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Ryan Lindley: A Football Life
After just three games, Ryan Lindley has lost the Arizona Cardinals' quarterback job. John Skelton's back on Sunday. Let's take a moment to remember the three weeks when one special sixth-round rookie from San Diego State taught us all to dream big. Lindley:...
Name The Royal Baby!
I have no idea what the protocol is for naming an heir to throne of England. I assume that Prince William and Kate Middleton are free to think up names as they please, before the queen walks in with a terrifying grimace and her dumb corgis and politely tells the couple that none of their names will ...
Dead Letters: The Hater's Guide To Drew Magary
Subject: The Hater’s Guide to Drew Magary...
Oh No, Caffeinated Cracker Jack ("Cracker Jack'd") Is A Thing Now
Oh no, oh no, oh no. Not only do the folks at Frito-Lay want to ruin your childhood, they want to ruin baseball too. They recently unveiled Cracker Jack'd, or, caffeinated Cracker Jack. Yeah. On this week's excerpt from Slate's Hang Up and Listen, Slate's Josh Levin sings (literally sings) of Cracke...
Cleveland Newspaper Headline Inadvertently Says Browns Have No Balls
There's already Sunday's planned giveaway of white flags, and now there's this headline in today's Plain Dealer. Steelers week really brings out the city's subtlety, doesn't it?...
Never Miss Another Live Sporting Event Again With Slingbox
There's a sense of dread that comes over me when I miss a significant portion or all of a game involving a team I really care about. The feelings experienced are something like those experienced when being sent to the principal's office: you have no idea what's going to happen, but you assume it's...
The Cardinals' Quarterbacking Situation Is Really, Really Hopeless
Ah, 2011. I remember it like it was just last year. The powerfully frisky Cardinals clawed and pecked their way to 8-8 with a 7-2 finish. They beat the Eagles in Philly. They beat the Cowboys. They beat the Niners. They started woefully, but they finished strong. What happened at the same time the t...
Dead Letters: "Take Your Bullshit Food And Shove It Up Your Ugly Ass"
Subject: Really Meatloaf?...
We Love You, Verne Lundquist, But It's Time To Go
On this week's excerpt from Slate's Hang Up and Listen podcast, Josh Levin makes a simple, fair case for why cuddly Verne Lundquist, CBS's lead college football play-by-play announcer, ought to call it a career. Lundquist makes a lot of mistakes on air. Levin captures many of them here. Listen up:...
Michael Bradley Scored A Goal With This Nifty Right-Footed Volley
The US and Russian men's national soccer teams fought to a 2-2 draw this afternoon in an international friendly at Russia's Kuban Stadium. Michael Bradley's impressive marker you see above knotted the game at 1-1 in the 76th minute. If his dad was still the coach, Michael definitely would have bee...
Kansas Newspaper Headline Aims For Optimism, Inadvertently Hits Comedy
We get it, Lawrence Journal-World. KU power forward Perry Ellis is just a freshman, and he's new to this. He's eventually going to figure out exactly what he's doing as the Jayhawks' starting power forward, but it wasn't like he was just pawing around in the dark during last night's loss to Michigan...
Vincible. <em>Silver Linings Playbook</em>, Reviewed.
1. She's a grieving cop's widow, prone to nymphomania, locked away in a shed behind her parents' home, profoundly damaged—not broken, but close. He's a bipolar basket case who nearly beat a man half to death for showering with his wife, the same wife with whom he obsessively wants to reconcile, even...
Dead Letters: In Which A Bunch Of Random Ladies Desire Flings With The Deadspin Staff
I’ll just let all of these rip at once. They greeted us on Tuesday....
I ♥ David O. Russell: An Unpredictable Career Gets Back On Track
With all the great directors out there to choose from—Tarantino, Spielberg, Paul Thomas Anderson—it's hard to think of many aspiring filmmakers who would look at David O. Russell's career and say, "That's who I want to be." There are auteurs who follow the beat of their own drum, and then there's Ru...
Rutledge Wood, Host of <i>Top Gear USA</i>, Is Here Live To Talk About His Need For Speed
Ever fantasize about what it would feel like to hop in your car, gun the engine, and hit the streets with no rules or regulations? Well, Rutledge Wood, host of Top Gear USA and Speed TV NASCAR reporter, knows a thing or two about that particular sensation — which is why he's here (right now!) ready ...
Show Off Your Tailgate And You Could Win A Year’s Supply Of Meat And Bacon
Ah, tailgating: sunshine, assorted meats, and endless games of cornhole. My favorite tailgate memory is from my freshman year of college. Before the first football game I attended as a student, I randomly went up to some people who seemed to be my age. In my hand were some uneaten bacon-wrapped saus...
James Bond, The Dark Knight. <em>Skyfall</em>, Reviewed.
When Casino Royale came out in 2006, it was rightly praised for lots of reasons: Daniel Craig's franchise-rehabilitating turn as James Bond; the excellent action sequences; the fact that it was smart and compelling, unlike a lot of recent Bond movies that had gotten progressively sillier, almost sel...
Tim Duncan Smoothly Gives Fan The Finger In Most Boring And Fundamentally Sound Athlete Meltdown Ever
First, let's get this out of the way: Don't whip our your camera and film athletes when you see them in person. Like the woman who sent this video to us. She was at the CVS on Chase Hill Blvd. in northwestern San Antonio on Friday, heard Tim Duncan was in the store, and returned to her car to wait...
This Is The Best Sports Internet Rabbithole You Can Find
On this week's excerpt from Slate's Hang Up and Listen podcast, Stefan Fatsis found a place on the internet where you can waste so, so much time. Lucky's Amazing Sports Lists. Go now, or some other time, when you have a big project to do. Lucky himself has an unusual story, too-the man is obsessive....
Washington's Height. <em>Flight</em> Reviewed.
1. Until the last 10 minutes, Flight in large part resembles one of those tough, dark character studies they used to make in the '70s, like The Gambler or The Verdict, in which we watch a man who has lost control of his life face external circumstances that give him one last chance to save himself. ...