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It's hard to believe tomorrow will be the 10th anniversary of ESPN's Page 2, a subsection of the world's biggest sports site that revolutionized a type of casual online sportswriting, and just as quickly disappeared off the face of the earth. More »
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Because it's available. Or at least it was. I wonder if this position is not included in the "hiring freeze." [DisneyRecruitMax] More »
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Buried at the bottom of Page 2 today is a clarification from columnist Scoop Jackson, who caused a veritable shitstorm thanks to his B.J. Upton column, when he haphazardly implied that Upton's laziness was a reason for young African-Americans to look up to him. Not really what he meant, of course, but that's how many people interpreted it. Well, Rob King's email box must have been locked-up due to all the hate mail because poor Scoop had explain himself to the Page 2 audience. More »
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By our rudimentary calculations, new Page 2 columnist Jemele Hill, who made her debut on the site today, will write roughly 92 columns for the site during her two-year deal. (We assumed two a week, with at least six weeks off for vacations and holidays; we're probably being too generous.) As reported by The Big Lead, she will make $400,000 during her stint, which, as we punch up the numbers, comes out to $4,347.83 a column. If her first column, which runs 1,422 words, is any indication — and it's probably a little longer than they'll usually be — that's gonna come down to about three bucks a word. See, math is fun! More »
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AJ Daulerio's Cultural Oddsmaker runs every Friday. Email him to tell him what you think. More »
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Well, it appears Page 2 is filling in some voids left by the Whitlock/Shanoff/Bayless exodus: According to The Big Lead, they have hired the Orlando Sentinel's Jemele Hill to a two-year deal. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=209724&view=rss&microfeed=true It appears that Dan Shanoff isn't the only Page 2 writer leaving this week. And though you may or may not think Shanoff's departure is a good thing, we're pretty sure you will be happy about this one. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=197058&view=rss&microfeed=true Anybody out there looking for a job? As long as you're not a voyeur or anything, you too can work for ESPN Page 2. More »
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It has been two-and-a-half years since famed New Republic writer Gregg Easterbook and his "Tuesday Morning Quarterback" column were fired from ESPN for supposedly anti-Semitic sentiments in a piece he wrote for TNR. (Yeah, remember, he didn't actually write it for ESPN.) Though we always thought that while Easterbrook's comment was questionable at best, it hardly warranted the knee-jerk reaction, particularly from ESPN, which was still reeling from the Rush Limbaugh-Donovan McNabb fiasco. Besides, Easterbrook's mountain of excellent work, one would think, would more than speak for itself, and for his character. But not only did ESPN can Easterbrook, it actually erased him from its Web site entirely. He eventually took his column to NFL.com, where it never really fit in. More »
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It is a sad, sad day here at Deadspin world headquarters; without even the courtesy of a press release or a proper burial, it appears ESPN.com has finally shut the doors on its ill-advised "Page 3" section. More »
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We are very sad to report that CBS Sportsline's Spin page — which is like ESPN's Page 2 if Page 2 were visited by Poochie from "The Itchy And Scratchy Show" — has is no longer referring to fantasy football columnist Eric Mack as "Emack." The front page of the site is using his real name now, tragically. More »
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We know we make fun of ESPN's Page 2 a lot, and if you've ever tried to make it through five sentences of "24 College Avenue," you'll understand why. But when we thought that SI.com's Scorecard Daily was the worst Page 2 ripoff that could exist, we were way, way wrong. More »
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Working presumably from ESPN Page 2 columnist Scoop Jackson's somewhat inexplicable column about racism and Cubs manager Dusty Baker earlier this season, satirical Onion-esque site SportsPickle "reports" that Cubs Management Unsure How To Fire Baker Without Exposing That They're Racists. More »
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We would like to congratulate ESPN's Page 2 on its Online Journalism Awards nomination for the Best Online Commentary (Large), which, at first glance, appears to be for the most outstanding columnist who uses very big letters on a computer. The site's fellow nominees, impressively, are not whole sections of a major network's news site but, in fact, mere human beings, including Slate's Mickey Kaus and BeliefNet's David Kuo. More »
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Yesterday, we openly speculated who the heck that band "Autologic" that plays on Page 2's endless "serialized novel" 24 College Avenue. Another reason we love you, readers: You came through. More »
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We accidentally clicked on the newest installment of "24 College Avenue — the "serialized novel" by Page 2er Jim Caple that inspired by his weird tour of colleges last year — and we realized, fast, that we had forgotten to turn the sound down on our computer. Out of nowhere came this awful noise, like Dave Matthews wrapped up in old cinnamon and stuck in the microwave too long. What is this wretched auditory invasion? More »
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Uh, we're just going to go under the assumption that Jim Caple's "serialized novel" 24 College Avenue is the setup to a joke, and the "three times a week throughout the school year" is the punchline. You know, the kind of inappropriate joke that a boorish friend tells too loudly at a dinner party as everyone pretends to chuckle politely and then slowly ... slinks ... away. More »
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Who is Erica Lucero? Well, she's a sophomore at the University of Southern California, she's an opinion columnist at the Daily Trojan and, apparently, the newest writer for Page 2. The site's 19-year-old "Gal on campus" is filing reports all season about what it's like to be at USC during the Matt Leinart era. (And she's also making every frustrated senior sports reporter at the Daily Trojan bash their heads against their desks.) More »
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We know that the whole point of ESPN's Page 2 is to write about the culture of sports, from entertainment to clothing to ... well, whatever the media kit says, just trust that. But this is getting ridiculous. More »
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So, this is intersting. A few weeks back, Mike Ogle, a freelance reporter for ESPN Page 2 (and, when they deign to publish, Page 3), wrote a story about cockfighting in Guam. We'd link to the story, but ESPN has already taken it off the Web site. And this is where it gets interesting. More »
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We might make fun of ESPN.com sometimes — a little, maybe — but they win big points for this article about cockfighting. It also ends with this classic line: "If I ever live in Guam, all bets are off." More »
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