Buckzip Posted January 18, 2013 Report Share Posted January 18, 2013 He was projected as a possible top 10 pick. You have to wonder how this combined with his vanishing act against Bama will affect his draft status. Bizarre is an understatement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave in Green Posted January 18, 2013 Report Share Posted January 18, 2013 No question that Deadspin is the big winner in this. They performed the old-fashioned, shoe leather journalism that is so sadly missing from the current crop of pseudo news outlets that are cutting costs by reducing investigative reporting to maximize profits. Watch what happens with Deadspin over the coming months. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GP1 Posted January 18, 2013 Report Share Posted January 18, 2013 No question that Deadspin is the big winner in this. They performed the old-fashioned, shoe leather journalism that is so sadly missing from the current crop of pseudo news outlets that are cutting costs by reducing investigative reporting to maximize profits. Watch what happens with Deadspin over the coming months. In the next couple of months? I would hope that people have been reading Deadspin for years. Years ago now, Will Leitch wrote a book called "God Save the Fan" and I encouraged everyone on this board to read it. Had everyone done that, they would understand why Deadspin was the only sports journalism organization that could have ever broken this story. They say it is SPORTS NEWS WITHOUT ACCESS, FAVOR, OR DISCRETION. This has always been the underlying belief about themselves and as the organization has grown, it continues to hold true to the saying. This story isn't going to change Deadspin. They have been producing excellent stories like this for years. Again, if you folks on the board have never read the book, go out and buy "God Save the Fan" and read it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave in Green Posted January 18, 2013 Report Share Posted January 18, 2013 @GP1, what I meant about watching what happens with Deadspin over the next few months is that they are now part of the mainstream and not just recognized by a small number of savvy sports fans. You were on the leading edge with your appreciation of Deadspin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GP1 Posted January 18, 2013 Report Share Posted January 18, 2013 He was projected as a possible top 10 pick. You have to wonder how this combined with his vanishing act against Bama will affect his draft status. The vanishing act is the real problem. Think about John Rocker. Why did he disappear from baseball? It had nothing to do with his stupid beliefs about...well...everything. He couldn't throw the ball over the plate and when he did, guys hit him all over the park. Had Rocker been able to get guys out at the rate he did before he went Kenny Powers, he would have lasted much longer. Lots of times, us fans worry too much about "distractions". What we don't realize is the guys don't give one hoot about the distractions. On any football team, a player has about 4-5 friends and the rest are just the guys around the locker room. Locker rooms are divided along many lines: income, race, age, nationality (baseball), etc. Most players aren't close enough to the other players to care about something like this. This distraction won't keep a team from taking him. Not being about to get off of blocks against Alabama and making tackles ten yards down field is another issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GP1 Posted January 18, 2013 Report Share Posted January 18, 2013 @GP1, what I meant about watching what happens with Deadspin over the next few months is that they are now part of the mainstream and not just recognized by a small number of savvy sports fans. You were on the leading edge with your appreciation of Deadspin. I see what you are saying, but younger sports fans have been reading Deadspin for years. The Gawker group of websites is highly popular. What Deadspin is doing isn't new in any way. I don't see my enjoyment of Deadspin as a savvy decision in any manner; although I do appreciate the word being thrown in my direction. It provides content that is factual and thought provoking that is outside of the norm for hacks like ESPN, SI, etc. The one thing I really like about Deadspin is they don't pretend athletes are admirable because they play sports. If an athlete is admirable, they show how the person is admirable. The truth is, most professional and high level college athletes are shallow, self absorbed a-holes with limited intellectual ability. Whenever possible, they display this on their website. Most athletes don't care because they are shallow, self absorbed a-holes with limited intellectual ability can't see they are shallow, self absored a-holes with limited intellectual ability. I don't think it is a secret that I like when things are the opposite of what people want them to be and I LOVE those sites because of that. For example, they spent a lot of time reminding people, while ESPN was slobbering over the Ray Lewis retirement story line, that Lewis was involved in criminal activity in Atlanta that resulted in murder and him disappearing the blood stained clothing he was wearing. For those of you who think Lewis didn't do anything, you have to be pretty close to someone to get blood on your hands and clothes in a stabbing. Reeeealy close. The main reason Deadspin won't become mainstream is they operate out of a small room in NY City with the rest of the Gawker writers. They aren't out traveling with teams and sucking up to players and coaches for access like the folks at SI and ESPN do. Since they don't do that, they are free to write what they want and keep it as factual as possible. They have a tab called "send a tip" that people send sports related stories to them all the time. The ones who really need to worry, but are too tied to their access and favor are ESPN, etc. They look terrible, but their hands are tied to actually do anything about it. Isn't if funny on many levels that as they become more irrelevant, they look bad covering an again irrelevant college football program? Thanks again for the savvy comment. I'll take it. This post could also be considered "long winded" as I intended for a one paragraph response and here I am in the middle of paragraph 6. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave in Green Posted January 18, 2013 Report Share Posted January 18, 2013 @GP1, sorry, I left out a word in my last post. I meant to say that Deadspin is now part of the mainstream discussion. They haven't been there before. It will make a difference. Those who've already been tuned in to Deadspin may not notice the difference, but it will be there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GP1 Posted January 18, 2013 Report Share Posted January 18, 2013 Good question. Why won't ESPN and SI ask the same types of questions? It's all about access and favor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZachTheZip Posted January 18, 2013 Report Share Posted January 18, 2013 It all makes sense now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zipmeister Posted January 18, 2013 Report Share Posted January 18, 2013 Getting back to this fantastic point I made, it is now being reported that most players on the ND team knew this girl didn't exist. If the players knew, who else knew? Did assistant coaches know?....they hear a lot. Did an assistants tell Pumpkin Head and video manager killer Kelly about it? Did the administration know about it? Lots of questions remain. Maybe Penn State is not the only place in the world where horrible behavior is covered up. Lots to see. I've read that the other players didn't believe she was his girl friend. 1st paragraph I haven't seen anything that says they didn't think she existed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GP1 Posted January 19, 2013 Report Share Posted January 19, 2013 Tigerdroppings Fark Board Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zips Win! Posted January 19, 2013 Report Share Posted January 19, 2013 Not buying any of Te'o's response. He called a person that he never met his girlfriend. I know people "friend" people all the time on the web. But girlfriend, no way! Told his dad that he met her. He loved the publicity so he kept the story going.. Now he is blaming it all on the other guy. Baloney. He is equally as responsible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zipmeister Posted January 19, 2013 Report Share Posted January 19, 2013 Tigerdroppings Fark Board AHA. I didn't realize raisedinthe70s, Spurrier11 and HTOWNHORN were on the ND football team. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Kangaroo Posted January 21, 2013 Report Share Posted January 21, 2013 I still don't think it's as good as the "Ryan Bain" hoax Brookhart played on us. I really believed he existed! At the time, I thought this was Ryan outside the JAR...but in hindsight it's obviously an unshaven Tom Wistercill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Zipmeister Posted January 26, 2013 Report Share Posted January 26, 2013 Priceless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GP1 Posted January 31, 2013 Report Share Posted January 31, 2013 Song of the Year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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