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Dave's Eras Jacket creates global Taylor Swift community as coat travels to 50+ shows

Dave Portnoy had no idea when he bought a custom jean jacket for $200 on eBay that it would bring together Swifties from around the world.

A community grew around @DavesErasJacket on Instagram as it followed a bedazzled, custom-painted piece of clothing passed from Swiftie to Swiftie. The jacket has attended more than 50 Taylor Swift shows in seven countries.

It all started when Portnoy, the founder and creator of Barstool Sports, was looking for something to wear to Swift's first Eras Tour concert in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

"I made a video showing what I was wearing and everyone's like, 'Oh, the jacket's cool,'" he says. "I figured I wouldn't wear it too much after the concert so I tweeted and said I'll give it to somebody who's going to night two."

He passed the jacket off on May 27, and a tradition was born. The only rule was each fan had to find a new concertgoer heading to the next show.

Seven shows later, the jacket found Alyssa Dunn.

Creating a coat community

She had sent a message on TikTok asking to wear the coat. She then posted some photos of the jacket at Ford Field in Detroit, and her inbox blew up.

"I was getting hundreds of DMs and decided to make an account," she says. "I thought it would be really cool if we would be able to track the jacket through social media."

Dunn posted photos of the jacket's jaunt through the American leg of the tour: Detroit > Pittsburgh > Minneapolis > Cincinnati > Kansas City > Denver > Seattle > Santa Clara > Inglewood.

More: The Swiftie-hood of the traveling jacket: 'Dave's Jacket' travels to 46 Eras shows

"I didn't really think beyond the United States tour, but it started picking up steam and so many people began asking for it," Portnoy says.

The Swiftie-hood of the traveling jacket headed to Mexico City where a group of best friends wore the coat each night because they couldn't get tickets to the same show. The fans found a way to get it to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where it was present when Swift famously changed the lyrics to "Karma" to, "Karma is the guy on the Chiefs coming straight home to me."

Another fan spent $150 to FedEx the coat from Argentina to Brazil, according to Megan Speelman who wore the jacket in Sydney, Australia, and has been keeping a spreadsheet of stories. She said it's fortuitous Swift took a two-month break between her shows in São Paulo and Tokyo because of a Japanese customs snafu. For three weeks, the jacket sat in customs because it had an American phone number contact but a Japanese shipping address. Once released, the coat made it into the suitcase of a Qantas airlines pilot and traveled Down Under for seven shows.

From Sydney to Singapore

Then Speelman had five days to get the jacket from Sydney to Singapore.

"We scrambled to find someone," she says. "At one point, I thought I might have to be camped out at the airport by the check-in for Singapore Airlines."

Speelman posted in a Facebook group of "American mums in Sydney," which yielded six options. The jacket ended up with a 14-year-old flying to the concert with her mom.

"The Swifties come together to make magic happen," Speelman says. "The jacket is the ultimate symbol of the love and support in this community."

Speelman, Dunn and Portnoy are part of a group chat of previous coat wearers and the jacket's designer, Hansel Velazquez.

It was all by design, he's a creative mastermind

"Every rhinestone was hand-placed," says Velazquez, who loves blinging tumblers and coats. He made the jacket for his boyfriend, Daniel, who wore it in Tampa Bay, Florida. Then they decided to put it up for sale.

"We were eating friend chicken at Canes when we got a notification that the jacket sold," Velazquez says. "We didn't think it was really going to Dave Portnoy. That's a super famous person. So we sent it and later saw Dave posting a video showing off the jacket."

Velazquez can't believe something he spent 16 hours creating has brought so much joy and fostered global connection.

"I haven't made an exact replica and won't," he said. "To watch the love spread worldwide and knowing it came from little old me is an out-of-body experience."

Florida is the end game

The goal is to trace the journey along an invisible string through Europe and back to Miami where Portnoy will wear it again to a concert there. Hopefully, the jacket will make it in front of Swift for a photo an autograph.

"I'm a big Swiftie," Portnoy admits. "This jacket speaks to the power of her fans. The fact that it can be handed off, not miss one show, crisscross the entire world, shows how special her fan base is." 

Follow Bryan West, the USA TODAY Network's Taylor Swift reporter, on  Instagram ,  TikTok  and  X as @BryanWestTV .

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• New York's Leading Food & Music Festival Featuring 35+ of the World's Greatest Pizzerias, Including Lucali, Sally's Apizza, Patsy's, Prince Street, John's of Bleecker, Di Fara, DeLorenzo's Tomato Pies, Frank Pepe Pizzeria, and Angelo's of Philly, Plus Live Performances From Teddy Swims, DJ Irie, and Pup Punk
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Barstool Sports founder and legendary pizza aficionado Dave Portnoy announces his first-ever food and music festival: Dave Portnoy's One Bite Pizza Festival. Together with Portnoy, Medium Rare will bring Dave's over-the-top, pizza-loving personality to life for the inaugural One Bite Pizza Festival that will welcome 5,000+ pizza-loving fans to Maimonides Park, home of the Brooklyn Cyclones, to experience the greatest gathering of pizzerias ever, interactive pizza experiences and main stage performances. Interested in attending this culinary Mecca of Pizza? All-inclusive all-you-can-eat pizza tickets begin at $149.99 and will offer fans unprecedented access to the world's best pizzerias. Tickets will be available starting Friday, Aug. 4, at www.onebitepizzafest.com . Make sure to register for the pre-sale now to lock in the best pricing.

