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Horny <i>Times</i> Columnist Would Like To Know Who's Down To Fuck
I have not been a regular reader of the Times’s Ross Douthat since the 2016 presidential campaign, and I was not a regular reader of his before that. Unlike David Brooks and Bret Stephens, the other fussy right-wing cheese heaps who pretend to dislike Donald Trump for the Times, I do not have a stan...

Doug Christie Was Pretty Horny For This Steph Curry Crossover
Just two days removed from a 20-point loss to the Kawhi-less Toronto Raptors, the Golden State Warriors were looking for a bounce-back win against the up-and-coming Sacramento Kings. Thanks to the efforts of Steph Curry, Kevin Durant and Klay Thompson—who combined for 95 points—they were able to fen...

Report: ESPN Settled Sexual Harassment Claim Involving Chris Berman
The Big Lead reported a bizarre story today, which includes a sexual harassment claim against ESPN involving sportscaster Chris Berman, a contracted makeup artist carrying on an affair with Cris Carter, and two private detectives who claim they were hired by ESPN. ...

More Than 100 ESPN Employees Signed Up For Ashley Madison From Work
Years before you likely started reading this website, Deadspin extensively covered ESPN’s “horndoggery” era, one filled with illicit sex and affairs and rumors and scandals that finally more or less came to an end after some harsh words from the company’s then-president. ...

How Two Infamous Ex-ESPNers Benefited From A Bristol VIP's Night Out
One of the most influential men in sports pawing women in a hotel bar in front of a couple enemies with old scores to settle—and much of it surreptitiously captured on video? It sounds like the stuff of an investigation carried out by one of ESPN's harder-charging journalistic franchises. Instead, i...

Steve Phillips And Brooke Hundley: A Romance Told Through Filthy Sexts
You can head over here and read the long version of the affair between then-ESPN baseball analyst Steve Phillips and then-ESPN production assistant Brooke Hundley. Or you can get a pretty good idea of their very brief romance by reading their text messages. As the full story points out, this was a m...

The Mostly Sexless Sex Scandal That Shook ESPN
A few hours after the 2009 Home Run Derby, Steve Phillips bought Brooke Hundley a drink. They were at the bar of St. Louis's Millenium Hotel, a block from Busch Stadium, where more than a dozen ESPN staffers had gathered after wrapping up another day's work during MLB's extended All-Star weekend. Hu...

A Bizarre Sexting Scandal Has Cost An ESPN Partner His Job
The executive who oversees Hearst's ESPN interest (Hearst is the publishing company that owns—the often forgotten!—20 percent of the network) has quit his job amid an odd horndoggery scandal....

Sext-Happy Former Toledo Running Coach Denies Sex Harassment, Other Claims; Former Runners Say He's Lying
On Saturday, Kevin Hadsell, the former director of the University of Toledo's track and cross country programs, sat down with a local news station for his first interview since our story about his departure amid sexual harassment claims. He was by turns defiant and penitent. He cried some, too, as h...

"I'm Down For Drinks, Laughs, Sex": The Sexual Harassment Claims That Brought Down Toledo's Running Coach
It was a matter of rules and consequences, he said. On Jan. 24, Kevin Hadsell, the director of the University of Toledo's men's and women's cross country and women's track program, announced his resignation, a move that was as mysterious as it was abrupt. Hadsell had been at Toledo since 1998, and i...

Which NFL Exec Was Screwing Hookers? Let's Hear Your Guesses!
Anna Gristina, a New York madam who is currently serving a five-year probation stint after being convicted of promoting prostitution, told the New York Post that she is planning to reveal the names of some of her bigger clients on an episode of Dr. Phil. What's more, Gristina claims that one of thes...

"... Did Not Meet ESPN Standards For Original Language": ESPN Finally Updates Plagiarized Posts
It has been 148 days since we first informed you of Lynn Hoppes's copy-and-pasting habits. And dear reader, it's over. All it took for ESPN to acknowledge the widespread plagiarism in its archives was for the company's news honcho, John Walsh, to float a rumor in front of a class of journalism stude...
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Why Is An ESPN Vice President Spreading Rumors That I'm Straight? [UPDATE]
"I don't know your personal life," ESPN vice president and executive editor John Walsh told me, on the phone. "I wouldn't comment on anyone's personal life."...

Dear Terry Francona, Please Stop Emailing Photos Of Yourself Half-Naked In A Towel To My Girlfriend
A reader, whom we'll call Rob, emailed us Monday night with the photo you see above. The photo came with this message:...

Are You A Current Or Former Make-Up Person At ESPN? Do You Know One? Please Contact Us.
Do you (or did you) work in the make-up department at ESPN HQ in Bristol? We've heard some, erm, stories. About certain, um, talent. Email me at [email protected]. I'll explain....

Noted Horndog Erik Kuselias Has Been Reassigned From His Golf Channel Show
Erik Kuselias, who horndogged his way through ESPN before landing at the Golf Channel (where he horndogged it up again), has been reassigned from his G.C. perch. (After the horndoggery, Kuselias proposed to Golf Channel queen Holly Sonders. They're engaged now.) Kuselias will head elsewhere in the N...

Former Security Director Sues NBA, Claims League Fired Him After Blowing The Whistle On Sexual Harassment
In June, NBA security official Warren Glover received a gold watch and a letter from David Stern celebrating his 10 years with the league. A month later, he was fired, the highest-level NBA employee to be let go during the lockout. Glover says it was retribution for speaking up against repeated inst...

Former ESPN VP's "I Didn't Masturbate In Front Of Erin Andrews" Lawsuit Causes Panic In Bristol And L.A.
LOS ANGELES—On Nov. 5, ESPN Senior VP Joan Lynch woke up in her home to find a front tire of her vehicle slashed. This is notable for two reasons. The first is that Lynch lives in the Pacific Palisades, which is not the sort of neighborhood where one gets one's tires slashed. The Palisades is west o...

Why A Former ESPN VP Filed A Pre-Emptive Lawsuit Denying He Masturbated In Front Of Erin Andrews
Last month, ESPN announced it was eliminating its bi-coastal, 25-person Content Development department, which was responsible for the network's 30 for 30 series, among other things. The head of the group, Keith Clinkscales, ESPN's senior vice president for content, development, and enterprise, left ...

This Evening: On <em>Around The Horny</em>, Tony Reali Wonders Which "College Undies Will Go Down This Weekend"
Your p.m. roundup for Oct. 28, the day we figured out how to just vanish. H/T to TylerRio for the Reali video. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors....