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• phase2 said April 29, 2009

  Its ESPN, expecting journalistic integrity might be expecting too much.

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  • wubanga101 replied April 29, 2009

    But this is getting well byond ridiculous! The reporting on ESPN, whether it be on their programs or the web site, has been atrocious lately. From Sal Pal's completely made up trade rumors regarding Boldin and Gonzalez, to Micheals Smith's opionions that he has labeled reporting. Its as if ESPN has thrown out all of their journalistic integrity just to garner a few more views or gather a few more viewers to their programs. This NFL off season reporting from ESPN should be considered illeagal at least in terms of ethics. ESPN needs to apologize to its fans and to all of the sources they have miss quoted, not to mention the journalism world as a whole, for a gross display of attempting to re-write the rules of journalism and reporting for publicity.
• sidelionreport said April 29, 2009

  well, yardbarker isn't a part of the Disney Mafia.
  
  if they aren't getting a piece of it, they aren't interested.
  you can do that when you have lawyers that can crush anyone to itty bitty little bits.

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• sidelionreport said April 29, 2009

  well, yardbarker isn't a part of the Disney Mafia.
  
  if they aren't getting a piece of it, they aren't interested.
  you can do that when you have lawyers that can crush anyone to itty bitty little bits.

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• filly4ever said April 29, 2009

  I did see Yardbarker mentioned today in my local paper with an article about Donovan and its the first time I've seen that. Just thought I'd throw it out there.

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  • AlanaG replied April 29, 2009

    A lot of newspapers have been mentioning Yardbarker lately, which is great! Glad you caught one of the articles...
• khollen said April 29, 2009

  they mentioned it on mike & mike in the morning to. i was waiting for a yardbarker reference, but nothing mentioned. profootballtalk.com however does mention yardbarker.

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  • AlanaG replied April 29, 2009

    Profootballtalk is great about citing its sources and linking where appropriate. They definitely "get it"...
    • Justwannawinna replied April 29, 2009

      lol and we all know im the pft junkie haha
• UNC23Tarheels said April 29, 2009

  Hey,AlanaG ESPN needs to step their game up and stop jocking your swagger!!

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• 5ive4life said April 29, 2009

  Yardbarker is the best. Pay them.

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• Spotella said April 29, 2009

  Hah, maybe now the mods on here will be forced to start paying attention.

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  • AlanaG replied April 29, 2009

    paying attention to what?
    • Spotella replied April 29, 2009

      Maybe some of the crap that goes on here. The few multi ID'ers who you continue to ignore though they are on here only to hate. You know, the ones that you continue to move their posts in a thread adding more flame to the fire.
      • Robbo24 replied April 29, 2009

        Spotella I'm finding out some stuff now Alana G. is the moderator? How is she going to moderate anything when she's at the Playboy Mansion all the time? She obviously likes this drama to make SEO points. Now she wants recognition for her site....I should have known this site was run by a........
      • AlanaG replied April 29, 2009

        Thanks for responding Spotella. As Robbo24 said, I'm one of the moderators -- we have several people who do moderation here. Given the large volume of comments we get on the site every day, we can't read everything, so we rely on community flagging. Please continue to flag inappropriate comments for our attention. For big problems that can't be handled by flagging, send us an email at feedback@yardbarker.com. As for the posts moving in a thread, that's just a bug -- sometimes the order of comments gets messed up. We never move things around intentionally -- trust me, we don't have time to be doing that, and why would we want to add flame to the fire anyway?
      • wubanga101 replied April 29, 2009

        I left several e-mails at your feedback address and have never seen anything done nor have I ever heard anything back from you guys! These multi ID'ers are out of control on the NFL section.
      • Spotella replied April 29, 2009

        I know you're a moderator which is why I am pointing out that I and many others see what you're doing. You can tell me you don't have time but there is no way anyone can NOT see who the problem children are. I have sent e-mail in the past and I've NEVER been replied to.
      • Robbo24 replied April 29, 2009

        "Bug" you say, must be a convenient bug, or a convenient fiction, shouldn't take this long ma'am and your spin control is weak for the poor mangement of this site. I missed the reason why you're not affiliated with AOL.
      • AlanaG replied April 30, 2009

        Hey guys, thanks for the feedback. I know you're frustrated with some of these bugs, we all are. I might not be able to convince you that we aren't doing things like changing comment order on purpose, but it's the truth, even if it might seem otherwise. Anyway, I hope you at least think we're doing enough things right to stick around the site and continue to contribute as you have been! As for the feedback emails, we do try to reply to all of them, but Spotella I just sent you a private message to try to figure out which ones of yours we didn't respond to. And robbo24, if you're really interested in why I'm no longer working at AOL, coincidentally a blogger actually mentioned it today (halfway down the article). If you follow the link trail, you can do all sorts of snooping on me if you want! http://mgoblog.com/content/unverified-voracity-feels-soil-falling-over-its-head
      • AlanaG replied April 29, 2009

        wubanga101 I sent you a private message on your account...
    • Robbo24 replied April 30, 2009

