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Dancing with the Stars Rankdown 4.0 (Winner reveal page 201)
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save hope solo cut floyd mayweather and rocco dispirito -
I think Drew asked a while back what was the harm in entertaining these peopleโs fear of fraudulence in the election. This is the harm. This should have been shut down literally months ago and now you have white terrorists storming the Capitol. Congrats.
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Ding ding ding!!!!!!
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SHOULDA GIVEN ME MY MONEY MITCH!!!!!
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Dancing with the Stars Rankdown 4.0 (Winner reveal page 201)
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I am more passionate about sports than DWTS. All my remaining write ups will be 100 words even. -
Dancing with the Stars Rankdown 4.0 (Winner reveal page 201)
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As an addendum I hate Derek Fisher because to me it feels like he views the WNBA as a consolation prize for not being a good enough coach for the WNBA. That he lucked out on getting a coaching job for one of the most talented and highly regarded teams in the league. While pretty much every other male coach had exclusively worked their way up through women's basketball either college or the WNBA or had a pretty highly regarded coaching resume. -
Dancing with the Stars Rankdown 4.0 (Winner reveal page 201)
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Derek Fisher Two Sharna partners in a row for me. Derek Fisher was on season 25 of Dancing with the Stars where he was partnered with Sharna Burgess and for purely sport reasons I HATE him. He was completely mediocre the entire time which is the story of his entire life and career and they placed 11th. Yes I know he was a 5x NBA Champion but three times he was on the Kobe Bryant/Shaq Lakers and the other two he was with Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol. Like. Sir. That's like being the 4th starter on the LeBron/Dwayne Wade/Chris Bosh Heat. It's like being the 5th starter on the Steph Curry/Klay/KD/Draymond Warriors. Debbie Gibson and Barbara Corcoran were robbed simply by placing lower than Derek Fisher because at least their bad dances were memorable. Derek Fisher's bad dances exist. Just like he does. AND YET. He keeps failing into head coaching positions. Obviously first to the LOLKnicks from 2014-2016 where he had a STUNNING 0.294 winning percentage. Somehow he got a second season with the Knicks despite winning fewer than 20 games. There are 82 games in the NBA season. He lost more than 62 games. He was fired in his second season with the Knicks after 54 games. They couldn't even wait another 28 games to fire him. Somehow this made him all the more appealing as a coaching candidate for the Los Angeles Sparks of the WNBA. Sidebar. I love Women's Sports. My favorite league is the WNBA. My real twitter name is Dr. The Only Good Sports are Women's Sports. I buy the WNBA season pass each year. This year before the WNBA including very prominently the Atlanta Dream against Dream owner Kelly Loeffler encouraging Georgia voters to support Rev. Raphael Warnock he was 4th in the polls. They did something incredible and helped bolster the efforts of grassroots organizers in the field in Georgia. In terms of social change and justice in sports, the WNBA has always been at the forefront. And they also the sport is just incredible. I have a lot of thoughts but unfortunately the only WNBA player in this rankdown is Arike Ogunbowale so hopefully in a long time I'll get to talk about her. End Sidebar. Now here's the thing. Derek Fisher in his two years as head coach of the LA Sparks has a winning record finishing 1st in the West and 3rd in the west in 2019 and 2020 respectively. However, the Sparks are one of the WNBAs most talented teams with both Ogwumike sisters, Chelsea Gray, and Candace Parker. In 2020 he got resurgent Brittany Sykes and got Riguna Williams to continue on her 2019 trend of scoring points. Candace Parker showed people that she showed no signs of aging and in addition to her team leading average of 14.7 points per game she was voted by media as Defensive Player of the Year. When you have a basketball team that is this good and talented you don't have to do much. Throw him on The Liberty or The Dream and we will see how good a coach he is. But despite all that talent. Two years in the playoffs they've been horribly embarrassed. And both years by the Connecticut Sun. In year 1 of his tenure in a must win game, he benched Candace Parker and Nneka Ogwumike AKA the two best players on the team for the ENTIRE fourth quarter. They ended up losing that game 56-78. And were out in the semifinals of the playoffs. In 2020 they were bounced in round 2 after losing 59-76. There is something deeply wrong with your coaching if your team is consistently dominant in the regular season and falls apart by huge margins in the post season. Because it's not that they lost, it's the way they lost. They weren't even competitive. After the 2019 season it was revealed that the LA Sparks essentially only looked at Derek Fisher for coach. In 2020 they promoted him to GM. They promoted him in a season where their three best players (Candace Parker, Nneka Ogwumike, and Chelsea Gray) are all free agents. Good luck. Let's see what he can do with a roster without all three of them. Here's some fun tweet quotes from people about Derek Fisher. "2 yrs ago the sparks had the deepest roster in the wnba hall of famers, mvps, dpoy, & star rookies & derek fisher couldn't win a playoff series" "Derek Fisher is the best head coach in the WNBA tbh. Whoโs doing it like him? โ ๐ข๐ณ๐ณ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฎ๐น ๐๐ผ๐๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ ๐๐๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐ณ๐ฎ๐น๐๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐บ๐ถ๐๐น๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ป๐ด" "1. Cheryl Reeve ...... 