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The One Question To Ask The Commissioner Of The Big 12

Here's the commissioner of the Big 12, Bob Bowlsby, owning the absolute shit out of what's become the NCAA deadenders' Marxism of convenience:...

What About The Maturation Of Peter King?

The first item in Peter King's latest MMQB column is about Panthers quarterback Cam Newton and "maturation." Specifically, it is about how one of the NFL's most important figures refuses to set aside childish things and instead wallows in a state of doltish adolescence. When, the reader is left to...

Deadspin Up All Night: Innuendos, Inadequacies, Foreign Bodies

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This fun little Joe Posnanski bit about Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is both an excellent close read of Elsa the Nazi's motivations and a bite-size lesson about epistemology. [Joe Blogs]...

Bryant Gumbel Says Smart Things About Tony La Russa And Mark McGwire

We'll take any allies in the war on the war on PEDs, even if that ally is the most self-satisfied broadcaster on television, a man who makes Bob Costas look like Woody Allen. Listen to Bryant Gumbel here. He speaks truth. ...

Deadspin Up All Night: Thrill Me, Kill Me

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SI.com's Peter King leads the league in warmongering: "If we don't act against the Russian separatists for the downing of the Malaysian airliner full of innocents, when exactly would we act against anyone for anything?" [SI.com]...

The great Dan Jenkins, stuck in Fort Worth on doctor's orders, is missing his first golf major in 45 years. His daughter, Sally, is there with him, and her column on Friday was, to coin a phrase, dead solid perfect. [WaPo]...

Deadspin Up All Night: Wasn't I Lucky?

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Our pal BronzeHammer has an anti-comedy video series called "The Week in Jokes." You should watch. [YouTube] ...

Deadspin Up All Night: Put Your Makeup On, Fix Your Hair Up Pretty

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The Best Story Ever Written About Losing

In keeping with the day's theme, below is a classic Esquire profile of Floyd Patterson after his second devastating loss to Sonny Liston, which we reprinted a year ago on The Stacks. No athlete has ever talked so frankly about his own shortcomings as Patterson did with author Gay Talese. He confesse...

Mike Florio, partner at the law firm of Schmuck, Hack, and Gasbag LLP, gives the football-media equivalent of the birds-and-the-bees talk to Johnny Manziel: "But if something happens between a sufficiently overage male and an underage girl, the overage male can go to jail even if the underage girl c...

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]...

Deadspin Up All Night: I Am In Paradise

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"I love the First Amendment," said the sportswriter, "but ..." [NiemanLab]...

Deadspin Up All Night: The Revolution Is Just A T-Shirt Away

Thanks for your continued support of Deadspin. USA-Ghana open thread is thisaway. Talk about other stuff below....

Mike Florio To Eagles Receipt Prankster: "Grow Up"

Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio—journalist, TV personality, and lawyer at Schmuck, Hack, and Gasbag LLP—has some thoughts on Eagles guard Evan Mathis's receipt gag:...