"Can't even compare it. Medina had just left a gigantic wave...Curry was just jumping like a baby girl…"
The world’s sports fans have united across colour, race and ethnic stamping to protest a ham-fisted attempt by ESPN to tie a nondescript photo of basketballer Steph Curry with the now-iconic photograph of Gabriel Medina’s flying kickout.
“Brazilian surfer Gabriel Medina earned the highest single wave score in Olympics history with a 9.90 in the fifth heat Monday en route to advancing to the men’s surfing quarterfinal and a photographer tracking him produced one of the most iconic photos from the Paris Games,” wrote the NY Times.
“Ok, a lifetime’s worth of kickout shots in a single day. Now please make it stop,” wrote the former photo editor of now-defunct Surfing magazine, Jimmy Wilson.
ESPN, which is owned by Disney, ran a photo of Steph Curry, who singlehandedly saved Team USA from an ignominious defeat by Serbia last night, alongside Medina with the caption, “This photo looked familiar.”
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And here, the sports fanss teed off.
No it doesn’t
can’t even compare it. Medina had just left a gigantic wave…Curry was just jumping like a baby girl
Nope, not even close with the Medina’s one. Dont force the friendship…
Nah, it’s not even close, brazillian photo got 1000x more aura
That curry pic is no where near the level of that Brazilian surfer
Lol not even close to the same
ESPN is crazy Can Medina do what Curry is doing in his picture? Yes. Can Curry do what Medina is doing in his picture? HELL NO
ESPN has been no stranger to controversy over the years, stirring the pot with everything from employee spats to political commentary. One incident involved Sage Steele, a popular “SportsCenter” anchor, who left the network after settling a lawsuit over her controversial comments about vaccine mandates, female sports reporters, and former President Barack Obama’s racial identity. Her departure followed a series of events that began with her being taken off the air in 2021 after making these remarks.
Another controversy arose when ESPN reporter Rachel Nichols was removed from the NBA Finals coverage after her private phone conversation leaked. In the conversation, she suggested that Maria Taylor, a Black colleague, was given a job due to her race, sparking a media frenzy and leading to her removal from the network’s NBA Finals coverage.
Heady days.
“This is not a surfboard and France’s Lucas…” Initial thoughts: what an interesting contrast and who wrote this? I recognize that style. Juxtapostioning fashion without the need to boast about surfing ability, location, quality of waves and/or board design. Dude just squares up straight and outright flashes with optical tierra firma. Dress for success and the rest will follow. (Just read the first couple of paragraphs in TSJ.)
Unlike BG with the correct-sized lettering for my eyesight, TSJ is of a finer print and makes the task of focus very difficult. It’s in my toilete’ and fortunately isn’t going anywhere. Will finish up over the course of this week as I spend much more time at my computer desk than I do on the pot. And that’s a good thing!
Congrats DR on your long-form journo abilities and thank you for your patience. Having read so many of the blogs over the years, I knew it was penned by you.
Where do you find these clips?
The heart of these faux champions cannot match the fire and talent of the Dream Team or for that matter Jokic. Jokic should be the face of the NBA as he is the ultimate team player
rip
Sportsball is awesome, and wayyyyyy better than lame ass surfing. Don’t take up surfing, ’cause you’ll always be second fiddle to the cooler people. Learn to dribble the sportsball, and run like your running from a Lion. Yes, this is where all the money is, so this is where all the cool people spend their personal time. Quit being a kook, go buy you an oversized jersey(they’re made like that to fit over pads, but no you look cool) and get in the stands with all the other sportsball analyst.
If this upsets you, you’ll really be bothered by Russell Wilson bragging about his God given big hands.
“BIG HANDS I KNOW YOU’RE THE ONE”
YES, he is a legendary surfer due to his ability to paddle out courtesy of those big hands:
https://x.com/CassidyWoodTV/status/1821558024747557280?t=h_u7n3jSSz12sNem9zvcTQ&s=19
if the gloves don’t fit, you can acquit…big hands and red bull might give one wings…deep taughts by jeff handey (SNL-esque & adjacent).
The experts on big hands are the boys in the Violent Femmes
https://youtu.be/Ra8VTlXVqU…
thx Pic for the new ear blisters!
Kinda an unfair comparison.
Gabby had to zoomy-swoop along a dangerous moving watery hill (he risked scraping his toes!) to gain the momentum enough to achieve that radical aerial chic.
The basketball player was tall already. All he had to do was lift his feet a little.
question is, who has bigger balls?
The guy that packs massive barrels or the guy who dribbles?
Does BBC translate to big balls? Currently more questions than answers.
No. I can personally testify that huge balls do not translate to BBC.
you doubt? pictures available.
I trust you!
and the winner is…back to black! (and white photos)
Embiid also almost lost it with his turnovers, lack of boxing out, and inability to swap back to Joker quickly on the pick and roll. USA needs to box out France or it will be a long gold medal game.
And here I was thinking suurfers are the most retarded people in sport . Wrong
it’s a long list, we’re probably just bottom third
outside the olympic village is
where dat action occurred.alledgedly
essecntial…
ice cream!
I dunno, Sage is very hot.
This is a fucken outrage! Someone hold my pud so I can shake my fist vigorously!!
:Dat whale had an anal bleach and othe assorted stories…sign up here. and feed to ChannelBottom who somehow has found a big-breasted secretary for a 2nd episode.
though not cryin o’r surf o’ bazzi ‘plaints peakock and USA provided volleyball, ping pong and exciting tears…and as sober as fuck i was…is baseball in the Olympicx? rowing? gambling~
That was an epic game to wake up and put the coffee on to this morning. Been a cracking Olympics in general.
no sailing?
TSJ highlights the delta between a Dewey Weber hatchet fin and a George Greanough’s tuna-inpirred…”It’s not a foil says Shwan Thompson.” Bob McTavish disagrees…
I hate sailing!
Chrystal Voyager Beta tapes available here, there. but not at Our Home Office. contact BG at BG HQ’s for retail questions.
No complaints~here, or where. or in OZ…where Brazzies thrive?
volleyball, rowing, ping pong, ju-jit-su and little waves thrive~
USA displaying defense systems…
Olympians call home~
Oh I need to pick mine up from the post office
new or used?
the mctavish piece was pretty good
FE BU ARY.
how ’bout that spread of dude surfing in tight jeans. epic!
or dude dragging a yeti. or OK passion piece. or another exposed secret heritage spot.
(by god, am sucked up again. and stuck with another 1/2 dozen bi-monthly glossies)
thx, HST&Steadman&Lono.