TalkSports is a user-generated sports site run by Rapid Spiral Development that has attracted controversy because of gossip and photos contributed by users about the private lives of professional athletes. The web site contains forums for every major sport athlete where fans can discuss, post pictures and links. "We get a lot of comments about players cheating or whether he has a big or small you-know-what," site publisher Randy Charles Morin told The Globe and Mail. The website was featured in the Washington Post and Canoe.ca websites.
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Morin began the site after a blog post he wrote about hockey player Sidney Crosby in 2005 received a comment from a female asking whether Crosby had a girlfriend. He said in an interview with Drama Scene Live Radio, "Google immediately picked up that new comment and within a few days that page was getting 1,000 hits per day. And I thought, I've got an idea ..."
A 2014 profile of the site in ESPN the Magazine called its visual design "anachronistic, like an Angelfire page that was never snuffed out."
Legal issues
TalkSports is often the target of legal challenges by sports athletes and their agents, with Morin telling ESPN he's received lawsuit threats "several hundred times." Some of the threats include:
Morin said he has given hundreds of athletes free site memberships that allow them to delete comments.
Sale
TalkSports has announced that it is for sale for 5M+.
Attempt
The NFL Players tried to organize a buyout of Talk Sports. If 1000 players paid 1000 each, then the players could buy the website. Unfortunate they were not able to get enough players on board.