How ESPN Ended Up Paying Brett McMurphy To Post The Year's Biggest College Football Story On Facebook
by Nick Martin from Deadspin > Sports News Without Fear, Favor or Compromise on (#3W532)
Brett McMurphy, who is about as plugged in as any college football reporter can be, was always going to scoop ESPN on the Urban Meyer-Zach Smith story. But that the Worldwide Leader paid him to not publish the scoop on their own website, well, that's the result of a very particular kind of corporate derangement.