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Baseball Season Preview: Milwaukee Brewers
For the third consecutive season, we are proud to introduce the Deadspin Baseball Season Previews. Yes, baseball is awfully close now; it's spring training, after all....
Media Approval Ratings: Gus Johnson
For some reason, we tend to forgive Gus Johnson for sins we'd find unforgivable in other broadcasters. He's high histrionics, high volume, high intensity, high volume, high pitch, all of it. He's 95 percent bluster. Of course, this is why we love him....
Our Final Two Readings, NYC-Style
After the madness of the last month of our life, the first leg of the God Save The Fan tour ends over the next two nights in beautiful New York City, home of the bastard liberal media and hot dogs made of pig snout. It's Manhattan tonight, and Brooklyn tomorrow, and then we're gonna take a freaking ...
Stephen A. Smith Acknowledges His Cheesy Doodles
You know we're through the looking glass when life begins imitating The Stephen A. Smith Heckling Society of Gentlemen....
Bryant McKinnie, Back In The News, Thankfully
We will always hold a special place in our hearts for the four most prominent participants in the Vikings' sex boat scandal from a few years ago: Daunte Culpepper, Fred Smoot, Moe Williams and, today's featured star, Bryant McKinnie. Those guys have us so much enjoyment that we remain honored to hav...
Vroom! Vroom Vroom Vroom!
• Segways! • Mattoon! And other places! • Lots of baseball previews. • Nice week for Keith Van Horn. • Andy Pettitte. Whatever. • We miss you, Harry. • The Marlins want your fat guys. • The Harold Reynolds case may never begin. • Man, you guys love Scott Van Pelt. • Bob Knight, sold out by Lawrence ...
Obama Gets His Desmond Howard On
As some of you surely saw yesterday, presidential candidate Barack Obama visited Mack Brown and the Texas Longhorns yesterday. We think this picture is pretty awesome. We hope that this inevitably leads to Mitt Romney, when he runs again in four years, hanging out with Keith Van Horn....
Buzzsaw Claim Another Media Victim
This is Gary Belsky, editor-in-chief of ESPN: The Magazine. We don't mind ESPN: The Magazine that much; it's a little too "look at what THIS athlete loves!" for us sometimes, but they've got some quality writers over there who appear to be under the age of 50. And now they have a blog, with a post f...
You Shouldn't Wear That Body
The next time you come into our courtroom we hope you've got either a better defense, or a better class of client....
Berman Acknowledges Videos, Still Fighting Communism
If you had been wondering what exactly Chris Berman thought about the all those videos that have shown up around these parts, featuring him deux deux deuxing in supposedly off-camera moments, well, someone finally thought to ask him. His response is rational, paranoid and hilarious....
Anybody Around Here To Play?
• The Cavs are gonna be somewhat short on players tonight. [Waiting For Next Year] • Dustin Pedroia's lame "revenge." [Red Sox Monster] • Nice save, kind of. [Barry Melrose Rocks] • Hooligans are getting nicer. [Collar Stays] • Chipper Jones ... BOLD! [Walk Off Walk] • More Cheesy Doodles for Stephe...
Baseball Season Preview: Toronto Blue Jays
For the third consecutive season, we are proud to introduce the Deadspin Baseball Season Previews. Yes, baseball is awfully close now; it's spring training, after all....
Media Approval Ratings: Billy Packer
We're getting awfully darned close now to the NCAA tournament business, which means one thing: The return of Billy Packer as the central force in our lives for a month. We know, we know, he broadcasts games throughout the regular season, but it's not until the Tournament that he takes over the voice...
GSTF Book Tour Stop: Washington, D.C.
As you've surely noticed by the obsessively rigid timestamps on almost every Deadspin post, which are the same every day, we're kind of anal retentive about time. We hate to be late anywhere — in fact, we're usually half an hour early to everything — and our life is meticulously scheduled. It kind o...
Take Our Mistake, And Make It Yours
Because we attended school (occasionally) at the University of Illinois, most of our old friends are fans of the Chicago Bulls, and it's difficult to overstate how excited they were when they initially signed Ben Wallace. It felt vindicating, the reward for waiting for the first post-Jordan star. T...
The Last Stop Of The Tour's First Leg
Over the last month, we've been home for about 36 hours. We've hit Tempe, Los Angeles, Alameda, Seattle, Oak Brook, Champaign, St. Peters, Mattoon, Boston and Philadelphia. Tonight, in the Georgetown area of Washington, D.C., we make our last stop before returning to New York for two readings next w...