Best of Bleacher Report Shakespeare

It wasn’t until yesterday that I realized just how many sports writers, bloggers and news consumers really just can’t stand Bleacher Report, and the effect that they’ve had on the online sports media landscape.

Publishing this piece (which included a B/R internal mass email) on Monday afternoon led to the creation of an extremely hilarious Twitter hashtag #BRShakespeare, started by Spencer Hall of Every Day Should Be Saturday.

And then of course, lots of rascally online tomfoolery ensued; as many writers from the across the sports blogosphere synergized the greatest poet in history with the type of material often produced by the giant sports themed content farm.

Believe me there were so many great tweets, to list all the hilarious Shakespearean B/R allusions would turn this into a 3,000 word posts. Here are a few of them:

andytworischuk andy tworischuk life’s but a contributor; a slideshow, written by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing #BRShakespeare

bryanvickroy Bryan Vickroy  The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show: Athletes and Dong Shots (Slideshow) #BRShakespeare

tomwill9 Thomas Williams #BRShakespeare Big Ben: the merchant of penis

brettcloutier Brett Cloutier Twelfth Night Sober: Slideshow of Josh Hamilton #BRShakespeare

Steve_Donohue Steven M. Donohue Top Ten English Monarchs That Totally Deserve Plays Written About Them Too #BRShakespeare

NickGrays_TSB Nick Grays To slideshow, or not to slideshow: that is the question #BRShakespeare

mattlindner Matt Lindner  Rapunzel, Rapunzel let down your hair: 36 hottest damsels we’d like to free from distress. #BRShakespeareA

ndrewBucholtz Andrew Bucholtz RT @Andy_Staples: “Et tu, Google?” — BR after the next great search engine tweak. http://bit.ly/fHFC1P #BRShakespeare

LakeRosenberg Lake Rosenberg BREAKING: Ophelia in her hot new swimsuit. #BRShakespeare

sacharisma89 Sacha Risma @veryfakeBR 10 reasons why othello needs to learn respect and not be thuggish #BRShakespeare

jenningsmc Matt Jennings Friends, chicagoans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Cutler, not to praise him. #brshakespeare

dawgsports T. Kyle King There is nothing either good or bad, but lack of editing makes it so. @edsbs @DrSaturday @CaptainAnnoying #BRShakespeare

And of course, I wrote about a dozen or so myself.

Here are a few:

“There is nothing good or bad, but search engine manipulation makes it so” #BRShakespeare

“10 hottest WAGs of the Tudor Dynasty (SLIDESHOW)” #BRShakespeare

“The CTR’s the thing” #BRShakespeare

“Me think the sideline reporter protests too much #BRShakespeare

“10 best nipple slipsby Jacobite women” (SLIDESHOW)