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Stories That Don't Suck: SportsFeat's Guide To Life, Death, And Sex On Skis

Max Linsky | SportsFeat — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 17:27:22 EDT

Every Friday, SportsFeat picks a few great weekend reads for Deadspin. With things sweltering outside, we went looking for stories that might remind us of what it feels like to be cold. We found these instead. More »

Stories That Don't Suck: SportsFeat's Guide To The Ballplayer's Twilight

Max Linsky | SportsFeat — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 16:38:25 EDT

Every Friday, SportsFeat picks a few great weekend reads for Deadspin. In honor of Derek Jeter and his labored quest for 3,000 hits, here are well-told stories of ballplayers just before, in the years after, or at the exact moment they retired. More »

The New Yorker Makes Highbrow Blogger-In-Basement Joke You'll Set Aside But Never Get Around To Reading (UPDATE)

Tommy Craggs — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 14:15:09 EDT

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Ben McGrath takes up the slumming-dandy-goes-to-a-ballgame mantle from Roger Angell (who should be filing his account of the 2003 World Series any day now) and manages not only to name-check this humble site but let drop the bonnest of mots: More »

Malcolm Gladwell Wants To Know Why Your Team Doesn't Press More

Dashiell Bennett — Mon, 04 May 2009 16:50:44 EDT

There's a very lengthy article in The New Yorker this week, from uber-contrarian Malcolm Gladwell arguing that basketball teams should press more often, because it helps weak teams upset strong ones. (Except when it doesn't.) More »