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So Bob Costas spoke openly to Mark Fainaru-Wada and ESPN—to his eventual regret, he says—about being gradually…

NASHVILLE! MUSIC CITY! THE ATHENS OF THE SOUTH! HOTCHICKENTOWN! VANDYLAND! CUTLERVILLE! Y’ALLBANY! Nashville, we…

The NFL: It’s for sure happening again, and it’s fine. It’s not ideal, a lot of it is really honestly pretty bad and…

For all the things that there are to love about the NFL—idiotic and wholly unaccountable leadership, a profoundly…

College football, the looser and more fun but also worse version of football played by younger and less…

It is a harsh truth, but an undeniable one: If it weren’t for bad ideas, we would not have anything to talk about on…

As a great American thinker has honked: We’re back. Drew and I have both returned from our time away from the…

There are different degrees of being on vacation. There are the ones that involve unplugging all the way—smash your…

With Drew still loose in the rustic wilds of Maine—we have received credible and deeply disturbing reports of him…

When we recorded this Deadcast, Sacha Baron Cohen’s Who Is America had yet to premiere. To the extent that we or our…

When I adopted England as my team for this America-free World Cup, I figured they would fuck me over by bowing out…

There is no fan community in American sports that thinks more about how it does what it does than NBA fans. This…

It’s not that there aren’t sports happening. Sports are happening, for sure. The latest chapter in the epic…

The NBA Draft: When is it? What is it? Will you, personally, be selected in this draft? Look, man: I don’t know this…

The World Cup: truly a tradition unlike any other, except I guess for the Olympics which it is kind of like in the…

Let me take you inside the game for a moment: we record the Deadcast a little while before you actually hear the…

During this week, which is only about half over, some extremely overstated acts of Twitter-based idiocy have already…

It wasn’t supposed to be this way. The plan was just to keep on honking away like big idiots about the NBA playoffs…

The NBA Playoffs should be at something like their apex right now, and in the least entertaining possible sense they…