Here’s a silly thing that only nerds like us would find interesting…
Shaun King of the New York Daily News and Jason Whitlock of Fox Sports have jousted both on Twitter and on the radio airwaves over King’s reporting/columnizing on the sexual assault allegations against Peyton Manning at Tennessee. That jousting quickly became nasty and personal with King calling out Whitlock for his career arc and what he stands for and Whitlock questioning King’s self-identity.
But Jason Whitlock and Shaun King weren’t always sworn enemies. This Whitlock tweet from 2014 popped up on Twitter again today (let’s credit @DragonflyJonez for bringing wider attention to it) and showed a very different side of their relationship, or at least, what Whitlock once thought of King as a writer…
https://twitter.com/WhitlockJason/status/514829109499682816
If you had the “pleasure” of listening to Whitlock’s “interview” of King on Colin Cowherd’s show, the pair quickly abandoned debating the Manning story and threw off the gloves to trade personal insults at one another. King mentioned Whitlock interviewing him for The Undefeated, which Whitlock quickly shot down because he said he couldn’t properly vet King.
https://twitter.com/WhitlockJason/status/700023574480879616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
People change and opinions change, but Whitlock’s tweet is quite something in hindsight considering where we are now and how ugly things have been between the two. Going from calling King a “must follow” to a guy with a “fake image” is a pretty drastic turnaround. Can’t we all just get along?
