ESPN doesn't report something?

So it's Sunday night, I'm watching ESPN and surfing the web. All of sudden, "This just in. Super Bowl QB has civil suit issued in sexual assault case."

But it wasn't Stuart Scott with his clever but sometimes cheesy quips. It was like Yahoo.com reporting. So, I sat there waiting to get live coverage of Ed Werder reporting from Heinz Field, but nothing. 20 minutes goes by and nothing, not a ticker at the bottom of the page, no lead-in, nothing.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for the media staying out of people's personal lives, but when you pick and choose which people you do and don't crush, that's a little disturbing. ESPN came out with some bogus response as to why they didn't report, that said something about not reporting on civil suits. I'm pretty sure there have been plenty of athletes who have been involved in civil suit allegations and ESPN reported on it. Wasn't Randy Moss involved in a sexual assault civil suit case. That one got blown out of the water.

By no means am I saying Big Ben is guilty, in fact I think otherwise, BUT ESPN refusing to say anything makes me think there is more to this than just an ESPN reporting guideline to which stories they report on.

Every time you turn on the TV it's another Days of Our Pathetic Lives soap drama. The news is horrible and can hardly be trusted. They spend more time on celebrity gossip and daily sitings then they do on stuff that is important to us (or maybe that is important to the majority...scary). They get mixed up in the fluff and forget about the hard stuff, because it actually takes hard work to come up with good material.

Now they just all report the same stuff and see who can get more text messages and cellphone video. It's completely dismal. It's been so bad as of late, that I've been reduced to starting this blog!


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Harry Potter and The Half-Wit Prince

So I made it out to the local theater this weekend (what a surprise) to see the premier of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Yes, nerdy, but we all need a little bit of that in us.

I have to say I was very disappointed in the movie. Granted, this book was not as exciting as previous Harry Potter adventures, but the basis of this book was to give the reader much needed background information on the main villain, Tom Riddle, an unsuspected hero, the Half-Blood prince, and to the past before Harry was born.

The movie only gave us tidbits of this and was actually quite boring. I'm a big Potter fan, so I can't say I was completely not entertained. The flash backs they did show were very cool, the quitage matches were a lot more entertaining, and the lessons on magic very interesting. But 2.5 hours was not used properly.

I'm hoping that the next two movies add some of the missed information and don't have such a lack of detail. I know it's a movie and one can read the book, but when one is sitting there wondering who Tom Riddle's parents were, or when did Harry want to become and auror and what is that, come on. We missed some stuff.

Anyways, I'm done with my nerd for awhile. Back to movies like the release of GI Joe. LOL.


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