Awful Announcing
"I was never a big fan of Vince Young. I hated his throwing motion. I said 'He reminds me of Tebow, he wins games, but with that throwing motion, he'll never be a great pocket passer.'"
"Was the Super Bowl halftime show obscene?" That virulent Gil Smart take could have been kept to the Treasure Coast Newspapers, but USA Today decided to infect the rest of the country.
After almost three years, This Week In Hot Takes is coming to an end. Here's a look at our picks for the five hottest takes we've covered, plus the final standings and thoughts on the top five finishers there.
Bayless has been hating on Leonard since Leonard left the Spurs, but he took that to a new level Thursday night and Friday morning after Leonard was named Finals MVP.
"But for the Knicks, it feels like a sign of weakness, it feels like they have no other options, it feels like desperation. ...If I'm Kevin Durant, that kind of turns me off."
"ESPN DOT COM decides to come out with a story ON THE DAY THAT MAGIC AND THE CREW ARE GOING TO BE HERE! Do I like the fact that I have to deal with it today? HELL NO!"
"IF YOU ARE A KNICK FAN, THIS IS THE EQUIVALENT OF BEING KIDNAPPED, STORED IN A BASEMENT, BEING TORTURED AND THEY LET YOU OUT WHEN YOU ARE NO USE TO ANYBODY! IF YOU ARE NOT A KNICKS FAN, YOU MAKE ME SICK! I DON'T LIKE ANY OF YOUS, ANY OF YOUS!"
"The heroes from the past broke social barriers and worked toward a more perfect justice by being the best they could be in their fields. They did it with courage and dignity — not with outrage, accusation, and obscene lyrics."
"So I said to Joseph Goebbels, “Burn any good books, lately?”" is a hell of a way to start a column about Long Beach State changing its mascot.
Rovell, a man who once gold-plated his shoes after finishing 21,463rd in a marathon, criticized a gymnastics team for celebrating finishing second nationally.
"BU has created a narrative. We don’t allow our kids to cheat and lie, but we’re allowing a university to cheat, lie, and abuse/suppress science. That’s harmful to people and it’s wrong."
"There are images of Cleveland Browns fans too, empty seats, bags on their head, and a bunch of guys from Lima, Ohio wearing masks and barking in the end zone, about nine Budweisers in."
"Harper hit .211 in 19 post-season games, striking out 23 times in 76 at-bats and compiling an .801 OPS. He was often on the DL, from which he tweet-praised a pitcher who was no-hitting Nats. His grotesque behavior on the field was worse than what goes on in the Capitol."
"Unless I missed it and someone died, there is no such thing as a 'tragic start' for LSU, or for any team." LSU forward Wayde Sims was fatally shot in September.
"If it was the 70s, everybody would be in jail. Everybody. Kids got beaten up, we got beaten up when we were kids like it was nothing. Nothing. No one even blinked an eye. ...I ain't getting in between nobody and their kids."
