Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me

[Katpappy]

This guy is proof an old ugly rough rider can get hot young chicks as long as he has a fat wallet. 

[wetwillie]

I don’t get what this piece was hoping to accomplish. Maybe it was their first exposure to Portnoy and they thought nobody knew.

[420seriouscat69]

I don’t get what this piece was hoping to accomplish. Maybe it was their first exposure to Portnoy and they thought nobody knew.

It literally accomplished nothing.

[Trim]

His being mad or defensive about that article is weird to me.

Ah, now I get why he’s mad and defensive.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-04/penn-national-tumbles-after-business-insider-report-on-portnoy

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/penn-national-sheds-more-than-2-5-billion-in-valuation-after-earnings-miss-allegations-against-barstool-founder-11636052914

[MakeItRain]

I don’t get what this piece was hoping to accomplish. Maybe it was their first exposure to Portnoy and they thought nobody knew.

It literally accomplished nothing.

Yet, you're on here defending him against things in that article that he's publicly done. As the article states him rough ridin' young women is something he brags about on his show. Him being an abusive but consensual sex partner and his proclivity to film his escapades is something that has been known given he's leaked three videos.

As trim pointed out his hypocritical outrage is simply about Penn National stock. His followers outrage is the usual lemming like behavior of doing whatever they're led to do because they idolize that dude.

[michigancat]

I don’t get what this piece was hoping to accomplish. Maybe it was their first exposure to Portnoy and they thought nobody knew.

I didn't know about the non-consensual spitting and choking and filming on like first encounters. Even if I knew he was a dirtbag in general, that's still pretty jarring to read in detail.

[chum1]

If the article gets the word out that he is like this and one fewer 19 year-old is taken advantage of and ends up hurt as a result, is that not worthwhile?

Also, isn't some of it possibly criminal if someone is telling him to stop and he does not stop?

[MakeItRain]

If the article gets the word out that he is like this and one fewer 19 year-old is taken advantage of and ends up hurt as a result, is that not worthwhile?

Also, isn't some of it possibly criminal if someone is telling him to stop and he does not stop?

Yes.

As to the second point, I'm no DA but the given what the women said, it doesn't seem like he committed a criminal act and even if he did they didn't seem too excited to participate in a prosecution. That being said, it sure seems likely that there are women out there that feel like they were assaulted.

[chum1]

it sure seems likely that there are women out there that feel like they were assaulted.

Yeah, if three women spoke out, it stands to reason that more with similar experiences have not.

This part seems dicey to me.

She recalled crying and shouting, "Too much! Too much!" and "It hurts!"

"It was so painful," Madison said. "I kept trying to get away and he was like, 'Stop running away from me. Stop running away from me.'"

But Portnoy, she said, "just went harder."

[Stupid Fitz]

I don’t get what this piece was hoping to accomplish. Maybe it was their first exposure to Portnoy and they thought nobody knew.

It literally accomplished nothing.

Yet, you're on here defending him against things in that article that he's publicly done. As the article states him rough ridin' young women is something he brags about on his show. Him being an abusive but consensual sex partner and his proclivity to film his escapades is something that has been known given he's leaked three videos.

As trim pointed out his hypocritical outrage is simply about Penn National stock. His followers outrage is the usual lemming like behavior of doing whatever they're led to do because they idolize that dude.

Bootlickers are a weird bunch

[yoga-like_abana]

more than likely a dude that could never get those chicks back when he was in college and is taking out that sexual frustration on them. sad

[420seriouscat69]

I think it's fair to think he's a douche bag and the main girl in question is a thirsty fraud, who has a history of doing stuff like this before, for attention. Maybe not tho.

[Stupid Fitz]

I think it's fair to think he's a douche bag and the main girl in question is a thirsty fraud, who has a history of doing stuff like this before, for attention. Maybe not tho.

lol

[420seriouscat69]

I think it's fair to think he's a douche bag and the main girl in question is a thirsty fraud, who has a history of doing stuff like this before, for attention. Maybe not tho.

lol

Wassup?

[MakeItRain]

I'm not going to go back and read it again, but didn't the article say "the main girl in question" was one of the women he leaked a video of? Like this is on camera, no?

[420seriouscat69]

Why would we do the research for you, if you're too lazy to do it yourself?

[420seriouscat69]

I think it's fair to think he's a douche bag and the main girl in question is a thirsty fraud, who has a history of doing stuff like this before, for attention. Maybe not tho.

lol

https://twitter.com/stoolpresidente/status/1456791020998381572?s=21

[passranch]

Portnoy's really shook.

[420seriouscat69]

Portnoy's really shook.

I would be too. Thirsty traps playing victim.

[Rage Against the McKee]

Given the accusations, wouldn't the police be able to get a warrant to go get the tapes? Seems like it would be pretty easy to prove or disprove with the video evidence.

[TheHamburglar]

Portnoy's really shook.

I would be too. Thirsty traps playing victim.

Guy whose entire persona is treating women like crap pays for young women to fly to his house for rape fantasies & tries to play the victim.

As played out as the saying is, at best this is a perfect example of play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

[ben ji]

If it wasn't for Barstool we would never have this glorious headline


https://www.knoxnews.com/story/sports/college/university-of-tennessee/football/2017/11/07/john-currie-tennessee-fans-came-out-saturday-for-boys/840561001/

As John Currie walked through Neyland Stadium on Saturday night, the first-year Tennessee athletic director found a common refrain presented to him by fans in attendance.

And he found the words inspiring in the wake of the football program’s struggles.

“I had so many people coming up to me saying they were there for the players,” Currie said to the Rotary Club of Knoxville on Tuesday. “They came for the boys. That’s what one of them said, ‘Saturdays are for the boys.’ That was inspiring to me.

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['taterblast]

Dave has proof the sources were lying and will be EXPOSING business insider at 1 pm today

[420seriouscat69]

Good news.

['taterblast]

yeah Portnoy wins this one. Business Insider did a bad job.