commenters Page index.xml - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
This <i>Wall Street Journal</i> Comment Section Offers A Rare Peek Into The World Of Whites
The media often makes reference to White America and its mysterious attitudes. But where can you gain access to this closed group? You must journey deep, deep into the rabbit hole. ...
Rae Sremmurd Are Human Adderall
If you're like me, you didn't immediately get Rae Sremmurd, because you have a 401k and your hangovers are starting to get worse and you're beginning to feel the oppressiveness of your own mortality. But the pop-rap duo is great and fun—likely created by producer Mike Will Made It in a chemistry-lab...
The Great American Menu: Readers Respond
Since we released The Great American Menu, we've gotten some great feedback from readers and news outlets around the country. The map above shows the general reaction we've seen, by state. It's annotated with some of the best responses—feel free to add your own!...
Less Awesome Map: The Provinces Of Canada, By Regional Sport
A reply to "Awesome Map: The United States Of America, By Regional Sport," by Carrie Hunt and the Spoonerisms....
Brian Burke Is Suing Internet Commenters
Brian Burke's time as general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs came to an end when he was fired in early January. Almost immediately after, rumors began circulating that his personal life played a major role in Toronto's decision. ...
Man Arrested For ESPN.com Comment That Threatened To Kill Kids Over New LeBron Sneaker
We hate to use such cliched terms, but it's hard to describe the ESPN.com comment section without words like "cesspool" and "wretched hive of scum and villainy" and "somehow even worse than Yahoo's comment section." But that's an unfair generalization. Not everyone there is horribly racist or a ward...
Your Lee Corso Inflatable Duckie Photoshop Roundup
We have said this before: You guys are the best. So very talented and warped and idle in ways we can't even imagine. Yesterday we showed you a wonderful photo of College Gameday's Lee Corso riding a large inflatable duck, and told you to have fun with it. You did, and these are some of our favorites...
Commenters: You Need To Convert Your Accounts Right Now
Have you heard about the new "arm the peasants and redistribute the land" commenting regime taking hold here in the very near future? Well, Phase 1—converting your commenting account to third-party authentication—begins this morning. Perhaps you have some questions....
Turner, Montana, Pop. 192, Angrily Lashes Out Against Baseball Blogger And Geography
Above is an infographic from Craig Robinson's indispensable Flip Flop Fly Ball, showing the lonely position of Turner, Mont. Turner is nearly equidistant from Seattle and Denver, but at 647 miles from Safeco Field, Robinson awards it the title of American Town Farthest From A Major League Team....
A Sampling Of Comments ESPN.com Has Not Deleted On Stories That Have Nothing To Do With OccupyTebow
We're all still warm from the glow of the uprising that sent ESPN.com's commenter police into retreat—a remarkable, joyful march that continues unimpeded even as this is being typed. At the same time, we couldn't help but think of those comments ESPN's moderators have allowed to remain attached to ...
The Stupid Moral Panic Over Mocking Tim Tebow; Or, What Would Jesus Do About Tebowing?
Oh, please. You know why Tebow memes exist? You know why they've, let us say, gone forth and multiplied? Because of columns like this, that's why. Here's the headline:...
OccupyTebow Enters Day Four; ESPN.com Admits Defeat
The sit-in at ESPN.com continues unmolested, as the overworked mods have apparently ceded the comment section to mob rule. Meanwhile, people who should know better still don't realize this has long stopped being an attack on Tebow himself, or even draconian comment moderation on a site that's more t...
ESPN.com Moderators Launching Tet Offensive Against "X > Tebow" Right Now
Go to the Tebow column's comments, and make sure you've got it set to "live." You can see the poor mods deleting every single "X > Tebow" comment in real time. They've worked their way back to yesterday, but still have a day and a half more to go....
How Contempt For Tim Tebow Caused An ESPN.com Commenter Revolution
The ESPN.com comment section is a den of iniquity and misspelling, and for the world's largest sports site, it's curiously inessential. The open registration means the discourse tends toward lowest common denominator, and it's too big to engender much sense of community. But once in a long while the...
Sports And Comedy, Always Secretly Intertwined
One more Deadspin Comedy Week submission, from clever commenter AzureTexan....
Those Of You Still Having Commenter Issues, Email Me If There Are More Questions
Security breach still causing problems? Are you livid? Frustrated? Need a place to vent? Show me on the blog where it touched you. Thanks to Gawker Tech, there are more answers: [email protected] If you have questions on this, fire away....
Hacked Comment Questions: Come Here, Speak Up
Some of you have emailed or g-chatted with concerns that the system still won't enable you to change your passwords. This, I am told, is being investigated by the brave Tech Team. Go to Gizmodo for updates on most questions....
I Was There: Ripping On "Taking Back Sunday"
Here's a good one from the #iwasthere section. Continue to add your own concert/music memories throughout the weekend....
And Here's One Rejected Deadspin Commenter Who Decided To Take His Frustration Out On A Message Board
This is a pretty surreal temper tantrum by one young man named "awwhites" who was not pleased about the silly little audition process you poor people have to go through to type here....
Dear Deadspin Commenters: You Are The Reason The <em>Chicago Sun-Times</em> Is Full Of Racist Morons (UPDATE)
Commenters, prepare to be amused. A Sun-Times web editor named Matthew Wood chastised some of his newspaper's online community for nasty, racist remarks and has blamed this phenomenon on...Deadspin. Read on....