ESPN's 30 for 30 Series
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Anyone watch any of the 30 for 30 documentaries? I'm a big sports fan and all these are really well done and good stories even if you're not a sports fan.
Here is the schedule http://30for30.espn.com/schedule.html
Here is the schedule http://30for30.espn.com/schedule.html
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Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
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Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
I went to school in Hampton and played ball at Allen Iverson's high school a t Bethel high. I bowled at that Circle Lanes a 1000 x's and bowled there Wednesday night league 3 man team *Seventh Heaven*. We led and won the league, won $800 and racial divide was like they said in the doc just not as bad since I was there in the early 80's instead of the early 90's. maybe due to the fact we were college students and AI's people were high school youngsters.
There was always such tension in that bowling alley especially on league nights. Non league nights blacks stayed separately from whites. In that area blacks and whites lived in completely separate areas and many didn't dare get caught in the wrong areas at night.
This was a very captivating doc in that it brought back so many memories of the area and what it was like back then. Even though i think what happened to AI was unfair he was boastfully in the wrong place at the wrong time and had to pay for the consequences of his actions that night. He basically said so about the incident, in the end though things worked out for him and the others that were convicted.
Peace
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Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
Don't get me wrong it was the time of my life, shaped me and made friends for life in the 7 years I was in that area. That documentary brought back so much of what I did there, the school I went to, the places of recreation and even the concert venue I worked in and attended 100's of concerts. On one of the best small venues on the east coast in the Hampton Coliseum. Right next to the Coliseum is an area which I considered to be a very poor neighborhood with it's share of crime.
It's strange though at the time of the AI incident I wasn't paying it much attention at all. I was sort of detached from my life there. The only thing that caught my ear was that the incident happened in Circle Lanes. I wasn't surprised that could happen there cause that was the racial atmosphere when I was there. I saw my share of racial incidents, even some that happened to me. Another aspect of the areas make up is that that Hampton Roads area is high in Military activity of all the branches including the CIA. Our military ships and submarines are built at the famous Newport News Shipyard. Sports in general, high school sports in that area rules in that area.....from the Hampton Crabbers who dominated football to Bethel B's to Pembroke High. So you could see why Allen was able to do as he pleased due to the fact that he was a very gifted athlete. Odd thing that I find with the documentary was that people from both sides haven't changed their views on the incident even to the point of being reluctant to being interviewed today. I have to go back there again someday it's been 10 years since I've been down there.
Anyway a fascinating documentary and i liked when he was asked if he ever wanted to be black and then Steve James gave his answer then the videographer was asked if he ever wanted to be white and the answer he gave. Those responses were too cool and I'm sure the racial devide continues with President Obama currently occupying the White House.
peace
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
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Don't get me wrong it was the time of my life, shaped me and made friends for life in the 7 years I was in that area. That documentary brought back so much of what I did there, the school I went to, the places of recreation and even the concert venue I worked in and attended 100's of concerts. On one of the best small venues on the east coast in the Hampton Coliseum. Right next to the Coliseum is an area which I considered to be a very poor neighborhood with it's share of crime.
It's strange though at the time of the AI incident I wasn't paying it much attention at all. I was sort of detached from my life there. The only thing that caught my ear was that the incident happened in Circle Lanes. I wasn't surprised that could happen there cause that was the racial atmosphere when I was there. I saw my share of racial incidents, even some that happened to me. Another aspect of the areas make up is that that Hampton Roads area is high in Military activity of all the branches including the CIA. Our military ships and submarines are built at the famous Newport News Shipyard. Sports in general, high school sports in that area rules in that area.....from the Hampton Crabbers who dominated football to Bethel B's to Pembroke High. So you could see why Allen was able to do as he pleased due to the fact that he was a very gifted athlete. Odd thing that I find with the documentary was that people from both sides haven't changed their views on the incident even to the point of being reluctant to being interviewed today. I have to go back there again someday it's been 10 years since I've been down there.
Anyway a fascinating documentary and i liked when he was asked if he ever wanted to be black and then Steve James gave his answer then the videographer was asked if he ever wanted to be white and the answer he gave. Those responses were too cool and I'm sure the racial devide continues with President Obama currently occupying the White House.
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Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
Very true (and as a New Zealander, it was EXTRA painful to watch). But that being said, they've only been a unified society for 20-odd years - they may have a looooooooong way to go, but don't count them out simply because they haven't caught up yet. I have faith that they'll get there (but then again, I'm a possimist lol)
It's not all that comparable to the same level by any means, but I'm a huge Indy Colts fan in the NFL. I went to the Super Bowl this past year and watched them lose to New Orleans. Albeit, I am not happy about it in the least, I can atleast look at it after the fact in my sports misery and know it meant something special and significant to the people of that region (after Katrina and all). Will never be happy bout it, but I can see it atleast. The South Africa thing was so much more than a mere game or tournament and I'm sure as a bystander, most can see it's significance and importance well after the fact, even if you were rooting for the losing team.
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
Yeah, we were in two minds about that. We were happy for the South Africans because they are traditional rivals and we could finally play them again (legally, that is) - it was good to have them back, and we were happy that they found success after everything they'd been through. However, we didn't REALLY want them to win the whole bloody thing. We would've been perfectly content with them making it to the grand final and then losing. Then again, we go into every World Cup ranked #1 in the world, and haven't won it since the inaugural one in 1987. We could write the definitive book on choking.
Sorry to hear you're a Colts fan - I like Peyton, and I know Addai from his days at LSU, but as someone living in Louisiana I had to root for the Saints (even though I'm a Chargers fan first. Between them and the All Blacks, I may we well be the one personally writing the book on choking). I live in Baton Rouge, and I have a LOT of coworkers who missed work on that Monday because they'd gone to the French Quarter when the final whistle blew because they didn't want to miss the party haha
6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
And yea - NO was a mad house, and even to this moment I hate they won, atleast I can look across and be glad for the Saints and their fanbase if we didn't.
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
http://30for30.espn.com/schedule.html
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
that June 17, 1994 one was awesome. brought back all the memories of the OJ chase. too bad we didn't let him shoot himself though.
And you forget how really insane it was with all that stuff going on at once.
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
btw ... saw this the other night ... "into the wind" ... no problem admitting this was brought tears to my eyes ...
haha ... just for clarification ... my assertation was terry fox was the greatest canadian ever ... not nash ...