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Stallworth and Vick Are Incomparable, But Not Why You Think

05:38 PM ET 06.20

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In light of Donte' Stallworth's outrageously lenient sentencing to 30 (actually 24) days for driving drunk and killing a man on an early morning Miami street, a cacophony of protestations has reverberated around the world of sports and the justice system. The main beef people seem to harbor is that Vick got a raw deal and Stallworth got off easy, because what Stallworth did is far more "heinous" (the mot du jour) than what Vick did. It's no stretch to understand that people in line with this philosophy believe that one human life holds immeasurably greater value than any number of canine…

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Great, Another Team of Destiny

02:02 AM ET 10.21

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So here I am, a Philly sports fan, who by all accounts should be thrilled to have my baseball team in the World Series. Well, I am. I have a $100 bar tab from buying everyone drinks when we clinched to prove it. On the other hand, I'm a Philly sports fan. The only mofos more pessimistic than we are dwell in the Cubs and Red Sox nations respectively. We find things to grouse about even when we're winning, because we just don't want our hearts broken. So when the team screws up (as they inevitably will) we can throw our hands in the air and exclaim, "See, whadItellya?…

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Shut Up, Jim Brown

09:41 PM ET 01.24

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So apparently Jim Brown is pissed off that Tiger didn't speak up about the "lynch" comment on the Golf Channel. As an African-American, I don't need Tiger Woods to speak for me. I don't want him to speak for me. It was a stupid, ignorant and inherently racist comment, but I can figure that out on my own; I don't need Tiger or any other famous black person to inform me of that fact. I also don't need Jim Brown telling another black person how to represent. This is the same mentality that causes grandstanders like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson to jump into every…

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