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ReplyDeleteYou seem to have an odd, childish obsession with this.
It's a UK website, so stories about the US, especially college sports, aren't going to attract a lot of interest -- also basketball is not a major sport in the UK.
The story is in the the Sports section -- scrolling down and down and down, I don't see it -- so it clearly isn't featured in any way, and for the average reader may be hard to find, or you have to look for it.
I see many UK sports stories, including about football (soccer), which is by far the most popular sport, with fewer than 10 comments -- in fact, there aren't many stories with more than 10 comments, and most of those are what you would expect: big time football/soccer, e.g. the Champions League.
Anyway, probably few will read the story, and I would not be surprised if no one bothers to comment -- and there would not be anything conspiratorial about that.
Yeah, right, eahilf.
ReplyDeleteOn an outlet like the Daily Mail,you'd think SOMEONE would put their two cents in.
ReplyDelete--GRA
They don't post the comments because they are so negative directed against an identifiable group that is beyond criticism.
ReplyDelete>[There’s no way to “debate” the story on its message boards, either.]
ReplyDeleteWhat is there to 'debate' about this story? -- it's fundamentally about a university providing protection for a student athlete who has (so it is claimed) received death threats.
There is little, if anything, to 'debate' there -- it would be irresponsible not to provide protection, which would open the university to serious liability were something to happen (assuming it could be shown they were aware of the threats/risk).
One can 'debate' whether he ought to be playing, given that there are questions about his role in a killing -- personally, given the seriousness of the crime, and reports of his association with the gun, I think the university should have suspended him from the team, even if he has not been charged with a crime -- I'm sure there is a 'morals' cause in every NCAA athletic scholarship contract that would allow them to do that, not to mention the damage he and the others have done to the school's reputation -- but given the obvious corruption spawned by big-time NCAA sports and the money it brings, I'm not surprised he will apparently be allowed to play.
But is the comment section of a Daily Mail story, a UK media outlet, or their 'message boards' (whatever those are), really the place to do that?
>This is a test.
>This is a test. the dm seems to be blocking all comments.
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