IN — Krach Lawn was just about as packed as it could be save the first week of freshman orientation But hundreds of students Thursday afternoon didn’t come to jump in bouncy houses or engage in time-tested Purdue traditions Some came in “Make America Great Again” hats or with signs of protest as firebrand conservative commentator Charlie Kirk took over the eastern tip of the lawn “Hey Purdue!” Kirk said as he walked under his tent with the words “PROVE ME WRONG” printed onto the hanging section of the tarp “We have a much bigger crowd than we would’ve had at IU.” almost immediately followed by the ever iconic chant: “IU sucks!”  Coming to PurdueKirk’s “American Comeback Tour” stops at universities across the country A Purdue spokesperson told the Journal & Courier last week that the event was student-run so he did not advise whether the university would employ additional security measures Purdue University and West Lafayette police departments had quite a heavy presence at the event About 15 Purdue police officers surrounded and were interspersed on the lawn was one of the students on the lawn Thursday Landrum said having a speaker of this magnitude on campus is a rarity “It’s kind of cool to see a public forum.” a 24-year-old student in computer integration technologies MAGA hat and dress shoes to Krach lawn to “represent.” But despite his appearance “I’m not honestly a big fan of Charlie Kirk are ideas like “taxation is theft,” or being antisocialist Despite the event being marketed as Q&A in nature according to what a spokesperson for Turning Point USA's Purdue chapter told the Journal & Courier through social media messages last week Mason said he doubted how genuine the Q&A was “I think that a lot of people who are gonna be asking questions are probably placed there,” he said “Charlie Kirk has not had a good history with dealing with people’s questions.” several organizers from the event went out into the protest to grab people who didn’t agree with Kirk to ask him questions “This isn’t an event for people to say how much they like Charlie Kirk an 18-year-old volunteer from the Indianapolis area “We would rather have disagreements and keep the conversation flowing so we’re trying to get the people who disagree to the mics so they can make their case.” And save the protesters chanting phrases — including a notable one saying Charlie Kirk can eat a d---” — several Purdue students said that regardless of the political divide it is important to allow speakers like Kirk on campus “It’s kind of the beauty of the First Amendment,” said Patrick McDermott a 19-year-old student who isn’t a fan of Kirk Anyone on the left is allowed to do it as well.”  But though students packed the lawn to hear Kirk speak you had little chance to see or hear the speaker a 25-year-old volunteer for the American Comeback Tour “I don’t like the way they staged this because it’s all the way up there,” Miller said looking toward the nearby Winifred Parker Residence Hall “You can’t hear the guy … They messed up where they put the tent.” Miller added that the Purdue crowd wasn’t much compared to the events at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Illinois State University I can’t really count the amount of people,” he said “I couldn’t really hear much yet,” Nishaan said “I’ve seen his stuff online and I wanted to see what it would be like in person.” a 21-year-old senior in pharmaceutical sciences Back and forth with protestersAnd if onlookers interested in Kirk couldn’t hear him speak the chants of protesters coming from the middle of the lawn made it that much harder Several people wearing MAGA hats walked up to protesters and posed with their signs as they chanted Tensions rose as protesters and supporters argued back and forth all accompanied by the chorus of jeers directed toward the front of the lawn One Journal & Courier photograph shows a person using a transgender flag to hold back a man taking a selfie of the protesting crowd behind him Initially spaced well away from those gathered to hear Kirk speak several people held a sprawling white banner with the words “F--- off fascists” seemingly handwritten along its width stood off to the side of the lawn and watched everything unfold He said he was there for “good trouble,” a phrase associated with civil rights leader John Lewis Purdue doesn’t get this kind of recognition for things unless it’s basketball," he said “I’m not gonna stand idly by while negative things are happening to me and the people that I love.” the lawn was much emptier than it had been when Kirk started The protests and clashes died down with it Kang said they did not receive any reports of a physical altercation But the protesters holding signs and chanting at the speaker weren’t the only way students against Kirk made their voices known Between the Starbucks and Krach Leadership Center two Purdue students stood on a cement block and blared their trumpets 23-year-old mechanical engineering senior Drew Payne is a member of the Purdue band and came out to the event to “disrupt without engaging.” Payne said Kirk’s game was to get clips for social media to make people look bad He said he wouldn’t be able to outmaneuver him in a debate but what he could do was make it harder to hear a 21-year-old junior studying studio art design stood in the middle of the lawn not with a sign or anything screaming nonconformity “I’m just drawing Charlie Kirk in a demeaning way and putting quotes that he said,” Casanova said One of Casanova’s drawings shows Kirk smiling with the words “Women in their 30’s are no longer in their prime.” A public commenter who has been frequently attending Lawrence school board meetings was escorted out of the meeting for refusing to obey board rules has attended the last several Lawrence school board meetings protesting against the district’s public comment policy She has also read obscenities and sexually explicit material to board members saying the books were available in school libraries Schmidt was escorted out of the building by Lawrence Police Department Officers at the meeting Jones immediately gave Schmidt her first warning to stop using foul language but for those attending the meeting in person she was still heard talking about why she was against the school district’s policy for public comment and she was then escorted out of the building by two LPD officers As the Journal-World reported there have been multiple instances where frequent public commenters were refusing to obey board rules and using disruptive There were two public commenters watching Monday’s meeting online who were also muted after using obscene language The latest headlines from the Lawrence Journal-World and KUsports.com Copyright © 2025 Ogden Newspapers of Kansas, LLC | https://www2.ljworld.com | 1035 N. Third Street, Lawrence, KS 66044 | 