Featuring Dave's top-rated One Bite Pizzerias, fans will experience the greatest gathering of pizzerias ever: Lucali, Sally's Apizza, Patsy's Pizzeria, Prince Street Pizza, John's of Bleecker Street, DeLorenzo's Tomato Pies, Di Fara Pizza, Frank Pepe Pizzeria, Napoletana, Angelo's Pizzeria South Philly, and 25+ more. Pizzerias will be popping up and serving all-you-can-eat pizza at the festival, with interactive dining experiences bringing their iconic brands to life like never before, plus all fans will receive complimentary access to an Italian Dessert Village featuring NYC favorites: The Lemon Ice King, Ferrara Bakery, Sal & Jerry's Bakery, and Caffè Arrone.

At One Bite Pizza Festival, fans will get more than a taste of pizza and enjoy main stage performances from musical superstar Teddy Swims, Barstool favorite Pup Punk, DJ Irie, and more. Also, in a soon-to-be-viral moment, festival attendees will experience Dave Portnoy's first-ever One Bite Live on the festival's main stage … you know the rules.

"After touring America reviewing thousands of pizzerias throughout the country in search of the perfect slice, I am beyond excited to gather my favorite pizzerias at the inaugural One Bite Festival. New York City's most exciting new food festival will feature 35+ iconic pizzerias, main stage performances from my guys Teddy Swims and Pup Punk, and unprecedented interactive pizza experiences. Don't sleep on these tickets before they all sell out … One Bite Everyone Knows The Rules," said Dave Portnoy.

One Bite Pizza Festival is poised to be one of New York's hottest culinary experiences, taking place annually in Brooklyn as well as popping up in cities around the country. With only 5,000 tickets available for purchase, this exclusive festival will include all-you-can-eat pizza from 35+ iconic pizzerias, Dave Portnoy-curated concepts, superstar musical performances, cocktails and cold beer available for purchase, all alongside Dave's first-ever One Bite Live. One Bite Festival is selling a limited number of passes to the festival - all tickets will sell out. Tickets will increase in price as the festival weekend approaches, so the earlier you purchase tickets, the more money you will save. Presale tickets go on sale this Friday, Aug. 4, at 10 a.m. ET starting at $149.99. Make sure to register for the pre-sale now to lock in the best pricing. VIP All-Inclusive Pizza & Open Bar Tickets will also be available for fans 21+.

Peanut butter … and whiskey? Yes, that's right. This harmonious blend might seem a bit unexpected, but it's a whole lot of delicious. Skrewball Peanut Butter Whiskey is excited to partner with One Bite Pizza Festival to give fans a taste of its signature cocktails and say cheers to the misfits, black sheep, and Skrewballs in attendance.

High Noon will be bringing its #1 Best Tasting Hard Seltzer* to the One Bite Festival grounds this fall. Look for Dave Portnoy's favorite hard seltzer made with Real Vodka & Real Juice which will be for sale throughout the grounds for fans 21+. High Noon Hard Seltzer is 100 calories, gluten-free, has no added sugar and comes in over 17 delicious flavors. High Noon. Sun's Up! * Source: The Tasting Panel, January 2021. Rated via blind tasting of industry professionals.

As an official partner of One Bite Pizza Festival, ZYN Nicotine Pouches are a fresh way to enjoy nicotine. Adult tobacco and nicotine consumers (21+ only) are invited to visit the ZYN Experience. Find Your ZYN.

Zamora Company , the famed, 100% family-owned Spanish company is excited to bring brands from its iconic spirits family to One Bite Pizza Festival. Featuring Licor 43, Lolea Sangria, and Martin Miller's Gin for sale at all festival bars, Zamora Company will enable 21+ fans to sip on delectable creations from the Licor 43 Carajillo to the classic Martin Miller's gin and tonic - the perfect complements to any slice.

C4 Energy , The Official Energy Drink of One Bite Pizza Festival, is here to supercharge your experience with free samples for VIP guests and a dedicated C4 bar to provide ALL pizza-loving enthusiasts with the ultimate fan experience. Don't forget to pick up a can of C4 at your local Stop & Shop, 7-Eleven or Bolla Market before the event because remember, it's ONE SIP EVERYBODY KNOWS THE RULES.

PizzaMaster ® U.S. distributor MPM Food Equipment Group is thrilled to provide world-class PizzaMaster electric deck ovens to some of One Bite Pizza Festival's most iconic pizzerias. PizzaMaster offers the largest electric deck oven range in the world with 85+ sizes, 1,500+ models, and more than one million combinations to meet each pizza shop's unique needs. The brand's high-power and high-temperature ovens will provide superior capacity and versatility, and an old-world bake flavor for the tastiest pizza. Everyone will want more than just one bite of the pizzas crafted in a PizzaMaster oven.

Marra Forni , the official brick oven of the One Bite Pizza Festival, is best known for its innovation, customization, and quality. Together with Marra Forni, some of One Bite's greatest pizzerias will have the ability to fire up their pizzas on the best wood and coal-fired pizza ovens in the business.

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About Medium Rare Lauded events, experiential, and management company Medium Rare works at the intersection of Sports & Entertainment, partnering with well-known athletes and brands to create iconic media properties, including Shaquille O'Neal's Fun House, Daymond John's Black Entrepreneurs Day, Guy Fieri's Restaurant Reboot, Travis Kelce's Kelce Jam, Rob Gronkowski's Gronk Beach, and more. Creating and executing iconic IP and events that draw in millions of views and fans from around the world, Medium Rare also reaps industry accolades. Recognized with six Webby Awards, Medium Rare founders Joe Silberzweig and Adam Richman are Forbes 30 Under 30 alumni and have graced the Pollstar Next Gen and Variety New Leaders lists in 2020 and 2021, respectively. The group's world-class production is balanced by its growing management division, overseeing careers, tours, and partnership deals for some of the most celebrated artists and athletes, including Gordo (formerly DJ Carnage), DJ Diesel aka SHAQ and Rob Gronkowski. For more info, visit www.Medium-Rare.com .

