about the WNBA

4/21/2009 6:42:13 PM

nah, not really

4/21/2009 6:47:44 PM

^ gtfo of sports talk, you are a complete moron

4/21/2009 6:48:21 PM

I thought this thread would be about



I recognize the nose tackle, but who's the black guy?

4/21/2009 7:00:18 PM

good thing i didn't make this thread


FTW would have moved it to Chit Chat about 20 minutes ago

4/21/2009 7:00:58 PM

^^ I could take him

^ its sports related.... there's a bball in the window

4/21/2009 7:03:55 PM

LOL

that ball looks bigger than a 28.8

[Edited on April 21, 2009 at 7:09 PM. Reason : .]

4/21/2009 7:08:58 PM

good grief, will you get over yourself. Peyton Manning sucks and so does Tennessee. Will Bruce Pearl ever stop embarrassing that "University" and put his shirt on. What a disgrace to college athletics.

4/21/2009 8:01:41 PM

Yeppers.

4/21/2009 8:09:05 PM

^^ what are you talking about?



my favorite part is that no one is even holding the mic hahaha. just sat it down and left

[Edited on April 21, 2009 at 9:31 PM. Reason : d]

4/21/2009 9:30:05 PM

i dont really get the pic, honestly... what is going on??? an interview? autograph session that no one attended?

4/21/2009 9:42:53 PM

contract signing press conference that no one attended.

in some random office

random microphone haha

[Edited on April 21, 2009 at 9:53 PM. Reason : d]

4/21/2009 9:47:54 PM

awww haha, sad but true

4/21/2009 9:52:28 PM

where does the wnba get money? do they have enough fans to support the league through sales?

4/21/2009 9:56:20 PM

but i still have so many questions

4/21/2009 10:23:16 PM

where do they get money? i mean i know they don't make a whole lot, but i'm sure they bring in barely anything. do they ride buses around or what? is there NBA revenue sharing?

4/21/2009 10:25:29 PM

Chamique Holdsclaw just came back to the league after briefly retiring. That pic is before the actual press conference took place.




Chamique Holdsclaw, former UT four-time All-American, two time NPOY, and still UT men's or women's all-time leading scorer and rebounder. Played with Kellie (Jolly) Harper.

4/21/2009 10:27:52 PM

we need video of about half an hour earlier of her setting it all up by herself.

4/21/2009 10:30:36 PM

^ HAHHAHA

4/21/2009 11:00:40 PM

i'm like the other posters, where do they get any money?

i know for a fact that they give away 80% of the tickets that get people in seats at games. with arena costs, traveling costs, and player costs, i can't imagine any of those teams making a dime

and really sad "press" conference btw. is it even called that if no press show up? but it can't be a conference either because only one person is there. has to be at least two people there to have a conference.

4/21/2009 11:12:56 PM

looks like a Michael Scott Paper Company press conference.

4/21/2009 11:28:19 PM

^ nagh, no huge pancakes or shaped French toast.

4/22/2009 12:15:09 AM

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"We got next"

4/22/2009 1:20:19 AM

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"where do they get money?"

obviously the NBA loses money on it, i heard though NBA uses it as a tax write off which makes sense

4/22/2009 1:29:47 AM

The average WNBA player salary is $45,000 a year. salary cap per team is $700K.

4/22/2009 8:20:10 AM

"First, I'd like to thank my aunt Quita for clearing out her dining room and making all of this possible".


I guarantee that the NBA will lose more money than the WNBA this year.

4/22/2009 8:33:56 AM

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"i know for a fact that they give away 80% of the tickets that get people in seats at games"

not saying this is necessarily wrong, but how could you possibly know this is a fact?

4/22/2009 8:38:11 AM

^just from what i have heard and read. stuff like they give away huge amounts of tickets to boys and girls clubs and other things like that. I'm sure 80% is exaggerating a little but they do give away a large number of tickets. Not to mention the tickets they do sell are not very expensive.

The tax write off thing makes sense.

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"First, I'd like to thank my aunt Quita for clearing out her dining room and making all of this possible"."

haha

4/22/2009 9:09:57 AM

bruce pearl could be one of the worst coaches in college basketball.

4/22/2009 9:13:43 AM

Aren't you a little old to be asking for autographs from college kids?

4/22/2009 10:02:25 AM

I'M OLD AND FAT...LET ME MAKE FUN OF PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES

4/22/2009 10:16:32 AM

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"Aren't you a little old to be asking for autographs from college kids anybody?"

[Edited on April 22, 2009 at 10:30 AM. Reason : .]

4/22/2009 10:30:17 AM

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"Aren't you a little old to be asking for autographs from college kids? "

so if i was older than Rivers and got his signature when he played for state, and won 2 superbowls since his draft, id just be a creepy old man?

4/22/2009 10:41:00 AM

Wow you guys are terrible trolls. What is wrong with autographs?

