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Two Boys Kissing: How Our Favorite Sports Photo Of 2013 Came To Life
In January, photographer Deanne Fitzmaurice was on assignment for Sports Illustrated when she went to a San Francisco gay bar, HiTops, during the 49ers-Falcons NFC Championship game. She was assigned to get a photo that would accompany a story about the diversity of 49ers fans. Her photo, above, was...

Deadspin Up All Night: Forget The Sun
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How To Make A Ragù, Which Has Nothing To Do With Jars
By now you're likely well aware that the word ragù—although perhaps most frequently encountered with its accent symbol flipped over, emblazoned across ten thousand jars of tomato products in your local supermarket—has its own non-commercial definition, other than "bad-tasting Italian-themed ketchup....

Deadspin Up All Night: Put The Volume On Mute
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Enjoy yourself, it's the most wonderful time of the year....

How To Pronounce "Sochi," Site Of The Winter Olympics
Craggs and I were in a cab yesterday, half-listening to a Cabvision video of some random Olympic skier talking about Sochi. She pronounced it Sach-ee, like Versace, and we spent the next several minutes wondering if we had been mispronouncing it all along. It seemed possible, after all. Russian as a...

Deadspin 2013: The Year In ESPN Being Weird, Horny, And Dumb
We had a lot of ESPN-related coverage this year, because ESPN continues to be fertile ground for mockery. Here's everything we had to say about the monolithic sports network this year....

Gift Guide Roundup: Gifts For People Who Like Music
If you've been reading these gift guides the past couple weeks and still haven't found that perfect gift yet, whatever you do end up getting probably won't be that impactful anyways. So how about just going with one of these music suggestions, courtesy of the Deadspin commenters?...

The NCAA Is Not Going To Tolerate Excess Education
Originally published at Bloomberg View....

Here's Another Insane Christmas Wish List
After our own Drew Magary shared his daughter's crazy-ass Christmas wish list with the world, we received many other lists from parents around the country who also have, uh, imaginative kids. Here's another one, and it's a doozy:...

Deadspin Up All Night: The Devil Is A Lie
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The 12 Best Sports Infographics Of 2013
While 2013 saw plenty of "Snowfall"-inspired graphical masturbation, it was generally a great year for sports-related graphics and data viz. The 12 works below are some of our favorites, listed in order of publication. Sorry for the image fuzziness; click "expand" to get a better look. And let us kn...

Gift Guide: Great Books That We've Featured
A couple days ago, we gave you book recommendations from the Deadspin commentariat. But we've also excerpted from a good number of books this year, too. Here's a list of those in case you're still in the market for gift ideas....

Ex-Viking Gary Larsen: I Forget Things, But That's Part Of The Game
This is an interview series in which we ask the plaintiffs of the NFL concussion lawsuit one question (and maybe a few more): Knowing what you know now, if you could do it over again, would you still play football?...

Deadspin Up All Night: Where Have You Been?
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Swee'pea And The Shark: The Struggle For The Soul Of A Playground Hero
Originally published in the November 1992 issue of Esquire. Reprinted here with permission. An afterword from the author follows....

Deadspin 2013: All The Cool Old Stories We Republished This Year
The Stacks is Deadspin's living archive of great journalism, curated by Bronx Banter's Alex Belth. Here are the best stories we published on it this year....

The Atlanta Braves Are About To Get Teabagged
Originally published at Bloomberg View....

The Devil And Phil Robertson: My Day With <em>Duck Dynasty</em>
So GQ sent me down to Monroe, La. (GUMBO GUMBO GUMBO), to hang out with the Duck Dynasty family. You can read the story right here, and whenever I go deep into the heart of 'MERICA—be it for this assignment or the Kid Rock cruise or the Values Voters Summit—I'm always careful not to be the sneering ...

Deadspin Up All Night: Until The Thrill Is Gone
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