Tuesday, December 04, 2012
Monday, December 03, 2012
Paul Finebaum the subject of feature story in The New Yorker | al.com - Matt Scalici - Paul Finebaum's radio show is the subject of a lengthy feature story in the latest issue of The New Yorker magazine, available on newsstands today. -- Wiedeman said he considered writing a profile on Nick Saban but had already seen several others and felt there was little left to say on the subject. Instead, Wiedeman chose to focus on Finebaum and his show as a cultural focal point of the SEC. "I knew about Paul and his show but I'd never really listened. - I mentioned I was looking to write something about the SEC to a few friends of mine who are sports writers and editors and they immediately said I should write about Paul's show.
Scarbinsky: You know what Northern Illinois doesn't deserve? Kirk Herbstreit's wrath | al.com - Shame on Kirk Herbstreit. - Shame on the ESPN analyst and every college football observer that howled Sunday night because Northern Illinois earned an at-large BCS bid to play ACC champion Florida State in the Orange Bowl. That's right. I said "earned."
Whitlock: After Belcher tragic murder-suicide, why are Chiefs playing? - NFL News | FOX Sports - I would argue that your rationalizations speak to how numb we are in this society to gun violence and murder. We’ve come to accept our insanity. We’d prefer to avoid seriously reflecting upon the absurdity of the prevailing notion that the second amendment somehow enhances our liberty rather than threatens it. - How many young people have to die senselessly? How many lives have to be ruined before we realize the right to bear arms doesn’t protect us from a government equipped with stealth bombers, predator drones, tanks and nuclear weapons?
Bob Costas Steps Onto Gun-Control Minefield - The Daily Beast - But having decided to walk through this minefield, Costas tiptoed by offering not his own assessment but that of someone else. He approvingly quoted Jason Whitlock, a longtime Kansas City sports columnist who now writes for Fox Sports: - “Our current gun culture,” Whitlock wrote, “ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy, and that more convenience-store confrontations over loud music coming from a car will leave more teenage boys bloodied and dead." - “Handguns do not enhance our safety. They exacerbate our flaws, tempt us to escalate arguments, and bait us into embracing confrontation rather than avoiding it. In the coming days, Jovan Belcher’s actions, and their possible connection to football, will be analyzed. Who knows?" - “But here,” wrote Jason Whitlock, “is what I believe: If Jovan Belcher didn’t possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.”
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