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Sports of The Times: Social Media, Where Sports Fans Congregate and Misogyny Runs Amok

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The hatred that arrives rapid-fire into their social media accounts is so personal and acidic that it could sear through even the thickest skin.

Messages from men who said they wanted them dead. Or raped. Or beaten by their boyfriends.

So Julie DiCaro and Sarah Spain — these two friends and Chicago-based sports journalists who receive these notes on nearly a daily basis — decided to address it publicly. They agreed to be featured in a video highlighting some of the meanest, cruelest messages they’ve received on Twitter.

In the video, produced by Just Not Sports and posted Tuesday, men sat across from DiCaro, a radio host at 670 The Score, and Spain, an ESPN reporter and radio host.