Do it Again and the Kitten Dies
Uncategorized April 6th. 2007, 4:29pm
You know what was the worst part of being offline for about 24? We missed so much. Billy Donovan stays … his players leave. Texas A&M allows its coach to bolt for Kentucky without a fight. Bob Huggins is free to booze it up with the sofa burners in Morgantown (but we don’t think he’ll get Michael Beasley). A blogger may have busted a pitcher cheating. Let’s see a radio host do that!
Pacman Jones dons a suit and swears he’s cleaned up his act. This stuff writes itself. We missed the dazzling Dice-K debut, too.
Just for shits and giggles, there’s an outside chance we’ll post a few of hilarious emails that floated into our inbox during this ordeal, but chances are, we won’t post the digits of a radio host’s wife, as one commenter did here. (Call it? That’s another story.)
Dozens of blogs had our back through all this, which is very cool; hope you can stomach a roundup full of ‘Cowherd’s a douche!’ this weekend or Monday. We will make sure to mention all of you guys.
No clue how to move forward from here (as great as the lawsuit advice has been from some of you, we probably won’t go there), but we’ll be spending the better part of today looking for a new host.
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April 8th, 2007 at 4:58 PM
Glad to see you’re back up. Was wondering what happened.
April 8th, 2007 at 5:03 PM
[...] on with radio shows and announcers lately. Colin Cowherd essentially breaks the law, shuts down The Big Lead, and there’s already a petition to have him fired. Don Imus thinks the Rutgers Scarlet [...]
April 8th, 2007 at 5:37 PM
Fucking awesome pic. Great to see you guys up and running.
April 8th, 2007 at 6:03 PM
Well played. I’d of gone on a cursing and killing of the next born child angle. Keep on doing what you are doing. To be honest, I know of one person that listens to Ass Coward. The old is fading. The new is rising. Be the man and just let this ass monkey go. You got bit, but you are right back. When Ass Coward is serving you pizza in two years, give him a nice tip. He helped you earn it.
April 8th, 2007 at 6:15 PM
nice to see you’re back
April 8th, 2007 at 6:20 PM
Welcome back, and I admire the restraint you’ve shown in handling this.
I used to be a fan of that twatbag (thought he was the funniest sports radio talker), but I’ve lost all respect for him after this. Fucking childish little asshole.
April 8th, 2007 at 6:23 PM
I hope your learned your lesson. Have a longer, more difficult URL that people have to type in.
Or stop being read by ESPN interns.
April 8th, 2007 at 6:38 PM
Schrutebag kills kittens in his spare time
April 8th, 2007 at 6:53 PM
Welcome back, welcome back. Looking forward to the cowherd hate posts… lots.
April 8th, 2007 at 7:23 PM
nice to see ya back holmes… um, i can’t wait for the draft… i miss football…
April 8th, 2007 at 7:31 PM
Welcome back, y’all. You were missed.
April 8th, 2007 at 8:37 PM
I love that kitten photo.
Good to have you and the comments back.
April 8th, 2007 at 9:04 PM
Welcome back – been having withdrawal symptoms – you guys and the other blogs continue to be the A1 spot for breaking news and the leaders of the revolution.
April 8th, 2007 at 9:14 PM
Bad, bad things happen you write puff pieces about spineless little twits like Panda Marchand. Consider the shutdown a small bit of penance. Whatever happened to that piece of vermin, anyway?
April 8th, 2007 at 9:30 PM
glad to see you’re back of course.
i’ve been reading up on cowherd on Fire Joe Morgan for entertainment and the ability to mock him even more than i had before.
April 8th, 2007 at 9:37 PM
I personally think the phone number should be posted again. Forget being the bigger man, or the better man –
Be the more vindictive man.
April 8th, 2007 at 9:40 PM
Welcome back guys. I know this isn’t much consolation, but you’ve gained one more reader here from this whole ordeal. Good luck recovering from Schrutebag-gate.
April 8th, 2007 at 10:05 PM
That fucking schrutebag is gonna burn one day. I nominate him for douche of the century.
April 8th, 2007 at 10:07 PM
Good to have you back – with the right attitude.
April 8th, 2007 at 10:15 PM
I’m not 100% certain but I am pretty sure that what he did was in violation of federal law and possibly misuse of public airwaves. His actions intentionally and willfully brought down your site thus interfering with interstate commerce. Additionally, his actions knowingly brought harm upon your site, preventing you from the regular and lawful conduct of your business and he and the “WWL” should be held responsible civilly for their actions.
