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A 'NATIONAL' DISASTER: How wild, reckless spending sent this country's first and last sports daily to an early grave — from someone who was thereBorn on death row, The National Sports Daily perished of its own hand 30 years ago today, June 13, 1991....

The day it all fell apart: Deadspin talks to journalists all over the sports world about what they remember when everything shut downA year ago today was our last “normal” day. At least in the beginning. Only we didn’t know it....

Ray Ratto is essential reading: "'So what does this mean for soccer in America?' you hear yourself no longer asking, and the reason why you no longer ask it is not that the question has been decided, but that it's been decided at long last that the question is stupid." [CSNBayArea.com]...

Why Texas State Got A 16th-Place Vote In The AP Poll

For the time being, the Texas State Bobcats are the only team to be undefeated in their FBS history. Sure, they're just 1-0 all-time, joining the WAC this season after 23 years in the I-AA/FCS Southland conference. But that one was a stylish one. It was a 30-13 walloping of Houston, in Houston, that...

The Amazing Ray Ratto Mug Shift

Who says we don't have clout? Following our blistering indictment of Ray Ratto's new CBS Sportsline column mug yesterday, the site changed it. Ratto's face is now partly visible, where in the first one you could only see his eyes and the top of his head. They still have a way to go, obviously, but...

Ray Ratto's Weird Mug

San Francisco Chronicle sports columnist Ray Ratto is a talented writer — he'll never appear in our feature Why Your Hometown Columnist Sucks, for instance. (We're pretty sure. Unless he does). A former contributor to ESPN.com, he recently shifted over to CBS Sportsline. But with that move came th...