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After Further Review (#550)

Friday, July 11th, 2014

by Christopher Dinkins

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AFTER FURTHER REVIEW #550 SHOUTOUT to you RALPH SAMPSON….((MLB)) winners include CUBS (12)…PHILLIES…ATHLETICS…RED SOX (10)…ORIOLES…CLEVELAND…ATLANTA…PIRATES…ANGELS…TIGERS…TWINS…DODGERS…scoreless innings streak for CLAYTON KERSHAW (dodgers) is over at 41…good job sir….but don’t think OREL HERSHISER (59) was ever concerned…LAST ONES voted in for MLB ALL STAR GAME….AL-CHRIS SALE (white sox)…NL-ANTHONY RIZZO (cubs)…..HOME RUN DERBY should be nice they just added AL-JOSH DONALDSON (athletics)…NL-JUSTIN MORNEAU (rockies)……injured STARS–BRANDON PHILLIPS (reds) out 6 weeks–thumb….YADIER MOLINA (cardinals) out 8 weeks–thumb…..CARLOS BELTRAN (yankees) out 7 days—concussion…..AFTER FURTHER REVIEW has been getting nice reviews from SPORTS fans and non-SPORTS fans alike ((SHOUTOUT STAR of STAR and BUC WILD))…..they respect the lack of foolishness and photoshopped nonsense….people ARE watching……and AFTER FURTHER REVIEW wants to lead the charge of REAL SPORTS TALK…..((NHL)) CHICAGO breaks out money for PATRICK KANE and JONATHAN TOEWS….each of them receive 8YR/$84M deals……that’s 168 million dollars for two players…..CORY SCHNIEDER (devils) extends for 7YR/$42M….STEVE OTT (blues) signs for 2YR/$5.2M…….DANY HEATLEY (ducks) signs for 1YR/$1M…..((NCAAF)) COLLEGE FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME will open in ATLANTA on AUG 23…..INSIGHT BOWL aka BUFFALO WILD WINGS BOWL will now be known as …..wait for it…..wait foooooor it…..THE CACTUS BOWL (JANUARY 2)!!!!!…..((WNBA)) FEVER 72 (catchings 21) SUN 68 (douglas 17)….LYNX 91 (moore 33/11) SHOCK 85 (diggins 21/12a)…..SWIN CASH traded from DREAM to LIBERTY for DELISHA MILTON-JONES……((SOCCER)) ***WORLD CUP*** GERMANY v ARGENTINA (3pm/ESPN) ON SUNDAY for championship…WHO you GOT ???……((BOXING)) FLOYD MAYWEATHER (champ) v MARCOS MAIDANA II on SEPTEMBER 13 for WELTERWEIGHT title….MANNY PACQUAIO (champ) v CHRIS ALGIERI on NOVEMBER 22 ….SAUL “CANELO” ALVAREZ (champ) v ERISLANDY LARA tomorrow night (9pm/SHOWTIME PPV)…non title matchup…..((NASCAR)) ***SPRINT CUP STANDINGS*** JEFF GORDON (651)…DALE EANHARDT JR (624)…JIMMIE JOHNSON (596)…BRAD KESLOWSKI (586)…MATT KENSETH (580)…….MLB GAME(s) of the day ATHLETICS (samardjzia) v MARINERS (hernandez) / PIRATES (locke) v REDS (latos)……CANADIAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE game(s) of the day WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS v MONTREAL ALOUETTES / CALGARY STAMPEDERS v TORONTO ARGONAUTS…….WNBA GAME(s) of the day SPARKS (7-11) v LIBERTY (7-12) / MERCURY (14-3) v SKY (8-11)….TRUE SCHOOL JAM(s) of the day “PUSH IT”- SALT and PEPA / “EBONY EYES”- RICK JAMES and SMOKEY ROBINSON……..its FRIDAY…….make it enough……..the BALLISTICS have been kicked !!!!!!……..AFR.

