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Auburn's Tainted Title

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by SockPuppet, Apr 3, 2013.

  1. Steak Snabler

    Steak Snabler Well-Known Member

    As others have said, unless documentation of player payments surfaces, this will blow over just like the 2011 HBO Real Sports piece (which was almost exactly two years ago, by the way).

    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/31/sports/ncaafootball/31auburn.html?_r=0
     
  2. Everyone's entitled to an opinion.
     
  3. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    Right. She sucks.
     
  4. H.L. Mencken

    H.L. Mencken Member

    She doesn't suck. But one great gamer about the Heat/Knicks game seven does not a career make. She is an interesting thinker who writes really bad sentences and frames stories in bizarre ways. Her insistence that a bunch of Duke lacrosse players raped a stripper, and no other scenarios were possible, was extremely irresponsible. I suspect you -- or anyone -- would have a tough time citing a specific piece she did during her time at SI that was really good. Some of her backpage columns were painful to read. She's had a strange few years. I once thought she ridiculously talented. She is fearless and smart, I'll give her that. But her pure prose is stiffer than a starched collar.
     
  5. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

     
  6. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    I'll agree with the sentiment that that's just about the worst name for the sports website ever and that the web design is pretty horrid.

    I hope they didn't put too much $$$ into it because it's not going to be around for long.
     
  7. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

    How would the masses even find out about the site? I only found it from this thread.

    Certainly created a buzz on this one though.
     
  8. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    I had never heard of it, for some reason I thought Selena was working for one of the sites USA Today was launching...
     
  9. NDJournalist

    NDJournalist Active Member

    This nonsense wouldn't happen if the NCAA just wised up and started to #PaythePlayers
     
  10. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    Yes, because as soon as you start paying players boosters are no longer going to want to beat out The Other Guy for recruits.

    Fucking idiot.
     
  11. pressboxer

    pressboxer Active Member

    Walter Abercrombie drove a Porsche his last season at Baylor in the early 1980s. His dad was a preacher, not exactly a high-paying profession. Whether the car was paid for by an agent, a booster or Grant Teaff himself, everybody on campus pretty much accepted that something was going on under the table.

    So, yeah, this kind of thing goes on pretty much everywhere.
     
  12. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    The NCAA could give players $100,000 per semester and there'd still be boosters and coaches slipping them more.
     
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