It seems Deadspin is about to go guns blazing at ESPN re: sex rumors

This smacks of a "Hey, a lot of our readers are on vacation this week and won't be reading from the office. Shit, we better try to get some cheap pageviews."

 

I'm not sure what sort of moral statement is being made here about me, 21. For those of us who know anything about tennis, it's obvious that it's him. And it is all over the Deadspin comments. AJ has written in such a way that it could virtually only be him. That's what blind items do. Is it skeevy to acknowledge this here? I guess I don't have an answer to that. It's not noble. I'll concede that.

 

DD--Not making a moral statement of any kind, it has nothing to do with you. The Deadspin stuff is just puke, and I concede I didn't read with any attempt to ID the characters because, well, it's just puke. I just picture the Deadspin crew loving that everyone else will out the guy they can't out, hahahahah isn't that so great! 'We didn't say it, they did! HAHAHAH!!'

 

If nothing else, the line about the tennis pro's brother who is his manager gave it away.

 

Len DeLuca is next, with a shoutout to Eric Kuselias.

 

Sampras. Tiger. I guess Duncan's the only boring superstar left to fall. Or, as it will be told by a Deadspin reader, "I work as an accountant at a southern Texas firm. Would you be willing to pay for information about an NBA player with a squeaky image who is having a, shall we say, fundamentally sound affair?"

 

Post Brett Favre/Jenn Sterger messages and photos, fine. Two public figures, and it didn't seem to require a massive amount of actual reporting/legwork.

Post the Duke F%$# thesis? Makes sense for a Deadspin. It gets sent your way, you put it up.

But to have to track down a non-entity like Mary Carey and ask her for some confirmation so you can run some kind of "tennis star is nailing Reality STAR!!!!!" story?

You type that story with one hand, and hold the revolver to your temple with the other.

 

This.

 

If I was only 99 percent sure it was Sampras before I read that line, that pushed it to 100 percent.

 

How great would it be if the "tennis pro" bit was written to look exactly like Sampras but ends up being some schmuck that no one has heard of...Deadspin would play it off like it was everyone else's fault and then laugh to the bank.

 

::Applause::

 

Agassi's brother was involved in his tennis career pretty heavily....was he Agassi's manager?

He's not squeaky clean, but he's more likely to be banging these type of chicks given he's married to a horse.