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Visions Of Light: Movie Love
Here's Martin Scorsese writing about movies in the New York Review of Books:...
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Browns Guard Ryan Miller Carted Off Field, Taken To Hospital [UPDATES]
During training camp today, an unidentified Browns player was taken off the field in an ambulance....

Giants GM Finds One Super Bowl Win In Four Years “Not Acceptable”
NFL executives usually mutter boring win-now quotes when a microphone is in front of their face, but New York Giants general manager Jerry Reese's approach on Saturday criticized a team that still contains a majority of key players from a Super Bowl win two seasons ago....

Is This Calvin Johnson Catch Impressive?
During one-on-one drills in today's Detroit Lions training camp, Calvin Johnson faced off against cornerback Chris Houston. The play called was a back-shoulder fade, and Megatron made Houston look stupid....


Choose Your Own Tim Tebow Story!
First day of training camp for Tim Tebow, New England Patriot. Big story! Lots of coverage. Passes thrown. Questions about Aaron Hernandez. Reporters everywhere. Do we really have to do this? ...

Why Your Team Sucks 2013: Tennessee Titans
Some people are fans of the Tennessee Titans. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Tennessee Titans. This 2013 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the 2013 NFL previews so far right here....

Dipshit Wears Cowboys Jersey And Yankees Cap To Redskins Camp
This fucking guy....

Sucking In The Seventies
Over at the great site, In Focus, Alan Taylor takes a look at America in the 1970s. Check out what he's got so far......

Producer Fired Over “Ho Lee Fuk” Prank Says His Reputation Is “Intack”
That incredible prank that snookered a Bay Area television station into reporting names like "Sum Ting Wong" and "Ho Lee Fuk" as the flight crew of that downed Asiana airplane? It cost three producers at KTVU in the Bay Area their jobs. TheWrap reached out to all three. One of them responded....

Richard Sherman's Email To His Stanford Dorm Is Priceless
We have a very special set of overwrought emails today, as this particular collection of haughtily typed words features a celebrity guest: Seahawks defensive back Richard Sherman! What follows is a conversation that took place on a Stanford dormitory listserv in 2007. Our tipster sets the scene:...

Former Player Explains Why The Patriots Are So Damn Boring
For a team that's been successful while caught up in various controversies for more than a decade, the Patriots are hell on reporters. Barely a decent quote to be found. Lineman-turned-analyst Ross Tucker, who played two years in New England, says it all starts with Bill Belichick....

What I Learned From A Year Of Watching <em>SportsCenter</em>
Thirty-three years and more than 50,000 episodes on, SportsCenter is less a television show or a convenient way to catch up on the day in sports than a great mechanical contraption gone awry, its parts moving independently not just of one another but of any obvious directing intelligence. ...

Matt Ryan Just Got <em>Paid</em>
Just before the start of training camp, the Falcons locked up quarterback Matt Ryan for the foreseeable future. The precise details of his deal aren't yet known, but Ryan—he of the 1-4 career playoff record—will be the second-highest paid player in NFL history....

Tarell Brown Learns Via Twitter His Agent Cost Him $2M, Fires Him
49ers cornerback Tarell Brown's salary was slashed by $2 million because he didn't show up for offseason workouts. On Thursday, when he figured that out, he blamed and swiftly fired his agent....

Rookie Ryan Swope Retires From NFL “For Now” Thanks To Concussions
Arizona Cardinals rookie Ryan Swope's NFL career didn't last past OTAs. Unlike most players who didn't make it to training camp, this is his own decision—he's ending his "lifelong dream" because of concussions....