Bleacher Report Raises 10.5M, Becomes 5th Largest Sports Website

You're the only other person who has lived in Muskegon that I've found on this board.

 

Awesome, born and raised...went to HS in Saginaw though. Rest of my family went to Orchard View though. Fun town to grow up in, certainly better than some of the other tiny towns I lived in since then.

 

So when you write that you "covered the Vikings for over five years," you're talking about college radio and some blogging? And this was full-time? Did you receive a press credential from the Vikings ... as a college freshman, and then throughout college? Did you attend all of the games? The press conferences? Did you break news?

I did some pretty cool stuff with my radio show in college, talked about the school's major college football team, other university sports, the state's pro sports teams, etc., and even attended some games and press conferences, but I only listed that activity on my resume when I first graduated school and was looking for my first job.

I think it seems a bit disingenuous to cite that as any real kind of professional experience.

 

It wasn't college radio, it was local sports-talk radio WHILE in college. Yes it was a full-time job (although it didn't pay well and I needed other jobs to pay for college) yes I was credentialed, I attended all of the home games and many press conferences.

 

You shouldn't question Schottey's bona fides.

Hey Schottey, what does "Interview credits" mean?

http://bleacherreport.com/users/111184-michael-schottey

"Interview Credits: Tony Romo, Curtis Granderson, Tim Brewster, Toby Gerhart, Kyle Wilson, Brett Favre, Marlin Jackson, Steve Hutchinson, Sidney Rice, Al Jefferson, Aaron Kampman, Marcus Spears, Randy Foye, David West, Bobby Jackson, Miikka Kiprusoff, Cory Schlesinger, Michael Oher, Jahvid Best, Ndamukong Suh, John Thornton, Madieu Williams, and many other professional athletes and coaches."

Do all Bleacher Report writers have a list of the biggest names they've interviewed in their profile? And if so, why is this such a key part of a BR writer's profile?

 

Muskegon: Just awful.

 

C'mon. Be fair. It's beyond awful.

 

I don't know why people are so up in arms that Bleacher Report exists. I don't see clothing companies raging because of cafepress.

 

A few of them are. The huge, department store brands are fine in this; but a lot of the small-scale brands and start ups have to deal with people stealing their logos and concepts for the cheap tees cafepress and zazzle use. A friend of mine started a t-shirt line about two years ago and schooled me to the game. He hired artists to create designs, only to find them imitated or completely lifted. So the dilemma does exist.

Shit, in one instance, an artist he hired was selling the purchased design for mouse pads and coffee mugs.

It gets ugly with any kind of art. Everyone thinks they can do it better.

 

That's a good point, though I was thinking more of the quality vs. any schmoe can do this element of the discussion versus the misappropriating trademarks issue. The blessing and the curse of the Internet: anyone can do anything, but that also means anyone can do anything.

 

And now one of the "featured columnists" is "reporting" that Jenn Sterger herself sold the photos to Deadspin.

Bleacher Report is a complete and utter joke. Schottey, how does this even get through? And from one of your "featured columnists," no less?

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/556663-brett-favre-michael-vick-pro-bowl-rosters-and-wednesdays-late-sports-news/entry/38241-jenn-sterger-sterger-releases-brett-favre-photos-to-deadspin

 

"Feel to comment on the matter"

Oh, I will.