<![CDATA[Deadspin: New Jersey]]> http://cache.deadspin.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/deadspin.com.png <![CDATA[Deadspin: New Jersey]]> http://deadspin.com/tag/new jersey http://deadspin.com/tag/new jersey <![CDATA[New Jersey Football Team Makes Triumphant Return To New Jersey]]> We are currently watching, with attention as rapt as rapt can be, the silent helicopter-cam of Newark Liberty International Airport, where the Giants are due to land any moment. The team, which proudly plays out of East Rutherford, N.J., will hold a ticker-tape parade tomorrow across state lines in New York, perhaps as a sop since they haven't played a home game there in 37 years. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5882710&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA["The Teacher Tells Me When A Girls Squirts That's Not A Organism": Top Recruit's Twitter Gets Him Expelled]]> Yuri Wright, the seventh-best cornerback in the country according to Rivals.com, is finding his options curtailed. Michigan has reportedly dropped its pursuit, and Rutgers is reconsidering a campus visit. Oh, and he got kicked out of high school, so he needs to find somewhere to finish his senior year. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5877965&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Jersey City Assemblyman Is Sorry A Friend Wrote About Dallas "Cowgirls" And Philly "Gaybirds" On His Facebook Page]]> Charles Mainor, an assemblyman and Giants fan out of Jersey City, N.J., was the victim of an insensitive friend's Facebook posting over the weekend. Take note, pols: Blaming your friends, it seems, just might be the new hacking claim. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5876815&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Watch Turkeys Intimidate A Mother And Son Thanks To Someone Who Chose To Record Instead Of Help]]> Whomever posted oldie-but-goodie "When Wild Turkeys Attack Indian People" two years ago claimed it was shot in Cherry Hill, NJ. I grew up across the mighty Cooper River from Cherry Hill, NJ and never seen no turkeys sprinting down the sidewalks. But whatever. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5861879&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[New Jersey Man Threatens Lawsuit Because His Daughter Didn't Make The All-County Softball First Team]]> A high school softball player hits .571 (which was not, by the way, the best average on her team) with nine homers and 46 RBI, and she doesn't make the all-state team. Tough shit, homegirl, most would say. We've all had our disappointments, especially in high school. But our fathers never sued. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5811044&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Newark A Horrible Place To Visit, But Better Than Syracuse]]> Yesterday, the big news was that John Calipari had moved the Wildcats out of their Newark hotel, giving some excuse about wanting a place "on the outskirts of the city ... so they didn't have any distractions." I don't know if I buy that, because I don't think you can get any more outskirty than an airport Wyndham in North Jersey. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5785804&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[High School Hockey Championship Decided — 21 Years Later]]> The 1989 New Jersey state title, abandoned after a measles outbreak, was finally played earlier this month. This story is like if Chris Chelios and J-Woww had a baby. [Star-Ledger, via Puck Daddy] More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5512023&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Last Night's Winner: Newark]]> In sports, everyone is a winner—some people just win better than others. Like the people of New Jersey's shooting-est city, who managed to make it an entire month without getting murdered. This is actually an accomplishment in Newark. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5507169&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Come For The Golf, Be Overcome By The Noxious Fumes]]> There's a good reason that Liberty National is the most expensive golf course ever built (and the most expensive to join.) It covers up a toxic waste dump! The radioactive sludge makes night golf so much easier! [Forbes] More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5346865&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[What A $500,000 Country Club Membership Buys You]]> A look inside Liberty National Golf Club, site of this week's PGA event, where members pay a $500,000 initiation fee plus $25,000 yearly dues to eat lunch in New Jersey. Ahh, that sweet-smelling Jersey breeze! [Star-Ledger] More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5346043&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[New Jersey Discovers That Giants, Jets, Nets Don't Fully Love Them]]> A New Jersey senator wants to strip all taxpayer funding from professional sports teams that aren't proud to admit that they play in New Jersey. That means all of them. As usual, the blame lies with the Nets. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5334298&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[An Unbelievable Bunch Of Crap]]> A New Jersey grandmother playing craps at The Borgata in Atlantic City set a world record by rolling dice for four hours and 18 minutes—154 consecutive rolls—with out sevening out. She also got comped at the buffet, so that's nice. [Time, via Jezebel] More »
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