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Barstools Sports founder Dave Portnoy has doubled down on his pledge to never hire a Harvard graduate again after the Ivy League's board pledged its support for president Claudine Gay. 'Just to reiterate I will never hire a Harvard Grad again. Your diploma is useless to me. The entire country should do the same,' Portnoy wrote on X on Tuesday, after Harvard revealed it would not fire Gay over anti-Semitism and plagiarism accusations. Portnoy, who is Jewish, shared a clip of an interview with Fox Business where he said he would blackball alumni from Harvard, MIT, and UPenn until their...

Barstool Sports president Dave Portnoy can't stand politics. People are surprised to hear that, what with the regular appearances on Fox News and his mutual admiration society with Tucker Carlson. But he hates politics almost as much as he does Business Insider. This is why it was surprising to many for him to use his massive platform to heap praise on GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley.

Barstool Sports founder and small business star Dave Portnoy has faced criticism from the Washington Post for his first-of-its-kind "One Bite" pizza festival, but, despite this strategic provocation and severe weather conditions, the celebration was a success. "It couldn't have gone better. It's our Woodstock moment with the rain. 5,000 people strong. Everyone had a great time. The vibes are actually probably higher because of the controversy surrounding it. So, yeah, it went great," Portnoy said during his Sunday appearance on "Fox & Friends Weekend." The "One Bite" pizza festival was a celebration planned by Portnoy himself to round up...

When Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy discovered the Washington Post’s Emily Heil had contacted his advertisers and labeled him as a person with a “history of misogynistic comments,” he took matters into his own hands and called her. Portnoy posted the 11-minute confrontation in its entirety on Twitter. Heil initially lies, saying she didn’t characterize Portnoy as a misogynistic racist, before being confronted with her own words. “We have this Pizza-fest happening on Saturday, and you’re reaching out to our advertisers,” Portnoy said. “You’re basically sending an e-mail that says, to the effect, ‘Dave’s a misogynic racist. Do you want...

Barstool Sports President Dave Portnoy tore into President Joe Biden in a Friday tweet following the president’s Thursday speech in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia. Portnoy compared a viral photograph of Biden in front of blood red lights and his fists in the air to a Cold War-era dictator, Dwight Schrute from “The Office” and the book series, “The Hunger Games.” “All these images come out, and my God, the man looks like a Nazi Germany, with a dash of Cold War Soviet Union, with a dash of Dwight Schrute, with a dash of Hunger Games. Just like the...

The Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade inspired an outpouring of grief, anguish and political opprobrium from feminists and abortion rights supporters. [Including from] Dave Portnoy, the media mogul and Barstool Sports president better known for his viral pizza reviews, unrepentant aggro-masculinity and social media trolling than for pro-choice activism (or, for that matter, critique of originalist legal theory). Last summer, I wrote about how Portnoy’s particular brand of transgressive boorishness served as an inspiration to Republican politicians eager to capitalize on the backlash to newly established progressive social norms around things like gender pronoun usage and diversity, equity...

This was 1st time I met Bob. We didn’t say 1 word before the review. We just kinda hit it off instantly. He wrote me a handwritten thank you afterwards and stayed in touch. Genuinely one of the nicest, funniest guys I’ve met doing this. I was just an acquaintance of his. I can’t image being a close friend. Rip to a legend. (Dave Portnoy)

Fox News host Jesse Watters took the media to task during his Saturday night show in defense of Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy, who was recently targeted with salacious but false allegations in a hit piece from Business Insider. Watters introduced the segment accusing the “mainstream media” of “losing more power” to influence the country, which in turn has “made them more dangerous” ---SNIP--- The sports website founder noted that after the Business Insider piece was published it was immediately retweeted by “the blue-check brigade,” which he calls his detractors on Twitter, who remarked that is what they “expected” of...

Barstool Sports' Dave Portnoy shares a tale of a cancel culture witch hunt on 'Watters' World.

Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy was briefly suspended from Twitter on Friday evening, with his access only restored when 'FreeDavePortnoy' began trending. Portnoy, 44, has more than 2.5 million followers on the platform, which he famously describes as 'sports/smut'. At 8:30pm on Friday, users noticed that his account had been suspended, with the message: 'Twitter suspends accounts which violate the Twitter Rules.'

Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy and his camera crew were filming a segment for his show “One Bite Pizza Reviews” in downtown Chicago when the camera crew caught what appeared to be a carjacking in progress.

Outspoken social media personality Dave Portnoy tweeted Tuesday that he has sold his shares in companies GameStop and AMC at a major loss, blaming trading app Robinhood for killing the so-called “Reddit Rally” that he joined and helped promote in recent weeks. “I have officially sold all my meme stocks. I lost 700k ish,” Portnoy tweeted before taking a personal shot at the CEO of Robinhood. “Vlad and company stole it from me and should be in jail.” Portnoy’s selling comes as the manic trading blitz that sent cheap stocks to outrageous new heights — fueled by retail traders using...

A few months ago, cancel culture went after Barstool Sports’ founder Dave Portnoy’s head. However, Portnoy refused to take a knee and apologize. Many small business owners are now glad that Portnoy stood his ground against leftist activists. He changed a lot of lives by establishing a fund to save mom-and-pop businesses. Barstool Sports is leading the way where government has failed during the coronavirus pandemic. Many small businesses are being crushed by burdensome regulations and changes to the economy.

Barstool Sports Founder Dave Portnoy exemplified the Christmas spirit by raising millions of dollars to help small businesses suffering under state-imposed lockdowns. The “Barstool Fund” has amassed a whopping $6,687,624 with 60,929 supporters so far. The funds have already helped 19 small businesses.

In July, Barstool Sports and The White House released a video of Barstool founder Dave Portnoy, commonly known to his supporters as El Pres, interviewing President Trump in the Rose Garden. The segment, just over 20 minutes long, made an immediate splash in the media and put Barstool Sports alongside the likes of Fox News, Axios, and other news outlets that have secured a coveted one-on-one interview with the president. Yet, Barstool Sports isn’t a traditional news organization. It’s a sports media site catering to Millennials and Gen Z sports fans.Portnoy, who founded the company in 2003, continues to maintain...

This is one of the best, if not the best interview with @realDonaldTrump ever! What makes it so good is that Portnoy asked pertinent questions, made sure POTUS knew his stance, let POTUS answer and didn't ask BS questions. No to mention, @barstoolsports was humble. Wow!

This was truly one of the most surreal days of my life. From delivering newspapers out of my astrovan to interviewing the leader of the free world at the White House. What a long, strange trip it's been. I don't care what your politics are this was an opportunity that couldn't be turned on. I still can't believe it happened to be honest.

Fiery left-wing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy tangled on Twitter Tuesday over organized labor in a clash of the social-media titans. “Hey @aoc welcome to thunder dome,” Portnoy, a well-known right-leaning agitator, challenged the New York congresswoman. “Debate me.” Portnoy threw down the gauntlet after AOC injected herself into a battle Portnoy was waging on another front over the recent formation of a union by workers at The Ringer, a sports site in competition with Barstool Sports. “Heard @ringer employees want to unionize. Little refresher how I feel about unions,” wrote Portnoy on Monday.

Dave Portnoy, the founder of Barstool sports, posted a rant about coronavirus lockdowns on Twitter yesterday which has already been viewed more than 3 million times. You may not agree with everything he says here but he does make a solid point about the way the goal has subtly shifted over the past 5-6 weeks. “What the **** [ed] is going on? When did this become flatten the curve, flatten the curve, flatten the curve to we have to find a cure or everyone’s going to die?” he said to open the rant. He continued, “Like Fauci. Seems like a...

We’ve hit the big time pic.twitter.com/kOwC0vOnBw— Barstool News Network (@BarstoolNewsN) July 24, 2020