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Is this guy serious?
I realize Cowboys fans are frustrated with Tony Romo for making a few bone-headed decisions yesterday that allowed the Detroit Lions back into the game, but I really cannot fathom any excuse for a grown man to decide he should teach his son to burn Romo’s jersey in retaliation.
Watch the video, which I just saw over at Black Sports Online courtesy of Robert Littal, and then let’s talk about it.
In the latest episode of the MSF Podcast I interview Robert Littal of Black Sports Online about the ever-expanding power of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, who Littal labeled “Roger Goodell Gotti” in the wake of Terrelle Pryor’s surprising five-game suspension and Michael Vick’s revelation in a recent GQ article that Goodell helped steer him to Philadelphia.
It’s been a week of new features here at MSF, and we have another for you today.
This week we have unveiled the fantasy-only portion of the site, our Fantasy Football 3-2-1 video series (Click here for Episode 1 and Episode 2), and later today we’ll have our first fantasy football Friday live chat.
This morning we add to that list our weekly Friday Football Preview Podcast.
Each week on Friday morning I’ll be giving you my NFL locks of the week (ATS, of course), the must-watch game, and an upset alert. I’ll also be bringing in guests to preview the biggest games and storylines for that weekend.
And if the first episode is any indication, the Friday Football Preview is going to be a hell of a lot of fun on a weekly basis.
[Editor's note: Welcome to the first installment of Fantasy Football Black & White, a weekly fantasy football debate between MSF's own Jerod Morris and Robert Littal from Black Sports Online. Each week, Jerod and Rob will figure out what they genuinely disagree on and then analyze it for you in simple black and white terms, 250 words or less. Then you get the final decision. Is it black...or is it white? Michael Jackson couldn't decide...can you?]
In today’s edition of Black & White, Rob and Jerod debate Chicago Bears RB Matt Forte, who was one of the biggest disappointments of the 2009 season.
A couple of weeks ago I ended up on the Wikipedia page for the classic 90s hip hop track “Regulate” by Warren G and Nate Dogg. The synopsis section includes a hilarious literal interpretation of the song’s lyrics. For some reason, I thought it would be a fun, entertaining idea to borrow this idea for a new post series.
I emailed longtime friend of MSF Robert Littal of Black Sports Online and shared with him the following idea: I’ll take rap songs and give a white guy’s literal interpretation of the lyrics and then he takes rock/country songs and gives a black guys’ literal interpretation of the lyrics; then we post the the results for the entertainment of our readers.
He liked the idea so we’re giving it a try.
If you do a quick perusal of our golf coverage here at MSF it will be pretty clear to you that I am much more of a Tiger Woods fan than I am a golf fan.
I always have been, and I probably always be.
I enjoy playing the game, although I do not play it all that much. And I enjoy watching the game, although I do not watch it all that much if Tiger is not playing nor a prominent story.
For me, Tiger Woods is golf, and I have followed him as much as I’ve followed any athlete over the last decade.
Part of the reason for that is because Tiger is so dominant at his sport, so fascinating to watch from an athletic perspective, so famous, so wrapped in sporting mythology, and so ubiquitous.
Yesterday, I caught the following blurb on Pro Football Talk, in reference to “new developments” that CBS is promising in the ongoing investigation into Steve McNair’s murder:
CBS promises that Keteyian’s findings will expose “critical flaws in the police investigation and raises troubling questions about the events leading up to the two deaths.”
My reaction after reading?
“I wonder what Robert Littal has to say about this.”
And if you want to know why Robert’s name was the first I thought of, take a quick minute to review Littal’s coverage of the Steve McNair murder investigation at Black Sports Online (this post in particular).
So I asked Robert what he thought these “new developments” might be (obvious teaser: the former boyfriend?!?), and he graciously agreed to answer via the burgeoning MSF Podcast, with the resulting insight just a click away.
Longtime readers of MSF know that I often link out to Robert Littal at Black Sports Online. There are a few reasons for this:
The first two reasons are obviously the most important, and what makes BSO one of my favorite sports blogs, and Robert certainly did not disappoint today.
If you’ve been following the sad story of Steve McNair’s murder, you know that the Nashville police recently determined and announced that it was a murder-suicide. Yet, I’ve read many posts by other bloggers that have communicated unease with this conclusion, with most of the lingering questions centering on the ex-boyfriend of the now deceased girlfriend of McNair who was implicated by Nashville PD as the lone shooter the morning she and McNair died.
And today, Robert posted the most expository and logical of all of the posts that have taken issue with the Nashville PD’s announcement.
I don’t know enough about the case to pass judgment one way or another with any semblance of authority, and in truth Robert does not pass specific judgment either. But he does raise a number of interesting questions, and has his own set of sources to make the questions legitimate. He’s been at the forefront of blogger coverage of the McNair shooting, and I applaud him for continuing to dig for information and for posting his honest thoughts about the case.
I’ll let his post speak for itself now. Excerpt and link below. Go there and read the post. As C&C Music Factory once said, things that make you go hmm…
Who Really Murdered Steve McNair? I’ve Broken The Case — (Black Sports Online)
I wasn’t in the room when McNair and Miss Kazemi was murdered so I can never say 100% I know who did it. That would be irresponsible but I do know this:
Mr. Norfleet is a very disgruntled ex. Mr. Norfleet was in the middle of the DUI arrest and was the last person to see Miss Kazemi before she decided to buy a gun. Mr. Norfleet hated Steve McNair. Mr. Norfleet tries to expose the relationship to the media. Mr. Norfleet has violent tendencies. Mr. Norfleet wrote a song describing the murder of his ex and her lover. Mr. Norfleet knew Miss Kazemi was selling her furniture to plan to move in with McNair. Mr. Norfleet on the night of the murder states Miss Kazemi came to see him, but he didn’t answer the door. Mr. Norfleet had a key to her Condo.
LASTLY MR. NORFLEET HAS NO ALIBI THAT ANYONE CAN CONFIRM.
