PM Roundup: Put Me in the East, See What Happens
Athletes and Celebrities, Baseball, Media Gossip/Musings, NBA March 17th. 2008, 1:29pm
Can’t go wrong with Jennifer Aniston in a Brazilian-cut purple bikini. NSFW: Mischa Barton topless in her latest movie.
Those words in the headline? Kobe’s. (True Hoop)
Bees on the loose! (CBS 13)
Colin Cowherd: “The difference between real writer or media person and blogger is how they react when somebody doesn’t agree with them.” For the record, Colin – no “midget” remarks were made by us. (We Are the Postmen)
Great news for nerds like us – SI will open its online vault this Thursday. (Media Week)
These stories are always gut-wrenching – don’t drink and drive folks. And please, please please wear seat belts. (Dayton Daily News)
Pittsburgh fans are geeked Bob Knight has the Panthers winning it all. (PSAMP)
Great photos of the Paper Bag revolt over the Bucks this weekend. (Brew Hoop)
“News:” Jenna can’t wait to see Charlize naked. (Fox News)
Billy Packer’s has had his foot-in-mouth moments, but we still like his work. Still, this is comical. (Dickipedia)
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March 17th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
While it’s comforting that someone who supposedly knows a thing or two about college basketball (as opposed to…me) likes Pitt’s chances, isn’t Bobby Knight roughly as credible a prognosticator as the crazy uncle?
March 17th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
Without being able to look at that Mischa Barton link right now, I feel confident that her boobs are about as non existant as mine.
March 17th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
Um, Cowhered is kind of right – when blogs get ripped, they (and their commenters) often do resort to personal attacks. I think that’s what 412 was arguing in the other thread.
March 17th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
i love how Kobe responded to that. He snapped when asked that question about Lebron
im still saying Dwight Howard for MVP, but it will most likely go to Kobe
March 17th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
My first time to the Dikipedia website. More hours of unproductive work time coming in the next few days.
March 17th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
i agree, kobe will probably win mvp. the homer in me wants to see garnett get it, but i have to be reasonable.
March 17th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Kobe wanted no part of the East if Loul Deng was not by his side.
March 17th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
yeah, says the Chicago Tribune. who wrote that bs, Jay Marizotti
March 17th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Awesome news on SI. Back in the days before the internets and the WWL, SI (and the sports page of the now defunct Pittsburgh Press) was my main source of sports knowledge. I’m looking forward to revisiting the old issues and seeing if the writing and photography was as great as I remember.
March 17th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
I have some old SI’s that my dad gave me, he is a Redskins fan and Nebraska alum and the 80’s were some good times for those teams. It was weird reading an old one that covered the Redskins playing the Raiders in a regular season game. It was like reading it in the newspaper the next day. Completely different style of reporting. There also seemed to be more articles on more obscure sports.
March 17th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
@412- do you remember the Michael Jordan hologram cover than came out in 1990 somthing from SI?
i think that was one of the greatest covers ever. I have it still to this day
March 17th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Brazilian Cut Bkini, TBL do you know that from your Us Weekly days?
March 17th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Nope – sadly, I have given too much thought (and “reporting”) to a buddy actually doing the bachelor party in Brazil
March 17th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
More interesting than Kobe’s comments were the stats listed in the article. Kobe scores less, grabs less rebounds and has less assists than Lebron against East teams.
March 17th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
So, what is it called if Cowherd blows up someones’s server for a day? Is that childish behavior? Isn’t he supposed to be ‘bigger than that’? He does have a point, at the same time I think that ’sportswriters’ like Costas are also jumping on the ’slam the blogger’ bandwagon.
March 17th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Of course, we are less credible than “real” journalists because we didn’t pass our Professional Journalists Exam.
March 17th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Personally, I think comparing LeBron’s stats vs. Kobe’s in the East is pointless, they don’t play the same amount of games vs. the East, so the stats really tell me nothing.
March 17th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
Mike NYC, you are right. we do take things to a different level (personal attacks). Seems hypocritical, no?
March 17th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
Cowherd more or less apologized for the incident. I believe his quote was included in the SI piece about our friend Jason McIntyre.
March 17th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
People get defensive when they are constantly badgered or made to feel unimportant, or stupid for their likes. Personal attacks tend to be a result of that.
I am a wrestling fan and a blog commenter, I am used to having my educational credentials or my sanity questioned, but that doesn’t make it any less annoying or angering.
March 17th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
cbh you are correct but add to that that Kobe averages more possesions per game in LA’s higher pace offense.
March 17th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
I always though Los Angeles was in the East.
March 17th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Why is there a picture of Giselle where’d there would normally be a picture of a hot babe?
