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Fang's Bites : A Monday Link Thing
Deadspin: American Who Won NYC Marathon Isn't American Enough For Some People [Patriotism]
SportsFilter: CNBC Reporter: Marathon Champ Isn't Real American
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This guys is and idiot...RT nae226 Racism in this country. http://tinyurl.com/yz7jvwo 11/5/2009 |
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CNBC should really fire Darren Rovell. Or at least stop paying him http://bit.ly/2hLUyp 11/4/2009 |
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So the NYC Marathon winner wasn't American? http://www.cnbc.com/id/33587668 Right, & Bill Clinton is still a virgin. 11/4/2009 |
A Monday Link Thing
Fang's Bites —
... to public service. Bill is active in the San Diego community and he will be missed on TV. Back to the SBJ, Terry Lefton says despite plenty of copyright infringements, MLB chooses not to go after companies that use "World Series" in their title. John Lombardo writes that the remnants of the Arena Football League are being sold off in order to pay creditors. CNBC's Darren Rovell says giving credit to Meb Keflezighi's win in the NYC Marathon as an American win is wrong. Jason Fry, writing for the Indiana National Sports Journalism Center, ...
American Who Won NYC Marathon Isn't American Enough For Some People [Patriotism]
Deadspin —
American Meb Keflezighi won the New York City Marathon yesterday, which seemed pretty cool until a couple of wet blankets came along to remind everyone he's only "technically" American. CNBC's Darren Rovell confesses that he's not feeling the slightest bit patriotic today. He writes: Meb Keflezighi, who won yesterday in New York, is technically American by virtue of him becoming a citizen in 1998, but the fact that he's not American-born takes away from the magnitude of the achievement the headline implies. [...] ...
CNBC Reporter: Marathon Champ Isn't Real American
SportsFilter —
CNBC Reporter: Marathon Champ Isn't Real American : Meb Keflezighi, a 34-year-old runner who emigrated to San Diego, Calif., in 1987 from war-ridden Eritrea, became the first American to win the New York Marathon since 1982. Keflezighi, who became a U.S. citizen in 1998, also medaled for the country at the 2004 Olympics. But he's only "technically American," CNBC reporter Darren Rovell blogged on Monday. "He is an American citizen thanks to taking a test and living in our country. Nothing against Keflezighi, but he's like a ringer who you hire to work a couple hours at your ...
A Tuesday Link Party
Fang's Bites —
... about NYC Marathon winner Meb Keflezhighi's background. Here's Darren's original post on the subject. Good on Darren for doing some research and realizing what he originally wrote was wrong. ...
Darren Rovell Is Technically Sorry; Old Canard About African Runners Lives On [Media Meltdowns]
Deadspin —
... or another, a winning genetic bingo card. For whatever reason, though, whenever a big marathon rolls around, we pretend that the Africans are winning less because their abilities were forged at some happy intersection of culture and circumstance and geological phenomena and more because their abilities derive from some super-special nucleic juju that no one else has. (Rovell wisely avoids this minefield only to bumble into another. He thinks that Africans run faster because they're really poor.) ...
The Roundup: Syracuse Lost to LeMoyne; Colorado Star Running Back to Transfer
The Big Lead —
... by Division II LeMoyne. (Post-Standard)
Former prized Colorado recruit Darrell Scott, a star high school running back who passed on Texas, is going to transfer after two poor seasons in Boulder. Will he land at UCLA? (CU Buffs)
Far too early to grade Pete Carroll’s former assistants. Two of them will definitely succeed. (LA Times)
No idea what CNBC’s Darren Rovell was thinking with this column in the winner of the NYC Marathon. (CNBC via Deadspin)
Very good read on Brad Gaines, the Vanderbilt ...
