December 1, 2010 – Every week, this recent Duke graduate will offer you a new reason not to hate the Duke Blue Devils, the bestest basketball team in the land. You are free to disagree. LAST WEEK'S GAMES: Duke 82, Kansas State 68; More »
Devils’ Advocate: A New Feature About Duke Basketball And Why You Should Like It
November 23, 2010 – Every week, this recent Duke graduate will offer you a new reason not to hate the Duke Blue Devils, the bestest basketball team in the land. You are free to disagree. LAST WEEK'S GAMES: Duke 97, Princeton 60; More »
How A College Kid’s Photograph Helped Launch Denard Robinson’s Heisman Candidacy
September 17, 2010 – In the last two weeks, while racking up more total yardage on his own than 86 teams, Denard Robinson, Michigan's dreadlocked, dual-threat quarterback, emerged as the early favorite to win the Heisman Trophy. More »
Derek Jeter: The True True Yankee. Seriously.
September 8, 2010 – The first time I heard of Derek Jeter, this young star emerging from the Yankees' farm system, I was an 8-year-old boy. He has never not been my favorite baseball player — More »
This Year’s Kentucky Derby? Not Really A Shocker
May 1, 2010 – Somewhere in Louisville, these owners of Noble's Promise are still in shock — ahem! — that Super Saver, manned by Calvin Borel, took the 136th Kentucky Derby on a muddy Churchill Downs track. More »
10 More Songs Notre Dame Could Have Used For Promotional Purposes
May 1, 2010 – Remember that awful Notre Dame promotional video we wrote about yesterday? Well, it only seemed awful because everyone interpreted it wrong. Actually, it was kind of brilliant. More »
Was This Sports Blog Post Written By A Sports Blogging Robot Who Might Be Evolving Into A Less-Bad Writer?
May 1, 2010 – No. But if it were, you might not know! At least, that's sort of the premise of this follow-up about an army of sportswriting robots — you know, the ones that may just render sports writing obsolete. More »
Stories That Don’t Suck: The Kentucky Derby Is Faulkneresque, Heartbreaking And, As Always, Decadent And Depraved
May 1, 2010 – Every week, Tommy will excerpt a handful of stories - old and new, sports and otherwise, relevant and merely sublime - that he urges you to read for one reason or another. More »
A Brief History Of The Greatest Twitter Hashtag Of All-Time
May 1, 2010 – Sometimes, I wonder what we did in those dark years without the Internet and, more recently, without Twitter. Friday was one of those days, as I sifted through a Twitter search for a hashtag dubbed "WireDerbyHorseNames." Warning: More »
So This Is Why People Go To The Kentucky Derby
May 1, 2010 – For Dennis Rodman's DJing skillz during his live set at the Derby Pretty Party, which the Frazier International History Museum must have been duped into hosting.The revelers were likely terrified into dancing.
Obama’s 20-Something Staffers Wind Down With Softball And Beer Pong, Like Every Other 20-Something
May 1, 2010 – Our basketball-crazed President is something of a health freak, apparently, so it makes sense that his young staffers are physique-obsessed, too. They go to the gym, play pickup basketball, field a softball team and play beer pong with David Axelrod. "An undercurrent of personal fitness runs... More »
Next Up, Lady Gaga Performing Her Hit Single, "Telegram"
May 1, 2010 – How do the Orix Buffaloes, a Japanese baseball team, greet their visitors? With something called "Porker Face." I hope there's video involved, too. [Orix Buffaloes, via Adam]
Last Night’s Winner: Real Players Playing Golf
May 1, 2010 – In sports, everyone is a winner — some people just win better than others. Like every golfer at the Quail Hollow Championship not named Tiger Woods, all of whom might have some peace and quiet and golf-claps, for once. Woods, on the other hand, won't be playing golf this weekend, not after... More »
What Do Alexander Ovechkin, The Penguins And Jiffy Pop Have In Common?*
May 1, 2010 – 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 the blogosphere to bring you everything you need to know to start your day. • Pau Gasol's putback with 0.5 ticks left gave the Lakers a 95-94,... More »
Letter From Durham: Why You Shouldn’t Hate Duke, And Why You Probably Will Anyway
April 1, 2010 – The first game of Duke's season, against UNC-Greensboro on Nov. 13, was broadcast only on Fox Sports South, which meant that my friends up North had to wait another few days to get their initial glimpse of this year's team. "How do we look?" some of them asked, but I couldn't respond truthfully... More »
Listen Up, NBC: Here’s An Idea To Boost Olympics Ratings
January 30, 2010 – Most people think of the 1896 Olympics in Athens simply as the first Olympiad. Some people think of the 1896 Olympics in Athens as a shining beacon of nude recreation. More »
The Africa Cup Of Nations Will Not Runneth Over
January 30, 2010 – Earlier this month, Togo withdrew from the Africa Cup of Nations when Angolan separatists attacked its team bus with machine guns, killing two delegation members. More »
An Alternate Definition Of “Dress For Success”
January 30, 2010 – There's going to be a whole bunch of men in drag on Bourbon Street tomorrow, none of whom will be spiffier than Bobby Hebert, wearing one of his daughter's sequined creations. More »
And On Saturday, The First Fan Became Joe Six-Pack
January 30, 2010 – What an action-packed and important day it's been for Barack Obama. He sat courtside at Duke-Georgetown (oh shush, all of you), told Clark Kellogg he was gunning for his job and his administration wants to finally pass reform that matters. Obama brought all his non-hoops-playing buds — More »
Tell Me More, Tony And Eva, Tell Me More!
December 25, 2009 – Is there a better Christmas present than a freshly wrapped copy of Tony Parker and Eva Longoria lip-syncing along to "Summer Nights"? Actually, no. I don't believe there is. Even more good news: More »
