Thanks for the info. FYI Shaktar Donetsk is in Ukraine, not Turkey and yes they do love their Brazilians.

Calling the cold-blooded assault of another human being an "incident" is a wonderful dulling of the very real problem of domestic violence, Roger, but you don't hit someone you love. Ever. Under any circumstances.

Eh, this Rice is too grainy.

Yeah, I fucked up.

Tracie Egan Morrissey may be gone, but her legacy of terrible Jezebel articles apparently lives on in her heir apparent.

WOW. I sorry but you missed young Croatian sensational Georg Vladinastic. He pulls ball in the hole as a routine in the Spanish Liga. I believe one of the eastern teams own his rites. He has a great lift in the air with his legs and probably will score 20 or 38 points once he makes team in the national basket. I hope…

"My God, that's the most illegally parked car I've ever seen!"

By request.

Didn't the other guy who got injured celebrating a sack celebrate in the exact same way, with that jump? What the fuck good do these guys think will come out of this?

LSU and Ole Miss. Homefield advantage is often blown out of the water, but LSU really does hardly lose at home, even in years where they drop four games. They have a good shot at the upset. However, a close World Series game would trump this.

Drunk Samer Story Time:

Probably when you stop begging all over Kinja and Twitter. Have some self-respect, man.

Eh.

Didn't read the story, but I'm making a stupid pro Redskins name comment.

- Ignorant People

Jim Rome was suspended for 15 days when he provoked Jim "Chris" Everett and cowered in the corner.

Unfortunately, I think it does give the appearance of credence to the Biscotti presser/rebuttal statement. Now, while I'm 100 percent sure he's lying through his teeth, Bob Ley made sure to let the whole world know the Van Natta and Valkenburgh team had two Pulitzers between them when he read the story live.

For what it's worth, that wasn't the only weird mistake that ESPN made in that story - they made a sloppy error which they've already deleted from the story (without printing a correction) - the story originally stated that Ray Rice spent the first Sunday of football season at home and that former Ravens guard AQ…

ESPN commented that the reporter will be reprimanded for not following their style guides for reporting quotations versus paraphrasing. (Had ESPN followed Chicago Manual of Style guidelines—my personal preference—this wouldn't have been an issue.)

That is so far from OTL's usual job of insightful reporting. I cannot think of a reason why they would not dump the complete text within the story. Other than that would appear to make it a non-story. It's not like OTL had to create news; there was plenty evolving. Very strange.

Aside from the texts not being verbatim in the original story, I'm curious to know what everyone thinks about OTL's decision not to include Rice's side of the conversation. Thoughts?