Recent content by DrewJo

TMZ tosses some more fuel on the fire, because why not? http://www.tmz.com/2014/09/10/roger-goodell-video-casino-ray-rice/

Earlier, CD Boogie shared this post by SportsGrid managing editor Eric Goldschein: http://www.sportsgrid.com/media/jerry-jones-paulina-gretzky-and-why-im-not-surprised-sports-on-earth-was-downsized/ Goldschein's point, basically, is that sports outlets need to post scandalous and provocative...

Story here: http://awfulannouncing.com/2014/say-goodbye-to-sports-on-earth-as-you-know-it.html It's unclear how many people lost their jobs, but "95%" was thrown around on Twitter. (Edit: I see now this was being covered in the Gannett thread, too. Sorry for the double-posting.)

Some clarification here: The "friend" whom Deadspin was referring to was a guy named J.R. Vaosa. Vaosa knew Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, vaguely, through an acquaintance who was being catfished back around 2009. After the story broke, Vaosa went on Twitter and clarified that when he and some pals...

So to clear things up: USA Today wrote an article in March saying Ronaldo paid for a kid's brain surgery. Then yesterday, a bunch of Twitter accounts made some connection between the kid's surgery and Ronaldo's new haircut. But....are you saying that Ronaldo DIDN'T pay for the kid's surgery...

Yo dawgs, I know you like linking to Deadspin, but why not link to the original source? I'm sure they'd appreciate the clicks, since they're the ones who broke this story...

I recapped it in this blog post. Basically, he'd been using the Reddit account X-9er to spam his own Deadspin links. After he got banned for spamming, he went on Twitter and tried pinning the blame on some imaginary pedophile conspiracy. I investigated and cleared up the misinformation for...

I do think the top editors at Deadspin--Tommy Craggs and Tom Scocca--would've been smart enough not to print something if they had evidence it was wrong. But they weren't the ones actually interviewing the sources. The reporter speaking on the phone with Diane O'Meara was Timothy Burke--and...

I don't think it's outrageous to think Deadspin wanted as juicy a story as possible. Regardless, we seem to agree that Deadspin implied Te'o was in on the hoax. So I'm just wondering if they had evidence that the implications were wrong.

Hello, This is my first post, and hopefully it's interesting. I've been analyzing how Deadspin covered the whole Manti Te'o/Lennay Kekua story, and something has been bugging me for quite a while... A big reason Deadspin's article blew up is because they implied, by way of anonymous sources...