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Dissing online is De Rigueur: almost anyone with an athletic ax to grind can do it on the World Wide Web. (Sports).

Publication: Insight on the News
Publication Date: 20-MAY-02 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Dissing online is De Rigueur: almost anyone with an athletic ax to grind can do it on the World Wide Web. (Sports).(Brief Article)

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As a long-suffering Cincinnati Bengals fan, Dave Young holds certain truths to be self-evident. Among them: The 1990s were a wash, the immediate future looks bleak and team President Mike Brown really, really, er, stinks.

"I'm sure Mike Brown as a person is a fine, nice guy," says Young, who runs a video and film-editing company in Los Angeles. "He's certainly loyal." But Young is so convinced of Brown's incompetence that he has put his money--and his server space--where his mouth is.

Two years ago, Young and friend Chase Peel created a Website devoted to Brown's mismanagement of the perennially inept Bengals. There, irate fans can lament Cincinnati's 11 straight non-winning seasons, lambaste its lousy personnel moves and join a Bengals boycott. For $16 a pop they can order oversized T-shirts printed with the phrase "Mike Brown [Stinks]" in block letters.

When it comes to online antagonism,...

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