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How Stories About Mundane Things Taking Over Locker Rooms Took Over Sports Media<em></em>
If you’ve consumed even a tiny bit of sports media in the past few years, you’ve no doubt come across a particular kind of story. It’s a lighthearted one, and the hook is something like, “Hey! Did you know that [group of athletes] are really interested in [non-sports related object or activity]? Isn...
Russell Westbrook MVP Truthers Are Truly Around The Bend
If I weren’t a basketball fan—if you aren’t one right now—basketblogging, I swear, would itself be an insurmountable barrier to entry. Cricket has incomprehensible structure; baseball has interminable periods of non-action; basketball has a breathtakingly pretentious universe of bloggers and Twitte...
Answer For Your Awful Basketbloggers, Warriors Fans
What the hell am I even reading right now?...
Gabe Kapler Is A Good Baseball Mind, But A Better Blogger
The Philadelphia Phillies announced today that former MLB player Gabe Kapler will be their new manager, leaving his spot as director of player development for the Dodgers to do so. It’s unclear what this will mean for his other gig, writing about health and fitness (and occasionally other topics) as...
Former SB Nation Site Manager Files Lawsuit Against Vox Media For Alleged Labor Law Violations <em></em>
A former SB Nation site manager filed a collective action lawsuit against Vox Media today in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia....
Sports! It's Tonight's <i>Mean Girls</i> Liveblog
Look, the White Sox already played today, so there are no sports worth paying attention to tonight. Mean Girls just started on ABC Family, so let’s follow along with that instead....
The Best Team Had More Good Players And Won
The thing about having known for more than a calendar year how the 2017 NBA Finals would go is that by the time it actually happened, man, the Well of Takes was sending up buckets of straight-up mud. The basketblogs are bad this week, my friends! They’re bad....
Is Carmelo Worth A Shit?<em></em>
The NBA trade deadline is Thursday, and the biggest name who could potentially get moved is Carmelo Anthony. Anthony hates Phil Jackson (as any rational person now does) and has been subject to trade rumors all season—from supposedly going to the Cavaliers a month ago to supposedly going to the Celt...
Hockey Blogger Goes Rogue, Posts Conspiracy Theory About All-Star Game And Race
I wasn’t on the internet last night, so my first exposure to the mess that happened over in the hockey blog corner of the internet was this apology letter. Here are the first two lines:...
Liveblogging The Vice-Presidential Debate Between Mike And Uh … Steve?
Tonight at 9 p.m., two men who are probably never going to be president will spend 90 minutes speaking to each other in firm yet respectful tones. I haven’t been able to sleep in weeks. ...
Welcome To Hell: It’s Deadspin’s 2016 Presidential Debate Liveblog <em></em>
Tonight at 9 p.m., a former Secretary of State will take on a bloviating game-show racist for the chance to be our president. And we’ll be liveblogging every goddamn minute of it....
Food Blogger Apparently Sold Soul To Devil
Just like me and you, Mimi Thorisson is a food blogger. So why is her life so fucking crazy?...
Bruce Miller Charged With Seven Felonies, Allegedly Beat Elderly Man With Cane
Former 49ers fullback Bruce Miller, who was released by the team after he was arrested for allegedly beating a 70-year-old man and his son in a San Francisco hotel, was formally charged today with seven felonies and a misdemeanor. The charges, from the San Francisco District Attorney’s office, are a...
Giants Beat Writer Files World's Best, Laziest Column Amid Team's Massive Slump
The San Francisco Giants have been slumping for most of the second half of the season, going 17-31 since the All-Star break and tumbling well behind the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NL West. Nobody connected to the team seems very happy; the Giants called a hitters-only meeting, Bruce Bochy is getting...
A Regular Person’s Guide To Apple’s New Phones (And Other Useless Shit)<em></em>
Well, well, well. Apple, Inc., a cash-hoarding operation that occasionally does online strip shows, announced a new line of consumer electronics today. There are places to revel in the minutia of every last tech spec, but I promise that you are not interested in processors and megapixels nearly as m...
Apple Just Fucked Over All the Tech Bloggers
You probably already knew that Apple was announcing a new iPhone today, but did you know that it was planning to livetweet its announcement? And that in doing so, it kind of accidentally fucked over every tech blogger in the country? It’s the best gift Apple could have ever given us. ...
Ashley Feinberg Is Gawker Media's Thirstiest Blogger
We here at Gawker Media are in the business of telling the truth, but we’re also in the business of collaboration. You’ve probably noticed posts from across the Gawker network appearing here on Deadspin, and you’ve probably seen our posts appear on our sister sites. Splicing blogs from site to site ...