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THURSDAY’S BROADCAST HIGHLIGHTS:NBA: Philadelphia at Milwaukee, 8 p.m. (TNT)NBA: Houston at LA Lakers, 10:30 p.m. (TNT)NHL: Detroit at Buffalo, 7 p.m. (NBCSN)NHL: San Jose at Edmonton, 9:30 p.m. (NBCSN)
AROUND THE WEB:
-- A Christian activist has plans to sue the NFL and Pepsi and his cable company for hundreds of trillions because the Super Bowl halftime show was too hot.
Dave Daubenmire said on his Pass the Salt podcast the performance by Shakira and Jennifer Lopez put him “in danger of hellfire” and is suing for “piping pornography into his house.”
“I think we ought to sue,” Daubenmire said. “Would that halftime show, would that have been rated PG? Were there any warnings that your 12-year-old son—whose hormones are just starting to operate – was there any warning that what he was going to see might cause him to get sexually excited?”
“Could I go into a courtroom and say, ‘Viewing what you put on that screen put me in danger of hellfire’?” he continued. “Could the court say, ‘That doesn’t apply here because the right to (produce) porn overrides your right to (not) watch it? Yeah, well, you didn’t tell me I was gonna watch it! You just brought it into my living room. You didn’t tell me there were gonna be crotch shots! That’s discriminatory against the value I have in my house. You can’t just do that. I wanna sue them for about $867 trillion.”
Seems fair.
He then posted a video to Facebook asking for a lawyer who is up to the challenge of joining him in his fight.
-- Pete Rose wants back in with the MLB.
Rose has asked commissioner Rob Manfred to remove his name from the league’s ineligible list, which would allow him to be considered for the Hall of Fame.
In a petition he sent to Manfred, Rose argues the league has chosen to not punish players guilty of major game-changing rules infractions and Rose's 30-year ban for gambling on baseball while he was the manager of the Reds is “vastly disproportionate” and should end.
Rose is also seeking a meeting with Manfred. The league has said it has received the petition and is reviewing it.