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Here is the thing that's sometimes hard to grasp when games are being canceled and no end is in sight: everybody wants the lockout to end. No one is actively being greedy or selfish just because they hate you and don't want you to watch basketball. Both sides have demands and one side or both are going to have to give in on each demand before the league comes back. Which is to say, the negotiation process is long and painful and isn't to be solved by "talking some sense" into the sides. More »
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The following is excerpted from Daniel Libit's story "The Scandal Beat" in the September/October issue of the Columbia Journalism Review. Read the whole thing on CJR.org. More »
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A few months ago, I had an angry but illuminating exchange on Facebook with Charles Robinson, author of Tuesday's big Yahoo hoo-hah about the Miami Hurricanes. The topic then was Jim Tressel, but it might as well have been Miami or Reggie Bush or any of the many subjects of big Yahoo hoo-hahs over the years. I'd written that Robinson and some of his colleagues had turned themselves into "mall cops for the NCAA"—the de facto enforcement arm for an organization whose rules aren't worth enforcing to begin with. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5831874&view=rss&microfeed=true As mentioned here, this is my Facebook exchange with Yahoo reporter Charles Robinson. I've edited out only the comments from innocent bystanders. More »
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On Tuesday, Yahoo's soccer blog posted a seemingly innocuous article on Lionel Messi's loyalty to Barca. "When I eventually pass on, I will only play ghost football at Barcelona. I am happy there. No amount of spirit money will tempt me," he supposedly said. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5817426&view=rss&microfeed=true Anyone want to explain this one? "What appeared to be 90 feet, teased from the fabric of New York Yankees resolve, with each tug brought more yards of grace." More »
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Yahoo, as noted earlier, has another story out in its long-running series on the generous redistributive polices of the USC athletic department. I hate to go all Jason Whitlock here, but, well ... More »
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Like many of you, we've been using Yahoo! Fantasy Sports Games for years; about a decade, actually. It's free, it's easy to navigate, it remembers all your past leagues and it's generally on the good side of the force. Unfortunately, with the news that Microsoft may be trying to buy Yahoo!, there's a tiny possibility that we might lose not only the whole Mottram/MJD/Skeets contingent, but we may lose the fantasy games too. Because if Microsoft doesn't win the bid, Yahoo! Sports could be sold off to ESPN. More »
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You thought ESPN had some trouble last year with their fantasy games? Yahoo had a major disaster of its own last night, at the worst possible time. More »
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Considering all the trouble ESPN has had with its fantasy game, we suppose it's inevitable (and probably pretty smart) for Yahoo (where we've been doing all our fantasy games for years) to rub it in a little bit. More »
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Most common email we've received this morning: What's up with Yahoo's fantasy football page? For whatever reason, the site is just showing the first names of every player and says they're all on a bye week. We're sure this will be fixed soon, but, honestly, nothing fires sports fans up more than screwups on fantasy football sites. More »
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We know you love those Web site ranking numbers, so we've got some more for you, and they're good ones. Last week, Yahoo Sports — are we supposed to use the exclamation point? We always feel like goobers typing "Yahoo!" — beat ESPN.com in both unique users and visitors. We've heard all kinds of arguments why Yahoo's numbers are inflated and not as attractive to advertisers, and some of those arguments are somewhat convincing. But numbers are numbers, and last week, more people looked at Yahoo Sports than ESPN.com. More »
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Lots of chatter from pretty much everybody involved in our sports Web site traffic report from last week. To recap what we've gathered: More »
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