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ElwoodCuse posted:The Little League World Series is more about "well there's gently caress all going on in sports in August" than "ok so which of these 12-year-olds can be major leaguers someday" but the excessive coverage of it still bothers me. It was no big deal when they would show the final game but now even the qualifying games just to get to Williamsport are on TV and on the score ticker and ugh. Fun fact: Jurickson Profar played in two Little League World Series for Curaçao, and even at age 12 kid could rake.
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DO YALL WANT A BOXC posted:how the gently caress does chris broussard go to oberlin and come out with those views Yet as long as Lena Dunham exists, he's not the person I detest the most from that school.
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While I am of a similar political persuasion to Zirin and enjoy his writing in small doses (mostly because I prefer hockey, and he essentially ignored the NHL lockout--which would have been pretty interesting to see his coverage of it--because "no one cares about hockey, while people care about the NBA"), he makes it hard to like him when he follows up that defense of Bill Simmons by calling for Roy Hibbert to be suspended for Game 7 for making a "pause/no homo" joke in an interview: http://www.thenation.com/blog/174612/no-homo-no-way-suspend-roy-hibbert-game-7 (He's backtracked a bit from it, but still.)
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Jun 3, 2013 05:01
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Vertical Lime posted:Or they offer nothing but Eggplant Calzones Those replacing turkey chili in a bowl made out of bread, as Big Stein got tired of looking down after lunch and seeing nothing but the table.
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Jun 21, 2013 19:45
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FuzzySkinner posted:I'm starting to wonder if a "Sports Broadcasting" discussion thread would be cool? Only if I get to make every third/fourth post about how much I hate Jim Nantz.
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Aug 15, 2013 00:54
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Crazy Ted posted:There needs to be a network called the Island of Misfit Sporting Events where we can have all of the stuff that's incredibly awesome but normal people don't watch: Auto Racing, Aussie Rules Football, International Rugby, Bushkazi, and so on. This actually exists, it's called Fox Soccer Plus, and I'm actually curious if the crazy sports it shows will be shifted over to Fox Sports 2 to fill airtime or it'll just disappear.
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Aug 17, 2013 09:55
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peepoogenderparts posted:Has anyone heard anything about Mike Tyson's new book that came out Tuesday? I'm going to get it on my Kindle tomorrow. Although I'm wondering if it's going to be on CD. And I'm further wondering if he would be reading it. If you have HBO he's doing his one-man show (which is basically his book, from all accounts) on Saturday night before the Andre Ward fight.
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Nov 14, 2013 21:02
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Guess what ESPN did today? If you said "have a five minute informercial about how great of a QB Tim Tebow really is", you win!
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Fag Boy Jim posted:Jon Heyman is pulling a "Shame on you" on Le Batard, and, at the same time, calling him "sanctimonious", which I think is illegal. All LeBatard should do in response is sit back, nod, and throw up The U.
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Jan 8, 2014 21:17
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Crazy Ted posted:Wasn't Daulerio in a relationship with a woman who's addicted to about 38 different drugs? It wouldn't surprise me if he was. Yep, Cat Marnell was her name. Also I don't think Drew Magary can write about boxing like HamNo (seriously, his fight columns are quite good).
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Groucho Marxist posted:ESPN suspended Lebatard for two days over the billboards, and acted way faster on it than they did with Stephen A Smith Sounds like someone needs to EMBRACE DEBATE more.
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Aug 7, 2014 21:32
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hcreight posted:Wait, where do I sign up for this brave new world of Porn Baseball? For more information, please write to: St Louis Cardinals c/o Carlos Martinez 700 Clark Street St Louis, MO 63102
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BWV posted:One day people will be amazed that Charlie Pierce, Brian Phillips and Wesley Morris all wrote for the same place. They will be amazed that the best NBA writer and the best NBA profiler of the era worked there too—especially when they learn the former had close to debilitating Aspergers. Andrew Sharp gave us #HotSportsTakes, though. (Why haven't we seen one of those in a long time? Lord knows there's stuff he could write about.)