785-843-1000 | Terms of Service Charli XCX teamed up with Eilish for surprise remix of the third single from her hit ‘Brat’ album I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our Privacy notice Finneas has hit out at a TikTok user who accused his sister Billie Eilish of singing a “predatory” verse on the remix of Charli XCX’s song “Guess.” On Friday (August 2), the day after Charli and Eilish released the track and accompanying music video, a TikTok account named windows199x posted a video with Eilish’s portion of the song spit it / Pull it to the side and get all up in it / Kiss it but she knows I’d hit it / (Knows I’d hit it) / Charli call me if you’re with it,” the 22-year-old Oscar and Grammy winner sings Footage of the TikToker seated on a carpeted floor while solving a Rubik’s Cube is overlayed with on-screen text that reads: “Billie’s verse on ‘Guess’ is high key predatory but y’all blinded by her usual queerbaiting for commercial gain all in an effort to convince the masses that she’s actually into them lol Eilish released her “Lost Cause” music video which featured scenes of her and a group of girls playing games eating snacks and dancing around the house at a sleepover The “Bad Guy” pop star was subsequently accused of queerbaiting fans with the video’s imagery Queerbaiting refers to the marketing practice of including queer characters/relationships as a means to appeal to queer audiences I got to watch the entire internet slam my sister for queer-baiting for an entire year when in reality you were all forcing her to label and out herself,” Finneas responded in the comments of the TikTok video The Independent has contacted Eilish’s representative for comment Eilish first made a passing remark about her same-sex attraction to women in a 2023 interview with Variety She was later asked during a red carpet event if she had meant to “come out” in the cover story I just didn’t realize people didn’t know.” After her comments made headlines, she accused Variety of outing her. “Thanks Variety for my award and for also outing me on a red carpet at 11am instead of talking about anything else that matters i like boys and girls leave me alone about it please literally who cares stream ‘what was i made for,’” she wrote on Instagram Enjoy unlimited access to 100 million ad-free songs and podcasts with Amazon Music If you sign up to this service we will earn commission This revenue helps to fund journalism across The Independent Eilish has since reflected on her strongly worded caption, admitting that she “overreacted.” Of her quotes on the red carpet, Eilish said: “What I said was funny, because I really was just saying what they’ve all been saying. I know everybody’s been thinking this about me for years and years, but I’m only figuring out myself now.” Finneas has responded to a commenter calling his sister Billie Eilish‘s ‘Guess‘ verse “predatory” Eilish recently released her guest verse on Charli xcx‘s salacious song ‘Guess’ which sees the singer claim she wants to “try it some detractors have taken issue with the verse with one TikTok user calling the verse “highkey predatory” They went on to claim Eilish was “queerbaiting for commercial gain” by “reducing girls to mere objects all in an efffort to convince the masses that she’s actually into them lol Finneas took to the comments section to defend his sister “I got to watch the entire internet slam my sister for queer-baiting for an entire year when in reality you were all forcing her to label and out herself,” he continued #billieeilish #charlixcx Finneas is referring to backlash Eilish received upon promoting her song ‘Lost Cause’, whose video was accused of “queer-baiting” Following intense speculation from a Variety profile in which Eilish said she was “physically attracted” to women, the singer officially confirmed she was queer on a red carpet interview with the publication However, the singer then claimed Variety “outed her” writing in a later Instagram post: “I like boys and girls Eilish has since admitted she “overreacted” saying: “The whole world suddenly decided who I was and I didn’t get to say anything or control any of it Nobody should be pressured into being one thing or the other and I think that there’s a lot of wanting labels all over the place.” She continued: “I’ve known people that don’t know their sexuality the way that the internet bullies you into talking about who you are and what you are.” In other news, Charli XCX and Billie Eilish have donated 10,000 pairs of pants from new ‘Guess’ remix video The world’s defining voice in music and pop culture: breaking what’s new and what’s next since 1952 News and Analysis on Global Agri-Tech Innovation 23-Jan-2024 Last updated on 23-Jan-2024 at 10:09 GMT Methionine production at its site in Commentry inactive since October 2022 due to challenging economic conditions Commentry is the group's only multi-product site the facility was manufacturing methionine powder (Rhodimet) coated methionine (Smartamine) and vitamins (Microvit) In announcing a temporary shutdown of that site’s methionine powder unit last year, Adisseo cited the higher energy and raw material costs, as well as demand stagnation. The supplier had recorded long-term contract cost increases of +26% for propylene, +13% for methanol and +78% for sulphur compared to the year prior. After a thorough evaluation, the company, a subsidiary of China National BlueStar, announced today that it has determined that restoring the plant is no longer viable. A voluntary redundancy plan, encompassing 47 positions, from a total workforce of 335, is anticipated to take effect from April 2024. That plan will be accompanied by negotiations for a robust job protection plan with trade unions, added the animal nutrition player. The Commentry plant represented more than 10% of European methionine capacity, noted Kemiex in 2022. Adisseo stressed that the closing of the Dl-methionine unit at Commentry is designed to fortify the competitiveness of its production activities on a European scale. Efforts to centralize its production of that amino acid at Roches-Roussillon are aimed at safeguarding competitiveness amid an evolving and competitive landscape, it continued. Hervé Alexandre, executive director of Adisseo's methionine SBU, highlighted the significant and lasting change in the methionine market globally and in Europe. Globally, methionine production capacity has outpaced demand, particularly in Europe, where powdered methionine demand is declining.  