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Which Ear Is Your Phone Ear?I recently became deaf in my right ear thanks to a sudden brain hemorrhage, which is a freakish life-threatening injury that I highly recommend avoiding. The good news out of this, apart from me not being dead, is that it turns out my surviving left ear is my phone ear. I didn’t even realize it was ...

Time To Vote In The Only College Football Poll That Believed In Central Florida—The Deadspin 25 Is BackPolls! You can’t trust ‘em! Don’t believe me? Get a load of this shit, from Big Poll, no less:...

Trump Voters Say They Choose Trump Over The NFLVox journalist Dylan Scott, you will get no argument here: that chart, showing the reported opinions of Trump voters on the NFL, is indeed pretty nuts! The data, compiled by an online survey company called Morning Consult and laid out at the New York Times’s Upshot blog, tells the story of how the o...

Bill James's Twitter Polls Are Melting My Brain

Sabermetrics godfather and occasional Joe Paterno apologist Bill James has spent the past many years as something of a paradox. You can be confident that he’s smart at something, but a great deal of what he says and does flies in the face of that knowledge....

Can More People Hit A Home Run Or Dunk A Basketball?

In this week’s Funbag, reader Benjamin asked this excellent question:...

How Did Jorge Posada Become A First-Ballot Hall Of Fame Washout?

Amid the arguing over this year’s Hall of Fame, one of the weirder potential results involves no argument at all. Unless there’s a dramatic and unexpected late break in the voting, Jorge Posada—who as of this afternoon appeared on 10 of 239 known ballots in the ballot tracker—is going to miss the fi...

I Think Nate Silver Is Broken, Maybe?

Here are a couple tweets from politics polling seer Nate Silver, founder of ESPN math website FiveThirtyEight....

<i>Washington Post</i> Poll: 9 In 10 Native Americans Not Offended By Washington Team Name

The Washington Post spent the last few months surveying a random selection of 504 self-identified Native Americans, 36 percent of whom claimed a tribal affiliation, about the Washington football team calling itself the “Redskins.” Of those surveyed, the vast majority told the Post that the name does...

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Mayor Of Probably Calgary Mad Over Raptors Poll Snub

The Raptors and their fans have played the “nobody believes in us” card faster and harder than just about anyone, quite possibly because nobody believes in them. But things have reached a fever pitch in Wherever The Raptors Are From, thanks to the limitations of an online poll....

by Barry Petchesky|

|Sat May 21 2016

How are you celebrating Duke being unranked for the first time since 2007?...

by Barry Petchesky|

|Mon Feb 01 2016

Vote In The Only College Football Poll That Matters—The Deadspin 25

Preseason polls are inherently stupid. But instead of wasting our time arguing with the power-mad beat writers of America, Deadspin proposes that it’s time for the right to determine college football’s best teams—or perhaps just its most interesting—to be taken away from the idiot writers and given ...

by Nick Martin|

|Tue Aug 04 2015

Poll: Would You Have Sex With This Talking Sex Robot?

Sex is better when both people are having a good time, even when one of those people is a robot. So the next logical step there is that someone is building a sentient sex robot. Okay! It’s the future, and you’re now faced with a question: Would you do it with this hot bot? There are many possible an...

by Leslie Horn|

|Wed Jun 24 2015

Poll: What Is The Best Gross Habit?

The other Sunday at brunch with friends, I caught myself doing something revolting: I was absentmindedly picking at the dry skin on my heels. In public. At brunch. ...

by Jolie Kerr|

|Fri Aug 01 2014

That ESPN Poll Claiming MLS Is As Popular With Kids As MLB Is Bullshit

The other day, ESPN published a story, citing data from the ESPN Sports Poll Annual Report, claiming that Major League Soccer now "equals MLB in popularity with kids." The story was quickly picked up by MLS, CBS, The Big Lead, the Orlando Sentinel, the Seattle Times, and the Seattle Post-Intelligenc...

by Tim Marchman|

|Mon Mar 10 2014

Football: Still Really Freaking Popular

The annual Harris Poll survey is out, and for the 30th year in a row, Americans named pro football (35 percent) as their favorite sport, with baseball (14 percent) a not-so-close second....

by Barry Petchesky|

|Mon Jan 27 2014

Do You Like Money?

This bizarre poll popped up on ESPN's SportsNation site the other evening and, just as quickly, disappeared. Do you like money?...

by Timothy Burke|

|Fri Jan 10 2014

Russian Poll: You Have No Choice But To Be Excited About The Olympics

This poll is currently on the front page of Sochi2014.com, the official page of the upcoming Winter Olympics. I'm pretty sure that if you select "Other," the FSB shows up at your door to whisk you off to a gulag. ...

by Tom Ley|

|Thu Jan 09 2014

Oh Hey, How Often Do You Wash Your Jeans?

Back in October, TMZ reported that Tommy Hilfiger doesn't wash his jeans. Ever. ...

by Jolie Kerr|

|Mon Dec 09 2013

So, How's The NFL Spinning A New Poll On Youth Football And Concussions?

NFL communications is PR, and Brian McCarthy is a PR guy, so we shouldn't and don't expect them to share anything that isn't overwhelmingly positive for the league. Take this post McCarthy just tweeted out, which "summarizes" the results of a new HBO Real Sports/Marist poll on public opinion of yout...

by Barry Petchesky|

|Wed Oct 23 2013

by Barry Petchesky|

|Tue Oct 15 2013

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