Deadspin.com released confidential financial documents for several clubs this past week, including the Florida Marlins.
Take the list of names ridiculed at Deadspin and originally assembled in a Parents magazine poll.
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Deadspin.com first exposed the scheme on Wednesday and indicated Tuiasosopo was involved in it.
Donna Te'i has been "distraught" since Deadspin first ran with the story, according to her father.
Until Deadspin, acting on an anonymous e-mail it received last week, started poking around.
The story was a hoax, according to Deadspin, the only outlet that bothered to investigate it.
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Financial documents published last year by the website Deadspin showed the team had been turning a profit.
Will Leitch is the man at Deadspin.com, the author of "God Save the Fan, " the pride of Mattoon, Illinois.
Oh, and he also hosted this funny and enlightening chat on Deadspin.
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Deadspin called mortuaries and funeral homes in Carson, California, where Kekua was reportedly buried -- but came up empty.
At worst, as is suggested in Deadspin, he was an accomplice looking to sensationalize a situation for personal gain.
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"Outside of a few Twitter and Instagram accounts, there's no online evidence that Lennay Kekua ever existed, " Deadspin contends.
As Deadspin pointed out in this piece, the results were not pretty.
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And they did after the sports website Deadspin published a piece dismissing the existence of the girlfriend as a hoax.
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Deadspin.com got its hands on the financial statements for five teams and published those numbers on its web site today.
National sports blogs, like Deadspin.com, and team specific blogs, like Talkingchop.com (Atlanta Braves), will keep growing in popularity as alternative-news outlets.
No one bothered to seek out Kekua's family until Deadspin, acting on an anonymous e-mail received last week, started poking around.
The degree discrepancy was first reported Friday by the sports website Deadspin, resulting in an admission of error later in the day.
The hope of access trumped the investigative reporting, so the hoax was exposed by the snarky but solid sports blog Deadspin.
Will Leitch, editor of Deadspin, friend of the BPP, author of the new book "God Save the Fan" with a very long title.
But Deadspin said that it could find no official record of Kekua's death and that no-one of that name had attended Stanford University.
The sports website Deadspin broke the story in January that Kekua wasn't real, and Te'o subsequently insisted he'd been the victim of a hoax.
Deadspin said it had traced the hoax to a former classmate of the woman whose face appears in the Twitter profile of Te'o's alleged girlfriend.
Almost as often as not, I now follow up my semi-regular scan of ESPN.com with a visit to Deadspin, for counterprogramming: the news and the dish.
The photos and videos often find their way to the Internet, where they get picked up by blogs like Deadspin, and sometimes by the mainstream media.
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Deadspin reported that widely distributed photographs of Lennay Kekua had been lifted from the Internet accounts of an unsuspecting woman whom the website declined to identify.
And it makes perfect sense that the Te'o hoax was busted up by Deadspin.com, a website rigorously devoted to undermining the holy self-regard that often surrounds sports.
Last weekend, Katie Baker, a frequent contributor to sports gossip site DeadSpin wrote a NYTimes Sunday Magazine piece on the growing legion of female NFL fans.
The fairy tale story ended on Wednesday when sports website Deadspin published a piece dismissing as a hoax the existence of Te'o's girlfriend and suggesting he was complicit.
Te'o's grandmother did in fact die in September, Deadspin said.
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