Topic: The Internet

April 10, 2013

Make Me Feel Pretty, War Machine

Tomas Rios

War Machine washed out of both the UFC and the porn business because of his constant, unwavering rage issues and violent bro-tendencies. But he's still on Twitter, challenging our own Tomas Rios to fights. So he's got that going for him.

April 8, 2013

Slurve On: Michael B. Dougherty On Leaving Political Journalism For Baseball

David Roth

Michael Brendan Dougherty has written about politics for a long time. Long enough that he's now decided he'd rather get up at 4am every day to write about baseball.

April 1, 2013

Cyberbullied By Chipper

Pete Gaines

Pete Gaines said something stupid on Twitter over the weekend, then spent the better part of the day being cyberbullied by a sure-thing first-ballot Hall of Famer and his online sycophants. This is his story.

March 25, 2013

Time Traveling with Doug Gottlieb

David Roth

In loving memory of the strange, short-lived ghost Twitter feed of supremely opinionated CBS Sports basketball commentator Doug Gottlieb. File under: MAJOR SCOOPS.

March 4, 2013

11 Classic Passages From a Bleacher Report Founder's Open Email to the Haters (SLIDESHOW)

David Roth

In tribute to the huffy but unassailable nihilism of Bleacher Report co-founder Bryan Goldberg's open letter to the haters, we offer a slideshow of that email's proudest moments, with appropriate images.

March 4, 2013

It's All Fake: My Life In Virtual Wrestling

Gregg Gethard

Pro wrestling demands an unusual suspension of disbelief, but Efedding—online, role-playing virtual wrestling—requires something more profound of the people who are obsessed with it: actual, total belief in the wrestlers and rivalries that they've collaborated in making up.

February 22, 2013

Best of British: Talking to David Rappoccio About His British NFL Logos

David Roth

Why did David Rappoccio decide to do Britishized versions of all 32 NFL logos? It's a good question, but perhaps the more important one is how it took so long for someone to undertake this important work.

February 11, 2013

System Player: The Weird Magnetism of @KobeBryant

Mike Piellucci

Kobe Bryant's new Twitter feed reveals some, suggests much, and is generally and totally gripping and weird. So, pretty much perfect for Kobe Bryant, then, and a little masterpiece of opaque virtuosity.

January 31, 2013

(Almost ) One Million Chris Culliver Followers Can't Be Wrong/Legitimate

David Roth

San Francisco 49ers defensive back Chris Culliver has a bigger platform than most goons from which to broadcast off-the-rack no-homo idiocy. Quite aside from the comments he made to Artie Lange on Super Bowl Media Day, there are Culliver's one million Twitter followers. Wait, what?

January 30, 2013

Robert Fick and Dmitri Young Are Making Sense

Drew Avery

It seemed reasonable to expect a mess from FYI, the low-budget "vodcast" hosted by former Detroit Tigers misfits/miscreants Dmitri Young and Robert Fick. But while the show itself was kind of a mess, it was also oddly earnest and endearing. And that was before they started telling Matt Anderson stories.