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The SEC Network Yule Log Is Our Nation's Greatest Contribution To Avant-Garde Cinema

My family only has a few Christmas traditions, among them cinnamon rolls, trips to the dog park, bike rides, and yard work. But the most important tradition—one that gets us up early on Christmas morning—is the SEC Network Yule Log, which is just like other yule log broadcasts except that the orches...

Gabe Kapler Is A Good Baseball Mind, But A Better Blogger

The Philadelphia Phillies announced today that former MLB player Gabe Kapler will be their new manager, leaving his spot as director of player development for the Dodgers to do so. It’s unclear what this will mean for his other gig, writing about health and fitness (and occasionally other topics) as...

Here’s a good baseblog from ESPN.com’s Sam Miller, on the rise of “this era’s avatar: the home run hitter who is terrible.” Go read it if you like to gawk at horrible slash lines, like Rougned Odor’s ghastly .208/.251/.405....

Charlie Pierce on all this ESPN nonsense and newspapering and what not is so fantastic and I’m bitter we didn’t run it. Go check it out. [SI]...

Former SB Nation Site Manager Files Lawsuit Against Vox Media For Alleged Labor Law Violations <em></em>

A former SB Nation site manager filed a collective action lawsuit against Vox Media today in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia....

Sports! It's Tonight's <i>Mean Girls</i> Liveblog

Look, the White Sox already played today, so there are no sports worth paying attention to tonight. Mean Girls just started on ABC Family, so let’s follow along with that instead....

Hockey Blogger Goes Rogue, Posts Conspiracy Theory About All-Star Game And Race

I wasn’t on the internet last night, so my first exposure to the mess that happened over in the hockey blog corner of the internet was this apology letter. Here are the first two lines:...

Giants Beat Writer Files World's Best, Laziest Column Amid Team's Massive Slump

The San Francisco Giants have been slumping for most of the second half of the season, going 17-31 since the All-Star break and tumbling well behind the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NL West. Nobody connected to the team seems very happy; the Giants called a hitters-only meeting, Bruce Bochy is getting...

A Regular Person’s Guide To Apple’s New Phones (And Other Useless Shit)<em></em>

Well, well, well. Apple, Inc., a cash-hoarding operation that occasionally does online strip shows, announced a new line of consumer electronics today. There are places to revel in the minutia of every last tech spec, but I promise that you are not interested in processors and megapixels nearly as m...

Deadspin Fears The Basketblogging Horde

There is a private Slack channel that exists entirely to serve as a gallery of weak-sauce garbage takes culled from the big, bloated hellhole that is NBA basketblogging. All your favorites can be found there: Such-And-Such Good Player is Actually Bad Because Analytics; Sam Hinkie, Tragic Hero; Is Su...

Go read Craggs on the Laremy Tunsil fiasco; just go do it. [Slate]...

Man Surpasses Other Man 

A man made a bunch of dunks Thursday night, surpassing another man who’d previously had the most dunks. That’s gotta burn for that second man, the one being surpassed! Oh yeah. ...