 

Christopher “The Mayor” Dinkins of the After Further Review podcast, for War Room Sports

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After Further Review (#549)

Wednesday, July 9th, 2014

by Christopher Dinkins

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AFTER FURTHER REVIEW #549 SHOUTOUT to you SHANDON ANDERSON…..((MLB)) winners include CLEVELAND…REDS…TIGERS…WHITE SOX…METS…RAYS…REDS(2)…ASTROS…PHILLIES…CARDINALS…ROCKIES…MARLINS…BLUE JAYS…ATHLETICS…TWINS…((BAL-WASH postponed))…..has the luster been knocked off MASAHIRO TANAKA (yankees) ???…despite nice numbers he has posted his record has definitely taken a hit he is 12-4…since starting out 6-0…hasn’t really pitched that bad but has given up 15 homeruns…he WONT start ALL STAR GAME now…that will prolly go to FELIX HERNANDEZ (mariners)……talked about ALL STAR teams last night on THE BIGGER SHOW aka AFTER FURTHER REVIEW…..discussed lineups and FINAL VOTE participants….((AFR voted for CHRIS SALE (white sox) / JUSTIN MORNEAU (rockies) ))……..((WNBA)) DREAM 83 (mccoughtry 22) SUN 71 (ogwumike 19/12)…..FEVER 78 (catchings 23/11) SHOCK 76 (diggins 23)…..LYNX 83 (moore 30) SPARKS 72 (lavender 17/10)……starters for WNBA ALL STAR GAME JULY 19–PHOENIX……EAST. ELENA DELLE DONNE (sky)…..ANGEL MCCOUGHTRY (dream)…..TAMIKA CATCHINGS (fever)…..CAPPIE PONDEXTER (liberty)…..SHONNIE SCHIMMEL (dream)…….WEST. MAYA MOORE (lynx)…..CANDACE PARKER (sparks)…..BRITNEY GRINER (mercury)…..SKYLAR DIGGINS (shock)…..DIANA TAURASI (mercury)…….gonna be a good game…..who YOU got ??????……((SOCCER)) ***WORLD CUP*** GERMANY 7 BRAZIL 1…what a shame…..NEYMAR prolly couldn’t have helped them anyway…..another four year wait for BRAZIL….it was probably the best soccer game a lot of people have ever seen because of scoring or it was the worst because of ..you guessed it..the scoring !!!!!!…..NETHERLANDS v ARGENTINA (4pm/ESPN/ESPN3)……for right to play GERMANY in WORLD CUP FINAL on JULY 13……..MLB GAME of the day NATIONALS (roarke) v ORIOLES (norris)……..WNBA GAME of the day LIBERTY (7-11) v STARS (10-9)……TRUE SCHOOL JAM of the day ” SOUL SISTERS”- FINESSE & SYNQUIS…….its HUMP DAY…….get over it…..the BALLISTICS have been kicked !!!!!!!!…….AFR.

 

Christopher “The Mayor” Dinkins of the After Further Review Podcast, for War Room Sports

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After Further Review (#547)

