Should Bryant Gumbel Resign for His Comments About the Winter Olympics ?
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As white people we are not allowed to be offended ,dont you know that by now.We have to take what is said about us with a smile on our faces because we have to pay for something that people we may or not have been related to did 150 years ago. Thats why there is no white history month or any other kind of month.I bet nothing will happen to Bryant Gumbal for his comments .Reverse racism in all its glory.
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Shame on you Fire God!  Condemning a man for hypocrisy and wrongdoing based on innuendo.  What ever happened to innocent until proven guilty?  Stepping down from his position is NOT an admission of guilt -- it's an acknowledgment that he realizes he won't be an effective leader until this matter is properly investigated.\n\nTo answer the question:  It has absolutely nothing to do with this election.  The liberals are grasping at every straw they can get their hands on to make conservatives look bad.
744002
i hope not...\n\nif that happens, he will surely take away some glory and fame away from ME...\n\nthere is just not enough room for another star in the KOBE SHO... I mean the LAKE SHOW... sorry... my bad...
540565
Yes. I say this for a number of reasons:\n\n1. The coach has been treating him like a dirtbag all along. Those two have not been friends since day 1.\n\n2. His confidence has slumped because of the club's peformance, and the way managemnent have approached him.\n\nA player who is not speaking to a coach and that player's confidence has dropped should leave the club.
915059
He's now officially stricken the 'stay the course' prose from the language used by he and his minions.  It was an official announcement by Tony Snow last week.\n\nI guess he finally started looking at reality.
1052335
It is not a question if, it is a question of when. He'll certainly be fired after his team's performance, only scoring one goal in three matches. I think a more player oriented coach would be a good choice. Eric Wynalda who ESPN hired on as an analyst for the World Cup would be a great choice in my opinion.
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Anyone who can get throught the Olympic trials to be able to even get to the Olympics is awesome!   He has MANY World records and is there.. Hummm.. Makes him awesome to me...\n\nSuggestion:  You compete against him and win.  I would put major money on the fact you can't!
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i think this article sums it up the best: \n"Bode an Embarrassment.\n\nFeb 26, 2006 6:26 pm\n\n\n\n0-5! That’s the line for Bode Miller, unless you add the number of bars in Torino which he successfully closed down. In which case the number would be…let see, how many nights was he there? Miller is the biggest disappointment in the Winter Olympics, not because of the way he skied the mountain, but the way he acted once he finally hit the bottom of it. If he wants to go out and party every night, that’s fine. Most athletes do. I was in Nagano 8 years ago when the USA mens Hockey team destroyed the Olympic Village because they had nowhere else to go to release their frustration.\nBut millers behavior is just embarrassing for the USA because he simply acted like he didn't try, and didn't care. Not winning a medal is something we can brush aside, getting fatter on beer while you're over there is not. Without question Miller time spent more time partying than he did competing. His final event, the slalom, lasted 16 seconds. He stubled out of the gate, took a few awkward turns, then seemed to say…oh the heck with it. Take me to the nearest watering hole. Mller even admitted on camra he is fatter and more out of shape than ever before. Way to get ready for the games!\nCertainly there were many other Olympic disappointments for the USA…Lindsay Jacobolis falling within sight of a gold, then making up a ridiculous story about the wind! Michelle Kwan out before the games started. Skater Johnny Weir blaming his woes on a bad bus ride. How about USA Hockey…losing to Slovakia and getting tied up by Latvia.\n\nBut miller is the most ridiculous He has said over and over he couldn't care less about winning a medal! It makes you wonder…why did he even go??"
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"I got to party and socialize at an Olympic Event."\nBode Miller sucks.  So much time and money and effort by folks involved with USA Mens Skiing wasted so Bode could party and "do it on his own terms". Which resulted in what?\nNothing.  Whoever made the decision to let this Bozo ski should be fired.\nA slap in the face to everyone who trains and puts all they have into their event. Ulitimately, not what the Olympics are about.  Yes, Bode Miller does suck.
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Goodness no.\n\nConsidering especially that he had a license revoked in the state of Alabama (meaning he can no longer practice law there) and that in general, his antics have irritated even his staunchest supporters...\n\nno.
