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Things To Learn Because Your Fantasy Football Team Flamed Out
Your fantasy team is dead. That one guy—the one you don’t like—has everything on lock. On the one hand, that’s too bad for you and for your friends, who are in your league and whose teams are also dead; on the other hand, it presents you and your friends with the opportunity to take up new interests...
A Square's Guide To Buying Sneakers
When I was a kid and lived on West 72nd Street in Manhattan, I wanted a pair of the original Air Jordans—the red and black ones that the NBA had banned for being too flashy or some shit. There was a mom-and-pop sneaker shop on the Upper West Side that showed them off in their windows, and I’d saliva...
There's A Not-So-Hidden Message In The ACC Football Media Guide
At a previous job, I spent a depressingly large chunk of my life poring through media guides. It was hell. There is too much information, and it is rarely complete, not always accurate, and its placement feels specifically designed to be in the last place you look for it. It worsened my vision and t...
Holiday Gift Guide: Books That Aren’t Pretentious Crap
Oh, hello there. I was just in my study, drinking port and sorting through my numerous Brookings Institution ethical surveys. A FINE READING, I dare say. And if you're the sort of chap who enjoys a fine reading as much as I do, I have compiled a list of tomes that would make a worthy, AUTHENTIC g...
The Drunkspin 2014 Holiday Gift Guide
Are you wondering what to get the beloved boozebags in your life? I bet you're not, right? You're just going to give them all bottles of randomly selected $30 brown liquor, or maybe those stupid little chocolates stuffed with a quarter-squirt of skanky schnapps, or the first gin-and-martini-glasse...
Holiday Gift Guide: For Your Generous Party Host
One of the best things you can give to a friend who has invited you into his or her home for the holidays is something good to drink. But telling you to buy a bottle of booze would make for a pretty boring, if practical, Gift Guide. (If you do buy a bottle of booze, be a love and wrap it nicely?)...
Holiday Gift Guide: Art Books For All Sorts Of People
I come from a bookish family. We didn't just read books, we owned them. It was no small thing, having your own collection. This was my father's side of the family, Manhattanites with overflowing bookcases and the seeming inability to throw anything away. When it came time for a birthday or the holi...
Holiday Gift Guide: For Your Buddy Who Wants To Cook Like A Grownup
So your buddy or sibling or heretofore derelict life-partner has decided that now is the time to set aside a life of carryout and peanut butter sandwiches and become A Person Capable Of Cooking Meals At Home Like A Grownup. Good! Cooking at home is good....
The 2014 Hater's Guide To The Williams-Sonoma Catalog
It's a difficult world out there, people. War, poverty, brutality, corruption, social and racial injustice … these are not civil times we live in. Which is why, more than ever, we NEED the comfort and warmth that only life inside the Williams-Sonoma catalog can provide. Follow me, America. Fol...
A Holiday Gift Guide For Dads, Who Just Want You To Shut Up
As a dad, I can tell you that what your dad really wants is just a little goddamn peace and quiet so he can read a goddamn book/watch the game/just, like, sit for five minutes without you and your sister doing whatever the hell it is you're doing that's probably going to kill at least one and maybe ...
Holiday Gift Guide: For The Football Lover In Your Life
Buying gifts for the football fan can be too easy. Sure, anyone can buy a personalized jersey with "DICKFACE" on the back and become the holiday hero for their friend who roots for the Giants and secretly always loved the nickname he was given when he rushed Sig Ep freshman year. You're not that per...
2014 Music Box Sets: A Guide For The Bemused And Disgusted
Rock box sets are indefensible cash-sponges that will endure for as long as baby boomer parents require Christmas presents. Honestly, you don't care if they're any good any more than you worried about whether that tie you bought Dad last Father's Day was ugly. But let's pretend, just for fun, that y...
A Field Guide To American Truthers
There were no truthers back in the 20th century. I grew up in the Golden Age of Kennedy Assassination Conspiracies, but the word "truther" was never used to describe Oliver Stone or any of the other folks who decried the Magic Bullet theory. (DISCLOSURE: I saw JFK when I was in high school and took...
When Basketball Media Guides Were Brutally Honest
Long ago, as a factchecker for a college basketball encyclopedia, I quickly learned to fear the SWAC. Its member schools' media guides, the official and often sole sources for history and statistics, were riddled with errors, omissions, typos, and for many seasons, simply weren't produced at all. Th...
Your Last-Minute Bracket Cheat Sheet: What All The Smart People Say
The "first" "round" of the NCAA tournament is underway, and the deadline for bracket submissions is fast approaching. To help you out with your last-minute picks, we took a look a seven March Madness/college hoops models, and used them to build out seven different "expert brackets."...
Gift Guide Roundup: Gifts For People Who Like Music
If you've been reading these gift guides the past couple weeks and still haven't found that perfect gift yet, whatever you do end up getting probably won't be that impactful anyways. So how about just going with one of these music suggestions, courtesy of the Deadspin commenters?...
Gift Guide: Great Books That We've Featured
A couple days ago, we gave you book recommendations from the Deadspin commentariat. But we've also excerpted from a good number of books this year, too. Here's a list of those in case you're still in the market for gift ideas....
Gift Guide Roundup: Gifts For People Who Like To Read
Last week, we asked you to recommend some books for people who do the whole gift-giving thing. Here's what you came up with....
Gift Guide Roundup: Gifts For People Who Actually Play Sports
Another edition of the Deadspin Gift Guide Roundup here, this time updating you on the best gift ideas for people who actually play sports. Here's what passed our strenuous vetting process:...
Holiday Gift Guide: Gifts For People Who Like Music
Music. There's so much you can do with it—listen to it, make it, read about it, hate it—which is to say that it's fertile grounds for gift ideas. Leave some suggestions for presents for the music lover below in the discussion section....