Monday, July 7th, 2014

by Christopher Dinkins

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AFTER FURTHER REVIEW #547 SHOUTOUT to you JOHN LYNCH…….((MLB)) winners include YANKEES…CLEVELAND…REDS…METS…ORIOLES(12)…DIAMONDBACKS…NATIONALS…PIRATES…WHITE SOX…MARLINS…ANGELS…ATHLETICS…GIANTS…DODGERS…RAYS…….2014 MLB ALL STAR GAME starters—-AMERICAN LEAGUE 1B..MIGUEL CABRERA (det) 2B..ROBINSON CANO (sea) SS..DEREK JETER (nyy) 3B..JOSH DONALDSON (oak) OF…JOSE BAUTISTA (tor) ADAM JONES (bal) MIKE TROUT (laa) C..MATT WIETERS (bal) DH..NELSON CRUZ (bal) / NATIONAL LEAGUE 1B..PAUL GOLDSCHMIDT (ari) 2B..CHASE UTLEY (phi) SS..TROY TULOWITZKI (col) 3B..ARAMIS RAMIREZ (mil) OF…CARLOS GOMEZ (mil) ANDREW MCCUTCHEN (pit) YASIEL PUIG (lad) C..YADIER MOLINA (stl)….those are the STARTERS……right along the lines of who AFTER FURTHER REVIEW picked……will have reserves in a later post today…..will discuss this tonight on THE PARTLY SONNY CRUISE SHOW (7-9pm/WACKO BOB NETWORK)……call in tonight 646-478-5337 and lets chop it up….is fair that JEFF SAMARDZIJA got traded from CUBS to ATHLETICS and that will keep him from playing in ALL STAR GAME ???….what YOU think ????……((WNBA)) LIBERTY 87 (charles 32/10) LYNX 80 (moore 25)….MERCURY 94 (taurasi 32) SPARKS 89 (parker 27)…..LEADERS….MAYA MOORE (min) 22.8 ppg…..COURTNEY PARIS (tul) 11.4 rpg…COURTNEY VANDERSLOOT (chi) 6.3 apg….ERLANA LARKINS (ind) .615 fg%….ELENA DELLE DONNE (chi) .968 ft%….BECKY HAMMON (sa) .517 3pt%….SANCHO LYTTLE (atl) 2.4 steals…..BRITNEY GRINER (pho) 4.1 blocks……..((TENNIS)) ****WIMBLEDON**** NOVAK “NO JOKE” DJOKOVIC over ROGER FEDERER (6-7(7).6-4.7-6(4).5-7.6-4) to win 2nd WIMBLEDON MENS TITLE……PETRA KVITOVA won LADIES title……..((GOLF)) ANGEL CABRERA finishes with (-6/64) to win GREENBRIER CLASSIC…first win other than major……BIG UP !!!!…..((NASCAR)) ARIC ALMIROLA wins at DAYTONA in #43 car………RESPECT RICHARD PETTY………MLB GAME of the day ORIOLES (tillman) v NATIONALS (strasburg)…..TRUE SCHOOL JAM of the day “BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE” – TALKING HEADS…….its MONDAY…..lets make it happen…its SUMMATIME yall !!!!!!!!…………the BALLISTICS have been kicked !!!!!!!!………..AFR.

 

Christopher “The Mayor” Dinkins of the After Further Review Podcast, for War Room Sports

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We Got Next…For A Lot Less!

Tuesday, December 7th, 2010

I like sports in general, but I have never been a huge basketball fan.  This year that has changed.  My 11 year old nephew has just discovered Derrick Rose and is now a basketball fan.  I like to talk to him about his interests, so this year I have been watching a lot more basketball.  We’ve attended a live game this season and even succumbed to purchasing the overpriced Direct TV NBA League Pass.  Whenever I become a fan of something, I always wonder how much money people make doing whatever it is.  So I went to the place I get all my answers, Google.

After a brief Google search, I learned about rookie salaries as well as veteran salaries.  I learned that during the 2010-11 season, first round draft picks will make anywhere between 1 million and 4 million dollars during their first season.  Veteran stars like Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett will rake in about 13 million and 18 million respectively.  While role players such as Ben Wallace and Antonio McDyess should pocket approximately 2 million and 4.8 million dollars respectively. While I was Googling salaries of NBA players, I started to wonder how WNBA players salaries would compare to their male counter parts.  What I found led me to ask this question, WHY IN THE HELL WOULD SOMEONE AGREE TO THIS?

The disparity between NBA salaries and WNBA salaries is just damn egregious.  If my daughter told me she wanted to play in the WNBA, I’d tell her, she’s better off teaching.  There is no possible way a woman could play in the WNBA if she didn’t love the game.  Let’s look at the numbers.  A WNBA player with 0-2 years of playing experience will make a minimum of 35,000 in 2010.  35,000 dollars, that’s it.  This is four thousand dollars less than a General Manager at Wendy’s. What that means is that John Wall, the number one 2010 NBA draft pick can pay the number one 2010 WNBA draft pick’s (Tina Charles) salary about 114 times.  The NBA has a sliding scale by which players get paid.  The WNBA also has a similar chart, but it only has two rows, players with 0-2 years of experience and players with three or more years of experience.  In 2010, a WNBA player that has three or more years experience will make at least 51,000 and max out at about 100,000.  Are you kidding me?

It’s funny because just like the NBA, the WNBA has salary caps.  The NBA Maximum Team salary cap for 2010 is 58 million dollars, while a WNBA team can spend at the most 800,000 dollars.  This is hilarious considering the last pick in the first round 2010 NBA draft will make at least $ 1 million dollars for his first season.

