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A List Of Suggested Public Editors For Deadspin
Deadspin is currently in the process of reporting a story on its owners, an exercise that we’ve done in the past to varying degrees. In a total coincidence, the folks in charge have started pushing for a “public editor” to ensure that all future articles that may include reporting on ourselves would...
The Deadspin Guide To Riding Your Damn Bike<em></em>
Out on the street where you live, it’s finally summer. Maybe this means that the world outside your door is as hot as the surface of the sun or the trees have conspired to drown you in allergens, but regardless, winter has finally gone and died and guess what; it’s time to ride your bicycle....
"I Am Unfamiliar With BOFA": Tom Tips Back
We get a lot of tips—email us at [email protected]!—and Deadspin news editor Tom Ley is from time to time compelled to respond. These conversations are shared with you, the reading public, in a feature we call Tom Tips Back....
Fix The New ESPN.com Annoyances With This Greasemonkey Script
One of the biggest complaints about the new ESPN.com layout is that clicking a live score at the top of the homepage no longer takes you to the box score, but instead a live Game Tracker that takes time to load and generally isn’t something anyone actually wants to see. Reader William has remedied t...
An Exceedingly Polite Beginner's Guide To Anal Sex
Anal play, as you likely well know by now, is having its moment. Hell, even Vogue is writing about it, and Harvard is, like, teaching classes about the basics of butt-banging. But we can't all go to Harvard (and thank God for that), which means that the 101-type stuff that a lot of curious folks m...
How To Not Get Shot To Death By A Police Officer
If you're reading this, congrats! You're definitely alive, and you're probably not being stopped or shot to death by a police officer at this very moment. This is half the battle. Now the hard part: If you're alive, there's a chance you'll get stopped by a police officer before you die, and if you...
Bad News, Baseball Fans
We get tips. (You should send us some!) Here's a tip we just got, and it's bad news for those of you who were looking forward to watching baseball tomorrow and Saturday nights:...
Now You Can Buy LeSean McCoy's 20-Cent Tip Receipt For All The Money
This is probably the stupid ending that the LeSean McCoy 20-Cent Tip Saga deserves. The infamous receipt has been put up for auction on eBay by a friend of the burger joint's owner, and people are bidding way, way too much money on it. The current bid stands at over $3,000....
Manager Who Tip-Shamed LeSean McCoy Says McCoy Acted Like A Dick
Yesterday, the manager of a Philly burger joint called PYT posted a receipt showing Eagles running back LeSean McCoy to be a shitty tipper to his restaurant's Facebook page. He caught a lot of grief for it from Facebook commenters, but today he's refusing to back down and calling out McCoy for alleg...
Restaurant Calls Out LeSean McCoy For Leaving 20-Cent Tip
The receipt above comes from the Facebook page of a Philly burger restaurant called PYT, and it shows Eagles running back LeSean McCoy to be an incredibly stingy tipper. ...
This Guy Was Sharing The Hacked Celeb Nudes Weeks Before They Leaked
Last night, we brought you the story of the Deadspin reader whose girlfriend was approached on Aug. 19 with a strange request—a Facebook user going by the (presumably fake) name of Jason Killan offered her $5,000 for nude pictures or videos. Our reader—we'll call him David—messaged Killan to tel...
Who Hacked The Nudes? A Working Theory
Everyone likes a good mystery, and the best one around right now involves the leak of hundreds of celebrity nudes onto the internet. The prevailing theory is that some hacker cracked Apple's iCloud service and then uploaded the nudes to the image-based bulletin board 4chan. We suspect that's not wha...
We Heard About The Nude Celeb Pics Hack Weeks Ago; Here's What We Know
We get many tips every day. (By the way, email us at [email protected]!) Some of these are dead ends; others are not. A few weeks ago, someone emailed us with a weird story involving pictures of nude celebrities that, without going into it in detail, sounded and sounds like total bullshit. But the...
Help Us Rank These Hypothetical Story Tips
We just received an email from a reader, Kevin Best, who poses a wonderful question....
How To Organize Your Spices Without Driving Yourself Crazy
Before we do this thing, we need to do a bit of expectation management: Because Foodspin is a site about food, and not a site about design or style, the focus of these tips will be on function over form. If you want to achieve one of those picture-perfect spice displays, head to Pinterest for ideas....
You Can Totally See Tim Duncan In These Clouds From The Yeezus Tour
A reader, who is not at all crazy and is totally onto something here, just sent us the following email with the above picture attached:...
Source: Peter "Dr. Pete" Gray, Disgraced University Of Iowa Athletics Adviser, Hung Out At Local Gay Bars, Was Hired On The Condition That He Not Get Mired In A Public Sex Scandal
Yesterday, we brought you the story of Peter Gray, an athletics adviser at the University of Iowa recently investigated by his employer. The university found evidence of long-term sexual harassment of students and cases of Gray bartering for sex with tickets to Iowa sporting events. The complaint ag...
Don't You Dare Fall Asleep During One Of Marco Chiudinelli's Tennis Matches
During a match Thursday at the Japan Open, Marco Chiudinelli was so annoyed about a sleeping fan in the stands that he asked Janko Tipsarevic, a top 10 player in the world, to do something about it before the next point was played. As for Tipsarevic throwing a ball at the offending narcoleptic? Th...
Contest: This Reader Thought He Spotted A Famous Sportsperson. Can You Guess Who It Was?
Sometimes our readers send in great tips that yield unexpected, rich, fascinating stories. And sometimes our readers send in tips that are powerfully useless. This is one of those times. But if you can see where this useless tip was going, you can win a prize. Read on:...
Your Roger Clemens Frosted Tips Update
They are frosty. Very, very frosty. Also frosty for Clemens? The radar gun. The rocket got up to 88 miles per hour during his 3 1/3 innings. I should say, 3 1/3 shutout innings. He struck out two and allowed just one hit. Stay hot, 22! [NY Daily News]...