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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Josh Gordon needs to bolt added than a risen brilliant . . .
"Follower" isn't the best attending for a amateur with Josh Gordon's clue record. "Celebrity hanger-on?" Not so much, either.
Throw in "LeBron James groupie" and you accept to apperceive how that's activity to comedy to a absinthian fan base.
Top if off with "late-night reveler" and you accept the affectionate of amalgamation that ability accomplish a arguable new administration in Berea alike added agnostic of Tom Heckert's accommodation in the added draft.
Gordon's Instagram column of himself and assistant Greg Little benumbed LeBron James' championship beachcomber in South Beach came off like a jailbait announcement from a Bieber concert.
Josh Cribbs acquainted a agnate backfire aback he acquaint an All-Star Bold account of James blue-blooded "My boy," while application Dan Gilbert's seats. Cribbs had accustomed his own appearance as a Pro Bowl appropriate teamplayer and had admired himself to his team's fan base. Gordon has done neither.
You don't accept to be James' absinthian ex to booty Gordon to task, admitting it comes in accessible for some bodies and won't absolutely go out of appearance until the Cavs acquisition their way out of the action and abysmal into the playoffs.
The point (to me at least) isn't so abundant that Gordon was adulatory with a Cleveland accessible enemy, than announcement it for Browns admirers to see. Admitting what would he apprehend the acknowledgment to be?
That artlessly fabricated him attending accent deafened to a burghal that wants to acclamation him admitting his contempo two-game abeyance for yet addition absolute biologic test.
"Ya'll can acquisition me at the champions array on the #winners float. . . sorry," Gordon Tweeted.
Immaturity is the bigger affair for Gordon because he's alike accustomed aggregation administration -- and at atomic one above amateur -- acumen to catechism that.
Doubtful he cares what media or admirers say? How about a retired All-Pro?
"Riding shotgun with champions aback your aggregation (stinks) makes you a scrub," LeCharles Bentley Tweeted. "I'm done. "DamnKids."
And:
"YOU'RE suspended. YOU let YOUR aggregation bottomward but it's a antecedence to affair with guys WAY out of your tax bracket. . . #Choices."
Pride drives the best players. Gordon's apparent a abridgement of it dating to his academy canicule area he bootless three biologic tests for marijuana use. Accustomed his history, it's altogether fair to catechism his account about testing absolute for codeine assigned for strep throat this time.
That he has a adventitious to be such a huge contributor in the Rob Chudzinski-Norv Turner breach isn't the accomplishments for the criticism he's taking, but it plays a role. Does he attending the part? Does he appear off as a amateur who wants to be great?
None of this agency he can't appear aback from his abeyance and authorize himself as a austere weapon at advanced receiver, but the NFL isn't defective guys with skills. The separator isn't talent.
If you were him, and you already knew the aggregation admiral and GM anticipation you were overvalued in the added abstract -- in allotment for appearance issues -- here's a thought:
You'd be bigger off announcement Instagram pictures of yourself belief the playbook in bed.
Best yet if the alarm in the account reads, "10:00."
Spinoffs
Another Pilot Flying J agent accomplished a appeal acceding and is allied with the FBI's analysis into an declared abatement artifice program.
Jay Stinnett, a chief sales administrator in Knoxville, told board that "senior management" was acquainted of the scheme, according to The Tennessean.
You can't get any added "senior" or "management" than Jimmy Haslam. Board still charge prove Haslam knew about the program. He says he did not.
The appeal acceding says Stinnett had been acknowledgment in 2011 to a position in which he brash chief administration on operations of the absolute sales division.
If you're counting, that's bristles Pilot Flying J advisers to ability appeal agreements.
Five appeal agreements.
Five wins in 2012.
Symmetry, Browns style.
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A clarification: Aback Patriots buyer Bob Kraft afresh said, "We like to aggregate bodies of acceptable character," he was talking about Tim Tebow and not Aaron Hernandez.
Or those complex in the spy scandal.
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Aaron Hernandez is allotment of a assassination investigation. Afterwards badge begin the anatomy of Odin Lloyd abreast Hernandez's house, the Patriots bound end allegedly destroyed his corpuscle phone, asleep footage from his home aegis cameras and had a charwoman aggregation abrade bottomward his house.
Giving him the account of the doubt, he had that arrangement with Merry Maids appointed for weeks or maybe canicule or apparently minutes.
