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| Topic subject | Whitlock getting his own "Black Grantland" |
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2219163, Whitlock getting his own "Black Grantland"
Posted by John Forte, Fri Aug-16-13 11:43 AM
Doesn't ESPN know that black folk don't fuck with Whitlock?
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2219183, I bet he lurks or will at least hire an OKS lurker.
Posted by TheRealBillyOcean, Fri Aug-16-13 12:00 PM
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2219186, Simmons(or his interns) been stealing shit from here for years
Posted by ThaTruth, Fri Aug-16-13 12:04 PM
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2219217, Whitlock prolly bite harder. Like get a dude who just watches box scores.
Posted by TheRealBillyOcean, Fri Aug-16-13 12:45 PM
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2219544, lolol, cmon
Posted by ShawndmeSlanted, Sat Aug-17-13 06:05 PM
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2220129, yall really believe that , huh?
Posted by Amritsar, Wed Aug-21-13 05:49 AM
the only okayplayer forum to ever make waves or matter in the outside world like that is The Lessson
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2220148, You'd be surprised who lurks here
Posted by ThaTruth, Wed Aug-21-13 08:20 AM
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2219193, Interesting how big sites are branching out.
Posted by SoulHonky, Fri Aug-16-13 12:13 PM
New York Magazine's kind of done this with Vulture, which has become an entity unto itself. ESPN has Grantland. Pitchfork just created The Dissolve for movies. Onion's AV Club is huge.
It's a better idea IMO because the absorbing of blogs hasn't worked well, especially for ESPN. TrueHoop went from a great blog to a gimmicky mess once ESPN got their hands on it.
The move I'm waiting for is ESPN (probably via Grantland) breaking out and creating their own Entertainment website. Not sure it'll be any good but it'll be an interesting venture.
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2219195, ESPN is giving Nate Silver his own site too
Posted by John Forte, Fri Aug-16-13 12:17 PM
The AV club is great. I stopped reading the Onion almost 10 years ago, but I still check The AV Club 2-3 times a week.
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2219229, For ESPN it's part of a larger strategy
Posted by southphillyman, Fri Aug-16-13 01:07 PM
http://thewaltdisneycompany.com/investors/disney-stock
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2219230, :(
Posted by BrooklynWHAT, Fri Aug-16-13 01:09 PM
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2219231, RE: Whitlock getting his own "Black Grantland"
Posted by murph71, Fri Aug-16-13 01:11 PM
>Doesn't ESPN know that black folk don't fuck with Whitlock?
True...Dude is the worst...
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2219812, He's over the top sometimes, (as most sport writers are) but a lot of his...
Posted by ThaTruth, Tue Aug-20-13 07:53 AM
shit is spot on
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2219980, Just depends on whether you happen to agree with him
Posted by Cocobrotha2, Tue Aug-20-13 03:29 PM
He has a polarizing style that either has you all in or all out on each column.
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2219243, Check out the podcast w/ Simmons
Posted by HeadNodda, Fri Aug-16-13 01:34 PM
He saying he wants to bring in black writers and cover sport pop culture the way Grantland has done for younger readers (i.e. white 25-40 year olds). Paper print is dead, there is a whole generation of kids, that will not know what it means to read the Sunday/Daily paper...
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2219543, uncledotcom's cabin.
Posted by poetx, Sat Aug-17-13 06:03 PM
peace & blessings,
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www.twitter.com/poetx
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** i move away from the mic to breathe in
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2219802, while you all are sleeping on this
Posted by L_O_Quent, Tue Aug-20-13 06:21 AM
a shitload of you all should hop on this if I weren't an old man who only cares about telling kids to get off my damn lawn I'd be all on this.
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2219982, He got exposed by Killer Mike
Posted by Kira, Tue Aug-20-13 03:38 PM
Dude needs to sit down and shut up forever.
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2220141, man he did. Even if Mike was 100% correct, JWs positions
Posted by El_essence, Wed Aug-21-13 07:39 AM
on almost every topic was flimsy as shit.
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2220214, listened to the podcast with simmons. shit sounds like a money grab
Posted by southphillyman, Wed Aug-21-13 10:56 AM
basically admitted to trolling on some issues to raise his profile
not mad at em. but dude is scumbag status and him being the face of anything "Black" could be dangerous
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