Inside 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,...
View ArticleCan 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...
View ArticleWhat 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...
View ArticleYou 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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