for content, a 6th grader can be a contributing blogger these days, as we're probably seeing here. ~lw3

Yep, not a bad market. Just a poorly-handled product. ~lw3

4 year, $18 million contract Your thoughts and reactions? ~lw3

http://www.oregonlive.com/blazers/index.ssf/2011/05/portland_trail_blazers_general.html Is the lesson in Portland, "Don't Cross Brandon Roy"? ~lw3

"MIss Elizabeth! He's comin up to join ya!" ~lw3

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_ylt=Aqh2kKPTEWdQViGNtoQDzFGJu8J_?slug=ycn-8507353 The Yahoo! Sports contributing blogger only ranked these guys by NBA career scoring average. So please don't show this "Best NBA Players from Georgia Tech" list to John Salley. It would be neat to see a real Top 10 Jackets and Top 10 Dawgs NBA list, although I'm sure there's probably one out there already. ~lw3

I still can't say "Xfinity" without accidentally spitting on people. ~lw3

Even Dookie LAX would be a bad balancer. Trumped up both the interracial hanky-panky angle and the "they only get away because they're jocks" angle. That reporter would've been totally euphoric covering that one. I forgot about that stat the NBC reporter even led in with. "DOJ: an estimated 1 in 5 women will be sexually assaulted while in college." 20 percent. And THIS was the best they could dredge up? Plastering the face of a kid who wasn't even in the hotel room with the accuser on TV? ~lw3

Mo was the salary filler. (Bibby+Mo=Hinrich) But we'll agree to disagree. ~lw3

I'm sorry to be obsessing over this, but I'm still fuming over the Peacock network. They need to be catching way more heat than some scorned former co-ed is. Their sister station later that same day (touching on the DSK-IMF case) threw the factoid out there that someone is getting sexually assaulted every two minutes in the US. That's what, 720 events a day on average? Now, this story was supposed to be about "sexual assaults on college campuses, and colleges maybe turning a blind eye." If I just suppose that only 10 percent of these assaults happen on college campuses, there's more than 50,000 potential instances to investigate in the two years since this. Yet NBC finds an accusation that was thrown out of BOTH a university judicial board and a metro police department, for some situation that DIDN'T EVEN HAPPEN ON A COLLEGE CAMPUS (argh!), and make THAT their showcase story? Really? Any rational person working as the editor of that news program, presented with just these two stories (Wake and IU, and that's it), would order the reporter and his investigative team back to the drawing board. This came across like some stuff scooped up from off the Dateline cutting room floor. Almost as bad to me... amidst all the sniffling victims they wanted to put up there on the screen to tug at our emotions, NBC's crack investigative staff couldn't happen upon one white perp at all these colleges? One? Out of maybe 50,000 cases? Brothers got enough to deal with on campus without worrying about sexualized phobias engendered by palming a freaking basketball (see the video if you don't know what I'm referring to). And leaving that "they only got away with it because they're basketball stars (cough, Clark, cough)" accusation out there unchecked was extremely underhanded. When has Miami-Dade police, of all people, ever sought to let athletes off the hook in that town? NBC probably just handed themselves at least one mega-bucks lawsuit (Clarke, Teague, Wake), made a defendant out of Ms. Hurt, too, put all (most of?) her dirty laundry in the streets, gave collegiate athletics a black eye to match the other thousand black eyes, aggravated an interracial theme that should be long dead by now, and gave a young NBA player some ill-gained notoriety. And none of it was necessary. ~lw3

We paid them with Mo. What did we have to pay them to get Motel6? Or, did we pay by taking HA off their hands? ~lw3

Now I know how Abbott and Costello feel. My bad you're right, Teague was outside the HOTEL room altogether... and doesn't that make her case even worse? Two other people are in the room (Clarks roomate and a GF). Why weren't they implicated? Did she know they were in bed asleep or something? I'm still wondering whether she thinks there was some cruel switcheroo that happened as they approached the hotel room. ~lw3

Once again, the final tally: Bibby & Mo for Hinrich HWNSNBM & a 1st Rounder for Hilton Armstrong ~lw3

Hotel bathroom floors tend to be cold. Or, so I've heard... Clark and Hurt may not have bothered turning the lights on once in the bathroom. Any chance she thought she was with Teague in there until the lights came on? ~lw3

