Michelle Tafoya on Deadspin: 'It Disgusts Me' (But Talking About Men at Urinals Doesn't)

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THE AFTER PARTY
Published 4/30/2008 by DCScrap at EPIC CARNIVAL | SPORTS NEWS WITH A TWIST
... Sports) Javier Bardem has nothing on Pistol Pete. (Empty The Bench) An ice-cold slump buster for Barry Zito. (Babes Love Baseball) Cubs get the SI curse. (Rumors and Rants) Papelbon now has his own planet. (Red Sox Monster) The genius of Dave Duncan. (I'm Writing Sports) Coolest motorcycle evar. (on 205th) 11 eligible wide recievers on the field? (RandBall) Michelle Tafoya on Deadspin: 'It Disgusts Me'. (AOL FanHouse) ...

Blog Jam: Tafoya Joins The Deadspin Hit Parade
Published 5/1/2008 by jason at SPORTSbyBROOKS
• Michael David Smith of AOL FANHOUSE tells Buzz Bissinger to make room for Michele Tafoya on the DEADSPIN bash-wagon . Buzz Bissinger Michele Tafoya • Meanwhile, MR. SUNSHINE berates Bob Costas in the same show for his snide opinions on sports radio . • VIKINGS BLOG notes that after his arrest for assault , lineman Darrion Scott won’t likely be asked back to the Metrodome. But we bet Carl Eller would still want him around. • The BOSTON HERALD reveals yet another woman claiming that Roger Clemens tried to ...

Michele Tafoya Is Just A Bit Hypocritical
Published 5/1/2008 by Awful Announcing- at Awful Announcing
... Lost in all of the Bissinger talk yesterday was this story via MDS at Fanhouse. Apparently Mike Tirico and Michele Tafoya were talking about Deadspin and the like yesterday when Tafoya decided to go to the site for presumably the first time on-air. Here was her initial reaction.... ...

PM Roundup: People Dislike Things
Published 5/1/2008 by Cousins of Ron Mexico at The Big Lead
... you only click one link - make it this one. Absolutely classic. (Dallas Morning News) Is Al Michaels in the running for the NFL Network gig? (Watchdog) Dennis Rodman tied one on recently and… (TMZ) Bruce Pearl got divorced. Co-eds claim another victory over wives. (Cherry Picking) Maybe Sienna Miller was right…(Yahoo!) MDS takes Michelle Tafoya to task for her hatred of blogs/love of toilet humor. (Fan House) Of course the Braves’ rotation is like ...

Brog: Buss Blows Off Boston, Busted In Las Vegas
Published 6/9/2008 by Brooks at SPORTSbyBROOKS
... the game. Pierce thwarted the Lakers’ astonishing comeback by blocking a 3-point attempt by Vlad Rad, and then nailed some free throws down the stretch. So what does Tafoya ask Pierce as he walked off the court? Not how the C’s defensed the Lakers subsequent to his shot-blocking heroics, but what he was thinking while shooting free throws. Pierce’s incredulous response, “I was thinking about making them !” I probably shouldn’t bring stuff like that up though, considering how much Tafoya loves blogs . When Evan Longoria first came up with the Rays, ...

Our Friends At Bristol [Aw Screw It It's Our Last Week]
Published 30 days ago by Will Leitch at Deadspin
... The paranoia is still there (and not just from ESPN media folk either). We still get the 4,000-word emails in the middle of the night, the wounded phone calls, the occasional "you're disgusting." But it feels more muted, as if everyone understands that it's a different world now, that everyone's fair game, that ESPN personalities are public figures in the same way athletes are. We've come around in a way, and so have they. And we all move along our way. ...