Sportsjournalists.com

Sportsjournalists.com is an Internet forum frequented by journalists who cover sports. In 2006, it was named one of the best non-corporate sports web sites by Sports Illustrated.^[1] The forum has been directly involved in several sports journalism controversies:

• Michael Gee, a former columnist for the Boston Herald, was fired from a teaching job at Boston University after describing one of his students on Sportsjournalists.com as "incredibly hot"^[2]
• Wallace Matthews, a columnist for the New York Post, announced his resignation from that newspaper on Sportsjournalists.com and criticized the newspaper for a gossip item many interpreted to claim that Mike Piazza was gay^[3]
• Sportsjournalists.com was first to report on October 10, 2006, that Woody Paige would leave the TV show Cold Pizza and return to the Denver Post as a columnist. At that time, Woody Paige denied that he would be leaving Cold Pizza. On November 2, it was announced that Woody Paige would return to the Denver Post.^[4]

Sportsjournalists.com was briefly shut down in 2002.^[5] Breaking sports news and general news items are often posted on Sportsjournalists.com before they are reported in the media.^[6]

Notes

1. SI.com - Writers - 2006 Media Awards (cont.) - Wednesday December 27, 2006 6:07PM
2. Zezima, K: "Teacher Fired Over Web Posting About Student", page 18. The New York Times, July 20, 2005
3. Pappu, S: "Wally's World: Ex-Post Sports Guy Explains Fiery Exit", page 6. The New York Observer, June 3, 2002
4. Roberts, M: "Knock on Woody". Denver Westworld, November 30, 2006
5. Poynter Online - Romenesko
6. Meet the (sports) press — iMPrint Magazine — College News, Sports, Entertainment Archive