Do you believe for one second if Howard Stern or AirAmerica radio tried to take down FoxNews.com that they would not face substantial reprecussions?
I would first contact the US District Attorney’s office in your district or in Connecticut’s region (where the transgressions occured.) Then contact a local attorney about pursuing a civil action.
Don’t be bullied.
April 8th, 2007 at 10:18 PM
a calm and collected response from TBL. Exactly what i expected! nicely done, boys.
you guys are like hard drugs. i had withdrawl late last week.
April 8th, 2007 at 10:33 PM
Great to have you guys back.
Fuck Colin Coward! Fuck Mike Greenberg! These guys need to go!
April 8th, 2007 at 10:50 PM
I’d never even heard of your website until this fiasco, but that didn’t stop me from writing an angry letter to ESPN, in which I called CC a ‘terrorist’ at least 4 separate times.
April 8th, 2007 at 10:52 PM
***hitting play on the theme to “Welcome Back, Cotter”***
good to have you back, dog
April 8th, 2007 at 11:06 PM
Welcome Back Guys!
Shrutebag must pay!
April 9th, 2007 at 12:59 AM
colin is your typical espn liberal. and liberals don’t like to be criticized. just like cornhole on MNF. he went nuts in his wapo column after being criticized. colin is full of himself and really deserves a nice butt flower from one of the homeboys here in folsom. ESPN is tired, they jumped the shark with john amechi and i avoid the network whenever possible. i really don’t care if a dude wants another dude, but when people force it down my throat like i’m john amechi and call me a bigot for having values, well ESPN, you can go f yourslef.
April 9th, 2007 at 1:16 AM
I heard George Solomon is becoming the new TBL Ombudsman.
April 9th, 2007 at 1:19 AM
The Ombudsman’s article:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=schreiber_leanne&id=2830113
April 9th, 2007 at 1:31 AM
Here’s one good thing…b/c of the ESPN crap, I found your site and now I’m a subscriber…
April 9th, 2007 at 1:32 AM
I just spent 20 minutes trying to find video of Welch at the Army-McCarthy hearings, getting fed up and asking “Have you left no sense of decency, sir? At long last?”
Over the top? Maybe, but that’s how I roll.
Welcome back.
April 9th, 2007 at 1:54 AM
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=schreiber_leanne&id=2830113
Le Anne likes you…she really likes you
April 9th, 2007 at 2:06 AM
Praise be!
Revenge is a dish best served…..f’ing evil! Or cold…whichever.
April 9th, 2007 at 2:21 AM
Slow Clap.
Welcome back.
April 9th, 2007 at 2:24 AM
Even though what Cowherd did could be construed as childish, I will still remain a big fan of his. I hope you take this ordeal positively because if it wasn’t for Cowherd, many people would have never heard of this site, including me. I like the other material you read about, so I’ll continue to visit the site. You can thank Cowherd for the additional readers you will gain.
April 9th, 2007 at 2:37 AM
gotta be honest with you, not really familiar with what Cowherd did to you guys…I found out about this site thru deadspin, and it will now be daily reading. If Cowherd is the douchebag that previous posters seem to think, that will be disappointing to me as I do enjoy his show. But if he’s stealing from you and not giving you credit, you get the read, he gets off the pre-set…
April 9th, 2007 at 3:02 AM
Whatever!!!! Cowherd rocks!! He is the best on the radio. Thats what you get for messing with the BULL!! Plus as mentioned before you gained more readers and traffic with the stunt that he pulled. Take the positive out of this.
April 9th, 2007 at 3:14 AM
Keep living in your Cyber world nerds… big boy radio is obviously not for you
April 9th, 2007 at 3:37 AM
amazing how much i missed the daily posts…hard drugs was the proper choice of words up above
welcome back
April 9th, 2007 at 3:37 AM
Grownup: Just curious, ‘big boy radio’ – that’s the one where the hosts steal from blogs, right? Surely, you’re familiar with this:
http://www.themightymjd.com/2006/03/23/espn-radio-douche-steals-from-blogger
April 9th, 2007 at 3:51 AM
I’ll say it again. How fitting The Big Lead rises from the dead on Easter weekend. It’s like a sign.
April 9th, 2007 at 3:57 AM
Honestly, this will end up looking like Schrutebag did you a favor when you look back on the incident three months from now.
