HBO interview keeps 'Spygate' hot
The NFL’s biggest problem now is a call from Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., for an independent investigation and his threat to yank its antitrust exemption.
This can be partly traced to the league’s ongoing dispute with Comcast, the Philadelphia-based cable operator, ESPN’s Sal Paolantonio said this week.
The NFL and Comcast were buddy-buddy when NFL Network launched. But the league’s decision to award a regular season TV package of eight games to NFL Network, rather than Comcast, soured the relationship. Last year, Comcast moved NFL Network to a sports tier that cost subscribers about $5 extra per month.
Specter has “close ties” to Comcast, noted Paolantonio on NFL Live Wednesday, and the league will have to “tread lightly” with Specter as it pursues a complaint against Comcast with the Federal Communications Commission.
Kremer’s interview with Walsh, who worked for the Patriots from 1997 to 2003, will add more fuel to the fire. Among the highlights:
•Walsh says videotaping opponents’ defensive signals gave the Patriots a competitive advantage: “If you know what defense a particular team’s gonna run, if you’re essentially in their huddle … that’s quite an advantage to have on offense.”
•On Bill Belichick’s assertion that taping had little or no impact on games: “If it was of little or no importance, I imagine they wouldn’t have continued to do it, and probably not taken the chances of going down onto the field in Pittsburgh.”
•On whether NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s punishment ($750,000 in fines and loss of a 2008 first-round pick) fit the crime: “If they (the Patriots) had to do it again, I imagine they’d pay a $750,000 fine for three Super Bowls.”
Barkley: I’ll repay $400K casino debt
TNT basketball analyst Charles Barkley admitted owing $400,000 in gambling debts to a Las Vegas casino Thursday. Barkley promised to make good after Clark County District Attorney David Roger said he faced a possible criminal complaint if he did not repay the Wynn Las Vegas resort.
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May 16th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Plus, Republicans only approve of their Senators taking it in the ass from anonymous guys in airport restrooms.Sex with women is against clubhouse rules.
May 16th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Medved contradicts himself a few times there while justifying Craig’s behaviors. And he’s outright wrong on a couple of things (Spitzer was found out as part of a laundering sting IIRC). The Mpls sting wasn’t a one-man operation either.
May 16th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Because the people of NY seemed to want him gone, whether through resignation or impeachment. Not sure about Craig’s constituents.
May 16th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Not my fault now is it?
May 16th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Spitzer did the right thing. Larry Craig is in denial in more ways than one…
May 16th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Listen, they’re both hypocritical assholes. Who really cares if some guy wants to get off in a bathroom - of if some rich guy wants to pay for sex… the point is that they both have made major parts of their political reputations raging against exactly what they themselves have done. They’re not fit for office because they lie though their teeth about their own lives while trying to impose standards they can’t keep, on other people.<start rant>and while I’m ranting… from outside the US (where I am) there’s exactlythismuchdifference between Republicans and Democrats. They are “rhetorically different, but that’s it. Remember that old Star Trek episode where two races from the same planet were locked in a life or death struggle - the crew couldn’t tell the difference until it was pointed out that one group had black and white faces while the other group had white and black faces.The US is a great country - it’s produced some of the best art, science and philosophy … but sometimes the rest of us are amazed at the level of stupidity and blindness that’s produced at the same time.</end rant>
May 16th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
I agree. Although the situations do have some slight differences, I think the differences are irrelevant. Vitter should have resigned.
May 16th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
I agree with you that Obama is different and I think he is exactly what the US needs right now. You need someone to inspire you to come together. But the policy differences between the Dems and the Reps are not that different. They trade policies back and forth. It seems to me that the reason no one can agree in Washington is not that their ideas differ so widely but that any idea that the other side comes up with is defacto a bad idea. Having said that it doesn’t seem to be that different here in Canada - the Liberals and Conservatives are essentially the same and just fight over who get’s to claim the ideas as their own.
May 16th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Because Republicans are shameless.
May 16th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
Only Gay Republican Sex is allowed in our country.
May 16th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
What were the consequences?
May 16th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Not the point now is it?
May 16th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
Felony vs. Misdemeanor.Not to defend either, but that is the answer to the question.