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The opposite of intelligent and informative

Aug 10, 2007 Athletes who don't stab people, DeMeco Ryans, Houston Chronicle, Jon Abbate, Training camp 2007

Chron.com has given some fairly good coverage of training camp on a daily basis this year, which is nice. The short info snippets in each daily entry have provided some blog fodder and (more importantly) some nuggets of insight that you probably can’t get without being at practice. For that, I commend them.

But the video in the Day 13 roundup… well, I can honestly say I am dumber for having watched it. Why is Anna-Megan bouncing up and down at the beginning? Why is McClain hugging himself throughout? Why did they spend half the video telling us that they were going to do a video with Jon Abbate? Why are the telling us the same stuff about Schaub v. Carr that we’ve heard for the last two weeks? My head is spinning.

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I want to thank everyone who commented on the DeMeco Ryans story, as well as The Big Lead, Roll Bama Roll, and USA Today.com for linking to it. Getting the additional traffic was nice, but getting that story out there was even better. I also want to say that I am disappointed in Matt Mosley at ESPN (I refuse to link) for telling me he was going to blog about it (when it looked like DeMeco had passed up the chance to donate) and then not following through (once it became a feel-good story). I should have known he was only looking for some reason to blast us.

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3 Responses to “The opposite of intelligent and informative”

  1. The Blow Leprechaun
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    August 10th, 2007 at 12:39 pm

    Booo ESPN, Boo! That’s just crummy. Hopefully getting called out for being a dirty journalist will make him follow through now anyway.


  2. Shake
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    August 10th, 2007 at 1:50 pm

    Doubtful. I think they like being dirty…..and anal beads. Matt Mosley definitely loves anal beads.


  3. Jeff
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    August 11th, 2007 at 7:15 am

    Anyone who relies on ESPN for in-depth coverage should be sadly disappointed. There’s only one storyline for those guys, regardless of the facts.
    Keep up the good work, Matt.