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Tell Us Your Horrifying Animal Tales
Today in Deadspin's staff chatroom, a discussion of bad encounters with animals led to Gawker Art Director Jim Cooke sharing a truly horrifying animal story. The transcript is below. Please be warned that it is approximately 500 times more upsetting than when the little dinosaur chases the mom-s...
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This Photo Of Dick Vitale Is Art
"It is brutal out - stranded at airport" is the caption that accompanied this photo on Dickie V's Instagram account. ...
The Legacy Of <em>The Decision</em>: Everyone Is Taking His Talents Somewhere
Aside from the alleged traitorousness, arrogance, callousness, short-sightedness, and all the other negative adjectives that have been largely forgotten or forgiven with LeBron James's recent success, the lasting aspect of The Decision will be a particularly clunky bit of phraseology that has noneth...
The Dick Vitale Concert Series: Barry Manilow
Dick Vitale thinks you should give up if you can't "get lucky" with some Barry Manilow on the ol' gramophone. That's right, Dickie V. is back on the concert circuit and last night he live-tweeted a Barry Manilow show. He's still basically just tweeting the names of the songs in all caps and randomly...
Dick Vitale Goes To Billy Joel Concert, Tweets Nearly Every Song Title
Sometimes Dick Vitale is just the best. Last night he went to a Billy Joel concert and live-tweeted the experience. Something you should know: Dick Vitale live-tweeting a Billy Joel concert is basically a stream of tweets with just the names of Billy Joel songs in all caps....
Fat A-Rod? Fat A-Rod
This picture comes to us from Twitter user @GTMags. Look at big fat A-Rod! ...
Either Chael Sonnen Is The Toughest Man Alive, Or TSN Is Full Of Shit
TSN Off The Record host Michael Landsberg appears to have just broken one of the great sports stories of the year, a stirring tale of the triumph of the human spirit that doubles as a horrifying scandal, unless he didn't. It was definitely one or the other. Probably....
35 ESPNers Do Their Best Dick Vitale Impersonations
This week marks the start of Dick Vitale's 35th year at ESPN. That's longer than many of his colleagues have been alive. To celebrate, ESPN has put together this video of 35 on-air personalities offering up their memories of Vitale, well wishes, and in most cases, impersonations....
Tom Terrific And His Mystic Talent
From Pat Jordan's 1972 SI profile of Tom Seaver:...
Frank Sinatra Has a Cold: Annotated
Over at the Neiman Storyboard, Elon Green talks to Gay Talese about Talese's classic Esquire story, "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold." ...
If Arian Foster Is A Prostitute, Is Dick Vitale A Pimp?
Dick Vitale compared Arian Foster to a prostitute last night and apologized for it this morning. ...
Patterson and Talese: A Good Combination
Kip Stratton edited a collection of Grover Lewis' journalism and wrote a book of poetry about Sam Peckinpah. He also wrote a good biography of Floyd Patterson, who we covered here recently. I interviewed Kip last summer and he talked about Patterson and Gay Talese:...
The Loser: The Most Honest Sports Story Ever Written
Originally published in the March 1964 issue of Esquire. Reprinted here with the author's permission....
The Yankee Bullshitters: What Joe D, Yogi, And Mickey Were Really Like
Last week gave a short post on the late, great Lenny Shecter. Now, for a real taste of his no-bullshit style, here's an excerpt from "The Flower of America" chapter of his 1969 book of essays, The Jocks....
