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Dusseldorf posted:Edit: The rest of his cartoons are almost as thought provoking His Jim Tressel looks like Bob Dole  
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The last one is a classic terrible political cartoon. You'd think that the skeletons in the closet would be obvious enough to get your point across, but nope, gotta add in the random slips of paper that say LIES to be safe.
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Good thing he put Tressel's name all over the place I thought it might be someone else's gravestone and closet
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What I find baffling about the closet one is that "Tressel's Closet" is written on the inside of the door. That doesn't seem very practical.
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i know how much SAS hates Simmons but here's a great article from NYT about himquote:It was a sultry afternoon, and midway through the game, we went inside to the Dugout Club to cool off and talk. Simmons sounded as if he was having some regrets about Grantland. It hasnt been as much as fun as I had thought, he told me. Im not sure I would do it again. Too much of his time was being spent in the office, dealing with administrative tasks, which was encroaching on his column. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/05/magazine/can-bill-simmons-win-the-big-one.html
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Geno posted:i know how much SAS hates Simmons but here's a great article from NYT about him Yeah, this was an awesome read. The part about what is private for him is a little interesting.
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Delicious Sci Fi posted:What I find baffling about the closet one is that "Tressel's Closet" is written on the inside of the door. That doesn't seem very practical. I wonder what he kept in that tin can.
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Geno posted:i know how much SAS hates Simmons but here's a great article from NYT about him Holy crap, he actually said this: "Bill Simmons twitter posted:I don't care if JJ Barea is from Puerto Rico, we need to put him on a dollar bill. He's an American hero.
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Maybe I'm just reading this incorrectly, but did AJ Daulerio intentionally sabotage an employee's meeting about a potential job with ESPN?
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morestuff, I forgot, that was the reason I came in this thread. He sabotaged Craggs twice on that grantland thing, once about a month ago http://deadspin.com/5796720/an-exclusive-interview-with-tommy-craggs-about-the-bill-simmons-grantland-project quote:As huge a loss it will be for this site and me personally it would be incredibly foolish for ESPN to overlook him again. I've also been told by sources close to the situation who don't work for this site in any capacity that writing about this silly Disney corporate horseshit prior to Tommy's play date with Walsh would further jeopardize his opportunity to become a full-time staffer at Grantland. For now, though, he still works at Deadspin and I still work at Deadspin and this is a story we'd cover had any other potential Grantland writer become entangled in such stupidity.
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morestuff posted:Maybe I'm just reading this incorrectly, but did AJ Daulerio intentionally sabotage an employee's meeting about a potential job with ESPN?
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Michael Silver throws a temper tantrum because Panthers players didn't allow him in to ask dumb questions during their unofficial workouts. http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news;_y..._workout_060111 Headline: Punk move by Panthers players to lock out media Michael Silver posted:I have a message for the Carolina Panthers players who thought hiring a uniformed cop to keep reporters away from Tuesdays workout session at a Charlotte high school was a good idea. And against all logic, Im going to deliver it without the benefit of police protection: Unlike a measly Carolina Panther, Silver is tough. Michael Silver posted:If I sound angry, I am not because I have a desperate desire to see the Panthers parade around in shorts in June, but because I think theyre fools for not enthusiastically welcoming anyone in my business who wants to watch. Access is something I take very, very seriously, and when people deny it for no apparent reason, I tend to be a lot less receptive when they or their agents inevitably hit me up for coverage down the road. Boo hoo Michael Silver.
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Fisticuffs posted:Michael Silver throws a temper tantrum because Panthers players didn't allow him in to ask dumb questions during their unofficial workouts. He DEMANDS access. Without him, how will we, the fans, know who lazily ran routes with Pickles today.
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It is seriously astounding how big an rear end in a top hat Daulerio is. There was a time when I genuinely loved Deadspin and checked it like four times a day but he's the worst.
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I've stopped reading anything Daulerio does for Deadspin anymore. It's Funbags and features for me from now on.
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Yea that Mike Silver twitter tantrum was horrible. It is almost like the Panthers are actually trying to accomplish improving in practice rather than be media buddies. They were only the worst team in the league last year, don't they know letting some douchebag from the Charlotte Observer interview them is more important than actually practicing. Seriously, what a complaint. WAAAAA THE PLAYERS ARE TRYING TO GET BETTER INSTEAD OF PLAYING THE MEDIA GAME WHAAAAAAAAAA
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According to this blog post, Jay Greenberg on espn.com has an Insider article saying the Flyers are interested in Boston's Tim Thomas (I don't have Insider or I'd paste some of it here). Why the hell would Boston trade the dude that has pretty much single handedly gotten them to the Cup finals, maybe even wins it for them? The blog post mentioned he doesn't even say a source told him this. The entire article is written as fact. Mind boggling.
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Ribsauce posted:Yea that Mike Silver twitter tantrum was horrible. It is almost like the Panthers are actually trying to accomplish improving in practice rather than be media buddies. They were only the worst team in the league last year, don't they know letting some douchebag from the Charlotte Observer interview them is more important than actually practicing. It's a shame Darrin Gannt got reassigned. He was a really good beat writer for the Panthers, and seemed to have a sense of humor about the job.