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Dave Portnoy’s Barstool Pizza Tour Takes Rhode Island by Storm

Barstool Sports’ founder, Dave Portnoy, is making waves in Rhode Island on Thursday as he brings his famous “One bite, everybody knows the rules” pizza reviews to the state. In town for Rough & Rowdy , Portnoy has been on a mission to sample and critique pizzas from various local establishments.

Thus far, Partnoy has hit up Francesco’s Pizzeria in Providence, Nice Slice in Providence, D. Palmieri’s in Johnston, and Merlino’s Pizzeria in Cranston.

Known for his humorous and unfiltered reviews, Dave Portnoy’s pizza excursions have gained a massive following on social media. As he makes his way through Rhode Island, local pizzerias are getting a taste of Portnoy’s distinctive critique style, creating excitement and anticipation among pizza enthusiasts and Barstool Sports fans alike.

Stay tuned to Barstool Sports and Portnoy’s social media channels for the latest updates on his Rhode Island pizza tour, as he continues to share his thoughts on the local pizza offerings, one bite at a time.

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Barstool sports founder visits several ct pizzerias on i-95 pizza tour, barstool sports founder, and pizza aficionado, dave portnoy made several stops at pizzerias in connecticut as part of an i-95 "pizza tour.".

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CONNECTICUT — Barstool Sports founder, and pizza aficionado, Dave Portnoy made several stops at pizzerias in Connecticut as part of a New York to Boston I-95 “Pizza Tour” over the weekend.

Portnoy opened the tour with a stop at Brewport Brewing Co. in Bridgeport, according to a post on his Facebook page . He followed that up with a stop at Papa’s Pizza in Milford.

The tour then took him to Olde World Brick Oven Apizza in North Haven and Fuoco Apizza in Cheshire, where Portnoy wrote “Can't stop won't stop,” along with a photo of a large pizza.

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The weekend tour seemingly came to an end at The Little Rendezvous in Meriden.

Portnoy shared photos of each stop on his Facebook page , but did not immediately post any of his popular "One Bite" pizza reviews of the pizzerias.

Portnoy previously declared New Haven the “Pizza Capital of the World” and said Sally’s was the best he’s ever had .

Portnoy gave Sally’s a 9.2, Modern Apizza on State Street an 8.8, Pepe’s an 8.5 and Bar on Crown Street a 7.4. He said Modern and Pepe’s were very close in quality and noted that Bar was more of a nightlife pizza, but was still good.

In addition to New Haven’s iconic institutions, Portnoy also visited Zuppardi’s Apizza in nearby West Haven and gave it an 8.2.

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Dave Portnoy’s Boston Pizza Tour: The Five Places You Need to Try

Updated: Jun 25, 2023

If you are a fan of pizza and sports, you probably know who Dave Portnoy is. He is the founder and head of creative of Barstool Sports, a popular media outlet that covers sports, pop culture, and more.

He is also known for his pizza reviews, where he travels around the country and rates different pizza places on a scale of 1 to 10. He has reviewed thousands of pizza places, but he has a special place in his heart for his hometown of Boston, Massachusetts.

In this article, we will list the top five pizza places in Boston according to Dave Portnoy’s ratings. These are the places that he considers to be the best of the best in the city that he loves. Whether you agree with him or not, you can’t deny that he has a passion for pizza and a knack for entertaining his fans. Here are Dave Portnoy’s top pizza places in Boston.

1. Halftime Pizza - Rate: 9.2 ( Full Review )

Halftime Pizza is Boston’s premier family-owned and operated pizza restaurant located in the heart of Boston’s Hub District across from the TD Garden. A longtime hub where sports fans head for pizza, subs, pasta & beer before & after games.

Address : 115 Causeway St, Boston, MA

Website: Order Online | Google Maps Rating: 4.3/5

2. Regina Pizza - Rate: 9.1 ( Full Review )

Since 1926, Regina Pizzeria of 11 1/2 Thacher St, Boston, MA has been greeting guests in the North End of Boston for over three generations, Regina's delicious brick oven pizza has been inspired by the love of good food and the special pride of the Polcari Family.

Address : 11 1/2 Thacher St, Boston, MA

Website: Order Online | Google Maps Rating: 4.6/5

3. Picco Pizza - Rate: 8.5 ( Full Review )

Address: 513 Tremont St, Boston, MA

Website: Order Online | Google Maps Rating: 4.5/5

4. Coppa Enoteca - Rate: 7.9 ( Full Review )

Address: 253 Shawmut Ave, Boston, MA

5. Contessa - Rate: 7.6 ( Full Review )

Address: 3 Newbury St, Boston, MA

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Desperate for Growth, Aging Casino Company Embraced ‘Degenerate Gambler’

David Portnoy, who has a history of misogynistic and racist behavior, is now a public spokesman for the sports-betting industry.

By Emily Steel

Years before he became a controversy-courting media icon, gambling promoter, liquor pitchman and pizza reviewer, David S. Portnoy was drowning in debts.

He owed $59,000 to credit card companies and $18,000 to his father. In one year alone, he had lost $30,000 gambling, court documents show. In January 2004, the 26-year-old filed for bankruptcy protection.

Nearly two decades later, Mr. Portnoy rarely if ever mentions the bankruptcy. Yet he and his company, Barstool Sports, are urging their tens of millions of followers to dive into the fast-growing and lightly regulated world of online sports betting.

After starting out as a four-page newspaper, Barstool evolved into a constellation of sports and entertainment podcasts, blogs and social media accounts with more than 100 million fans. Mr. Portnoy is Barstool’s ringleader, an influencer with nearly 12 million social media followers.

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 his critics.

