Trump Voters Say They Choose Trump Over The NFL
Vox journalist Dylan Scott, you will get no argument here: that chart, showing the reported opinions of Trump voters on the NFL, is indeed pretty nuts! The data, compiled by an online survey company...
View ArticleNFL Network Suspends Marshall Faulk, Ike Taylor, Heath Evans After Sexual...
NFL Network has suspended Marshall Faulk, Ike Taylor and Heath Evans while investigating claims of sexual harassment from a lawsuit filed by one of their former colleagues. Jami Cantor, who worked as...
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John Skipper resigns as ESPN president
John Skipper resigned as president of ESPN and co-chairman of the Disney Media Networks on Monday. George Bodenheimer, ESPN’s president from 1998 to 2011 and its executive chairman until May 2014,...
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Tonya Harding Would Like Her Apology Now – The New York Times
Cover Photo What do we know about her? Tonya Harding, shown at Mountain View Ice Arena in Vancouver, Wash., is back in the spotlight and has a few things she would like to clear up. Credit Kyle...
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Bill Simmons Is A Fucking Embarrassment
Look man, I know Ley already posted about it earlier but for real, get a fucking load of this Bill Simmons column that dropped today. It’s a fucking disgrace. There have been so many awful Bill...
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In One Interview, Larry Nassar Laid Out Exactly How He Gained Gymnasts’ Trust
“We protect our athletes. That’s what we learned from 2000. Not just physically but mentally, you have to protect your athletes. You have to let them know you care.” Those are the first words you’ll...
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The U.S. Gymnastics System Wanted More Medals, And Created A Culture Of Abuse...
Illustration by Jim Cooke/GMG Seventeen years ago, the U.S. women’s gymnastics team placed fourth at the Sydney Olympics, finishing behind Romania, Russia, and China. Coming four years after the gold...
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Report: More Than A Dozen Michigan State Staffers Were Told Of Larry Nassar’s...
Scott Olson/Getty Images During the first day of sentencing this week of Larry Nassar, the former Michigan State and USA Gymnastics doctor who will spend the rest of his life in prison and is accused...
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Aly Raisman Is Ready To Burn It All Down
Olympic gold medalist gymnast Aly Raisman delivered a 13-minute victim impact statement today in front of Ingham County Circuit Judge Judge Rosemarie Aquilina and Larry Nassar himself, in which she...
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Spotify Has New Plan to Take on Radio and Reinvent Podcasts – Bloomberg
Spotify, the world’s largest paid music service, will begin offering news and political coverage to lure listeners away from radio and podcasts from rival Apple Inc. Eight companies, including...
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Black Lives Matter: Philadelphia Super Bowl Riots Reaction ‘Glaring Example...
Updated | In the aftermath of the chaos that erupted in Philadelphia as Eagles fans tore through the streets celebrating their Super Bowl victory, many could not help but notice the difference in how...
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Why I Got Off the Pacific Crest Trail After 454 Miles Instead of Walking All...
I’ve told a lot of stories about why I stopped hiking the Pacific Crest Trail at the 454 mile mark last summer, though I intended to hike the whole thing, all 2,650 miles from Mexico to Canada....
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Pyeongchang Opening Amazes As It Envisions A Better World
The run-up to this Winter Olympics has been beset by scandal, controversy, fights and cynicism, and none of that let up in the final hours before the opening ceremony on Friday. On a personal level, I...
View ArticleThe Winter Olympics Feature 2,951 Of The World’s Greatest Athletes, And Also...
There’s a premise built into the structure of the Olympics that pretty much every single Olympian, even those far down the standings, are elite athletes at the top of their game performing at a level...
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Ice Dancing Favorite After NSFW Wardrobe Malfunction: “It Was Pretty...
The French ice dancing team of Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron is our pick to win the event in Pyeongchang, but an unfortunate wardrobe malfunction today threatened to sink those chances, if...
