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Dodgers, Angels, Lakers, Clippers, Rams Discussion III

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Oh, Clippers! They find new ways to disgrace themselves. It's a sure bet that there is not going to be any jersey popping anytime soon for the Clip joint!
 
no name said:
I won't draft a quitter who his teammates and coach hated for taking plays off and faking injuries when feeling run down to avoid poor performance and injuries in college. That goes double when the Rams have the best set of DE's in football.
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Haven't heard anything about that. If true, then I would have to rethink about Clowney.

I don't suppose you have a link?
 
Nose of Sutter said:
What would really send a message is if the players refused to play today, but there's no way the NBA would let that happen.
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Reclamation Project said:
Multiple players including Kobe and LeBron said they would sit out.
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And they would be incredibly stupid if they did. The players are paid to play basketball, they need to shut the **** up, and play. Let the league handle this matter. And it isn't as if they were playing to win for Sterling to begin with. Sterling is obviously an ignorant racist, but the players and Rivers trying to send a message, is just adding to the stupidity.
 
Black1963 said:
And they would be incredibly stupid if they did. The players are paid to play basketball, they need to shut the **** up, and play. Let the league handle this matter. And it isn't as if they were playing to win for Sterling to begin with. Sterling is obviously an ignorant racist, but the players and Rivers trying to send a message, is just adding to the stupidity.
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It is true, but athletes are human too. I think they should be playing for LA and Clippers spirit, not the Owner.
 
Black1963 said:
And they would be incredibly stupid if they did. The players are paid to play basketball, they need to shut the **** up, and play. Let the league handle this matter. And it isn't as if they were playing to win for Sterling to begin with. Sterling is obviously an ignorant racist, but the players and Rivers trying to send a message, is just adding to the stupidity.
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TheSentinel said:
It is true, but athletes are human too. I think they should be playing for LA and Clippers spirit, not the Owner.
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I agree with both, I think if they are gonna do this protest ****, then go all out. Don't add to the fire doing this practice jersey at center court thing and it's not gonna help the situation at all.

But I do hope people are able to separate the Clippers as a team and Donald Sterling who has nothing to do with them other than own them.
 
MJones31 said:
LA Times columnist suggests Donald Sterling buy hockey team to avoid blacks

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/la-times-columnist-suggests-donald-sterling-buy-hockey-team-to-avoid-blacks-175041067.html
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Yeah, seems like Mr. Greg Wyshynski also dropped the ball in his story, to wit:

OK, full stop: We know that hockey doesn't have the diversity of the other major sports, and there are many factors behind that. Some are economic, which is why the NHL has sought to bring street hockey to cities for the last decade. Some are cultural, like prominent columnists in major newspapers writing that blacks don't have anything to do with hockey, so racist sacks of crap can find safe haven there.
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The problem when you start throwing race dung around is it can stick to you also. This guy is complaining about an idiotic comment from an L.A. Times writer. Then he misses the point about racial diversity in the NHL. Completely. Most non-whites playing in the NHL today are Canadian, and grew up playing the sport, just like most of the whites in the league did. It really is that simple.

Ignorance has reigned supreme on this whole subject. It really is sad.
 
Sandy Banks is African American. What a horrendous article to write on her part. Another fantastic piece by the LA Times :rolleyes:
 
Ugh; it's like the only former English colony that has a race issue social construct that gets spammed every minute is the United States.

Even Canada, a former English Commonwealth itself, has outgrown that issue.

I'm not even born in the Anglosphere!

Sterling should just get out of sports ownership altogether and stick with what he knows best. Even better, sell it to groups that would either move it back to San Diego or Buffalo. The Lakers have been carrying the NBA all by itself in Los Angeles, even before Donald Sterling bought/brought the Clippers to Los Angeles.
 
The race issue actually is quite prevalent in other nations. The problem is anything even the slightest bit racial becomes media fodder here, which I think says more about the general public's view on racism(becoming quickly a taboo) than anything else.
 
And of course when referring to all the sports teams that help the community and support the community the head of the NAACP LA chapter says

Lakers,
Dodgers
Angels
RED WINGS
Ducks


Well I guess Kings rhymes with Wings :laugh:
 
Reclamation Project said:
Really? REALLY? Well, what do you expect from a group that has honored Donald Sterling multiple times.
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Yes he (Leon Jenkins) said it , was watching the presser on CNN. I just yelled at that screen, but the guy was trying to back track on why they gave him awards before so he was sweating it.

And agree just because a guy shell's out $$ does not make him a great man. This is a guy that takes out ad's in the Times talking about what a great philanthropist he is. How many other philanthropists do that?

Funny how $$ make people turn a blind eye to things.
 
The problem is, there are so many blacks in the media that just sit back and pounce on things like this, and then turn around and say and write equally ridiculous things.

You have Scoop Jackson at ESPN complaining that there were only three black athletes on the US winter Olympic team and whining about the decline of black players in MLB, despite the fact that diversity is at an alltime high in MLB. Scoop ofcourse fails to mention the decline of white players in the NBA, and those spots haven't been lost to Dominicans, Japanese, Korean and Venezuelan's like in the MLB, they have been lost to blacks. And MLB and NBA teams are largely owned by the same type of people, wealthy old white men who apparently are conspiring to keep blacks off their MLB teams but are fine with having their NBA teams be 85%.

Jemele Hill at ESPN is another one who lives for stories like this. She will use this one idiot to paint entire groups of people with the racist brush.

And ofcourse Screaming A. Smith.

And this is only sports journalists, doesn't account for people who make a living off stories like this.
 
Black1963 said:
Haven't heard anything about that. If true, then I would have to rethink about Clowney.

I don't suppose you have a link?
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Here is a quote from this year from Steve Spurrier:

“I will just say he told me he couldn’t play. That his ribs hurt, couldn’t run. Said ‘I can’t play.’ I said, that’s fine, you don’t have to play. We’ll move on. He may not be able to play next week, I don’t know. We’re not going to worry about it, I can assure you that if he wants to play, we’ll welcome him to come play for the team if he wants to.

“If he doesn’t want to play, he doesn’t have to play, simple as that. We were thinking he was going to suit up and play. He did not practice Thursday. Couldn’t run. Said he couldn’t play. Any time a player says he’s hurt, can’t play, who are we to question? He doesn’t play.â€

He also told the media that none of the coaching staff or trainers knew of the injuries.

There were also lots of rumors about closed door meeting with players and the coaching staff where Clowney was not allowed in.

Robert Quinn of the Rams said about Clowney that he's a loaf and that "you can't put loafs out there".

Now that Clowney has entered the draft people in the know are starting to talk about him again. That includes Spurrier and nameless teammates. It takes a quick google search.
 
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