/thankful it’s not the Hulkster’s daughter
March 17th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
It’s Kobe’s “turn” doesn’t deserve it, I like Chris Paul, LeBron or Kevin Garnett or even Dwight Howard.
And I like Anniston over Barton and Giselle… by a mile
March 17th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Looking back on the history of the MVP, the worst selections have always been when it’s supposedly Player X’s “turn” to win it.
@sportsgal: You forgot to add that he also put up all of those lesser numbers while playing more minutes per game against the East than the West.
March 17th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
Regarding Costas, I wonder what percentage of people on the blogs actually took the time to read the article and then actually think for themselves as to whether what he said had some merit.
Anyway, for those of you who will bother, Costas has since spoken to Leitch about his comments.
March 17th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
I did. My favorite line:
Barry Jackson [the reporter] is an good reporter, but that wasn’t everything I said.
Two points. I love the irony of a journalist who cries about being misquoted, and I’m guessing an amateur like Will didn’t pick and choose Costas’ quotes and make him look like an idiot. It’s amazing that Barry Jackson can pass his Professional Journalists Exam and still be that incompetent.
March 17th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
What Costas said certainly has merit. He didn’t help his case with the blogger in the basement line.
However, I don’t like Bob Costas, am I supposed to like him because his arguments are well articulated?
March 17th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
Dickipedia is now blocked at my place of employment.
DAMN YOU, WEBSENSE!!!1!
March 17th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
How is the blogger cliche worse than the journalist cliche that you see in movies and novels? What would you rather be: a nerd in his underwear typing on a computer in your basement, or a broken-down middle-aged alcoholic driving an Escort and living in a one-room efficiency apartment because your alimony check is bigger than your paycheck?
March 17th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
I can understand so called “traditional media” guys like Costas and Cowherd getting their panties in a wad about bloggers. Bloggers don’t have to piss away 4 years to get a journalism or public communications degree, don’t have to intern and lick boots for 10 years, and yet their voices are now heard and even sought by sports fans. Maybe everyone has reached the tipping point of wanting to discuss sports with their peers (blogs) rather than being preached at or talked down to about sports by some windbag.
March 17th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
And as for Jennifer Aniston, I’m not her biggest fan but she must be all kinds of bat-shit crazy. How does someone who’s pushing 40, is fairly cute, and still rocks the bikini utterly incapable of keeping a man?
March 17th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
How is the blogger cliche worse than the journalist cliche that you see in movies and novels? What would you rather be: a nerd in his underwear typing on a computer in your basement, or a broken-down middle-aged alcoholic driving an Escort and living in a one-room efficiency apartment because your alimony check is bigger than your paycheck?
Tell us how you really feel, bud
March 17th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
When Tirico asked Kobe the same MVP question on his show today, Kobe pulled a Kobe and basically said he didn’t know and didn’t care. And in that same interview, the first question Tirico asked him was does he wish he’d gone to college so he could have experienced March Madness. His answer: “Every single year.” I say bullshit, but then I’m a cynical bastard by nature.
March 17th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
@bruce- if Kobe would of went to college, it is known that he was going to Duke. imagine the hate
March 17th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
TBL, just sayin’ that this has been the old journalist cliche as long as I can remember, and it isn’t exactly true either. Just like I never took a college course from some middle-aged bearded guy wearing a tweed jacket with patches on his elbows and smoking a pipe.
March 17th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Without looking up the 96-97 Duke roster and seeing what kind of talent they had, Kobe in college woulda been like a better, more dominant version of Carmello in college: One year, one national title, top 3 pick.
March 17th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
@irish- oh I know. I just find it disingenuous when guys like Kobe, or anyone in his position, say stuff like that. Grant Hill once told Bob Sturm(who’s now at The Ticket in Dallas) that if he hadn’t chosen Duke, UVA was his next choice. I didn’t believe it then, and I don’t believe it now.
March 17th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
For the record, I haven’t posted in a while, because on Feb. 12 my 22 year son was killed when his truck flipped and he was ejected. He wasn’t wearing his seatbelt.
March 17th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
My deepest sympathies, Cabbage. I lost a close cousin that way. He had just turned 18. No seat belt. Remains the saddest day of my life.
March 17th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
My question is how does LeBron average 8 rebs against the West and 8.2 against the East but only 6.1 for the season?
March 17th, 2008 at 11:42 pm
Crap! If her name weren’t Mischa Barton, we’d all be very disappointed. As opposed to the 80% who are in spite of who that dog faced twig is.
March 18th, 2008 at 7:48 am
Sorry to hear about that Cabbage
March 18th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Thanks guys