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Facebook and Deadspin: Two Great Tastes That Taste Great Together
Have you been trying to leave comments on Deadspin for years only to be stymied at every turn by heartless, humorless combudsmen? You've always known that if you could just get that first comment approved, then everyone would see how funny you really are, right? Well, today's your lucky day, camper,...
ESPN's Featured Comment Of The Week
Each day ESPN sifts through its finest reader comments, and chooses the most enlightening example to feature on its home page. This is one of those comments....
Easiest $150 You'll Make All Month
Just take this incredibly short, painless, (moderately) enjoyable survey, and we'll send one random winner a $150 Best Buy gift certificate. The way prices are going, that should get you almost halfway to a 32 inch HDTV. Simply email [email protected] with the last question of the survey to enter....
Vince Wilfork's Wife Has A Few Things She'd Like To Get Off Her Chest...In The Comments
As you all know, things can get a little messy in the comments section below. Cruel insults, ad hominem attacks, spineless cheap shots, etc. are pretty commonplace here and plenty of other online establishments. For most of you, this is done anonymously, behind the safety of an avatar, so you can, f...
Greg Robinson Reads Children's Classics
You've gotta feel for Greg Robinson. He seems like a nice enough guy, and by all accounts he's a decent coach. His heart's in the right place, and all that. But if you ever wanted a more vivid picture of what the strain of coaching a major college football team is like, take a look at the video belo...
Introducing the Deadspin Customer Service Hotline
2008 has been quite a year of change for Deadspin. Leitch out, Daulerio in. Exit Weintraub, enter Waxing Off. Goodbye Iracane, Hello Gaines. Yes, AJ has graciously asked me to step in and provide Deadspin with the same mediocre level of combudsmanship I've been providing for the past 4 months over ...
Greetings, Spinheads
Happy day after Thanksgiving. Today is gonna be looser than usual, given both the tech issues and that the vast majority of you are out shopping, or hungover, or getting ready for high school reunions. We'll cover some stuff, we'll ignore a lot of stuff, and have some fun being buddy, buddy, buddy a...
Citi Field and Manchester United: Your Tax Dollars At Work
The government's bailout of our collapsing financial industry continues apace—you got your check, right?—but now that these companies are playing with our money, suddenly everyone is an expert. Some are suggesting that maybe the reason these firms are in trouble is because they like to waste money a...
Programming Note: It's Turkey Jamboroo Day Tomorrow (And Ray's Doing the Carving)
Last year, we ran a Thanksgiving edition of the NFL Jamboroo the day before Thanksgiving. But we're gonna forgo that this year and run the Jamboroo early tomorrow morning. Why? Well, for one thing, there isn't fucking jack SHIT to do on Thanksgiving morning. You watch the parade for two minutes, yo...
SHOTY First Round: Roger Clemens Vs. Vince Young
It's the day before Thanksgiving, and it's difficult to imagine much that would be more enjoyable than voting in the 2008 Deadspin Sportshuman Of The Year tournament. Like you're doing any work today anyway. In fact, you're probably not even in the office right now. Are you reading this from the fu...
Lenny Dykstra Never Disappoints In Interviews
I had the pleasure of interviewing former Phillie/Met Lenny Dykstra over the phone last year when he launched his extravagant "Players Club" magazine. As a Phillies fan, this was one of those moments that was completely surreal and exciting — and he was stoked ( I believe he actually said "stoked") ...
Rob Iracane Abdicates the Throne
To keep the comments as fresh and outstanding as they've been up to this point, Commenting Guru Rob Iracane will write wrote a bi-weekly Comment Ombudsman column. It runs every other week. This is that week. Mr. Iracane, co-proprietor of the brilliant Walkoff Walk , is also the guy who approveappro...
ESPN's Featured Comment Of The Week
ESPN scours its message boards regularly to find its cleverest, boldest, most enlightening comments, and presents them on their front page. Here is one of those comments ... • "When the Hawks go 82-0 and the Celtics are 81-1, the Cs will have home court." — Bonzo_BonhamPrevious ESPN Featured Comment...
Mike Mussina Calls It A Career
It hasn't been officially announced yet, but Ken Rosenthal is reporting that Mike Mussina will retire this week, ending an 18-year major league career. He pitched in 538 games for the Orioles and Yankees, appeared on five all-stars teams and in 16 postseason series, including 2 World Series, yet if ...
Mindy McCready Did Not Have Sex With Roger Clemens When She Was 15. Gawd
The latest chapter in the saga of Roger "I'm certainly not an unfaithful, fib-telling douche" Clemens and Mindy "In no way am I any kind of a golddigging publicity whore" McCready unfolded on Monday on the TV show Inside Edition. For one thing, our aspiring country & western diva says that there was...
Your Trophy Sleeps With the Fishes
Tiny little Haverford College, best known for producing intellectual types (Bethlehem Shoals!) and lesbians smarter than the rest of us, will attempt to win its sixth straight championship today in the super exciting sport of cross-country. The Black Squirrels are led by Tom Donnelly, a legend in th...
ESPN's Featured Comment Of The Week
ESPN scours its message boards regularly to find its cleverest, boldest, most enlightening comments, and presents them on their front page. Here is one of those comments ... • "In hockey we can find more dedicated, pure, uncorrupted pro athletes." — Huckle39Previous ESPN Featured Comment of the Week...
Does Anyone Want to Spend An Enchanted Evening With Myself and Mr. Leitch Watching Monday Night Football?
Here's the deal: Will and I were scheduled to participate in a "field trip" this evening but the fancy photographer hired for the story has suddenly fallen ill. She might not be able to attend. If she can't, I'd love to have a back up plan. Anyone in New York with photography experience (and good eq...
Rejected Commenter Theater 5: Assignment Miami Beach
To keep the comments as fresh and outstanding as they've been up to this point, Commenting Guru Rob Iracane will write a bi-weekly Comment Ombudsman column. It runs every other week. This is that week. Mr. Iracane, co-proprietor of the brilliant Walkoff Walk , is also the guy who approves comments ...
ESPN's Featured Comment Of The Week
ESPN scours its message boards regularly to find its cleverest, boldest, most enlightening comments, and presents them on their front page. Here is one of those comments ... • "Having Mayo No. 10 is crazy. His first game was bad, but his next three games were good." — Ronald Wooten Re: NBA rookie wa...