Today, Mr. Portnoy’s reach is greater than ever. The publicly traded casino company Penn Entertainment is poised to take over Barstool, following a 2020 deal in which it bought a 36 percent stake. Mr. Portnoy has been catapulted into the role of public spokesman for the sports-betting industry.

The self-described “degenerate gambler ” uses that perch to regale his followers with his betting exploits and cajole them to join him.

From the moment that the Supreme Court opened the door to legalized sports gambling in 2018, businesses and governments have been racing to secure slices of what some analysts predict could be a $240 billion a year market. Companies are shelling out hundreds of millions of dollars on ads and promotions to lure customers. States are vying to offer the lowest tax rates.

Mr. Portnoy’s rapid rise is one of the most vivid manifestations of the frenzy, according to a New York Times investigation based on thousands of pages of court filings, financial documents and communications obtained through open-records requests along with interviews with dozens of current and former Barstool and Penn employees and state regulators.

Instead of flooding the airwaves with advertisements, Penn Entertainment’s play was to slap Barstool’s brand onto a new online sports-betting platform as well as brick-and-mortar casinos. Far from being turned off by Mr. Portnoy’s behavior, Penn executives sought to harness his notoriety to woo a new generation of gamblers.

Regulators, too, have largely looked the other way — a sign of how, with the federal government not overseeing sports betting, states have at times relaxed the scrutiny they previously applied to the gambling industry.

In states like Nevada and New Jersey, gambling regulators have long used painstaking licensing processes to weed out people toting financial or legal baggage such as past bankruptcies, criminal records or gambling problems. Top executives at gambling companies received close attention, but so did those with even peripheral connections to the casinos; some states, for example, required reviews of major shareholders and marketing partners.

Initially, the goal was to keep organized crime at bay. Later, it expanded to combat the appearance of an unscrupulous industry that preys on vulnerable customers.

The mandate for regulators was “not only make sure the games are fair,” said Anthony Cabot, a law professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and an authority on gambling regulation. “They are also there to maintain the public confidence that the gaming industry is not associating with people that they shouldn’t be associating with.”

But with states hustling to attract sports-betting companies and the tax revenue they are expected to generate, some of that oversight has eased.

At least 12 states , for example, allow gambling companies and their affiliates to begin operating on a temporary basis before undergoing full licensing reviews. In other states, regulators have taken relatively narrow views of who should face reviews in the first place.

Penn and Barstool have been beneficiaries. Twelve of the 13 states in which the Barstool Sportsbook operates have not licensed Mr. Portnoy, in part because Penn has argued, and regulators agreed, that he was not involved in running the betting platform. One state, Pennsylvania, granted Mr. Portnoy a license.

The result is that someone who, by dint of his influential position promoting a gambling business, previously would have faced scrutiny by regulators has instead sailed through and become one of the industry’s loudest cheerleaders.

Industry watchdogs say that Mr. Portnoy, perhaps more than anyone else in the United States, is encouraging recklessness among his legions of followers. Most are young men, a group that researchers have found is at especially high risk of problem gambling.

Mr. Portnoy at times mocks the notion of gambling responsibly. He boasts that he typically wagers $25,000 a bet and as much as $500,000 . He has encouraged fans to bet their “house, kids, family” on a single game. He has described gambling as “free money ” and said it would be “wreckless” to not place a bet.

“David Portnoy pours kerosene on an already flaming situation,” said Brianne Doura-Schawohl, who advises companies on how to promote responsible gambling. “Everything he is promoting, endorsing and speaking to are actually things that could meet the criteria for a gambling addiction.”

Regulators in at least two states have signaled discomfort with Mr. Portnoy.

In Massachusetts, where sports betting is expected to start next year and Penn is awaiting regulatory approval, members of the state’s gambling commission voiced concerns about Mr. Portnoy’s fitness after allegations of sexual misconduct were reported by Insider.

In Nevada, the state’s Gaming Control Board said in a statement to The Times that it is investigating Penn’s compliance with gambling regulations, including its due diligence into Barstool and Mr. Portnoy before their 2020 partnership. Depending on the outcome of the investigation, the board could do nothing or impose penalties, such as forcing Penn to sever ties with Mr. Portnoy.

The Times provided Penn, Barstool and Mr. Portnoy with detailed questions about this article. Penn and Barstool executives did not respond to repeated messages. Mr. Portnoy did not provide answers.

“You have so many factual inaccuracies it’s actually laughable,” he wrote. “It’s below me to even dignify this hatchet job with a response.”

This fall, Mr. Portnoy is touring college campuses , broadcasting his bets in front of cheering students.

One Saturday in late September, Mr. Portnoy was in Knoxville, Tenn., for a University of Tennessee football game. He sat on an outdoor stage with other Barstool personalities and cans of High Noon, a vodka drink that he and Barstool are paid to promote. A raucous crowd of Tennessee fans yelled, cursed and pounded High Noon as Mr. Portnoy shared his latest wager: $100,000 on the University of Georgia to win the college football championship.

Lacking Pizazz

The company that would become Penn Entertainment got its start in 1972 as a thoroughbred horse racetrack in Grantville, Pa. Over the years, Penn grew into one of the country’s largest gambling companies, operating more than 40 casinos under the Hollywood, L’Auberge and other brands.

But Penn didn’t have the Las Vegas pizazz of companies like Caesars and MGM. Its focus was on slot machines, and its customers typically were older women. Its growth was slowing. Investors were antsy.

In 2018, the Supreme Court struck down a federal law that blocked sports gambling in most parts of the United States. A frenetic lobbying campaign was soon in motion. Upstart betting companies like FanDuel joined forces with casino giants and professional sports leagues to push states to permit sports gambling. Dozens of states, their officials salivating at the prospect of new tax revenue, rushed to comply.