Still, he sucked before this incident and he’ll continue to suck. Let’s hope it’s the beginning of the end for him at ESPN Radio.
April 9th, 2007 at 4:02 AM
Congrats.
Your Welcome.
April 9th, 2007 at 4:23 AM
Cowherd is awsome!!! I sometimes have to skip class to listen to him! Its the best show ever! U just wish u had enough readers to get him fired, Like he shut u down!
April 9th, 2007 at 4:24 AM
WWL can stick it….. ridiculous.
April 9th, 2007 at 4:29 AM
Nice to see you back in action.
April 9th, 2007 at 4:33 AM
Good to see you back up and running.
April 9th, 2007 at 4:49 AM
I had never heard of your site before. But, unfortunately I have heard of Cowherd. I have listened to him in the mornings and tired of him quickly….but after this fiasco I will never listen to him again and you can count me in as another new reader because of this.
April 9th, 2007 at 5:01 AM
Glad ya’ll are back!
April 9th, 2007 at 5:23 AM
Hey, glad to see you guys back up, and it’s nice that ESPN expressed their distaste for the incident. We’ve got your back!
April 9th, 2007 at 5:30 AM
Long live the underground and down with the WWL!
Also, it’s obvious from some of these comments that most Cowherd listneners are shrutebags themselves. It’s a vicious cycle of shrutebaggery.
April 9th, 2007 at 5:41 AM
I just want to say glad you’re back up. What Cowherd did was definitely crossing the line and can be persued legally (news flash to all the slow minded slackjaws who are so unfamiliar with the basics of modern technology that it took a day to post your gay ass comments supporting Cownerd. Just because an entity appears only on the Internet does not mean it does not have the same rights and protections as a business that maintains offices at a physical street address. And by the way I not only read blogs, I read newspapers, listen to yokels on the radio, and watch Sportscenter and the like that’s what true sports fans do; they pride themselves on being well rounded.) I also want to comment that while I’m not naive as to the attitude that some in the “traditional” media hold towards bloggers I’m amazed by the lack of coverage this incident is receiving in any kind of mainstream media. Everything I’ve read about this has come from other blogs (some were not even sports blogs, just outraged by the whole thing). That in itself is kind of disturbing.
April 9th, 2007 at 5:48 AM
Glad your back up and running….
April 9th, 2007 at 6:55 AM
First of all, who’s the imposter “goose” a few posts up? Get that clown outta here.
Second, welcome back. Was checking the site several times a day to see when you’d be back up. I’m sure that didn’t help matters, but whatever.
And third, was I the only one waiting for “jay the most hated” to say something nice, then follow it with some venom? jay you’re slipping
April 9th, 2007 at 7:09 AM
Hey big straight al
You’re a faggot.
April 9th, 2007 at 8:37 AM
Colin Cowherd is the DUMBEST sports blabber on ESPN Radio — and that’s saying something. His fans are idiots, too. I think ESPN sees Cowherd as Kornheiseresque, but that’s like comparing skim milk to buttermilk. Yeah, they both talk non-sports — but one’s got a brain; the other has a wind tunnel between his ears.
April 9th, 2007 at 9:08 AM
I would have let something like this get to me immensely, so I admire your dignified response to it.
I mean, it doesn’t get more dignified than threathening to shoot a kitten.
You got another reader out of this.
April 9th, 2007 at 12:53 PM
Why all the hate? All you’re getting out of this is more publicity. Thank Cowheard. Yeah, the guy made a bad move but saying that he sucks and complaining about it is just as childish. Cowheard has a great show and I’ve enjoyed it for a while. Not to mention that after reading many of your subscribers feedback on the issue, I’m not sure I’m impressed with their intelligence either. Some advice as well…although blogging is fun and i love the new outlet of media, you will never…and i mean never, be able to compete with radio or television. The fact is, some people just don’t have access or means to a computer or internet. Just stick to what you do best, which is provide a secondary means of expression. I like this site and hope to visit it in the future.
April 9th, 2007 at 12:59 PM
Even though Cowherd is the reason I found this site I still think he is a loser and will never again listen to his radio show. Two days is a minor glitch in the long term because his stupid idea will eventually turn out to a positive because you are getting more readers like myself. ESPN is pathetic, I with they had competition but they don’t so they can continue to give people a horrible product. Love the blog, ESPN sucks!
