Things that irk you......

I'm sure we've got a Frequent Poster here who can clue you in to the joke I was making.

 

PORN, man. PORN!!!

Sheesh.

 

I do all my porn on the web, my man.

 

How many websites you on?

 

right this moment?

 

Click on the link, go to the end of the doc under "primary exempt purpose."

http://www.espn.com/pdf/2013/0329/espn_otl_CathysKids2011.pdf

It was a sham.

 

I never said it wasn't a sham. In fact, I noted that if Jerry DeGregorio is the head of the foundation, it is highly suspect. The article should have quoted or referenced the organization's stated mission to support its claim. It's the reporter's job to give the reader the relevant information, not to make the reader sift through 10 pages of IRS forms to find it.

Do you disagree OTL should have included that in its story?

 

It did include that information in a perfectly economical way:

"Some specific examples of what "Outside the Lines" found after conducting interviews and examining documents: NBA forward Lamar Odom's charity that promised money for cancer research has not given a dime in grant money to any cancer entity in its eight-year history."

 

Professional sports teams who think they are creating "atmosphere" with their cookie cutter vinyl banners name-checking everyone from the captain to the backup long snapper. "Bob's Buddies" "Rick's Rowdies" "Samuel's Squad". Just don't.

 

Good point.
Perhaps it was always intended to be used this way, but it has become increasingly common in its use.

As for the half-game/game, if that is the case, which is a big if, it is a meaningless use of words that have a prescribed meaning.
I can't file for a permit to build a 40-foot extension on my house when in my meaning 40 feet actually means 20 feet.
There is a finite number of games played in a season. That number divided by 2 determines where .500 falls.

 

Those are usually charities.

 

I disagree that sentence was perfectly economical. If it had added something like, "... according to tax documents filed with the IRS," I would agree with you.