Rob Cassidy
@Cassidy_Rob
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Senior Editor at The Sporting News. Formerly of Yahoo Sports. Once sang a duet of the Astronaut Jones theme with Tracy Morgan. #LGM Contact: [email protected]
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Joined June 2009
Posting "wow pretty problematic" under every single person's Spotify wrapped and then responding "it's not my job to educate you" when they ask what I mean by that.
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Tapping the sign
Brian Kelly could have kept his job if he wasn't so unpleasant
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Engaging in illegal gambling without a single interpreter to blame is so amateurish, man
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Somebody beefing with Sarah Langs is the fourth horseman of the apocalypse, I fear. Last one out hit the lights.
Ummmm...okay then. Let's be friends instead and not do this. We play for the same team of making awesome baseball content. I'd genuinely love to hang with you. We see like a natural fit. Right? We complement one another. Why do this? https://t.co/fLLa22jcrF
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Braden Smith of @BoilerBall was offered a đź’° -- or two -- by other major programs to transfer away from Purdue. He declined, because he loves his teammates and wants to make history. And not just by passing @BobbyHurley11 as @NCAA career assists leader. https://t.co/i0wL1Z3J7W
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Braden Smith is within reach of becoming the all-time assists leader in NCAA men's basketball, but his goals are to win the national championship.
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A near-upset of Team USA. Titles at four levels. Top 10 draft pick. Butch Lee's distinguishing feat? Becoming "El Primero," the NBA's first Hispanic player and a Puerto Rican pioneer. “If you know the history, you know who Butch Lee is.” @sportingnews
https://t.co/bKxltdsxz9
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Basketball took Butch Lee to Rucker Park, Marquette, the Olympics and more. Along the way, he quietly became a trailblazer for Hispanic players.
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The Nick Castellanos bit is “Die Hard is a Christmas movie” for baseball fans.
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If you are in line to fight somebody's dad in the Bill Snyder family Stadium parking lot, stay in line! They have to let you fight a dad if you lined up before the game ended.
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We have to address this weird 24/7 surveillance state we've created
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Ya know it used to be that when somebody was a jerk at a baseball game, you just cussed them out, flipped them off and kept it pushing. I'm not sure I'm super comfortable with the punishment for being a prick being a doxxing and 48-hour internet pile on.
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The state of sports journalism has gotten so dire that people are forgetting what journalism is. I feel like I’m losing my mind
What is Pablo Torre getting out of dry snitching man…
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A legend reflects on a quarter century. Cheers, @tsnmike
https://t.co/A3AzzZL7OM
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Mike DeCourcy knew he wanted to be a sportswriter in fourth grade. And he's lived that life at his favorite childhood publication for a quarter century.
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Haven’t seen this move since Adam Banks’ dad showed up to Hawks-Ducks in Hawks gear despite his son being on the other team.
Micah Parsons’s mom is at Cowboys-Eagles in Philadelphia wearing Cowboys gear even after her son was traded to the Packers. (🎥 via @MikeGarafolo)
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When John Cena does this, they call it “The US Open Challenge” When a regular citizen does it, they call the cops. Shameful.
South Side. The Burger King, again. Caller says that an ex-employee showed up and is threatening to fight anyone.
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Whipping out the calculator for a sports tweet is a sign something has gone horribly, horribly wrong for your squad.
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I absolutely LOVE when a fan base meltdown reaches the “calculating state taxes” point. Oklahoma-Lincoln Riley is the Casablanca of this genre.
$48m in Green Bay after taxes = $26,145,257 $40m in Dallas after taxes = $25,241,812 Thanks to David Mulugheta, Micah Parsons now gets to live in Green Bay, Wisconsin all for a raise of $900,000!
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"That season certainly was a turning point – a pivotal point – for the show and him." Revisiting Lee Corso's perfect 1999 headgear season, with behind-the-scenes stories from those who witnessed it. https://t.co/vA8JPk3Svl
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The 1999 College Football season saw ESPN's College GameDay reach new heights thanks to Lee Corso's incredible perfect season.
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College coaches can usually buy themselves an additional year of employment by simply playing nice with the media. Behaving like this is self sabotage. I’ll never understand it.
UCLA football head coach DeShaun Foster’s back-and-forth from Wednesday’s practice media scrum on restricting media access policies:
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And don’t get me started on “creators” that fawn over interview subjects as though they’re meeting their heroes. The most popular hosts have never asked a hard question in their lives and somehow get reputations for being “good interviewers” (hot ones guy)
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Athletes now have full-on stan armies like Pop stars have, and “reporters” are terrified of them. It’s insane
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Relevant to sports media as well
i'm concerned about where music journalism is headed. too many want to be friends with the artists they interview and it means artists + their teams expect fawning copy + aren't built to handle anything even remotely critical. it's becoming more and more like content marketing
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