I have been re-reading the old articles from “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness (Modern History from the Sports Desk)” published by Simon & Schuster back in 2005, the book is the #12 highest “Political Science Textbook” for Amazon Canada and #1503 for “Political Commentary and Opinion” on the American Amazon storefront.The book is a compilation of articles written by Dr. Hunter S. Thompson for the ESPN Page 2 website; a project that was ran from 1999 to 2018 [if the article I found from Deadspin is correct], on this site one of the writers was the king of Gonzo writing himself and something that he would include in some of his articles on the slower days was the iconic “Swine of the Week” articles and lets’ be real I feel I should bring this back and give my opinions.
Today we are going to talk about Mohammed bin Salamn a true “Swine” of a man, a ruthless pig who had dissidents like Jamal Khashoggi brutally murdered in Istanbul… Allegedly, if it turns out somehow Jamal Khashoggi killed himself and then dismembered his own body inside the embassy, then I apologize. MbS is just a repulsive human who possibly, I’d assume, smells like cheap vodka he has to drink to drown his guilt.
Damn; now I want a white Russian… Where was I? Oh! Right how MbS is attempting to ruin E-Sports by propping it up just to hide from the disgusting actions he and his “government” are engaged in.
Let’s try to get a timeline going shall we, now this likely been going on for longer than we know but one major sign of the Saudi bastards taking over sports back in 2008 when their major Telco Saudi Telcom got into a 9 million pound a year partnership with Manchester United.
In 2013, they made a partnership with the WWE where in 2014 to 2016 they had some “House Shows” before having multiple SmackDown/RAW events at the time of writing the most recent event was 2024’s “King and Queen of the Ring” event which took place May 25th of 2024 which featured another contender for the first Swine of the Week that being Logan “Film a Dead Body” Paul.
Honestly, more and more I wonder if I should do a write-up on some of the unhinged actions of CEO of WWE Vince McMahon where it is hard to tell where he ends and his character begins.
I need to get back on track oh right to expand into sports of the Saudis, in 2021 the Saudis would buy out the UK team Newcastle United
The worst of all for me though was in 2022 when ESL was bought out by the Saudi Public Investment Fund as reported by PC Gamer on January 24th of 2022 and taking with it they got the FACEIT platform a tool that people are meant to entrust having access to their computers to make sure their not cheating, I am sorry, but I rather have cheaters than letting their grubby blood soaked hands get anywhere close to me.
Slowly more and more the Saudis would dig their nails into StarCraft events even, is nothing sacred anymore? It would seem not!
I am sickened to see Sportswashing and more so E-Sports, something that I hold near to my rage filled heart, tainted by the disgusting act.
The Australian Human Rights Institute defines “Sportswashing” as the following.
Sportswashing is the use of sport to redirect public attention away from unethical conduct. The intended effect is to improve the reputation of the offending entity, by using the immense popularity of sport to ‘wash’ away poor publicity.
God I need to calm down, my heart monitor in my watch just went insane during that last rampage of thoughts