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A Graphic Guide To Understanding USA Today's Purchase Of The Big Lead

Tom Scocca — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:59:01 EST

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The old new paradigm got a piece of a newer paradigm this week, as once-revolutionary USA Today acquired the Big Lead. What does this mean? Blog posts slipped under your hotel-room door? We pulled some numbers from the press release to illustrate how it all might fit together. More »

We Are All Dave McKenna LXVII

Luke O'Brien — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 18:35:32 EDT

Here's your daily link to Dave McKenna's brilliant "Cranky Redskins Fan's Guide to Dan Snyder," which we'll be posting until Daniel Snyder's dumbass libel suit is decomposing in the bog. More »

Intern Horrors: Destroying A Bathroom At America's Crappiest Newspaper

David Matthews — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:30:20 EDT

Welcome to Intern Horrors, the weekly feature wherein interns and the people who exploit them write in to complain about each other (or confess their own sins). This week: befouling USA Today's bathrooms, our most boorish intern yet, and more. More »

Incorrect Report On Baseball Salaries Drives Country Into A Tizzy

Barry Petchesky — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:05:00 EDT

Everyone breathlessly re-published USA Today's annual salary survey, with the shocking news that the average salary is down 17 percent from 2009. In actuality, average salaries are up from last season. Whoopsie. More »

The House of Mirrors That is the Mind of Barry Bonds

Rick Chandler — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:20:00 EST

What would we see if we could step into the mind of Barry Bonds? The Mad Hatter would be hosting a tea party in there, certainly. Posters of Gilbert Gottfried and Prof. Irwin Corey on every wall. Fantastic creatures would abound — animals not found in nature, such as a spiny jackrabbit, and a half-man, half-kangaroo. Everyone in there would be wearing green jumpsuits with question marks on them, like The Riddler. Occasionally, of course, some of this madness would leak out into the real world — such as on Sunday. First, Bonds told USA Today that he would be retiring after the 2006 season. More »

USA Today Keeps Its Finger On The Pulse

Leitch — Mon, 16 May 2005 16:25:02 EDT

Lots of hot topics in sports news these days: Steroids. Amphetamines. Racism in the NBA. That thing on Scoop Jackson's lip. But USA Today is keeping us abreast of the hot issues: Native American mascots! The nation's best-selling hotel doormat rips the lid off the Massive, Late-Breaking Controversy. Apparently — get this — there's some debate on college campuses like Illinois, Bradley and Central Michigan as to whether or not it's right to have Aryan frat guys slap some red shoe polish under their eyes and go woo-wooing at center court. This, of course, was a big breaking news story two years ago when The New York Times wrote the story, or five years ago when The Atlantic Monthly wrote the story, or 30 years ago, when Daily Illini staffers resisted the temptation to hang themselves, they were so tired of writing about it. Anyway, if you are the type of person who enjoys playing the same song on the jukebox 10 times in a row, hey, go to it, buy the paper. More »