I am trying to be objective and read a blog about ESPN.  I did what one guy said to do - set back and watch what they have done.  I let them start with a clean slate and BAM!!!  He was right.  They are very biased towards Boston and it's area teams, especially Boston in general.

It is the Stanley Cup Finals.  Not the Quarter or Conference Finals, but the Stanley Cup Finals.  Seems like that would be the main lead in story since the NBA finals have not arrived yet.  So with Pittsburgh and Detroit in the Stanley Cup Finals, and Game One, of course they would kick off SportsCenter with the SC highlights.  Ahhhh, no.  It was K-G and the Boston Celtics finally winning a road game.  They spent seven minutes on the highlights of the game.  The next segway went into Stuart Scott, Jalen Rose and (everyones favorite big mouth) Stephen A (as in a-s-s) Smith for another two minutes and 27 seconds and then went to the STANLEY CUP FINALS game one highlights!  Those highlights lasted two minutes and six seconds, or 11 seconds less then Scott, Rose and Smith.

Can you be anymore biased to Boston, ESPN?  Of course, the next story for two minutes and nine seconds was the Boston Red Sox and Oakland game highlights and breaking up Oaklands no hitter.  A short time later, they went to Boston's no-hitter.  Of course they related Lester's no - hitter to his bout with cancer and that is an incredible story.  However, let's look at some other storylines.

It is Memorial Day weekend.  There is the Pat Tillman story, the foundation that Lori Piestewa's family set up for native Americans that were also killed in the war, the double amputees that are in the Michigan schools telling high school students about their experiences.

They also are mentioning Matt Ryans' (where did he go to school - Boston College, went into the Boston Pistons game again, showed two scores from the Wings game, the no hitter breakup again and finally, oh yea, a little race called, the Indianapolis 500.

ESPN is continually showing why more and more their ratings are slipping.  Hey, they still have the spelling Bee and the WNBA!!!

Read the post about "Michael Vick and Dogfighting" he put up.  He relates this issue to starving children.  Then read SavannahGApeach's post, whose father was killed delivering supplies to children.  ALL of us need to stick to the facts and address the topic.   Apologize for your loss Peach and God Bless EVERY family that has suffered a loss.

Now it has come to this, referees betting on games.  As if kicking Tim Duncan out for doing nothing during a game while on the bench wasn't bad enough, they are being investigated by the FBI for betting on games.  I guess those fouls they called on players that were barely even a touch foul makes sense.  Is there anyone that can't think o####ame in which they remember a player barely even touched and being called for a foul?  I know Rasheed Wallace is no angel, but it makes you wonder about some of those fouls that looked like he may not have committed along with all the other players that were animate about some of the calls.

Are all officials betting on games?  No.  Are all players going to gripe about fouls, even when they know they fouled the shooter?  Yes.  But this would be sad if there is now more evidence against more referees.  The one person that is saying "thanks" is Michael Vick.  At least for 10 minutes he isn't being blogged about.  But it's only ten minutes, or roughly as long as the average pit bull fight last.

 

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While there seems to be a be a bunch of blogs regarding the President, lack of black presidents (although it was eluded to in other blog, there has never been a female or Jewish president either, also eluded to) let me add nothing but my two cents worth.  Can we not stick to sports and if not, here is my political viewpoint?  FoxNews, MSNBC and other places love political viewpoint blogs.  You can see I am retired military and now with the government work as an Investigator with DHS.  We arrested an individual for ICAC (Internet Crimes Against Children) which spoke absolutely no English, none, nada, zero, zip & zilch.  However, he had a bogus SS Card with an actual number for a soldier that was killed in 2003 taken from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI), and a valid ID from New York State. Do you know what he said when he was arrested?  "I have done nothing wrong. (Despite the fact he had over 270GB's of jpegs with children from around the world and had been exchanging or selling them to other countries, and spending 16 hours a day of this as his sole job.)  Why is it you are arresting me and I have rights?"  Of course he does and he was given a lawyer.  To which he immediately filed a motion to dismiss. His statement to the arraignment judge (since illegals have quicker judicial rights and saw a judge within two days) told the judge that "we were wrong to arrest him since it is not uncommon for Hispanics to do this (stereotyping the hispanics!)."  With that mentality, I replied to the interpretor, "Ask him why the Mexican police arrest Americans from Fort Bliss for having a marijuana joint in Mexico, but Ciudad Juarez, Mexico police don't arrest locals for amounts less then 20 pounds?"  Why, is because they are Americans and are held to double standards and an alien in Mexico. Is there a reason we haven't had a female, black or any other president that falls into a category other then white?  YES, and it's simple, they weren't voted in.  This is America and we are our own worst demons.  If we didn't vote them in it is our fault.  Do you know why so many politicians want the amnesty program?  Because if they push for it, the illegals would be valid and being valid allows them to get a Voter Registration Card.  If you push for me to be legal and give me amnesty, who do you think I will vote for you?  When you talk about 40 million illegals being given amnesty, 40 million votes can swing an election.  And each year, 440,000 more aliens sneak into the country. The bottom line is the reason we don't have a female or black president is because they weren't voted in and every legal American has the right to vote.  It's a democracy and isolating ourselves from the other countries because "taking care of our country before we help other countries" just isn't going to work. So the real question is, "Are you ready for some football?"

FYI:  I forgot to mention, the man posted a $250,000 cash bond to get out pending trial.  Not a 10% bond, but $250,000 cash bond.  It took him less than one hour and one phone call to have the money at the law enforcement center.