Where Do You Get Your Sports News These Days?

[lcjjdnh]

Thread title pretty much says. Just curious how people follow these days. Obviously much easier to find more information about very particular things you're interested in, although I find it much more difficult than the old days to get an overview of the day's events and games. Yes, very easy to see highlights of a single play on Twitter or blogs, but not as easy to just get recaps of the games--unless you want to actively seek out and click on a bunch of individual clips.

My sources include:

--Print version of the major metro--like the roundup pages, but even the late edition doesn't get in all of the late games (so then unhelpfully reports on them a day later).
--NYT and WSJ
--Various blogs and websites--Deadspin, Big Lead, and Fangraphs to name a few
--Reddit
--SJ.com
--MLB Quick Pitch or whatever it's called

 

[CD Boogie]

-- Real Clear Sports
-- NY Times
-- The Big Lead
-- Deadspin
-- NFL.com
-- MLB.com
-- Yahoo
-- TMZ
-- NY Post -- they pick up a lot of the tawdry overseas **** (Daily Mail) that is tenuously sourced

That's it, I literally cycle through those sites all day. I would probably also go to Barstool, but it's blocked as adult entertainment via my work computer.

 

[Songbird]

* Twitter

* SJ.com

 

[lcjjdnh]

-- Real Clear Sports
-- NY Times
-- The Big Lead
-- Deadspin
-- NFL.com
-- MLB.com
-- Yahoo
-- TMZ
-- NY Post -- they pick up a lot of the tawdry overseas **** (Daily Mail) that is tenuously sourced

That's it, I literally cycle through those sites all day. I would probably also go to Barstool, but it's blocked as adult entertainment via my work computer.

This reminds me that MLB At Bat app is pretty good, too.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Twitter
SJ

 

[Starman]

Word on the street.
People are talking.

 

[Dick Whitman]

1. ESPN.com for the top headlines scan and baseball scores/box scores in the morning, first thing.
2. SJ.com to see what might be resonating/developing.
3. Podcast of the local afternoon talk radio show while I run. (I used to run on the treadmill more, and I'd watch MLB Network in the summer and NBA or NFL TV in the fall/winter.) I'll also listen occasionally to the CBS Sports college basketball podcast with Gary Parrish and the Slate "Hang Up and Listen" podcast if they aren't talking about the futbol.
4. Print edition of the Chicago Tribune.
5. SJ.com and ESPN.com throughout the day for updates.
6. Fangraphs, Baseball Reference.com, etc. for some analysis and stats when the impulse strikes.
7. Sports Illustrated print edition, although it comes out about as often as Bryce Harper plays these days.

I just subscribed to USA Today Sports Weekly, as well.

 

[lcjjdnh]

1. ESPN.com for the top headlines scan and baseball scores/box scores in the morning, first thing.

Lazy as this might make me, I really wish someone would replicate online the newspaper summary/agate pages so I could just easily scan all the games at once rather than having to click to pull up the box score in each individual game.

A few other sources I remembered:

--The Slurve daily baseball newsletter
--Various podcasts, including but not limited to: opening segment of Boomer and Carton (not great, but no longer live in NYC metro area so it's my attachment to NY sports); Hang Up and Listen (although wish they had some non-liberals on once in a while if they're going to insist on talking about political topics); Dave Dameshek Football Program (RIP Daves of Thunder); various Ringer podcasts (baseball one is good, but Simmons has taken his level of obnoxiousness to new levels with "Smart Guy" Fridays); and, as I'm falling asleep, the Whitlock/Cowherd show (very unfairly criticized in my view, even if Whitlock is a bit of a doofus--they usually invite guests with a diverse group of views, and don't get too shouty, in contrast to other debate shows).

 

[Dick Whitman]

Lazy as this might make me, I really wish someone would replicate online the newspaper summary/agate pages so I could just easily scan all the games at once rather than having to click to pull up the box score in each individual game.

Yep. It's the biggest reason I still get the print paper. The baseball page. It's not lazy. It's efficient. I hate checking them one by one.

 

[Moderator1]

1. ESPN.com for the top headlines scan and baseball scores/box scores in the morning, first thing.

7. Sports Illustrated print edition, although it comes out about as often as Bryce Harper plays these days.

So damn near every day? He played 153 games his MVP season, 147 last year and is on track for 145-150 this year. He plays for a manager who regularly sits his regulars, so there's no way he's getting to 162.

