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Type of site | Sports |
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| Owner | Bob Reno |
| Created by | Bob Reno |
| URL | http://badjocks.com/ |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | No |
BadJocks.com was a website that covered sports-related misconduct and crime at all levels, from professional to children's, by not only the athletes themselves but coaches and spectators as well. Starting in 2000, creator and content provider Bob Reno wrote daily items on not only well-covered events such as the rape charges against three Duke lacrosse players and the Minnesota Vikings "love boat" scandal but less-reported local events as well, with video clips sometimes included. While the site's news and audience are primarily U.S.-based, foreign news, particularly soccer-related, has been covered as well. He billed the site as "Where COPS Meets SportsCenter". In 2008 Time chose the site as one of 25 in its first annual blog index,[1] and in 2009 Sports Illustrated named the site one of the decade's five most influential blogs.[2]
Generally, the site's tone was light-hearted, featuring Reno's acerbic commentary on the various occurrences culled from other media. Reno keeps an annual tally of several types of stories that occur on frequent basis each year, with three ("drunken outbursts", "naughty cheerleaders" and "streakers and naked people" at the moment) typifying much of the content. However, the fourth, high school coach sex scandals, have been treated more and more seriously by Reno as many involve relations between adults and students, and he was taken aback when these numbers regularly approached 200 each year, so much that he stopped keeping count in 2007. He has sometimes posted commentary and analysis of the phenomenon, with input from readers.
- ^ "Bad Jocks". Time. 2008-04-09. Archived from the original on February 4, 2013. Retrieved 2008-04-09.
- ^ Graham, Byran Armen (December 11, 2009). "Best of decade: movies, TV shows, books, blogs (cont.)". Sports Illustrated. Time Warner. Archived from the original on December 14, 2009. Retrieved December 13, 2009.