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morestuff posted:Reminds me of: Is that Muggsy pointing a gun at himself?
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Niwrad posted:I don't know why but I can't stand Albom either. Read any of his columns and you'll understand why. From the dad jokes of Dr. Football to the obvious points made to sound profound to the shameless self-aggrandizing (one of his Sunday columns last year was literally just about how great the actors in his play about Ernie Harwell are), he's the loving worst. He also has the nasty habit of making one-line paragraphs that he repeats over and over again because he thinks they are mind-blowing.
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Ouch. At least he's owning up to it.
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Jan 14, 2015 21:34
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Bryan Curtis wrote about the annoying "Talk About" non-question: http://grantland.com/the-triangle/sports-media-press-conferences-nba-nfl-mlb-nhl-lebron-james-bill-belichick/
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Jan 22, 2015 22:02
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zakharov posted:*cranks Rovell Device to maximum power* That's literally the kind of thing Rovell is paid to report. It's really not that bad and it colors the story a little bit. Schefter just tweeted something similar so people know exactly what he's walking away from. It doesn't make him an unfeeling robot--although there are plenty of other Rovell examples that make him out to be one.
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morestuff posted:This has already been called out as lovely on Deadspin which means everyone has probably seen it, but it's really super lovely. I saw Bomani tweet it and dear God, what a lovely column.
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I thought Rolling Stone did fire people over this months ago?
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To bring this back to sports (in the sense that it's by a sportswriter and bowfishing is technically sport) and things that aren't deeply upsetting, Holly Anderson's piece on a Florida Man is one of the funniest things I've ever read. It apparently came out in late February but it was just brought to my attention yesterday by Jon Bois' twitter and I don't remember seeing anything about it in this thread.
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Mahoning posted:Or give her a show on Comedy Central called "The Sports Show" They tried that with Norm MacDonald. There was also the Onion Sportsdome but it was very short-lived and thinking about it makes me sad because Get Out of My Face doesn't exist anymore.
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Spoeank posted:From what I've seen on Twitter Bomani Jones would have a whole section devoted to complaining about people in the comment section. It would probably be pretty funny.
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Apr 28, 2015 15:39
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Also Brian Phillips is loving incredible on a consistent basis. Sometimes the deeply analytical sports guys get a little boring, but Simmons is the only regular contributor that I don't consistently enjoy and never makes me think. And almost everyone is a pro Twitter follow.
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BWV posted:Brian Phillips, Charles Pierce, Louisa Thomas, and Wesley Morris are so fantastic and what they do. Greenwald and Papademas are quite excellent too, but there are few journalists/writers I enjoy reading more than those 4. Sometimes Wesley Morris goes totally off the deep end but he's unquestionably really smart. And he has a Pulitzer.
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Apr 29, 2015 04:49
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I enjoy Steven Hyden but his opinions are really strange.
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Apr 29, 2015 14:51
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Give the website to Brian Phillips. Or Shea Serrano.
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May 8, 2015 17:55
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Crion posted:Deadspin's fondness for taking shots at Simmons comes from the fact that he's an amazingly easy target that they can get good quotes on from their sources at Bristol, not because of some personal animus. If I recall correctly most of the Deadspin "poaching" took place before Tommy Craggs even took over Deadspin, and even he's moved on to Gawker EiC at this point.
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Bob Ojeda posted:Sure but it'll still suck not having a place for Brian Phillips, Louisa Thomas, and Charles Pierce to go nuts writing about whatever they want. Not to mention the pop culture people like Morris and Lambert. People like Brian Phillips and Charles Pierce are probably capable of writing whatever they want for whomever they want. The great thing about Grantland was having them all in one place.
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May 9, 2015 06:18
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Not to mention even their most obscure writers now have a much more impressive resume. Internet longform writing is a big world.
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It's bizarre to me that pro wrestling journalism is something that people care about
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LARGE THE HEAD posted:The pop culture writers will have no trouble finding work. Shea Serrano in particular can do just about anything in that sphere.
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chunkles posted:Rembert Browne is one of the few who can actually suck me into reading that stuff which I normally don't do. I'd hate for him to get sucked up into some giant pop culture website where I'll never read his stuff. If he gets any kind of leeway with what he's writing you could always just follow him on Twitter and then read him when he posts his latest article.
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bearic posted:I really liked n3twork (or is it netw0rk? I forgot where the number goes)'s stuff, and he was entertaining with his Game of Thrones writeups/podcasts too. He's a bit try-too-hard when he has a whole column to himself, but he's hilarious in small doses. He'd be good at Vice or something, I suppose. It's netw3rk, although he's actually started using his real name now (Jason Concepcion).
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No, but if Simmons gets another editorial job somewhere and they really love him as an editor, a lot might jump ship.
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BWV posted:I think people judged it highly because it was the new kid on the block of long-form/prestige journalism. Unlike other sources of content like theirs, Grantland didn't have a few decades of credibility to fall back on. That's also why that massive gently caress up on the trans/putter story was so damaging. Andrew Sharp is a goofy 20-something that enjoys writing silly articles. He would be incredibly out of place on First Take because he actually understands how ridiculous sports are.
