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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 ...

by Laura Wagner|

|Tue Aug 15 2017

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...

by Tom Ley|

|Mon Jul 17 2017

SB Nation Blogger Removed From Masthead Following Deletion Of Bad Post

On Tuesday night, the editor of SLC Dunk, SB Nation’s Utah Jazz blog, posted an article about Gordon Hayward signing with the Boston Celtics. The post contained two attempted jokes that came off as homophobic, and it was deleted following the appendage of two lengthy editor’s notes. Now it appears t...

by Tom Ley|

|Thu Jul 06 2017

Unpaid SB Nation Writer Did Plagiarism, Got "Fired"

One of the hundreds of unpaid randos who produce the vast majority of the blogs on SB Nation’s network of sites has been, uh, fired(?), after the discovery that she’d extensively plagiarized an article about NFL draft prospects in a post for the blogging network’s Denver Broncos site....

by Albert Burneko|

|Wed Feb 22 2017

SB Nation Writer And Former NFL Player Denies Child-Abuse Allegations

Last week, the Tampa Bay Times ran a story about Kendrick Morris, who faces sentencing for two rapes he committed in 2007 and 2008, when he was 15 and 16 years old. During a sentencing hearing, a doctor who examined Morris testified that Morris felt remorse for his crimes and could be rehabilitated....

by Tom Ley|

|Wed Feb 22 2017

SB Nation Fires Writer For Social Media Conduct Following Domestic Violence Arrest

SB Nation fired part-time social media editor and blogger Jacob Price Wednesday after he went on a tweetstorm over the weekend about a May 2016 arrest for allegedly choking his then-girlfriend. The charges against Price have since been dropped....

by Lindsey Adler|

|Wed Jan 25 2017

ESPN, Others Fall For Bogus Information About NFL Spring League

Late Thursday afternoon, SiriusXM NFL Radio tweeted the following:...

by Emma Baccellieri|

|Fri Dec 23 2016

SB Nation Releases Report On How Daniel Holtzclaw Story Was Published

In February, SB Nation published “Who Is Daniel Holtzclaw?,” a lengthy profile of a college football player turned cop turned convicted serial rapist. The story, by freelancer Jeff Arnold and edited by Glenn Stout, was so roundly criticized for showing one-sided sympathy to Holtzclaw that it was del...

by Barry Petchesky|

|Thu May 26 2016

How SB Nation Published Their Daniel Holtzclaw Story

Last week, Vox Media’s SB Nation published “Who Is Daniel Holtzclaw?”, a 12,000-word profile of a 29-year-old former Oklahoma City police officer who this winter was tried for raping 13 black women while on duty; convicted on 18 of 36 charges of rape, sexual battery, forcible oral sodomy, and burgla...

by Greg Howard|

|Wed Mar 16 2016

SB Nation Memo Announces Hiatus For Longform Program

Two days ago, SB Nation published “Who Is Daniel Holtzclaw?”, a long, sympathetic piece on the 29-year-old Oklahoma City police officer who was tried, convicted and ultimately sentenced in December to 263 years in jail for serially raping black women while on duty. The story was immediately and angr...

by Greg Howard|

|Fri Feb 19 2016

SB Nation Publishes, Deletes "Complete Failure" Of A Story About Convicted Rapist Cop Daniel Holtzclaw

This afternoon, SB Nation’s Longform vertical published 12,000 words on Daniel Holtzclaw, the former Oklahoma City police officer who was convicted of abusing his position of power to rape multiple women over a seven month period. It was, in many ways, a disaster of a story, and after a wide outcry ...

by Barry Petchesky|

|Thu Feb 18 2016

Pilot Killed In Crash Wasn't Hired By Eagles Fans To Taunt Cowboys

Despite reports in national media outlets that a banner-carrying plane hired by Philadelphia Eagles fans to taunt the Dallas Cowboys crashed at Compton Airport, killing the pilot, the Los Angeles Times and other Southern California-based sources have confirmed that’s not the case....

by Nick Martin|

|Mon Aug 10 2015

Down & Away With Leo Mazzone

Nice piece on Leo Mazzone by Tom Rehagen over at SB Nation Longform:...

by Alex Belth|

|Wed May 13 2015

After The Fall: Sympathy For The Devil

What do Dave Pell, Don Van Natta Jr, and Longform all have in common? They all singled out Brin-Jonathan Butler's stellar SB Nation Longform piece on Mike Tyson and Cus D'Amato:...

by Alex Belth|

|Mon Feb 16 2015