Mizzou Links, 7-19-11

by Bill C. on Jul 19, 2011 5:13 AM CDT in News

For me personally, has to be 07 KU game! RT: @GolfandFootball: @ChaseDaniel what was your favorite game of all-time?less than a minute ago via Twitter for iPhone Favorite Retweet ReplyChase Daniel
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Yeah, uh, that was a pretty good one...

Mizzou Football Links

Man, it's like a 2007 reunion in here today ... posting a tweet from Chase Daniel about the '07 KU game ... Jeremy Maclin and Lorenzo Williams hosting camps...

Post-Dispatch: Friends help Jeremy Maclin host football camp
We Are Mizzou: Lorenzo Williams Camp

Other Football Links

The Poynter Institute weighed in on the ESPN controversy last night, and the immediate Twitter reaction was quite negative toward the kid gloves Kelly McBride used. To be sure, there was quite a bit of "both sides were at fault" here, but ... I don't hate it. I don't know what people expected, but this didn't exactly take it easy on ESPN. My main complaint: the fact that she drew too thick a line between suspension and "being told not to do your job until we tell you otherwise." That might not have 'technically' been a suspension, and 'technically' that might not go in his permanent file (do "permanent files" still exist?), but ... a writer being told not to write for an undefined amount of time is, for all intents and purposes, an indefinite suspension. (That said, I have no problem with them railing on Sports By Brooks for peddling not-quite-100%-founded gossip. It's what he does.)

The Trib (Dave Matter): BTS Preseason Countdown: 8, 7
PB Strikes Back
Burnt Orange Nation: The Trouble With Aggies
BROOOOOOOOOOOCE
Poynter Institute: Feldman's ESPN non-suspension follows bad decision-making

Mizzou Basketball Links

God, it's impossible not to really like Kim English. I know, that's like saying "It's impossible not to really like steak" or something, but ... doesn't make it untrue.

PowerMizzou: Summer Sessions: Kim English

PM: On the floor, just physical talent and not taking into account chemistry and the locker room, does this team have the pieces to be that good?

KE: "No doubt. Our top six guys can compete with any top six in the nation. I mean, we're good. We have some really, really good pieces. Not to knock Mike Anderson's system at all; it's great when it works, when you have the right kind of guys, but I'm excited to see what all these offensive weapons can do in a system that's a foundation, that it's an offense. I want to see Marcus Denmon coming off curls and knocking down shots and me running off screens, Phil Pressey coming off ball screens and him and Mike working together as a real tandem and just not so much playing in spurts, getting in the rhythm of the game. I'm excited to really get going. It's almost here. Two more weeks of summer, football season, we're rolling. Halfway through football season, it's game time. I remember D.C. like it was yesterday. One of the worst nights of my life. In front of my family, playing one of the worst games of my career, losing in the first round of the tournament, ending my season. Really still haven't slept well. Most miserable year of my life. Frustrating. And it happened for a reason. So here's to my senior year."

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Poynter

Read the entire thing, only to have this waiver at the end of the story.

This post was simultaneously published on ESPN.com as part of the Poynter Review Project.

Ugh.

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by Big Head on Jul 19, 2011 6:55 AM CDT reply actions

Poynter is serving as an ombudsman of sorts

since only one of the three previous ombudspersons was actually good.

In re: Feldman suspension, it’s quite clear that Bruce is on “vacation.” The same kind of vacation that ESPN has made Tony Kornheiser take in the past (like when he knocked Hannah Storm’s wardrobe and also back when he did the national 10am-1pm Eastern show).

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by D-Sing on Jul 19, 2011 11:44 AM CDT up reply actions

I understand that Poynter is placed as unbiased here...

but when you’re being published by the one your judging, I’ll be skeptical.

ESPN has an ombudsman, being published by ESPN, with an ESPN paycheck.. The WWL wants to think you can’t connect the obvious dots.

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by Big Head on Jul 19, 2011 1:48 PM CDT up reply actions

Still, that's the job of an ombudsman, right?

Aren’t most going to be receiving a paycheck from the company for whom they serve in that role?

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by Bill C. on Jul 19, 2011 2:12 PM CDT up reply actions

Yes, which is why it's impossible to go 'all-in' with a corporate mouth being fed by that company's cash

The ESPN ombudsman position is a joke. No doubt about it.

Poynter puts themselves in a bad spot in the ESPN/SbB issue since ESPN is publishing Poynter pieces on their .com. Is there no conflict of interest here?

I think there are two points of public feelings on this, and ESPN comes out looking bad in both. I’m surprised Poynter came across as to throw SbB deeper in the grave than ESPN with this issue. Poynter is the only non-ESPN’er trying to throw SbB under the bus, but, then again, does Poynter’s piece being published by ESPN still make it an unbiased non-ESPN’er?

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by Big Head on Jul 19, 2011 3:13 PM CDT up reply actions

I decided after seeing the Poynter piece being published by ESPN.com...

that this is similar to getting NFL labor news from the NFL Network, owned by the NFL and the owners.

I’m not one for conspiracy theories, but I just don’t see anything as news, but more of a public relations move when one party is paying the messenger.

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by Big Head on Jul 19, 2011 3:20 PM CDT up reply actions

I think that was an episode of south park. That they've found the cure for AIDS-

Money.

by ris-d on Jul 19, 2011 9:51 AM CDT reply actions

Actually

HIV/AIDS is very treatable today with or without money. Speaking from experience with a family member that is healthy and has been infected since 1998, and she’s a single school teacher.

by blktgr on Jul 19, 2011 10:40 AM CDT reply actions

I should have specified...

…that I was talking more about other areas of the world where it is much more problematic than it is here. That’s a point worth mentioning, though—we’ve slowly learned how to contain it in this country at least.

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by Bill C. on Jul 19, 2011 10:56 AM CDT up reply actions

Well

To be blunt, I haven’t really liked Kim English the basketball player but damn do I love Kim English the person (at least from what you can tell about someone via the media). Every quote ever attributed to him should be put in a textbook for athlete-media/fan relations. Can’t help but root for the guy…..just gotta fix that whole “has shot below 35% from the field in conference” thing.

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by joker24 on Jul 20, 2011 4:21 AM CDT reply actions