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Can we handle the truth??\n       \n      Towards the end of the 2005-2006 NBA regular season\nall time assist great and current ABC Analyst Marc Jackson \nremarked that, "Kobe Bryant will go down as the greatest \nbasketball player of all times". Perhaps the biggest credit to \nKobe's talents is that there was not as big of an uproar as one \nmight expected when ranking a current player above the legacies \nof Magic, Kareem, Wilt and of course the man that is currently\nwidely regarded as the 'greatest'. Michael Jordan. The truth is\nas human beings we all like to look at the past and gasp in awe\nbecause the past is brought to us in clips and articles\nand commentaries. Most of the younger generation of basketball\nfans don't truly know how good of a perimeter player Jordan was\nat age 26 or what Jordan did during the 88 season. They only\nsee clips of a magestic Michael flying high with that now patented\ntongue hanging out. They don't see Michael's struggles during the\n89 playoffs against Detroit, they don't see Michael's inability or \nunwillingness to pass during his mid twenties as he threw up 26-30\nshots a game nightly. Perhaps because they don't see these things\nthey also failed to see the obvious. Kobe\nBryant will surpass Michael Jordan at the rate that he is going. It is \nnot 'perspective' or 'opinion' from a Kobe Bryant fan, it is simple\nbasketball common sense. At age 27 Kobe Bryant is greater then\na 27 year old Michael ever was. Kobe is the better shooter, he has\nmore endurance and is the more fluid dribbler. Yes, the similarities\nare eerie. Kobe and Michael will bring the ball down the court the same\nway, they will elevate to same heights as they leave defenders looking up\nin dismay, and of course in the clutch they will prove ADIDAS's marketing\nslogan, 'Impossible Is Nothing'. Of course if people took the time to dissect\nand anaylze they will suddenly realize that Kobe do dribble the ball down\ncourt in the same fasion as Jordan, except Bryant does it with a little bit more\ngrace. More like a running cheetah as oppose to a running lion. Yes, Bryant\ndoes shoot that beautiful jumper in similar ways to Jordan except that Bryant\ndoes it a few feet further out, and yes Bryant does elevate and drive to the rim in\nsimilar fashion as Jordan except that Bryant finishes with that tiny bit more of \ngrace and style. Bryant will also 'mimic' Jordan in another sense in that he will\nmake bounds and leaps of improvement year to year that only Michael had done.\nA 27 year old Michael compared to a 33 year old Michael is no comparison at all.\nThe 33 year old Michael was a true master of the game. We will see the same \ntrend from Bryant. At age 33 Bryant will so elevate above his current status that\nwe will see a mockery of his former self. \n        What's the reason for this predication?\nWhat is to say Kobe will not go down the roads of Carter and Mcgrady? The \nroads of false contentment and injuries? When it comes to physical perfection\nBryant is the model of that for basketball. The words 'for basketball' should be\nemphasized in that no Kobe does not have the best 'body' in the league or the\nbiggest muscles. Yes Ben Wallace make Kobe Bryant look like a high school kid\nagain and yes Lebron James is probably the fittest 21 year old in the history of this\nleague. Neither of the two have that basketball body in which only so very few had\nachieved. A basketball player perfectly designed is not ripping with biceps or with\nchests of Hercules.  Shaquille Oneal might be the perfect example of that. Oneal\nis considered the greatest force to play this game in terms of sheer size and strength.\nIn his prime that size and strength render him almost unstoppable, yet at age 34( a age\nin which Jordan was still winning championships while scoring 30+ a night with ease)\nShaq is clearly running out of gas and s
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Mr. Davis is a man who has worked hard, against many obstacles, to build and support his ability.  Undeniably, there is tension between him and the US skating team and hierarchy.  I have no idea the source of this tension, but he has had to train on his own and secure his own sponsors because of how he has felt.\nI am proud of him as a fellow American and a fellow Chicagoan.  That he is black and I am white does not diminish this in the least.  As long as he does not bad-mouth our country, I would continue to support him and wish him well.\nGo USA!
143023
Yes, Barry Bonds should retire. Basseball is a team sport. It seems that Bonds is only intrested in breaking the homerun record and not the welfare of his team. He is over rated.
149005
No, but if you think about it, Basketball should be in the winter games.  It was invented as a sport for the winter, its season beings in November, peeks in Feb-March and ends before the summer.  And the Hockey All-star game belongs where it is, it provides a needed break, and a chance to retool for a playoff push.  The NFL wishes it could do its allstar game before the end of the season
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He is one of the best to ever play, but yes it is time for him to retire and make room for someone else. He should not stay and embarrass himself. they should cut him.
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Heck no,\n\n    I mean his comment was supposed to be off the record for crying out loud!!\n\n   I mean even though every one acts all politically correct on t.v. doesn't mean they're always perfect, especially not ozzie. If you can't say what you want off the camera and off the record, then when can you be human?\n\n  If anything, that snitch punk gay mariotte needs to be fined for reporting something off the record and sent to a camp where they teach you not to be a jerk. He told what ozzie said on purpose only because they don't like each other.
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me...20 years ago...he's a tosser...he should have retired...and what has he one since he changed his mind...f+ck all...the w@nk...