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Amid 'storybook' ending, Ray Lewis is still controversial | Redux

Amid 'storybook' ending, Ray Lewis is still controversial

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(CNN) -- It's not hard to find Ray Lewis in prayer. You might catch a glimpse of it on the sidelines before a game. In the locker room. Even on the cover of Sports Illustrated -- the muscular Baltimore Ravens linebacker standing bare-chested in a swimming pool, his palms pressed together. To some, Lewis' frequent expressions of faith are the marks of a life redeemed, a long 13-year journey from murder accusations -- later dropped by prosecutors -- in the death of two men hours after the 2000 Super Bowl in Atlanta. But for others, the show of faith is little more than an act. "Stop acting like you are one of the people that come out of the Bible," said Greg Wilson, whose nephew Jacinth Baker died along with a friend in the infamous melee 13 years ago that almost derailed Lewis' career.

People:

Ray Lewis

Overall Sentiment: 0.0264387

Relevance: 0.86207

SentimentQuote
-0.210919"My mom did a heck of a job raising a man to put my complete faith in God from Day One," Lewis told ...
-0.116776"My mom did a heck of a job raising a man to put my complete faith in God from Day One," Lewis told reporters gathered for the Super Bowl on Wednesday. "From 9 years old, when I was ordained as a junior deacon, she always said that some days, you may find yourself away from God, but you will find yourself back."
0.0111401"God has done something in my life -- and not just for me to see it," Sports Illustrated quoted Lewis ...
-0.222099"God has done something in my life -- and not just for me to see it," Sports Illustrated quoted Lewis as saying during a service there in 2006. "God has done something in my life for every hater, every enemy."
0.10592"You can go build buildings. You can have a nice whatever you want to have," Lewis told ...
0.074597"You can go build buildings. You can have a nice whatever you want to have," Lewis told reporters this week. "But, impact is totally different, and when you talk about the walk of Jesus, his whole walk was impact."
0"My life is based off impact," Lewis said, ...
-0.0476344"My life is based off impact," Lewis said, "grabbing somebody and letting them know that life is to be lived together to figure out the wrongs and rights and teach somebody else those morals and ethics so they don't go back down those same roads."
-0.198642"We got to change the way our children think. We got to change the way these gangs are dictating and running our streets," Lewis said ...
-0.110928"We got to change the way our children think. We got to change the way these gangs are dictating and running our streets," Lewis said during a sermon at Empowerment Temple last year. "We have the ability to do that! But it's called tough love."
0.120132"If you want to say you're Mr. Religious and all of that, have a clean record. Don't say all of that stuff if you know there's stuff that might come back," the newspaper quoted him ...
-0.0448975"If you want to say you're Mr. Religious and all of that, have a clean record. Don't say all of that stuff if you know there's stuff that might come back," the newspaper quoted him as saying. "Those are the things that, when I look at him, I just think hypocrisy."
0"Nobody here is really qualified to ask those questions," Lewis told
0.100336"You draw up a lot of storybook endings, but for me, how else would I rather go out than be on the biggest stage ever," Lewis said, ...
0.0437448"You draw up a lot of storybook endings, but for me, how else would I rather go out than be on the biggest stage ever," Lewis said, "giving everything I've got for my teammates to be able to touch that Lombardi trophy."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 15
  • Aggregate Sentiment: -0.496026
  • Mean: -0.0330684
  • Standard Deviation: 1

Jacinth Baker

Overall Sentiment: -0.271522

Relevance: 0.273723

Reginald Oakley

Overall Sentiment: -0.113675

Relevance: 0.255469

SentimentQuote
0.309701"I don't know if he was wrestling or fighting, but I know he was right in the mix with everybody else," Oakley said. ...
-0.153103"I don't know if he was wrestling or fighting, but I know he was right in the mix with everybody else," Oakley said. "I think he was just standing up for himself. It's just too bad that when the police asked him what happened he wouldn't come clean."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 2
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.156598
  • Mean: 0.078299
  • Standard Deviation: 1.7320508075689

Greg Wilson

Overall Sentiment: -0.111861

Relevance: 0.206594

SentimentQuote
0"Stop acting like you are one of the people that come out of the Bible," said Greg Wilson, ...
0"If you're redeemed -- and he's always quoting Scriptures -- then you would have stood up like a man and said what happened," Wilson said. ...
0.0835505"All of them were involved in it and nobody wants to tell the truth with exactly what happened," Wilson said. ...
0"This will never fade," Wilson said. ...
-0.112542"This will never fade," Wilson said. "I hope it haunts them for the rest of their life until the day they die and then they burn in hell."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 5
  • Aggregate Sentiment: -0.0289915
  • Mean: -0.0057983
  • Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731
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Ed Garland

Overall Sentiment: -0.0228404

Relevance: 0.172423

SentimentQuote
0"put their case together with Band-Aids and it didn't hold together," Lewis' attorney, Ed Garland, told ...
0.0728536"He was not involved in the fight; he didn't cause it," Garland said. ...
0.0728536"He was not involved in the fight; he didn't cause it," Garland said. "He didn't take an act or step or statement to make this happen. He was no more guilty than the other 100 people on the street."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 3
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.1457072
  • Mean: 0.048569066666667
  • Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731
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Richard Lollar

Overall Sentiment: -0.0650594

Relevance: 0.165184

Jeff Pearlman

Overall Sentiment: -0.321952

Relevance: 0.149963

Beyonce

Overall Sentiment: -0.0559184

Relevance: 0.14609

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Reverend Ray

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.14504

Carol Costello

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.14037

Amani Toomer

Overall Sentiment: 0.170552

Relevance: 0.138012

Lombardi

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.137433

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Jamal Bryant

Overall Sentiment: -0.208905

Relevance: 0.137159

SentimentQuote
0"He's a jack-leg preacher without a license, no Bible college, but it's just in him," Bryant said. ...
-0.108596"He's a jack-leg preacher without a license, no Bible college, but it's just in him," Bryant said. "He can't help it. He's spoken here a couple of times. I've put him up to do our Bible study and he's like Billy Graham and Bishop (T.D.) Jakes wrapped into one."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 2
  • Aggregate Sentiment: -0.108596
  • Mean: -0.054298
  • Standard Deviation: 1.7320508075689

Duane Fassett

Overall Sentiment: 0.044639

Relevance: 0.133861

Joseph Sweeting

Overall Sentiment: -0.0596523

Relevance: 0.128593

Mr. Religious

Overall Sentiment: 0.440547

Relevance: 0.127924

President Obama

Overall Sentiment: 0.0973453

Relevance: 0.125949

Billy Graham

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.122623

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  • Aggregate Sentiment is meant to be an indicator of an individual's overall sentiment.
  • The Mean is meant to be an indicator of an individual's average comment sentiment.
  • The Standard Deviation, when there are enough quotes, will indicate an individual's consistency of sentiment (i.e. a Standard Deviation of 0 would mean they were very consistent in their sentiment and 1 would mean they were very inconsistent).

Note that quote stats are likely to be meaningless beyond the aggregate score due to the tiny sample size. However, they are always provided just in case you find something useful there.

Additional Info:

Sport: football

Overall Sentiment: 0.0771396

Relevance: 0.332491

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