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This <i>First Take</i> Segment Is Really Something
A fun game to play with this bar fight of a First Take segment is to pause it at any point during its seven-minute runtime and giggle to yourself at the marvelous facial expressions of hosts Stephen A. Smith, Will Cain, and Max Kellerman. The three dudes are never not incredulous, aghast, or enraged...
Why Is The <i>Wall Street Journal</i> Letting Jason Whitlock Use Its Pages To Say Colin Kaepernick Isn't Black?
It’s hard to find anything truly shocking nowadays in a world that seemingly no longer has any rules, but that an ostensibly proud and legitimate newspaper like the Wall Street Journal sees fit to regularly lend its imprimatur of legitimacy to the rambling thoughts of a blithering idiot like Jason W...
Jets Linebacker Calls Out Breitbart Chud For Twisting His Words
Jets linebacker Jordan Jenkins didn’t hide his feelings about what went down over the weekend in Charlottesville, Va., from the creeping normalization of the KKK and its sympathizers to the neo-Nazi murder of a counter-protestor to the president’s refusal to call what happened for what it is....
Why Is John Lynch So Worried About People Who Think Equality Is Bad?<em></em>
Yesterday, San Francisco 49ers GM John Lynch was asked about Seattle Seahawks defensive end Michael Bennett’s decision to sit for the national anthem before a preseason game last weekend. Here’s part of what Lynch had to say about it (via ESPN):...
The Fallout From Sportswriting's Filthiest Fuck-Up
The article hangs on a wall in my office. I am actually staring at it as I write this—it is taped, slightly crooked, to the white paint above my desk, positioned between a Chicago Blitz bumper sticker, a picture of my mother’s late Uncle John, and a photograph from the 1987 Mahopac High School fresh...
SB Nation Bosses, Current And Former Workers Discuss Pay, Management, And More In Emails And Leaked Memos<em></em>
Yesterday, Deadspin published a report about how Vox Media and SB Nation profit off of unpaid and underpaid workers. With names and other identifying information redacted by request, here are some of the dozens of emails I received in response to the article....
How SB Nation Profits Off An Army Of Exploited Workers
Depending on who’s defining it, to whom, and why, SB Nation is either a popular website best-known for puckish, irreverent coverage and such whimsical projects as Jon Bois’s 17776, or a sprawling network of “team” or “fan” websites, each tightly focused on a particular topic, like the New York Mets ...
What's The Deal With Bill Simmons And Casey Wasserman?
Bill Simmons’s website and podcast have been a bit ... Casey Wasserman-y this year, haven’t they?...
Idiots Hold Idiot Summit
This week, the public was treated to a rendition of one of Aesop’s lesser-known fables, The Troll, the Moron, and the Stooge. There was no real moral, just a reminder that a sizable portion of the internet consists of opportunists tugging on their own nuts and screeching when they feel they haven’t ...
![Sports Writer Ethan Skolnick Arrested For Allegedly Beating Up His 70-Year-Old Dad [UPDATE]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/chqxprmclpshdx6be5df.jpg)
Sports Writer Ethan Skolnick Arrested For Allegedly Beating Up His 70-Year-Old Dad [UPDATE]
Ethan Skolnick, a Miami-based former CBS Sports NBA reporter and radio host, was arrested Wednesday and charged with “battery on a person 65 years of age or older” for allegedly beating up his father....
How Doris Burke Became The Best Damn Basketball Broadcaster There Is
CLEVELAND—Doris Burke has never spoken a single word to Drake. And they never had dinner together, despite what the internet says. Before November of last year, when Drake famously wore a black shirt with Burke’s smiling face above the phrase “woman crush everyday” during a Toronto Raptors home game...
Fox Sports Is Having A Little Trouble With That Pivot
Being the person in charge of a media outlet’s assignment desk is not a glamorous gig. You ask permission to use other people’s hard work and hope they don’t tell you to fuck off, which they have every right to do. The Fox Sports desk, after the network pursued a video-first online presence, is one ...
ESPN's <i>Sunday NFL Countdown</i> Acquires A Collinsworth<em></em>
The Collinsworth arms race has heated up. NBC’s Sunday Night Football has Cris, and as of this afternoon, ESPN’s Sunday NFL Countdown has Jac, son of Cris. That’s Jac up top (he’s the one on the right.) ESPN announced today that Jac would be joining the show to work as a features reporter, working o...
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NFL Network Spends Entire Segment Predicting The Wrong Seattle Seahawks Schedule [Update]
Professional moron Heath Evans joined Elliot Harrison yesterday during live training camp coverage on NFL Network to discuss and predict this year’s Seattle Seahawks schedule—but at no point did either of them realize that the results they were predicting already happened....
And Now: Ken "Hawk" Harrelson & Steve Stone Discuss Hemorrhoids<em></em>
It’s late July and the White Sox are dutifully maintaining their position at the bottom of the American League. In other bottom-related news, here’s your White Sox announcing crew discussing hemorrhoids during the sixth inning of today’s matchup in Kansas City—one the team lost on a walk-off double ...
Vice Sports Shutters Amid Layoffs
As Variety reported today, Vice Media is laying off two percent of its employees in order to expand video production. That two percent appears to include the entirety of Vice Sports....
Bearded Baby Clay Travis Complains About Airline Turning Away His Lice-Ridden Kid
Clay Travis, a Fox Sports contributor and man who has tried to build his latest persona around the phrase “Don’t be a pussy,” spent over 2,800 words complaining on his blog because an airline wouldn’t let his son, who had lice, fly on the plane....
A Field Guide To Boston Sports Radio Chowderheads
Every day, it seems, a different Boston sports radio dipshit is delivering a take from a time when segregation was acceptable, getting attention for being five seconds away from challenging a listener to a parking lot fight for Tom Brady’s honor. Although you may not pay attention to these awful stu...
![SB Nation Cowboys Blog Deletes Bad Post About Ezekiel Elliott [Update]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/glooxvaxcpgy2modois6.jpg)
SB Nation Cowboys Blog Deletes Bad Post About Ezekiel Elliott [Update]
Yesterday morning, SB Nation’s Cowboys blog, Blogging The Boys, published an article about the NFL’s ongoing investigation into domestic violence allegations against Dallas running back Ezekiel Elliott. The post was a reaction to reports that the league may be getting ready to hand Elliott a one- or...
Ken Rosenthal Now Writing On Facebook Because Fox Sports Sucks Ass<em></em>
Ken Rosenthal, who has been at FOX Sports since 2005, tweeted this afternoon that he is “wait[ing] to find a new writing home” now that FoxSports.com is all-video. Yikes....