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One Year Ago Today, ESPN Hit Rock Bottom
Tim Tebow turned 26 today. That means the dumbest day in ESPN history has turned 1. ...
Adam Jones Says A Giants Fan Threw A Banana At Him
Orioles outfielder Adam Jones took to Twitter after yesterday's 10-2 win in San Francisco to complain about a fan tossing a banana onto the field. The Giants say they have no record of the incident....
Timberwolves Make Empty D-League Threat To Shabazz Muhammad
Timberwolves general manager Flip Saunders is not pleased with rookie Shabazz Muhammad's career to this point, leading him to make one of the emptier threats in the NBA: If you don't shape up, we'll send you to THE D-LEAGUE....
Why Your Team Sucks 2013: Baltimore Ravens
Some people are fans of the Baltimore Ravens. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Baltimore Ravens. This 2013 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the 2013 NFL previews so far right here....
What Is Nate Silver's New ESPN Site Going To Look Like?
Nate Silver's ESPN-owned FiveThirtyEight site is not going to be The Nate Silver Show + a few contributors. Silver's plan is to make it a Grantland II, of sorts. ...
Brain Damage May Have Played Role In Death Of Former Quarterback
In May, former Division II football star and Ravens quarterback Cullen Finnerty was found dead in the Michigan woods near his family's fishing cottage. At the time, Finnerty's cause of death was not apparent, but an autopsy has revealed that Finnerty died of pneumonia, and that chronic brain damage ...
Breakfast of Champions: Showtime
Found, sitting on a table at Monroe Street Books in Vermont, just outside of Middlebury (one of my favorite places in the world). ...
Friday Night Tights
Michael J. Mooney's 2010 New Times story on women football players:...
The Killing of Gus Hasford
A monster story from the late Grover Lewis:...
How I Broke The Biogenesis Story: A Chat With The Man Who Scooped MLB
We're joined by Tim Elfrink, managing editor at the Miami New Times and the man who first uncovered one of the biggest scandals in baseball history. Ask him how the story came together, what he thinks of MLB's investigation, the state of alt-weeklies, and anything else that comes to mind....
Can I Have Your Autograph?
Ray Robinson? Terrific guy—great guy, in fact. ...
An Averagely Average Comedy: <em>We're The Millers</em>, Reviewed.
Jason Sudeikis is a perfect fit for We're the Millers, which is a shame, since the movie isn't quite as funny as he is. During his time on Saturday Night Live, Sudeikis often played the handsome, average guy who, the longer you hung out with him, seemed stranger and stranger. He could be the straigh...
Everything Plays
And now for something completely different: Vladimir Nabokov on boxing:...
Summertime
Charles Simic writes about summertime over at the New York Review of Books:...
Throw It Down, Big Man
Check out Pat Jordan's 2001 New York Times profile of Bill Walton:...
Tim Tebow Now Right-Handed, Back With Broncos, Posits Indian League
There are many, many things wrong with this terribly edited picture of a right-handed Tim Tebow in a Broncos uniform being used as an advertisement for the Elite Football League of India. But it's funny!...
Live Fast, Love Hard, And Don't Let Nobody Borrow Your Comb
Here's a little more Kornheiser, from when he was at the Times (’76-79). He worked at Newsday and then the New York Times before joining the Washington Post....
Adam Jones Got A Popeye's Chicken-Themed Cake For His Birthday
Goddammit, Adam Jones. Now I'm just hungry for Popeye's. And also cake....