Deadspin: Is an ESPN columnist scamming people on the Internet?

Oh yeah, that part. Sorry, I was thinking mostly of the getting to ESPN part.

If you started a fake name on a gambling site and all this crap started happening, well, yeah, you'd go with it, I think.

 

Great take by Clay Travis:

http://outkickthecoverage.com/sarah-phillips-and-the-big-con-of-internet-sportswriting.php

 

You've got to think Hoppes is in trouble simply for hiring someone who opened ESPN up to potential litigation like this. She/he was defrauding people with an ESPN column as her credibility.

 

You would think, yes.

 

My thoughts exactly. Good grief.

 

They hired me...ran my stuff verbatim on Page 2 many times, and some of it was pretty out there, without ever asking for my sources (which did exist, BTW), and only knew me from friends-of-friends. When it comes time to feed the beast, sometimes what's on the menu is not always healthy.

 

If only it fit a narrative.

 

Disagree, Facebook pages with 800k likes and Twitter accounts with 60k are expensive property worth thousands of dollars. The fact that ESPN employed someone that stole those items would be no different than an employee robbing a bank.

 

Where's the political angle?

 

It's actually not that hard to monetize Facebook. The Deadspin story showed how a 19-year-old was making a couple hundo by creating an NBA memes page. Imagine what he could do with it full time. There is money to be had if done right.

 

It was pretty good until he posted the porker video at the end.

 

(I know, not really. But I can't keep from being reminded.)