Jay A. Snowden, the son of a Las Vegas poker dealer, was Penn’s chief operating officer and next in line to become chief executive. He recognized that to position Penn for this new era of digital gambling, the company needed a partner.

“The average age of our casino customers is in the mid-50s,” Mr. Snowden told investors. “How do we solve for that? Sports betting.”

Penn executives spent 15 months exploring deals with gambling and media companies. The talks didn’t get far. Some potential partners were scared off by the prospect of licensing reviews in the 19 states where Penn then operated, Mr. Snowden said .

Then Mr. Snowden met Mr. Portnoy and Barstool.

‘A Legitimate Degenerate’

Mr. Portnoy was a lifelong gambler. When he was 11, his father took him to a racetrack, and the boy was hooked. Mr. Portnoy has said that he placed bets with a Little League coach who happened to be a bookie. At the University of Michigan, Mr. Portnoy started a website called thegamblingman.com to publish his picks.

After graduating, he worked at a market research firm and burned his income on gambling, according to his parents.

“Anybody who thinks that my son is exaggerating his gambling issues, I wish he was,” Mr. Portnoy’s father once said . “Believe me, he is a legitimate degenerate.”

In 2003, Mr. Portnoy left his job and began handing out his self-published Barstool newspaper to Boston commuters. It was geared toward young men. Early advertisers included offshore websites where Mr. Portnoy has said he placed bets. At least one, PartyPoker.com, operated illegally in the United States.

Mr. Portnoy was walking a financial tightrope. He has said that he created fake advertisements in Barstool to spur rival companies to buy their own ads. He wrote under pseudonyms to make Barstool seem like it had a sizable staff. Months after the newspaper’s launch, Mr. Portnoy filed for bankruptcy. The court filing detailed $30,000 in gambling debts.

Barstool started generating buzz in 2004 when Mr. Portnoy put photographs of bikini-clad women on the cover. The newspaper went digital in 2007.

Mr. Portnoy and his colleagues reveled in their rejection of political correctness.

Barstool ran a “Grading the Sex Scandal” column, which ranked the attractiveness of women accused of abusing children. In one typical blog post, Mr. Portnoy wrote of a college student who had appeared in a viral video, “Would somebody for the love of god please stick a dick in this bitch’s mouth and shut her up already.”

Another time, he wrote that Barstool did not “condone rape,” before adding: “However, if a chick passes out, that’s a gray area.” And he repeatedly described Colin Kaepernick, the National Football League quarterback who knelt during the national anthem to protest racial injustice, as a terrorist who resembled Osama bin Laden.

After uproars, he has often dismissed his statements as jokes . In at least one case, he apologized . Interspersed are defiant attacks on “ cancel culture.”

Fueled by Mr. Portnoy’s pugnaciousness, Barstool attracted tens of millions of fans. Mr. Portnoy fondly called them “Stoolies.” They called him “El Presidente.”

In 2016, an investment group led by Peter Chernin, Rupert Murdoch’s longtime second-in-command, invested in Barstool, valuing it at up to $15 million. The high-profile financing accelerated Barstool’s rise. That year, Barstool hired Erika Nardini, a veteran of digital media, as its chief executive. She hosts a podcast called “Token CEO” and in her office displays a poster with the words “Toxic Masculinity.”

Soon Mr. Portnoy used his celebrity to score endorsement deals for products like spiked seltzer and frozen pizzas .

Naming a Price

Around the time that Mr. Snowden and Penn were scouting out partners, Barstool executives were exploring ways to get into sports betting. They talked with gambling companies including DraftKings, but no deals materialized.

“I was stunned,” Mr. Portnoy later said , wondering whether the companies thought he was “too risky.”

In the summer of 2019, a Barstool executive contacted Penn, whose sports-betting business was confined to a smattering of casinos. Rivals had already introduced sports-betting apps.

Mr. Snowden and Mr. Portnoy soon met. They clicked. Mr. Snowden later called Mr. Portnoy and his colleagues “geniuses.”

Here was a way for Penn to reach tens of millions of young, digitally savvy sports fans — a demographic primed for sports betting but less likely to set foot in a casino.

Penn agreed to pay $163 million for a 36 percent stake in Barstool, with the option to buy the company outright. The deal valued Barstool at $450 million — up from barely $15 million four years earlier. The deal included a long-term employment contract for Mr. Portnoy.

Penn planned to use the Barstool name to create a sports-betting app and website, which executives hoped would also offer digital casino games like blackjack. In addition, Penn planned to rebrand sports-betting venues inside its casinos as Barstool Sportsbooks and to open Barstool-branded bars and restaurants.

Barstool agreed to promote the new betting platform and Penn’s casinos to their audiences for up to 40 years.

“He needed us, we needed them, and we named our price,” Mr. Portnoy said later. “There was no negotiation.”

Tax Liens and Public Threats

Over the following months, Penn dug into Barstool’s finances and surveyed the drama that constantly trailed Mr. Portnoy, according to two former executives involved in the deal.

There was plenty to see.

In just the six months after investment talks commenced, but before a deal was announced, Mr. Portnoy said he was retiring from gambling after losing too much money (he was back soon); an $11,795 tax lien was filed against Mr. Portnoy in New York, at least the fourth time he’d faced such a lien; a sex tape featuring Mr. Portnoy leaked ; and Barstool reached a settlement with the National Labor Relations Board after Mr. Portnoy threatened to fire employees if they tried to unionize.

Penn’s code of conduct at the time stated that employees must demonstrate the “highest standards of integrity” and “seek to avoid even the appearance of improper behavior.”

Regulators, too, had a keen interest in avoiding such appearances.

