sports and/or sport writing

http://deadspin.com/how-sb-nation-profits-off-an-army-of-exploited-workers-1797653841

one of my many low points this year was the managing editor of the cardinals SB blog asking for volunteers for people to write post-game wrap-ups and getting turned down even though like 53 other people were ok'd

uhhhhh

Great to have Kap stop by the studio today. pic.twitter.com/2UPuyCdWdK

— Jason Whitlock (@WhitlockJason) September 6, 2017

fuck jason whitlock

christ, what an asshole

#BREAKING: White House demands ESPN fire host who called Trump a "white supremacist" https://t.co/jz8OpGlzBK pic.twitter.com/Y0n9rXDnOz

— The Hill (@thehill) September 13, 2017

i'm sure the white house contains some very fine people

on both sides of course

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DJtwrVhXUAEDVOI.jpg

great, now i have to like jemele hill

the worldwide leader, forever chasing the coveted ignoramus demographic

great, now i have to like jemele hill

― k3vin k., Thursday, September 14, 2017 2:38 PM (forty-one seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeaaaah. SC6 is not good.

awfully woke move by espn not to use replacement whites

http://awfulannouncing.com/online-outlets/incline-freelancer-dave-lozo-criticized-jim-brady.html

kind of lol but mostly sad

And true to expectation, that has shown up in the first substantially reported numbers about the traffic to FoxSports.com. SI’s Richard Deitsch reports that traffic dropped an astounding 88% since the “pivot to video.” Their traffic has gone from over 143 million in a monthly period to just under 17 million.

http://awfulannouncing.com/fox/foxsports-com-reportedly-lost-88-audience-pivoting-video.html

wow/good

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DLZAmiMW4AUnrdc.jpg:small

.@jemelehill has been suspended by ESPN for two weeks for a second violation of their social media policy.

— Richard Deitsch (@richarddeitsch) October 9, 2017

related to her Jerry Jones tweets i'm thinking?

I don’t want to post it but Whitlock wrote prob the most tone-deaf tweet possible in a couple of ways not long ago and I hope he gets fired by whoever’s employing now just for sheer wackness

I want to know that man's secret to staying relevant because it sure as shit isn't related to merit

I don’t want to post it but Whitlock wrote prob the most tone-deaf tweet possible in a couple of ways not long ago and I hope he gets fired by whoever’s employing now just for sheer wackness

― Clay, Monday, October 16, 2017 7:56 PM (twenty-five minutes ago)

you're not gonna believe it but...it's fox

^^^

all takes matter.. except in the case of garnering ratings for your garbage sports network, when they actually don't.

By the time you finish reading this article, the upstart sports news outlet called The Athletic probably will have hired another well known sportswriter from your local newspaper. In a couple of years, once The Athletic has completed its breakneck expansion, perhaps that newspaper’s sports section will no longer exist.

“We will wait every local paper out and let them continuously bleed until we are the last ones standing,” Alex Mather, a co-founder of The Athletic, said in an interview in San Francisco. “We will suck them dry of their best talent at every moment. We will make business extremely difficult for them.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/23/sports/the-athletic-newspapers.html

i miss grantland too

i actually subscribed to this -- the hockey coverage is v. good, plus rosenthal/gammons/etc -- and now i regret it

ive been mulling over getting a subscription for their nba and 49ers coverage but ...

They already poached my favorite Chicago soccer writer.

Tom Humphries, who in his time was a great sports writer around Gaelic games in particular but also covered Olympics, football and golf in his colour columns and several collections, jailed today for grooming and abuse of a minor

suuuuure

I'm truly sorry for the tone of my comments in the New York Times today. I learned a lesson in humility that will help me grow as a leader. pic.twitter.com/YwyJnIxiPF

— Alex Mather (@alex3780) October 23, 2017

this fucking guy

https://deadspin.com/pittsburghs-cutting-edge-sports-site-is-a-meat-grinder-1821797940

ESPN dot com generally pisses me off with their focus on NFL (even during the offseason) and NBA at the expense of baseball (and hockey, but whatever)

but loool at it being the first night of the NBA finals and their lead story is the fuckin spelling bee

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DkGore1VsAEzTnM.jpg:small

this guy

dick, really

unfortunately i have /nothing/ to do at work today and possibly the next few days, and i was kind of annoyed until i remembered i never finished reading tim tebow's cfl chronicles or 17776... my day has since become so much better

(i'm only 2 chapters into TT CFL so far)

rip sports illustrated

it was getting to be pretty worthless lately so it's more of a mercy killing. if they'd done more solid investigative stuff they might have merited more regrets at their death. instead, whenever I'd see a copy in my dentist's office and pick it up it was a design nightmare with practically no content at all.

i haven't subscribed since i was a kid (i'm part of the problem), but they still had some good writers online at least

jon bois's end-of-decade retrospective is good

https://www.sbnation.com/2019/12/30/21035159/the-10-least-consequential-athletes-of-the-decade

ty

On Wednesday morning, the Ringer Union and the Writers Guild of America East learned that Spotify has purchased ​The Ringer. pic.twitter.com/dvNvpKnPMa

— Ringer Union (@RingerUnion) February 5, 2020

Oh great

Grant Wahl fired by Sports Illustrated

that 'internal memo' was really something

athletic laying of 8% of staff

oh man

i imagine the lack of shit to talk about has hit their bottom line p hard

17776 sequel y'all

https://www.sbnation.com/secret-base/21410129/20020/chapter-1

how is this even better than 17776