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Taste Test: Nutella And Its Chocolatey American Ilk
How long we toiled—suffered! toiled and suffered!—how bitterly we toiled and suffered—and died!—under the pitiless yoke of plain peanut butter, cruelest and least forgiving of all the spreads. How fervently we yearned for chocolatey deliverance. We took to the rooftops of our humble mud-homes, bli...
Deadspin Up All Night: Painting Pictures Of Paradise
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Big ol' sports weekend ahead, and the weekend crew will have you covered....
Bear Tries To Go On Coffee Run, Everybody Gets All Up In Its Business
Here's a black bear running through the town center of Gatlinburg, Tenn., likely in search of coffee because it was a lazy weekend morning and his ass just could not wake up....
Minneapolis Mayoral Candidate Has Amazing Campaign Ad
This is Jeff Wagner. He's running for mayor of Minneapolis, and he wants the people in his great city to "Wake the fuck up!" He's also not afraid to let you see his penis....
Barry Bonds Has Died, According To This ESPN Typo
Hey, I wonder what Barry Bonds is up to these days. Oh, look at this. It seems that he just had his obstruction of justice conviction upheld by a federal appeals court. Bummer for Barry. But wait, there's more: HE'S ALSO DEAD....
The Veeck Family Business: Make 'Em Laugh
Last month, Michael MacCambridge was good enough to include Tom Boswell's 1981 Inside Sports profile of Bill Veeck to Grantland's stellar "Director's Cut" series....
Gunnin' For That #1 Spot
You know, I wish that there was some way that I could be outside playin' basketball in the rain and not get wet. Now wouldn't that be great, hmm?...
Deadspin Up All Night: Got The Timing Down
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All The Quoted Players Who Are Backing Away From <em>SI's</em> OK State Story
Sports Illustrated is now more than halfway through its big dumb investigation into the Oklahoma State football program. Since the magazine began rolling out its five-part series, many of the former OK State players who were quoted by co-writer Thayer Evans have claimed that they were misquoted in t...
Is Everything You Know About Soccer Wrong? Ask David Sally
We're joined now by David Sally, co-author with Chris Anderson of The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Soccer Is Wrong. It's an argument for the power of analytics in soccer that's full of surprising conclusions about issues like the value of a goal scored relative to that of one saved, w...
Seahawks Fans Will Attempt To Set The World Record For Crowd Noise
On Sunday night, presumably during the 49ers' first offensive series, the fans at CenturyLink Field will attempt to set a Guinness World Record for the loudest crowd roar. It will not be an easy task....
Typewriter Love
I know writers who still use a typewriter. One close pal whose neighborhood experiences power outages several times a year recently wrote a story on a portable. He wanted to get comfortable with it case he loses power and can't use his electric machine. ...
Sean Penn Would Have Been A Great Ty Cobb
It's fun to recast movies. After watching Mystic River I wished it could start again with the leads exchanging roles. Harry Dean Stanton would have made a great Billy Martin if The Bronx is Burning was made 15 years earlier. If I could have one wish it would be to see Art Carney reprise his stage pe...
Fame And Obscurity
I found this over at Longform (and if you haven't bookmarked this site by now, whadda ya waiting for?)—Robert Draper's 1992 Texas Monthly story on Cormac McCarthy. I'm not drawn to McCarthy's writing but I'm a sucker for profiles of writers and this is a good one:...
More Illustrated NFL Playbook Fun
When we did the Bills edition of Why Your Team Sucks, reader Matt E. sent in a phony drawing of the team's playbook that was so awesome, we asked him to do a few more of them. Here now are the playbooks of five more NFL teams, as designed by Matt:...
Deadspin Up All Night: Campaign Shoutin' Like A Southern Diplomat
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Report: NFL Agents Funneled Money To College Players
A big Yahoo report dropped today, presumably to ride/torpedo the momentum of SI's flawed Oklahoma State exposé. It claims that NFL agents and financial advisers funneled tens of thousands of dollars to five college players, including Alabama tackle D.J. Fluker....
Great Men Die Twice: Muhammad Ali In Decline
Originally published in the June 1989 issue of Esquire. Republished here with the permission of the late author's son, Mark Kram Jr., a wonderful storyteller in his own right. His postscript follows. For a contemporary, but very different, glimpse of Ali, check out Davis Miller's story about his day...