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Greetings, Spinheads
Happy day after Thanksgiving. Today is gonna be looser than usual, given both the tech issues and that the vast majority of you are out shopping, or hungover, or getting ready for high school reunions. We'll cover some stuff, we'll ignore a lot of stuff, and have some fun being buddy, buddy, buddy a...
Programming Note: It's Turkey Jamboroo Day Tomorrow (And Ray's Doing the Carving)
Last year, we ran a Thanksgiving edition of the NFL Jamboroo the day before Thanksgiving. But we're gonna forgo that this year and run the Jamboroo early tomorrow morning. Why? Well, for one thing, there isn't fucking jack SHIT to do on Thanksgiving morning. You watch the parade for two minutes, yo...
Does Anyone Want to Spend An Enchanted Evening With Myself and Mr. Leitch Watching Monday Night Football?
Here's the deal: Will and I were scheduled to participate in a "field trip" this evening but the fancy photographer hired for the story has suddenly fallen ill. She might not be able to attend. If she can't, I'd love to have a back up plan. Anyone in New York with photography experience (and good eq...
Will There Be Blood?
New York City Deadspin readers: Grab your chap books and gird your loins, because tonight is the Varsity Letters Reading extravaganza you've all been waiting for. Watch Drew Magary share the tiny, cloistered-off section of a bar to read from "Men With Balls" along side one-time nemesis and blog blo...
And Now Comes the Time Where I Pander to You With Pictures of Colt McCoy's Girlfriend
I neglected to do this last week when I was supposed to, but since I am nothing but a company man through and through, I'm requesting you to please sign up for Deadspin's Top Stories of the week email.(It's over there on the left near the long-ass masthead.) Do so here. Now you can see for yourself ...
Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls..."Men With Balls" Is Here
It is with great pleasure and genuine enthusiasm that I get to point out to you, fair dick joke-friendly Deadspin readership, that the debut novel of not-so-young Drew Magary is ready and available for your consumption. Marvel at his use of creative profanity and his ability to talk about other spor...
So, About Those Announcements: Video Interns Are Welcome
Yes. I've neglected to follow-up on those long-overdue announcements. The reason behind the delay was because I wanted to get them all out of the way in one long post, but then all the bells and whistles that were supposedly being added last week derailed a bit. That'll come later. Probably. Maybe. ...
Wherein Your New Associate Editor Gets Misty-Eyed About The Hoosier Dome
Pictured at left: Associate Editor Dash "running" the 2007 NYC Marathon. Let me tell you a story. About 11 years ago, my college roommate and I went to our first Final Four. (If he's reading this, he should email me.) Our school, Michigan State, was not there, but we went as fans of the game and it...
Carrie Milbank Lies on a Rock and Wonders What Happened to Deadspin Today
Sorry for the long outage today. Hopefully some of the posts and comments are showing up now but if not, well, this was completely beyond anyone's control. It's 6:00 and obviously this day is effectively bed-shitted. We'll charge the old girl up again tomorrow and hope for the best. (This girl. Not ...
Announcement: Meet Your New College Football Writer
Immediately after Tennessee’s would-be game-tying overtime field goal sailed wide left against UCLA, my life became a series of unfortunate events. First, my friend Kelly and I ended up lost outside the Rose Bowl. Anyone who has ever been to the Rose Bowl knows how hard this is to pull off. We knew...
The Time Is Now
I'm bagging out early today to head down to Citizens Bank Park with my father (whom some of you in the Philly area may know as sports radio 610 WIP's senior intern "Big Al") to stand in Ashburn Alley and watch Cole Hamels face Yovani Gallardo (The Big Retardo) in the opening game of the NLDS. There'...
Announcements: Back On The Strain Gang
Yes, yes — I know. Most of you are unhappy with the new threaded commenting that invaded Deadspin and the other Gawker sites yesterday afternoon with its tricky Facebook-style interactivity and other splashy thing-a-ma-jigs that stand to make your lives more complicated and decidedly less fun. But! ...
Announcements: Threaded Comments For Your Viewing Pleasure
There's a new comment thread thing that I am utterly clueless about and lack the tech-geek wherewithal to properly explain. I have just been notified that this is apparently active right now. Who's fired the fuck up? KOGOD informed me that it "looks...uh...gay in a totally cool way" which isn't muc...
Introducing...Big Boxes At The Top Of The Page
Greetings. As you may have noticed there are giant huge story boxes at the top of Deadspin right now. This is a little jarring. Please avert your eyes if they blind you. But this is a new feature designed to give more prominence to Deadspin stories that have a shelf-life longer than a day or two. ( ...
Hello from Clay Travis; Yes, That's My Real Name
And if you're really witty you might notice that I share a first name with Clay Aiken. Wow, that's hysterical. Awesome, thanks for pointing that out. And that I share a last name with Randy Travis. Great, I'm doubled over with glee. Your comedic stylings know no bounds. By the way, the hot LSU golde...
Greetings, Spinheads: Another Deadspin State Of The Champion Address
We enter Day 2 of the post-Leitchian era on Deadspin and today (hopefully) there will be no more unforeseen meltdowns....
Greetings, Spinheads
Well, this first day of leadership is starting out swimmingly. Sorry about the "Cermony" stuff in the first headline. Great start!...
Meet Your New Editor(s)
We were really hoping that, here on our last day, we'd have the opportunity to announce our successor at this here site. It is our pleasure - after quite a bit of back-and-forth and more qualified applicants that we could have possibly imagined - to say, yes, this here site is going to be in fine ha...
A Note From Your Editor
We started this site on September 8, 2005, with a simple headline: "Welcome to Deadspin. We Come With a Pure Heart and Mirthful Disposition." We think that's still pretty much true; we try to keep our disposition mirthful at all times. But sometimes that's more difficult to do than others; this is...