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DJExile posted:music journalists are awful I bet you're a (gasp) rockist (also this is Jason Whitlock we're talking about, a man who once thought the height of humor was spelling the KC Chiefs' quarterback's name "Trint Green")
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zakharov posted:Yep, which is disappointing. Not sure why a genuinely funny dude would join that cesspool. For some reason it gets really, REALLY good traffic, especially in Bos/NYC/Chi.
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Ribsauce posted:I don't know what Barstool Sports is beyond "it is a website." Will they still send PFT to the political debates? Remember the people that got arrested outside NFL offices for protesting the decision to suspend Tom Brady? Those were some of Barstool's bigwigs. e: haha I never noticed the new word filter Troy Queef fucked around with this message at 05:05 on Mar 2, 2016 |
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Bud Collins, legendary tennis commentator and owner of a collection of pants that no doubt Craig Sager was envious of, passed away today at 86.
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Akileese posted:Simmons has Jim Lampley on his podcast. Not sure if it was today or yesterday but as you can imagine, it's pretty drat awesome, especially if you love Jim Lampley. Did Harold Lederman pop in mid-podcast, yell "OK JIM!" and start scoring his performance? Because that would only be appropriate.
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Crazy Ted posted:I would love a Jim Lampley oral recounting of the Bowe-Golata riot. Not only was he announcing, but his teenage daughter was in the audience that night. I'm impressed he didn't have a legit breakdown on air. He did a Legendary Nights about that fight, which is on YouTube.
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Ungratek posted:I can't follow bomani because of his volume of tweets. He's never turned down a beef on Twitter and it's incredibly irritating. He and Ta-Nehisi need to take a class on letting sleeping dogs lie That and he stopped #bohatesempire just as that show went fully off the rails
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DJExile posted:https://twitter.com/annamphillips/status/735510522079088640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Somebody over in PSP said that this is a denial of a re-trial in front of the original judge: this will get appealed to a higher court, where things play a bit differently. Also: if you watch Silicon Valley (and you should), Peter Thiel was reportedly the basis for Peter Gregory. RIP Christopher E. Welch.
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DJExile posted:lol I didn't realize they tag their stories by how long it takes to read them, that's a new one Medium does that on all of its sites I think.
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:Found it and His n Hers this morning. The first words Jemele Hill uttered were "now that's a hot take" and that was about as bad as it got. First Take also wasn't that bad but Smith seems to have some sort of automatic activated volume increasing switch. Skip didn't say anything terrible but boy his fake street poo poo got old fast If you want to watch anything on ESPN2, watch Highly Questionable in the afternoon. Say what you will about Bo and Dan, the real star of that show is Papi.
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Crazy Ted posted:All I have to say RE: the ESPN lineup is that the First Take block should just be replaced with three hours of Highly Questionable. I'd watch the poo poo out of that. Le Batard already has his lunchtime radio show simulcast on, I wanna say Fusion, and it's basically HQ except with a bit less Papi and Stugotz instead of Bo.
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morestuff posted:I hear Barstool Sports is hiring This is how they're reporting it: http://www.barstoolsports.com/boston/breaking-news-deadspin-declares-bankruptcy/ (Some guy in the comments said "hopefully the Chive is next", which might be the first time I've ever agreed with Barstool on something.)
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Henchman of Santa posted:I don't even know who that is Down Goes Brown. He's still writing about hockey, at Vice and Sportsnet mostly
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Scaramouche posted:And guardian and hockey news I believe, though maybe not in the off season I love how when DGB did his first hockey piece for the Guardian, in true Teh Grauniad fashion half the comments were people complaining that he didn't call it "ice hockey" because to them field hockey is the one true hockey.
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Niwrad posted:Isn't one of the political writers on The Guardian a guy who used to shitpost on SA? Yup: Jeb Lund, aka @Mobute, aka Boniface. (He's still not the worst political writer on the Graun, because they employ Jessica Valenti.)
