22 February 2009
Where IS the Local Sports Media - How About Doing Some Investgative Reporting?
02/28/09 12:47 Filed in: College
Basketball | College
Football
It's been more than a week since the brain surgeons
snatched Renardo Sidney from the Bruins, and the
brilliant investigative reporters of the Los Angeles
media have yet to utter a word as to what really
happened. Within a day or so, his "commitment' to
UCLA was vanquished, and he orally announced his
intentions to attend that other school. Something
major happened, most likely something below-board,
with rumors being rampant in the air, not not in the
media.
When will local sports reporters step up and investigate and report on these types of stories?
The local media has totally ignored the NCAA investigations of the brain surgeons football and basketball programs, and were it not for Yahoo Sports and the likes of Charles Robinson, Jason Cole, and Josh Peter, we would never have known about all of the rules violations and illegal activity involving reggie bush, not to mention the pay-off in the civil lawsuit stemming from the hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal benefits he and his family received while at sc, and also the outrageous conduct of oj mayo under the noses of sc's basketball staff.
Yet another story is going unnoticed by the local sports media, and apparently by both sc basketball fans, as the brain surgeons have removed their basketball games from television coverage. Their Cal game Thursday, today's game at Stanford, and also both of next weeks final Pac-10 regular season games have been taken off their TV schedule. Why? Rumors fly, even including the one that has sc knowing they are facing significant NCAA sanctions and are trying to appease the gods and retroactively ban themselves from TV exposure.
Why are not any LA Times sports reporters, anyone at the Daily News, or any local TV or radio reporters reporting on these stories?
theHoundDawg
When will local sports reporters step up and investigate and report on these types of stories?
The local media has totally ignored the NCAA investigations of the brain surgeons football and basketball programs, and were it not for Yahoo Sports and the likes of Charles Robinson, Jason Cole, and Josh Peter, we would never have known about all of the rules violations and illegal activity involving reggie bush, not to mention the pay-off in the civil lawsuit stemming from the hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal benefits he and his family received while at sc, and also the outrageous conduct of oj mayo under the noses of sc's basketball staff.
Yet another story is going unnoticed by the local sports media, and apparently by both sc basketball fans, as the brain surgeons have removed their basketball games from television coverage. Their Cal game Thursday, today's game at Stanford, and also both of next weeks final Pac-10 regular season games have been taken off their TV schedule. Why? Rumors fly, even including the one that has sc knowing they are facing significant NCAA sanctions and are trying to appease the gods and retroactively ban themselves from TV exposure.
Why are not any LA Times sports reporters, anyone at the Daily News, or any local TV or radio reporters reporting on these stories?
theHoundDawg
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Except for Good-Guy Andy Roddick, Tennis Sucks
02/23/09 15:35 Filed in: Misc.
I said at the beginning, I would not write about the
boring game of tennis, but this issue needs
discussion.
Unlike selfish female stars like Venus Williams, who made a patronizing reference during her trophy presentation, Andy Roddick bypassed the Dubai tournament due to the flagrant anti-Semitism of the United Arab Emirates in prohibiting Israeli tennis player Shahar Peer from participating in their tournament. In fact, when news reports incorrectly stated that he bypassed Dubai due to a hernia, he first won the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships, then announced to the world that he was not injured but refused to go to Dubai due to their refusal to grant a visa to Peer.
theHoundDawg
Unlike selfish female stars like Venus Williams, who made a patronizing reference during her trophy presentation, Andy Roddick bypassed the Dubai tournament due to the flagrant anti-Semitism of the United Arab Emirates in prohibiting Israeli tennis player Shahar Peer from participating in their tournament. In fact, when news reports incorrectly stated that he bypassed Dubai due to a hernia, he first won the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships, then announced to the world that he was not injured but refused to go to Dubai due to their refusal to grant a visa to Peer.
theHoundDawg