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"bruce pearl could be one of the worst coaches in college basketball."

4/22/2009 11:19:57 AM

what is wrong with autographs?

4/22/2009 11:29:19 AM

Autographs are for little kids and jock sniffers

and people who sell shit on eBay

4/22/2009 11:50:02 AM

I dunno man, I think a football autographed by the players on your favorite team is pretty sweet, especially if you display it nice


I plan on having a "man cave" type room one day in my house with autographed jerseys/memorabilia of my favorite players/teams on the walls. I dont think its childish

now if you wait for players to come out of a locker room or chase them down in restaurants to get an autograph, thats a little over the top, but this was an event to meet the players, big deal

4/22/2009 12:00:29 PM

I'd rather just get a picture with somebody but thats just me

The last autograph I got was an Emeka Okafor autographed basketball, but it was free with my season tickets so I took it

Agreed about waiting outside of locker rooms and stuff though...thats for kids

[Edited on April 22, 2009 at 12:05 PM. Reason : .]

4/22/2009 12:04:51 PM

........and sports enthusiasts.

4/22/2009 12:09:31 PM

I only have two autographs:

1. A hat signed by Chief Knockahoma, former beloved racial stereotype. I got it when I was at a Braves game in 95.
2. An 8x10 signed by Motorboat Jones, a guy who played for the WS Spirits when I was a kid. I ordered it off eBay two or three years ago.

4/22/2009 12:10:05 PM

I have a ton of autographs...that I got when I was a kid

Akeem Olajuwon autographed basketball card, Chuck Daly and Jamal Wilkes signed my 1993 NBA All Star hat at AS weekend, Kevin Johnson bball card, tons of Hornets

then I got older

4/22/2009 12:11:02 PM

the only autographs I like to get are on foul balls I catch with the glove I bring to every game

4/22/2009 12:17:14 PM

be a man and bare hand that shit little girl

i see those guido yankee fucks do it all the time. I stopped taking my glove about 6 years ago

4/22/2009 1:14:07 PM

mugsy bogues is my only autograph

4/22/2009 1:30:01 PM

I got Todd Fuller (fuck yeah!), Tom Brady (gift, wtf?), Wade Boggs and Eric Davis (almost 20 years ago). Maurice Jones-Drew sent a BDay card to my son on his first birthday with an 8x10, that was wayyy random - I tutored him at UCLA in 04-05.

4/22/2009 1:56:42 PM

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"mugsy bogues is my only autograph"

The only autographs I own are the entire 92-93 Charlotte Hornets team on a miniature bball. Mugsy is my alltime favorite baller. Had I been able to I would have busted a nut when he read one of the many letters I wrote him during one of those halftime specials he did.

4/22/2009 2:18:25 PM

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"Wow you guys are terrible trolls"

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""bruce pearl could be one of the worst coaches in college basketball.""

worst attempts at trolling ever

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"so if i was older than Rivers and got his signature when he played for state, and won 2 superbowls since his draft, id just be a creepy old man?"

haha

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"I dunno man, I think a football autographed by the players on your favorite team is pretty sweet, especially if you display it nice"

exactly. Its not like I randomly tracked him down and got it, or waited outside the locker room... it was at Fan Day before the spring game in a session designed for fans to get autographs. Hell, there was an 80 year old man there that had a ball with Reggie White, Peyton, Alvin Harper, Jamal Lewis, Haynesworth, Henderson, Al Wilson, and Willie Gault on it. I thought it was pretty damn cool.



[Edited on April 22, 2009 at 3:01 PM. Reason : d]

4/22/2009 2:52:05 PM

not trolling.

he's an awful coach. sweet 16 is the best he could do with the talent he had? he does more acting like a fool than coaching. he blows and UT basketball is on the downward

4/22/2009 3:08:58 PM

yes, you are trolling...

1. that talent is only there because of him to begin with
2. the team was REALLY young this year
3. you dont know shit about college bball if you think they are on the way down. Learn some history (look at where UT was 5 years ago... 15 years ago and tell me they are going down) and follow recruiting (class they got last year and what they have so far for this year). Also look at attendance, Ranking, RPI, etc. No clue where you got that unless you are being a complete moron and using one year vs. the next to claim a whole program is "going down"
4. if I remember correctly he is either the fastest or second fastest coach in the history of college bball to win 300 games. I think Roy is ahead of him, maybe Izzo too. Yeah, hes horrible

[Edited on April 22, 2009 at 3:18 PM. Reason : d]

4/22/2009 3:14:40 PM

i think bruce pearl is a blithering idiot.

he's done about the best he will do, and his "talent pool" will now all swim towards the ever increasingly sketchy Calipari.

[Edited on April 22, 2009 at 3:20 PM. Reason : .]

4/22/2009 3:17:29 PM