sports and/or sport writing

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

Here's the proper landing page

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

Anyway, 7/12 in and this is basically the literary event of 2020

i keep putting it off because i don't feel ready but i will never be ready and should just start tonight

It's done. Unbelievably great

ESPN has announced that Dan Le Batard is leaving the company in January.

— Jimmy Traina (@JimmyTraina) December 3, 2020

i stg if he has a fuckin substack...

Simmons was on the show today so I'm putting 10 bucks on the ringah

maybe he's going to start his own wildly unsuccessful series of political punditry videos on youtube a la keith olbermann

such an asshole that i'm forced to side with the jets

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/12/11/manish-mehta-jets-daily-news

huh

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EsmQzkHXUAET4qD?format=png&name=small

okay lol at your framing of that clip

thank you for your service

One other layer...for future journalists...your first few years feel unpaid. I made 16.5k my first two years and worked harder than I’ve ever worked. There is a reason not everyone makes it in this business. I don’t have time for those of you who don’t understand grind ✌🏼 https://t.co/c4iWwPQ1bs

— Jane Slater (@SlaterNFL) March 1, 2021

journalists are the real troops

the thin cmyk line

happily her rich grandfather supported her as she built an important career breaking american football news #grind

This article on Team Hawaii from the 1970's era NASL is something else. Requires subscription, but I could probably be convinced to copy/paste it into a post…

https://theathletic.com/2488753

just so i have recorded this fact somewhere--the other day, the truehoop guy, who is still bitter that he no longer runs espn's nba coverage, tried to do some gotcha journalism on phoenix suns owner robert sarver by posting a video of sarver making some very off-color jokes at the memorial service of a deceased friend/business partner. hours later, that guy's widow contacted truehoop guy to let him know that it was intended to be a roast and that she thought it was hilarious.

lol at how hard espn dot com is pushing la liga right now

what percentage of its readership can name more than two teams or players

last couple years they've been doing that with serie A

It’s always wild when you think an artist has long since passed the peak of their career, and then they drop one of their biggest hits ever out of nowhere pic.twitter.com/lpfYhBRkDH

— actioncookbook (@actioncookbook) January 17, 2022

how do they keep doing it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alcVZZuj_WE

Presenting The 2022 Shams Charania Award For Excellence In Divulging Of Information Through Syntax Comprehended By Many

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