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Cowherd vs. the Web
New ESPN ombudsman Le Anne Schreiber isn't wasting any time taking a network personality to task. She finds an inbox full of reader complaints about radio host Colin Cowherd, and she doesn't mince words. "I agree."
Cowherd encouraged his listeners to launch a crude denial-of-service attack against The Big Lead, one of the blogs taking the sports snark so commonly found on the radio and refining it in the new medium of the blogosphere. Deadspin, which took Cowherd to task more than a year ago over his alleged failure to credit bloggers for material he used on the show, spoke up on behalf of its blog brethren while The Big Lead was down:
We understand how alone it can feel to realize that the game has passed you by, that the same schtick you've made your "career" out of is in danger of collapsing in on itself like a dying star.
Schreiber doesn't ponder Cowherd's place in today's media or an an astronomical scale. Words can't hurt Cowherd, but maybe a suspension can.
Cowherd doesn't seem to have many friends in the blogosphere. Dawg Sports' Kyle King thanks Schreiber for the response to his e-mail. One More Dying Quail rounds up at least 40 blogs turning up the heat. Several readers at Every Day Should Be Saturday want to fight fire with fire. (Pardon the "heat" and "fire" cliches -- it's still cold here on the East Coast.)
Cowherd is due on the air at 10 a.m. ET. Will he urge listeners to launch an attack on ESPN itself now? And who in the world is out there doing Colin Cowherd's bidding, anyway?
Update: 10:15 a.m. ET, and Cowherd hasn't mentioned the situation. The Big Lead has updated -- they're grateful for the support, they've found new server space, and they're still wondering why Cowherd picked them.
Update: (Via Can't Stop the Bleeding, which claims the traditional media are ignoring this.) The Star-Tribune's Michael Rand steps in as peacemaker between the blogosphere and traditional media. Response we'd be tempted to make if we were writing The Big Lead -- hey, don't lump us in with Curt Schilling.
Update: Cowherd is now on a rant about Don Imus, claiming whenever people make a call to get someone else fired, it's usually some lesser-known guy with a chip on his shoulder trying to take down a big influencer like Imus. He says a local columnist for the New York Whatever is making a case about Imus (funny, we thought it was Al Sharpton) but has no impact because he's just one of a crowd of columnists in New York's fragmented newspaper community.
Imus is on WFAN, one of 50-plus radio stations in metro New York, and he's on MSNBC, one of 200-plus cable channels.
Cowherd's show is done -- we didn't listen throughout, but we can verify that he didn't address the situation at the beginning or end of the show.
Update, 10:15 p.m.: The Big Lead did hear Cowherd address the situation. Suffice it to say they're not all best buddies now.
