Deadspin: varsity letters

Will There Be Blood?

DAULERIO — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:15:22 EST

New York City Deadspin readers: Grab your chap books and gird your loins, because tonight is the Varsity Letters Reading extravaganza you've all been waiting for. Watch Drew Magary share the tiny, cloistered-off section of a bar to read from "Men With Balls" along side one-time nemesis and blog bloviator, H. G. "Buzz" Bissinger. Will they shake hands and lustily embrace? Will they share an awkward hot dog and beer together? Or will Buzz grab a coconut and bust it over top the head of the bastardly Big Daddy Balls?

Also appearing at this veritable sportsblog toss-off this evening — Washington D.C.s most famous bogger, Dan Steinberg.

Here are the details:

Happy Ending

302 Broome St
New York, NY 10002
Phone: (212) 334-9676

Show starts at 8 p.m., boob signing and frosty beverages immediately to follow.

Tonight's Varsity Letters reading series...

Leitch — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:25:19 EDT

Tonight's Varsity Letters reading series in New York City is a good one. [Gelf Magazine]

Great Sportswriters, Reading Aloud

Leitch — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:00:53 EDT

We know they have the Varsity Letters Sports Reading Series every month in New York City, so sometimes they struggle to get people worthwhile. (Like this idiot.) But their crew tomorrow is particularly excellent.

The slate:

• Sally Jenkins, author of the outstanding The Real All Americans: The Team That Changed a Game, a People, a Nation.

• Joe Posnanski. The estimable and awesome Kansas City Star baseball columnist just wrote a grand book about Buck O'Neill.

• Seth Mnookin. The Red Sox fan and chronicler has a history around these parts, including this epic interview with our own A.J. Daulerio.

That's a pretty badass bunch; we'll be there, and if you're around at 8 p.m. tomorrow night, you should be too.

Anyone in the New York area tonight should...

Leitch — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 12:10:50 EDT

Anyone in the New York area tonight should come and check out the excellent lineup at the Varsity Letters Reading Series tonight. [Gelf Magazine]

Come See Rick Reilly Make Armpit Noises

Leitch — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 14:45:47 EDT

We've encouraged you to come to the Varsity Letters Reading Series in New York before, but if you come to tonight's endeavor, you'll be in for a special treat. (Depending on how you define "special.") The headlining reader is Sports Illustrated columnist/stand-up comic Rick Reilly. (Donald Evans and Rus Bradburd are on the bill as well.) Reilly is as big a name in this little world of sports-dork writing as you'll find, particularly when he dresses up like a woman. In preparation for the reading, he talked to Gelf about how ESPN steals all his stories.

I feel like I've flat-out handed them five or six Emmys. They take columns I've discovered and written—about people nobody's heard of—and do them as though they found the guy, and then they win Emmys for them. The Jake Porter column. The "picking up Butch" column. The Katrina-survivor basketball column. It's endless. And what bothers me, I guess, is that they give no credit, such as, "as first reported in Sports Illustrated." Or at least do one of their treacly, misty shots of the column. But what can you do? Sue?

Whether or not you like Reilly, it's worth stopping by. Heck, we're gonna be there, and by that point, we won't have slept in about, oh, 36 hours.

Bane Of Cheerleaders, Champion Of The Little Guys [Gelf Magazine]
Rick Reilly And His Rimshot [Deadspin]