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20 Jul 07
20 Jul 07
With the NBA's match-fixing scandal, involving a referee no less, that makes us 3-for-3 in major sports with major scandals. In the NFL, it's the generalized behavior problems of brutish thugs. In baseball, it's steroids. I covered basketball. Although I hate NASCAR, you probably have to consider it a major sport, so let's call it three for four.
Has there ever been another time like this? Three out of four major sports (apologies to certain members of this site, hockey is not a major sport anymore, it barely has a TV deal, now go club some baby seals, why don't you) are involved in a scandal. Whatcha think?
20 Jul 07
Originally posted by sasquatch672I think it's time for people to get sick of all the crap and stop watching major sports until they clean up their acts.
With the NBA's match-fixing scandal, involving a referee no less, that makes us 3-for-3 in major sports with major scandals. In the NFL, it's the generalized behavior problems of brutish thugs. In baseball, it's steroids. I covered basketball. Although I hate NASCAR, you probably have to consider it a major sport, so let's call it three for four.
...[text shortened]... eal, now go club some baby seals, why don't you) are involved in a scandal. Whatcha think?
The real piss of is that it's not hard. Set some standards and if you cross the line, you're gone. Not some silly 4 hour suspension.
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20 Jul 07
Originally posted by sasquatch672Don't you think we have far too much leisure time in that people can be so distracted by the NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB, MLS, NASCAR, WNBA, etc., not to mention all the professional soccer leagues in Mexico, South America and Europe that are beamed into our homes through the miracle of satellite TV? At no other time have people had it so good. Still, it does seem that professional athletes of today are cut from a different cloth than they were when Roberto Clemente, Oscar Robertson and Roger Staubach played the game. Wikkipedia has extensive listings under "sports scandals".
With the NBA's match-fixing scandal, involving a referee no less, that makes us 3-for-3 in major sports with major scandals. In the NFL, it's the generalized behavior problems of brutish thugs. In baseball, it's steroids. I covered basketball. Although I hate NASCAR, you probably have to consider it a major sport, so let's call it three for four.
...[text shortened]... eal, now go club some baby seals, why don't you) are involved in a scandal. Whatcha think?
20 Jul 07
Originally posted by der schwarze RitterNo offense man, but how old are you? You kind of sound like an 95 year old geezer who's mad at the world for something.
Don't you think we have far too much leisure time in that people can be so distracted by the NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB, MLS, NASCAR, WNBA, etc., not to mention all the professional soccer leagues in Mexico, South America and Europe that are beamed into our homes through the miracle of satellite TV? At no other time have people had it so good. Still, it ...[text shortened]... d Roger Staubach played the game. Wikkipedia has extensive listings under "sports scandals".