Sports Media Is Blowing the Coverage of Deshaun Watson
From the local paper to national NFL media, reporting on the allegations against the Texans quarterback reads like something from another generation.
April 1, 2021
Deshaun Watson, last December, at Chicago s Soldier Field.
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On Wednesday, the
Houston Chroniclepublished a story on its website under the headline “Statements from massage therapists in support of Deshaun Watson.” The story reproduced a press release issued by Watson’s attorney in which eighteen massage therapists claimed that they had worked with Watson as a client, and that the Texans’ quarterback who has been accused of sexual harassment and sexual assault in 21 lawsuits filed by other massage therapists in recent weeks had behaved in a professional manner during their encounters.
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email The Day Private Willie Mays Threw Out My Dad
Two lives intersect in a story of baseball, military service, and American society in the Korean War era. February 21, 2021
On May 29, 1952, Army draftee Willie Mays reported for duty at Fort Eustis in Newport News, Virginia. The reigning National League Rookie of the Year would see no action during his nearly two years of service except on the baseball diamond, as the center fielder for the Fort Eustis Wheels. Mays later estimated he played in about 180 games while in the Army.
Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes, plus Amanda Gorman what’s not to love when the biggest game also features America’s inauguration poet? Plus, you made it through January so here’s every excuse to eat wings, loaded nachos and tater tots.
Throwback Thursday: 1948 Sugar Bowl, Alabama vs. Texas
Alabama has had a lot of great games in New Orleans, but the 1948 Sugar Bowl wasn t one of them
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Jan 14, 2021
Some of the most celebrated backs in Southeastern Conference history saw their collegiate careers end in disappointment in New Orleans, with a Sugar Bowl loss to mark their final game.
The list includes Billy Cannon (1960), Johnny Majors (1957), Hank Lauricella (1952), and Alabama s Harry Gilmer in 1948.
Three years previous, Gilmer had enjoyed nearly everything the Sugar Bowl had to offer even though Alabama took a narrow loss to a much-older Duke team. Grantland Rice called the then 18-year-old Gilmer “the greatest college passer I ever saw.”
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Several of the Worldâs Leading Athletic Records Made in Mid Twenties December 1 1921 GRANTLAND RICE
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DOES man reach the maximum of physical prowess at the age of twentysix years? Grantland Rice has written an article, âWhat is the Winning Age in Sport?â for Vanity Fair in which he seems to have produced conclusive proof that he does. Youth, he points out, is inclined to be excitable, nervous and high strung. It is likely to break under strain. On the other hand, ageâand by age he explains he means anything beyond thirty-
five and forty -has the judgment and the mental advantages under good control; but, being inclined to tire more rapidly, lacks the physical requirements t.o gain the snow-capped peaks. He goes on to name a formidable list of athletes who won their laurels at the age of twenty-six:â