ESPN Willfully Destroys Sports Blogger/Competition
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You probably know that we read The Big Lead a fair amount. It’s like Deadspin with actual connections to the sports journalism world and minus the hypocrisy.
What you might not know is that if you click the link above, it might not work right now. That’s because The Big Lead, a blog and a person’s business (he runs ads on the blog), was willfully destroyed by ESPN today.
Colin Cowherd, an ESPN radio host, blew up The Big Lead this morning. Intentionally. As good a transcript as we can make typing as we listen follows:
“You and I are straining the system, that what I heard…We occasionally, once a week…we’ll mention a website, our listeners will flee to it, and we’ll shut it down. We feel bad about this, we don’t mean to do it. It usually forces that young guy or young gal to buy more bandwidth and can be expensive. I don’t know that…but wouldn’t it be great if every day we gave out a new, young website and blew it up? If I told my audience every day–just one that’s annoying–and we could give it to them, and our audience would blow it up?
I want everyone to go to it as fast as you possibly can. When I say go, go….it’s three words. THE BIG LEAD dot com. THE. BIG. LEAD. DOT. COM. Go now.”
If you think about it, this is sort of like Pizza Hut going around the country and burning down various mom and pop pizza shops. I’m pretty sure that’s illegal. I’m also pretty sure The Big Lead should hire some feisty lawyers.
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I want everyone to go to it as fast as you possibly can. When I say go, go….it’s three words. HER LOYAL SONS dot com. HER. LOYAL. SONS. DOT. COM. Go now
[...] I’m still ticked at ESPN. I don’t care if The Big Lead sues ESPN for ruining their business. I think the government has a legitimate case against ESPN for partaking in anti-competitive practices. But what do I know? I got a C in Business Law. [...]
Hey, I took part in the pillaging of the site. I thought it was pretty funny.
I just sent an e-mail to ESPN’s ombudsman regarding this situation. I encourage others to do the same, as the more complaints that are logged, the more likely action will be taken. Here is the link to send your feedback:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?id=2826900
I don’t really know what’s funny about messing with some guy’s business.
The Big Lead is a pretty good site. Why taking it down at the whim of some blow-hard with a Napoleonic complex is cool is beyond me. (Note: I have no idea how tall Cowherd is, but I do know he’s a little man.)
I can only assume “Trey” is “Trey Wingo.” No one else but an ESPN stooge could possibly think this is funny.
Cowherd should be fired…out of a cannon, though a razor blade factory, off a giant billboard of his parents fucking, and into a pool of acid.
What an arrogant fuck.
Q, I’m encouraging HJE visitors to boycott all things ESPN. If enough blogs do it, it’ll hit ESPN in the pocketbook. Cowherd thinks bloggers are this cute little society he can not take seriously and mess around with? Let’s show him otherwise. You fuck with the bull, Cowherd, you get the horns.
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