Commenting on methionine market developments today, Kemiex's Stefan Schmidinger told us: “A preliminary estimate suggests that methionine quantities exported from France may have dropped by about -31% from 2022 to about 50,000 tons, and by -38% from 2021. In monetary terms, we are talking about an annual revenue shortfall of about €60-90m (US$65-98m). "Coincidentally, China has ramped up production to reach total export quantities of 154,000 tons in 2023 from only 50,000 tons in 2020 with further capacities coming onstream lately and in near future. "China’s monthly exports to the EU hit the largest on record in December 2023 (5,700 tons), totalling about 30,700 tons over the full year 2023, mostly NHU brand material.” Despite the shuttering of the methionine powder operations, Adisseo said it is committed to preserving its industrial presence in the Commentry area. It made investments totaling just under €30m between 2021 and 2023, with an additional €20m outlay planned for 2025. The focus will shift to the production of Smartamine, a high value-added product, and Vitamin A. Adisseo has six research centers and production sites located in Europe, the US, China, and Thailand. 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using Justin Spiehs’ self-identification as “the most infamous and outspoken public speaker,” dismissed those claims from Spiehs’ lawsuit against the city and two of its former mayors but she has allowed other claims to move forward including Spiehs’ contention that the city retaliated against him and denied him equal protection Robinson also declined to dismiss former mayors Lisa Larsen and Courtney Shipley as defendants based on their claims of qualified immunity As the Journal-World has reported Spiehs’ lawsuit against the city stems from a series of City Commission meetings in 2022 and 2023 in which Spiehs offered public comment that was deemed disruptive and not germane to the city’s business who frequently swears at public officials and calls them insulting names like “Nazi,” “idiot,” “child abuser” and “mother(f-word),” was removed from the meeting after ignoring warnings from the mayor Spiehs has contended that the city’s “germane” standard for public comment is unconstitutional because it is vague and depends too much on discretionary or arbitrary enforcement He also has challenged the city’s “decorum” standard which prohibits disruptive behavior and slanderous speech The city has argued that those standards are not impermissibly vague because they can be understood by people of ordinary intelligence The city also argued that discretion in enforcing a rule does not render it unconstitutionally vague and the court agreed on both counts in dismissing Spiehs’ claims Spiehs also argued that even if the city’s rules are constitutional on their face they were enforced against him in a discriminatory manner “Defendants’ motion to dismiss Plaintiff’s as-applied claim based on content- and viewpoint-discrimination is granted,” Robinson wrote The judge also threw out Spiehs’ claims that the city violated his free speech rights by preventing him from clapping for other speakers based on his viewpoint Robinson said that Spiehs offered no facts to support that claim Attendees at City Commission meetings are regularly requested to refrain from clapping argued that in prohibiting clapping the city was “compelling” him to thereby express disapproval allowed other claims by Spiehs to proceed to further stages of litigation including his claim that a City Commission meeting is a “designated public forum” and not a “limited public forum” as the city has argued The government’s right to restrict speech in a designated public forum is more strictly limited and scrutinized than its right to do so in a limited public forum Robinson notes in her ruling that it’s an open question of law which category city meetings fall into and allowed the litigation to proceed on that basis She also allowed to proceed Spiehs’ claim that the city retaliated against him because removal from a city meeting could have a chilling effect on a person’s willingness to engage in protected activity Plaintiff need not conclusively prove that the removals would chill speech Plaintiff need only allege sufficient facts to demonstrate entitlement to present evidence on his claim,” Robinson wrote As to qualified immunity for Larsen and Shipley Robinson wrote that neither was entitled to that “at this stage of the litigation.” She noted that the former mayors’ broad assertion of qualified immunity was not sufficient and that they would be required to separately address Spiehs’ specific allegations of violating his rights must be able to conduct “individualized analyses for each Defendant to determine whether either of them is entitled to qualified immunity.” Regarding Spiehs’ claim that his equal protection rights were violated by the city Robinson let the matter move forward because she said the city failed to address the claim in its motion to dismiss Spiehs has also filed federal lawsuits against Douglas County commissioners the Douglas County sheriff and county clerk the Lawrence school district and school board members and the Lawrence Public Library for alleged violations of his First Amendment rights Spiehs frequently protested mask requirements during the pandemic and has been convicted of criminal charges in Douglas County for an incident that took place at one of his protests he was protesting at a coronavirus vaccine clinic at West Middle School and allegedly confronted a man and his 9-year-old son Spiehs was accused of tearing the paper off of his protest sign shouting at the man and child and threatening them with the large stick that the sign was attached to He was originally charged with two felony counts of aggravated assault and one count of interference with a law enforcement officer but in 2022 he entered a plea agreement and was instead convicted of two misdemeanors Spiehs, displaying a sign that read in part “(f-word) these liberal mother(f-word),” was also arrested at a Douglas County Commission meeting in April 2022 He had filed as a Republican candidate for County Commission that year Spiehs did not face charges in 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Complete digital access to quality FT journalism Get essential digital access to quality FT journalism on any device Complete digital access to quality FT journalism with expert analysis from industry leaders Terms & Conditions apply Discover all the plans currently available in your country See why over a million readers pay to read the Financial Times PFT Commenter (aka Eric Sollenberger) was the celebrity guest picker for ESPN’s College GameDay on Saturday morning The popular Barstool personality and cohost of the Pardon My Take podcast attended James Madison University and was on hand for the ESPN pregame show ahead of the Dukes’ game against Appalachian State PFT Commenter has a massive following on social media so it’s no surprise X (formerly Twitter) was abuzz after his appearance Here’s a sampling of what was said on social media about PFT Commenter’s guest picks appearance: The best College Gameday guest ever @PFTCommenter pic.twitter.com/cvamI2vWHE — Cruz Oxenreider (@TheRealCruzOx) November 18, 2023 Crazy to see the world come together to watch @PFTCommenter absolutely blow the roof off the roofless @CollegeGameDay — Tyler Briskie (@TyBRISKIE) November 18, 2023 This makes me so happy. 