ESPN is worried about pissing off Tencent, the massive Chinese internet company that it struck a deal with in 2016.

Trolls =/= valid opinions I disagree with. They are shit-stirrers for the sake of shit stirring.

Have you made any headway into finding out who the trolls who shit up these comment sections 7 days a week are?

Damn... this is some good investigative reporting!

In fairness, the Twins had a .518 winning percentage against the four other AL playoff teams this year. 

what in the absolute hell

Why on earth is the GM giving any post-game locker room speech, let alone one where they refer to the players as “motherfuckers?”

Fish having trouble with women. Maybe Matt Barnes can help?

4) Make website based entirely on reader data selling to advertisers while pissing off actual readers.

This sucks so bad. SI was a huge part of my childhood, I subscribed to the magazine up until like 2010 and I would even read the website pretty regularly before they switched to the completely unreadable except on a tablet format a while back.

Also fuck FIFA.

Let’s see, this seems to be the current publishing strategy:

1) Print circulation declines;
2) Fire staff and make product worse;
3) Hire new, young, web-first staff;
4) Make website based entirely on reader data;
5) Blame newsroom for inability to sell website;
5) Repeat endlessly from step 2 until you run out of money.

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I’m looking forward to 2022. I expect it to be an utter catastrophe and a well earned one.

Also, fuck their antisemitism.

Totally fuck Qatar. What a disaster of a host for anything that is ostensibly fun.

From the Guardian piece linked:

Haisleys gotta be damn near jizzing himself at the prospect of a good young player spurning the USMNT.

It sounds to me like USA swimming is going to be drowning in litigation soon. They really jumped into the deep end with that insurance scheme. And the years of concealing sexual abuse is a real 400 meter IM. 

Uh how can you enforce a “Castle Doctrine” if it isn’t your fucking Castle? Again why the fuck are people determined to help police continue their fuck ups no matter what? Murder was always going to be hard to pin on this bitch but her ass is likely going to walk thanks to the Chad’s & Becky’s on the jury. I thought…

I just want it to be Lalas so he can go away from soccer coverage. Why did they add him to the Bundesliga coverage. He is a complete fucking moron and ruins the programming. And this would also be something he would say, because he’s too chicken too own it. His views just get appallingly worse.