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[Corry]

ESPN suspends Grantland.

ESPN 'suspending' Grantland - Oct. 30, 2015

 

[Corry]

Damn you Emcee

 

[Corry]

538 next?

 

[tussin]

Grantland was terrible... maybe now they can refocus their energy on getting Skip Bayless to write more. Maybe bring back Rick Reilly. Man, he was great.

 

[Corry]

Grantland was terrible... maybe now they can refocus their energy on getting Skip Bayless to write more. Maybe bring back Rick Reilly. Man, he was great.

Everything about this is wrong, its so wrong I think you forgot italics. If that's the case then its very funny. If it's not its very sad.

 

[tussin]

Everything about this is wrong, its so wrong I think you forgot italics. If that's the case then its very funny. If it's not its very sad.

No one should have to use italics to convey sarcasm.

 

[ulukinatme]

No one should have to use italics to convey sarcasm.

While I think you did lob a softball up there with your "Skip Bayless and Rick Reilly are awesome" comment, it's hard to differentiate between sarcasm and batshit crazy on the internet without verbal tone and body language

 

[zelezo vlk]

I really hope Zach Lowe is picked up by Bill Simmons now.

 

[irishfan]

This is so annoying. I often found myself skimming through some of their stories, but loved the long-form college football and NFL pieces.

 

[tussin]

I really hope Zach Lowe is picked up by Bill Simmons now.

I would think his new show is going to have some sort of basketball focus? He would be a good add, super talented. Also wouldn't be surprised if an actual NBA team grabbed him.

 

[greyhammer90]

Well now they've gotten rid of the one thing I would use them for.

Sh*t.

 

[Emcee77]

I'll be honest, I always liked the idea of Grantland more than I liked the product. Thoughtful, detailed sports journalism? Yes, please. But then when I tried to read the articles, they just didn't hold my interest. And it's not just that they were long ... I read long-form journalism all the time. I guess I don't quite know what it was that turned me off about it.

 

[Corry]

ESPN Hosts Accuse Notre Dame Football Coach of Racism For Shoving Coach | Mediaite

So this happened on ESPN today. God help us.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

ESPN Hosts Accuse Notre Dame Football Coach of Racism For Shoving Coach | Mediaite

So this happened on ESPN today. God help us.

Wonderful. And the only reason that these idiots are allowed to continue slandering Kelly is because he's unwilling to publicly throw Grimes under the bus by explaining how out of line he was in the first place. Would be nice if Grimes would speak out to exonerate Kelly, but the Worldwide Leader could simply brush that off as a forced confession...

 

[Grahambo]

ESPN Hosts Accuse Notre Dame Football Coach of Racism For Shoving Coach | Mediaite

So this happened on ESPN today. God help us.

Wonderful. And the only reason that these idiots are allowed to continue slandering Kelly is because he's unwilling to publicly throw Grimes under the bus by explaining how out of line he was in the first place. Would be nice if Grimes would speak out to exonerate Kelly, but the Worldwide Leader could simply brush that off as a forced confession...

They cancelled Grantland and pay SAS and Skip millions.

Enough said.

 

[ThePiombino]

ESPN Hosts Accuse Notre Dame Football Coach of Racism For Shoving Coach | Mediaite

So this happened on ESPN today. God help us.

Dear God, I can't.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Remember when ND was racist for firing Willingham after three years? Until he cratered UW also, and ND struggled mightily to crawl out of the deep talent hole his recruiting failures put us in. Similar #HotTake idiocy.

I bet Wiley has no f*cking clue who Teddy Hesburgh even is.

 

[ACamp1900]

I think it's racist that every coach with the last name Kelly is called racist. Not all Irishmen are racist, just most.

I laughed...

 

[IrishLax]

Remember when ND was racist for firing Willingham after three years? Until he cratered UW also, and ND struggled mightily to crawl out of the deep talent hole his recruiting failures put us in. Similar #HotTake idiocy.

Wilbon, Jemele Hill, and Whitlock all beat that to death. Talked about it for years. Then he went oh-and-freaking-twelve at a school with decent tradition and they finally shut up.

 

[ACamp1900]

Remember when ND was racist for firing Willingham after three years? Until he cratered UW also, and ND struggled mightily to crawl out of the deep talent hole his recruiting failures put us in. Similar #HotTake idiocy.

I bet Wiley has no f*cking clue who Teddy Hesburgh even is.

All while we are still waiting on the first black head coaches at about half of the name programs in cfb...........

 

[woolybug25]

Of course, I'm sure that the fact that pretty much half of the coaching staff is African American is purely coincidental.

 

[ACamp1900]

Of course, I'm sure that the fact that pretty much half of the coaching staff is African American is purely coincidental.

Au Contraire, for the sake of THIS bullshit, Notre Dame only has one African American coach period, and Brian Kelly beat the living shit out of him on national TV just because Grimes refused to answer to the name "Toby"....

 

[phork]

Au Contraire, for the sake of THIS bullshit, Notre Dame only has one African American coach period, and Brian Kelly beat the living shit out of him on national TV just because Grimes refused to answer to the name "Toby"....

Needs sarcasm font...

 

[gkIrish]

SMDH, not surprised at all that the Mothership permitted this stupidity.

But this is what I'm talking about when I argue BK overreacted/it's a bad look. He open himself up to this kind of stuff. It's obviously completely ignorant but he's got to control himself knowing everything is on camera. Nothing positive comes from it besides potentially preventing a 15 yard penalty.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

SMDH, not surprised at all that the Mothership permitted this stupidity.

But this is what I'm talking about when I argue BK overreacted/it's a bad look. He open himself up to this kind of stuff. It's obviously completely ignorant but he's got to control himself knowing everything is on camera. Nothing positive comes from it besides potentially preventing a 15 yard penalty.

A 15-yard penalty could have easily cost us the game (as well as our playoff hopes) against Temple. Yes, it would have been better had he restrained himself, but a CFB sideline isn't an office hallway.

 

[ulukinatme]

A 15-yard penalty could have easily cost us the game (as well as our playoff hopes) against Temple. Yes, it would have been better had he restrained himself, but a CFB sideline isn't an office hallway.

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[Grahambo]

Of course, I'm sure that the fact that pretty much half of the coaching staff is African American is purely coincidental.

Stop ruining the hot taeks!

 

[BobbyMac]

I'm done with ESPN.

FS1 / FS2... PLEASE sign Dari Nowkah when his contract comes up and develop a daily College Football Show around him and Brady Quinn.

 

[NDPhilly]

Cowherd and Beadle were so much better on that show. My left nut has more personality then Kellerman. Wiley thinks he so hard and "street" when really he went to a private Catholic high school and Columbia. He's so awkward.

 

[wizards8507]

Pretty disappointing. We'll see if the bosses treat this the same way they treated Simmons and Schilling. Somehow I doubt it.

Simmons called Goodell a liar. Wiley called Kelly a racist. One of those seems worse than the other.