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$250,000 field goal for charity pic.twitter.com/J7CLDPkBoX — Pardon My Take (@PardonMyTake) November 18, 2023 Considering he took Tennessee to upset Georgia We’ll see if those bold picks pay off as Saturday’s slate continues Adam is a daily fantasy sports (DFS) and sports betting expert A 2012 graduate of the University of Missouri evergreen and newsletter content across all Saturday Football brands SPLC and Florida Decides Healthcare File Lawsuit Challenging DeSantis’ Attack on Direct Democracy — Read More In an attempt to verify the authenticity of a manifesto that was uncovered Saturday morning on “The Last Rhodesian,” a website owned by Roof, Hatewatch ran the document’s full text through Grammarly a piece of software with plagiarism detection capabilities The Daily Stormer is a neo-Nazi website run by Andrew Anglin that both generates original content and aggregates articles from other white supremacist sites across the Internet Its comment section is much less moderated than its peer sites and hosts a diverse community of white supremacists from across the extremist spectrum “I mean that our culture has been adopted by everyone in the world This makes us feel as though our culture isnt [sic] special or unique.” In an almost verbatim statement at the Daily Stormer on January 31 and by that I don’t mean that our culture is made up of ones from around the world I mean that our culture has been adopted by everyone in the world Notably, on another article titled “No Longer Posting Council of Conservative Citizens Articles” published to the Daily Stormer on the same day, “AryanBlood1488” expresses his reverence for the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), a white nationalist hate group for “waking him up” to “black on white crime.” great respect for the CofCC because they are the ones who woke me up to black on white crime in the beginning,” write “AryanBlood1488.” “It was the first site I went to the day that changed my life the day I decided to type in “black on white crime” into Google.” Promoting this narrative of “black on white crime” has long been the sole purpose of the CCC’s website, run by Kyle Rogers Roof recounts a similar path of radicalization after becoming fascinated by the high-profile killing of Trayvon Martin Rogers’s coverage of Martin’s tragic death for the CCC’s website resulted in over 170,000 unique visits to the site in a single day “The event that truly awakened me was the Trayvon Martin case I read the Wikipedia article and right away I was unable to understand what the big deal was It was obvious that Zimmerman was in the right But more importantly this prompted me to type in the words “black on White crime” into Google and I have never been the same since that day The first website I came to was the Council of Conservative Citizens There were pages upon pages of these brutal black on White murders Now it appears that the CCC’s website may have just been Roof’s first radical step before progressing to more hardline sites like the Daily Stormer Other comments from “AryanBlood1488” match the ideological sentiments expressed in Roof’s alleged manifesto where he takes an uncommon ideological position within the spectrum of anti-Semitism: that Jews are white I am of the opinion that the majority of American and European jews are White,” reads the manifesto “In my opinion the issues with jews is not their blood I think that if we could somehow destroy the jewish identity then they wouldn’t cause much of a problem The Daily Stormer commenter “AryanBlood1488” makes a strikingly similar point on a September 12 2014 by Steve Sailer article titled “Ashkenazis: Half Middle Eastern “The vast majority of European and American Jews are white,” writes “AryanBlood1488.” “I really get sick and tired of reading these absolutely stupid idiotic comments on here saying how Jews have a biological drive to destroy or are a biological parasite If you could destroy their identity and raise them as white The problem is that they identify as something “other” but are actually white and therefore able to infiltrate and subvert but the majority of European and American ones are white.” “AryanBlood1488” took to an article on the Daily Stormer titled “James Woods Says Memphis Beating was a Hate Crime Jew Says Whites Can’t be Victims of Racism” to bemoan the fact that “White people are not allowed to defend themselves.” and may get charged with a hate crime yourself even though you were defending yourself from a hate crime Its [sic] pretty sick stuff,” writes “AryanBlood1488.” In what could retrospectively mark a disturbing moment of foreshadowing “AryanBlood1488” concludes with the assertion that “one of white people [sic] strengths is that we dont [sic] see ourselves as victims like all the other races.” Comments or suggestions? 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Submit here tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization (EIN: 63-0598743) The Southern Poverty Law Center400 Washington AvenueMontgomery for a live taping of First Take and to meet Skip Bayless takes and sports takes and now they're best friends "First Take" the TV show is a morning instituton on ESPN2 It has given a national platform for the hottest most controversal takes and it has turned Skip Bayless into a jet-setting international millionaire First Take the lifestyle is a mentality that runs through every real sport's fan It is the desire to beat friends and co-workers in conversations about sports It is the mentalty that hustles through the synapses of every talk radio show caller from coast-to-coast I memorized sportcenter commercials and would show up late for school on every Monday mornings because "Plays of the Week" started at 8:53 opening bell was at 9:05 and the school was 15 minutes away the biggest influences on how I look at Sports came from car rides I listened to "The Big Show" book on tape- the story of Dan Patrick and Kieth Olbermans heyday on the flagship ESPN program- on road trips with my mom when the signal from the Rush Limbaugh show got to weak to pick up on the radio First Take is the show that made talking about sports more of a sport than most sports It would go on to be my inspiraton for when I auditioned to be a columnist at Bleacher Report taking a trip to Bristol would be a kin to going on a pilgrimage to Mecca Ive been drawn to that sleepy New England like a moth to a flame of burning takes for my entire life Theres a popular saying that you see on bumper stickers once you get there: "I wasnt born in Bristol but I got here as fast as I could once the interstate travel conditions of my probation expired." So when a coworker at SB Nation won a trip to go watch a live taping of First Take AND a opportunty to meet Skip and Stephen A Smith The beauty of First Take is its unifying presence the demographics is 53% White and 47% Black- the most culturally diverse audence of any ESPN program It is without a doubt the only television show in the history of the world who's title sponsor is Bass Pro Shops and has a musical intro by Wale It is a platform that brings all races together in the peace to argue with each other about the New York Jets and call Lebron James a selfish bum The success of "First Take" has been no more apparent then in the networks and other outlets attempts to replicate it and you need look no further then "His and Hers" which air's immedately afterwards its basically if First Take took a half dose of Molly First Take is the highest rated show on ESPN2 by far despite the fact that it airs at 10 AM Eastern on weekday mornings when many of our nations employed elite are at there office jobs So I flew into Hartford the evening before the big meeting of the minds and made the 40 minute drive into Bristol so that I could take in the sites and do some tourism in Bristol Out of the top 10 things to do in Bristol on Trip Advisor The other three are Lake Compounce water park So obvously I made a bee line for the water park Unfortunately it had rained earlier that day so the Water Park was closed down which is like a prostute taking a day off on Valentines Day But Bristol is the type of small town America where people still trust each other So I let myself into Lake Compounce and went on a little tour of the place: It was a spooky ghost town in there and after about 10 mins park securty apprehended me and the LC Police escorted me to the exit- no need to call the police- some towns still know how to be friendly I went on over to the Watch and Clock Museum which was closed but I feel like I could pretty much tell you what was inside Also the main clock outside the literal museum of clocks was set to the incorrect time: There are only a couple options on where you should get drunk in Bristol One is in a bar who's sign is written in Comic Sans that says something like FIFTY BEERS ON TAP coming soon I dont want 50 beers on tap- I want a bar that has ice cold budweiser I like to mix the two sometimes if Im on a date and ask the bartender to make me a 50/50 combo Bud Lite- very cosmopolitan So we chose to go to a bar called "Bleachers" (get it (sports.)) I loaded up on some chicken wings nachos with chili (this would come into play later) and slammed down a few brews I was on my way out the door at about 9 PM when my pregnant coworker that had been put in charge of making sure I didnt do anything stupid stopped me and by misstake mentioned that they were donig a beer pong tournament that night So with pretty much no formal training we stepped into a major league beer pong tournament and finished 3rd out of 40 teams with a pregnant woman as my partner But by that time it was 2 AM and I was suppose to be in bed 4 hours ago because I had to wake up in 5 hours if you say "beer pong tournament" to me Im under a obligation to my readers to say "yes" to it The next morning I woke up with a really bad feeling in my stomach most likely do to the 14 beers and chili that I ate a few hours ago and made my way to the ESPN campus where we would be taken on a whilwind adventure of takes We were escorted into the room where they were just wrapping up there morning production meeting for the show and it was absolutley nothing like I imagined it no Mark Sanchez on all fours in a metal dogcage with Stephan A Smith wailing on it with a nightstick no Static X or Drowning Pool or Monster Magnent or Powerman 5000 blasting from speakers Just a whtie board that listed which side of the "Geno Smith got punched" argument they would be taking for each segment A common theme you hear when you talk to anyone in sports media is that Skip and Stephen A are just contrarians for ratings sake I am here to tell you that this is not true at all They are two naturally occurring properties who inherently disagree about EVERYTHING- reminded me of my first marraige folks There job is to be themselves and who they are just happens to be the only two people on earth who disagree on both of the questions of "Is Lebron James good?" and "Is Tim Tebow bad?" If the producers come up with a topic and they both agree on it American viewers like fighting more then anything including sex Given the choisce of a movie about war like Saving Private Ryan I would of loved to have gone there on a day when absolutely no important sports news happened like the week of the home run derby or during the world cup It would of been great to see these artists mold a TV show of takes with no raw materials like watching Piccasso make a portrait out of pubes and snot But they were going live with plenty of ammo that day since the Geno Smith deal was still very much breaking news fact checkers,and interns behind the scenes to make it go The producton studio resembles a upgraded version of a NASA control room except there job is to launch stars back to earth and into the homes of millions Stepping into the on-air studio with SAS and Skip is a magical moment I felt like a honeybee bee who accidentaly flew into the garden of Eden Seeing the two of them take there seats before taping was not unlike when Rocky and Thunderlips faced off on the Silver Screen except if Hulk Hogan played both characters Stephen A was literally cracking his neck getting ready to do battle They didnt speak to each other- didnt even make eye contact- just prepared for what was sure to be a slugfest Here's The Thing about First Take and its enourmous sucess What they debate is inconsequental as much as how they debate it even if Lincoln-Douglass had spent three days agruing over something stupid like whether Harriet Beecher Stowe is black enough we still would of remembered them both as superstars Whats also great is that they dont keep score like they do on "Around the Horn." This means that the real winner of each days debate is- you guessed it- up for debate Now people can argue about people arguing about sports and it turns out that people love it For the next two hours Skip and Stephen A would act as opposing legal minds in the debate over Geno Smith got punched in his jaw After they cut to there first break I got some side-eyes from the production staff for applauding but you could tell Skip was happy to have a greatfull audence for a change I was also thinking that if there would be anyplace in America that my ESPN phone would still work it would be in this very studio like when the UFO in Judgement day turned back on when