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Sports Thread #1 for 10/14/08- You Call This A Suspension, Roger Goodell?

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Mark J. Rebilas / US PRESSWIRE Unlike ESPN's Mike Mosley, who is leaping praise on NFL Comissioner Roger Goodell for indefinitely suspending Adam Jones when Dallas Cowboys' owner Jerry Jones didn't do a single thing, I don't hold the same sentiment. In fact, if Goodell told Adam Jones last year that this would be his last straw if he does anything wrong in this league, for good, then why the hell do you only suspend him indefinitely, which is actually just four games? Four games for the man who you shaped into a mindset and belief that if he gets into any trouble, or violates his promise to you, that he would be gone for good? Instead, you go ahead and suspend him actually just four games, where he has the chance to actually come back? There will be more on this tomorrow, because Goodell didn't lay the hammer down here when he should have.Because "no tolerance" was suppose to mean "no tolerance", if Jones did something that he wasn't suppose ...

Sports Thread #2 for 10/8-9/08- Possible Hit Job on Adam Jones?

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From the Dallas Morning Star Though his past has placed him into getting this type of coverage, it is still rather unfair that Adam Jones is getting negative press for something that either may not have happen or is getting blown out of propotion so much that even the phrase "blown out of propotion" is offended. Already, we have idiot reporters, like the braindead anchors on the Crayola Crayons two second sports segment on MSNBC's First Read this morning declare that "Jones is in trouble with the law again" again. Yes, he's in "trouble with the law again" despite having no chargers against him, with the likelihood of hearsay and rumors creating this report instead of true evidence? Just because "he may have been drinking?" May have? Hell, he didn't even get charged for breathing. You can think whatever you wantt about Jones ahd his reckless past. And to me, I believe he was gulity in Las Vegas for what went down at that strip club i...