In the 1950s, authorities in Nevada, which had become a popular destination for the mafia after the legalization of gambling two decades earlier, adopted rules — such as requiring people to complete financial questionnaires — to fend off organized crime.

Over time, as other states legalized different types of gambling, the rules evolved to also encourage social responsibility and ensure public trust. Prospective casino operators often had to provide regulators with their tax returns, credit card statements, computer hard drives and mobile phones. Some regulators even insisted that people explain their tattoos and scars or grilled them on having hired undocumented immigrants as nannies.

Gambling licenses were considered a privilege. The burden was on applicants to prove they were of good character, honesty and integrity.

Those affiliated with or connected to gambling businesses — including major investors, vendors and marketing partners — also could face regulatory reviews, even if they didn’t need to be officially licensed.

One result was that casino companies rushed to cut ties with celebrities after even a whiff of controversy, fearful of upsetting regulators. Caesars ended its relationship with the chef Paula Deen in 2013 after she admitted to using the N-word. Las Vegas Sands closed Mario Batali restaurants in 2018 after women accused him of sexual misconduct.

State gambling regulators “generally have broad discretion to control or eliminate behaviors that are deemed to portray regulated gaming in a bad light,” said Richard Schuetz, who spent decades as a gambling executive and regulator in California.

Times, however, soon changed. Egged on by industry lobbyists, lawmakers and governors competed to get sports gambling up and running as quickly as possible. Some regulators wanted to be seen as the industry’s partners, not their policemen.

Before finalizing the Barstool deal, Penn told state regulators about the pending announcement. They discussed whether Mr. Portnoy and others at Barstool would need to obtain gambling licenses, according to the two executives.

Those conversations with regulators convinced Penn executives that as long as they controlled the gambling operations and kept Barstool employees in marketing roles, Mr. Portnoy and his colleagues wouldn’t face state licensing reviews, said Timothy J. Wilmott, Penn’s chief executive at the time.

“We certainly knew Barstool was edgy and that they had content out there that appealed to their audience, but we didn’t feel at the time that there was anything there that we could not manage,” Mr. Wilmott said in an interview.

Penn later lobbied officials in Arizona to limit licensing requirements to employees who have “the highest decision-making authority within an organization,” according to an email reviewed by The Times. That would mean that employees like Mr. Portnoy probably wouldn’t come under regulators’ gaze. Penn warned that more stringent requirements would needlessly slow down the rollout of sports betting in Arizona — and therefore delay the expected gusher of new gambling tax revenue.

Sports betting went live in Arizona months later, with regulators opting to grant licenses to entities, not individuals. Penn got a license for its Barstool app; Mr. Portnoy wasn’t scrutinized.

Regulators in other states applauded Penn’s deal with Barstool before it was made public.

“I’m excited for Penn and for Barstool,” Ronnie Jones, then the chairman of the Louisiana Gaming Control Board, wrote to Ms. Nardini, the Barstool chief executive. “I think this is a great partnership.” (The Times obtained the email via a public records request.) Louisiana permitted Penn to offer sports betting under the Barstool brand and didn’t require Mr. Portnoy to be licensed.

In an interview, Mr. Jones, who is no longer on the oversight board, said that he wasn’t familiar with Barstool at the time. “When the name Barstool first came up, most of my life experience had been with the piece of furniture,” he said.

It is not clear whether Penn told regulators about Mr. Portnoy’s bankruptcy and gambling losses, which experts said licensing authorities traditionally would have scrutinized.

Mr. Schuetz, the former regulator, said he was surprised that state regulators would conclude that Mr. Portnoy’s “questionable behaviors are consistent with a suitable means of operation in modern gaming regulation. In my 50-plus years in the industry, this is a very significant change.”

Penn and Barstool unveiled their deal on Jan. 29, 2020. Mr. Portnoy received tens of millions of dollars in cash and shares of Penn; he has said he’s worth about $100 million. And he was elevated into an elite position in the world of sports betting.

“This is kind of what I always wanted to do with my life, to be honest,” Mr. Portnoy said on a conference call with investors that day. “I wanted to be involved in shaping, kind of, the gambling industry.”

‘Come Bet WITH US’

When Penn’s Barstool betting app went live in Pennsylvania in September 2020, Mr. Portnoy made good on his promise to push it to his followers. “We’ve bet WITH YOU for the past 17 years,” exhorted a video that he posted on Twitter. “Now come bet WITH US.”

Across its network of websites and social media accounts, Barstool promoted the gambling app. It also broadcast pregame shows and other videos in which Mr. Portnoy and others watched sports and discussed their wagers. Fans were encouraged to use the Barstool betting app to gamble alongside or against Mr. Portnoy and his Barstool colleagues.

Regulators in 13 states have permitted Penn to offer Barstool-branded sports betting, with four states also allowing digital casino games. Penn also has introduced Barstool bars and sports-betting venues in 12 locations.

The results for Penn have been mixed. The Barstool betting app is the seventh-largest in the country by revenue, according to research firm Eilers & Krejcik Gaming. It commands about 3 percent of the sports-betting market, less than half of what analysts had projected.

Penn, which has said it will exercise its option to buy Barstool outright in February, remains committed. The new Barstool Sportsbooks inside Penn’s casinos have enticed younger gamblers to visit. Once inside, Penn executives say, they spend money on gambling, food and beverages — and often return.

Thanks at least in part to the Barstool deal, customers who are between 21 and 44 years old now account for about 20 percent of Penn’s revenue — a figure that nearly doubled over the past few years, Mr. Snowden told analysts this month. He said Barstool and Mr. Portnoy have proven to be “amazing partners for us.”

They have also at times engaged in what critics describe as problematic behavior, including ridiculing the concept of responsible gambling and trumpeting his five- and six-figure bets.