April 9th, 2007 at 1:39 PM
Welcome back. I’m currently training Farmer Jenkins’ donkey to bite off penises. The plan will eventually result in Cowherd eating chopped-up parts of his parents in a bowl of delicious chili.
April 9th, 2007 at 1:47 PM
Party On.
April 9th, 2007 at 1:58 PM
Its about time. I thought I was losing it last week TBL. No Gator talk, No comments about that Rutgers women Basketball comment (he needs to be fired), Man last week was brutal!
April 9th, 2007 at 2:11 PM
good to see you back, 90% of the blogosphere is on your back
April 9th, 2007 at 2:27 PM
Sorry @Patrick…time to take off the blinders. Thanking Cowheard in this situation would be akin to buying dinner for the man fucking your wife.
As for your bold proclamation regarding the blogosphere’s inability to compete with traditional media…welcome to the future my friend. You are playing witness to the second most monumental shift in the dissemination of information since Johannes Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press. Why is this significant? It’s not too far a stretch to state that independent blogs, for the most part, offer a conflict free platform from which to view any range of topics from sports and media, to politics and religion. There is less of an agenda, no shareholders to represent, and the absence of a bottomline dictating the coverage of topics. Best of all? Blogs are self-policing; meaning that if the content contained within isn’t of very high quality on a consistent basis, the audience will simply stop reading. Try telling me that the big boys in traditional media face this sobering reality (ESPN – no competition; Newspapers – at best you have 1-2 other options in most major markets).
Anyway – I could rant for hours on this topic. A few lingering thoughts. Cowheard’s a douche. ESPN is the 600 lb. gorilla in the room, being outworked and outdone by the more agile blogosphere. Lastly, if you only consume information from traditional media and consider yourself an informed individual, I will laugh you out of the bar.
April 9th, 2007 at 3:42 PM
This is great free pub. F Scrutebag, but you guys will come out ahead, between the settlement of your inevitable lawsuit against ESPN and increased traffic.
April 9th, 2007 at 3:44 PM
You could file an anti-trust case against the WWL alleging a group boycott of your site. You’d get treble damages, meaning that you’d recover three-times whatever your damages were. That’ll show WWL not to fuck with you.
April 9th, 2007 at 3:54 PM
Why would you want to kill a kitten?
April 9th, 2007 at 5:10 PM
Welcome back. Can’t wait to read more posts tearing apart Cowshit and his crappy show.
Although dear big straight al, what the fuck does this have to do with a liberal/conservative thing? Typical conservative – you see the Big Scary Liberal Boogeyman anywhere.
And I bet you’d like it stuffed down your throat.
April 9th, 2007 at 5:39 PM
Welcome back, I believe Shrutie just gave himself his third frappuccino enema of the day.
April 9th, 2007 at 5:44 PM
nice to have y’all back.
And for all you lovers of douchiness who keep saying TBL should somehow be “grateful for all the free pub” -
Coward should be the one grateful for the publicity. I had never heard of “Plagiarism Hour with a Genuine Douche” before he went and tried to shut down this legitimate website to overcome his micro-penis syndrome.
What a bastard.
April 9th, 2007 at 5:47 PM
Hey, sorry to hear that Schrutebag effed your site. I was really hoping you guys would do something legal-wise about this. You can’t let the large media outlets bully you like that.
What he did was unethical, and you can surely find at least one way that it was illegal. Get him!
April 9th, 2007 at 6:42 PM
It’s unbelievable the reaction this is getting…. how many people knew about your site before he mentioned it on air? hopefully you can ride this into an actual job instead of being “internet journalists”
April 9th, 2007 at 6:49 PM
Dreamhost or BlueHost (i like dreamhost better) but i can almost guarantee you’d be happy with either.
also enable the WP-Cache plugin in WP, to help avoid future frustration.
April 9th, 2007 at 7:50 PM
Imagine what would happen if there was a DNS attack on ESPN.com for 48 hours.
The response you have taken is very well measured and I think that if I were in your shoes, I would take legal action. If nothing else, I think you should contact the FCC about using public airwaves for malicious purposes.
I don’t listen to Cowherd, and found your site through the USA Today article. Good comments throughout and you have a new reader because of this controversy.
I also put in an e-mail into ESPN saying that I had contacted the FCC and other government agencies about this unlawful act (which I have done).
If the right-wingers can report people to the FCC for obscentities or questionable content, then this should also fall under that umbrella, if not moreso.
