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There is a particularly spirited discussion on Deadspin's Facebook page about our post earlier today, "Butt." [Facebook]...

Meanwhile, in Chicago, Joel Reese defends Clark the Pantsless Cub. Neil Steinberg does not. Some highlights: "Horror ... pantsless obscenity ... Smurf-like blandness ... monstrosity ... homogenized ... this excrescence ... designed to pacify the sick children it visits in hospitals (thus freeing act...

ESPN statement on the Deadspin/Dan Le Batard ballot: "We respect and appreciate Dan’s opinions and passion about Hall of Fame voting. He received his vote while at the Miami Herald. We wouldn’t have advocated his voting approach, which we were just made aware of today." [ESPN]...

Chris Kluwe has lawyered up. [Pioneer Press]...

Is Stephen Marche the worst writer working in the English language today? It says here yes. (See also this and this.)...

John Dominis, a longtime photographer for Life magazine, died on Monday. He was 92. Even if you don't know the name, you know the work. (The photograph below, of Mickey Mantle's helmet toss, is his. So is the famous shot of Tommie Smith and John Carlos at the '68 Olympics.) There's a lot more at Lif...

Here's a very nice story about Deadspinner Brian Hickey and his recovery from a hit-and-run in 2008 that left him with a severe brain injury. [NewsWorks]...

Bye, Candlestick

[They played one last regular-season football game at the unlovable old pile in an unlovable corner of America's most overrated city. San Francisco's Candlestick Park—like most sports arenas, with the notable exception of the one replacing it—began life as a million-dollar swindle, and it seems only...

Joe MacLeod, whose unapologetically awkward movie-junket interviews are appointment reading, has an unapologetically awkward chat with Oscar Isaac, star of Inside Llewyn Davis....

"College football coaching is a crackpot profession. It rewards moral treachery if not outright cruelty. If Mack Brown has a boast, it's that he did the job with insufficient gusto. He coached the game but never bent to its demands on his soul." Bryan Curtis elegizes Mr. Football. [Grantland]...

We're beta testing a new discussions format. Any thoughts? ...

Deadspin Up All Night: Just Try It, Daddy

Thanks for your continued support of Deadspin. We'll have some stuff for you tomorrow, because we despise our families....

How A <em>Life</em> Photographer Got This Ridiculous Shot Of 14 NFL QBs In 1961

"I had a local high school football team come to the studio every day for that week," photographer Ralph Morse, now 96 years old, tells Ben Cosgrove, "and we practiced all sorts of scenarios until we had one that worked—the guys in front tossing the ball underhand, the guys in back throwing overhand...

Bloody Elbow's Connor Ruebusch has a very good breakdown of Manny Pacquiao, who was last seen around these parts eating Juan Manuel Márquez's right hand. Pacquiao-Rios starts in a few hours. I've got Pac-Man, by decision. [Bloody Elbow]...

How To Make A Pipe Out Of Candy And Tampons

Continuing our coverage of things that are not marijuana-smoking devices being fashioned into things that are marijuana-smoking devices, we give you this step-by-step guide to making pipes out of Starburst candy and tampons. Via Jezebel....

Len Bias Would've Been 50 Today

Len Bias is long gone, having overdosed on cocaine in 1986, two days after being drafted by the Boston Celtics. But as we wrote earlier this year, Bias is still very much alive in our politics. ...

Deadspin Up All Night: Everybody Said That You'd Better Watch Out

Thanks for your continued support of Deadspin. Enjoy Wiggins vs. Parker tonight....

The Hockey Legend Thinks Your Epiphany Is Stupid

The Stacks' Alex Belth has a fun interview with Rich Cohen, author Monsters, the book about the '85 Bears that we excerpted yesterday. There's a lot of good stuff in there, but I'm particularly taken with the anecdote below, which isn't about the Bears at all....