Ant's right. The lawyer meant to say there were two other people in the HOTEL room. Clarke and Hurt made a beeline for the bathroom once they entered the hotel room (supposedly with Teague). Teague and the other two were in the hotel room, but outside the boom-boom room. What's fascinating to me is, if Teague was implicated and he wasn't even in the bathroom, why were the other two NOT? ~lw3

http://www.digtriad.com/news/pdf/Player_Lawyer_Statement.pdf ~lw3

Video: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/43091112 ~lw3

Getting the feeling Ms. Hurt took the old bar joke, "There's a party in my mouth..." way too seriously? And NOW she needs somebody to pay for her guilt trip? The Indiana U. story that they spent half as much time on had way more credibility (dude with the Myspace page... not a good look). Yet NBC News knows they need at least two stories to make "Hide Your Daughters - Collegiate Edition" look like some kind of an epidemic. Enter Ms. Hurt. I'm not looking to belittle the seriousness of sexual assault cases on college campuses. I have no doubts it goes on a lot. But NBC, these TWO were the most legitimate cases you could find, really? ~lw3

http://www2.journalnow.com/news/2011/may/19/former-wake-forest-student-tells-today-sexual-assa-ar-1046746/ Ms. Hurt was in the pep band. Notable paraphrases... "I thought I was going to a party...(sniff)" "I was pushed into the bathroom..." "This guy (Clark) can palm a basketball with his hand... when he's holding the back of my head there's nothing I can do... (sniff)" If he's palming your head and clutching your hair, you have no DNA from your head or clothes to share with either WFU of Miami-Dade police? She claimed she was "afraid of Clark." Well, what threats did he make to you? If you bother to explain to Teague after-the-fact what happened... why would you do that if you know he was standing outside the door? Teague nor Clark ever threatened you to keep quiet? And why did your roommate have to convince you to go to the cops in the first place? If Teague and Clark elect to get a lawyer, Ms. Hurt will be presented with a fairly clear defamation suit. NBC may, too. ~lw3

They got nothing. Unless crocodile tears sounds like something. ~lw3

You're correct, my bad. The AJC article does note 2014. In fact, San Diego's Union-Tribune notes Moorad doesn't have to pay Moores ($145 million) until March 2014, although they have the right to negotiate accelerated payments. Post-acquisition, maybe an infusion of cash could help the Hawks by then, especially if Joe's still on the books? Not necessarily helping his cause publicity-wise, at least since his prior marriage started crumbling, he's relocated mostly to his hometown Houston area, where his mistress was. San Diegoans haven't seen much of him over the years. Unless we have an active GM, we might get stuck with an absentee owner and reticent management. ~lw3

Two things on the positive side of the ledger for Mr. Moores: (1) He's now on the back end of the ugly divorce proceedings (note to Ahnold and Moores: cheaters never prosper!) so he has a better handle on his net finances. The related team-control and asset-valuation issues were widely credited with contributing to the Padres' roster gutting and demise in 2008, just 2 years after winning back-to-back division titles. With the settlement completed, the ex-wife cannot threaten to entangle herself into the proceedings of this franchise. No "Dodgers East." (2) I lost the link, but I believe he is still owed $150 million or so off the sale of the Padres to Moorad, payable over the next few months. ~lw3

What's not to like? ~lw3

You know, reading is fundamental. I foolishly watched the entirety of the Today show this morning, even Kathie Lee and that Hooda Kblobtb lady, and thought NBC tabled the story before figuring out "Today" is "Tomorrow." Oh well, I got some great Martha Stewart cooking tips out of it. For NBC News' sake, they'd really better have something major here. After over two years to get her story straight, Miss Thang better have unearthed some previously unknown audio/video with content that would make Caligula blush. Short of that, she and the network are contributing only to the detriment of true victims of sexual, physical, and emotional abuse... the ones who employ the legal system, and not the media, for redress. Waving physical "evidence" in front of TV cameras 26 months later, by itself, isn't going to cut it. Some miffed ex-groupie protesting through crocodile tears, "I only wanted to be held!" is the farthest thing from newsworthiness. ~lw3

FWIW, last ranking I saw was #389 in 2004. ~lw3