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zakharov posted:Peter Thiel has somehow made AJ Daulerio a sympathetic figure. counterpoint: gently caress daulerio
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R.D. Mangles posted:what? are you kidding? you're trying to trade me a level 4 sub-beta Brandon for a potential second banana with Alpha Potential when he's not in Teen Wolf mode and you want me to throw in a first? what the hell is this poo poo? you think i'm trying to...wait you've got Scalabrine in this too? well as al pacino once said in the godfather part ii, just when i'm out they pull me back in. right? i know. hoo-ah! i'll let you finalize the deal with my weird friend from college who has been listening to sports radio. do Drew Magary next
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howe_sam posted:MTV News probably more so than SI because they did a complete reinvention based around Grantlanders...that I never read. Having Holly Anderson on staff, but not writing about football, is just cruel. (Also Jamil Smith is a bad and wrong writer)
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That Daulerio interview just confirms my belief that Deadspin and Barstool Sports (especially in the Daulerio/pre-Chernin era, respectively) are pretty much exact mirror images of one another. DS obsesses over dicks while La Stool is obsessed with tits, one revels in its wokeness while Pres has openly expressed his desire to run over any Black Lives Matter protestor if they blocked a highway he was on, one employs an unironically terrible writer (Billy Haisley) while the other employs an ironically terrible writer, you can pretty much go right down the card. Only big difference is that Barstool's monetized itself a lot better, if the national obsessions with first Harambe and now "SATURDAYS ARE FOR THE BOYS" are any indication.
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straight up brolic posted:PFTcommenter owns though that goes without saying
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Lockback posted:What on Earth is Deadspin trying to accomplish here? Woke cred. (Also, I have a confession to make: I sincerely believe that Barstool has become better than Deadspin as of late, strictly because of their good hockey writer Jordie and Pardon My Take.)
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Jan 25, 2017 23:34
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Decent article about how the growing sportswriter-Twitter-#woke consensus is, shall we say, a bit problematic: http://theweek.com/articles/680886/arrogant-thinking-liberal-sports-writers (There's a good class analysis here, too.)
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Rapaport just recently got owned by another podcast (Chapo Trap House), so I can't wait to see what Dan/Stugotz/Papi have to say about him.
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(DING! DING! DING!) LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE FOLLOWING CONTEST IS SCHEDULED FOR TWELVE ROUNDS OF INTERNET SLAP-FIGHTING IN THE SPORTS BLOGGING DIVISION, AND IS FOR THE SELF-IMPORTANCE CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WORLD! IN THE BLUE CORNER, REPRESENTING THE UNIVERSITY OF NO HARDWARE AND THE GIZMODO MEDIA GROUP, SAMEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRR KAAAAAAALAAAAAAAFFFFF! KALAF! AND IN THE RED CORNER THAT IS CURRENTLY COVERED WITH A "SATURDAYS ARE FOR THE BOYS" FLAG AVAILABLE FOR $24.99 AT THEIR ONLINE SHOP, REPRESENTING THE CHERNIN MEDIA GROUP AND HIS UPCOMING DIVORCE SETTLEMENT, DAAAAAAAVVVVEEEEEE "EL PRESIDENTE" POOOORRRRRRTNOOOOOYYYYYY! PORTNOY! YOUR REFEREE IN CHARGE IS RICHARD STEELE! AND WHOEVER LOSES, WE WIN! Troy Queef fucked around with this message at 22:22 on May 31, 2017 |
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even though I posted the original article, personally I think both sites are high on their own self-importance and mirror images of each other: they both employ failed NFL punters (Kluwe on DS, Pat McAfee on BS), they both have one or two things that are legit good/funny (Moskowitz on DS, Jordie and PFTC/Pardon My Take on BS), once-interesting and funny writers who are now just hacks (Drew Magary vs El Pres), third-rail subjects that everyone is expected to agree on (gently caress The Cards vs The Patriots Are Living Gods), they've both taken massive personal/financial hits (the Hogan lawsuit vs. Dave Portnoy's upcoming divorce), etc.
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Henchman of Santa posted:Pat McAfee failed? he quit the Colts to work for Barstool and do standup comedy
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ElwoodCuse posted:Is said video Jason Whitlock and Clay Travis being racist af? a sports station here canned 2 hours of early-morning, smart talk about hockey to give the 5-7 AM spot over to Clay Travis the reaction here has been "enjoy your Arbitron ratings staying well behind 101ESPN, loving idiots" because who better to put on in a market where Mizzou is the #1 college team than a man who has a personal vendetta against Mizzou?
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