it got all close to the mothership but that actualy didn't happen Being up close to two master tacticans like Skip and Stephen A allowed me to gain a greater understanding of there strategies They have two very different styles of screaming at each other that fit in perfectly within the contex of the show- nicest way possible but Stephen A Smiths rhetorical style reminds me alot of Adolf Hitler One of the Germen Chancellors favorite things to do was to start a sentence in front of a big crowd using very muted What this does is force the audeince to lean in just a bit and focus there listening on what your saying after you've got everyones attenton you gradually build and build and build until you could be screaming about whatever the hell you want whether its the foreign banking cartel or Carmelo Anthony and everyone will be drawn in and almost force to agree with you Its almost like listening to "Stairway to Heaven." As Smith cresendos up from a delicate acoustic beginning to basically telling Skip Bayless to fuck off like its the end of the guitar solo and the drums hit and Robert Plant screams "And as we wind on down the road." I literaly got goosebumps when he was pulling this off live on the other hand is very laid back like the mafia boss in a movie that allready knows he's paid off the other 6 guys at the table and the second you say a cross word and start to feel good about yourself your going to get dragged into the kitchen and get your hand stuck into a duck press So after Stephen A gets up to his climax and screams out his last 4 words of whatever Skip lets the audence have like 5 seconds of silence to let the screaming echo around in his viewers mind long enough to get the half-life of what SAS just said out of there heads and start to realize how ridiculous it was until Skip slingshots them back into the stratosphere of takes by saying very calmly and confidantly "Bryce Petty should of been the number 2 overall draft pick" It is like watching Beethoven compose a symphony after he turned deaf Skip walks off set and goes to his corner like a prizefighter getting a sqwig of water and some vaseline while SAS stays where hes at shuffling his papers and shopping on amazon prime for I dont know to see if JNCO makes suit pants or something Tahts the difference between the two- SAS is a agressive fighter who dominates the ring and wont back down not even during commercal breaks which gives Skip the last word before they cut to breaks to work in a "I know you are but what am I" type flourish- and thats what the judges remember Hes a counterpuncher at this stage in his career- he's like Michael Jordan on the Wizards- doesnt have the fastball he once did but undeniably better than at any other point in his career Theres a big movement to having Jon Stewart host a Presidential debate in 2016 but I think America would much prefer the two candidates go on First Take My God it would be a transcendent moment in American politics It would be equally as transformative as when they had the first ever televised debate where Kennedy looked like Adonis and Nixon basicaly turned into a raccoon  Can you guys serously imagine Donald Trump and Joe Biden debating whether or not Chip Kelly is racist After the two hour thrillride of the show was over they asked us if I wanted to meet Skip and Stephen and I said a emphatic "hell yes." They brought me up onto the stage and I shook there hands and I said "Skip Im just a real your takes are very strong and Im a big fan but you have to admit Skips takes are just way stronger" I said as I shook his hand "Thats it Im done with you" Smith shot back at me He seemed genuineley offended it was like a Metallica fan telling James Hetfield he had much tastier riffs then Kirk Hammit I asked to get a picture with them and SAS initially refused saying "No Im not getting my picture taken with you There are alot of people in the media that give Skip Bayless a hard time and make fun of how much money he makes but he is literaly 100% one of the nicest people Ive ever met or maybe its just that takes recognize takes because after this picture he pulled me in asked me where I was from Every time I turned away to catch up with the rest of my tourgroup he would pull me back in with another thoughtfull until he literaly asked me what I thought about RG3 Stephan A Smith saw two bighorns sizing each other up and decided it was time to amscray and I cant say I blame him Skips widely known to be correct about most sports things but his Robert Griffin takes are going to haunt him for the rest of his life or at least as long as I have his email address Still believe RG3 can return to rookie of yr RG3 I told him The Redksins are trying to turn RG3 into Andy Dalton and Skip nodded his head in agreement not knowing that I meant Andy Dalton as a compliment He said its just so sad what the Redskins have done to him which I agreed with but only because I think they should of drafted him as a Wide Recever We went back and forth and the only knock I have against Skip is that he spends too much time actually listening to what I had to say and thinking about it instead of just lining up the take cannon in his mind I dont know if he mistakenly thought I was like there on a Make-a-Wish trip or whatever but he treated me like a sick child and that is the highest compliment I can pay to anyone Then the tour continued and I got swagged out in the offical ESPN gift shop and ate a lunch in the ESPN cafeteria We took a tour of the campus and let me tell you it They had a studio they built just for sportscenter that cost nine figers I'm going to repeat that. hey had a studio they built just for sportscenter that cost nine figers and the NFL live studio wasnt that far behind it Saw Mark Schlereth strolling around- gave him the Kobe jaw when we past each other- kind of like a Jeep wave for guys who are pretty tough when they see each other He was pretty busy but you could tell there was some mutual respect going there I asked a guide where the on-air personalities desks were So after all that chlii and beers from the night before you better believe I needed to use the restroom Our guide kindly directed me into the bathroom stall- the very same one that is used by Chris Berman But the day took a nasty turn at this point- someone had left a floater in the ESPN stall Possible suspects that I knew to be in the Sportscenter building at the time the floater was discovered include- Mark Schlereth ESPN legal analyst Lester Munson (whose name just sounds like a urban dictionary term for someone whose toilet got upper decked) two Sportscenter anchors that I didnt get to see and the entire staff that votes on the College Football Rankings poll but you get a bunch of college football writers together in a room who all literally think there shit doesnt stink so it could of very