While kennedy cleary tries to get away from Rondo, and put some other officials in between the two of them.

Rondo shouldn’t have said that.

oh no, just wait until Rajon learns the truth about his rollerskating pals

Please. I like things about Deadspin, their ability to report, the glee they take in humiliating athletes for irrelevant indiscretions being among the things I hate. I like Grantland, their silly “This team is like this tv show” and Simmons’ righteous crusade to make dick jokes and lazily bash the Goddell (though he…

Sure, misstated that. Deadspin uncritically reporting the claims of a single source is pretty shitty reporting. Judy Miller uncritically reporting the chit dribbling out of Chalabi’s mouth is roundly mocked around here (obviously stakes are higher).

Why shouldn’t Simmons protect himself? They had info about his project that would be valuable to ESPN. Plus, if they really did want to join the HBO site, they wouldn’t want to tell anyone at ESPN anyway. The clause wasn’t the reason why ESPN was screwed, it was Simmons’ decision to hire ex grant landers to begin with.

How do four editors leaving put the jobs of dozens in danger? That does not follow. Who is the source and what’s their ax to grind? Editors are not exactly an endangered species. Four editors leave and the site has to close? Four editors leave and its a hard couple weeks to replace them. That’s it. The site closed bc…

“He put his beef with Skipper above the jobs of dozens of people,” one Grantland staffer said.”

He hired away some of his old hires, giving ESPN a pretext to close the whole thing? It’s a very flimsy criticism, imo, but there are tons of vehement Simmons haters out there grasping for straws. Instead of looking at this and coming to the logical conclusion, that ESPN is a terrible company, they try to spin at as…

Feels more like a PR battle between Simmons and ESPN. ESPN is getting torched on social media for closing Grantland so they are likely leaking out stories that it was really Simmons fault for which is ridiculous.

Thinking a white man killing black people for explicitly white supremacist reasons is “not just a black or white issue” is simply nonsense. Decoupling racist actions from the history of white supremacist violence is naive at best and dangerously and irresponsibly minimizing of the poisonous power of racism at worst.

What is it about racism that you don’t understand? There’s nothing racist in saying Tebow sucks. (except for white people who feel his/their Christianity is being “victimized,” which is beyond laughable, or that Tebow didnt succeed because he was white, which is even more absurd). Is criticizing Romo for wearing a…

Cowherd is a baby-boomer liberal. He likes equality, in theory, just so long as he doesn’t have to be inconvenienced. He’s very big on respectability politics, the status quo, and “adult” thinking. He believes that the system, less a few anomalies, is good and correct; that money and a good career go to the deserving;…

The reason dogwhistles are dogwhistles is because you don’t have to specifically point out that what you’re really complaining about is somebody’s blackness. All the other adjectives are designed to get that across, because your target audience knows exactly what you’re really saying and agrees with it. Or did you…

I think we should give ESPN more credit here. They have a track record of forcing their talent to face drastic consequences in the event that one of them says something offensive. Ergo, firing Colin was about principles, and not expediency.

I’m not a huge Bill Simmons fan, but a network that fires him, desperately tries to retain Colin Cowherd and gears up to throw millions of dollars at Skip Bayless is a network which long ago fucked up its priorities.

He said, and I’m paraphrasing, “Baseball is basically all instinct (factually and wholly wrong). Therefore, you don’t have to be smart to be good at it (wrong again). Baseball is also 1/3 Dominican (really, really wrong). Therefore, b/c Dominicans are poor and uneducated (Holy shit what an asshole but also WTF does…

One of those magical moments where the full context does nothing to change the meaning of the words spoken. Great work Colin

“Deadspin only played an excerpt which made me sound racist. If you listen to the full thing you’d know I’m incredibly dumb AND racist.” - Colin Cowherd