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apparently there was an old school biker gang brawl at a bar in texas over the weekend. 192 people were arrested, 9 dead and 18 injured. the fighting escalated from "brass knuckles to chains to knives to guns"

when police arrived they switched their attention from the other gangs (there were 5) to the police and started shooting it out with them too.

i imagine this somewhere between an old wild west brawl and aaron hernandez outside of the nightclub. i didnt know these gangs still went this hard this is an awesome story.

who can name her?

so a local guy had his $30,000 magic the gathering card stolen over the weekend. the police setup a huge sting to catch the guys who stole this card and others

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2015/06/10/revenge-of-the-nerds-magic-the-gathering-thief-caught-in-elaborate-trap/

 

cool story, nerd! but, when i went to bar-t-ranch camp back in 1997 i was introduced to the game. i ended up buying a couple hundred cards. i was never really that great at it and it was never really a big deal to me. after the summer was over i put them in a box in the shed and havent thought about them for the last 18 years.

the real story here is the price of the guys card. $30,000! and the fact that i have hundreds of these things from so long ago means that some of them HAVE to be worth money. the only card i can definitively say i remember because i liked the graphic so much was 'berzerk.' that card is going for $300 on the website a guy at work showed me you can sell them.

good start! daddy needs a new pair of shoes, and some vegas money!

anyone else remember/have them? josh im looking at you :)

DAMNNNN. money mayweather stripped of his win over pacman. whos the champ now?

sports.yahoo.com/blogs/boxing/no-sanction-fee--no-wbo-title-for-floyd-mayweather-011247890.html

-- Edited by 6ixty on Tuesday 7th of July 2015 03:25:00 PM

i mean yeah he gets to keep his money but he got the belt stipped. sure it wouldnt be a big deal if he was stripped of an old phantom weight belt but this was supposed to be the event to save boxing. now even that it tainted (albeit by a technicallity)

getting back to mayweather, maybe he did this intentionally?  does he need the belt for anything?  maybe he just wanted to save the 200k haha

Teddy Atlas doesn't think Floyd Mayweather needs the WBO belt: "He is called 'Money' Mayweather. If you can save money, it speaks to his name. It speaks to obviously the way he does business."

 

and he doesnt seem all that happy about it...

"It's a complete disgrace," Mayweather Promotions CEO Leonard Ellerbe told ESPN. "Floyd Mayweather has a great deal of respect for each and every organization, as he has always had in his 19-year career, but he will not be dictated to by any organization or person as it relates to his decision making."

translation: wahhhh the rules shouldnt apply to me

I want that Reuben stat

dont forget lou holtz! and somehow skip bayless, stephen a, ron jaworski, mark brunell, and britt mchenry are all still employed.

you guys watch the espys last night? the first half was great, the second half depressing as ****!

no, heard it was dumb and I really could care less about what bruce/Caitlyn jenner has to say.  bring back drake!

he was a gold medalist 40 years ago, only reason its a big deal now is because of the relationship to the kardashians.

I knew the website he was supposed to run, The undefeated aka the black version of grantland, he was fired from awhile ago and caught a lot of criticism for that, but no I did not know about this news until the articles you posted.  pretty surprising but hes not a good fit for espn.  I really liked whitlock when he wrote for foxsports.com but I couldn't even find him on espn.com.  I do like his work on tv, I like him a lot on PTI and he did inside the nfl for a few segments a few years ago and he's really good in that format.  like you said, i'll miss him on PTI but hopefully he goes to a website that promotes him more and has a good debate style tv show for him.

also, how about Stephen A Smiths comments about kevin Durant yesterday?  are you frigging kidding me, you're gonna threaten a big time professional athlete like that?  I'm sure KD is shaking in his shoes right now, oh god what is that clown show from 1st take going to do to his reputation, make up some more rumors that no1 believes or respects?  SAS is a joke.

have not read this yet but I plan on it.  whitlock's the explanation 2...

http://j.school/post/131134873540/the-explanation-20-still-undefeated

so its all pretty tame, especially towards deadspin and espn. however, it looks like this is just an introduction and the bullets may fly on air beginning with his appearance on the colin cowherd show this afternoon. if youre looking for juiciness, this is about as juicy as it gets in this post:

Why did I fail at The Undefeated? There are numerous reasons, including my foolish belief I could manage like a football coach. I learned there’s an art to corporate politics that I’m not good at. Another part of the answer is quite simple and rather obvious: 1) ESPN is cost-cutting, undergoing a significant cultural shift that has led to the departures of Bill Simmons, Colin Cowherd, Keith Olbermann and yours truly; 2) If you believe the 2014 reporting of Robert Lipsyte, ESPN’s in-house ombudsman at the time, key ESPN executives disagreed with my vision to build a site as ambitious and well-funded as Grantland and FiveThirtyEight. The analysis of race and culture is far more difficult than the analysis of movies, burritos and numbers.

I was listening to a podcast last night and they were talking about how perplexed they are with how the NFL handled the whole deflategate thing.  the topic then came to why the NFL tried to make tom brady look bad, and they brought how the NFL was using the media to win the PR battle and leak things early.  they then talked about how the NFL leaked that tom brady destroyed his cell phone and if you remember it was Stephen A Smith of all people who would be the one to break that news.  so who would be the one to tell SAS and not someone who reports actually news like Mort or Adam?  Well lets see, who is pretty high up in the NFL front office that would have this kind of info before anyone else? 

one candidate is troy Vincent, currently the NFL executive vice president of football operations. And where did he play most of his NFL career?  with the Philadelphia eagles from '96-'03. and where did SAS smith work during that time? the Philadelphia Inquirer from '94-'07.

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Lamar Odom has not gotten any better, and sources familiar with his treatment say even if he survives he has virtually no chance of ever leading a normal life.

Our sources say doctors continue to put Lamar's chances of survival at 50/50. We're told he showed "absolutely no improvement" Thursday from the condition he was in when he was admitted to the hospital Tuesday. As one person put it, "He's in dire straits."

One of the big issues is Lamar's apparent consumption of cocaine and an herbal substitute for Viagra, which is a potentially deadly combination.

We're told he was "entirely unresponsive" all day Thursday and 4 vital organs are still failing, with no signs of improvement. Lamar is not breathing on his own and his doctors believe his brain function is significantly reduced.

We're told the Kardashian family has flown in several specialists from L.A. to consult with Vegas doctors.

One source said there are comparisons to the plight of Bobbi Kristina, with one big difference. We're told Lamar did not lose oxygen to the brain for nearly as long as Bobbi Kristina, which offers some sliver of hope.

Doctors have told the family for each day that passes without improvement, the prognosis gets bleaker.