easily been one of them I guess the mystery will go unsolved for now Guyana Amazon Warriors vs Saint Lucia Kings Saint Lucia Kings vs Guyana Amazon Warriors Home / Cpl: Caribbean Premier League NFL Sunday Countdowns started at 10 AM and the last game wasnt over til 2:30AM so its a good thing I've horded a bunch of original recipe Four Lokos in my survival bunker/front porch for when I need a extra boost to get me through the day I made it so here are my Week 5 NFL awards These strong takes are presented for your entertainment All spelling errors are intentional (we think) Remember back when we use to all debate who the best pick of the draft was in Luck Well Griffin and Wilson have officialy entered Sam Bowie and Darko territory folks When Luck drops back to pass hes always what I call "a triple threat" type guy who can do it with his arms his legs or his brain- people forget that as the crow flys hes faster then Gatorade Griffin because Luck gets downhill instead of running to the sidelines so he can highfive all his teammates and Subway handlers on his way to the EndZone Andrew Luck absolutely domenated Wilson out there Wilson's not use to getting it stuck to him so hard without having to tie off first, if it werent for Pagano Id have the Colts as my pick to win it all come January but you just never know what kind of lookie lookie stunt Pagano might pull and cause a distraction Andrew Lucks the ultimate first-in last-out Road Grader and this awards just a nother in a series for a guy who has more buildings on the Stanford campus named after him then anyone except when you count the Student Clinic and Penecilian Nursery all named after Tiger Woods folks  So long as there making fun of things that never existed in San Diego they should put up signs that say RIP Seasons and RIP Girls Who Will Sleep With Us I decided to named this award after Danny Woodhead on account of I could pretty much give it to him each time The funny thing is Woodhead is such a team-player that hed be fine with giving the award to someone else just to be fair so this week Im giving it to a man who DEFINES Southern Hospitality: Jerry Jones Every year Jerry creates at least 53 new jobs in todays economy and most years 54 when you count his head coach. Ol Jerry pretty much won over all his detracters on Sunday by standing by his QB after a hardfought choke.  Always the gracious host Jerry went up to the rafters and opened up the roof on Cowboys Stadium either to make the Broncos feel at home outdoors or maybe just so Demarius Thomas coudnt hotbox the place Either way Jerrys a man of the people if their ever was one and he proved yet again that folks will always respect a man for bringing his lunch to work even if your son-and-law packs it for you During a week where no announcers called a player Gay or accidentally instagrammed a picture of them snorting lines of blow of a Heinz field hand-dryer with Paulina Gretzky Hes been calling games for CBS for over a year now and hasnt once tried to sodomize Phil Simms before halftime Then again Marvs career is basically one big come-back story Ive got a BIG problem with the way Tom handeled his lost to the Bengals this week In the first place he didnt even throw for a TD even though he had almost the best recieving corpse in the league with Julian Edelman B: After the game was over he went and may have GOT A HAIRCUT BEFORE ANSWERING TO THE MEDIA (technically his bosses) I never thought Id say this but after a performance like that from Tom you almost wish Michael Irvin were in that lockeroom when Brady sat down in the barber chair folks • Julio Jones could be done for the year • NFL Power Rankings: Chiefs and Colts climbing • Fumblr: Matt Schaub hits rock bottom • Bois: The Quarterback Internet Hate Index • Lions' Raiola harassed UW marching band, school official tells SB Nation good luck and thank you to my colleague and my friend My favorite thing PFT Commenter ever wrote is "Route 69 to Cumming." Two months before the Iowa caucuses we sent him on a road trip through the state from a Trump rally to a Chris Christie town hall before ending up at one of the Democratic debates he and his 2012 Chevy Coffin make stops at a rock with "abortion" painted on it probably a few adult bookstores (I don't know I didn't see the expense report) and a convenience store where he overheard someone arguing with a clerk that "pop" was food and therefore shouldn't be taxed "If you cross the North Korean border illegally you get 12 years hard labor.. If you cross the United States border illegally you get a job You wonder why our country is going to hell." He makes alot of good points about how our countrys policies should more accurately reflect the values of our enemies in order to make us great again- theres no denying that From Hillary Clinton's remarks at the debate: Her strongest point was when she reminded people that it was unfair to attack her for accepting money from Wall Street because she was a Senator when 9/11 happened This is a move known as the "Giuliani shuffle" and it has been enormously effective in building up large leads a full calendar year before a election In Iowa or any 100-mile stretch of highway running through rural America you'll find at least one place to buy sex toys a handful of billboards with some veiled racist remark about the President and a smattering of Protestant churches It's a starker paradox here because it confronts you head on but just because it's more obvious along the Interstate highways of "Flyover Country" doesn't mean the bluer enclaves are without unsettling contradictions of their own What makes us all Americans is a universal unwillingness to confront the irreconcilable parts of our conscience We'd been laughing at PFT Commenter's "taeks" on Twitter for a few months before he finally made the case in Feb. 2013 that he needed credentials for Super Bowl media day. He even submitted a trial column to another online sports media outlet, something about Chuck Pagano and the [Bruce] Arians Nation and he was kind enough to share the feedback he received for other writers looking to break into the business your points were not backed up with any supporting information or analysis the situation around Pagano is a sensitive subject and you don't want to potentially offend your audience it is sentences like this that our Content Moderation teams would not let on our site he had everything every other NFL columnist does I needed him writing for us because I just didn't know how I could be responsible for making the NFL all that interesting for 12 months out of the year without his voice someone to point out the absurdity and hypocrisy If the forward pass changed the game of football; some nut asking if RG3 was "hurt or injured" and dispensing "taeks" changed the way we talk about it Making PFT Commenter our chief