      Well Alana G. I had a run in or two with "Bean Counters" myself and I appuad you for striking out on your own, but you have to clean this mess up. Your support staff is way to lax ma'am you have a great group on this site and I know many who came and left because of the poor management of the bad bloggers. This site would be much larger if you reigned in the bad bloggers, and keep them from attacking people for one. No one is going to put up with being attacked this way and then when you attack back your comments disappear all of a sudden, no you don't know frustration, and these attack dogs seem to have free reign. You might consider paying more attention to addressing customer service issues more aggressively is all I'm saying. Or suffer the exodus of good hearted articulate bloggers with a word or idea worth listening too.
    • rustysrf89 replied April 30, 2009

      as long as we're getting into problems on this site, I think I'll add one. Apollokid posted a very well thought out response to the post Change we can believe in, however since he did not agree with Obama it got deleted. He followed all three rules of the yard in the comment, but because it was actually an intelligent argument about his 100 days in office it got deleted. Plenty of people who talk about how Bush was horrible, yet their comments didnt get deleted. People should be allowed to post whatever they want whether they agree or disagree with Lord Obama as long as they follow the three rules of the yard, which Apollokid did.
      • AlanaG replied April 30, 2009

        Hey rustysrf89 -- I think I know the comment you were talking about, and it was an intelligent and thoughtful comment (although I don't agree with it). If you look on the article, the comment is there. I believe it got removed in error. We definitely want people to post their opinion whatever it is, as long as it follows the rules of the Yard as you said (and Apollokid did). Thanks for pointing it out -- our moderation system is not perfect, so thanks for the continued feedback.
• hockeygoddess said April 29, 2009

  I'm just happy Donovan is on here blogging. He's the BEST!

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• hockeygoddess said April 29, 2009

  I'm just happy Donovan is on here blogging. He's the BEST!

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• hockeygoddess said April 29, 2009

  Sorry, computer is acting funky!

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  • Spotella replied April 30, 2009

    Don't be sorry, that's worth repeating!
• mom2a2 said April 29, 2009

  Yeah, I noticed that,too. All this talk about McNabb's blog yet no mention of YB. Even Eskin talked about his blog, and never mentioned the source.

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• I_Ask_Madden said April 29, 2009

  I caught the sports segment on ABC Philadelphia's local news last night, they quoted that article and gave due credit to yardbarker, they mentioned the site name before the quote and placed the URL of the site at the top of the screen when the quote was displayed. It was nice to see.
  
  Of course, I'm not surprised that ESPN doesn't offer the same courtesy. I guess they figure since yardbarker is just a medium for McNabb's words, they don't deserve recognition.

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  • AlanaG replied April 29, 2009

    Big up to ABC Philadelphia! Thanks for pointing that out...
• eagles23 said April 29, 2009

  espn can suck on my balls!

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• RobertLittal said April 29, 2009

  Here is the truth. Blogs are taking over. We are smarter, more entertaining and more interesting. Time for the Old guard to move on and time for us to move in.

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  • Robbo24 replied April 29, 2009

    I'm not too sure about that buddy, most blogs are poorly managed like this one, and you have a lot of ramblings like this one.....I got to admit if the old gaurd left we would be stuck with this trash....They serve a purpose.
• TheOneNOnly said April 29, 2009

  They did give credit to Yardbarker.com when it was on tv.

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• LBSports said April 29, 2009

  I noticed this immediately and thought it was especially in poor taste given how much of his post they cited.

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• DTRIK19 said April 29, 2009

  They do this with every post of his...its NOTHING NEW. On some of their shows they'll even mention YB. CSN uses his posts too and always say yardbarker.com

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• lionit said April 29, 2009

  ESPN is well know for rewriting other people's stories into their own hand. Happens all the time with football news. They'll take another reporter's scoop slap "John Clayton reports" and make it seem like ESPN broke the story. All their guy did was read the news somewhere else, call up the person involved to confirm it, then it is their story.
  
  

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• Prymetyme0614 said April 29, 2009

  on sportscenter when they were saying that he posted this they put yardbarker.com at the bottom of the quote they read.

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• sambot said April 29, 2009

  alana, don't you realize that espn is full of a bunch of poo flinging monkeys that don't have time to edit or even READ what they say?
  
  exhibit a: http://www.yardbarker.com/nba/articles/and_yet_another_espn_fail/571609
  exhibit b: http://www.yardbarker.com/mlb/articles/epic_EPIC_fail_by_ESPN/563586

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  • AlanaG replied April 29, 2009

    The Curt Schilling / Jose Canseco one was classic. That had to be an inside joke for some funny crew member right? SO BAD. As for the other one, hey no one can ever remember who plays in Charlotte these days... Bobcats? who?... haha....
    • sambot replied April 29, 2009

      they need to pay me to edit for them. i would make them look so much better ;)
• calieagle99 said April 29, 2009

  I noticed it on NFL Network yesterday while watching Total Access. I had just finished reading it on here and then looked up and they were reporting on it. They did say "Donovan's blog" but the graphic had Yardbarker.com as the source. I thought it was cool!

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• HarryPotter said April 29, 2009

  F*** ESPN

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• AlanaG said April 29, 2009

  Update: ESPN has issued a correction! If you click over to the article now it credits Donovan's Yardbarker blog at the bottom.
  
  http://www.alanag.com/2009/04/espn-issues-correction-about-yardbarker.html

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• Justwannawinna said April 29, 2009

  how dare they?!!!!!!!

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• UNC23Tarheels said April 30, 2009

  Say word what's with all the "HATE"? AlanaG got thumbs down are you serious?? Anyways,I feel that ESPN and any other show that speaks to athletes that blog on YB,the show should mention YardBarker as the source..

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• SMH12289 said April 30, 2009

  I can care less where the story came from as long as it's right and if McNabb is not making a big deal about it then nobody else should

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  • Spotella replied April 30, 2009

    You make a very good point.