April 9th, 2007 at 8:18 PM
Nice lanuage by some of those that post on your sight!!! Profanity shows ignorance and stupidity, you don’t hear that on his (Colins) show!!!! Several of you need to grow up, you can voice your dissatisfaction with what he did with out all of the insulting launage!!!
April 9th, 2007 at 9:05 PM
now your shitty little website knows what a true fan base like The Herd’s can do. Hey I think your fan support is almost up to 100!!! Keep it up boys! keep reaching for that rainbow!
April 9th, 2007 at 10:22 PM
Ah, this is who watches Two and a Half Men.
April 9th, 2007 at 10:57 PM
Grownup: “a true fan base like the Herd’s”
Funniest comment of all. Really is too bad that we all can’t be such bad-ass “fans of ESPN radio”. Y’all are so hardcore.
Maybe you cock puppets can give yourselves a name.
I think “Schrute’s Fruits” sounds good.
Or how ’bout “The Un-showered, De-Flowered, fans of a Coward?”
April 9th, 2007 at 11:45 PM
Great to see you guys back up. What that Schrutebag did was grounds for… well, just about anything really.
The “look, it’s just getting you guys more publicity” card that is being used against you by some folks above stinks of pure reach. Those of us who have been blogging for a while are well aware of The Big Lead. We have been for some time.
There’s a blogging revolution upon the sports-writing world. It’s why you see every ESPN story with a “comments” section. It’s why you see EVERYBODY on ESPN — from Olney to Gammons to Stein — jumping on the “blog fad.” The fact of the matter is that you can find more entertaining stories on sites outside of ESPN.com than you can on the site itself. Couple that with the fact that ESPN gets ripped apart on blogs daily, and they have every reason to be afraid. I don’t believe for a second that this was just “a random site” that Schrutebag targeted.
Keep up the GREAT work guys.
April 10th, 2007 at 2:30 AM
Listened to Cowherd when he was on local radio in Portland. Thought he was a hack then, so I was shocked when he got the ESPN gig. Looks like he’s proven himself to be a dumbass as well as a hack. Creating controversy for the sake of controversy is the worst kind of idiocy.
April 10th, 2007 at 2:04 PM
Great name osubeav were you on Leave it to Beaver!!!! You are an idiot!!!!
April 10th, 2007 at 2:38 PM
Hey look at it this way, it is a compliment that a respected member of the Sports media took the time to look at your site for ideas for his nationally broadcast radio show.
Wait a sec…. did you say Cowherd? On ESPN radio?
My bad…
I’m sorry to hear that your reputation has taken a hit by being associated with Asshat (thanks Girls On Sports, great new name for Cowherd) and ESPN Radio.
Next thing you know you’ll end up being quoted by Jenn Sterger over at SI.
Shudder..
Even us Canadian sports fans take precious time out of our days to completely ignore his broadcasts (when we can get the radio reception in our igloos).
April 13th, 2007 at 2:52 PM
COWHERD IS SUCH AN RECTOM HE SHOULD BE FOREVER KNOWN AS COLIN’S PAL
April 17th, 2007 at 10:52 PM
Colin Cowherd is a tool. His ‘herd’ is doing very little in terms of coming off as either intelligent or relevant. LAWLED at this “you will never…and i mean never, be able to compete with radio or television. The fact is, some people just don’t have access or means to a computer or internet.” Ummmm… I know some people hate him but, Bill Simmons? He blogs and is more relevant than many mainstream media talking heads. Honestly Patrick, ESPN doesn’t even subscribe to your ignorant POV. If blogs are irrelevant, why did they pay Henry Abbott (truehoop) to tack an espn on the end of what he was already doing? Blogs aren’t going anywhere, and it’s likely that more and more will be swallowed up by the sports turd-sandwich manufacturers like wwl and fox. Wake up. If the fact that some people don’t heve the internets meant they were inviable, why is youtube worth a billion? Why is google’s stock preposterously priced? I humbly reccommend that you, patrick my dear, walk willingly from your cave drawings and crappy cable tv and into the now. Good day.
April 18th, 2007 at 3:04 PM
the herd rules. all of you please go back to drinking zima and driving your jetta. get out of your parents basement. it’s grownup time.
April 18th, 2007 at 3:07 PM
you will probably unfairly censor my last comment. which makes you as bad as colin. you should be thanking him, i’m sure you never got as many hits as you are now after he gave you free publicity. get a job. you don’t matter.
April 28th, 2007 at 8:08 PM
Hi! How r u?
nice site!