Tuesday, August 19, 2008
ESPN Continues to Lie for the sake of...whom?
by Ken Houghton
As Joan Collins once observed, "A lie is a very poor way to say hello."
Long-time readers will know this is not the first time ESPN has told this lie. I'll say again what I said then:
Found the video on YouTube. No embedding, and not recommended for the faint of heart. This is a family blog.
ESPN's continued efforts to lie about this do it no favors.
Although ESPN is officially a, er, Sports Center that uses video, they appear not to be able to see themselves, judging by a paragraph in this piece:
Moore, then a forward with the Colorado Avalanche, suffered severe neck and head injuries in the March 8, 2004 incident, when Bertuzzi sucker punched him from behind, knocking him unconscious to the ice. Moore has not played professional hockey since.
As Joan Collins once observed, "A lie is a very poor way to say hello."
Long-time readers will know this is not the first time ESPN has told this lie. I'll say again what I said then:
Found the video on YouTube. No embedding, and not recommended for the faint of heart. This is a family blog.
ESPN's continued efforts to lie about this do it no favors.
Labels: abject horror, hockey, Journamalism
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
My E-Mail Wants Me to Join the Straight Talk Express
by Ken Houghton
Click link here.
UPDATE: Oops. I see Dr. Black posted this Saturday night. So I'm not going to keep it embedded it here.
Here are some current members.
Click link here.
UPDATE: Oops. I see Dr. Black posted this Saturday night. So I'm not going to keep it embedded it here.
Labels: 2008, abject horror, Politics, Republican Party, Video
Thursday, March 08, 2007
THREE YEARS AGO TODAY (formerly, Well, So Much for Rooting for the Red Wings this Year)
by Ken Houghton
Scott is likely to explain the full details. [And did.] Suffice to say that this doesn't tell the half of it:
I'll be waiting for ESPN to post a correction of their use of "sucker-punched."
What Scott Will Say.
UPDATE: I found the video on YouTube. No embedding, and not recommended for the faint of heart. This is a family blog.
UPDATE THE SECOND: ESPN provides an update on Steve Moore. Curiously, no one mentioned his name at the trading deadline*:
I guess that's the closest we'll come to a correction of "sucker-punched" in the previous article.
*I hasten to note that Scott was absolutely correct about Luongo for Bertuzzi:
NOTE: This is a recycled post from the 27th of February, except for the Second Update Below, which should give full context to the first update.
Scott is likely to explain the full details. [And did.] Suffice to say that this doesn't tell the half of it:
While playing for the Canucks in March 2004, Bertuzzi sucker-punched Colorado's Steve Moore in the head in one of hockey's ugliest episodes. He served a 17-month suspension.
I'll be waiting for ESPN to post a correction of their use of "sucker-punched."
What Scott Will Say.
UPDATE: I found the video on YouTube. No embedding, and not recommended for the faint of heart. This is a family blog.
UPDATE THE SECOND: ESPN provides an update on Steve Moore. Curiously, no one mentioned his name at the trading deadline*:
He makes periodic visits to the renowned Cleveland Clinic and to his Toronto doctors, but he said he still has concussion-related problems that have prevented the physicians from clearing him to take contact and to attempt to play....
It has been three years since Moore was wheeled off the General Motors Place ice with three fractured neck vertebrae, a concussion and facial lacerations.
I guess that's the closest we'll come to a correction of "sucker-punched" in the previous article.
*I hasten to note that Scott was absolutely correct about Luongo for Bertuzzi:
trading an elite goaltender for Bertuzzi was an extraordinarily bad trade leaving the morality out of it.
Labels: abject horror, hockey, Journamalism
