#tom ley

I've wanted (and tried!) to write something meaningful about Deadspin, but words have failed me. It was a singular, meaningful, and good place on the internet. It was staffed by the exact right kind of people. It had guts and integrity. It had heart, and brains. I like sports, and people who like sports, but precious few people know exactly how to contextualize popular sports within the larger motherfucker of it all, and no one has ever done it like Deadspin did. 

And now, no one else will.

I never wrote a piece for them and I don't know any of them IRL but David Roth, Laura Wagner, Albert Burneko, Drew Magary, Diana Moskovitz, Barry Petchesky, Samer Kalaf, Tom Ley, Lauren Theisen, Megan Greenwell, et al, made me better at what I do professionally and somehow, personally. 

Tom Ley, writing for The Concourse:

It’s dumb to expect video games to be responsible reflections of real life, but it is also impossible, for me at least, to not feel some ickiness about the game forcing me into cahoots with even a fictionalized version of the NYPD, an organization that routinely oppresses some of the most vulnerable residents of the city I live in.

During my playtime, Spidey said, "Whoah! A drug deal!" My first thought was, does Spider-Man support the drug war?

I know this is a heightened universe with superpowers and capital-c Crime, which is different from real-life crime, but it still feels weird.

From Deadspin's Tom Ley:

Say hello to Fancloud.com, a sports website in the Yardbarker Network that wants you to pay $50 in exchange for the opportunity to write for it. The three dipshits in the video above are the site's founders, and they can explain everything to you, but if you're not in the mood to have some wannabe Silicon Valley bros explain why you should give them $50, allow me to explain what Fancloud is: a fucking scam.

Although NBA owners are most to blame for the lockout, Tom Ley writes, they’re also receiving the most sympathy.