Deadspin: Buzz Bissinger

The Buzz Bissinger-Mark Cuban Twitter Fight, Transcribed And Animated

Luke O'Brien — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 16:30:24 EST

If you haven't read Buzz Bissinger's column for the Daily Beast about white fans and race in the NBA, you might want to. It's become quite the talked-about piece, mainly because Mark Cuban called out Bissinger about it on Twitter. There's nothing much original in the column. It's more or less the same stuff progressive-minded journalists have been penning about the NBA since Sweetwater Clifton signed his name on a contract. Bissinger harvested anecdotal evidence about white disinterest in the league to arrive at the conclusion that white America won't watch black men get paid to play basketball. More »

We Are All Dave McKenna XX

Luke O'Brien — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 12:45:00 EST

Here's your daily link to Dave McKenna's brilliant "Cranky Redskins Fan's Guide to Dan Snyder," which we'll be posting until Snyder's dumbass libel suit vanishes like a Redskins head coach after two seasons. Today's installment comes from perpetually ill-tempered new media comedian Buzz Bissinger in a series of Twitter rants this morning (in fact, you should go read all of Buzzy's fine work this morning, including the bit about how he's digging a grave in his backyard): More »

Here's Video Of The Knockout Of The Year Getting Delivered In Atlantic City Last Night

Brian Hickey — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 09:00:00 EST

Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and internets to bring you everything you need to know to start your day. More »

Deadspin Classic: Of Jimmy Olson, Spittle And The Dying Of The Light

Deadspin 2008 — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:10:00 EDT

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With No Further Ado, Buzz Bissinger Challenges Andy Reid as a Coach and Father (But Mostly as a Father)

Brian Hickey — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 13:30:00 EDT

When Buzz Bissinger smells blood, Buzz Bissinger attacks. You know this already. I just dig how it makes for quality after-school-rumble 140-character entertainment like it did today, when his old/new paper (the Philadelphia Inquirer) ran an above-the-A1-fold piece on how difficult having a couple of buck-wild incarcerated kids - one of whom was more than willing to mule his precious pills into jail via rectal insertion - was. It included such passages as ... More »

Pay No Attention To The Buzzing In Your Ears

Dashiell Bennett — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:15:38 EDT

Because no one reads the newspaper and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and internets to bring you everything you need to know to start your day. More »

Steelers Fans Need To Learn That No Parking Means No Parking

Dashiell Bennett — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 07:15:24 EDT

Buzz Bissinger Explains His Transformation Into Twitter's King Of Douche-Juicing

A.J. Daulerio — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:00:00 EDT

"I am an angry man, which is one of the reasons I resumed therapy and take four different pharmaceuticals. I wake up angry, stay angry during the day except to my dog and children, and go to bed angry at night." [TNR] More »

Buzz Bissinger's Twitter Tirade Makes Him All The More Lovable

A.J. Daulerio — Sat, 15 May 2010 18:15:03 EDT

Deadspin's best frenemy and best-selling author is, in fact, the man behind the infamous Buzz Bissinger Twitter account, which has been littered with highly entertaining, vituperative tweet spats . More »

Defense Wins The Weekend

Dashiell Bennett — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:30:56 EST

In sports, everyone is a winner—some people just win better than others. Like NFL defensive units who shut down their opponents and made all the difference in first-round playoff wins. When they bothered to show up. More »

Breaking: Buzz Bissinger Says Provocative Thing On Television

Tommy Craggs — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:25:47 EST

Watch as the ol' shit-pisser, speaking with Matt Lauer, deems Tiger a narcissist for doing pull-ups in front of Annie Leibovitz. Then he calls Lee Trevino a drunk. Just like W.C. Heinz used to do! [Courtesy Gawker.TV] More »

Vanity Fair Reveals Beefcake Tiger Woods Photos It Had Laying Around The Office

A.J. Daulerio — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:15:59 EST

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Photos by the esteemed Annie Leibovitz show Tiger's sexy side, one that only his wife and most of America's cocktail waitresses have been privy to so far. Additional scolding essay written starred commenter H.G. Bissinger. [HuffPo] More »

Bissinger Continues His Moneyball Trolling

Tommy Craggs — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:30:14 EDT

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Buzz Bissinger, shit-pissing author of Three Nights as Tony La Russa's Sock Puppet, is back on his battered old Moneyball hobbyhorse, firing off angry fallacies left and right. [TNR, of all places] More »

