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I Think The 76ers Just Fleeced The Kings
The 76ers are approximately $40 million under next season’s salary cap, but they aren’t chasing LeBron James, LaMarcus Aldridge, or any other big name free agents. Instead, they’re making themselves available to teams looking to shed salary, trying to pick up future assets in return. ...
Let's Make Some Kick-Ass Sangria!
Sangria is like summer itself: always good, but rarely as great as it could be. Due to their respective built-in advantages of cold, fruity alcohol and relative proximity to the sun, sangria and summer are tough to fuck up. But these same inherent strengths can lull us into a laziness that prevents ...
Rescuing a Red-Headed Step-Beer
Good afternoon, my fellow beer appreciators! Did you nap well? Do you remember what happened this morning? Ah, let’s not speak of it. Let’s instead hark back to the brighter times of 2013, when it looked for a brief period like American amber ale was about to have an extended Moment. If I remember c...
Co-Ed Softball Team's Pro-Style Instagram Account Is My Favorite Thing
I would like you to meet the Stinkmitts, a beer-league softball team from Toronto that really understands how to get the most out of social media. Throughout the 2015 season, which the Stinkmitts appear to be dominating, the team has been running its Instagram account as if it was in the big leagues...
A Summer Beer Trend Worth Chasing
We here at Deadspin are not a trendy lot. We prefer to honor the timeless beauty of the classics instead of mindlessly following this or that faulty prophet with his new hop-bursting techniques or euphemisms for “replacing half of your beer with powdered lemonade.” Plus, we don’t always learn so goo...
Some Guy Says He Won't Play For The Sixers Next Season
Croatian forward Dario Šarić has informed the Philadelphia 76ers that he will not play for them in the 2015-16 season. Neither will Karl-Anthony Towns, Tom Brady, or Barack Obama. After much deliberation, I too have decided not to join the Sixers in 2015-16....
A Healthy Way To Build A Hangover
We here at Drunkspin freely concede that beer is the very best goddamn thing in the world, better than gin, softball, and naps combined. Yet for as much as we love beer, we sometimes fail to lead the cheers loudly enough to satisfy the sunnier members of the Craft Beer Movement™, who take exception ...
This Is The Best Imported Beer
This morning, while combing through the Drunkspin archives to see how many times I’ve said “mouthfeel” so as to determine how many pushups I owe the Non-Creepy Food and Drink Bloggers Guild, I realized that we’ve covered perilously few foreign beers here. And we’ve said shitty things about most of t...
IPA Is Still The King Of Beers
In these fractious times, when we can’t even agree on what constitutes a sandwich (hot dogs are not sandwiches, because if you ate three sandwiches in one sitting, all existing and several future generations of your family would disown you on the spot, you gross monster) or who the MVP of the NBA Fi...
Larry King's Twitter Really Makes You Think
When was the last time something or someone really made you think? Well, friend, let me turn your attention to Larry King’s Twitter account, where the octogenarian newsman regularly drops knowledge bombs. Without further ado, here are some of his latest and greatest kernels of wisdom. ...
Whatever Happened To Michelob?
We here at Drunkspin are not a prideful lot. Despite all the luxuries and laundry money that attend our unrivaled position as the sports-site beer blog you happen to be reading at this particular moment, we still microwave our lunches one burrito at a time, same as the next blogger. Our one enduring...
Wheat Beers Can Be Awesome
For a variety of reasons both valid and otherwise, wheat beers don’t always get a ton of respect or even attention from the Craft Beer Movement’s™ leading blowhards, cheerleaders, and listiclers. The category’s association with the high-end Anheuser-Busch InBev and MillerCoors brands are likely its ...
This Crazy-Ass New Beer Proves That India Pale Ale Will Never Die
Are you one of the weirdoes, poseurs, or stout-humpers who claims to be tired of India pale ale? If so, congratulations on being cool and condolences on being screwed, because IPAs are never going away. According to data released yesterday by Brewbound, America’s most popular craft-beer category sti...
Here's Our Favorite New Low-Alcohol Beer
Earlier this week, an employee of Colorado’s Caution Brewing Company threw his job to the wind via an angry and profane letter to Evil Twin Brewing in which he chastised the Brooklyn-based contract brewer for their high prices. Evil Twin posted the letter on their Facebook page, prompting Caution’s ...
A Fantastic One-Hop IPA, No Matter Who Actually Brewed It
Remember how disappointing it was to realize celebrity chefs rarely cook much of anything, and certainly never touch your insignificant speck of a dinner, even if their name is on the sign out front? It took me a long time to accept that just as Santa Claus can’t fly Legos to all the world’s decent ...
Dumb Nostalgia Tastes Great In Small Doses
Despite all the talk of craft beer’s ascendancy, traditional macro bullshit still accounts for nearly 90 percent of all beer sold in America. But even though it continues to dominate the market, Big Bad Beer is clearly feeling at least a bit of heat. They’ve responded to the minor craft threat in se...
Deadcast: Does The Bible Foretell A Cavaliers Victory?
Nothing delights me more than when crazy people revisit sacred texts in an attempt to discover ancient prophecies about current NBA games. And a reader recently pointed us to one such sterling example, which is the subject of this week’s Deadcast....
Growlers Destroy Beer
The 50 American states share a flag, a superiority to Canada, and a passion for chicken fingers, but on most other counts they stand divided. For instance, we have half a hundred different sets of liquor laws; the only unifying theme is that each state adheres to the Constitutional mandate that its ...
Stan Wawrinka Defeats Novak Djokovic For First French Open Title
No. 8 Stan Wawrinka knocked off world No. 1 Novak Djokovic 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-4 to claim the 2015 French Open title Sunday. ...