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09.08.2023 - 23:41 / deadline.com
Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy purchased the site back for $1 yesterday, according to a filing. Portnoy sold Barstool to PENN Entertainment in a two-part sale — the latter transaction having just closed in February of this year — for $551 million. Now, he gets this site back for just $1.
Needless to say, the outspoken Portnoy was ecstatic, announcing the deal in an “Emergency Press Conference” shared to social media.
“For the first time in a decade, I own 100% of Barstool Sports,” said an excited Portnoy, who is known to fans of the site for his pizza reviews. “Not since the Chernin deal have I been in total control of everything.”
Emergency Press Conference – I Bought Back Barstool Sports pic.twitter.com/dmUk0eNowx
The latter is a reference to the purchase of a 51% stake in the site by Peter Chernin’s Chernin Media Group in 2016. That deal valued the property at between $10 and $15 million.
Portnoy, who generally goes by “El Presidente,” says both he and PENN “underestimated just how tough it is for myself and Barstool to operate in a regulated world.”
“It was one step forward, two steps back,” he said. “We got denied licenses because of me. You name it.”
For the uninitiated, here is how Portnoy was described by the New York Times last year:
Mr. Portnoy, 45, rose to fame by capitalizing on misogyny and other offensive behavior. He once said that some women “kind of deserve to be raped.” He wouldn’t remove photos showing a toddler’s penis from his blog until police showed up at his door. He made what he acknowledged were racist statements, including using the N-word repeatedly. He outed women who accused him of sexual misconduct, threatened to fire employees engaged in unionizing and repeatedly incited attacks on
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Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Dave Portnoy, now 100% owner of Barstool Sports after former parent Penn Entertainment sold it back to him — concurrent with Penn’s major 10-year sports-betting deal with ESPN — has admitted that Barstool isn’t a good fit in the gambling industry. “[W]e underestimated just how tough it is for myself and Barstool to operate in a regulated world, where gambling regulators, the New York Times [and] Business Insider hit pieces, fucking with the stock price every time did something,” Portnoy said in an “emergency press conference” video posted on X (aka Twitter) Tuesday.
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