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i grew up resenting sports. when you re a black kid who everybody knows is going to be over six feet tall, every conversation goes to you play basketball. i only did in eighth grade. i went the whole season without scoring a point, like dennis rodman, but without the rebounding and hair. when i lived in chicago, i discovered michael jordan. now i m the guy who quotes the last dance like it s a new book of the bible. i took it personally. but that s the thing about sports. we often take it personally. i m somehow a grown man who hates adults for no good reason. john starks! sports give us a place to unload all of our unchecked f-u on everybody, from little leaguers to hall of famers. and if there is one city that revels in its love of winners and its hatred of loser, it s my former hometown, boston, massachusetts. ....
Together, including john stockton. reporter: natasha chen, cnn, los angeles. listen, jim, gonzaga saying the rules apply to all of us. even hall of famers. that s the issue with these stories. aaron rodgers too. his teammates abided by the rules. he did not. it s a, or novak djokovic, players abide by the rules. role models not doing the right thing in this instance. television last night, two of the best quarterbacks in the nfl set their playoff game into overtime and that was just one, one of the four epic match-ups we saw. after the break, we ll recap possibly the best weekend ever for football and well worth staying up late too. ....
He looks up in the stands and he points and goes, hey, it is john candy. everybody inside the huddle said, if he s not worried, we re not worried. he had the confidence. took him down 94 yards. that s what you saw with patrick mahomes. that s what you saw with josh allen. that s what you saw with tom brady. guys who want to be in that moment and that s just something that aaron rodgers, he doesn t like being in that moment. you can tell. he gets more conservative. he gets more cautious, and he s just not the type of guy that can take a team down a field and win time and time again, whereas brady, mahomes and allen, come on, mark it down, just get their corner in the hall of fame. of course, brady up front, but all of these guys are going to be hall of famers. they re extraordinary. as talented as aaron rodgers is his lifetime playoff record now 11 and 10, barely over .500 and he lost some killer home playoffs game. one of my favorite of the rodgers twitter jokes was apparently he di ....
Juiced batters, let them all in, that day didn t come. why not, bob? i wrote this in the globe, it is a matter of having to look yourself in the mirror and are you comfortable letting these known cheaters and arrogant in one case cheater and when other people weren t. and i just couldn t do it. and i heard all the arguments about they were hall of famers before they allegedly starting doing it, yes, i know all that, and they are two of the greatest players of all time, i know that, very well, but it is just a matter of how you feel about yourself as a voter. i couldn t do it. susan? the problem is the character class, which is on the ballot that the hall of fame voters are given. in every way, shape and form, it is spelled out, you must consider character. what does that mean? we know there are cheaters in the hall of fame. one is celebrated. there are people who have, you know, been involved with ....