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ghost
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on: May 02, 2012, 10:13:15 AM

This is a lengthy article on a girl named Sarah J. Phillips that writes a page 2 article or two for ESPN.  It's pretty damned interesting and makes for a lot of speculation on what the hell is really going on.  I won't spoil the article for you, but I'll give you a teaser (she's supposedly the one on the guy's left):



Honestly, this thing reads like a Goon scam.
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Draegan
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Reply #1 on: May 02, 2012, 11:36:51 AM

Is there a TLDR version?
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Reply #2 on: May 02, 2012, 12:01:57 PM

Is the column about sexy women fucking oompa-loompas ?

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Reply #3 on: May 02, 2012, 12:13:29 PM

I'm lost. That may be the longest pointless article in history.

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Reply #4 on: May 02, 2012, 12:17:40 PM

tldr; Someone who may or may not have been a hot chick has an improbable career as an online columnist for sports betting, winds up at ESPN.com, apparently scams someone else out of their sports meme site (and several thousand dollars).

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ghost
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Reply #5 on: May 02, 2012, 12:33:12 PM

It's fucking brilliant.  What sort of loser would fall for that shit? Oh yeah, the same idiots that play Eve online...
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Reply #6 on: May 02, 2012, 12:37:23 PM

http://hotchickswithdouchebags.com/2010/12/orangest-orange-2/

And the photo has appeared elsewhere too...

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Reply #7 on: May 13, 2012, 02:52:40 PM

Yep, some fairly sophisticated con artists do a fairly good job of conning a one person out of a comedy sports web page and another out of several thousand dollers. She wrote on sports gambling and this landed her work as a freelancer at ESPN which gave her some clout, which she used to convince Mr Web page that when he was talking to her boyfriend he was actually talking to a high up on ESPN. ESPN reads the article and terminates her freelance status the same day. And the guy gets his sports comedy site back the same day. Other linked articles say that her boyfriend is really the person pulling her strings.

Oh and that's not actually her in the pic on the op. This is them, apperently


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Reply #8 on: May 13, 2012, 02:55:05 PM

It seems like a really stupid con.

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Reply #9 on: May 13, 2012, 04:09:13 PM

So, basically, like most of the shit on the Internet.

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Reply #10 on: May 13, 2012, 05:47:08 PM

So, basically, like most of the shit on the Internet.

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Reply #11 on: May 23, 2012, 06:05:50 PM

wat
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