Deadspin editor quits, blasts G/O management

Okay, we've all determined that the Deadspin writers are terrible human beings.
Meanwhile, I want some sports on the web.

ESPN has had a headline about Baker Mayfield's handlebar mustache up on their site for 24 hours.
The new Big Lead regurgitates whatever was said on the Sports Shouting shows that morning, or Francessa.
Last I heard, Fox Sports was all videos. Hard pass.

I like the Ringer, but that's not sports news.

Anyone have any suggestions?

 

What's up with The Big Lead? I used to go there for the Roundup and maybe click on some other stuff. With the recent redesign the Roundup isn't front and center and even when the reader clicks on the Roundup tab, there is no way to tell when the featured Roundup was published. It's impossible for me to easily find that day's Roundup or know that I am reading that day's Roundup. And the new design sucks balls.

There are some godawful sports websites out there.

 

If you could build an online staff of 10 writers and pay them each $100K a year to write about the sporting experience as we know it, and intersect it with the realities of life when necessary, who would it be?

White Man --
White Woman --
Black Man --
Black Woman --
Latino Man --
Latino Woman --
Asian Man --
Asian Woman --
Gay Man --
Gay Woman --

When I get a chance to watch sports and news I watch it a lot of the time see who they've invited to provide context and opinion. This is CNN obviously but Fox is pretty diverse too. ESPN's chatter shows are always super diverse. It's been interesting to watch the push for diversification the last 10-15 years.

 

I think you're touching on something here.

Years ago, I pitched a site to ESPN called The Results. It would consist of really good smart analysis and beautiful writing about a few select games each day. Some big obvious games. Some smaller contests. One day in October might feature that night's World Series game, a high school football game, an NBA game, an MLS game. Maybe three or four or five great game stories a day. That's it.

I was laughed out of the room, because game stories are dead, but I still think it's a good idea. I'd read the shit out of that site and I think a lot of people who love sports would.

 

Uh, who exactly said game stories are dead?

 

Did we do this one yet? I'm losing track. Encomium? Or elegy?

The Death of the Rude Press

 

Eh. Should've been ruder and less polite and more messier.

 

I went to look at the writer of this piece and went down social holes and landed on this, which was written a few days earlier by someone else and is more ruder and cuts messier.

Ellen’s monologue was an example of what’s fast becoming a genre of finger-wagging sanctimony in America, deployed to discipline us into performing deference to power and training us into a caustic meekness. Vote, but don’t boo the President at a baseball game. Wave a sign, but don’t confront someone in a restaurant, even if their day job is tearing families apart. And of course, don’t make an unrepentant war criminal uncomfortable at a football game.​

 

My boss at the time. Although, to be fair, that's not exactly a revolutionary opinion.

 

Type, I think that was a great idea.
But I'd rather read smart game analysis than an oral history of The Office.

 

I think if you're a football fan, you'll consume good football material about anything. Like, if you did the written version of Jason Garrett's breakdown of Jason Witten and the Y-Option, I think you'd get people reading it even if they hated the Cowboys.

Illustrating Jason Garrett's tribute to Jason Witten's signature play