Posnanski Responds To Bissinger Diss Track

Tommy Craggs — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:30:19 EDT

You'll recall that W.C. "Buzz" Bissingheinz called out Joe Posnanski in yesterday's chat equivalent of an old guy wearing his hat backward. Posnanski replies: "I have never had a feud before. Could this be the start of something new?" [JoePosnanski.com] More »

Buzz Bissinger's Highlight Reel

A.J. Daulerio — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:15:16 EDT

So that happened. Buzz Bissinger popped up in the comments section this afternoon and he did not disappoint. More »

Book Excerpts That Don't Suck: Shooting Stars

A.J. Daulerio — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:00:23 EDT

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Today, cretins, we're joined by Deadspin provocateur and best-selling author Buzz Bissinger to discuss "Shooting Stars". You know, the as-told-to book about Lebron James' high school glory days. This should be entertaining. More »

A Very Special Chat Tomorrow...

A.J. Daulerio — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:40:02 EDT

Perk up, comment gremlins, for an amazing opportunity awaits you. On tomorrow's edition of "Book Excerpts That Don't Suck", we'll be joined by noted author and and pisser-of-shit, H.G. "Buzz" Bissinger who will talk about his book, "Shooting Stars". More »

LeBron Once Smoked The Reefer, Ever-Discerning ESPN Informs Us

Tommy Craggs — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:00:52 EDT

ZOMG! LeBron James is one of 97 million Americans to have smoked marijuana! This is news! Hannah Storm just told the world! It's on the front page of ESPN.com! Right below that unfortunate business with Ben Roethlisberger! More »

Buzz Bissinger's 3 Nights In August To Become 2 Hours Wasted At Your Local Multiplex

Tommy Craggs — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:10:57 EDT

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That other baseball movie is flailing about, but the adaptation of 3 Nights In August, Bissinger's Moneyball diss track and paean to Tony La Russa and the manly virtues of lineup construction, is moving along nicely. The nerds can't win. More »

It’s Family Hour With A Kinder, Gentler Buzz Bissinger (UPDATE)

Drew Magary — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:40:51 EDT

Your Deadcast guest this week is Pulitzer Prize winner, author, and noted horsefucker Buzz Bissinger, and he's still got some f-bombs in his pocket. He was Artie Lange before Artie Lange was Artie Lange, you know. More »

Buzz Bissinger: Foul-Mouthed Inspiration To Fertile Yale Minds

A.J. Daulerio — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:15:58 EST

Surprisingly, he cursed a lot during his lecture: “I would never imagine him as the writer of the story I love." [Yale Daily News] More »

Last Last Final Chance For SHOTY

Dashiell Bennett — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:00:00 EST

Five thousand votes separate the the competitors. Voting closes at the end of the AFC game. Can you do any less? More »

The Evolution Of Young Bode Lubbers Continues At A Startling Pace

A.J. Daulerio — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:35:00 EST

Yes, our Baby Mangino seems like an unstoppable force. More »

Last Weekend For SHOTY Voting

Will Leitch — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:30:30 EST

As of this typing, the Bissinger-Mangino SHOTY Title Game is tied. More »

Baby Mangino's Final Push; Bissinger Won't Go Down Without A Slight

A.J. Daulerio — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:45:20 EST

SHOTY Title Game: Buzz Bissinger Vs. Baby Mangino

Will Leitch — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:30:58 EST

We have reached the SHOTY Final. It's probably the one we should have expected all along. More »

Last Chance For SHOTY Final Four Voting

Will Leitch — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 12:30:15 EST

Welcome back, everybody. It's 2009. Crazy. Time to make your voice heard, while you can. More »

SHOTY Final Four: Buzz Bissinger Vs. Erin Andrews

Will Leitch — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:45:52 EST

Welcome back, everybody. Some of you worked last Friday, some of you still aren't back at work today. But whatever, it's SHOTY time, time to wake up, people. More »

SHOTY Final Four Is Set

Will Leitch — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:00:53 EST

Congratulations to our four finalists in the 2008 Sportshuman of the Year tournament. They've all earned it, in their own way. More »

SHOTY Elite Eight: Buzz Bissinger Vs. Mark Cuban

Will Leitch — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:15:12 EST

It's the battle of people who have yelled at me in public. Woo-hoo! It's just like hanging out with my dad when I was a teenager. Why wasn't my dad nominated? More »

SHOTY First Round: Buzz Bissinger Vs. Mike Singletary

Will Leitch — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:30:46 EST

Fridays are always good days for mismatches. Most of you have probably skipped out to do holiday shopping anyway — do they still sell the Tickle Me Elmo? — so it makes voting anomalies less likely. More »

Will There Be Blood?