12. Derek Fisher" "Remember when Derek Fisher benched her during an elimination game of the WNBA finals.... " "I think the #Sparks front office is left with a clear choice: you can have Candace Parker or you can have Derek Fisher but you can't have them both. " "Derek Fisher had his second chance and he needs to be fired. This performance was beyond embarrassing and LA had a problem all season long not playing through their best players enough. #WNBA" "I wonder if the Sparks will finally sack Derek Fisher now. Dude's in over his head. A waste of those players' talents having them play under an incompetent coach. #WNBA #lasparks" Anyway, the list goes on. This probably does not explain why I hate Derek Fisher so much but it just burns me so deep in my soul that this mediocre man keeps failing to more power in the WNBA. Under him I know that the Sparks will never be able to compete in the postseason. And Candace Parker has worked too hard for too long to just keep getting freaked over by shit like this (please attend my next article on why Geno Auriemma sucks balls for essentially kicking CP off the US Women's Basketball team for not being a Nike Athlete and playing college at Tennessee). I just want the best always for Candace Parker and I hope that 2021 sees her free from Derek Fisher's mediocrity. And I hope Chelsea Gray and the Ogwumike sisters follow. Also Derek Fisher is like "LOL I totally can be GM I know all about CBAs from when I was President of the NBA players union" well Derek Fisher in his role deeply freaked over other NBA players during his tenure there so he is just an awful person. And also probably a loan shark. -
Dancing with the Stars Rankdown 4.0 (Winner reveal page 201)
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My wifi for some reason has become incredibly slow so if I donโt get my Derek Fisher write up within 45 min please nobody cut him or Von Miller -
Dancing with the Stars Rankdown 4.0 (Winner reveal page 201)
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Antonio Brown #Bless Alex for these nominations that allow me to cut two of my least favorite people in sport. One for sports reasons and one for outside of sports reasons. It doesn't take a big brain to realize that Antonio Brown is the out of sports reasons. There's this nasty truth about sports which is that if you are good enough and there was never any video nor a criminal conviction, you can have your redemption story. You will always be given another chance. Antonio Brown was traded by the Steelers to the Raiders in 2019 for what seemed like pennies compared to what Antonio Brown was worth just because he was a "diva." I don't like giving the Steelers props (after all their quarterback is also a rapist) but hindsight is 20/20 and they were right. Later that season before any games were played the Raiders released Antonio Brown supposedly because he called a coach or the GM a cracker. I forget who. That's pretty low and a way to avoid paying Antonio Brown because we didn't know what he had done off the field. I mean every team already knew about the incidents that lead him to be a trade option for the Steelers despite being the best wide receiver in the league including an April 2018 incident where he tossed furniture out his window nearly hitting a child and where he was speeding 100mph on a freeway. But those weren't enough to deter teams like the Raiders and then eventually the Patriots who saw only his talent. Then came September 2019. First, Brittney Taylor, Antonio Brown's former trainer, accused him of sexual assault. Then a few days later a second woman accused Brown of sexual misconduct and sexual assault. This wasn't enough to deter the Patriots who still played Brown a single game in the second week of the Patriots season. See "allegedly" doesn't get you cut from a team when you are the best wide receiver in the league the year before. However, on September 20th, text messages from Brown to the second woman were released where he was clearly threatening her. This caused Antonio Brown to be released from the Patriots. A few months later in early 2020 in the before times, Antonio Brown was involved in other cases including battery and burglary which he was charged and eventually pleaded no contest receiving probation and community service. This should have really been enough to end Antonio Brown's career. But no remember Antonio Brown is exceptionally good at running routes and catching balls. And in his brief time in New England he made a powerful friend - Tom Brady. Tom Brady who pleaded Antonio Brown's case to Bruce Arians who despite being one of the few coaches ever recognized for actually being cool to women and hiring them on his staff, despite just a few months earlier said that there would be no place for a guy like Antonio Brown to be on any team he coached, gave in. And in October 2020, barely a year after the initial accusations of rape and sexual assault, Antonio Brown was a Buccaneer. A Buccaneer who will be going to the playoffs. Tampa Bay didn't need Antonio Brown, they already had one of the most dynamic receiving duos in the league with Mike Evans and Chris Godwin. But you see, Tom Brady wanted Antonio Brown. So they got him. Despite everything. Because Antonio Brown is good at catching footballs. And thus everything before can be forgotten. In this article from excellent sports reporter Diana Moskovitz (https://defector.com/antonio-brown-gets-to-redeem-himself-because-he-helps-your-team-win/) which is behind a paywall it ends with this: "What all these coaches, players, and team executives know is this: Winning does take care of everything. Thatโs why college football is being played in cities with COVID-19 outbreaks, and thatโs why Brown will be back. The easy answer would be to wave it off as the same old sports problem. But sport isnโt that complicated, or that special, nor is it somehow magically divorced from our everyday nightmares, even if it is sold as an escape from them. The Buccaneers know that their fans will forgive everything if they win, an utterly unremarkable trait as every fanbase does that in every sport. Hell, if the Bucs win enough, I can already see the text messages that Iโll get from friends in the Tampa Bay area, telling me they believe Brown is a changed man and, also, did I see that amazing catch he just made? You can feign shock, if you feel like, but it all fits within the great American forgiveness doctrine: You can get redemption if you can make me money." Antonio Brown was on season 22 of Dancing with the Stars. He was paired with Sharna. They made it to top 5. He wasn't very bad but he wasn't very good. -
