Writing the Pine

HOW DARE YOU PETA

For comparing Manu Ginobili’s swatting of a bat to Michael Vick electrocuting, hanging, drowning, and shooting dogs.  Sure, PETA didn’t bring up Vick’s name, but they did link to all their posts tagged “Michael Vick” when discussing what Manu did.  Here’s exactly what they said: To bludgeon a 4-ounce animal to death, it takes either a [...]

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Weekend Sports Musings

  • Obama to Denmark to pitch Olympics bid President Barack Obama is headed to Denmark to go ice fishing and plead the case for Chicago as the host city for the 2016 Olympics.  “We need this Olympic bid badly,” said Obama to press reporters over the weekend.  From WTP, here’s to better luck than he has had pleading [...]

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Vick-timized

Watch CBS Videos Online I didn’t really have an interest in touching on the subject of Michael Vick, but Anderson said I should so I am.  I didn’t watch the 60 Minutes interview when it aired because those athlete interviews are just too predictable.  Athletes aren’t the most eloquent or intellectual dudes and rarely are they [...]

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HOW DARE YOU ANTI-VICK PROTESTERS

HOW DARE YOU to everyone who even thinks Michael Vick should not be reinstated immediately. Look, by no means am I saying that dogfighting is acceptable. It’s not, and that’s why Vick has spent the last 23 months repaying his debt to society. How then, can the NFL or anyone else POSSIBLY say that he [...]

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The Hangover – Athletes Edition!

The recent success of the movie The Hangover got us thinking: which athletes would we want to go to Vegas with? We thought it’d be a fun little group project to do, so we asked the guys to pick three athletes, current or former (as long as they’re still alive), they’d want to go on [...]

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