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Geno posted:i know how much SAS hates Simmons but here's a great article from NYT about him I can't stand how this constantly refers to it as the N.B.A. and not the NBA.
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AlleyViper posted:I can't stand how this constantly refers to it as the N.B.A. and not the NBA. NY Times style manual strikes again, Mr. AlleyViper.
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Groucho Marxist posted:I just found out that Hipster Runoff is going to contribute to Grantland So is Masked Man, which is a great thing, if his Dead Wrestler of the Week writing is any indicaton.
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Deathlove posted:So is Masked Man, which is a great thing, if his Dead Wrestler of the Week writing is any indicaton. If Daulerio's treatment of Craggs is any indication, I wouldn't bet on Masked Man joining Grantland just yet. leokitty posted:He keeps adding people so Grantland which I'm not sure is a great idea. The list of supposed contributors is probably going to be some of the only tolerable long-form writing on the site for a while. 
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MorningView posted:It is seriously astounding how big an rear end in a top hat Daulerio is. There was a time when I genuinely loved Deadspin and checked it like four times a day but he's the worst. Same here. Ever since Leitch left the site, I checked it less and less, until I finally deleted it from my bookmarks. Checking Wikipedia, I forgot how long Leitch has been away from the site. He left June 5th, 2008.
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leokitty posted:He keeps adding people so Grantland which I'm not sure is a great idea. "Contributors" doesn't really mean much, though. I'm sure quite a few of those people are on freelance contracts, so if they aren't working out they'd be easy to axe and replace. I'm sure it'll take a little bit of time for the site to find its footing, but I'm optimistic.
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Ribsauce posted:Yea that Mike Silver twitter tantrum was horrible. It is almost like the Panthers are actually trying to accomplish improving in practice rather than be media buddies. They were only the worst team in the league last year, don't they know letting some douchebag from the Charlotte Observer interview them is more important than actually practicing. I've gotta disagree. I read the piece again, and I think Mike Silver is absolutely in the right. Not to get too much lockout talk into this thread, but the party that wins in the court of public opinion usually has an upper hand in these types of events, and while I'm sure that some players literally just want to go out and play football, that type of lip service would go a long way. That article reeks of some frustration on Silver's part, but I think his point is valid.
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swizz posted:The Masked Man is outstanding even though his analysis is a little overwrought sometimes, it doesn't even matter. Does he write anywhere else? Who knows? He is, after all, The Masked Man. From Parts Unknown...
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Lynn Hoppes used to be my professor and he was really pompous and rubbed me the wrong way, and even though after he got the ESPN gig he blew tons of their money on me and some friends at a convention one time, he still struck me as a bit of a creep. I knew he was fairly hated around the Deadspin circle but they linked to this piece he wrote, and wow. http://espn.go.com/espn/page2/index?id=4892536 Edit: why the gently caress is this a story ugh BackInTheUSSR fucked around with this message at 02:55 on Jun 3, 2011 |
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BackInTheUSSR posted:Lynn Hoppes used to be my professor and he was really pompous and rubbed me the wrong way, and even though after he got the ESPN gig he blew tons of their money on me and some friends at a convention one time, he still struck me as a bit of a creep. Wow, Lynn Hoppes is a totally weird-looking guy, too. Anyone older than, like, 35 should not be allowed to have long hair unless their name is Gandalf or Dumbledore. Just my personal opinion there. The only people with long hair should be younger guys who can still reasonably pull of effeminacy while remaining attractive. Lynn Hoppes should not have long hair, because it just makes him look creepy as all hell and the overall effect is that it seems like he wants to look younger and cooler than he is. Anyway, there are no words for that pizza article. I really can't quite figure out if it's him showing off about having a conversation with the Papa John's founder, like "Hey I'm pretty cool the OWNER OF PAPA JOHNS gives me pizza slices  " or if it's a thinly veiled advertisement for Papa Johns. I think it's the former, because it seems to be in keeping with his whole "Hey look at how cool and hip I am with my long hair!" thing.
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LARGE THE HEAD posted:I've gotta disagree. I read the piece again, and I think Mike Silver is absolutely in the right. I think there were some good points in there but the article was ridiculous and poorly written. How you make your point matters if you're a journalist, not just what you say.
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kaworu posted:Anyway, there are no words for that pizza article. I really can't quite figure out if it's him showing off about having a conversation with the Papa John's founder, like "Hey I'm pretty cool the OWNER OF PAPA JOHNS gives me pizza slices he bought a bunch of us dinner one time and put it on the ESPN black card in this really haughty way. Like if any normal person were in that situation, they'd politely slip the company card to the waiter and not say anything more, but this dude was so blatant about it and was like "Hey waiter, bring me one of everything.... ESPN is paying "
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Honestly, my least favorite part of that article is the claim that pizza has "all natural ingredients" as if a steak dinner has been teleported from the Negative Zone or something. All ingredients are natural, dammit. 
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BackInTheUSSR posted:I knew he was fairly hated around the Deadspin circle but they linked to this piece he wrote, and wow. http://espn.go.com/espn/page2/index?id=4892536 I don't. Understand. What is wrong. With that. Article.
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Not really sportswriting per se, but I enjoyed the photo on the cover of today's Sun-Times:
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morestuff posted:Not really sportswriting per se, but I enjoyed the photo on the cover of today's Sun-Times:
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