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Editor's Note: Jonny Gomes Is Awesome
Over the weekend, our own Sean Newell asked if Jonny Gomes, the Oakland A's outfielder and designated Rob Deer, was "the biggest douchebag in baseball." Gomes's apparent crime was admiring a go-ahead home run. Here are some things to know about Jonny Gomes: He was occasionally homeless as a kid. He ...
ESPN's Cringing, Persnickety, Condom-Obsessed Standards And Practices Manual, Presented Unabridged
Below you'll find ESPN's editorial and advertising guidelines as of 2010, sent to us by a tipster. They are the sort of guidelines one finds beneath coffee mugs at any typical media company: binder with laminated cover; nice paper stock; a general air of scolding, constipated didacticism that's like...
Ballsacks And Naked Bedroom Photos: My Day At Jezebel (NSFW)
For those of you who weren't stuck in a stuffy office yesterday, I had the pleasure/challenge of editing Gawker's lady site, Jezebel, for the day. At 9:30 I posted this and tried to turn it into a servicey "men's summer fashion" post....
Happy Independence Day And Other Things Of Note
Hey, you made it. It's 6ish p.m., so you're probably all finished with work and set to go home and decompress for the three-day weekend. That's just awesome. We have to do that, too. But first — some programming notes....
I Hope Your Team Wins At Sports This Weekend!
Thank you for letting me play in your sandbox today. I have no idea what any of you are talking about! That being said, you dudes were great. I hope it's not awkward when we run into each other later!...
Let's Roll Some Sports Talk About Sports!
Oh hello. I am Choire Sicha, your 9/11 guest blogger, coming to you from lower Manhattan. Make of that what you will....
Deadspin Very Special Guest Editor Days Are Here Again...
Fire Joe Morgan reunites and takes over this space next Wednesday but tomorrow, September 11, we have another lovable scamp who's graciously volunteered to button-push for us....
Exit Note: Must Love Dogs
Where did the day go? Did I ponder the on-field implications of adding a convicted dog-torturer to my co-favorite football team? Michael Phelps and Michael Vick ran over a coyote on the way to Rick Pitino's abortionist! What about morality?...
Guest Editor Intro: I Am Delusional and I Hate Winners
Good morning, sports fans. You are looking LIVE at—well, at a post I wrote yesterday and put in the can in advance....
Deadspin Very Special Guest Editor Days Are Here Again
We're almost half-way through the sweltering dread-trap that is August, so it's time to hand over the captain's ascot to someone for a day. Spinheads, meet Tom Scocca. He will be hoisting up sloop Deadspin's sail for you tomorrow....
Farewell, Judgmental Strangers
Well Deadspin, it's been a productive day. Sunrise, sunset, the earth turns, people fall in love, a tree falls on a hipster. Does it seem like I'm stalling? Because I am. I really have nothing more to say....
GUEST RANT: The Flea-Flicker
Since this is the biggest sports audience I will probably ever have, I might as well go public with my longstanding NFL rant: the flea-flicker is not a trick-play. It's a play-fake. And it should be called once a quarter....
Best of the Brissed: The First and Last Deadspin Maccabiah Games Preview
Named after the Maccabee family, who vanquished the Greeks despite 6-1 odds and stingy handicapping; the Maccabiah Games bring together 7,000 of the world's best Jewish athletes to satisfy their insatiable lust for gold. Whoa. That came out wrong....
From Your Very Special Guest Editor
Last time I wrote on this page, it was with unbridled cautious optimism for Trent Edwards and the 2008 Buffalo Bills. Was I wrong? Yes and no. Well, actually, just yes....
Deadspin Very Special Guest Editor Days Are Here Again...
And tomorrow, we've got ourselves a lofty one. Funny, but lofty. Perk up readers, skimmers and clever commenters who yell at the sun — Slate sports editor Josh Levin will be your sea captain tomorrow....
A Note From The Guest Editor
Greetings from Los Angeles, the charming little front-running town that just suffered a devastating cockpunch from a left-fielder who's being unfairly persecuted for his totally innocent use of a female fertility drug....
Deadspin Very Special Guest Editor Days: Part II
As noted yesterday, the last one went so well. But this time around, we'll actually be featuring a person who enjoys sports and will probably wake up before 1:30 p.m. I hope....
Deadspin Special Guest Editor Days Are Here And Waiting For Your Approval
Tomorrow we'll try a risky experiment just for the sake of risky experiments — yes, a strange different voice, will be infiltrating Deadspin tomorrow....
Do Not Cross The Hillsdale College Baseball Team
In a tradition as old as baseball itself, an editor who criticized the Hillsdale College (Mich.) baseball team's putrid record found his front porch decorated with dead animal carcasses, including a shotgunned goat....
Jeremy Shockey Breaks Through New Orleans Douche Levee
This is Jeremy Shockey. You might remember Jeremy from the time you drafted him two rounds too high in your fantasy draft because a) He played in New York, and b) You're subconsciously just a bit racist. Jeremy, seen here trying to convince a woman to go home with him so he can give her Hepatitis ...