‘Kicking a Dead A** Dog!’: Barstool Sports Chief Dave Portnoy Champagne Toasts Demise of Deadspin

DiCaro, who would not supply a quote to the New York Post over Portnoy’s ribbing, has been a senior writer and editor at Deadspin until this week when the new owners put the site on pause. She joined the site in 2020.

Deadspin has spent a lot of time attacking Portnoy and Barstool and accused the popular sports site and its owner, writers, and personalities of being sexist and racist.

Last August, for instance, Deadspin published a broadside saying that Portnoy was “bad for business” in sports media.

Deadspin has also found itself entangled in messes of its own making. In November, senior writer Carron Phillips embarrassed the site by accusing a nine-year-old NFL fan of being a “racist.”

Phillips blasted Chiefs fan Holden Armenta as a “racist” for wearing “black face” at a game when images of the boy wearing an Indian headdress, a Chiefs jersey, and black facepaint went viral. Phillips blasted the child, his parents, and the NFL as a racist against both blacks and Native Americans, but what he didn’t report was that the boy had half black and half red facepaint — which are the colors of the NFL team — and that the boy himself has Native American heritage.