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Deadspin's Best Long Stories Of 2018

Perhaps you need something to read on the plane home, or something to distract you while you avoid your in-laws. Here are the most compelling long features and essays we published this year so you can catch up before we do it all again in 2019....

by Megan Greenwell|

|Thu Dec 27 2018

Warriors Accuse Athletic Writer Of Fabricating Steph Curry “Tranny Sex Tape” Joke [Update]

In a profile of Steph Curry published earlier this week, Marcus Thompson II, a writer for The Athletic, described a scene between Curry and rapper Mistah F.A.B. in which the two were “laughing [...] about a certain tranny sex tape.” After facing backlash over the use of the slur, The Athletic change...

by Laura Wagner|

|Thu Dec 13 2018

The Future Of Feature Writing Is Woof Woof Bark Aww

If you’re a regular reader of feature journalism on the internet, you have encountered what we at Deadspin sometimes refer to as the “Snow Fall” treatment, after the famous New York Times story that launched the phenomenon. This is when a publisher packages a (typically lengthy) feature story with f...

by Albert Burneko|

|Mon Mar 06 2017

How SB Nation Published Their Daniel Holtzclaw Story

Last week, Vox Media’s SB Nation published “Who Is Daniel Holtzclaw?”, a 12,000-word profile of a 29-year-old former Oklahoma City police officer who this winter was tried for raping 13 black women while on duty; convicted on 18 of 36 charges of rape, sexual battery, forcible oral sodomy, and burgla...

by Greg Howard|

|Wed Mar 16 2016

SB Nation Memo Announces Hiatus For Longform Program

Two days ago, SB Nation published “Who Is Daniel Holtzclaw?”, a long, sympathetic piece on the 29-year-old Oklahoma City police officer who was tried, convicted and ultimately sentenced in December to 263 years in jail for serially raping black women while on duty. The story was immediately and angr...

by Greg Howard|

|Fri Feb 19 2016

SB Nation Publishes, Deletes "Complete Failure" Of A Story About Convicted Rapist Cop Daniel Holtzclaw

This afternoon, SB Nation’s Longform vertical published 12,000 words on Daniel Holtzclaw, the former Oklahoma City police officer who was convicted of abusing his position of power to rape multiple women over a seven month period. It was, in many ways, a disaster of a story, and after a wide outcry ...

by Barry Petchesky|

|Thu Feb 18 2016

Down & Away With Leo Mazzone

Nice piece on Leo Mazzone by Tom Rehagen over at SB Nation Longform:...

by Alex Belth|

|Wed May 13 2015

After The Fall: Sympathy For The Devil

What do Dave Pell, Don Van Natta Jr, and Longform all have in common? They all singled out Brin-Jonathan Butler's stellar SB Nation Longform piece on Mike Tyson and Cus D'Amato:...

by Alex Belth|

|Mon Feb 16 2015

Mobb Deep: Two-Hand Rough Football in NYC

Head on over to SB Nation's Longform site and dig into the latest from our pal Ivan Solotaroff:...

by Alex Belth|

|Wed Jan 21 2015

Deadspin's Best Long Stories Of 2014

We wrote a lot of long stories this year that you probably didn't have time to read. Now is your chance to get caught up....

by Tom Ley|

|Wed Dec 31 2014

I Love It When You Call Me Big Papa

Found this over at Longform: The New Yorker's legendary 1950 Lillian Ross profile of Hemingway:...

by Alex Belth|

|Thu Oct 30 2014

Friday Night Lights

Longform has been killin' it these days. Yesterday, they reprinted this classic from Buzz Bissinger:...

by Alex Belth|

|Thu Sep 18 2014

We'll Pay You To Read The Tampa Bay Bucs' Longform Advertorial

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have put something terrible on the internet, a 32,000-word piece of what we can only assume is advertorial content presented as the kind of #longform journalism that is meant to get Serious Readers stiff. ...

by Tom Ley|

|Tue Jul 15 2014