Wednesday, May 15, 2013
SI: The 50 highest-earning athletes
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Read More...When welterweight Floyd Mayweather was No. 1 on Sports Illustrated’s Fortunate 50 last year—knocking out Tiger Woods, who had been No. 1 every year since SI started producing the list in 2004—it looked like a fluke, the result of the $85 million he received for his fights with Victor Ortiz and Miguel Cotto. Now Mayweather is proving that he belongs at the top. From just two bouts this year, one earlier this month and the other scheduled for September, he will earn at least $90 million, ...
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< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 > Last ›here's a sheepish, 'like or not, rules are rules.' blog.
rules are rules, says dude working Thanksgiving @ espn.
There should be a rule suspending posting for a day for getting the team wrong in a post, even though we all know what you mean.
Do any other sports have the combo of having so many rules and having rules change so often? It seems like the NFL is unusually difficult in this regard.
It's a combination of all of the above.
Wasn't this the case when they got to two AFC championship games? It just seems like the quality of their overall roster has gone down.
On another subject, who is having the better season? Luck or Griffin III? The latter seems more spectacular and who I would want leading my team for the next decade, but I haven't been watching Luck as closely.I just don't know how defenses are supposed to defend Griffin.
i know; isn't it awesome?
i feel for fans like ajm, but i have never appreciated the rex ryan experience.
Unless you're a Jets fan, the Jets are thoroughly entertaining. For example, apparently Tebow has broken ribs. They why the hell was he dressed?
I'm not about to argue the "Cowboys are stiffs" part :)
I'm extremely hard-pressed to think of a stupider rule in any sport anywhere, anytime in the history of sports. The semi-annual Taliban Games are probably more intelligently organized and run and I'm presuming executions and beheadings are an explicit part of their rulebook.
This absurdity is an elegant and sublime microcosm of Lion fandom.
So, in this instance, if the Lions coach didn't throw the flag, then the Texans coach should have thrown it?
That would be pretty ####### amazing out-of-the-box thinking on his part to do that.
I wonder if Belichick has that in his "dirty tricks" playbook if he needs it...
Yes, if Gary Kubiak challenged the play the TD would have stood. I would love to see a coach do this in a playoff game, which will kill the rule.
Because he wanted to be there for his teammates, man.
Actually, I believe the Jets' third string QB is out, so I suppose Tebow could have been called upon to hand the ball off if need be. Or, exactly what his entire skillset as a pro quarterback is.
(Do teams not have more than three QBs on their entire 324-man roster?)
BTW, Edelman took a vicious hit with his head in a bad position. I thought for a second that he'd been knocked out - his body was frozen in position as he went down. Clearly he was dazed.
Greg McElroy has no listed injury. Unlike Tebow. Total clown show in NY.
I realize Saturday goes up against college, and I wouldn't pretend to know more about the relevant markets than the NFL does, but, geez, it feels like some other nights would work out very well. I enjoy the Thursday night games, even though they're not always the most scintillating matchups. (Is that it, that if you schedule these games to fly solo too far in advance, you might end up with a dud?)
No. The rule is written so that a coach/team may not benefit from throwing a flag in this manner. Kubiak throwing his red flag would not have prevented the TD from being overturned.
How is the rule written? Just curious, I haven't seen the actual text of the rule anywhere yet.
I don't see it. Rule 15, Section 9:
That reads to me (and a lot of other people) that a coach in Kubiak's situtation can prevent the review.
Hmm, that word "against" seems to me to say that Kubiak can't prevent the review because, while he committed a foul by throwing the flag, there was no ruling "against" his team.
Who knows. The rule is written poorly in any event.
The only possible rule that's dumber is the one that defines a catch, the idiocy most in evidence during another memorable Lions loss.
I think that the continued relocation of games from Sunday to night games elsewhere is going to start to dilute the massive value of the deals Fox and CBS are paying, if it hasn't already. Eventually, those two networks will start to cry foul.
If a coach in Kubiak's position doesn't get the advantage then I want to see Rex Ryan do it thinking he's all clever.
That's why the NFL signed them to contract extensions through 2022, then announced more Thursday games.
The key term in your quoted section is "against". The ruling on the field was for Kubiak's team, not against it, so the replay official would have been able to still review the touchdown.
But I am serious when I say that the Houston player flat out cheated. He was tackled and yet got up anyway like a jackass and started running.
Its the most logical thing to do in the replay era.
Edit: not even in the replay era. You keep playing until the whistle. And sometimes even after the whistle, as long as you're not putting anyone at risk. Everyone has a role to play on the field, and with a sport with referees, you have to let the referees make the call.
And having watched the replay multiple times, I'm still not clear on how Mark Sanchez managed to run into Brandon Moore's a$$ as if it were a limbo pole. Why was Sanchez's head that low?
(And Collinsworth said that Wilfork purposely pushed Moore into Sanchez, but I didn't see that.)
Whether he did or didn't, pushing the guy blocking you backward is kind of the nose tackle's fundamental responsibility.
A.J. Pierzynski thinks it was an awesome play.
But I don't see how Detroit benefited from it. The play was going to be reviewed anyway.
This doesn't at all apply to this situation. No foul was committed. And no delay was created. Schwartz threw a flag to cause a "delay" so that he could give himself more time to... decide whether to challenge a play that was already going to be reviewed? And even that makes no sense, because him throwing the flag didn't buy him more time to decide whether to challenge; him throwing the flag WAS the challenge.
I seriously cannot think of a more ridiculous rule, ever. You thought these kinds of plays were so critical that you already were going to review... so when the coach mistakenly throws the challenge flag you decide... not to review it? Why not just review it and then fine him the 15 yards, as long as you're going to be anal about it.
The play was already going to be reviewed, so Schwartz challenging it had no affect on anything, so someone in the league office is retarded.
NFL games on Friday Night and Saturday night would certainly draw, but at the expense of high school and college football.
NFL now has a totally free farm system, and obviously works not to conflict with it. I don't see why they would mess around with it.
Note that, at the end of the year, when College Football is largely not playing, you do get some Saturday games, and also during the playoffs.
And of course in Texas, it would be a huge public relations disaster. Interfering with Friday Night Lights might get you shot.
Ummm, does anyone stop to recognize that it's Brady/Belichick and their offensive game plan that makes these tight ends great, and that it's not that the tight ends themselves are great? Same with players like Welker. With rare exceptions, top receivers and tight ends are made, not born.
Offense still looked rather pathetic today against a mediocre defensive unit. Bears' defense set them up with turnovers to get 14 points and the Vikings missed a FG. Plus throw in the fact that Forte and Hester got injured, along with Tillman, and things aren't looking pretty for the Bears and most especially their offense.
Yeah, Ben Watson, Jermaine Wiggins, Dan Graham, Chris Baker, Christian Fauria, Algea Crumpler all great in the pats system.
This,
RDP, you don't know a heck of a lot about football.
I'm sure playing in New England's system makes his numbers look better than they would on an average team but he's obviously excellent.
Kaepernick wasn't great but he was solid today. No reason to switch back to Smith for the next game. He gives the Niners a dimension in the passing game that Smith doesn't and he does a better job avoiding sacks.
I like how the Niners are getting to the quarterback a lot better the last two games. 11 sacks in the last two games after only 17 in the first 9 games.
Bears offensive line will make almost anyone look good.
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