WNBA players, often stay in college the whole four years and earn a degree.  This is a good thing considering what their base salaries are.  After they are done playing basketball for less money than IRS auditor makes, they are going to have to start a second career.  I’m convinced; WNBA players have to love the game.  Why else would they devote years to playing the game, when they could take their degrees to private industry and make way more money?  I’m not naive, I know that the NBA is way more appealing and profitable than the WNBA, but I never would have guessed the gap between salaries was this big.  Before retiring at the end of 2009, arguably the most marketable star of the WNBA, Lisa Leslie, was paid about 91,000.  As if all of this information wasn’t bad enough, while NBA superstar Lebron James decided to tear down an entire franchise on the way to South Beach during his off season, WNBA players play in places such as Poland, Turkey and Israel to collect larger paychecks during theirs.

With all of this being said, if your daughter was a beast at basketball, and she came to you with a four year degree in one hand and a WNBA contract in the other, what would you tell her to do?

Monica Pierce, Guest Blogger for War Room Sports. Read more of her writing @ monicasthoughts.com.

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Love and Basketball (and Track Too)

Wednesday, November 10th, 2010

2000 Olympic Games

I would like to shed some light on the disgraced former track star and Olympic Gold medalist Marion

Press Conference after Guilty Plea

Jones. As we all may remember, Marion Jones won 5 Medals in the 2000 Sydney, Australia Olympics and became known as the fastest woman on the planet. After her ex husband, track star CJ Hunter and her ex boyfriend and father of her son track star Tim Montgomery were tied to performance enhancing drug use while they were with Jones and her ties to Victor Conte and BALCO, all signs pointed to her being guilty of steroid use. Recently, Marion Jones has been in the news for serving 6 months in prison from March 2008 to September 2008 for lying to a federal grand jury about her steroid use and for pleading guilty to a check fraud scandal with the aforementioned Tim Montgomery. In 2007, she married sprinter and Olympic medalist Obadale Thompson who is from Barbados and they have two children together.

What many people may not know is that Marion Jones once scored 48 points in a high school basketball game while growing up in Southern California and led the University of North Carolina to the 1994 NCAA Championship as a starting freshman Point Guard.

UNC Women's basketball

She had to make the decision between track and basketball and eventually decided to pursue track full-time and graduated from UNC in 1997. While a professional track star she was even drafted by the Phoenix Mercury of the WNBA in 2003. After being banned from Olympic competition and having the majority of her medals taken away, she decided to try her hand at basketball again at the ripe age of 34 this past year. She played for the Tulsa Shock this season and averaged 3pts and 2rebs in 9 minutes a game shooting 52% from the field. In the last 3 games of the season she averaged 11pts, 6 rebs, and 2 stls while playing 22 minutes a game and shooting 57% from the field. With increased playing time is it possible we could see Marion Jones playing in a WNBA all star game one day?

Press Conference with Tulsa Shock

During the WNBA offseason Marion Jones has been on a Book Tour for her new book “On the Right Track” and has been conducting interviews. Famous director John Singleton recently did a documentary on Jones titled “Press Pause” detailing the journey of Marion Jones’ rise to stardom and recent legal troubles. In regards to Marion Jones being a black female who has served time for her involvement with steroids and lying about it while no one else has served time. Singleton stated:

“Come on now, it’s just common sense — nothing’s going to happen to any of those guys. Those players will not see the inside of a jail cell. They don’t want to open up a can of worms – be it the IOC, NFL or MLB, be it what’s legal or not legal — going back over the last 30 years. They’re only going to go so far with those people and then they’ll let it taper off.”

One excerpt from the book details how Marion Jones spent 23 hours a day in solitary confinement with no TV or computer for 48 days for defending herself against her cell mate, who allegedly attacked her.

While the general public may have written off Marion Jones and label her as a failure, a cheat, a miscreant, or disgrace to her country I look forward to her redeeming herself on the basketball court these next few years and becoming an ambassador of what not to do while speaking around the country.

Marion Jones with the Tulsa Shock of the WNBA

Aquil “Quil” Bayyan of The War Room, For War Room Sports

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