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  1. Multiple people shared it. Only one person was reprimanded for sharing it. That person shared it with Maria Taylor who was the subject of discussion. Amin made a great point in how ESPN could've easily figured out which employees were working when Rachel had her conversation recorded and gotten down to the bottom of who actually did the recording. However, it didn't seem as though ESPN (a company that in the past has seen one of their main talents surreptitious recorded in the nude) took the fact that it was an invasion of privacy seriously.
  2. After listening to the podcast I've changed my mind a bit on this issue. ESPN really is a poorly managed company and they essentially setup this situation where these women would view each other as threats. They even gave voice to the idea that Nichols claims of the role being in her contract may actually be true and it's part and parcel with ESPN's inability to make tough decisions before they get to a boiling point. And Amin called the claim that Rachel's TVU app malfunctioned or was somehow operator error complete bullshit. Apparently the app can be controlled remotely by ESPN employees.
  3. Good color on the behind the scenes stuff pertaining to this issue on Dan Le Batard Show's podcast The discussion begins about 25 minutes into the link. Goes into the poor management practices at ESPN and essentially setting up this Highlander, "there can only be 1" situation. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/local-hour-jemele-hill/id934820588?i=1000528005298
  4. That's fair and I probably short cutted to how these conversations usually go. Typically when references to quotas and diversity hires are made it's as a stand in for hiring people who aren't qualified while most people of color view it as a mechanism to combat entrenched, prejudicial tendencies in hiring practices.
  5. Could've sworn that both Nichols and Taylor hosted the NBA countdown show for the remainder of that season after Beadle left. They switched in and out. Sometimes going with The Jump style NBA countdown show, which Nichols would host, and then going with Taylor as the host in a conventional setting. ESPN didn't choose to go with Taylor as the sole host over Nichols until the bubble. A decision which is clearly what Nichols was responding to in her conversation with Mendelsohn. Interesting that Nichols felt entitled to a a position that ESPN clearly demonstrated they were both auditioning for during the season.
  6. Ultimately you end up with shit like this. https://www.instagram.com/reel/CP3qvInAMO2/?utm_medium=copy_link
  7. I read some article about this the other day. The NBA has something called the "gather provision". I'm not sure when it was instituted, but suffice to say some time between my last high school game in 1995 and now, a change was made. Or at the very least a change in how the rule is interpreted was explicitly changed by NBA head honchos. It boils down to how lenient the NBA is vs other leagues on the gather step. Essentially the NBA doesn't count the gather step as part of your 2 allotted steps after picking up your dribble.
  8. So let me get this straight. When Big Brother was 95% white it wasn't manufactured or contrived or anything. It was totally reflective of society at large? They really went and jumped the shark when they .....check notes..... made cast 60% white instead of the 95% they had in previous years?
  9. From the article: I first discovered Foxnews during the runup to the 2000 election. Probably sometime during that summer 2000. So I can't really speak to what Foxnews was for the first 4 years of its existence ('96-'00), but ever since I've been aware of it the idea that it was in any way a truthful, center-right news network is absolutely laughable. They've never ever attempted to be good faith actors in my view. The only difference is the toxicity of the fires they start now has increased compared to what they were doing 20 years ago.
  10. Isaiah Taylor is living that same life in Europe (sans the wife and kids). His NBA career was thwarted by inopportune injuries, but hopefully he'll battle his way back soon enough. In the meantime travelling Europe throughout your 20s isn't a bad life to lead.
  11. You must be new around here.
  12. Had the NCAA relaxed on petty, inane stuff like this a long time ago they would've gone a long ways towards receiving the benefit of the doubt that they can't even sniff today. Like the UCF (backup) kicker who quit football in order to maintain his burgeoning Youtube page or Jeremy Bloom having to quit football to raise money for the Olympics the NCAA really had its head in its ass for far too long. And because of it the pendulum is going to swing to an extreme end the other way before we have anything remotely sensible in place.
  13. Here's a sample.
  14. Totally agree about The Jump. Especially the early iteration with Nichols, Amin, & McGrady. In like Nichols, but like @d2osaid she said something shitty in a moment of frustration. It's just sad that her default setting was black person got the job because she's black rather than the more likely and more frequently occurring reason that younger woman got the job because she's younger.
  15. I guess I'm on the complete opposite side of this. Why would Team MT sympathize with someone who appears to fundamentally believe that MT isn't qualified for her job?
  16. I guess I wasn't clear. The theory is that ESPN released Maria's contract demands and in response Maria's team released the Rachel Nichols "Maria only got the job because she's black" recordings.
  17. If you're referring to the same reports that I read, that 5m/year reported offer was couched in terms that were extremely vague and those numbers seemed to only be mentioned as a means to paint Taylor as a diva. In fact I believe this recent Rachel Nichols news was leaked in direct response to ESPN attempting to characterize Taylor as a temperamental, difficult person while conducting contract negotiations.
  18. PJ is making a name for himself in other avenues as well. Fast forward to about the 3:00 minute mark for PJs part.
  19. Spoelstra is yet to win 50 games without Lebron on his roster.
  20. For the lawyers on here does giving the NCAA an antitrust exemptions without establishing collective bargaining rights for athletes seem odd? Or is it not necessary for other entities with an antitrust exemption?
  21. The possibility of NIL and other changes having the paradoxal effect of keeping talented players in school a bit longer was always something that I felt had been ignored in the debate over the issue. Now I'm not talking about certified first rounders (especially in basketball), but marginal prospects who often leave early despite minimal chance of being a 1st round NBA pick or football players with 3rd round or lower grades may think twice about leaving if they're making a little extra bank on the side. Had NIL been introduced 25 or 30 years ago the 1 and done era wouldnt have ever existed.
  22. Yeah people struggle to reconcile the dissonance that takes place when people have good, often loving, and respectful relationships with black individuals yet exhibit racist views towards blacks as a whole or as a demographic group. Shit, even David Duke loved his black nanny growing up. People are complicated.
  23. Looks like he improved his shooting form. Looks a little tighter than before and is out front instead of next to his ear.
  24. I guess I'm old but I can't get my mind around these kids today. The idea that for my senior year I'd leave my high school where we competed for a state championship to go to a made up charter school where I spend a year competing for absolutely nothing is something I'd not only never consider but a move that I couldn't even conceive of.
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