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#Branding: "Memo to Darren Rovell (said with slight annoyance): The Riddell helmet/NFL divorce you wrote about, a story that was written by Jenny Vrentas of The MMQB on TheMMQB.com last Tuesday, was not written on SI.com, as you reported. It's The MMQB." [SI.com]...

Dez Bryant Melts Down On The Cowboys Sideline

Here you see Dez Bryant and Jason Witten and other assorted members of the Cowboys sideline having a Socratic dialogue in the aftermath of the Lions' improbable rally. The day was building to this. An earlier cutaway caught Bryant exploding at Tony Romo for something or other, sending color guy Br...

Lou Reed's Secret Chord

Aw hell. Lou Reed is dead. There's a live version of "Sweet Jane" from 2003 that I can't find online right now but is worth a listen today, in the man's honor. Reed is noodling around with the song, working through that famous riff, more of a shuffle now than the strut you remember from the album. J...

Baylor put up 505 yards in the first half against Kansas, somehow overcoming the decided schematic advantage enjoyed by any Charlie Weis-coached team....

From a relative of boxer Frankie Leal, who died on Tuesday from a brain injury: "It was horribly tragic - seeing him in his hospital bed- no bruises on his face- looked fine." [Uppercutting]...

Deadspin Up All Night: Nobody Wants You

Thanks for your continued support of Deadspin. Wanna watch some terrible football with us? ...

The Meaning Of The First Sonny Liston-Muhammad Ali Fight

Over on The Stacks, we're republishing Murray Kempton's classic dispatch from the first Clay-Liston fight, in 1964; you can find the story below. Kempton was an elegant columnist and essayist with a great ear for the overtones and undertones of any public spectacle—mob trials, nominating conventio...

USC Fires Lane Kiffin

He went 28-15 in three seasons and change, with the last of the losses coming yesterday, a 62-41 trash fire against Arizona State. You could see this move coming from the last tree in Siskiyou County. We said as much in our assessment of Kiffin earlier this month. Read it below....

"Yeah! Let's watch some interchangeable monsters kick the shit out of each other strategically! And use a ball!": Jack Dickey watches football with Nate Jackson (have we mentioned how great his book is?). [Time]...

Rick Reilly's Dumb Vuvuzela Joke, Explained

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What's So Special About Chicago Sportswriting?

Over on The Stacks, we've been running excerpts all week from a fun new anthology of Chicago sportswriting, edited by Ron Rapoport, whose interview with Alex Belth is below. The book is worth a look. There's Lardner and Lincicome and Royko, and if dyspeptic smartasses aren't your thing, there's you...

Hiroshi Yamauchi, The Mariners' Invisible Owner, Is Dead

Hiroshi Yamauchi, the longtime president of Nintendo who owned a majority stake in the Seattle Mariners but famously never watched them play in person, is dead. He was 85. Read Kotaku's obit below. Here, from 1992, is quite possibly the only Mariners-related interview Yamauchi ever granted to a me...

N.J. sports betting is dead: Thanks to a Third Circuit ruling, which was premised in part on the "reputational harm" leagues might suffer in a dystopia where Phil from Monmouth can openly put $50 on the Jets to cover. Skip Oliva wonders: What business is it of the federal government's to protect the...

Deadspin Up All Night: Bring It On Home

Thanks for your continued support of Deadspin. Onward....

Deadspin Up All Night: Campaign Shoutin' Like A Southern Diplomat

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Q: "How many people do you think you've had sex with?" A: "Counting oral sex, I think we're to four figures at this point. Let's call it a thousand." [The Hairpin] ...

Perspective

Manzielotry: "CBS Sports has added an extra camera that will focus solely on Texas A&M quarterback and reigning Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel. ... 'The one analogy I can make in terms of covering someone is we obviously spent four years covering Tim Tebow at Florida,' said Silver." [SI.com]...

Why NBC's NFL broadcast is so good: Last year, John Koblin sat down with Sunday Night Football producer Fred Gaudelli and got an inside look at how the top show on television is put together....

Read this: On The Stacks, we've dug up a great old Playboy interview with Joe Namath in which he talks about sex, the mob, his racist college nickname, sex, women, sex with women, sex with women before important football games, and how many women he's had sex with. It is the most 1969 thing you'll ...