Sporting News/AOL Fanhouse

I pity the person writing high school sports when Tim Armstrong's kids are old enough to play. "Cover my team or I'll start a Web site and put you out of business! I've done it before! I have the money dammit!"

The whole thing is just his ego trip, and bringing it into AOL looks like his way of paying himself back for the money he wasted.

 

Another example of some fine, completely original FanHouse work, complete with video. This one by Chris Harry. When everyone else is chasing pre-Super Bowl stories, FanHouse editor Barry Werner came up with this:
http://nfl.fanhouse.com/2011/01/26/fred-bednarski-amazing-life-of-a-holocaust-survivor-football-i/

 

Glanced over this quickly, but wow, what a nice read. I always admire those who stray away from the norm and churn out something like this.

 

Thanks for posting that. Great story.

 

Moddy, not to get you all depressed again or anything, but when is the other shoe supposed to drop on this? Is there some timetable for when you find out for sure what's happening?

 

Is it clear who survives? Like just the columnists?

 

Another fine read, this by Brett McMurphy, no doubt with fine editing by college editor Mike Harris. FanHouse is so much more than columnists and blog posts.
http://ncaabasketball.fanhouse.com/2011/01/27/oklahoma-state-plane-crash-memories-live-on/

(McMurphy, by the way, broke one of the biggest college stories last year, despite the efforts from many (including other media types) to deride and trash it.)

 

My friends who work there are saying the end of March.

 

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