<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" > <channel><title>Comments on: Should Sports Editors Forbid Their Writers From Helping ESPN Essentially Kill Newspapers?</title> <atom:link href="http://thebiglead.com/?feed=rss2&#038;p=22762" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://thebiglead.com/index.php/2009/09/30/should-sports-editors-forbid-their-writers-from-helping-espn-essentially-kill-newspapers/</link> <description>Not just another sports blog.</description> <lastBuildDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:56:55 -0500</lastBuildDate> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4</generator> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item><title>By: odessasteps</title><link>http://thebiglead.com/index.php/2009/09/30/should-sports-editors-forbid-their-writers-from-helping-espn-essentially-kill-newspapers/comment-page-2/#comment-517618</link> <dc:creator>odessasteps</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:59:27 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebiglead.com/?p=22762#comment-517618</guid> <description>Wilbon has said (or all but said) that ESPN is now his main employer and the Post is his secondary one. Presumably, if ESPN told him to go to A and the Post wanted him to go to B, he would go to B. He&#039;s arguably the Post&#039;s number one columnist (with no TK) and he doesn&#039;t go to every Redskins game, partially because he needs to be in City X on MOnday to do live PTI from the MNF gamesite.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wilbon has said (or all but said) that ESPN is now his main employer and the Post is his secondary one. Presumably, if ESPN told him to go to A and the Post wanted him to go to B, he would go to B. He&#8217;s arguably the Post&#8217;s number one columnist (with no TK) and he doesn&#8217;t go to every Redskins game, partially because he needs to be in City X on MOnday to do live PTI from the MNF gamesite.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Paolo4007</title><link>http://thebiglead.com/index.php/2009/09/30/should-sports-editors-forbid-their-writers-from-helping-espn-essentially-kill-newspapers/comment-page-2/#comment-517615</link> <dc:creator>Paolo4007</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:51:02 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebiglead.com/?p=22762#comment-517615</guid> <description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Uh, Henry Burris has been in the NFL already, with the Bears. And he wasn’t good enough to beat out…well, whichever shitty QB they had then. Jim Miller, maybe?&lt;/blockquote&gt;Thanks for the clarification ...sometimes a la Warren Moon or Jeff Garcia or Doug Flutie, CFL playing experience makes for grand improvement for the NFL with the &lt;strong&gt;right&lt;/strong&gt; pass-heavy offense ...of course Burris would have sucked for Chicago&#039;s heavy ball control schemes and the like.Ricky Ray and Henry Burris are ripe for the NFL, and Ray was with the NY Jets for awhile but did not play as far as I know. I pick also Arkee Whitlock at RB. At WR you have Paris Jackson, who won&#039;t leave the CFL with good reason, and Arland Bruce III who would not be getting the ball as much in the NFL. And who could forget historic greats like Damon Allen and Milt Stegall, who damn well could have played in the NFL but probably would have been only average players at best.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Uh, Henry Burris has been in the NFL already, with the Bears. And he wasn’t good enough to beat out…well, whichever shitty QB they had then. Jim Miller, maybe?</p></blockquote><p>Thanks for the clarification &#8230;sometimes a la Warren Moon or Jeff Garcia or Doug Flutie, CFL playing experience makes for grand improvement for the NFL with the <strong>right</strong> pass-heavy offense &#8230;of course Burris would have sucked for Chicago&#8217;s heavy ball control schemes and the like.</p><p>Ricky Ray and Henry Burris are ripe for the NFL, and Ray was with the NY Jets for awhile but did not play as far as I know.<br /> I pick also Arkee Whitlock at RB.<br /> At WR you have Paris Jackson, who won&#8217;t leave the CFL with good reason, and Arland Bruce III who would not be getting the ball as much in the NFL.<br /> And who could forget historic greats like Damon Allen and Milt Stegall, who damn well could have played in the NFL but probably would have been only average players at best.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Jake</title><link>http://thebiglead.com/index.php/2009/09/30/should-sports-editors-forbid-their-writers-from-helping-espn-essentially-kill-newspapers/comment-page-2/#comment-517027</link> <dc:creator>Jake</dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:10:51 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebiglead.com/?p=22762#comment-517027</guid> <description>lupica would make plenty not read espnny</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>lupica would make plenty not read espnny</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Gerard Portmanteau</title><link>http://thebiglead.com/index.php/2009/09/30/should-sports-editors-forbid-their-writers-from-helping-espn-essentially-kill-newspapers/comment-page-2/#comment-516931</link> <dc:creator>Gerard Portmanteau</dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:36:15 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebiglead.com/?p=22762#comment-516931</guid> <description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Henry Burris in the CFL in Calgary (hear me out the only other CFL fan on this site Garland Greene) is awesome there and would be in the NFL too.