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ESPN Is Hemorrhaging Subscribers And Pretending It Doesn’t Matter
Illustration: Jim Cooke ESPN is doing a very bad job of pretending it isn’t deathly afraid of rapidly declining subscriber numbers. At the end of October, Nielsen released its monthly television...
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Russians No Longer Dispute Olympic Doping Operation – The New York Times
The Russian Olympic Committee’s building in Moscow in 2015. Many of the athletes pictured in the building’s hallways have been implicated in this year’s doping scandal. Credit Pavel...
View ArticleSerena Williams engaged to Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian – CNN.com
Story highlights Serena Williams is engaged to Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian The tennis champ announced the news on Reddit The couple have been dating since 2015 A spokesperson for Ohanian...
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Why the Whole World Plays Roller Derby – Medium
Modern roller derby was invented 14 years ago. Now it has nearly 2000 leagues in 53 countries. The sport’s rapid growth says a lot about our fast-changing world. Roller derby has roots in the 1900s,...
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Pets, Car Repairs and Mom: How College Football Players Use Their Stipends –...
CLEMSON, S.C. — Clemson safety Van Smith drives a BMW, but the car is long past its days as a ride of luxury. It is a 1999 sedan with 300,000 miles on its odometer. Like many college students, Smith...
View ArticleI’m Fed Up With Tom Brady
It’s been more than 16 months since Tom Brady first placed a “Make America Great Again” hat in his locker and kept it there for weeks while telling reporters that it “would be great” if Donald Trump...
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One by one, black New England Patriots players are refusing to visit Donald...
It’s tradition for the team that wins the Super Bowl to visit the White House after their victory. But at least two members of the New England Patriots are turning down the invitation this year...
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The Sports Bubble Has Already Burst | The Big Lead
The Sports Bubble Has Already Burst 3.8k shares share tweet sms send email By: Ty Duffy | March 10, 2017 2:10 pm ET Follow @tyduffy There’s a word to describe the past year for sports on TV: brutal....
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Graphic Snapchat post latest misstep for ex-MSU star Draymond Green
Draymond Green.(Photo: Thomas Shea, USA TODAY Sports) HOUSTON – Draymond Green says he accidentally posted a graphic crotch shot on his Snapchat account, the latest misstep for the Golden State...
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Colin Kaepernick Saw This Coming | Complex
In pop culture years, 2012 was ages ago. But try to remember. That was the year quarterback Alex Smith suffered a concussion in the first half of the Niners game against the Rams in Week 10, and a...
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ESPN’s Latest Layoffs Are Just A Way To Buy Time
The big ESPN layoffs that everyone knew were coming finally arrived today, and the culling has been as brutal as anyone could have expected. Though the final number isn’t in yet, various reports have...
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This Week GQ Published a Sexist Climbing Piece, and Outdoor Research Stepped...
Yesterday, Outdoor Research responded with a perfectly inverted rebuttal, recreating the entire GQ article in its inverse: “we took three A-number-1 climbers and some adorable friends out for a...
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Welp, ESPN Shot Itself In The Dick
By now you’ve seen the news and shaken your damn head over the idiocy: ESPN switched broadcaster Robert Lee (this guy) off of calling the University of Virginia’s home opener, because the violent...
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This Is All Bullshit
Image credit: ESPN The NFL loves nothing more than a hollow branding opportunity. Just look at the self-satisfaction on the face of Cowboys owner Jerry Jones when he knelt, uselessly, with his team...
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How The NFL Lost Its Mind And Its Nerve On Anthem Protests
The NFL’s approach to players protesting racial injustice during the national anthem has moved to a whole new level of attempting to please everyone. In a matter of weeks, the league has gone from...
View ArticleTrump 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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