Dancing with the Stars Rankdown 4.0 (Winner reveal page 201)
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actually i just remembered that hemo won't stop talking so SAVE VON MILLER -
Dancing with the Stars Rankdown 4.0 (Winner reveal page 201)
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save heather morris -
Dancing with the Stars Rankdown 4.0 (Winner reveal page 201)
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cut antonio brown, derek fisher save harry hamlin -
Dancing with the Stars Rankdown 4.0 (Winner reveal page 201)
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can i make a cut and then do my second cut and save later or does it all have to be at once. just mentally preparing -
Dancing with the Stars Rankdown 4.0 (Winner reveal page 201)
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me preparing my derek fisher write-up: https://twitter.com/WomensHoopz/status/1341549591028768768?s=20 -
Dancing with the Stars Rankdown 4.0 (Winner reveal page 201)
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LOLOLOLOLOLOL I have to remember movies from the 2000s. -
Dancing with the Stars Rankdown 4.0 (Winner reveal page 201)
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Aiden Turner When I first googled "Aiden Turner" the Irish Actor Aidan Turner popped up and I was like "THERE IS NO freakING WAY THAT THE VAMPIRE FROM BEING HUMAN KILI WAS ON DANCING WITH THE STARS" and for once w/r/t this rankdown I was correct. Because AidAn Turner was not on this show but AidEn Turner was. Aiden Turner, who is British, was on the 10th season paired with Edyta. And since we can just pretend that Geraldo never existed both on this show and on this planet, we can consider Aiden Edyta's last partner. She was probably tired of being given duds and despite being young and handsome Aiden was a bad dancer. I watched a dance of his. It was bad. Back in the old time-y days of this show they weren't afraid to give bad dancers bad scores so Aiden got a 15, a 19, a 20, and whatever "5/6 5/6 5/6" means on the show. Bye Aiden. -
Dancing with the Stars Rankdown 4.0 (Winner reveal page 201)
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wow good thing christmas is over so it's past the season where i talk about how much i hate this character and also all of love, actually. -
Dancing with the Stars Rankdown 4.0 (Winner reveal page 201)
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Victor Espinoza When I saw this name I was like "no, this can't be the jockey. He definitely wasn't on Dancing with the Stars, right????" WELL HE WAS. On season 21. Paired with Karina Smirnoff. That's a season I watched! Bindi Irwin won! It's like American Idol where to keep up with IDOLForums (until it's finally changed to Rankdown Forums) where every year I watch and then COMPLETELY forget everybody the second the show is over. Wish my brain did this for The Bachelor. But no. Just for celebrity dance competitions and glorified karaoke shows. Anyway, Victor Espinoza was not a great dancer! He placed 12th and did three dances which earned a 15, a 17, and a 20 respectively. It's probably really difficult to dance when you are so much shorter than your partner. I mean Karina without heels is 3in taller than him according to google. And also he was old. If you don't know Victor was American Pharoah's jockey. Yes THE American Pharoah. The 12th horse to win the Triple Crown in horse racing. The horse that public voters decided was more deserving for SI's sportsperson of the year over Serena Williams (thankfully SI gave Serena the honor). -
Dancing with the Stars Rankdown 4.0 (Winner reveal page 201)
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Cutting Victor and Aiden Saving Charlotte -
Dancing with the Stars Rankdown 4.0 (Winner reveal page 201)
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FRIENDSHIP ENDED WITH DEREK FROGLENZEN MY ONLY FRIEND IS ALEX NOW -
Dancing with the Stars Rankdown 4.0 (Winner reveal page 201)
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If only Derek had put up Derek Fisher for me so I could post my full scathing write up and also talk about how insanely cool the WNBA is -
Dancing with the Stars Rankdown 4.0 (Winner reveal page 201)
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Lol love doing cuts and saves last every round -
Dancing with the Stars Rankdown 4.0 (Winner reveal page 201)
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Jennie was one of my favorite athletes of all time so learning about her as an adult was DISAPPOINTING. -
Dancing with the Stars Rankdown 4.0 (Winner reveal page 201)
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I just don't want Aly Raisman grouped in with actual literally awful people and an actual WHOMST when she's incredible. -
Dancing with the Stars Rankdown 4.0 (Winner reveal page 201)
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I still think about how incredible Aly Raisman's first tumbling pass is in her 2016 floor routine. Simone Biles overall better but that pass was maybe the biggest highlight of 2016 Rio Floor routines.