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May 17, 2015 17:12
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Barnwell's best skill is knowledge of 90s post-hardcore bands
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Spoeank posted:You follow the Cubs because of the Iowa Cubs, this is what all my fiancee's relatives (except the lone cousin who was poisoned/saved by her dad into loving the Niners/Giants) tell me. The point of it all was how are the teams chosen? Are they chosen at random? Color scheme? Logos? Who is good? Non-regional fandom is weird to me because I see fandom as an extension of us/them regional tribal mentality. A while back there was a "State Yourself" thread in TFF to explain why everyone rooted for their teams, and there were multiple people who chose their teams in Madden as children, even if there was an NFL team in their backyard. The tribal mentality thing is usually accurate but people childhood fandom decisions are tough to overcome (although it helps when it's a dynastic franchise with a lot of media exposure. I'm honestly amazed that MV is still keeping up with the Jazz). Those of us with local teams were usually just destined to like them at birth.
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Mitch albom is not happy with the criticism of shirtless Jim Harbaugh: http://www.freep.com/story/sports/columnists/mitch-albom/2015/06/06/mitch-albom-sunday-column/28605725/
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So It Goes posted:ESPN literally shows a spelling bee every year, not to mention stuff like a hot dog eating contest, pool, bowling, poker, nascar, golf, competitive cup stacking, and even chess but people like to draw a line at e-sports for some reason. If you didn't think the Gokul/Vanya showdown was one of the sports events of the century then get the gently caress out of SAS
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Can we have a BattleBots thread in SAS?
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I liked Andy Benoit's tweet because it led to Jon Bois dropping the most Jon Boisian twitter burn:quote:dude that isn’t how you type an ellipsis. for someone who disrespects women you sure have a lot of periods
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Gawker having an entire section called "Defamer" is a pretty big clue as to why they would be such shitasses over nothing. Skewering people over anything they can find is what they do, ethics be damned. EDIT: This could be read as dismissively saying "Gawker will be Gawker" so let me make it clear: it's incredibly awful that they pull stunts like this on occasion. Henchman of Santa fucked around with this message at 03:40 on Jul 18, 2015 |
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Deadspin's purpose for me is either really stupid but funny little videos and screencaps or the occasional angry Magary rant--when he's actually on. It's really evident in Why Your Team Sucks that he can't actually muster a great takedown of everything, but the fan responses are the best part of that series anyway. Occasionally something else will be good (the recent "I'm Worried About David Brooks" was really hilarious) but for the most part it's whatever.
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Spoeank posted:Especially in light of the righteous fervor Jezebel whipped themselves into over the leaked celebrity nudes last year. They're both scummy as hell to post but one you defy a court order to keep up? That seems logically inconsistent at best. Deadspin was also one of the sites posting the celebrity nudes, or at least the Verlander/Upton one.
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I'm not sure if that was sarcastic but the issue is that publicly outing people's sexuality is generally pretty despicable. We all laugh when it happens to a politician calling gays an abomination but any other scenario is usually bad.
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Frackie Robinson posted:I didn't know he left ESPN  He's been at Yahoo since 2007.
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Is sportsmanship dead? Mitch Albom thinks...maybe.quote:Two football players got in an argument this past week. One was a linebacker. The other was the starting quarterback. Often starting quarterbacks wear red jerseys during practices, to remind teammates not to hit them too hard.
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Rovell just tweeted an extra dumb thing and is getting bodied by Bomani Jones. https://twitter.com/darrenrovell/status/638108360647266305
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Ribsauce posted:How many tennis players in the world get endorsements? The only two I have ever seen are Federer and Sharapova. You barely even see them.
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Yeah, you're not going to see an ad with any of them during a football game or something. To emphasize how much tennis players make: Novak Djokovic once bought the entire world's supply of donkey cheese. It is only produced at one farm somewhere in Serbia costs $500 a pound.
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Idk but I just double checked and apparently that report was a hoax and British newspapers are loving stupid. Day ruined
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quote:I honestly mean this in the very best, nicest way possible but Stephen A Smiths rhetorical style reminds me alot of Adolf Hitler. One of the Germen Chancellors favorite things to do was to start a sentence in front of a big crowd using very muted, diseffected tones, almost at a whisper. What this does is force the audeince to lean in just a bit and focus there listening on what your saying. Then, after you've got everyones attenton you gradually build and build and build until you could be screaming about whatever the hell you want whether its the foreign banking cartel or Carmelo Anthony and everyone will be drawn in and almost force to agree with you. Its almost like listening to "Stairway to Heaven." As Smith cresendos up from a delicate acoustic beginning to basically telling Skip Bayless to gently caress off like its the end of the guitar solo and the drums hit and Robert Plant screams "And as we wind on down the road." I literaly got goosebumps when he was pulling this off live.
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