Has the most useless blog of the week already been published? It’ll be tough to top this bit from the Ringer’s Movie Knower, the thesis of which seems to be “Some movies are sequels to other movies.”
Weck, Scorned, Gets Revenge On Former Spouse
Update (June 2, 9:41 a.m.): The former BW3's apologizes for the “awful tweets” but not for their awful food:
The Athletic Has Inflicted Rick Reilly Upon You
If you are subscriber to The Athletic, I have some bad news for you:
Peggy Noonan Extends Her Sympathy To Those That She Helped To Make Poor
As this year of imprudent surprise comes to an end, Reagan-era porcelain urn Peggy Noonan turns her forgiving gaze to the lessers—they are poor, you see. But why?
Real Piece Of Shit Column: Corruption Is Fine
As much as Republicans groaned about Donald Trump, they were always destined to fall in line once he actually had power. They are still falling.
Moron USA Today Columnist Thinks The Cardinals Poop Vanilla Sprinkles
You know, we usually wait until October here to dump on the Cardinals and have the entire city of St. Louis send us polite death threats. But Bob Nightengale … oh, Bob Nightengale … you forced my hand early, you abominable fucking hack. I guarantee, right now, that there won't be a worse piece of sportswriting this…
Who Hacked The Nudes? A Working Theory
Everyone likes a good mystery, and the best one around right now involves the leak of hundreds of celebrity nudes onto the internet. The prevailing theory is that some hacker cracked Apple's iCloud service and then uploaded the nudes to the image-based bulletin board 4chan. We suspect that's not what happened, for…
Respected Tennis Writer Cops To Plagiarism; There's Likely More To Find
Neil Harman has been The Times of London's chief tennis correspondent since 2002, during which time he has been awarded the Sports Journalist Association's "Sports News Reporter of the Year" award, as well as the ATP's Ron Bookman Award for Media Excellence. He is also, as he admitted in a letter sent to the…
And Now, A Lively Interaction Between Darren Rovell And A Twitter User
It starts, as it always does, with a completely useless Darren Rovell tweet:
Sportsnet's Hockey Twitter Account Has Been Hacked For Five Days
Dear Sportsnet: You are a popular and respected Canadian sports network. It is the NHL playoffs. Your Hockey Central Twitter account has been hacked and tweeting out obscene links to porn spam since Saturday. Fix yo shit.
We Had A Seventh-Grade English Teacher Grade Rick Reilly's Poem
Remember last week, when Rick Reilly tried to pass off this stupid poem as a sports column? Since he's an adult who gets paid an exorbitant amount of money to write about sports, Reilly was rightly lambasted by most everyone who saw his poem. But we wanted to give Reilly's poetic skills a chance to stand on their own…
ESPN's Darren Rovell And The Fitness Model: A Brief History [Update]
May 11, 2009: Darren Rovell writes about Nora Tobin, a model he's never heard of whom he saw in an advertisement on his CNBC blog:
"Amateurism, which as we conceive of it is sport as a public right, a healthy activity free of mercantilism, with possibilities for the recreation and well-being of the entire population, is almost gone ..." Fidel Castro, sportswriter.
Reggie Miller Saying "Shit" On TV Is The Least Offensive Part Of This
A.J. Clemente cursed and got fired. Susannah Collins said "sex" and got fired. TNT analyst Reggie Miller said "shit" tonight while giving a sappy post-game speech to the victorious Golden State Warriors, and we hope he gets fired—but not because he said "shit."
Red Alert: Jim Nantz Compromised, Hacked E-Mails Contain The Whitest Sentence On Record
When a hacker found his way into our 41st and 43rd presidents' personal e-mail accounts, exposing records of correspondence among the former leaders of the free world as well as George W. Bush's haunting paintings of himself bathing, we all had a good laugh. Unfortunately, the hack had some collateral damage, and now…
Jason Whitlock Is Sad He Can't Win A Pulitzer, So We Made A Special Prize For Him
We at Deadspin can't bear the thought of hardworking, important, tell-it-like-it-is writers being denied the pleasure of winning major awards. That's why we were so heartbroken this morning for Fox Sports columnist and nascent dwarf planet Jason Whitlock, who took to his alma mater's daily newspaper to pour out his…
"She Is So Raped Right Now": Partygoer Jokes About The Steubenville Accuser The Night Of The Alleged Rape
The video above was released today by the hacktivist outfit KnightSec, which has been leading the digital crusade in response to the alleged rape of a 16-year-old girl at the hands of two Steubenville (Ohio) High School football players. In the video, Michael Nodianos, a former Steubenville High student and…
"... Did Not Meet ESPN Standards For Original Language": ESPN Finally Updates Plagiarized Posts
It has been 148 days since we first informed you of Lynn Hoppes's copy-and-pasting habits. And dear reader, it's over. All it took for ESPN to acknowledge the widespread plagiarism in its archives was for the company's news honcho, John Walsh, to float a rumor in front of a class of journalism students that I was…