&lt;/blockquote&gt;Uh, Henry Burris has been in the NFL already, with the Bears. And he wasn&#039;t good enough to beat out...well, whichever shitty QB they had then. Jim Miller, maybe?</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Henry Burris in the CFL in Calgary (hear me out the only other CFL fan on this site Garland Greene) is awesome there and would be in the NFL too.</p></blockquote><p>Uh, Henry Burris has been in the NFL already, with the Bears. And he wasn&#8217;t good enough to beat out&#8230;well, whichever shitty QB they had then. Jim Miller, maybe?</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Paolo4007</title><link>http://thebiglead.com/index.php/2009/09/30/should-sports-editors-forbid-their-writers-from-helping-espn-essentially-kill-newspapers/comment-page-2/#comment-516801</link> <dc:creator>Paolo4007</dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:43:09 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebiglead.com/?p=22762#comment-516801</guid> <description>&lt;blockquote&gt;TBL, it’s not just sports sections, I’m sure you know. It’s newspapers as a whole. Publishers are morons. Editors don’t get it. Arrogance=death.&lt;/blockquote&gt;+2 NDub&lt;blockquote&gt;Arrogance&lt;strong&gt;=ESPN&lt;/strong&gt;=Death&lt;/blockquote&gt;/ Mission Ruled // High Commissioned On The Mission /// The Mission Rules!</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>TBL, it’s not just sports sections, I’m sure you know. It’s newspapers as a whole. Publishers are morons. Editors don’t get it. Arrogance=death.</p></blockquote><p>+2 NDub</p><blockquote><p>Arrogance<strong>=ESPN</strong>=Death</p></blockquote><p>/ Mission Ruled<br /> // High Commissioned On The Mission<br /> /// The Mission Rules!</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: NDub</title><link>http://thebiglead.com/index.php/2009/09/30/should-sports-editors-forbid-their-writers-from-helping-espn-essentially-kill-newspapers/comment-page-2/#comment-516781</link> <dc:creator>NDub</dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:36:55 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebiglead.com/?p=22762#comment-516781</guid> <description>&lt;blockquote&gt;For all the bad decisions newspaper sports sections have made over the years, not helping ESPN could be a step in the right direction. What sports editor is willing to step up and try this?&lt;/blockquote&gt;TBL, it&#039;s not just sports sections, I&#039;m sure you know. It&#039;s newspapers as a whole. Publishers are morons. Editors don&#039;t get it. Arrogance=death.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>For all the bad decisions newspaper sports sections have made over the years, not helping ESPN could be a step in the right direction. What sports editor is willing to step up and try this?</p></blockquote><p>TBL, it&#8217;s not just sports sections, I&#8217;m sure you know. It&#8217;s newspapers as a whole. Publishers are morons. Editors don&#8217;t get it. Arrogance=death.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Paolo4007</title><link>http://thebiglead.com/index.php/2009/09/30/should-sports-editors-forbid-their-writers-from-helping-espn-essentially-kill-newspapers/comment-page-2/#comment-516771</link> <dc:creator>Paolo4007</dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:28:57 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebiglead.com/?p=22762#comment-516771</guid> <description>&lt;blockquote&gt;this doesn’t mean i’m your friend Paolo. And you can keep that disgusting point. Those things give me the willies. &lt;/blockquote&gt;No offer of friendship ever given only an acknowledgement of the truth of your comment. Okay I&#039;ll take the point back and re-distribute it to charity.+1 Brock Now go take another serious dump to try and get rid of your willies.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>this doesn’t mean i’m your friend Paolo. And you can keep that disgusting point. Those things give me the willies.</p></blockquote><p>No offer of friendship ever given only an acknowledgement of the truth of your comment.<br /> Okay I&#8217;ll take the point back and re-distribute it to charity.</p><p>+1 Brock</p><p>Now go take another serious dump to try and get rid of your willies.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Paolo4007</title><link>http://thebiglead.com/index.php/2009/09/30/should-sports-editors-forbid-their-writers-from-helping-espn-essentially-kill-newspapers/comment-page-2/#comment-516763</link> <dc:creator>Paolo4007</dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:27:04 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebiglead.com/?p=22762#comment-516763</guid> <description>Dirtheavy, I like your new Re-Run icon ... did you choose it in honour of Darrell&#039;s common views?It is so telling still how so many folks who claim not to cling to race biases in fact do no matter what their backgrounds.  