A.J. Daulerio — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:15:22 EST

New York City Deadspin readers: Grab your chap books and gird your loins, because tonight is the Varsity Letters Reading extravaganza you've all been waiting for. Watch Drew Magary share the tiny, cloistered-off section of a bar to read from "Men With Balls" along side one-time nemesis and blog bloviator, H. G. "Buzz" Bissinger. Will they shake hands and lustily embrace? Will they share an awkward hot dog and beer together? Or will Buzz grab a coconut and bust it over top the head of the bastardly Big Daddy Balls? More »

Buzz Bissinger Wants To Help You Find Somebody To Love

A.J. Daulerio — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:00:21 EDT

For those of us lucky enough to be Facebook friends with esteemed author and cantankerous blog-basher Buzz Bissinger, we were all treated with a special surprise in the last 10 minutes when it appeared Buzz had made the effort to write something on our walls. Not the case. It seems poor Buzz got Facebook-spammed somehow and now he's inadvertently sending out creepy messages letting people know that they have a secret admirer. It happens. But it doesn't make the screen-grab taken from many people's front pages any less amusing. More »

Buzz Bissigner Will Defend Barry Bonds To The Very End

Rick Chandler — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:15:07 EDT

So our non-frog-resembling, perpetually indignant pal Buzz Bissinger has a piece in the New York Times today on Barry Bonds. It's a mostly-sympathetic look at the bloated slugger, at least as it pertains to his legal woes. So to recap: Will Leitch and sports blogs, bad. Barry Bonds, good. Thanks for taking us through the looking glass once again, Buzz. More »

Buzz Bissinger Seems To Have Finally Spun Himself Out

A.J. Daulerio — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:15:15 EDT

One of the most fascinating transformations that may have taken place since the Costas Now eruption is the progresive softening of one Buzz Bissinger. It seemed for a while that Buzz was actually determined to make his hatred of sports blogs an inextricable part of his writing legacy. For every interview request about that fateful evening Will politely, respectfully declined in a fruitless effort to keep the pissing match from reaching an even broader critical mass, Buzz agreed to about 17. They were always the same. He would first apologize to Will and for his behavior but then regurgitate a much more composed, semi-articulate (but still strident) attack on the vile, irresponsible culture of blogs. Buzz turned into Bill Donohue, and sports blogs were his own personal Piss Christ. Since that time, though, Buzz has settled down, even shown a sense of humor about the incident and made at least modest attempt to accept the things he cannot change. More »

Deadspin Hall Of Fame Inductee: Buzz Bissinger

Will Leitch — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:00:04 EDT

Presenting the first 2008 inductee to The Deadspin Hall Of Fame ... Buzz Bissinger. Final tally: 83.3 percent. I congratulate Buzz on this honor. I do hope he signs his name, from now on, as "Buzz DHOF '08," like the ballplayers do. (Plaque by the engaged Jim Cooke.) More »

The Unhinged, Passionate Fury Of One H.G. Bissinger Reveals Itself Again

A.J. Daulerio — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:15:33 EDT

Plenty of emails fluttered in over the past two days about Buzz Bissinger's guest op-ed column in the New York Times this past weekend (on-line only!) about his surreal visit to the College World Series with his three sons. More »

Buzz And Me: An FAQ

Will Leitch — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:45:52 EDT

Our Conversation With Buzz Bissinger

Will Leitch — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:35:56 EDT

For the last few months, since that rather festive "Costas Now" business, we have been loathe to expand much more on our initial reaction. But as Buzz Bissinger has continued to give interviews to the "respectable" media, making his "points," we felt compelled to talk one last time, to wrap this whole business up. Buzz graciously agreed for a semi-wide-ranging conversation - which has taken place over email over the last week - to be published on the site today. So, here it is. Enjoy. More »

The Screaming Man Shouldn't Make You Change The Way You Think About Yourself

Will Leitch — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:35:21 EDT

We like The Big Lead. Jason McIntyre's a perfectly nice fellow, and their infamous interview with Jason Whitlock remains one of our favorite sports blogging moments. But we have to make this clear: After reading the Los Angeles Times' elegy to the end of "wild times" on the Web, we have to ask Jason: Have you lost your goddamned mind? More »