Godwin's Law Meets MacLean's Gaffe

Thursday, May 10, 2012 Godwin's Law Meets MacLean's Gaffe The latest round of verbal sparring between Manny Pacquiao's camp and the members of Team Money has proven that Godwin's Law does not merely apply to Internet debates. Apparently, if you let boxers and fight empresarios argue long enough then someone will eventually compare someone else to Hitler or the Nazis. Most recently, heavyweight promoter Bob Arum compared Floyd Mayweather Jr. to Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels because of comments he made to HBO after defeating Miguel Cotto this past weekend. To confirm, those comments pertained to a potential Mayweather-Pacquiao fight. Showing that boxing has no monopoly on gross overstatement, CBC hockey analyst Ron MacLean went right ahead on Wednesday night and compared members of the Washington Capitals and New York Rangers to the first responders during the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Despite initially telling the audience of "Hockey Night In Canada" that "it's crazy to compare to what the emergency responders did during that time," the longtime broadcaster plowed ahead to say, "they are like police officers, they are like firefighters. You can't fight fire with ego, Brad [Richards] knows that. The pain these men have faced, the price they keep on paying, the hearts they keep on lifting." Working The Weekend? Tigers Struggles At The Players Championship Mayweather-Pacquiao Finger-Pointing Hits New Low WATCH: 6-Year-Old Turns Unassisted Triple Play NBA Player Under Investigation By Internet Crimes Against Children Division Should This Cleveland Indians Story Have Been Changed? BLOG POSTS Dan Treadway: The Lucky Devil A little more than a month after Stephen Gionta wasn't on anybody's radar as a possible NHL player, he has anchored the Devils upstart fourth line through the team's impressive 4-1 series victory over the Philadelphia Flyers. Todd Jacobson: WNBA Cares Week A group of young girls waits eagerly on a dirt-floored basketball court as Tamika Raymond or Ruth Riley or Tamika Catchings approaches. The moment the player steps on to the court, a look of hope and joy overcomes the youth. Amy Gershkoff: Can MLB Teams Tweet Their Way to Higher Attendance? An analysis of mentions of each MLB team on Twitter reveals a very high correlation between the number of times a team was mentioned on Twitter in the last month and the average attendance at home games. Brandon Bowlin: Seau's Fall Part 3: Breathing Room Every death can bring us together. I've talked to people I haven't spoken with in over 10 or 20 years. Rummaged through pictures and videos. Tapped down memory lane a bit. But I've also seen that we continuously have choices. David Potter: The Money Games The London Olympics are unthinkable without their corporate sponsors, both for the site itself and for the teams that are going to compete. But what would a person connected with the ancient version of the Games think?

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