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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...
MLB.tv And Soccer Bars: Sacre Bleu!
We've been taking too many vacations lately, so now that we're back from our long weekend in Paris, we're gonna get back to work and start hammering shit out. We won't bore you with details or endless photos from the trip. We ate a lot, we drank a lot, we saw some dead bodies....
We Give In To Our Internal Surrender Monkey
We're taking a couple more days off at the end of this week — Friday's a half day anyway, and the whole site is taking Memorial Day off — so we're using to do something we've never done before: We're going to Europe. Actually, we're going to France. Yes, yes, we know: Everybody point and laugh....
Vacations Make Us Antsy; Back To Work
After five days and four nights in what is literally the most beautiful place we have ever visited, one would think returning to the stunning glamor of the Abe Stark Sports Center would be a comedown. But, frankly, we're glad to be back, and not just because the time off verified our nagging fear th...
Book Tour's Over: Time To Hit The Beach
It has been a long month, what, with all the shameless book shilling, and since we just can't work ourselves into a lather over yet another boring development in the Roger Clemens case, it probably means it's time for us to take a little vacation....
Ook-ook. You Folks Ready to Go Ape?
Greetings, Deadspinners. I am Christmas Ape, the latest in a glorious succession of Kissing Suzy Kolber writers to serve as your Weekend Editor. Those of you who are regular readers over there probably know me for chronicling the imaginary exploits of Philip Rivers and posting the occasional picture...
We would be remiss if we did not pay tribute to Mark Lisanti, our colleague at Defamer, who is leaving the site after almost four years. We weren't sure we wanted to do this "blog" business when we were thinking of starting Deadspin, but reading what Mark did on a daily basis over at Defamer was the...