A-Tex Devil
04-06-2007, 12:07 AM
So I don't know how many of you read sports blogs like Deadspin, the Big Lead, etc., but the equivalent of an act of war was committed today by Colin Cowherd, ESPN's hack of a morning radio guy.
This morning, Colin Cowherd basically incited his listeners to flood a web site to see if they could shut it down. He picked the Big Lead, a long time critic of ESPN because it was "annoying." Well the site is still down as of right now.
http://mgoboard.com/blogmedia/audio/cowherd-tbl.mp3
Anyway, while there is nothing inherently illegal about this, I hope there is a civil suit in there somewhere. The Big Lead is still down and what's to stop Cowherd from doing this to more web sites. He more or less intimated he'd try this tactic on more sites that annoy him. I don't know if this speaks worse of him or his fans. Apparently he has got a lot of minions to pull this stunt, but I don't know any.
The sports blog community has its bad apples, but there are a ton of great websites out there with some great writing -- Deadspin, Kenpom, Kissing Suzy Kolber, The Big Lead, The Mighty MJD, Sunday Morning QB, EDSBS and Burnt Orange Nation to name a bunch. It will be interesting to see how much influence the blog community has on sports media in the coming days because I fully expect some kind of retaliation on Cowherd which will attempt to separate him from his job at the World Wide Leader.
This is all insignificant stuff in the grand scheme of things, but sports blogs (including this one, which is essentially a blog) have provided better writing and analysis than ESPN, the radio and the newspapers lately. This was the first truly aggressive act by the old media against the new media that I've seen. Will be interesting to see if this media war continues and/or expands.
This morning, Colin Cowherd basically incited his listeners to flood a web site to see if they could shut it down. He picked the Big Lead, a long time critic of ESPN because it was "annoying." Well the site is still down as of right now.
http://mgoboard.com/blogmedia/audio/cowherd-tbl.mp3
Anyway, while there is nothing inherently illegal about this, I hope there is a civil suit in there somewhere. The Big Lead is still down and what's to stop Cowherd from doing this to more web sites. He more or less intimated he'd try this tactic on more sites that annoy him. I don't know if this speaks worse of him or his fans. Apparently he has got a lot of minions to pull this stunt, but I don't know any.
The sports blog community has its bad apples, but there are a ton of great websites out there with some great writing -- Deadspin, Kenpom, Kissing Suzy Kolber, The Big Lead, The Mighty MJD, Sunday Morning QB, EDSBS and Burnt Orange Nation to name a bunch. It will be interesting to see how much influence the blog community has on sports media in the coming days because I fully expect some kind of retaliation on Cowherd which will attempt to separate him from his job at the World Wide Leader.
This is all insignificant stuff in the grand scheme of things, but sports blogs (including this one, which is essentially a blog) have provided better writing and analysis than ESPN, the radio and the newspapers lately. This was the first truly aggressive act by the old media against the new media that I've seen. Will be interesting to see if this media war continues and/or expands.