is he a perpetrator? let s bring in tom scocca, who is the managing editor of deadspin.com, and howard fineman, also with us tonight, nbc news political analyst and editorial director of the huffington post media group. gentlemen, good to have you with us. tom, you first. rather bizarre story. how long did it take your staff to unearth this? it took about five days from when we got the first tip to being ready to publish it. because we got this tip, and it seemed like it had to be crazy, that this widely covered person didn t exist. so we put jack dickey, one of our reporters, on the records and tim burke went after the online side of it to try to find any evidence that she existed. and it was it was sort of a scary or confusing thing to do because what kept happening is we just kept not finding her. and then the question was at what point as you re not finding this person, you know, as you
about, how it started, who knew about it, and is he a victim or is he a perpetrator. let s bring in tom scocca, who is the managing editor of deadspin.com, and howard fineman, also with us tonight, nbc news political analyst and editorial director of the huffington post media group. gentlemen, good to have you with us. tom, you first. rather bizarre story. how long did it take your staff to unearth this? it took about five days from when we got the first tip to being ready to publish it. because we got this tip, and it seemed like it had to be crazy, that this widely covered person didn t exist. so we put jack dickey, one of our reporters, on the records and tim burke went after the online side of it to try to find any evidence that she existed. and it was it was sort of a scary or confusing thing to do because what kept happening is we just kept not finding her.
about it, and is he a victim or is he a perpetrator. let s bring in tom scocca, who is the managing editor of deadspin.com, and howard fineman, also with us tonight, nbc news political analyst and editorial director of the huffington post media group. gentlemen, good to have you with us. tom, you first. rather bizarre story. how long did it take your staff to unearth this? it took about five days from when we got the first tip to being ready to publish it. because we got this tip, and it seemed like it had to be crazy, that this widely covered person didn t exist. so we put jack dickey, one of our reporters, on the records and tim burke went after the online side of it to try to find any evidence that she existed. and it was it was sort of a scary or confusing thing to do because what kept happening is we just kept not finding her. and then the question was at
foul on the old red, white and blue. with me now is new york magazine s editor and founder of deadspin.com. he is also the author of are we winning ? he joins us to explain exactly what happened. is this just plain and simple a flubed call? yeah. a pretty bad one. and the referee had a lot of the trouble throughout the match. but certainly this was the thing that was strange about the call is there is no explanation of it. there s no notion that this is not like what happened with galarraga, he had the perfect game and the umpire came out and apologized. here he doesn t actually have to say anything. so it s funny. what was interesting he is doesn t actually speak english. he was not able at the time to give the explanation to the american players. and everything just kind of moved along after that. and it was afterwards that i think everyone was upset. i am sure he understood the hand gestures. telling him he was number one. yeah. the referee never said who the foul was d
one-ranked kentucky. bill leach is the editor of deadspin.com. arne duncan says if you can t graduate just 2 out of your 5 players, something s out of whack. does very a point? in a way that, yes, these are college points. but certainly the 40% is a pretty aepre pretty arbitrary number. he s looking at six-year graduation rates which ultimately punishes people that are playing now for faults of previous administrations. tell me what happens. say a teen does not make this rule now. what happens the next year? the idea that like if they don t pass the rule, the idea the thing is it is a six-year. duncan s saying you have to graduate within six years. that doesn t actually count players now. what you re doing is if this rule were instituted, if players played five, six years ago, perhaps under a different coach or perhaps dropped in for one