A quick tribute to what had been an entertaining source of slightly off-center Raiders News… Jason Jones  now “formerly” of the Sacramento Bee Oakland Raiders blog. Jones provided truthful analysis, sprinkled with random Raiders related tidbits for the Bee, a great paper with some serious budgetary issues.

For unfiltered Oakland Raiders media untainted by the whitewashed groupthink mentality of mega-merger media titans, the pool is again shrinking… and it doesn’t take the Farmers Almanac to see a major drought coming.  

Sorry to see you go Jason.

What remains on this parched NFL landscape outside of the blistering omnipresent glare of DisneyAbcESPN you ask?
Here’s a couple of choices to consider adding to your daily repertoire…

Pro Football Talk- witty and 32 team thorough. Despite pimping Sprint phones as a panacea for everything but Irritable Bowel Syndrome, PFT offers a plethora of unvarnished NFL notes and spot on analysis.   Unless Florio and co. are rolling around with giant bags of team supplied Coke and hookers , then much like our continuing belief in Santa Claus, we’ll keep drinkin’ the sweet PFT Kool Aid. 

Trip to Jonestown anyone… Guyana is simply mahvelous in the summer?

Raidernews.com Complete and thorough “all Raiders, all the time” website. Featuring just enough from the rest of the league and the AFC West to give you a daily snapshot of NFL doings.  Sign #936 that I need to get out more… I check this site every day of the year,  including this miserable offseason time when only baseball and hoops (did they play hockey this year?) remain.

Why do we celebrate the rarity that is unfiltered, spin-free sportswriting? Because much like a duck force-fed corn mash to expand his liver, mainstream media is currently serving us  “Coors Light Cold Hard Facts” in Hungry Heifer proportions. But hey, it is live from the new Hollywood set, and Matthew McConaughey just “stopped by at halftime” to drop football knowledge on us hardcore fans.

Value Added?

For the love of truthiness…

 

So is DisneyAbcESPN Sportscenter the evil that plagues us in this nation, hardly. When we pine here at Raidergirls for less “journalistic objectivity” in Sportswriting, we aim to let talented witty writers (not in attendance here… “Bueller”…) lift their suppressed veil of neutrality and tell us how they really feel about the teams they cover, love ‘em or hate ‘em.

When honesty and transparency are mistakenly found to violate the antiquated notion of Sportswriting “journalistic objectivity” we all get less truthiness. Do not confuse journalistic “ethics” such as not allowing team lobbyists or sponsorship $$ to shape your coverage, with asking Oscar Madison to pretend that he’s not a Mets fan or has no particular passion for Big Apple sports. 

Ghandi to Oscar: “Oscar, cleanse your mind of all of your passion and interest for the Mets, surgically remove it, good…. good…..begin writing.”

 

Yippee, Cheetos in Albuquerque.

 

It’s a fucking game, a sport… keep it real unless you’re  Wolf Blitzer in Baghdad where journalistic objectivity and neutrality mandates are paramount. It’s a game where John Clayton and Chris Mortenson are the “embedded journalists” for christs sake.

 

 Gratuitous rehashed Sportswriting Journalistic Objectivity rant…

 We firmly believe that “journalistic objectivity” in sportswriting is utter bullshit.  Our commentary will absolutely reflect a genuine disdain and sometimes passionate  hatred of the Donkeys and Chiefs. A  diehard Broncos or Chiefs fan ought to hate the Raiders too.  Talented yet hamstrung… Woody Paige and Jason Whitlocks drivel would be a thousand times more interesting if they simply came out and admitted “Hell yes I’m a Donkey/Chef fan, and my column shall reflect that.”  Their softplay towards the politically correct center of “non-bias” reaks of antiquated and forced mediocrity, much like artificial turf and the putrid sterility of football in a dome.

 
If your sporting journey leads you to seek mainstream fare whitewashed for the masses, go to Applebees and sit down at the bar for a shitty burger and to watch things swirl and scroll in 400 flavors of orange and red from Sportscenters nauseating  “The Matrix meets Fear and Loathing” laser  light show set. May Stuart Scott “boo-yah” you to sleep while you pretend that the boys from Bristol don’t fellate themselves over every chunk of corn in Manny Ramirez’s bowel movements.

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Darrius Heyward-Bey: Raiders Wide Receiver, University of Maryland

Simply put everything about contestant #423 in ”The Next Cliff Branch” Oakland Raiders show, and a little bit about what will now be the everpresent comparisons across the Bay with Michael Crabtree. Welcome Darrius Heyward-Bey- head West, go deep…

Heyward-Bey video highlights, Raiders 2009 1st round pick

Heyward-Bey  Blows Through Miami’s defense on a 96-yard touchdown catch.

Heyward-Bey Makes a Crazy Catch against Wake Forest

Darrius Heyward-Bey WR Maryland 4.30 Highlights

 

Darrius Heyward-Bey Bio

Wide receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey played college football for the Maryland Terrapins.

Heyward-Bey was selected seventh overall in the 2009 NFL draft by the Oakland Raiders on April 25, 2009.

