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Roger Goodell's Wife Defended Him Through A Now-Deleted Anonymous Twitter Account

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell takes frequent criticism across many mediums, but according to the Wall Street Journal, former Fox News anchor Jane Skinner Goodell stood up for her husband’s bumbling through an anonymous Twitter account with the absolutely perfect handle @forargument....

NESN Suspends Anchor For Unleashing Stream Of Insults At Woman Who Told Him No [Updated]

Alyssa Labrie first posted on Facebook privately over the weekend, saying New England Sports Network anchor Marc James exploded at her in a string of angry text messages after she said she didn’t want to get drinks with him. Labrie told me that after she heard from people saying it needed to be kno...

Barstool Sports Asked Potential Employee To Sign Away Her Right To Be Offended<em></em><em></em>

This afternoon, former Fox Sports college football host Elika Sadeghi told a story about how she recently walked away from a job offer from a sports media company because it asked her to sign an agreement acknowledging that she would willingly work in an environment where she might be exposed to “nu...

"This Is An Utter Embarrassment" 

“WHAT ARE WE DOING? WHAT ARE WE DOING!???”...

How Did Jason Whitlock Do This?

Earlier today, All Takes Matter co-host Jason Whitlock sent a tweet that was genuinely mystifying:...

ESPN Supports Diverse Voices If It Can Control What They Say

Yesterday, Jemele Hill, co-host of the flagship 6 p.m. edition of SportsCenter, tweeted a very obvious and uncontroversial observation about forms of protest. As part of a broader discussion about Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones’s threats to punish any player who takes part in racial injustice prot...

SB Nation Memo To Underpaid Writers: Unspecific Changes Will Happen, Details To Come

SB Nation editor-in-chief Elena Bergeron wrote an internal memo to team-site bloggers today, publishing it on the company’s internal “Community Corner” page. It announced a few updates and a series of planned changes to a sprawling team-site network comprising more than 319 team sites staffed by tho...

ESPN Suspends Jemele Hill Two Weeks For No Good Reason

ESPN just announced that SportsCenter host Jemele Hill has been suspended two weeks for violating the company’s social media guidelines....

To Be Fair, Consuming Hallucinogens While In Toledo Is Advised

We can only assume Jay Feely is suffering from a glitch in the Matrix:...

Kirk Herbstreit Says Washington Should Be Thanking ESPN For Airing Their Games

College GameDay’s Kirk Herbstreit responded to Chris Petersen’s complaints about late-night Huskies kickoff times today, saying the Washington head coach should be thanking the Worldwide Leader for airing their games at all....

Boy, Do I Feel Naïve <em></em>

Yesterday, BuzzFeed published an exposé on how soulless alt-right troll doll Milo Yiannopoulos solicited ideas and advice from white supremacists and neo-Nazis to help grow Breitbart into the mainstream hate influencer it is today. That report also contained exchanges with other journalists, ones ...

The Short Life And Neverending Afterlife Of Rush Limbaugh's Disastrous ESPN Stint<em></em>

There is a physical thing that happens to a certain type of Famous Terrible American, and once this thing begins happening it does not stop. It does not happen to every Famous Terrible American, and the process does not begin at the same moment in their respective Famous, Terrible American lives; on...

NFL Assures Fans There's No Tolerance For Racial Slurs At Redskins Games 

Last night, Washington receiver Terrelle Pryor explained that he flipped a fan the bird following Monday night’s game against Kansas City after said fan called him a “nigger.” Like his middle fingers did on Monday, Pryor’s explanation drew a rash of media coverage, which sparked a response from the ...

ESPN Is Trying Anything  

ESPN is reportedly bringing Barstool Sports personality PFT Commenter and supporting character Dan Katz on board for a late-night show on ESPN2. According to The Ringer’s Bryan Curtis, who first reported the news, the contracts aren’t finalized yet, but the show is being developed by production comp...

Who Will Katie Nolan Be At ESPN?

Following months of speculation and a recent report that Katie Nolan had asked to be released early from her contract with Fox Sports, ESPN announced what everyone already expected: Nolan is joining the Worldwide Leader....

ESPN Enters Incomprehensible Partnership With Incomprehensible Media Company

Big news in the world of digital media today, as Ad Age has a scoop about ESPN partnering with Cycle, a “media network” that “evolved from an internal influencer management division at Laundry Service to a sibling content company last year.”...

What, Exactly, Does "All Of Australia" Look Like

Britt McHenry Is Awful At This

Britt McHenry and Tomi Lahren seem to be in a contest to become the latest incomprehensibly irate white woman at Fox News. It’s like Josh McCown and Johnny Manziel battling to lead the Browns. McHenry, the former ESPNer with reporting expertise, is obviously the veteran McCown, while Lahren is the...

What Will <i>SI</i> Do With Peter King's The MMQB?

Peter King’s contract with Sports Illustrated is up after this NFL season. Long famed for his access to the inner workings of the NFL and especially for his mysteriously direct connection to the mind of commissioner Roger Goodell, he may continue on as the face of the MMQB, the football vertical lau...

Ray Lewis Says He Dropped To Two Knees During Anthem Because Of Jesus

Former NFL player and noted nonsense-talker Ray Lewis, who has previously been critical of Colin Kaepernick’s decision to kneel during the national anthem to protest police brutality, linked arms with several Ravens players and went down to two knees before Sunday’s game in London. The act seemed li...