Minute Media buys The Big Lead from Gannett to pair with 12Up, Jason McIntyre is exiting, only four writers remain
Minute Media has bought The Big Lead, retaining only writers Ryan Glasspiegel, Kyle Koster, Ryan Phillips and Bobby Burack.
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The video of S.F. Giants CEO Larry Baer’s altercation with his wife shows how quickly TMZ can pounce on a scandal
Shortly after after Larry Baer's public altercation with his wife, video of it was posted on TMZ.
This Week In Hot Takes: Dan Clark writes “F**k you, Manny Machado” after Machado says Orioles “didn’t show me a little bit of...
Clark's flaming of Machado was the hottest take for Feb. 22-28.
SB Nation editor-in-chief Elena Bergeron stepping down, Ryan Nanni named interim EIC
Bergeron had been SBN's editor-in-chief since March 2017.
Henry Abbott talks how ESPN released the TrueHoop name to him and why the site has returned as a subscription newsletter
"Through our long goodbye, they agreed to return the TrueHoop name to me, because they felt it was the right thing to do."
The Bob Kraft news inspired some very bad takes from the world of sports media
Patriots owner Robert Kraft getting caught up in a prostitution sting was always going to inspire a lot...
This Week In Hot Takes: Michael DeCourcy wonders “would you really even know who [Zion] is?” without him playing at Duke
Sporting News columnist DeCourcy's argument that Zion Williamson would be unknown without playing for Duke topped the hot takes this week.
Yahoo reportedly following The Athletic into subscription business
You can now pay Yahoo for Mets coverage if that's something you're into
A fake football recruit successfully catfished their way to a 3-star ranking
Once upon a time Blake Carringer was a three-star offensive lineman recruit from Tennessee with offers from some...
The Players’ Tribune join others in media by announcing layoffs
Forgive the cynicism but it seems like with each passing day, the media landscape as we know it...
Verizon (Huffington Post/Yahoo/AOL), BuzzFeed and Gannett are all laying off staff, more than 1,000 people in all
More than 1,000 media members are about to be out of work after widespread cuts at three organizations Wednesday.
Kirk Minihane’s return to radio will come as…a Barstool Radio co-host during Super Bowl Week?
Minihane took leave from WEEI in September, said the station was blocking his return in November, and then announced he'd shift to Radio.com. But before his Radio.com show launches, he'll be on Barstool Radio as a co-host during Super Bowl Week.
LaVar Ball is charging media outlets $3,500 to film LaMelo Ball’s high school games
Any basketball game involving the Ball brothers is a pretty hot ticket these days. That goes for the...
Terez Owens confuses Sarah Kustok for Tomi Lahren, accuses Richard Jefferson of dating Tomi
This is....well, this is not correct.
This Week In Hot Takes: Patrick Bet-David blasts Deshaun Watson for celebrating Clemson’s win
"You’re celebrating, 3 days after losing to the Colts as the starting quarterback? The pain of a loss in the playoffs can’t go away that quickly. There’s something wrong with this picture."
