<![CDATA[Deadspin: Press Box]]> http://cache.deadspin.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/deadspin.com.png <![CDATA[Deadspin: Press Box]]> http://deadspin.com/tag/press box http://deadspin.com/tag/press box <![CDATA[Yard Work Upgrades, Eviscerates Peter King]]> Congrats to the wacky folks at Yard Work, who have revamped their site with a shiny new URL and an archive that could judiciously be called "improved." They blast off the new site with a pretty biting satire of Peter King's Monday Morning Quarterback column, which begins with a pretty fantastic imaginary conversation with Bruce Springsteen. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=114823&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Bob Costas: Hysterical In His Own Mind]]> Don't know if any of you saw this or not, but everybody's favorite Sports Dwarf In A Suit Bob Costas was a guest on "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" last evening. It was a bizarre appearance. Our problem with Costas has never been that he isn't smart (because he constantly reminds us that, yes, he is), or that he's smug (though he is, of course) or that he's too smooth (we like our TV sportscasters like we like our men: Smooth). It's that Costas has somehow convinced himself that he is funny. We're not sure who told him this, though we're sure they were taller. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=114782&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Mistakes At Si.com]]> Interesting note on SI.com right now. On Michael Silver's column is the following rejoiner: More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=114393&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[NBA Draft Predictions: Trying To Piss In The Dark While Handcuffed]]> As previously mentioned, the NBA Draft is tonight. This, of course, is a completely random exercise with 30 different variables liable to change their minds for no particular reason at any given moment. But sportswriters get bored, so we present the Deadspin guide to mock drafts by people who don't have any better idea of what's going on than you do. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=110390&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Tracking The Sportswriter Hacks]]> Yesterday, we speculated how much backtracking each of the major sports pundits would do if they were wrong about last night's Game 7 of the NBA Finals. Here's a look: More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=110011&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[If There Were Anyone To Fire, Someone Would Totally Be Fired]]> In this week's Sports Illustrated, Michael Silver writes a long-winded piece about the resurgence of women's softball, not just on a collegiate level, but also in the pro realm. He warbles extensively about Jennie Finch's role on the Chicago Bandits, a professional team that played its first game yesterday. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=108962&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Sports Illustrated Keeps Finger On The Web Pulse]]> Featured Web site in Sports Illustrated's "SI Players" section this week: ManuGinobili.com. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=108880&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Just Thinking Out Loud Here ...]]>
Major congrats to the Montclair (N.J.) High School softball team, which scored two major upsets to advance to the Essex County finals Saturday night before falling to Caldwell High 1-0 in eight innings. Caitlyn Bishop, you're doing one incredible job as Mary Beth King's heir in the circle. This team has accomplished so much more than was expected. Great job this year, girls.
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]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=108832&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[SI.com: The Web's Pauly Shore]]> From the things that were a bad idea from the start department: Some poor sucker at SI.com tries an imaginary conversation between Larry David and Nate Newton. Highlight: So? It bothers me. Sitting within a 10-foot radius of this kind of gluttony bothers me. And what I am supposed to do when I'm finished. I'm just eating one burger like a normal person. I'll be done with mine, you'll have 10 to go. You're not supposed to make someone watch you eat. Didn't your mother ever teach you that? More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=108829&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[SI.com's Fun Advertorials]]> We'll be honest: We don't know who Rob Stanger is. According to the bio that runs with his new column on SI.com, he is the head teaching pro at the Golf Academy at Mission Hills in Rancho Mirage, Calif., is recognized as a Golf magazine Top Teacher in America in the West Region. How this qualifies him as a columnist is beyond us, particularly when his column starts of with the boast that he is "friends" with 18-year-old Paula Creamer (who won an LPGA event this weekend), delves into yet another dull golf lesson in the middle and ends with the classic line, "Congrats Paula on your victory!" Red Smith couldn't have put it better. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=108826&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[SI.com's Tortured Crawl Toward Relevance]]> Poor SI.com. Two years ago, ESPN.com's Page 2 took them so far by surprise that by the time they realized what had happened, Page 2 had already become stale and boring. (Except for you, Bill! We love you, Bill!) The undignified pant continues with a Sports and Star Wars: The Connection, a sad, tired attempt to fill space. (We know the feeling.) Among the discoveries SI.com makes: More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=108794&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[USA Today Keeps Its Finger On The Pulse]]> Lots of hot topics in sports news these days: Steroids. Amphetamines. Racism in the NBA. That thing on Scoop Jackson's lip. But USA Today is keeping us abreast of the hot issues: Native American mascots! The nation's best-selling hotel doormat rips the lid off the Massive, Late-Breaking Controversy. Apparently — get this — there's some debate on college campuses like Illinois, Bradley and Central Michigan as to whether or not it's right to have Aryan frat guys slap some red shoe polish under their eyes and go woo-wooing at center court. This, of course, was a big breaking news story two years ago when The New York Times wrote the story, or five years ago when The Atlantic Monthly wrote the story, or 30 years ago, when Daily Illini staffers resisted the temptation to hang themselves, they were so tired of writing about it. Anyway, if you are the type of person who enjoys playing the same song on the jukebox 10 times in a row, hey, go to it, buy the paper. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=108760&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Mitch Albom "Cleared" By Bosses; Free To Whore Himself Out Again]]> The Detroit Free-Press has completed its "investigation" of Mitch Albom, making sure he's not making any more crap up, and for now, their resolution appears to be: Hey, Mitch, keep writing books! We need the publicity. An "exhaustive" report in Monday's Free-Press analyzes Albom's methods and past stories, revealing that the wan one might be stretched too thin and a little too full of himself, but definitely no Jayson Blair. (Ironically enough, one of the Freep's quibbles with Albom involved quoting another paper without attribution in a story about Blair himself.) We can now look forward to more investigative Albom questions like, "What was that like, losing your mother?" "What would you do if you could do it all over again?" and, our favorite, "I know this is hard. Would you like a tissue?" More »
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