In a September 2021 Twitter post , for instance, Mr. Portnoy said, “First. Always bet responsibly. 2nd. Here is how you win a quick ¼ million,” alongside a photo of a bet slip showing a $19,000 wager he placed on the Barstool app.

Later that month, Barstool and Penn agreed to pay a total of $17,500 to Indiana regulators after Barstool posted a TikTok video in which a young woman minimized the consequences of losing money. The video violated Indiana’s laws governing deceptive marketing of gambling. (Penn, realizing the video was inappropriate, flagged it to regulators in multiple states, but only Indiana appears to have taken disciplinary action.)

Keith Whyte, executive director of the National Council on Problem Gambling, said that Mr. Portnoy and Barstool routinely distort the risks of gambling. “He is normalizing sports betting in ways that frankly often come off as irresponsible,” Mr. Whyte said.

Circling the Wagons

On a Thursday morning in November 2021, an email arrived in the inboxes of gambling regulators across the country. The subject line: “Confidential — David Portnoy Article.”

Insider had just published an article detailing allegations from women who said they’d had sexual encounters with Mr. Portnoy that turned violent. Mr. Portnoy denied the claims and sued for defamation. (The suit was dismissed.)

“We wanted to reach out to let you know that we have seen the article, understand the serious nature of these allegations, and are reviewing it carefully,” Chris Soriano, Penn’s chief compliance officer, wrote in an email to regulators reviewed by The Times.

Penn had reason to be worried.

Three years earlier, sexual misconduct allegations against the casino magnate Steve Wynn prompted his departure from Wynn Resorts and led regulators in Nevada and Massachusetts to impose tens of millions of dollars in penalties.

Now many state regulators either looked past or ignored the accusations against Mr. Portnoy.

Some regulators privately expressed concerns. In Illinois, for example, the gambling board’s assistant general counsel wrote to colleagues that Mr. Portnoy was “a creep who has questionable sexual encounters with much younger” women. In Indiana, the head of the gambling commission told Mr. Soriano that regulators viewed the allegations “as very serious, requiring prompt communication regarding Penn’s planned course of action.”

Yet there is no sign that Illinois, Indiana or other states took disciplinary actions.

Executives at Penn and Barstool, meanwhile, circled the wagons.

Ms. Nardini said on her podcast that the company was taking the situation “incredibly seriously.” Then she added: “Dave Portnoy is the most honest, forthright person I have ever met.”

The next day, Mr. Snowden, who had become Penn’s chief executive in 2020, held a videoconference call for employees. He criticized the Insider article and defended Mr. Portnoy. Mr. Snowden was wearing a Barstool sweatshirt.

Even as Penn executives defended Mr. Portnoy, the company acknowledged the perils of being associated with him.

The list of “risk factors” that Penn discloses to investors includes the following warning: “Our relationships with state gaming regulators, stakeholders and business partners could be adversely affected as a result of our affiliation with Barstool Sports.”

Liz Day contributed reporting. Kirsten Noyes and Kitty Bennett contributed research.

Emily Steel has covered the media industry since 2014 and was part of the team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for public service for reporting on workplace sexual harassment issues. She previously worked at The Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal. More about Emily Steel

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Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy called out PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan in a fiery Twitter rant after the bombshell news of the PGA Tour-LIV Golf merger on Tuesday.

In a series of tweets, Portnoy ripped Monahan as “a piece s–t” after the PGA Tour announced that it would merge into one company with the Saudi-backed LIV Golf league, as well as the European DP World Tour.

Portnoy was particularly unhappy with Monahan over previous comments he made, backing the families of 9/11 victims who expressed public outrage over former PGA pros defecting to LIV.

Last June, 911familiesunited.org, a coalition of families and survivors of the 2001 terrorist attacks, sent a scathing letter to representatives of Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson, Bryson DeChambeau, Patrick Reed and Kevin Na accusing them of sportswashing and betraying the United States.

Fifteen of the 19 terrorists responsible for the collapse of the World Trade Towers and the deaths of nearly 3,000 people on Sept. 11, 2001 were from Saudi Arabia.

“This is why you should never lie,” Portnoy wrote on Twitter. “People may not like the truth but they’ll respect you for saying it.

“This commish of the PGA comes out looking like the biggest scumbag of all ranting and raving about 9/11 only to merge with Liv an hour later. What a piece of s—t.”

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This is why you should never lie. People may not like the truth but they'll respect you for saying it. This commish of the PGA comes out looking like the biggest scumbag of all ranting and raving about 9/11 only to merge with Liv an hour later. What a piece of shit. pic.twitter.com/XEaYP4VJJd — Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) June 6, 2023

“I am so sick of this PGA commissioner talking about 9/11,” Portnoy said in a video attached to his tweet.

“Buddy, it’s about the money. It’s only about the money. You know it’s about the money.”

Portnoy went on to say that he would consider moving Barstool’s headquarters to Saudi Arabia.

“I’m not saying — well I am saying, if Saudi Arabia is like, ‘Dave, I’m going to give you one billion dollars to move Barstool’s headquarters to Saudi Arabia and you only have to be here one day a year, I will do that so fast, it’ll make your f–kin head spin,” Portnoy said.

He added that if an offer included five million, he’d say, “You guys are morally f–king corrupt, I want no part of that.”

The real story probably is what is the PGA hiding to avoid going through litigation. pic.twitter.com/AedgPFE7Rg — Andrew Marchand (@AndrewMarchand) June 6, 2023

In a separate tweet, Portnoy shared a screengrab of Monahan’s response to the 9/11 victims’ families in June 2022, and demanded an explanation.

Monahan’s comments included in part: “I have two families that are close to me that lost loved ones. My heart goes out to them and I would ask that any player that has left, or that would ever consider leaving, have you ever had to apologize for being a member of the PGA Tour?”

