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THURSDAY'S BROADCAST HIGHLIGHTS:NBA: Boston at Philadelphia, 3 p.m. (NBATV, NBCSB)NBA: Cleveland at Toronto, 8 p.m. (TNT)NBA: San Antonio at LA Lakers, 10:30 p.m. (TNT)NHL: Carolina at Washington, 7 p.m. (NHL Network)
AROUND THE WEB:
-- Floyd Mayweather gave an unsurprisingly tone-deaf response to a question about the #MeToo movement during an interview with Men's Health.
"We're asking a lot of men, in light of the #MeToo movement, how men can grow in 2018," Men's Health said.
To which Mayweather responded, "The who?"
"When you say 'me too' … When somebody is like, 'I got a Rolls Royce,' I be like 'me too.' When somebody say they got a private jet, I say, 'Me too. I got two. Me too,'" Mayweather went on.
"Well, this is very different," the reporter said.
"Well, I didn't know! My Me Too movement from the beginning was whenever somebody said what they have I'm like, 'me too.' Somebody say they got a billion dollars, I say, 'I made a billion dollars, me too.'"
Mayweather has a long history of domestic violence and has hit the mother of his children in front of his son, so the fact that he doesn't know what #MeToo is doesn't come as a shock.
-- Barstool Sports has earned a victory over the NFL.
In a tweet on Wednesday, Dave Portnoy said the league "bended the knee" to Barstool over the rights to shirts the NFL printed that were basically a rip-off of Barstool's.
"I am happy to report that @nflcommish has bended the knee to Barstool Sports and removed all infringing Sundays Are For the Boys shirts. We have conquered the NFL. @TuckerCarlson @nypost," Portnoy tweeted.
Humble yourself @nflcommish, thanks @TuckerCarlson #SAFTB pic.twitter.com/DJ7SYZTJIB
— Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) January 11, 2018Breaking: Barstool Sports broke the back of the NFL. Made them humble. https://t.co/gHC5SYL0ky
— Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) January 10, 2018Barstool threatened to send a cease and desist letter to the NFL in December for its new line of "Sundays are for the —" shirts, which are quite similar to Barstool's "Saturdays are for the Boys" empire.
Dear Roger Goodell....You've Been Servedhttps://t.co/pzpf1ZJYsU pic.twitter.com/3BCHficezt
— Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) December 21, 2017QUOTE OF THE DAY: "The reality to me seems pretty obviously true. Patriots fans have been tweeting at me a lot, and really, for the organization that is the smartest in football, they have some of the dumbest fans in sports. Dumb. Dumb. Duuuhhh, dumb." -- Max Kellerman, who said years ago Tom Brady is going to "fall off a cliff," on Patriots fans
