Sports On Earth goes live

Home page:


http://www.sportsonearth.com/


1. Intro essay by Posnanski.


2. Gwenn Knapp on Lance Armstrong and what he still means.


3. Kindred on the night the USA Basketball team was robbed in Munich, and why they'll never claim those silver medals.


4. Chuck Culpepper on missing Rafa at the U.S. Open.


5. Tommy Tomlinson on why CFB is a Mexican telenovella.


6. Leigh Montville on the Dodgers-Red Sox trade, or purge, to me more accurate.


7. Shaun Powell on Peyton Manning, and the great unknown.


There are other pieces as well, but that seems like a fair sampling.

 

A link to Leitch, who would be the main writer I seek out there:

http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/37230408/

A viable challenger to ESPN.com/Grantland, and a new longterm voice for insightful national sports coverage?

Or FanHouse II, ultimately a house of cards sustainable only as long as ownership wants it to be?

I'm already a fan of its very existence, for my own selfish reasons.

 

Love it.

 

Doesn't look edgy enough. A lot of salt water taffy.

 

Headlines aren't large enough.

 

Nothing by Whitlock?

 

Are we baking a bigger pie by adding another 'smart' sports website? Or are we cutting the same old pie into smaller and smaller and smaller pieces?

Fine mastheads everywhere, but as Radd suggests, the question is really which survives the cutting and sorting.

 

Posnanski's introductory essay is a harbinger. He escalates a meaningless, forgettable baseball game into a metaphor about how important sports and the website are.

 

Why am I thinking of a taco that craps ice cream?

 

Just me, or is the name of the thing - 'Sports on Earth' - half annoying?

Asking on behalf of my 'Sports on Mars' investors.

 

No more annoying than the showy invocation of a long dead sports writer.

 

I'll never eat yogurt again, you A-hole.