political correspondent was only natural The only thing more lacking for introspection than the NFL is our politics We came up with the idea to cover the election early last summer before the Trump phenomenon reached critical mass Two things have never lined up better than an insurgent billionaire candidate the same shade of orange as Mike Shanahan vowing to "Make America Great Again" by making America great again and an internet commenter with a credential "Our country doesn't win anymore" has become Trump's standard stump speech he's going to start winning those things again It could be one of the vacuous talking points you find on First Take right there with elite quarterbacks and clutch performers Professional political writers with decades of experience are still trying to make sense of Trump and what he's saying and what he represents PFT Commenter did it with one trip onto the campaign trail a bottle of Mad Dog 20/20 Habanero Lime-Arita and a suitcase full of Natty Light Ice (all of which he's smuggled past security at both Presidential debates and the Super Bowl) Every major sports outlet in the country has a collection of bullet points named after some clever football term they publish every Monday morning bastardized version of Peter King's "Monday Morning Quarterback." It's a copycat league But Mondays are an important space to fill when you cover the NFL you have to have something that stands out a destination that football fans look forward to coming to every week For too many of us that wasn't the case anymore That's about as much of a testament to what he's done working side by side with him every day and brainstorming about the many ways we can be "deeply unserious about ambitious things" like the NFL and the Presidential election and it will be a privilege to see the things he creates at his next endeavor January 14, 2015 ShareSave They say you should never read the comments out of procrastination or curiosity or the narcissistic personality disorder that's endemic to newsrooms some of the comments you'll find will make you want to douse your laptop in Diet Coke and go paint artisanal pottery for a living instead For example, when I wrote about how female leaders are expected to perform within a “narrow band of acceptable behavior,” the first commenter responded “Isn't it the women who are generally less tolerant of all human behavior (be that male or female) that doesn't conform to 'average?'” I’m sure any day now that dissertation on the superiority of the male brain will be accepted and you can get yourself a tenured job and prove Mom wrong forever “Who are these people?” Who would take time out of their day just to post sexist rants on news articles based on whether they had made a blatantly sexist remark or claimed that gender bias does not actually exist About a third of the comments fell into these types of “negative” categories Their study, recently published in the Psychology of Women Quarterly found that the negative comments were significantly more likely to be written by men these are not comments criticizing the quality of the journalism “The successful males I train simply seem to be hungrier and more willing to make the personnel [sic] sacrifices required to get ahead of the competition.” About 5 percent of the comments contained blatantly misogynistic remarks the women I worked with were NOT competent by comparison with the men,” and all but one of those comments was left by a man comments supporting the conclusions of the study It’s alarming that men and women both rated female students lower,” were more likely to be posted by women The biggest gender difference emerged in the category of comments that said bias against women does exist Seventy-one percent of those responses were left by women “This finding is consistent with other work suggesting that women are more likely than men to perceive sexism in part because they are more likely to experience it,” the researchers write men may be unlikely to acknowledge gender bias in order to maintain their own privileged position in the social hierarchy.” It’s worth noting that what commenters say online isn't necessarily what they would say in a meeting at the office. Because of the online disinhibition effect, people feel more free to let loose their brain bile when they don’t have to do it in person On the other hand, if there is truth in wine, perhaps there’s some in Internet comments, too. Maybe “I don't trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn't die” isn’t really something the commenter would say out loud to a woman. But it might be something he actually thinks—and when it comes to the hidden biases women face, that’s all that matters. What happens when PFT Commenter ventures away from the internet safety of Barstool Sports and expands to a new arena full of different people And that’s just a sample. Lot of listeners having their days ruined by the ignorance of this dumbass spewing hatred against atheists and quarterbacks with normal sized hands. Smashing their heads against their steering wheels listening to a guy love Jesus. Sometimes the takes are just too hot for the common folk. If you don’t like it you know where the door is. New Book Details An Extensive Campaign By The Networks' PR Staffers Written by Ben Dimiero NPR media reporter David Folkenflik writes in his forthcoming book Murdoch's World that Fox News' public relations staffers used an elaborate series of dummy accounts to fill the comments sections of critical blog posts with pro-Fox arguments In a chapter focusing on how Fox utilized its notoriously ruthless public relations department in the mid-to-late 00's, Folkenflik reports that Fox's PR staffers would “post pro-Fox rants” in the comments sections of “negative and even neutral” blog posts written about the network the staffers used various tactics to cover their tracks including setting up wireless broadband connections that “could not be traced back” to the network.  A former staffer told Folkenflik that they had personally used “one hundred” fake accounts to plant Fox-friendly commentary: Fox PR staffers were expected to counter not just negative and even neutral blog postings but the anti-Fox comments beneath them One former staffer recalled using twenty different aliases to post pro-Fox rants Several employees had to acquire a cell phone thumb drive to provide a wireless broadband connection that could not be traced back to a Fox News or News Corp account even in the age of widespread broadband access on the rationale it would be harder to pinpoint its origins Old laptops were distributed for these cyber operations Even blogs with minor followings were reviewed to ensure no claim went unchecked Folkenflik explains that “four former Fox News employees told me of these practices.” It's unclear whether these tactics are ongoing.