“Look at the way many in the media wrote about Jim Irsay after his DUI arrest. Nobody suggested the Colts owner had ‘ties’ to drug trafficking, even though he was caught driving with controlled substances (prescription pills) and $29,000 in cash” – Seahawks CB Richard Sherman, writing about how race influences media treatment in light of a report about new Redskins WR DeSean Jackson having gang ties (MMQB.com, 4/2).
“They’re all over me already. … But that’s the thing about social media these days. Everybody has something to say” – Braves CF B.J. Upton, on the criticism he is seeing on his Twitter feed after going 0-8 at the plate through the season’s first two games (ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION, 4/2).
“Some of these teams that have that kind of money … don’t care about the back end of the contract and that’s why with these television deals they are signing with their cable outlets, I think they are just willing to swallow the back end of these contracts for what they get on the front end” – Fox’ Joe Buck, on big contracts in baseball (“Mike & Mike,” ESPN Radio, 4/2).
