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manipulated equipment is fine with me. get caught and you get tossed -- also fine. too much pine tar, too much spit, a little filing or drilling and re-stuffing -- only a prude equates these things with illegal doping schemes. one is against the law, the other against the rules. sports writers...

good paywalls are porous. good internet anything is porous. pulling paywalls in developing public-wellware type scenarios, like hurricanes or crazy bombing and shootout miniseries events, is part of a sound porous philosophy. when the world is watching, it follows, you welcome them and let them...

someone like bill simmons getting his knuckles rapped for "tweets unbecoming of the corporation" or whatever would seem to do more to erode the facade of media credibility than, say, a dad covering his kid's high school baseball team for a small paper.... and that thread is pushing five pages...

in this era of contraction and paradigm shifting, one could argue from the macro investor perspective that an internationally-known media entity like the LAT might be attractive and possibly financially successfully, ala FOX news, as a rebranded international-reaching right-wing propaganda...

ESPN owns the X Games... this is problematic in a number of ways that partnerships with other events are not. Competitive balance issues, who gets invited, what events are included, safety issues, judging and on and on -- these are problems unique to an event that is owned, operated, promoted...

I've always liked Gordon Edes, too. But good lord Shaughnessy is awful, just a morally bankrupt man. I used to read him just to get fired up, and I do respect that quality in some writers, but who hasn't he fully thrown under the bus over the years? And I'm not talking about fair criticism, I'm...

Somebody mentioned stories included in the 2012 BASW that covered this? I'd be curious to read or review. I just don't see how the NFL can pursue a traditional defense against these lawsuits. "Winning" or "not losing" lawsuits is meaningless when really it's the game on trial.

Is the Boston sports media landscape worse off in terms of media-player/coach relationships than other cities? It has always seemed that way to me, and this piece almost makes it seem like the sports earth there has been carpet bombed, salted, laid to waste, etc. I mean does anybody actually...

^^This. The science and social aspects seem to suggest that eliminating kickoffs would be beneficial for the NFL from a public relations perspective and maybe in some of their pending lawsuits too. Indeed, it would be a step. But kickoffs, from my read of it, aren't causing the problem, it's the...

i'm not sure how anybody can look at the nfl today and not see sufficient evidence of head injuries resulting from just-the-way-the-game-is-played everyday to make wholesale changes now. of course, the nfl is looking out for it's own head, too. and that's problem: self-interested organizations...

i'd be curious to know whether the collective thinks this move signals anything in terms of propublica's interest in sports topics? (or anything else for that matter.) sexton's background is rather impressive and diverse, so on paper i'd say no, not necessarily. but from a non-profit business...

i never cared much for mcgroury as a columnist, but thinking about it now, outside of derrick z. jackson (who is great), are there any globe columnists worth reading?

does #longform have a hipster bias? let's see... amateur marathoning, ultimate frisbee and bowling pack the top five! on the quickish list and nothing against christopher mcdougal/outside, b/c his story about ultra-runner micah true was good, but barry bearak's on the same topic was way better...

amazing story.

for the sake of argument, the sentence (that he apparently edited, but got quoted) in question could be read differently. he seems to be talking broadly about the industry, not his douchebag bosses, and perhaps about corporate "flacks" rather than forks. either way, perhaps a good riddance...

Apparently "enthusiast space" publications work well as far as human shields go — this guy covers all the green Earth now! For an insightful take on media and Lance Armstrong, I would defer to Samuel Abt, who artfully wrote this piece in August without making any excuses for himself or Lance...

while it's true that the old-timey, all-knowing sportswriter M.O. hasn't translated well in the modern era for reilly and many others, b/c it takes real arrogance to believe that sort of thing even if the myth worked fine before the internet penetrated to full-on capillary levels, the earlier...

sidecar, but... it used to drive me crazy when for years theo epstein was referred to by the boston media dinosaurs as some sort of youngster. it was noteworthy when he was hired as the "youngest GM in baseball," but it persisted it to the point where you could almost picture shaughnessy...

curious why this is being called in reports a whistleblower lawsuit? it doesn't look like one to me (disclosure: non-attorney).

This byline today stopped me, to say nothing of the story, and I'm curious be/c it's something I've never seen before quite like this... Obviously, pen names have been conjured in the past to circumvent, but curious for people's insights on the context or precedent for this kind of byline. Mass...