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How NBC Flubbed Its Coverage, Reported The Wrong Gold Medalist, Then Botched...
GIF When Ester Ledecká crossed the finish line of this morning’s run of the women’s Super-G a hundredth of a second ahead of reigning gold medalist Anna Veith, the Czech couldn’t believe she’d beaten...
View ArticleWhy Conor McGregor Went Ballistic And Ruined UFC 223
As the dust has begun to settle following Conor McGregor’s bus attack at a UFC media event yesterday, it’s clear that UFC 223 is more or less ruined. McGregor has been charged with three misdemeanors...
View ArticleOh God, Even Our Parent Company Is Airing The Barstool Sports CEO’s Evasive,...
Since she was hired as CEO of Barstool Sports in July 2016, Erika Nardini has done countless interviews about the company’s growing revenue and “disruptive” business model of publishing misogyny...
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The Real Reason NFL Owners Want to Punish Players for Protesting During the...
Players from the Miami Dolphins protest during the national anthem before an NFL game against the Carolina Panthers, November 13, 2017. (AP Photo / Bob Leverone) In what has to rank among the worst...
View ArticleThe NFL Is Too Dumb To Realize That Donald Trump Is Never Going To Stop With...
There is a story—which is usually described as a poem but is more precisely a muddled version of a song written by the jazz singer Oscar Brown Jr.—that Donald Trump delights in reading to crowds at...
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Sam Dekker White Pride Tweet Sparks Meet Me In Temecula Part 2
Photo: Harry How (Getty) Last night, Los Angeles Clippers forward Sam Dekker tweeted how proud he was to be white, sparking a feud between two Twitter users that culminated with the Dekker-defender...
View ArticleUnivision Offers Buyouts to Gizmodo Media Employees – Bloomberg
Univision Holdings Inc. has been offering buyouts to employees at Gizmodo Media Group, according to a person familiar with the matter, marking the latest case of a digital-media upstart tightening its...
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Agony of Defeat Fall: The First Viral Video?
The Agony Of Repeat The tale of a guy who became famous for falling down once, only to have that fall replayed every single week on a legendary American TV show. Today in Tedium: I have fond memories...
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Ryan Lochte Suspended A Year Over Incredible Instagram Self-Own
Photo: Ethan Miller (Getty) The United States Anti-Doping Agency announced this morning that jolly bro airhead Ryan Lochte would be suspended for 14 months for “his use of a prohibited method.” As the...
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The Deafening Silence of Colin Kaepernick – The New York Times
A tall, unemployed man took his niece to see Serena and Venus Williams play each other at the United States Open on Friday of last week. The man, a free-agent football player clad in a simple black...
View ArticleInside Barstool Sports’ Culture of Online Hate: ‘They Treat Sexual Harassment...
The other week, Dave Portnoy, the founder and chief of content of the sports blog Barstool Sports, did what he and fans of his site always do: ratcheted up an online spat to a fever pitch,...
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Can Politics Be Kept Out Of Sports? (No.)
Image: Fox Sports Sports and politics cannot be separated. Sports expresses, iterates, and interacts with politics at basically every point of their intersection. Even apart from the myriad ways...
View ArticleSociopathic Barstool Founder Dave Portnoy Giddy About “Suffocating” ESPN Host...
Barstool Sports founder president Dave Portnoy yet again has gleefully engineered a targeted harassment campaign against a woman who he thinks wronged his company. It started Tuesday night, when ESPN...
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What Fresh Hell Is Barstool Sports?
I never saw Barstool Sports coming. I probably should have. I am the guy who founded Deadspin, after all, and during the years I actively ran the site — now more than a decade in the past — I was...
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You Are Now Free To Complain To Your Congressional Rep About Sports Betting...
The Super Bowl is one of the great magnets of American culture because of its place as Backup Christmas. Everyone gathers around the multiple gods of wings, beer, M&Ms in the colors of the...
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