WE REGRET THE MISTAKE. THE BIG HONKING MISTAKE
Gainesville Sun, you are error.Bloggers are irresponsible. Factless. Rife with innuendo and bleeding half-truths. Unbound by any ethic or rule, those rapscallions! Why, if I had half a mind I’d….
In a Thursday recruiting story, The Sun inaccurately reported that All-America wide receiver Julio Jones was sent home early from his University of Florida visit by the coaches and that Jones, who is from Foley, Ala., was recruiting for Oklahoma while he was in Gainesville.
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Sources confirmed Thursday that Jones, in fact, stayed for his entire visit and had not done any recruiting for another school. The Sun regrets the errors.
Good fucking night–error doesn’t cover what a story accusing a player of recruiting for a rival school during the heated peak of handshake season is. Just trying to put together a comparable headline boggles the imagination:
On Wednesday, the Sun reported that Julio Jones stabbed Florida defensive coordinator Greg Mattison with a car key for misusing the “who/whom” combination in a sentence. Jones also did not kidnap four recruits and force them to sign letters of commitment to “The University of Satan” while threatening them with a grub hoe, nor did he commit unnatural acts of non-coercive simulated sodomy with a mailbox on 13th Street early Saturday morning. We regret the error.”
Thanks for coming Juilo. The Gainesville Sun hopes you enjoy your time in Tuscaloosa or Norman.












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Take your meds, Kenny.
Comment by Mr. Wrong — January 28, 2008 @ 4:06 pm
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“Thanks for coming Juilo. The Gainesville Sun hopes you enjoy your time in Tuscaloosa or Norman.”
Is that “Juilo” intentional mistake related irony?
Is there any way the Athens Clarke County Police Department and the Gainesville Sun could combine into a super being aimed at fucking their respective hometown team?
Comment by Raleigh Urbain — January 28, 2008 @ 3:26 pm
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I would think your comment was a spot-on ironic look at how Urban, who is the Evil Recruiter Incarnate, just HAS to be involved.
However, I bet you believe your every word.
Comment by Irwin Fletcher — January 28, 2008 @ 1:18 pm
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If we’re dabbling into the child slave trade (recruiting), could you at least do a pictorial on Russian car-washing coeds?
Comment by Out of Conference — January 28, 2008 @ 12:21 pm
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Makes me want to puke…
Comment by beast in bama — January 28, 2008 @ 12:03 pm
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please come to t’town julio!!!!
Comment by gerry dorsey — January 28, 2008 @ 11:42 am
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10, 13: You said he was downgradin’ the Gators. THAT AIN’T TRUE!
Comment by Oops Pow Surprise — January 28, 2008 @ 11:26 am
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Mike Gundy is loading up the SUV and heading towards Gainesvillle. I hear he has a bone to pick…
Comment by Rival — January 28, 2008 @ 11:17 am
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Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf landed in Gainesville shortly after losing his post as Iraqi Information minister. The Sun should have known better.
Comment by Chips O'Toole — January 28, 2008 @ 11:15 am
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having lived through the hell of writing a correction or two in my time as a newspaper journalist i’m unable to feel any degree of schaedenfreud in regards to this incident.
Comment by kleph — January 28, 2008 @ 11:05 am