Look What Selena Roberts Found: A Million Dollars

[Riptide]

The Sportswriter Who Left Her Job
After Finding A Million Dollars

From DEADSPIN

Here's what happened: In September 2010, about a year before Roberts would leave Sports Illustrated, her mother, Robbie Elizabeth Roberts, died. Roberts began cleaning up her mother's modest house in Arizona a few hours later. ...

While combing through her mom's possessions, Roberts found a strange-looking booklet. She had never seen it before. On the cover, it read: "IN CASE OF EMERGENCY. FOR SELENA AND SHAWN." (Shawn is Roberts's brother.)

Inside she found millions of dollars. Not literally—"stocks and bonds, and some real estate," according to Roberts. "She made some good decisions I wasn't aware of," she said, laughing.

How much money was it, exactly? I'd heard it was several million dollars. Roberts wouldn't say. "It was seven figures, yeah," she said. ...

The unexpected inheritance spelled the end of Selena Roberts, the working writer. Enter: Selena Roberts, businesswoman and entrepreneur. She has her own website: Roopstigo.com, named for her deceased golden retriever, Roops. She calls herself founder and chief executive officer.

http://deadsp.in/18jU2B9

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Roberts wasn't exactly hurting for money. Her contract at SI netted her $400,000 a year. Maybe that explains why she said her mother's fortune was "not change-your-life money, but it did help my life."

Um, not-change-your-life money? Seriously?

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Now she won't have to walk to the store.

 

[DanOregon]

You figure with that cash she could have bought a better domain name. Her dog? Seriously? That's what you name your blog about your latest knitting or wood working projects, not a journalism site.

 

[Steak Snabler]

In fairness, I think the site is named after the founder's dog, not Selena's.

 

[da man]

The Sportswriter Who Left Her Job
After Finding A Million Dollars

From DEADSPIN

Here's what happened: In September 2010, about a year before Roberts would leave left Sports Illustrated, her mother, Robbie Elizabeth Roberts, died. Roberts began cleaning up her mother's modest house in Arizona a few hours later. ...

While combing through her mom's possessions, Roberts found a strange-looking booklet. She had never seen it before. On the cover, it read: "IN CASE OF EMERGENCY. FOR SELENA AND SHAWN." (Shawn is Roberts's brother.)

Inside she found millions of dollars. Not literally—"stocks and bonds, and some real estate," according to Roberts. "She made some good decisions I wasn't aware of," she said, laughing.

How much money was it, exactly? I'd heard it was several million dollars. Roberts wouldn't say. "It was seven figures, yeah," she said. ...

The unexpected inheritance spelled the end of Selena Roberts, the working writer. Enter: Selena Roberts, businesswoman and entrepreneur. She has her own website: Roopstigo.com, named for her deceased golden retriever, Roops. She calls herself founder and chief executive officer.

http://deadsp.in/18jU2B9

That "would" thing drives me freaking berserk.

 

[da man]

In fairness, I think the site is named after the founder's dog, not Selena's.

The post says Selena is the founder.

She calls herself founder and chief executive officer.

 

[Riptide]

The dog's name was Roops. What's the "tigo" part mean?

Strange name for a sports site, no matter how you look at it. BRANDING!

 

[Riptide]

That "would" thing drives me freaking berserk.

Agree. It's the mark of a fanboi writer.

 

[Versatile]

That "would" thing drives me freaking berserk.

Agree. It's the mark of a fanboi writer.

How?

 

[Riptide]

That "would" thing drives me freaking berserk.

Agree. It's the mark of a fanboi writer.

How?

It's like he grew up watching NFL Films and mimics John Facenda for dramatic effect. That's my analogy, at least. Hate it in print. It roadblocks me every time I see it.

 

[Versatile]

I don't see where the "fanboi" aspect comes into play. It's incorrect. It's the mark of a wordy writer.

 

[Riptide]

I don't see where the "fanboi" aspect comes into play.

Good luck anyway. Roll Tide.

 

[Versatile]

If you're going to complain about usage, you should be mindful of your own.

 

[Riptide]

If you're going to complain about usage, you should be mindful of your own.

Says the guy who spelled "bodyguard" as two words the other day. Derp.

 

[Versatile]

In a complaint about usage?

I will go edit that post. I'm not even sure where it was, but I'll find it. (I've found it.) All I ask is for accountability. Why do you think it's "the mark of a fanboi"? Or was "fanboi" the wrong word?

 

[Riptide]

In a complaint about usage?

I will go edit that post. I'm not even sure where it was, but I'll find it. All I ask is for accountability. Why do you think it's "the mark of a fanboi"? Or was "fanboi" the wrong word?

The fanboi type, then. Sports 24/7, mimics everything he hears on TV.

If it's the wrong word, it's the wrong word.

 

[Versatile]

I see it too often in non-sports writing to buy into that theory. I think writers view perfect tenses as a way to sound fancy.

 

[SixToe]

Good for Selena. If I find a passbook or information about a 7-figure windfall when my father dies, I and my brother will be off the grid.

 

[Steak Snabler]

In fairness, I think the site is named after the founder's dog, not Selena's.

The post says Selena is the founder.

She calls herself founder and chief executive officer.

I guess I read that wrong.