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Perhaps the most joyful of playoff entrants this year are the Milwaukee Brewers, who just a couple weeks ago were in the midst of an epic free-fall out of wild card contention. Ned Yost was shown the door, Dale Sveum moved over to the manager's stoop (and didn't wave anyone home from the dugout), their bats woke up, and C.C. Sabathia continued his difference-making pitching performances that appear well worth the price of Matt LaPorta's future excellence. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5056162&view=rss&microfeed=true As anyone who watched the NFL on CBS yesterday now knows from the above commercial, your Super Bowl halftime show performer is Prince. We don't understand this commercial in the slightest — because Prince, of course, has never once made an artistic decision based on advertisers or corporate interests ... not least of which is playing halftime of the Super Bowl, the ultimate gritty indie venue — and find ourselves a little scared of Prince, as usual. Still, it beats whatever they were doing with the Rolling Stones last year. (The worst acts of the last 10 years, if you ask us, were the "Blues Brothers" and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. But that's us.) More »
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