Huh? They bash Tebow and his fans non-stop. They go out of their way to bury him at every mention. And, yeah, when you’ve been the top conference for a decade, you get top press when it comes to the NCAAs. But, is it anywhere near as insufferable as Notre Dame coverage on NBC? Or the coverage of Lebron James anywhere?…

Really? I mean, explain Bruce Jenner and Michael Sam at the past 2 ESPY’s. Guess what sports outlets don’t have this “do we inject politics into sports,” issue? Every single other sports outlet. Somehow, you tune in for 7 hours if Premier League coverage on NBCSN and the Two Robbie's aren't waxing philosophical about…

ESPN leans southern conservative? You must be watching a different network than I am. They are so far left wing they make MSNBC look like Fox News.

Netflix is coming for cable, and ESPN may suffer as a result. Not on a large scale, but even a 5% reduction in subscribers (they’ve already seen 2%) would be a major erosion.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lea… Yes. 3% staff layoffs and cutting of anywhere from 100M to 250M per year from their budget.

That’s right - remember that obvious pandering to the right when they gave Caitlyn Jenner the Arthur Ashe award? Might as well have put a confederate flag on the trophy.

I’d be surprised is Simmons made the decision on the Bush 30 for 30. He was an open fan of Obama and got into a scrap the ESPN when they didn’t let him have Obama on his podcast during the election. Seems unlikely he’d go into the tank for Bush.

Yeah, they made eleven billion dollars last year, which sounds like an insane amount (and it sorta is) until you realize that half of that is gone before they even get their hands on it just from the NBA and NFL contracts alone.

Simmons didn’t want the name to be “Grantland”.

“ESPN has near-unlimited resources, enough fuck-you money to hire nearly whomever they’d like...”

“How fear of Black truth defeated Grantland”

So I have so many things to say about how this reflects how we see gender and things are only “valid” when they’re seen by a male perspective, but I’m going to settle with a) it must suck to have your franchise be turned into 50 shades of Grey and have your idea for pumping out a no-work novel from the male…

Her face: “My agent told me I’d be in a Victoria’s Secret shoot!!!! WTF is this?”

I think that’s Sara Underwood who won Playmate of the Year years ago.

Yes, this.

With a “twin sister.”

Oh man.The resemblance is uncanny, Luke.

fun fact: regardless of whether your custom character is black, white or asian, you have the same family and backstory.

Only if you’re blackmailing and extorting someone.

Man, I really want an update on that “Relentlessly Gay” lady who raised $43,000 to make her yard “more gay” by adding an apiary for bees to just relax and a bat sanctuary and other such gay things. Her GoFundMe page has disappeared and I can’t seem to find out what is happening/what happened to the money.