If you frequent message boards like we do, then you know that the Rivals boards usually outdistance the Scout.com boards for quality content and timely information. Rivals also provides Trojan viruses and some of the oddest people in America. Rivals.com, inspiring a new kind of offender the recruiting junkie.
Proving that you don’t have to be a failed coach or failed athlete to get a football desk job, we hope that the Rivals Recruiting Guru Bobby Burton’s hobgoblins Matt “sniffs my” Sacks and J.C. Schurbert will be licking balls and fetching pastries for a new boss soon. [CNet News]
Yahoo is close to acquiring sports-fan Web site Rivals.com for as much as $100 million, according to blog site paidContent.org, which cites unnamed sources. [Forbes]
After observing the Scout Boards this week, I am pleased to announce that the Rivals fan base began to look normal. When I am “told a story” I long for the days of my misspent youth watching the Gong Show while simultaneously huffing paint and eating gluesticks. Or even better than destroying brain cells through chemicals, reading the rants of these misguided idiots/rednecks/and pseudo intellectuals from this site: outermonvolia. More to follow in the coming weeks on Rivals, Scout and the malcontent monvolians.
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