sports and/or sport writing

that a lot plus all the traveling

i these things aren't planned/done this way but it is a bizarre look to let key beat writers go when the teams they cover are making deep playoff runs. calvin watkins who covers the rockets was let go too.

stopped reading Stark ages ago, only guy i read on espn.com recently was the Mets guy who left last winter, Adam Rubin.

on the bright side, @ least trent dilfer go t fired

also len elmore

the only bitter response i saw was . . . danny kanell!

@dannykanell
Poured my heart and soul into ESPN for last 8 years. Moved my wife and 3 kids to CT to go "all in" 5 years ago. Bummed it ended in 3 minutes

andy katz seems like a big one

yeah that one is crazy

they axed my guy dr. jerry punch too. my childhood crumbling in front of my eyes.

this all has resulted in (so far) a two-day moratorium on the truehoop podcast which is not fucking cool, that's what i listen to when i shoot hoops or drive places.

yo, henry abbott got canned too

or at least thats how it appears?

just came to post that, disgraceful

sad

explains the end of the pod. this is traumatic.

also marc stein

wow again

really don't get the timing of why this all had to be now -- why not wait six weeks to lay off the nba guys? it's like if they'd fired mel kiper jr. on monday

the share holders arent concerend with that.

STEIN??? he's like the one of the three or four most connected nba reporters.

this is crazy

yeah thats maybe the biggest one yet for me. kev did ya boy amin make it out? he and haberstroh have been silent on the tweets.

if they can guys like stein, what exactly are they the worldwide leaders in?

insane

lotta talent out there if someone wanted to put an nba reporting network together

woj gotta bring it all together and have yahoo take over.

guess it's going to wind up with everyone directly working for the leagues they're covering

wowwwww marc stein, thats booty

if they can guys like stein, what exactly are they the worldwide leaders in?

― passionate plant-based athlete (voodoo chili), Friday, April 28, 2017 10:44 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

assholes yelling at each other? the same day they axed almost all of their baseball guys they announced they picking up 'intentional talk' from the mlb network which is basically kevin millar and some other idiot yelling GOT HEEEEEM

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