I don't mean to stir up a hornet's nest here Tom, but that kind of inaccurate reporting is one BIG reason that I don't watch CNN. Channels like Fox news and TBN get a bad wrap for some of their inherent bias's and perhaps rightly so, but at least their reporting is always accurate so that the viewer can decide. I…

Why because he's a black athlete he couldn't've gone to law school? I beleive Tony Larussa debunked that stereotype.

Allegedly (you have to be careful with your words under today's jurist prudence).

I would like to plaud Mr. Barkly for his very candid and insightful views. It must have been very hard for him to admit all of this as a man of black color, but he is clearly more intelligent then your average "athlete" (I believe he went to law school after graduation like my brother). What happened that night we…

I bet if Johnny "Football" Manzell went to Auburn instead of a non-Sec school, Paul and all his clones would love him. so unfair.

"Living next to white people is the worst!" —other white people

It's "cool" to see the Haitians "running" because it looks like they need to stick to bobbsledding!

As a long time espn,com commenter I am definitely sad to see it go (ho nomo). Although while it certainly had a number of problem commenters (ie, testy horse) at the same time it offered a counterpoint to the elite/jew (sorry Barry) based articles that you see at the top places like here at deadspin and also Joe…

It's moment's like this where I truly feel blessed to comment

I'm not usually a fan of very obese people but I've always found you to be a good reporter. I hope you do well at A Sporting News.

boy between this and the Aaron Hernandez story, I guess aliens are in the news these days.

The worst part about them closing the comments is that they defrauded me out of my best commenter award (from 2012). But my brother said they're dead meat because they violated the statute of frauds.