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Geno posted:Rolling Stone article on BS: quote:At 24, he began smoking pot, and soon owned a four-foot purple bong. (In L.A., he discovered West Coast weed was way more potent, and one night, ended up "hiding behind the curtains in my living room for 40 minutes because I thought somebody was watching us. After that, I phased back big time.")
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Deadspin made a successful FOIA request for the e-mails that Darren Rovell sent to a U. of Michigan professor about a former student who made fun of him on twitter.
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hcreight posted:Deadspin made a successful FOIA request for the e-mails that Darren Rovell sent to a U. of Michigan professor about a former student who made fun of him on twitter. What a weiner
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zakharov posted:What a weiner I love that this grown rear end man wrote that email, sat back in his chair, and thought "NAILED IT, PERFECT WAY TO HANDLE THIS SITUATION"
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HOW COULD YOU posted:I love that this grown rear end man wrote that email, sat back in his chair, and thought "NAILED IT, PERFECT WAY TO HANDLE THIS SITUATION" No, no, he wrote that email and immediately sensed there might be a problem with it. After 25 minutes of internal debate and no response, he realized he hosed up in a big way, and sent another email in case he wasn't specific enough the first time. Also love that he signed his email with his Twitter handle, no further explanation necessary.
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hcreight posted:Deadspin made a successful FOIA request for the e-mails that Darren Rovell sent to a U. of Michigan professor about a former student who made fun of him on twitter. Darren Rovell has the maturity of a 12 year old.
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I am cracking the gently caress up at "sportsbizreporter@gmail.com"
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xbilkis posted:Also love that he signed his email with his Twitter handle, no further explanation necessary. The only way that could be more perfectly Darren Rovell is if he'd managed to drop his number of followers in there too.
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Clearly the way to go about things is to see if sportsbizreporter@gmail.com is signed up for any potentially embarrassing mailing lists, and if so, to see what exact sites sportsbizreporter@gmail.com is attaching itself to for branding purposes. Please do not send prank emails to sportsbizreporter@gmail.com, with fake leads on stories, or to pose as a New York pimp with the tearful story of how visiting NBA teams singlehandedly prop up the NYC sex trade.
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Darren Rovell is actually a long-form piece of performance art.
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Crazy Ted posted:Darren Rovell is actually a long-form piece of performance art.
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Quest For Glory II posted:Shia LeBouf went real deep on this one.
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Another Grantland classic about the 2002 WCF between the Kings/Lakers http://grantland.com/features/2002-western-conference-oral-history-los-angeles-lakers-sacramento-kings/
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Geno posted:Another Grantland classic about the 2002 WCF between the Kings/Lakers Was just about to post this. Grantland does some incredible work.
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Not to be outdone, SB Nation did an oral history of the XFL: http://www.sbnation.com/longform/2014/5/7/5683742/xfl-oral-history
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Geno posted:Another Grantland classic about the 2002 WCF between the Kings/Lakers Re: Game 6 Bernhardt: Ed Rush, my boss at the time, called and asked what I thought about the game. I said, “I’d rather not say.” He said, “Tell me, Ted.” I said, “You know me, Ed. I’d rather not say.” He goes, “Ted, tell me.” I said, “Well, I thought my partners sucked.” He says, “OK, thank you. That’s what I’d thought you think.” Click. That’s why I hate talking about it, because I really care about Delaney and [third official Dick] Bavetta. Thank Lord they recognize the officiating that game was a travesty.
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Vertical Lime posted:Not to be outdone, SB Nation did an oral history of the XFL: If someone doesn't get Beer Record Guy as a custom title, we, as a group, have failed. Man, that's a good read. The XFL seems like something out of a dream or a half remembered fantasy.
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Sash! posted:If someone doesn't get Beer Record Guy as a custom title, we, as a group, have failed. How the hell could they not have gotten He Hate Me or Tommy Maddox for that piece? Also, nine times out of ten I'd rather read an actual narrative story than an oral history and I wish the trend would die down a bit.
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http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/people/baseballs-best-lobbyist/?src=longreads This is a fantastic article about Scott Boras with some really hilarious factoids, such as: quote:When Rodriguez was a free agent in 2000, the Boras Corporation produced Alex Rodriguez: Historical Performance, a lavish 70-page book that compared the shortstop to Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo and cost $35,000 to publish in an edition of 100. quote:Cano, a star Yankees infielder, had dropped Boras to sign with Jay-Z’s new sports agency. quote:None of this surprised the New York Times’ Benjamin Hoffman. Buried in the fine print of Alex Rodriguez’s $252-million Texas Rangers contract, Hoffman tells me, was a bonus clause: a tiny $150,000 payout for winning the American League Divisional Series MVP award—pretty standard stuff, except for one thing. “That award does not exist,” Hoffman says. “Boras negotiated in case it did someday.”
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Groucho Marxist posted:“My first reaction was I don’t listen to Jay-Z-style music,” Boras tells me. “I listen to R. Kelly..." I remember the "book" from A-Rod's 2000 free agency, but I didn't quite realize Boras went to those lengths with it.
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leokitty posted:Well of course he listens to Bernie's music, he was a client. That's why it's funny
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Frackie Robinson posted:That's why it's funny
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MourningView posted:Scott Boras owns. Inventing an award, then negotiating a contract incentive in case that award is won is like peak sports agent chicanery.
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Yeah that is a fairly poorly thought out title.
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The answer to your question is "Steven Hyden is a loving clown" Always nice to see Charlie Pierce popping up places that aren't Esquire, though
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chunkles posted:What the hell grantland The article itself is kind of lovely, but I must be missing something about this?
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morestuff posted:The article itself is kind of lovely, but I must be missing something about this? I think its that they are running a no interest story about a band that broke up a while ago over the NBA finals
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Politicalrancor posted:I think its that they are running a no interest story about a band that broke up a while ago over the NBA finals Jack White has a pretty hyped solo album coming out next week soooo
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Wright Thompson seems to do 3 features for every ESPN magazine, and he punctuates the good ones, like the Michael Jordan sad old man, and Johnny Manziell hick scam artist family profiles, with some really bad stuff. He did a piece about a Bosnian soccer player returning to his ethnically cleansed village, and instead of letting he and his family speak for themselves, he punctuated everything with hoary cliches and generally painful writing. http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/10921287/nothing-stay-buried-bosnia-herzegovina-forward-vedad-ibisevic-returns-homelandt His latest article is about Lionel Messi v Maradona, it doesn't seem to be online. It's really hosed up. He tries to frame Maradona as the man of Peron. Describing him as a fountain irrational machismo and describing his cocaine crimes. Then he glosses over the military dictatorship and says that the young Argentines like Messi, because he's quiet. Then repeats some right wing poo poo from The Economist as fact, teaching us that Argenina's economy is in ruins!!! Because of Peronism. It's a really awkward thing.
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Pablo Sandoval strikes back against the liberal terrorist elite media, destroys beat writer's computer
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chunkles posted:What the hell grantland Steven Hyden is so bad. I want to say he's by a pretty decent margin the worst of Grantland's regular writers.
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Fag Boy Jim posted:Steven Hyden is so bad. I want to say he's by a pretty decent margin the worst of Grantland's regular writers. He practically defines the term middlebrow
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