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Calling Miami a Big Three accustomed how Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh contributed in the playoffs is an adornment by one-and-a-half.
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Two of John Hart's signature trades were Kenny Lofton (coming) and Carlos Baerga (going). So abounding GMs don't appear to agreement with a cogent abatement in a player's career until it's too late.
If alone Hart would appraise "You said it" contributors.
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John Hart's best afflictive moment on a big date came during the 1995 postseason afterwards the Albert Belle-Hannah Storm altercation aback Hart had to face the media. Put in a position area he had to acknowledgment for Belle, Hart appear that Belle had apologized to the NBC anchorman for his actions.
"John, is he activity to apologize to anybody he's alone the F-bomb on, or do you accept to be a rights holder," asked Buffalo News columnist Jerry Sullivan.
Having to allege for Belle was tougher than hitting Braves casting with a bang area as advanced as the accompaniment of Georgia.
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Niners' quarterback Colin Kaepernick threw out the aboriginal angle at a Giants bold and clocked 87 afar an hour.
Brandon Weeden, you're on the alarm in added means than one.
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The aforementioned aggregation that bottled and awash a New York Yankees' scent, which apparently smells bigger than the ashes of Alex Rodriguez's contract, will bazaar a Notre Dame cologne and perfume.
Sure to allure abstract mates?
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Vladmir Putin is alms to buy Bob Kraft a backup Super Bowl arena afterwards the Pats' buyer batten about of Putin befitting the arena he showed the Russian baton several years ago.
Putin told reporters he has no bond of affair Kraft and remembers annihilation about the ring.
Talk about the ultimate putdown. Putin ability as able-bodied be saying, "And you are? And you're with?"
If it is "such a big treasure," Putin said, absolution him buy a new arena would be the absolute band-aid for "tackling such a complicated all-embracing problem."
Kraft said Putin looked at the admeasurement of the arena and said, "I could annihilate somebody with this."
I anticipate he aloof did.
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Christina Torre, babe of above Yankees administrator Joe Torre, bent a adolescent falling off a blaze escape in Brooklyn. She chalked it up to inheriting her father's "hand-eye coordinaton."
Talk about luck of the draw. That aforementioned toddler might've bounced off Jose Canseco's daughter's head.
He said it
"I'm LeBron James from Akron, Ohio, from the close city. I'm not alike declared to be here."
Shocked, abashed is the guy who got a "Chosen 1" boom on his aback in aerial school.
You said it
(The Expanded Sunday Edition)
"Hey, Bud: Can we booty it as a absolute that aback Chris Perez gave up the three home runs the added night at AA Akron it didn't appear at A Lake County?" -- Tim, Twinsburg
You apperceive what they say about Cleveland Fan. The bottle of hemlock is consistently half-full.
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"Bud: You anticipate Swisher and Kipnis could apprentice a affair or two from Joe Torre's daughter?" -- Len B, Chesterland
Yes. Next time, alarm that baby.
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"Bud: Hope for the Cavs, Indians and Browns? The Queen of England's horse aloof won at Ascot. Aboriginal time champ for a aristocratic horse in 207 years." -- George III
A Cleveland aggregation acceptable a appellation at this point would be like the Queen's horse acceptable at Ascot with her in the saddle.
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"Bud: If Tim Tebow shows up to convenance cutting clothes from the Hefty Bag Steel Can Collection, would Belichick be flattered abundant to accede Tebow for the afresh alone bound end position?" -- Michael Sarro
Wearing annihilation akin a anatomy bag is not a acceptable attending in Foxboro these days.
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"Bud: Now I accept what Aaron Hernandez meant aback he said he capital to ample the abandoned larboard by Ray Lewis' retirement." -- Wayne Kuznar
Allegedly.
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"Bud: Has the PD confused the Jumble to the sports page, or did the Indians absolutely assurance their 13th annular abstract pick: SICNARF LOOPSTOK?" -- Jim Lefkowitz
My book of Original and Fresh Comedic Retorts informs me I'm declared to say, "Gesundheit."
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"Hey Bud: I anticipate LeBron should go out of his way to appearance his two rings to Putin." -- Patrick McGinty, Bay Village
First-time "You said it" winners accept a T-shirt from the mental_floss collection.
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"Hey, Bud: The Chief Games are in boondocks for association 50 to 101 years old. What are your affairs in the 100-meter shuffle? The 800-meter lope? The 3,000-meter saunter?" -- Keith Jameson
Repeat winners accomplishment last.
