Mike Florio Tries To Do Something Nice, Regrets It Immediately. Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio announced yesterday that he had a giveaway for his readers: eight codes for a free copy of a football video game. This gesture turned out to be easier promised than executed. The first code was given away in the form of a trivia question. In that signature Florio way, however, the process of determining a winner for a basic contest turned out to be very complicated. The second code was simply tossed to the masses. Florio, who admitted he was already regretting this whole thing, crowdsourced to find the best way to give away the remaining codes. I think the person who made the best suggestion for giving away codes should have won a code. Florio then resorted to hiding the codes in Instagram photos. List of upcoming indy rock, punk, and noise shows. Includes dates and venue information. · Housing in the Santa Clara region of California is insanely expensive. Tech companies have taken to building modern day versions of mill towns just so. · The fidget cube is great for people who hate visual distractions but just want something to play with while they, well, fidget. Cubes don’t spin, so it. "Fuck Wit Dre Day (And Everybody's Celebratin')", released in its censored form of "Dre Day" as a single, is a hip-hop, diss single by American rapper and record.Three hours after the photos were posted, no one had yet figured it out. The next task for a code: Make Mike Florio laugh. Sixteen minutes later, Florio had not laughed. Questions and Answers from the Community. It doesn't. The page that you see when you ask a new question is the page that everyone will see. This giveaway was deteriorating. Florio gave away all but one of the remaining codes on the radio today. With an hour left, he resorted to the one thing that couldn’t possibly fail him, a football writer staple: Seinfeld quotes. Seinfeld failed him. An hour later, he tried again. The people still needed a hint. Florio did it. He gave away all of the codes. Thank the heavens PFT’s readership no longer has to live in fear of this threat. Major NBA Schedule Changes Will Hopefully Mean Fewer Stars Resting In National Games. The NBA is rolling right now, having become a true year- round obsession like nothing save football, and reaching new heights of popularity. An example: My mother, not a basketball fan in the least, recently asked me if the Summer League was a new thing, because this was the first time she’d heard of it. If you’re getting on mymom’s radar in the middle of the offseason, you’re doing something right.)But if there’s one problem, besides a lack of parity (and given that the NBA is a national sport in the sense that it appeal goes beyond one’s local team, I’m not sure that’s a major hurdle), it’s that the league can’t always get its biggest players in front of the biggest audience. The last few years, star players have been increasingly rested for nationally broadcast games, usually when they’re part of of back- to- backs. This has become a whole thing. In the span of one week last March, the Warriors played without Steph Curry, Draymond Green, and Klay Thompson, and then the Cavaliers rested Le. Bron James, Kevin Love, and Kyrie Irving, both for games aired on ABC. The league doesn’t like this, and TV partners sure as hell don’t like this, not when they’re paying $2. But you can’t prevent a coach from sitting his best players, not in the middle of a long season and not when there’s another game the very next day. There’s reason to believe things are going to get better. The 2. 01. 7- 1. 8 NBA schedule will be released this month, and in a memo sent to teams (and obtained by ESPN), the league has highlighted some major changes designed to provide more rest for players, and presumably make sure the best players don’t need days off when ESPN and TNT have the games. Among the changes: Eliminating stretches of four games in five days and 1. Reduction of five games in seven nights to just 4. Reduction in number of back- to- backs to 1. In all, 4. 0 back- to- backs have been eliminated from last season. Reduction of single- game road trips by 1. Reduction in single- game road trips over 2,0. This seems like it can only be a good thing. The regular season will start a week earlier this year, as negotiated into the new CBA, making room for changes like these.) Ideally, all these particularly grueling stretches would be eliminated altogether, not just for TV but to maintain players’ health over the season and keep everyone in best form for the playoffs. But the only way to make that happen would be to shorten the season, and I’d be all for that—5. February through April is a pretty joyless slog as things are. But it won’t happen. The owners don’t want it (money), and the players don’t want it (also money). So we’ll all have to be satisfied with these baby steps.[ESPN].
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