When you see a furious debate about the one-child policy raging below a puffy profile of Al-Farouq Aminu, now you’ll know why.

This comment is an attack on doughy-faced blond dudes everywhere.

In America, what’s happening in Hong Kong is about an erosion of civil liberties, like free speech.

I always liked to indulge my ignorance and pretend Schweinsteiger meant “pigfucker” in German.

As a Portuguese person, I will be very pleased when this entire German generation has schafted off into the sunset.

(As always, pardon the music; soccer highlight videos need to calm down.)

Dude, get off his mannschaft.

They don’t have a goal, really. Private equity vultures are generally ignorant, stupid narcissists who have fallen up through life and believe “leadership” is a personal mojo that they, as narcissists, inherently possess, rather than any sort of skill or something that requires effort. They are rich, so that means…

If their plan is to turn SI into a morass of individual team sites...essentially echo chambers, wouldn’t the next logical steps in that progression be:

What’s new, though, is the recognition ... that nobody is actually a fan of ESPN or Sports Illustrated.

No, but it’s another roadblock that makes it more expensive to successfully bring a suit, which is a big deal when you’re working of 30k a year and have to convince a plaintiffs’ lawyer to take your case on contingency.  

fucking over people and things to make money.  that’s it.  

Indeed.

And why “TheMaven” when “”Sports Illustrated” is the capital-B Brand they paid a premium for so they could squander.

It’s amazing to me how few of these “media titans” recognize why content farms fail: high turnover.

Something that really, really needs to be looked at is the actual business model of American capitalism.

As in, what on Earth is the actually goal of these choads?

It appears to make as much cash as possible from squeezing extra profits out of an existing entity rather than actually trying to produce a lasting product…

So our vision, and this is where you come in, is that entrepreneurs run these team-specific sites. People who are all Hawkeyes all the time or all Jets all the time. And are covering their team on an intense basis, and equally importantly are fostering an intense community of fans who come back to the site everyday

As the 75% of Deadspin commenters who are lawyers can tell you, forming an LLC is not some magic wand that will protect the company from employment actions, anyway.

Thank you all for this important reporting. I cheered the writers from here that went to SI as that always seemed to carry a gravitas that plenty of writers want to be a part of in some way.

I worked for a company that essentially began this way, in the late 90s, when individual fan sites for things were still a thing. We offered free hosting on our well-known domains for enthusiast sites in exchange for running an ad banner (yes, a single one). We also ran hubs on those domains that relied extensively on…