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Anti-Romney Ad In Ohio State Student Newspaper: He's Been A Michigan Fan A "Long, Long Time"
Via Buzzfeed, the anti-Romney advertisment that greeted readers of this morning's Lantern, the Ohio State student newspaper, assuming there are any, and that they felt like reading the paper on a Saturday morning. This ad took up a full page opposite the cover of the sports section (layout visible h...
What's Wrong With The New Orleans Saints (And Can We Blame This On Sean Payton, Too)?
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The Two Common Fallacies That Explain Why NFL Coaches Punt On Fourth Down
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Was The Panthers' Fourth-Down Decision Dumb Enough To Change The NFL's Punt-To-Win Philosophy?
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The 17 Types Of Highlights You See On <em>SportsCenter</em>
Here's something cool. We were flipping through ESPN 25: 25 Mind-Bending, Eye-Popping, Culture Morphing Years of Highlights, a 2004 book published by Disney. Tucked away inside Chapter 5? A taxonomy of ESPN highlights—what author Charles Hirschberg refers to as the "seminal 17." ...
Americans' Favorite Soccer Clubs, As Determined By <i>FIFA 12</i> Plays
ESPN FC had a neat piece this week on the ties between soccer video games and soccer fandom, and the idea that even in the days of satellite television, nothing's done more to grow the sport in the United States than gaming. Here's the money quote, from social scientist Rich Luker:...
The NFL Sacrificed Three Weeks Of Games On The Altar Of Bullshit Ideological Purity
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Texas A&M Has Added Fine Print To Those Conference Championships It Invented Over The Summer
Kyle Field got some interesting additions in the offseason. Maybe you thought that Texas A&M only had one national title, because they do. But the Aggies decided to add two more, and two conference championships on top of that. How'd they do it? A little creative accounting....
What Can NFL Players Do To End The Referee Lockout (Besides Tweeting About It)?
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The Packers-Seahawks Refs: Who Are Those Guys?
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I'm A Minnesota Viking, And I Think The Packers Got Screwed
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The Scab Refs And The NFL Slide Deeper Into Incompetence
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You Built That: How Mitt Romney Shook Down American Taxpayers For His Welfare Olympics
It's been called Mitt Romney's "golden moment"—the time he took over the troubled Salt Lake City Winter Olympics and led them to respectability on the world stage in 2002....
The Deadspin Twitter -100*: The 67 Worst Accounts In Sports
Earlier this week, SI.com published its Twitter 100, a list of Twitter feeds that Sports Illustrated staffers considered "essential to their daily routine for finding news, information and entertainment from the sports world."...
Tony Siragusa Says He Never Wanted To Hurt Anyone. Tony Siragusa Is A Liar.
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Steve Sabol, The Artist Who Glorified (And Rued) Football's Mayhem
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The Replacement Refs Are The World's Worst Substitute Teachers
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Steve Young Is Right: The NFL Will Win The Referee Lockout, No Matter How Much You Complain
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Why Do The Jacksonville Jaguars Refuse To Bench The League's Worst Quarterback?
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