sports and/or sport writing

aimless clearly has what it takes to be a (sports or non-) pundit

I prefer to be a pandit. Worse pay, but a better job title.

http://www.bidoun.org/images/20_nath_02.jpg

http://deadspin.com/why-espn-fired-bill-simmons-1703103609

h8 when ppl attribute me to the wrong team tbh

envisioning the part of the writing game where people get millions of dollars during salary negotiations is difficult for me

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envisioning the part of the writing game where people get millions of dollars during salary negotiations is difficult for me

― deej loaf (D-40), Monday, May 11, 2015 12:22 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you could move to los angeles where all our sports writers do is troll local teams and write one sentence paragraph overly sentimental pieces and win pulitzers

tbf the current lakers are pretty easy to troll

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/sports/soccer/english-soccer-club-sets-up-tight-defense-but-this-one-repels-journalists.html?_r=0&referrer=

Swindon Town, a third-division club that typically plays in front of crowds of fewer than 10,000, has taken some of the most extreme measures yet: In effect, the team has eliminated non-game-day news media access. Reporters, photographers and videographers are largely barred from interviewing any member of the team, the coaching staff or the club’s management, save for a hurried question or two for the manager at a postmatch news conference.

@WhitlockJason
Tell Greg Howard that Craggs and Marchman ghostwriting his stuff and rewriting Ta Coates talking points won't save his ass #daddyshome

smdh

http://j.school/post/131134873540/the-explanation-20-still-undefeated

rip grantland

that sucks. love zach lowe, esp his podcasts, and some of their soccer stuff was p good, and a couple of outstanding tennis features as well iirc

http://jeffbradleyblog.blogspot.com/2015/11/a-little-ditty-about-out-of-work.html

Interesting take on being out of work/underemployed. Guy is the brother of former USA National team coach Bob Bradley.

I would tell you that - not gonna be humble here - my writing was really good. I will also tell you that my other skills - live tweeting, posting random photos of things in the stadium, in the press box - were really bad.

it's a new world

in which michael wilbon and tony kornheiser hold forth on sportswriting

http://povichcenter.org/povichsymposium10

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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CadY6_DVIAAjzme.jpg:large

bomani jones was tweeting out excerpts of her cam piece all morning, truly vomitous bullshit

impressive that espn has found room, amidst their coverage of how the 2011 nfl draft *should* have gone, to cover pro wrestling with a straight face

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CuvR8NmXgAAq0u_.jpg:small

@darrenrovell
Fastest way to a job today is to provide a team, a player, an agency, great work unsolicited and for free. Great way to be noticed.

bloodbath at espn

ed werder looks like biggest name so far

pretty much everyone who covered hockey is gone, which i guess shouldn't be a surprise

hockey writing can safely be left as a Canadian monopoly

lots of quality reporters gone, lots of terrible on-air blowhards get to stay

Jayson Stark
For 17 yrs I've had a dream job covering baseball for ESPN. Today is my last day. Thanks to all the great people at ESPN, MLB & all of you!

damn, i always enjoyed his presence as the esoteric stat nerd

oh no, i liked him a lot. mr positive vibes dork trivia head.

espn doubling down on the hot take culture huh?

wow Ethan Strauss gone!

aww fuck they got ethan

he was the only guy whose gamers i actually read because i enjoyed the writing. and he was amazing on the truehoop pod.

yup

spending billions of dollars on broadcast rights then laying off reporters who make a combined tiny fraction of that when yr subscriptions decline will surely solve the problem... not

man this is brutal. strauss was a quality reporter. stark was reaaaaaallly longwinded but i liked him too

hoping buster olney and kevin arnovitz are safe

"was" should be "is" obv, they're not dead and they'll find work easily

actually they were ritually killed

strauss being let go seems really bizarre given the warriors popularity, right?

they got justin verrier from the truehoop crew as well. quality reporter on the pels.

Don't think most of these talented folk will be out of work for too long, tbh.

Bucci Mane is out too, only cawlidge hawkey voice rip :(

espn is one of the big employers if these jobs go away forever the pool is smaller, some will be lost to easy better playing pr jobs

Or wait, that might be fake news🤔 xp

they must expect getting savaged by their carriage fee negotiations.. kinda like how fox 86'd o'reilly. $5 per subscriber RIP.

http://deadspin.com/a-running-list-of-espn-layoffs-1794664091

i'm pretty stunned that they let ethan go, he had ascended really highly in the company and w/ the warriors... so weird. but maybe he was making too much money.

on the one hand, ESPN was definitely carrying... a lot of people. like college football recruiting analysts assigned to one single conference etc. some of those guys, also the beat writers, should be able to find more locally-based work, tho prob for less money. but the biggest names like jayson stark or whatever... there's not that many places out there that will pay what he's accustomed to making after 17 years at a place like ESPN. like, yahoo, fox, mlb.com.... it's not a large pool. kinda scary that really nobody is safe.