At the time, Monahan’s comments came after he suspended any PGA Tour pro participating in a LIV Golf tournament.

Portnoy called Monahan’s comments “bulls–t,” and continued chastising the PGA Tour commissioner.

“I’m gonna need Monahan to address these comments which were so clearly bulls–t in real time but to invoke 9/11 to get public opinion on your side in a financial golf league dispute is disgusting,” Portnoy wrote.

“Also I could give a s–t less they are merging,” Portnoy wrote in another tweet. “Getting all the best golfers back in the same tournaments is great for golf and the fans.

“It’s just hilarious all the bulls–t that was being spewed about how morally superior the PGA was only to have them merge almost instantly.”

All parties will work on the potential for LIV players to reapply for memberships with the PGA and DP Tours after this year, according to Golf Digest.

According to the PGA Tour, the Saudi Public Investment Fund “will make a capital investment” into the new, yet-to-be-named supertour. 

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Alex Cooper’s former Barstool Sports boss, Dave Portnoy, didn’t score an invite to the podcaster’s upcoming nuptials.

The “BFFs” podcast host revealed he recently confronted the “Call Her Daddy” mogul, who is set to wed Hollywood producer Matt Kaplan later this year.

“I texted her Feb. 24,” he said on his podcast last week.

Portnoy told Cooper, “It’s bulls–t I didn’t get invited to your wedding.”

Co-host Brianna Chickenfry chimed in, saying, “Good for you, what did she say?”

“She said ‘Dave … it’s just family and a couple of friends, very small,'” Cooper explained via text.

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The former soccer star also asked the controversial media personality “how he was doing” after his split from Silvana Mojica last year. The pair called it quits in November 2023 after three years together.

“I wouldn’t have gone anyway,” Portnoy further quipped about the wedding invite.

“I like to be invited so I can say, ’No thanks, I’m busy.’”

Cooper was originally employed by Barstool Sports when her “Call Her Daddy” podcast — which she previously co-hosted with Sofia Franklyn — became a nationwide sensation.

The podcasters and former BFFs hosted the wildly popular sex-positive show for two years before parting ways amid a highly publicized contract blowout in early 2020.

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“We had personal conversations. This s–t was so bad behind the scenes, like, it was going to end,” Cooper, 29, said on  Barstool Radio  last year.

In May 2020, she became the sole host of “Call Her Daddy,” before taking the podcast to Spotify where she  inked a historic $60 million deal.

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“To be a part of the launch ahead of my own wedding makes it such an extra fun celebration,” Cooper said last week.

“The Wedding Shop collections are beautiful, and I can’t wait to wear so many of the pieces during my wedding weekend and on my honeymoon.”

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My husband and I will be in moscow and wanted to take a side trip..understand Vladimir & Suzdal is quite nice. Do you prefer that to Sergiev Posad? Do you know any agencies that provide group tours or private tours to Vladimir & Suzdal? I understand that Patriarshy Dom is not operating its group tour during this time. Please advise. Any information you have to share would be helpful.

Vladimir & Suzdal are close to each other. you can use vladimir as base and also visit suzdal.

I will give you some links ( sorry i am out on tour and can't do more research).

http://gotorussia.vand.ru/ ( this is a tour operator offering 1 day tour from moscow to Vladimir , Suzdal or both) there are also combo tours with sergiev Possad with any of the above towns.

In order to organize tours from Vladimir, there are 3 major sites where you will get infor about the tours operating from Vladimir, how to reach there etc.

1. http://www.tour.vladimir.ru

2. http://www.vladimir-city.ru ( official site)

3. http://www.museum.vladimir.ru ( my recommended site)

<< go to english version / select option "services" / tours & excursions

My sugestion would be to go to Vladimir by train from moscow in the evening, take rest and then join a full day tour of vladimir - suzdal and return at night or next day morning. The train takes 2-3 hrs. Details available at http://www.poezda.net ( in english) .You can even book online

Trains are clean and safe. Hotel Vladimir at Vladimir is ok. near the train station. you can find the contacts in google. ( book the tickets in advance.)

You can visit sergiev possad ( quite near to moscow) using the moscow based tour agency mentioned above. They offer day trips to Sergivev possad.

If you want to search the net further, go to http://www.yandex.ru ( russian website) and type in "vladimir tour" or "suzdal tour" in ENGLISH. This will give you many sites with english option

have a nice trip

will you consider a DIY trip?

from moscow to vladimir take a long-distance train or a suburban (electrichek) train from kursky station. there are several in the daytime/early evening. certain long-distance trains are faster and can arrive in 2 hours. suburbans take 3 hrs. probably less complicated to buy suburban ticket than one of a long-distance train (where you need passport, specify what type of seat, which train number...) and also cheaper

once in vladimir you can walk around for 1-2 hours or even have your dinner there. then take a bus (avtobus) at the bus station just up a slope from the train station. the bus runs every 30-60mins till late. i took the one around 8-9pm. and the evening buses go directly into city centre of suzdal. the trip is about 40-60mins

the tricky part is if you reserve your accomodation in suzdal with a guesthouse/B&B, it may not be easy to locate. the one i had booked did not have a sign hanging at the door. i walked around for about an hour and at last had to find a local to talk to my host over phone and then she kindly led me to the right wooden house

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Dave Portnoy goes wild celebrating Caitlin Clark three-pointer vs LSU

A n elated Dave Portnoy celebrated wildly after watching Caitlin Clark nail yet another three-pointer in Iowa 's crunch clash with LSU at March Madness .

The Barstool Sports founder revealed at the weekend that he would be in Albany for the blockbuster Elite Eight game after purchasing tickets as soon as the tournament bracket indicated Iowa and LSU could meet.