On Cowherd, Our Site, and the Ombudsman’s Swift Response

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The Big Lead, Schrutebag And The Feisty New Ombudsman
Published 4/9/2007 at Deadspin
... (UPDATE: The Big Lead discusses the matter further.)

AsshatWatch: The Big Lead Returns
Published 4/9/2007 by Holly at Ladies...
... The boys of TBL respond. They link

New Sports Media v. Old Sports Media
Published 4/9/2007 by Howard Wasserman at Sports Law Blog
... . The Big Lead has its thoughts on the whole thing here.

High Five
Published 4/9/2007 by Fornelli at Foul Balls
... A quick look around the interweb while practicing my fighting stance The Big Lead interviews The Big Lead about that whole episode with Schrutebag. [ The Big Lead ] Don't talk to Carmelo Anthony when he's enjoying a 3-day old hot dog. [

ESPN Says "Zero Tolerance" for Cowherd Antics...Next Time
Published 4/10/2007 by Yost at College Football Forum
... on the incident means basically, "Cowherd escapes punishment because he managed to find a way to viciously attack someone that his boss hadn't thought of" and adding later, "Imagine if you killed someone by drowning him in a giant vat of cinnamon pudding and you got off, the district attorney saying, 'There's no law against drowning someone in a giant vat of cinnamon pudding because it never occurred to anybody that someone would make cinnamon pudding. But make no mistake! The next guy who kills someone with a giant vat of cinnamon pudding ...'" So true. And how does The Big Lead feel about everything that's happened? Click here to see what they said about last week's events and

That's one busy sweater
Published 4/11/2007 by DCSportsChick at DCSportsChick.com
... Like you needed another reason to detest Colin Cowherd: he hates bloggers.

We Won't be Denied
Published 4/14/2007 by Brandon Kriner at The Curly W
... Postscript: The Big Lead is back in business. You can read their reaction to the incident here. They used the opportunity to move off of a Romanian web hosting site to a host located right here in the good ol' U S of A.

We Won't be Denied
Published 4/14/2007 by Brandon Kriner at The Curly R: A Washington Redskins Blog
... Postscript: The Big Lead is back in business. You can read their reaction to the incident here. They used the opportunity to move off of a Romanian web hosting site to a host located right here in the good ol' U S of A.

Time to stick it to ESPN
Published 7/2/2007 by 100% Injury Rate at 100% Injury Rate
... 2. Schrutebag, for no apparent reason, gets listeners of his ESPN radio show to knock down The Big Lead's Web site. ...

Colin Cowherd Is A Woman Trapped Inside A Mans Body
Published 10/10/2007 at SPORTSbyBROOKS
... , breaking federal law. And then was forced to apologize on-air after ...

Top 20 Sports Blog Stories of The Year
Published 11/10/2007 by airraid81 at Juiced Sports Blog*: Writing Enhanced by Flaxseed Oil
... . TBL emailed Reilly to get the details on where he was going (ESPN), when he would start (June, 2008), and also found that ESPN was offering $2 million a year vs $1.5 million at SI. 2. The Big Lead: Colin Cowherd Shuts Down The Big Lead When the "mainstream media" (note: talk radio isn't actually the mainstream media) gets mad at blogs, it's always funny. Cowherd called for his listeners to hit bomb The Big Lead, putting too much strain on it for the servers to handle. The successfully got The Big Lead shut down for two days but not without ESPN and the entire blog community ...

Apparently, ESPN Doesn't Hate the Blogosphere THAT Much.
Published 11/12/2007 by Matt at Hardwood Paroxysm
... Now, don't get me wrong, I love dick jokes as much as the next guy. And I dig Can't Stop the Bleeding. But it seemed a little hypocritical to I looked some more. After shutting down the site with the human virus known as Schrutebag, ESPN is now linking to superstar bloggers, The Big Lead on the freaking NBA page. So maybe bloggers aren't the scum of the earth after all! Thanks, ESPN! I look forward to the children of the future learning about cocks getting punched on your site for years to come! Funnily enough, ...

Congress Messing With Sports Again
Published 12/7/2007 by airraid81 at Juiced Sports Blog*: Writing Enhanced by Flaxseed Oil
... would you have done about Terrell Owens' situation in Philadelphia? Clinton: Now, you ought to be ashamed of yourself for trying to attack with that question. You don't... Ralphie: Excuse me, Bill, but the question was aimed at your wife. You can let her answer. Mrs. Clinton: Well, first of all, the feminist in me is offended to have my name represented as "Mrs. Clinton." Please change the transcript, or I'll have my husband's political hitmen get this website off the net. We have Colin Cowherd working for us. But, on to the question, I guess, and let me make it clear ...

ESPN crashes NIT party with coaching rumor
Published 4/2/2008 by Erik Gallant at MinuteBlog | UMass Basketball on MassLive.com
... , and for launching a malicious distributed denial of service attack on the sports website The Big Lead . In case I'm not laying it on thick enough, I'm implying that Forde's report should be viewed in the context in which it was delivered. This wasn't reported on See it Now , if you know what I'm saying. The rumor was then reiterated by Forde in an ...

These 9 People Would Not Have Jobs If Sports Blogging Were Around 20 Years Ago
Published 4/24/2008 by Shakespeare DiMaggio at Tirico Suave
... . I refuse to enjoy these guys because ESPN says I have to. Fuck you ESPN. This is not entertainment: 1. Colin Cowherd. Number one with a bullet. Think of all the towns in America where ESPN radio is the only sports talk radio station. These people are forced to listen to this piece of shit. When he is not shutting down or ...

Sports blogs, sports writers and why sports journalism doesn’t matter
Published 4/30/2008 by R.J. at Snobs vs. Slobs
... . They sometimes steal stuff and get mad when they’re called out .) The difference now, of course, is that sports radio is an expensive venture. Traditional print and TV journalists knew that Joe Average Fan couldn’t get into it, so the traditional media were fine with sports radio. But, now, again, the democratization has hurt the status quo. In the same way cable has pushed network TV to write and producer better programming, the sports Web opinion writers should press the traditional print media to do a better job. They haven’t. They don’t understand embedding video or ...