For example ever since Rush Limbaugh no &quot;white&quot; dude on TV can slam a black quarterback on performance, unlike that idiot Rush, for fear of being accused of being an asshole and racist like Limbaugh.I did not think Darrell supported Campbell on here out of some race bias, but I doubt Darrell would slam any of the following quarterbacks when they suck as usual either.JaMarcus Russell Jason Campbell Byron LeftwichHistoric And Too Much Time For A Short Time In The NFL Who Should Have Been Slammed HarderAkili Smith Tony Banks Spurgeon WynnMind you I am one of the few who thought and still thinks Seneca Wallace has his best days ahead of him, and Henry Burris in the CFL in Calgary (hear me out the only other CFL fan on this site Garland Greene) is awesome there and would be in the NFL too.Also noteworthy is that a losing quarterback with great stats even consistently does not a great quarterback make no matter what background, so sticking up for Campbell on the part of TBL in the first place was just plain East-Coast bias and silly.And of course here in Philly great things are to come for Michael Vick!/How About Not Discussing An Athlete&#039;s Race Or Ethnicity At All?</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dirtheavy, I like your new Re-Run icon &#8230; did you choose it in honour of Darrell&#8217;s common views?</p><p>It is so telling still how so many folks who claim not to cling to race biases in fact do no matter what their backgrounds.  For example ever since Rush Limbaugh no &#8220;white&#8221; dude on TV can slam a black quarterback on performance, unlike that idiot Rush, for fear of being accused of being an asshole and racist like Limbaugh.</p><p>I did not think Darrell supported Campbell on here out of some race bias, but I doubt Darrell would slam any of the following quarterbacks when they suck as usual either.</p><p>JaMarcus Russell<br /> Jason Campbell<br /> Byron Leftwich</p><p>Historic And Too Much Time For A Short Time In The NFL Who Should Have Been Slammed Harder</p><p>Akili Smith<br /> Tony Banks<br /> Spurgeon Wynn</p><p>Mind you I am one of the few who thought and still thinks Seneca Wallace has his best days ahead of him, and Henry Burris in the CFL in Calgary (hear me out the only other CFL fan on this site Garland Greene) is awesome there and would be in the NFL too.</p><p>Also noteworthy is that a losing quarterback with great stats even consistently does not a great quarterback make no matter what background, so sticking up for Campbell on the part of TBL in the first place was just plain East-Coast bias and silly.</p><p>And of course here in Philly great things are to come for Michael Vick!</p><p>/How About Not Discussing An Athlete&#8217;s Race Or Ethnicity At All?</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Dirtheavy</title><link>http://thebiglead.com/index.php/2009/09/30/should-sports-editors-forbid-their-writers-from-helping-espn-essentially-kill-newspapers/comment-page-2/#comment-516751</link> <dc:creator>Dirtheavy</dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:18:03 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebiglead.com/?p=22762#comment-516751</guid> <description>this doesn&#039;t mean i&#039;m your friend Paolo.  And you can keep that disgusting point. Those things give me the willies.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>this doesn&#8217;t mean i&#8217;m your friend Paolo.  And you can keep that disgusting point. Those things give me the willies.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Paolo4007</title><link>http://thebiglead.com/index.php/2009/09/30/should-sports-editors-forbid-their-writers-from-helping-espn-essentially-kill-newspapers/comment-page-2/#comment-516742</link> <dc:creator>Paolo4007</dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:14:42 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebiglead.com/?p=22762#comment-516742</guid> <description>&lt;blockquote&gt;I have made my peace with Paolo’s presence. Not with Paolo himself, just the fact that he’s not going anywhere. Because he’s not going anywhere, TBL likes him. And if you could get kicked off of here for repeated hyperbolic personal attacks, I’d be gone too. If you could get kicked off of here for rambling incoherence, there’d be a whole shitload of us gone.&lt;/blockquote&gt;+1 DirtWelcome.&quot;Freedom Rings Where Opinions Clash&quot; -Adlai Stevenson</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>I have made my peace with Paolo’s presence. Not with Paolo himself, just the fact that he’s not going anywhere. Because he’s not going anywhere, TBL likes him.<br /> And if you could get kicked off of here for repeated hyperbolic personal attacks, I’d be gone too. If you could get kicked off of here for rambling incoherence, there’d be a whole shitload of us gone.</p></blockquote><p>+1 Dirt</p><p>Welcome.</p><p>&#8220;Freedom Rings Where Opinions Clash&#8221;<br /> -Adlai Stevenson</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> </channel> </rss>
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