I don't think there's a Nats fan alive who has an issue with how often Harper plays. This is just throwing stuff out there to get exactly this: a reaction to an inane argument

 

[Dick Whitman]

So damn near every day? He played 153 games his MVP season, 147 last year and is on track for 145-150 this year. He plays for a manager who regularly sits his regulars, so there's no way he's getting to 162.

I don't think there's a Nats fan alive who has an issue with how often Harper plays. This is just throwing stuff out there to get exactly this: a reaction to an inane argument

It's just a callback to a prior thread. It was meant as a joke.

I was talking to Mrs. Whitman about this last night over a couple glasses of Wild Turkey on the rocks. People don't understand that there are characters and subplots that run through my various social media feeds. Jake Arrieta. Kyle Schwarber. Lena Dunham. Bryce Harper's playing time.

A high percentage of the time, I'm dryly making fun of/parodying myself. But people don't laugh. People get mad.

 

[FileNotFound]

MLB At-Bat app for my general baseball updates.
ESPN app for most other sports.
Occasional reading of the local newspaper's beat writers for news on the local pro teams; mostly routed there via Twitter.

Almost everything I read comes to me from a push notification.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

In no particular order:
Twitter
Facebook
The Big Lead
Deadspin
ProFootballTalk.com
SJ.com
MSN home page
TMZ
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

 

[User 149557]

The Athletic
MLB At-Bat
Deadspin
SJ.com
Tangentically from podcasts (Will Leitch, Fangraphs, LeBatard, Zach Lowe, NBA Lockdown, Shutdown Fullcast)

To be honest, my appetite for sports is waning by the year, though. I've been off Twitter and Facebook for a few years. My brain has quieted down and I can better organize thoughts ever since.

 

[Moderator1]

It's just a callback to a prior thread. It was meant as a joke.

I was talking to Mrs. Whitman about this last night over a couple glasses of Wild Turkey on the rocks. People don't understand that there are characters and subplots that run through my various social media feeds. Jake Arrieta. Kyle Schwarber. Lena Dunham. Bryce Harper's playing time.

A high percentage of the time, I'm dryly making fun of/parodying myself. But people don't laugh. People get mad.

Not mad, just found it odd. Thanks for the explanation - carry on.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Not mad[.]

Cubs fans get mad.

But, yes, such is the problem with "inside jokes." If one wasn't "inside," then it can seem like someone is being a weirdo or a ****.

 

[lcjjdnh]

Yep. It's the biggest reason I still get the print paper. The baseball page. It's not lazy. It's efficient. I hate checking them one by one.

Also, re: efficiency, I listen to podcasts at 1.5X speed.

 

[TigerVols]

Almost exclusively on the Score app, followed by here and by osmosis, Twitter.

 

[Moderator1]

Cubs fans get mad.

But, yes, such is the problem with "inside jokes." If one wasn't "inside," then it can seem like someone is being a weirdo or a ****.

Neither of those in this case - just WAY off base.

And trust me, I'm not a Cubs fan. Matt Wieters, at least for the next few days, is my new favorite player.

As for my news: I read us, ESPN.com and several other sports-centric web sites. I read my old papers in Richmond and DC and the Post. I read the three NY papers. All of it is online. I have print subscriptions to The New Yorker, Rolling Stone and New York magazine. I get a lot of magazines free at work.

I look at Nationals.com every few days, nothing much there that isn't in the Post and oftentimes not as quickly.

 

[CD Boogie]

It's just a callback to a prior thread. It was meant as a joke.

I was talking to Mrs. Whitman about this last night over a couple glasses of Wild Turkey on the rocks. People don't understand that there are characters and subplots that run through my various social media feeds. Jake Arrieta. Kyle Schwarber. Lena Dunham. Bryce Harper's playing time.

A high percentage of the time, I'm dryly making fun of/parodying myself. But people don't laugh. People get mad.

might be a good indication that you need to get over yourself. "Oh, you didn't get my little inside joke referencing some **** I said elsewhere? Jokes on you for not reading everything I write!"