So Bob Costas spoke openly to Mark Fainaru-Wada and ESPN—to his eventual regret, he says—about being gradually…
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NASHVILLE! MUSIC CITY! THE ATHENS OF THE SOUTH! HOTCHICKENTOWN! VANDYLAND! CUTLERVILLE! Y’ALLBANY! Nashville, we…
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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…
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For all the things that there are to love about the NFL—idiotic and wholly unaccountable leadership, a profoundly…
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College football, the looser and more fun but also worse version of football played by younger and less…
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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…
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As a great American thinker has honked: We’re back. Drew and I have both returned from our time away from the…
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There are different degrees of being on vacation. There are the ones that involve unplugging all the way—smash your…
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When we recorded this Deadcast, Sacha Baron Cohen’s Who Is America had yet to premiere. To the extent that we or our…
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When I adopted England as my team for this America-free World Cup, I figured they would fuck me over by bowing out…
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There is no fan community in American sports that thinks more about how it does what it does than NBA fans. This…
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It’s not that there aren’t sports happening. Sports are happening, for sure. The latest chapter in the epic…
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The NBA Draft: When is it? What is it? Will you, personally, be selected in this draft? Look, man: I don’t know this…
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The World Cup: truly a tradition unlike any other, except I guess for the Olympics which it is kind of like in the…
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Let me take you inside the game for a moment: we record the Deadcast a little while before you actually hear the…
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During this week, which is only about half over, some extremely overstated acts of Twitter-based idiocy have already…
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It wasn’t supposed to be this way. The plan was just to keep on honking away like big idiots about the NBA playoffs…
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The NBA Playoffs should be at something like their apex right now, and in the least entertaining possible sense they…
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