sports and/or sport writing

Looks like chad ford is out too

also david thorpe i think

jeeeeeeez

wooow

i'm a little shellshocked by all this tbh

damn, i loved thorpe

i only saw one passing reference so hopefully he's ok. very interesting guy even if i didn't always agree with him.

he's a long talker and a hilarious name dropper but i always enjoy his perspective

Pretty much all these guys had good things to offer

ESPN hired Woj!

And the conspiracy theories are flying:

http://deadspin.com/adrian-wojnarowski-finally-won-his-war-against-espn-1794817931

Wow thats pretty wild if even 50% true

It is important to note that the ESPN layoffs were not buyouts. ESPN did not give laid-off employees severance or any other type of lump-sum payment. Instead, ESPN will continue to pay them for the length of their contracts. They just won’t be able to report or otherwise do their jobs. If Marc Stein—or any other laid-off ESPNer—wants another, likely less well-paying, job, they will still have to go back to ESPN and negotiate an exit.

iiiiinteresting

drag em out as long as possible in hopes they swoop up another job and have to negotiate a buyout for less.

if i understand that correctly, it puts ESPN in the win-win situation of either avoiding paying the full value of their contracts or gutting the competition for NBA coverage

man i just have a really hard time believing woj would can ethan over something he wrote 7 years ago on a blog.

NBA reporters are as petty as NBA players maybe. and yeah xp thats it.

Truehoop pod reinstated
http://mashable.com/2017/05/04/espn-truehoop-podcast-return-new-name/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link#0igQs.DHBiqL

https://sportstvratings.com/on-sc6-and-giving-jamie-horowitz-due-credit/8058/

kind of a disorganized piece here but makes some interesting points

not sure where to post this but Bomani and Torre are getting their own show:

http://espnmediazone.com/us/press-releases/2017/05/bomani-jones-pablo-torre-host-new-show-espn/#.WRr0hkptsuE.twitter

will watch, bo is the man

we can probs just use this for all sports media related stuff

oh I am down for a bomani and Pablo show for sure

is this the thread where we call out jon bois for what he is, the best sports video dude in the history of the internet

the barry bonds one recently was my first introduction to the dude.

watch all of them. the 'pretty good' series is jawdroppingly brilliant stuff

watching the baron davis 90 foot shot one right now. fun.

my favourite is probably either the 222-0 one, the 1904 marathon or the poker one fyi but they're really all amazing

bomani and torre should be fun tho it is unlikely i will ever actually see that show

yeah hard to watch daytime sports espesh w/o a DVR. I record the Jump daily and maybe watch it a couple times a week.

daytime sports *shows

i would now rather hear/see/read about tim tebow than lavar ball

jon bois' breaking madden and nba y2k columns have made people look at me weird at work for laughing too much

https://www.si.com/tech-media/2017/05/22/mike-greenberg-mike-golic-relationship-espn-radio

apparently these guys hate each other

hard to decide which is more useless. no wait, it's Greenberg. Golic is just a run-of-the-mill idiot, Greenberg is a true dipshit weenie. the Joe Buck of his generation (actually, that's an insult to Buck).

pretty much every sports fan i know still listens to sports radio, which is just really sad when there are all these podcasts out there where you might actually learn something or be genuinely entertained. even Simmons, who is hardly the brightest bulb, is 1000x better than any ESPN radio clown or the vast majority of local schmucks.

pretty much agree with all of that

they're just so boring.

this fucking show has been on for 18 years??????????????

it's so easy to ignore

nice that lebetard and bomani are getting more shine over there. it's just a hard format to be great at, so much air time, so much fluff. agree that podcasts >>>>>

https://theringer.com/espn-critics-decline-sports-media-242e1f99129

john clayton out at espn

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--T0b3Cw8X--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/195bpbypvp9izjpg.jpg

Fox Sports national president Jamie Horowitz fired amid sexual harassment probe https://t.co/dWGw2wNur8

— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) July 3, 2017

Jon Bois has just unveiled his Sistine Chapel I think

https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football/chapter-1

"is steely dan still together" A+

Ok I'll give this some proper time tonight, looks pretty amazing.

holy shit!

http://chicago.suntimes.com/sports/baseball-isnt-exactly-taxing-so-why-do-cubs-players-need-rest/amp/

17776 continues to be the best thing in the world

today's episode was above all things