SPORTS BUSINESS DAILY, one of our favorite sites, has an exclusive with Dan Patrick this week. SBD is a pay site, so we’re not going to mention much about it (subscribe silly!), except for two small things.
When asked to describe the weekly column he’ll be writing for SI, Patrick said: “It’s going to be a column that the editor, Terry McDonell, said he would like to think is dangerous. I think it just reflects my personality.”
We’ve thought a lot of things about Dan Patrick, but dangerous isn’t one of them.
Patrick is also asked what websites he visits every day. He listed “SI.com and Sportspages.com.”
We then went to Sportspages.com to try to remember why we haven’t visited there in years. Upon hitting the URL we were reminded why:
The site appears to have been down for over a year:
So that explains the pacing of Patrick’s radio show.
If we had to pick between Patrick and Rick Reilly on TV, we’d pick Patrick. For print, it’s Reilly (who is now at ESPN). Nothing makes sense anymore.
12:15 pm on February 7th, 2008
get your facts right…it’s now ussportspages.com and it’s still in business…
12:20 pm on February 7th, 2008
ESPN has become Hack Central. Too many people like Salisbury and Herbstreit yammering on about sh** they don’t know anything about. If they did, they wouldn’t be working for ESPN.
12:41 pm on February 7th, 2008
patrick mentioned sportspages.com, not the url you cite.
you may be right, he may be going to that url, but he didn’t indicate that with this answer.
if the site is “still in business”, why is it gone from sportspages.com? why isn’t there, at the very least, a redirect?
1:51 pm on February 7th, 2008
It used to be called sportspages.com. Then someone bought the domain name, and the site was renamed ussportspages.com. It’s basically an index of sports commentary from across THE INTERNETS. There’s a daily top-ten page of links to opinion columns. They also have newspaper links organized by sport, league, city, etc. Convenient way to get to sports sections of newspaper sites.