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Clarett spilling the beans

Maybe ESPN feels threatened by a well respected, major program head coach who has taken a stance towards not opening up his program to the press. Tressel talks in very watered-down tones, presumably to protect himself and the team from any mis-directed stories. He also encourages his players to be cautious in front of the press, and limits their appearances with the press.

That's just a theory, because it doesn't make sense to me. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but the traditional standard for reporting is that you have at least two respectable sources for your information before going public with it. The NY Times article obviously did not have two reliable sources before taking its jabs at OSU, and it appears that ESPN followed them right up with that story, and now with this one. Or, in the new-age, high speed internet world, a la Matt Drudge, you throw your sources out there (even if protected, you say who the sources are generally) and do not write a story consisting of 95% of opinion that was pre-designed before interviewing anyone at all.

OSU gives ESPN their highest ratings, and along with that ABC, it's now parent company. Why would they want to bite the hand that feeds them if they are practicing dishonest journalist methods to fabricate a story regarding its cash cow? Something's gotta give.

I remember a time when ESPN was truly about delivering sports to the people who loved watching sports. Now, ESPN/ABC has fallen victim to that self-indulgent, self-congratulatory arrogance of seeing its craft as some form of human artistic achievement. Academia has had this problem for ages. The student is rewarded for "breaking new ground," even if corners were cut in so doing, rather than verifying the fact that it was being done correctly before.

This story and these allegations are an outrage. It is time for an independent sports network to rise up--one that is not subject to the motives of a media conglomerate.
 
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This actually could blow up in ESPN's face. SI and CBSSportsline and others all seem to be running the AP press wire story with a few wrinkles here and there. All are making it clear that many of the allegations were already investigated by OSU and the NCAA and that MoC was found to have "lied". His high school coach is quoted as questioning his veracity. OSU looking much like the wronged party in all of this and Clarett as just driving his marketability further down.
 
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Steve19 said:
OSU looking much like the wronged party in all of this and Clarett as just driving his marketability further down.
We can only hope.

Bucklion said:
We ought to have a "Hall of Shame" complete with their stupidest posts. Any chance he can get more than 11?
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