Prater, Broncos D Keep Steelers From Clinching Playoff Berth In Week 14

I guess I just don’t really take it all that seriously. He’s news. I purposefully chose to not mention Tebow as anything more than a guy who completed some passes in the fourth quarter and overtime, and highlighted other Broncos players.

This will be the most commented on story of the week, and it’ll probably be the only one with a Tebow mention.

It’s interesting to me because he’s arguably the most polarizing athlete since Ali (please note the word “polarizing,” I am not comparing his skill to Ali’s, just how he’s become THE talking point of the most popular sport in our country).

He’s not a great quarterback, no one says he is, but he plays 50 times better in the fourth quarter with the game on the line. Who doesn’t love a great comeback story? No one thinks he can keep this up, and law of averages suggests eventually he’ll lose one of those kinds of games, but he will forever get people (and opponents) thinking of an exciting comeback whenever he steps on the field.

In everyone and anyone being able to slam Christians and our God with impugnity from the Christians.

Try slamming Muslims or their God and see what happens to you. You will be the one getting death threats and feel their ire.

Burn a Bible, people look at you like you are goofy. Burn a Koran and your life is in danger and you might start a war.

Journalism graduate.

Hope you’re ready to learn how to stretch a dollar and get done with work at 4 a.m. =)

Too much of our "journalism" is actually "infotainment" – based on clicks or ad revenue and not based on the value of the information to society in general.

There are plenty of sites and publications out there that adhere to the pure concepts of journalism. The problem is, not too many people read them – or at least, not nearly as many as the infotainment sites. I watch games on TV, outside of that, I get somewhere close to zero percent of my sports information from TV, mostly because I hate the stuff you’re talking about. But not everyone does that. The same people who cry about ESPN are the ones watching every day to find something new to cry about. Simply don’t watch it, and you won’t really care about it.

(clearly, this site is written from an infotainment perspective, and I have no problem admitting that. I don’t think it’s a bad thing. Sports are ultimately subjective. Since I don’t get paid, I can’t be traveling all over to interview for stories, or do things legit journalists would do. I feel it’s important to point that out right now.)

Steelers are a bad, bad, team! You can tell the Refs are against us too. That last game was patheticly officiated. I saw a ref in the first Bengals game, almost cry while giving the call against the Bengals. I have never been one to blame the refs or play lawyer ball, but it is evident that the Steelers have been getting the worst end of the officiating over the last couple of years. It pisses me off, but what can ya do.

Harrison is perhaps looking at a suspension. When do they come out with the list of fines?

ESPN’s biggest issue is it’s way too big. They argue and contradict themselves, mostly. Not to mention Adam Schefter and Jamison Hensley are two completely different kinds of reporters, and both of them are reporting on the same topic yesterday – Schefter mentioning talk is going on about a possible suspension, and Hensley opining about why he feels Harrison should be suspended.

But people take that to mean ESPN wants Harrison suspended. Adam Schefter and Jamison Hensley have probably never exchanged emails before this came out. Schefter has a job to report a story like that, and Hensley has a job to offer his opinion on it. They work for the same company, but the two of them have nothing to do with each other.

I thought both of them handled it just fine. Nothing wrong with Hensley’s opinion (except I completely disagree with it), but Schefter is reporting what sources tell him, not confirming it will happen or giving his opinion on it. But if you see both of them as representative of ESPN, then you think ESPN has an ax to grind. I think there are way too many of analysts offering opinion to justify the amount of news they break, and that’s their problem. The analysts all have to be unique, so they push the line by taking bold stances on things and oftentimes providing way too much fuel to what is merely speculation.

It gets to the point (like yesterday) where so many ESPN folks weighed in on Harrison’s hit and possible suspension, ESPN itself isn’t taking any kind of clear stance on the matter. They’re just a collection of talking heads spouting off, no differently than everyone here at BTSC commenting on articles.

They really should want to be more organized than that, but that’s just me.

instead of being circular they are shaped like a smashed red blood cell and they don’t have the same ability to flex because of their rigidity. Making it harder for them to abosrb oxygen and they clot easier because of the shape and rigidity of them. That is what caused him to lose his Gall Bladder and Spleen, A) he didn’t have enough oxygen going to those organs B) and because the cells can’t flow like normal they formed clots and made it that much more difficult to get oxygen throughout his body