RIPPA Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 Things will probably work a little better for everything - especially when I want to post this story that is newspaper related So the NY Daily News is slashing pretty much all its sports staff (along with other areas) Mike Lupica Bill Madden Filip Bondy Have all been shown the door 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 My woman is an avid consumer of all things sports media and there are no words for how much she hates Hannah Storm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgundy LaRue Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 My woman is an avid consumer of all things sports media and there are no words for how much she hates Hannah Storm. I don't hate Storm, but I can understand why others would. You have to almost not pay her attention, allow her to be background noise. Because she has a certain air about her that can be irritating. I think it's pseudo-feminism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtVanderlay Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 Things will probably work a little better for everything - especially when I want to post this story that is newspaper related So the NY Daily News is slashing pretty much all its sports staff (along with other areas) Mike Lupica Bill Madden Filip Bondy Have all been shown the door And Lupica's awful show on WEPN was cancelled on August 15th, not exactly a good month for the guy. Never heard of the other two, can't say I feel sorry for any of them given the genrally awful New York sports press in general, and their obnoxious "New York against the world" attitude that they all seem to have. Let 'em go work as beat writers for the Kansas City Star or the Seattle Times, let them see how the rest of the world lives outside of "Noow Yoik." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted September 17, 2015 Author Share Posted September 17, 2015 Yup - only New York media is that way. Yup 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted September 17, 2015 Author Share Posted September 17, 2015 Oh and Filip Bondy is one of the more respected sports writers in the country - especially in the soccer world. But yup - he sucks because he was in New York 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Lucia Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 I'm not one to hope people lose their jobs.... ....but I really hope the Post bumps Mushnick into early retirement. Also, Cablevision got bought out for something like $17 billion by a Euro company. Insane. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 Oh and Filip Bondy is one of the more respected sports writers in the country - especially in the soccer world. But yup - he sucks because he was in New York Bondy covered soccer for DECADES at the News... probably did more to advance the sport's cause in Gotham than anyone will ever give him credit for. Back in the 70s he turned down an opportunity to cover the Yankees because he was having so much fun as the Cosmos beat writer. Shame about the New York thing though. Fuck that guy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabremike Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 Madden was the guy who publicly refused to vote Mike Piazza into the HOF so fuck him. Bondy's soccer coverage balances out him being a pinstriped scum appologist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolfan in NYC Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 Unfortunately, the Daily News just isn't the right venue for soccer coverage these days. I mean it should say something when the parakeet feces collection unit known as the New York Post so consistently kicks the DN's ass. At least Madden & Lupica were fired though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 New York ain't got nothing on Philly for shitty sports media. Philly may be the absolute worst. If you listen to that horseshit that passes for talk radio, I feel for you, and you should get XM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 I happily have not listened to wip since you had mac and mac & steve and mike. I remember the horrible attempt at 1210 to compete with 610 with scott graham and big daddy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtVanderlay Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 http://www.newsweek.com/defeat-jason-whitlock-371758 Newsweek joins the "Jason Whitlock is a paranoid, narcissistic, borderline sociopathic asshole" parade with this profile from Sunday. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted September 18, 2015 Author Share Posted September 18, 2015 Just because I didn't see it mentioned anywhere Milo Hamilton passed away Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtVanderlay Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 If Filip Bondy ever called for John Sterling and Susan Waldman to be fired, or if he ever took potshots at Michael "See Ya" Kay in his column, than I will take back everything I said about him and hope he gets rehired. OR If he was opposed to advertising on soccer uniforms, and used his column to try to convince FIFA to ban the practice, than I hope he gets rehired. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Lucia Posted September 19, 2015 Share Posted September 19, 2015 By that logic, every sports columnist in every major metro in the country should be fired. Log off forever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyMax46 Posted September 19, 2015 Share Posted September 19, 2015 By that logic, every sports columnist in every major metro in the country should be fired. Yes...okay...I like where you are going with this... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted September 19, 2015 Share Posted September 19, 2015 To hell with major metro areas, just fire all of them and replace them with marketing executives churning out press releases. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyMax46 Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 I mean to be fair...I don't know anyone who goes to a columnist for an opinion. We are adults. We can come up with our own opinions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 Costas is on Gilbert Gottfried's podcast this week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtVanderlay Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 http://thebiglead.com/2015/09/21/layoffs-are-coming-to-espn/ Massive layoffs coming to ESPN. 1-3PM Sportscenter being reduced to one hour, 3-6PM Sportscenter being abandoned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuetsar Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 About time, Sportscenter is out of control. . . .too bad for the employees though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tabe Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 ESPN is need of a big overhaul in a lot of areas. I watched a LOT of ESPN the last couple weeks and it was basically "The Football Network". Now, I loves me some football, but...c'mon. Hour after hour after hour after hour of football content. Pennant races in baseball heating up? Let's do another 30 minutes on football! They have way too many "analysts" and the content of their programming simply isn't good enough. And their revenue is going to crater over the next year or two as even more people cut the cord. For too long, ESPN has ridden a tidal wave of cash on the backs of cable/satellite subscribers paying huge fees that don't actually watch ESPN. Well, now millions of those people - at $7.50 a month for ESPN & ESPN2 - have cut the cord. That's a TON of revenue for ESPN that has just disappeared. And it ain't coming back. This was inevitable. Will be interesting to see how all the changes play out. Methinks we'll be seeing a lot more poker in the afternoon programming Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mco543 Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 Pro Beach Hockey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtVanderlay Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 I interviewed for an internship at ESPN back in 2002, all internships are shitty but this deal was ridiculous: you pay for all moving costs, $5000 stipend which you were expected to make last for all six months of the internship, 14-hour workdays cataloguing video, getting coffee, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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