Ian Rapoport on players announcing their own scoops: ‘I don’t own all the news’
"I would prefer I get to break all the news," Rapoport joked.
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Celeste Taylor’s Connecticut Sun deal was broken by team PR before her old team announced she left
Atlanta United site ‘Scarves and Spikes’ retracts report on MLS-backed women’s league
NFLN’s Tom Pelissero bashes anonymous reports, including from @PrettyRickey213, as a ‘scam'”
Jeff Passan gave a funny shoutout to Cubs’ fan Lisa who heard of Cody Bellinger signing days early
"lisa was right" indeed.
George Springer’s move to the Blue Jays was broken by Brendon Kuhn and Joey Vendetta hours before the U.S. insiders
This is the latest case of a local MLB scoop confirmed by national writers much later.
The Chiefs teamed with Katie Camlin, the liquor store employee who broke the Patrick Mahomes news, for a Chris Jones extension video
"Come on, Katie. Leave some scoops (and champagne) for the rest of us."
Braves fan Brian Chandler beat the world to the Yasiel Puig signing
Chandler tweeted about seeing Puig at an Atlanta hotel at 2:11 p.m. Eastern Tuesday, and speculated that that meant "Puig to the Braves," hours before any of the MLB insiders had that news.
Greg Howard, Joel Anderson and Don Van Natta Jr. discuss scoops that got away
Scoops getting away turned out to improve other stories for some sports reporters.