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Chinese media memo: Don’t report the basketball fight
JSB WIRE REPORTS
A memo to Chinese media outlets instructs editors not to report on the Bayi Military Rockets vs. Georgetown Hoyas fight that Juiced Sports featured the video of yesterday.
A program director for a Guangzhou TV station tweeted on Sina Weibo, China’s version of Twitter:
Today at 5 o’clock, we received the provincial communications department’s fax [...]
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Out of control basketbrawl: Chinese basketball team attacks Georgetown
MITCH BLATT
Players from the Chinese Bayi Military Rockets attacked the Georgetown Hoyas while playing an exhibition in China. This is almost worse than the Fight at the Palace, although it involves players, not fans. Below, watch the China-Georgetown fight:
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Expectation! 2011 NFL season full of old faces in new places
There’s a new former star in Miami, a so called ‘dream team’ in Philly, unanswered promise in Houston, and a potential home team champion in Indianapolis, along with a laundry list of new quarterbacks all across the NFL; Lockout free and ready to roll, the new season is all about expectations
JIM RUBERA
(Rubera writes for The [...]
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UM’s Biggest problem: Nevin Shapiro has nothing to lose and an entire spotlight to gain
SCOTT JACOBS
Nevin Shapiro was a nobody. To sports fans that is. Sure, the papers and news outlets tell us now that he’s some schmo who got caught up in a $930 million ponzi scheme and is serving 20 years in jail for his stupidity and greed. For all intensive purposes he threw away his life [...]
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How would you like an RSS feed on your blog that displays the latest sports scores? Or the latest NFL signings? Or the schedule of today’s MLB games, or the PGA winner, or NBA lockout news, or any other [...]
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Thome’s 600 home runs still leaves me skeptical
Was he clean? If so it’s a tremendous feat. Does 600 home runs make him a Hall of Famer? Let’s discuss
SCOTT JACOBS
To give you an idea of the watered down state of home runs and our Quiz Show-esque perception of them — mainly that we look afar with untrustworthy eyes — Jim Thome reaching the [...]
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Texas A&M just a pawn in money gone mad college sports
Texas’ biggest rival holds all the cards in an exploding offer that would literally alter college sports
SCOTT JACOBS
The clock is ticking, the nation is watching, and sports fans (more specifically college football fans) at home and abroad are waiting impatiently in the background. Like the new movie 30 Minutes or Less, Texas A&M is Jessie [...]
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Preseason’s here! Just don’t put too much stock into the results
It’s good to have football back, just remember that these next few weeks might not necessarily be pretty for your favorite team
SCOTT JACOBS
The NFL season kicks off it’s unusually hyped preseason schedule tonight and it’s fantastic to finally have football back. But let’s not over-estimate the importance of these 4 ultimately meaningless games that each [...]
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