Barstool Sports is seen as valuable not because it is read by many people, but because of its social media accounts, which boast millions of followers. The way those accounts operate was scrutinized this week after comedian Miel Bredouw called them out for taking one of her videos and uploading onto their official Twitter page, thus passing it off as Barstool’s own content. Just a few days after Bredouw called the site out, it performed a mass culling of its posts on social media. According to social media tracking site Social Blade, the Barstool Sports Twitter account deleted 60,368 tweets on March 7, over 70 percent of the account’s total tweets. A snapshot of the account from the internet archive taken on March 6 showed that it had sent over 84,000 tweets. Currently, the accoun…
Have you ever seen a quarterback ejected for targeting? Well, you’re about to. Case Cookus made an early exit from his ninth-ranked Northern Arizona Lumberjacks’ game against Montana today when he was flagged, and later ejected, for targeting on his team’s second drive of the day. NAU ended up losing 17-15 to the Grizzlies. Cookus was, uh, unhappy with the call. [ATTSN] …
Officially, South Africa won the vote to host the 2010 World Cup 14-10. But according to allegations from a FIFA executive committee member, after conferring with his fellow voters, the tally was actually 13-11 in favor of Morocco, and some major bribes and shady vote-counting led FIFA to announce the fraudulent result. The claim was made in 2010 by Ismail Bhamjee, an ExCo member from Botswana, and captured on tape by reporters of The Sunday Times posing as lobbyists. The Times said it did not release the tape at the time because of legal reasons, but turned it over to FIFA—and that FIFA did nothing about it. This weekend the “After talking with everybody … Whose votes went where? We’re all colleagues, you know. And then we found out that actually Morocco won by two votes,” …
Rutgers kept their improbable bowl win streak alive (it's up to five now) with a 27-13 victory over Iowa State, but it came with a cost: the right leg of linebacker Khaseem Greene, Big East co-Defensive Player of the Year. Greene announced this week he plans to return for his senior season next year; it'll take some luck for him to return to the football field, period. [ESPN] This is a Deadspin Video, in which strange sports moments are slowed down to ridiculous speeds and matched with indie music. This video features " Your Legs Grow" by Nada Surf. See previous episodes here. …
data-mm-id=”_86ur6w3og”>The Big Lead picks in Week 5 had some good and some bad results. Bobby Burack went 8-2 while Ryan Glasspiegel and Ryan Phillips went 7-3. Brian Giuffra kept it at .500 (5-5), while Stephen Douglas and Liam McKeone had a rough week (4-16 combined). Week 6 has some interesting matchups, including heavyweight showdowns between the Texans and Chiefs and Eagles and Vikings and a critical Monday night showdown between the Lions and Packers. Here are our season-long results and staff picks for Week 6 with NFL odds taken from the Westgate Superbook on Tuesday. Season Record: Ryan Glasspiegel: 34-16; Bobby Burack: 27-23; Brian Giuffra: 25-25; Ryan Phillips: 25-25; Stephen Douglas: 22-28; Liam McKeone: 21-29. Giants at Patriots (-16.5)Giuffra: Patriots 34, Giants 14 McKeo…
data-mm-id=”_7eq9soe01″>The Knicks lost by an astounding 44 points to the Bucks Monday night. They're 4-17, tied with the Warriors for least wins in the NBA. They don't really have purpose or direction and it's not necessarily clear how much of this is David Fizdale's fault — would you feel better about him if the Knicks were, like, 7-14? — but given that he was put on notice by management weeks ago, there were questions on whether this Bucks loss was so resounding that Fiz would lose his job. Speaking on The Jump on Tuesday, Brian Windhorst explained that he's "mildly surprised" that didn't happen yet:"The team has not responded really well to the adversity," Windhorst said. "The only thing that they really have left to do right…
data-mm-id=”_nihzelpie”>Eli Manning retired six weeks ago. There was a press conference and everything. That is a fact. But did he have dinner last night?Since the former New York Giants quarterback has no social media presence, it is impossible to tell. All we have to go on are rumors that he had dinner, like this one that was started by an account run by a dog associated with the Pardon My Take podcast. Hearing from sources that Eli Manning is meeting for dinner with the Chicago Bears this evening bark bark— NFL Insider Leroy (@LeroyInsider) March 5, 2020A few hours later, Cole Wright, a human being who works for Chicago's Marquee Sports Network and Sirius XM's NFL channel, also tweeted that Eli had dinner on Wednesday night. Again, that he specifically ate dinner with th…
data-mm-id=”_qo44cz8ij”>The 2019 NFL season not only brought us the youngest MVP in league history, it gave us a nearly-unprecedented Year 2 leap from Lamar Jackson. In the spirit of projecting similar jumps from good to great, Colin Cowherd took a stab at predicting which of the sophomore quarterbacks has the best chance to win MVP in 2020. Cowherd's choices were Kyler Murray, Daniel Jones, Dwayne Haskins, Jarrett Stidham, Drew Lock, and Gardner Minshew. His pick? The signal-caller for the Denver Broncos. Which 2nd-year QB has the best chance to win MVP?"I'm going to bet on Drew Lock." — @ColinCowherd pic.twitter.com/CjfbLtJWB2— Herd w/Colin Cowherd (@TheHerd) May 13, 2020As a brief aside, the most outrageous thing Cowherd says here is that all of these guys ar…
data-mm-id=”_ctse9v2dq”>Robert Griffin III hasn't been shy about voicing his belief that Robert Griffin III should start in the NFL again. His limited performances as a member of the Ravens haven't backed up his boasting, but today, against the best defense in the NFL, RG3 gets a chance to prove himself.With reigning MVP Lamar Jackson ruled out of today's game against the Steelers (10-0) while on the COVID list, Griffin will start at quarterback for the Ravens (6-4). He started against the Steelers in Week 17 of last season when the Ravens rested Jackson with the No. 1 seed already locked up, which didn't work out as they lost to the Titans in their first playoff game. While the Ravens beat the Steelers to wrap up the 2019 regular season, Griffin was subpar, complet…