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Jon Stewart Should Run For Office
So Jon Stewart formally announced his impending retirement/Jeter Farewell Tour last night. (Twitter, as it does, reacted as if he had died, so my condolences.) And naturally, he took a moment to say that he might use his time off to spend more time with his family. Now, you and I have heard this fr...
Charles Barkley And His Crew Had The Dumbest Discussion About Analytics
There once was a time when TNT's Inside the NBA could be counted on to be the only sports studio show worth watching on a regular basis, but things have been trending downhill lately. Case in point: Last night's brain-dead discussion about basketball analytics, during which the collective ass-showin...
Watch Jon Stewart Tell A Shocked Audience He's Leaving <i>The Daily Show</i>
Jon Stewart's plans to end his long run as host of Comedy Central's The Daily Show emerged earlier today—he even acknowledged that viewers already knew something his live audience at the taping didn't—but watching him make the announcement really makes the news seem real. Here's how Stewart deli...
How To Dump A Friend
Time for your weekly edition of the Deadspin Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. Today, we're talking Jayson Williams, Kanye, holiday sex, and more....
Cardale Jones Has An Important Update About Crushing Kids At Video Games
Back in January, Ohio State quarterback Cardale Jones visited some kids at the hospital. One of the kids unwisely hopped on the sticks like Jones was going to take it easy on him in the NCAA football video game. Jones did not take it easy, and beat the kid by a reported score of 91-35. Now, more tha...
The Cheap Double IPA The World Needs
Because the medium-sized city in which I live never passes up an opportunity to be a self-parody of limousine-liberal gentrification, there are three Whole Foods outlets within reasonable walking distance of my apartment. I always go to the same one, though, because it's the closest, and also the sm...
Virginia Fan Turns Into Furious Dancing Machine, Somehow Loses Dance-Off
There was a dance-off at a Virginia basketball game last week, and it was a travesty. The fan who gave it her all lost to some shuffling guy. Grammys voters just keep sucking....
Screencap Classix: Lil Wayne Devastates Jay Mariotti On <i>ATH</i>
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David Stern Has James Dolan's Back Too
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has already announced his support for Knicks owner James Dolan, who responded to a letter from an angry 72-year-old fan by telling him he should "try sobriety" and start rooting for the Nets. Silver said that was just Dolan being "a consummate New Yorker," which, as a Ne...
The Artistry Of K.J. McDaniels
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FSU's Phil Cofer Posterizes Jahlil Okafor
Duke's Jahlil Okafor may be a candidate for player of the year, but Florida State's Phil Cofer just made him look ridiculous. The Blue Devils have come our poorly so far tonight in Tallahassee, for sure....
Advice To Mid-Career Journalists
Remember that when you offer young journalists unsolicited advice, it makes you look like an asshole....
Michael Jordan While Signing An Autograph For Obama: Pfffffft, Fuck It
Okay, so there is no way to know for sure whether, "Pffffft, fuck it," is what Michael Jordan said to himself while misspelling Barack Obama's name on a birthday present for the goddamn President of the United States, but you wouldn't put it past him, would you?...
Tony Dorsett On CTE: I Didn't Know "The End Was Going To Be Like This"
In 2013, NFL hall of famer Tony Dorsett was among the first few living football players to be diagnosed with signs of the chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a neurodegenerative disease that manifests as dementia and depression. It's gotten worse—by definition, it'll get worse until he dies—and in a r...
Don't Read These Beloved Children's Books To Your Kids
I’m a stay-at-home dad with two kids. My daughter is seven, but before she was old enough to go to preschool, I watched her when she was awake and worked odd hours from home while she slept. My son is two, and we’re on the same schedule, except that I’ve recently joined the jobless recovery, so now...
NBA Backs Dolan, Says Knicks CEO "Is A Consummate New Yorker"
The NBA won't discipline Knicks chairman & CEO James Dolan for his ridiculous email response to a longtime fan, with commissioner Adam Silver claiming the Cablevision magnate "is a consummate New Yorker" who "got an unkind email, and responded with an unkind email."...
Don't You Dare Ask Fran McCaffery About His Eye-Poking Player
Iowa's Adam Woodbury poked another guy in the eye yesterday, a thing that he's been doing far too often this season. After the game, a few reporters tried to ask Iowa head coach Fran McCaffery about all the eye poking. He was not having it....
The Face Of A Person Who's Just Been Told AC/DC Is Opening The Grammys
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Bob Mould On Friday's <i>Letterman</i> Is Better Than Anything On The Grammys
Bob Mould played Late Show With David Letterman on Friday, and rocked so hard the studio started falling apart. It's superior to anything you'll see on the Grammy Awards tonight....