Comments on: Sports Illustrated is Overstating Claims About College Football Crime

By: krounds

krounds — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 01:27:01 +0000

good article. it’s nice to see someone besides myself question “authority” once in a while. as i was putting the finish touches on my piece, my best friend forwarded me yours. you beat me to the punch, brother…

http://theaspiringsportswriter.blogspot.com/2011/03/sports-illustrated-deceiving-and.html

i’ll check back in the future to read more. keep up the good work man.

By: jimmy

jimmy — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 23:01:24 +0000

When I first read SI.com’s headline, I thought they were breaking news about an unknown epidemic, you know, like 30 percent of football players were running afoul of the law. Then I noticed it was less than 10 percent and I thought, “that’s lower than I expected.”

Pretty soon, I start reading links on Twitter that the figures cited by Si.com are about even with the crime rate of a college students as a whole.

So then I thought to myself, what exactly is news here?

To be blunt, it came damned close to a hit piece.

While I am not dismissing the figures or trying to sweep these crimes by football players under a rug, how can or should we be outraged by this and not equally outraged at college students in general?

By: TheBigLead

TheBigLead — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 22:46:38 +0000

glad i didn’t take this post.

nice job, Duffy.

A reasonable, well written duffy post. Well done. There used to be more of these.

they haven’t stopped. you must just not have seen them.

By: hit700andtossedanono

hit700andtossedanono — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 22:35:07 +0000

so that was pretty fun huh watsonian?

we should do it more often

By: coop247

coop247 — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 22:34:27 +0000

A reasonable, well written duffy post. Well done. There used to be more of these.

By: Jay V Of Considerable Influence

Jay V Of Considerable Influence — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 22:30:43 +0000

Big props for this takedown, Duffy.

By: Watsonian

Watsonian — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 22:19:37 +0000

/i’ll give you 2 seconds to let me know you know i’m just having fun

Oh, I know.

By: hit700andtossedanono

hit700andtossedanono — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 22:17:42 +0000

not so smart now huh, graammar test confidence guy?

My semi-colon was intentional.

oh sure, easy to type that NOW

/i’ll give you 2 seconds to let me know you know i’m just having fun

By: Watsonian

Watsonian — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 22:14:45 +0000

So let me get this straight, this thread went from discussing college athletes being arrested, then moving on to people getting into dick measuring contest over their favorite sport, and finally evolving into a grammar fight?

Something like that.

By: Der Kaiser

Der Kaiser — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 22:14:13 +0000

So let me get this straight, this thread went from discussing college athletes being arrested, then moving on to people getting into dick measuring contest over their favorite sport, and finally evolving into a grammar fight?

Each day is an adventure in TBL land.

By: Watsonian

Watsonian — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 22:12:55 +0000

not so smart now huh, graammar test confidence guy?

My semi-colon was intentional.

By: Tim Ryan (TheSportsHernia)

Tim Ryan (TheSportsHernia) — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 22:12:19 +0000

Never been charged, arrested, or anything. No criminal record whatsoever. My name rings out. The POH-LEECE know better.

Cue Hoboken St. Pattys “peeing” arrest.

By: hit700andtossedanono

hit700andtossedanono — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 22:11:53 +0000

You’re black;not so smart now huh, graammar test confidence guy?

By: Watsonian

Watsonian — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 22:10:10 +0000

Never been charged, arrested, or anything. No criminal record whatsoever. My name rings out. The POH-LEECE know better.

You’re black; you must’ve been arrested at least once.

/Tosh’d

By: hit700andtossedanono

hit700andtossedanono — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 22:09:39 +0000

How about punct;uation?

sometimes good people get hurt when a guy like me gets near a keyboard. but i get results. all part of the package

/turns in badge

By: Senator Jersey

Senator Jersey — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 22:09:07 +0000

Never been charged, arrested, or anything. No criminal record whatsoever. My name rings out. The POH-LEECE know better.

By: Tim Ryan (TheSportsHernia)

Tim Ryan (TheSportsHernia) — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 22:08:08 +0000

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By: Watsonian

Watsonian — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 22:07:30 +0000

How about punct;uation?

lolz

By: Der Kaiser

Der Kaiser — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 22:06:39 +0000

have been to a Plymouth Argyle match with my late grandfather,

hmm, interesting. One of my goal is to visit a ton of lower league european stadiums. Non League or League 2 stadiums in England, Serie C in Italy, Regionalliga in Germany etc. I read an article in a english magazine about a group of americans who every year visits 5-6 english stadiums during football season. Their goal is to visit all 92 english football league grounds. My grandfather’s favorite team in Germany plays non league football in a farm. They just bring in the cows for grazing when the grass gets too big.

By: Ty_Webb 1.0

Ty_Webb 1.0 — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 22:06:19 +0000

Diagramming sentences is interesting to me.

i’ve been a pro writer for 21 years, but could not diagram one. i’m all instinct and reflexes

/catlike

How about punct;uation?