r/thedumbzone • u/tipped_highway • 5d ago
Episode Talk ⏯️ Remember when your heroes giggled about this for a half-hour a few months back?
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6245376/2025/04/01/pat-mcafee-espn-ole-miss-student/?source=twitterhq5
u/brucedonnovan 5d ago
It’s behind a paywall. What was the story?
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u/caveat_emptor817 5d ago
It’s about the Ole Miss sorority girl who was evidently falsely accused of banging her boyfriend’s dad.
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u/phillyp1 #138 5d ago
It's 2025, if you can't post a non paywall link at this point you're beyond help
Is that how this works?
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u/tipped_highway 4d ago
Yeah I guess I was a little too mean there. My bad u/brucedonnovan, will delete.
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u/Original_Custard_717 4d ago
I hope the DZ addresses this if they haven't already. It's heartbreaking to think of how much shit this poor girl has had to put up with all because of a rumor.
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u/MarvVanZandt 5d ago
So she isn’t denying it just mad that it’s a news story? And wants it to go away by opening a suit against the biggest show on TV, interviewing with the Atlantic?
Hard to feel bad and still funny to me
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u/Zanotekk Alright, alright, alright, alright 🎶 5d ago
What do you mean she “isn’t denying it”? She clearly says that the claim is false multiple times.
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u/MarvVanZandt 5d ago
Yeah that’s my bad I just read one quote where she says they talked about it. But I see where I skimmed out the part of her denying it on insta.
Still makes no sense to re-inflame this by partnering with NYT to run a story over a month after the incident happened. Also announcing you’re going to take legal action is odd instead of just doing it. Like this is going to make it bigger and have people following along rather than moving on to the next internet fodder.
Lastly I may have hard stanced this a bit too much because I didn’t like the tone of the poster on this sub. Like I’m supposed to be upset or try and hold them accountable for this. Like chill out my guy.
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u/blahblahblahresearch 5d ago
Do you mean The Athletic?
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u/MarvVanZandt 5d ago
I did oops.
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u/kdiddy733 5d ago
I guess this is the downside of them thinking they are part of the “manisphere”