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Is Mike Shanahan A Good Coach?
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A Counterfactual History Of Tim Tebow As A Jacksonville Jaguar
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Legality Vs. Morality In The NFL
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The Man Who Invented The End-Zone Dance
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How Delonte West's Mental Illness Affected LeBron's Final Year In Cleveland, And Why You Never Heard About It
I started working on The Whore of Akron in June 2009, before LeBron's walk year began. No one at that time saw much evidence that he was actually going to walk, not until after the Cavs lost to the Celtics in the second round of the playoffs and he started talking about "my team" in reference to the...
Deadspin Up All Night: Talk About Stuff
Thanks for your continued support of Deadspin and our muddying of the moral waters. You have the floor....
The Perils And Pleasures Of Life As A 220-Pound Tight End
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I'm Pretty Sure David Brooks Just Blamed The Penn State Riots On Woodstock
We missed it over the weekend, but our man Pierce found this little turd of cultural intellection dropped by the Upmarket Jeff Foxworthy. Here's David Brooks responding to host David Gregory on Sunday's Meet the Press (if you're unfamiliar, Meet the Press used to be the Buffalo Bills pregame show). ...
How Rex Ryan Created The New-Look Patriots
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The iPhone's Siri Answered Bob Costas's Questions Better Than Accused Child Rapist Jerry Sandusky Did
Last night, Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State assistant coach accused of raping boys, gave his first interview on the matter to Bob Costas. It didn't go so well. (Video is above, in case you missed it.) Deadspin correspondent Ben wanted to see if the iPhone's personal-assistant application, Si...
Why NFL Players Love A Coach Who Goes For It On Fourth Down, And Why They Hate Eric Mangini
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Tony La Russa Wants Mike Matheny To Father His Grandchildren, And Other Hot Fucking Stove Developments
<emYour roundup of all the hottest hot-stove items of the day (and whatever shit Ken Rosenthal is throwing against the wall). This is...HOT FUCKING STOVE!!!...
Is Tim Tebow’s Afraid-To-Throw Broncos Offense Crazy Enough To Work?
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Happy Veterans Day! Here Are Some Really Happy Dogs Welcoming Soldiers Home
Originally published Nov. 11, 2010....
Joe Paterno Has His Nixon-Boarding-A-Helicopter Moment
Another night, another Joe Paterno address from the family shrubbery. The phone call he references is probably this one, which, to hear Joe Schad describe it, seems to have taken place over the shoe phones from Get Smart....
Penn State Students Flip Over A TV News Van In Solidarity With Incompetent, Morally Complicit Old Relic
Via @jon_wertheim, whose feed is worth following if you're into campus vandalism....
Joe Paterno's Statement: "With The Benefit Of Hindsight, I Wish I Had Done More"
Paterno makes it official. Via @MicheleSteele: ...
The Stupid Moral Panic Over Mocking Tim Tebow; Or, What Would Jesus Do About Tebowing?
Oh, please. You know why Tebow memes exist? You know why they've, let us say, gone forth and multiplied? Because of columns like this, that's why. Here's the headline:...
Andre Agassi Is: Mr. T
This one comes courtesy of Dylan Stableford, Deadspin's tennis correspondent, who found it on Australian tennis coach Darren Cahill's Twitter feed. Andre Agassi seems to have borrowed Raffi Torres's burnt cork for this one. All the loving attention to detail—the darkened arms, the feather dangling f...
Don't Worry, The Eagles Will Look Terrible Again Soon
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