Darrius Heyward-Bey Fast Facts

Darrius Heyward-Bey Full name: Darrius Heyward-Bey

Darrius Heyward-Bey Born: February 26, 1987

Darrius Heyward-Bey Birthplace: Silver Spring, Maryland

Darrius Heyward-Bey Height: 6-2

Darrius Heyward-Bey Weight: 206 lbs

Darrius Heyward-Bey Position: Wide Receiver

Darrius Heyward-Bey Jersey: #8

Darrius Heyward-Bey High School: McDonogh School

Darrius Heyward-Bey College: University of Maryland

Darrius Heyward-Bey Class: Junior

Darrius Heyward-Bey High School

Heyward-Bey graduated at McDonogh High School where he was a three-year letterwinner and a two-year starter as a wide receiver and outside linebacker. He was a SuperPrep All-American who was ranked 17th nationally at his position by that publication, listed as the 23rd-best wide receiver in the nation by ESPN.com’s Tom Lemming, a four-star player by Rivals.com who was picked as the fourth-best player overall in the state of Maryland and the 12th-best wide receiver in the country.

Darrius Heyward-Bey College

He attended University of Maryland where he played 3 seasons as a wide receiver before he declared to forego his senior season to enter the 2009 NFL Draft. He is considered as one of the nation’s most explosive receivers during his three-year career, earning freshman All-America honors in 2006 and honorable mention All-America accolades in 2007, a two-time All-ACC performer, and two-time member (2007-08) of the Biletnikoff Award watch list.

Darrius Heyward-Bey Awards and Honors

2008 All-ACC honorable mention2

2006 All-ACC second-team2

2006 The Sporting News first-team freshman All-America2

Darrius Heyward-Bey Wiki

 

Darrius Heyward-Bey Official University of Maryland Player Bio

Heyward-Bey is now forever linked with Michael Crabtree (much as we will always compare Glenn Dorsey To Darren Mcfadden, despite the obvious position difference) Heyward-Bey vs. Crabtree Article.

Over-under until Michael Crabtree starts referring to himself in the third person… mid-preseason.

Great line from Gwen Knapp commenting on Mike Singletary’s take on Crabtree  … “”I talked to Deion Sanders a little bit,” the coach said, and he might as well have been winking as he talked. No responsible team in the NFL would have turned down a chance to put Sanders in its uniform because he dressed like a bootlegging character in “The Sting,” had a fondness for jewelry before anyone had uttered the word “bling” and spoke of himself as royalty.”

Can’t say this revelation from Crabtree defines your classic gridiron warrior… Singletary then described the moment in their interview when he asked Crabtree if he had a hobby. “You’re never going to see me wear the same thing twice, I’m really into fashion ” said Coco Crabtree…

  

 

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Nostradomus Lives at Raidernews.com

 

As clueless and unprepared as ESPN seemed at both the Raiders picks (though to their credit even NFL.com did not have video or even height & weight stats on S Michael Mitchell), Raidergirls salutes Raiders news site extraordinairre Raidernews.com… which saved the day with these two Nostradomus like articles published prior to the draft…. from Raidernews.com

Lttle Known Darrius Heyward-Bey said to be Raiders pick…  

 

“He’s the fastest wide receiver on the Raiders’ watch list, and no, his name is not Jeremy Maclin of Missouri.”

” He’s one of the bigger receivers on their draft board, but no, we’re not talking about Michael Crabtree of Texas Tech.

Try Darrius Heyward-Bey, the Maryland receiver who is suddenly everyone’s favorite for the Raiders to select with the No. 7 overall pick of today’s NFL draft.

Heyward-Bey, as in the guy most draft experts rate as the fourth- or fifth-best wide receiver in this year’s class…<read full articleFrom Sfgate.com>”

… more Darrius Heyward-Bey video highlights - Wide Receiver Maryland

Amazingly despite ESPN and NFL.com (or Kiper’s dismissive “he could the #40th best safety or 83rd”) not knowing anything about Safety Michael Mitchell from Ohio whom I’d read about in this amazingly prophetic article, again courtesy of Raidergirls.com…

Oakland Raiders Need Ohio U Safety Michael Mitchell

“The safety was the Oakland Raider’s hard hitting Jack Tatum. Mike explained in the interview he looked up everything he could on the Internet to learn more about this safety that had so impressed him.”

“Michael went on to explain that since that day he wanted to play the safety position as Jack Tatum played the position with the Oakland Raiders.”

“From watching this young man play I can say he would make Jack Tatum proud.

Michael Mitchell is 6’1″ tall and 220 lbs. Although he was not invited to the NFL Combine he decided that he would make scouts take notice at his school’s pro day. On Michael’s first run at 40 yards he recorded a 4.43 and on another try he ran a 4.49 as he let up at the 35 yard mark because of a tweaked hamstring.

When he tackles someone on the field he knocks their legs right out from under them and delivers a wallop. The young man also has the instincts to play the position and reads and reacts on a play very fast. This guy is all over the field and loves the game of football… <read full article from Bleacherreport.com>”

…more Michael Mitchell News | Highlights - Safety University of Ohio

All in  all those are two great jobs by the writers, and from Raidernews for keeping us truly informed in a way that mass media could never replace… nicely done!  raidergirls

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