
cats scared of bananas
By: Andrew Joseph | October 17, 2017 2:43 pm Follow @andyj0seph
["480"]
Barstool Sports CEO Erika Nardini dedicated the aggregation on Tuesday afterwards ESPN personality Sam Ponder alleged out the armpit for abhorrent comments it fabricated about her and her baby babe in 2014.
There are assertive vulnerabilities that appear with growing up on the internet. If you appetite controversies, we accept them.
— Erika K Nardini (@EKANardini) October 17, 2017
We're a ball cast that's been on the internet for 15 years and not for everyone.
— Erika K Nardini (@EKANardini) October 17, 2017
["679"]And it's because of this, not in animosity of it, that we were able to actualize a appearance like Barstool Van Talk
— Erika K Nardini (@EKANardini) October 17, 2017
The appearance will allege for itself.
— Erika K Nardini (@EKANardini) October 17, 2017
Last week, ESPN appear a affiliation with Barstool to barrage a late-night sports appearance on ESPN2, Barstool Van Talk, with co-hosts Dan Katz and PFT Commenter. The appearance will admission on Tuesday night. On Monday night, Ponder tweeted a screenshot from an abhorrent 2014 blog column about her at Katz. And admitting she afield accused Katz of autograph the article, she stood by her action to ESPN’s affiliation with Barstool. The commodity in catechism had an editor’s agenda accounting by Barstool architect and beat administrator Dave Portnoy.
["1280"]
Portnoy, who ahead said that Ponder bare to “sex it up and be slutty,” wrote his own acknowledgment to Ponder on Tuesday. He acquaint a blog that appropriate the achievability of dispatch bottomward at Barstool afore announcement addition article, “I Anticipation About It. I Ain’t Leaving.”
In the antecedent response, Portnoy wrote of Ponder:
This time Sam Ponder is in our (expletive) because she’s mad about our appearance on ESPN 2. The whispers are that a few ESPN advisers acquainted they adapted a appearance afore us and she is accomplishing her best to get it annulled afore it begins. Aloof a bananas move for advisers of the aggregation we aloof partnered with to try to demolition their own artefact but I assumption that’s the aberration amid us and them and why we may be so successful. Barstool is like a ancestors and we all row calm with a accepted goal. Clearly ESPN advisers don’t affliction about putting their admiral in alarming unwinnable situations.
Well let me alpha by adage alike admitting I abhorrence Sam Ponder I do account a acceptable animosity and allegedly she was captivation assimilate this one from 3 years ago aloof cat-and-mouse for the exact appropriate moment to backfire on us. She has every appropriate to be mad at us. Hell if somebody talked (expletive) about me I’d apparently abhorrence them too. She best aftermost night as her moment. To bolt you up she was mad about a blog she anticipation Big Cat wrote but Feits and I wrote 3 years ago in acknowledgment to this cheep she fabricated about the Ray Rice situation.
["484"]ESPN beneath to animadversion added on the bearings and referred to its Monday night account to For The Win. Monday night, ESPN EVP of programming and scheduling Burke Magnus said in a statement:
“The comments about Sam Ponder were abhorrent and inappropriate, and we accept her reaction. She is a admired aide and accomplishing a abundant job for us. As declared previously, we do not ascendancy the agreeable of Barstool Sports. We are accomplishing a appearance with Big Cat and PFT, and we do accept final say on the agreeable of that show.”
Ponder added on Tuesday that she chose to allege out adjoin Barstool because ESPN had clearly partnered with them.
I selfishly didn’t say annihilation 3 yrs ago (or in acknowledgment to their being abt added women) bc like abounding women in this industry, I was abashed of added attacks from their followers. Working for the aforementioned aggregation now gave me added adventuresomeness 🤷🏼♀️
— Sam Ponder (@sam_ponder) October 17, 2017
["1280"]
["412"]
["480"]

["960"]

["320"]

["600"]
