Vertical Lime posted:

Wasn't TMZ going to start a separate sports gossip site? That's going to be one classic battle.

barkingclam posted:

I will admit that Deadspin has really gotten one thing right under Daulerio: their Dead Wrestler of the Week series is really good. What sounds like (and really should be, since so much of their content is) a gimmick/snarky look at wrestling is always a insightful look at the personalities behind 'sports entertainment.'

This week's piece on Owen Hart is one of the best examples of this. If you've never read this series, it's a good place to start.

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One night this past summer, Bob Costas broadcast a baseball game on the MLB Network, with former Atlanta Braves all-star John Smoltz as his color commentator. Throughout the game, Smoltz used his iPad and his MLB At Bat app to keep tabs on the other games going on around the league, and at one point a confused Costas asked Smoltz what he was doing. Smoltz tried to explain that an iPad was like a big iPhone, so Costas picked up the iPad and held it up to his head like a phone, intending to illustrate how ridiculous modern technology is—and not, say, how a certain once-youthful and plugged-in sports broadcaster had become embarrassingly out-of-date.

Tender Bender posted:

There was a thing about how his nickname was "bitch-tits" but given how ripped he is it's like lol your pecs are massive rather than the traditional fatty manboobs.

Also how is the pop-up an embarrassing moment for A-Rod, did they intend to put that in an "A-Rod's most ownage moments" slideshow?

jyrka posted:

Bill Simmons is starting his own website: http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Daily/Morning-Buzz/2011/02/18/simmons.aspx

Crazy Ted posted:

Who was the Deadspin writer that Simmons hired?

BackInTheUSSR posted:

I will highlight the ending:

Fevernova posted:

Probably a tired question, but who or what should I be reading?

MorningView posted:

It's definitely not. I know plenty of people who like him even though they don't care about Boston sports. I think it's mostly because he hit on a type of sportswriting that seemed really fresh and new at the time.

leokitty posted:

What in the gently caress is this cheerleading piece of poo poo?

http://sports.espn.go.com/boston/mlb/columns/story?columnist=edes_gordon&id=6567995

MorningView posted:

There is no football for me to turn off though! If only he'd warned us earlier

e: haha, holy poo poo that guy owns. People definitely need to check out the rest of his cartoons, including the commentary so that you can really understand the message he's trying to convey. It can be pretty complicated!

Groucho Marxist posted:

I just found out that Hipster Runoff is going to contribute to Grantland

leokitty posted:

What the gently caress why are there no RSS feeds?

leokitty posted:

What the gently caress why are there no RSS feeds?

zakharov posted:

It was good until they went into "cricket actually sucks" mode.

swizz posted:

brb, setting my degree on fire in the yard

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So far, though, the only harkening sound from over on the hill is equivocation. Or, is it just plain silence?

Grozz Nuy posted:

But pitcher hits are the best kind of hits and totally make up for the other 90% of ABs.

The broken bones posted:

nice. A Sports Night movie with a lot of goddamn inappropriate work space behavior.

Crion posted:

I don't really know if this counts as sports journalism because I don't give anyone a blowjob for playing the right way, but:

http://www.mrdestructo.com/2011/10/seven-games-in-september-part-i.html

The thing I posted in that thread that one time last week has been cleaned up, fact-checked, de-adverbed and generally made a lot more readable, and I will now stop posting about it forever.

FairGame posted:

Whoever the editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch sports section is needs to get kicked in the junk repeatedly.

In Game 4 of the NLDS, a squirrel ran across home plate after a pitch was delivered. Now "BUSCH SQUIRREL" is some sort of loving celebrity, someone created a Twitter account for it, and there is literally an article in today's P-D (a week after the incident, mind you) with "Busch Squirrel's Best Tweets"

Ugh.

The broken bones posted:

Here's a Tub of poo poo written by Murray Chase Jeff Passan

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=jp-passan_pujols_world_series_game_two_cardinals_102011


Pujols Displays Zero Leadership After Game 2 Loss

morestuff posted:

This column is pretty hilarious.

DOOP posted:

Jon Heyman is a birther


If albert pujols wants to beat $200M 9-yr cardinals offer, he should produce birth certificate. skepticism abounds over 31 claim

hcreight posted:

Similarly the Texas Judge who beat his disabled goon daughter with a belt couldn't be prosecuted because it happened in like 2003. Why the gently caress are there statutes of limitations on poo poo like this?

LARGE THE HEAD posted:

Stop writing about Skip Bayless and read this piece from Outside Magazine on the Livestrong Foundation and its charitable activities. This is some actual, legitimate reporting.

Badfinger posted:

The part about that particular paragraph you should actually be annoyed at is that Morris pitched about 140 lovely innings in 1994 then retired. No one outside of writers trying to contrive a narrative for Jack Morris thinks of a career ending in 1994 as being in the "steroid era" at all, much less half his loving career.

leokitty posted:

Bigass Moth posted:

Cubs fans aren't bad at all. They have zero to brag about and their wining is easily understood by a Cleveland fan like myself.

Arctic Baldwin posted:

screen caps?

ElwoodCuse posted:

There has never been a home run hit to right field at Petco Park ever? Is this some kind of sarcasm or do they mean the power alley or something? I know the place is big but goddamn.