Mar 3 2014
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Originally published in the February 1993 issue of GQ. Annotations by the author appear throughout. For more, check…
Mar 15 2013
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Ryan Glasspiegel runs through sportswriting's reaction to the sad death of the Boston Phoenix, where Charles P. Pierce and Bill Simmons both got their careers started (and where the infamous George Kimball served as a writer and editor for many years). The Phoenix folded yesterday after a 46-year run.
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May 22 2012
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Ben Blatt
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The last time we played around with sportswriter analytics, we wondered if we could algorithmically determine a…
Sep 12 2011
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Jun 24 2011
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Max Linsky | SportsFeat
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Every Friday, SportsFeat picks a few great weekend reads for Deadspin. This week's theme, in honor of Rory McIlroy…
Jun 10 2011
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If you haven't yet read Charlie Pierce's Grantland essay about his time at The National, you should, and not just…
Dec 13 2010
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First came this. Then came Simmons's tweet. And now here's Pierce: "And right back at you, you mendacious, whiny…
Mar 4 2010
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Remember that foolish thing Bill Simmons said the other day about Tiger and Muhammad Ali? Well, Bill has taken a…
Feb 13 2010
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Stories That Don't Suck: Death On The Track, Ebert's Silence, NASCAR's Backlash Ethos, Bubba In Love
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Every week, I'll excerpt a handful of stories — old and new, sports and otherwise, relevant and merely sublime —…
Jan 6 2010
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Charles P. Pierce — author, Deadspin's chief book critic, and America's best sportswriter (no matter how many pins…