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Dave Portnoy for Mayor? The Barstool Sports Founder Bashes Mamdani, Muses About Running for Office

Dave Portnoy for Mayor? The Barstool Sports Founder Bashes Mamdani, Muses About Running for Office

The crowd Portnoy draws “can be all over the map,” he said. The “people-hate-my-guts crowd. A couple of them may show up, so you never know.” Badan wondered what the over/under on protesters might be. Alas, there were no obvious objectors to be seen. The audience at the 92nd Street Y had an air of conspicuous consumption—a Gucci bag here, a Louis Vuitton there—cut with a mix of polyester golf polos and fraternity-appropriate streetwear. Most of all, there was Barstool merch: Stu Feiner, a sports handicapper, wore a T-shirt with his own face alongside Portnoy’s, and led a brief chant for the arrival of his fellow Barstool personality Frank “The Tank” Fleming, a diehard New York Mets fan known for his viral meltdowns and weight-loss journey. (“Some could even argue that Barstool’s natural gravitational pull for weirdos has been our secret sauce throughout the years,” Portnoy writes in Cancel Me If You Can. “We’re the best there is at finding people who have no business existing in real life anywhere but with us.”) Over his …

Dave Portnoy On How Alex Cooper and Sofia Franklyn Left Barstool

Dave Portnoy On How Alex Cooper and Sofia Franklyn Left Barstool

Dave Portnoy revisited Alex Cooper and Sofia Franklyn‘s acrimonious exit from Barstool Sports, with the media mogul revealing that the former Call Her Daddy co-hosts had a plan to say they were sexually harassed in order to get out of their contracts. In a new interview with the WSJ Magazine published on Friday, Portnoy discussed his new memoir Cancel Me If You Can which touches on podcasters Cooper and Franklyn, firstly on how they came to join the performatively masculine Barstool empire and then how they ended up exiting in a blaze of gossip and fury. Call Her Daddy was started by roommates Cooper and Franklyn in October 2018. Following incredible immediate growth, a month later Barstool added the podcast to its lineup of sports focused shows. Despite Call Her Daddy being the polar opposite of the usual Barstool fare, Portnoy says in the interview that Cooper and Franklyn’s pitch struck him as something “different.” “It’s not my cup of tea but I know I haven’t seen it before. Let’s give it a shot,” he …