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How An NFL Contract Negotiation Goes Down
NEW ORLEANS — Back and forth they went, both sides snapping off data points and counterpoints in a careful effort to leverage whatever they had. They were so into the task at hand that neither the thunderclaps from outside nor the 10-minute warning could interrupt their banter. They were teams of la...
A Trip To The Remnants Of Donald Trump’s Atlantic City Casino Empire, Now Up For Sale
I was in what used to be a high-roller lounge. It’s on the 50th floor of the former Trump Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City....
Justin Gaethje Is The UFC's New Crown Prince Of Violence
LAS VEGAS—The thing nobody tells you about watching fights live is how quiet the arena can get....
Hell Is Empty And All the Hedge Fund Managers Are At The Bellagio
Blue blazers. Blue checked shirts. Collar open. No tie. Brown shoes. Black shoes. Or Nike shoes. New, new, all new. Soft leather satchels with bold brass zippers. Good cufflinks. Good watches. Better than you know. Hundred dollar haircuts. Straight razored shaves. Shaped cuticles. Manicured nails. C...
Donald Trump Celebrates His Very Good Friends, The Patriots, With A Dull Party<em></em><em></em>
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Tom Brady was taking the day off....
The Future Of Innovation Is Innovation: A Day At Stanford's Sports-Business Conference<em></em>
Stanford University in the springtime is immaculate. There are no clouds in the sky and none of the aerated haze of the East Bay or the fog of San Francisco. Off to the west, the Santa Cruz Mountains gently form the outer boundary of Palo Alto. As I got lost looking for the Stanford Graduate School ...
I Asked The World's Foremost Ethicist If It's Okay To Have A Revolution
There is inequality everywhere. But in San Francisco, it seems to be drawn by a cartoonist with an unrefined taste for absurdity....
How To Pack For A Very Long Trip
I knew I had to go on a Very Long Trip the day the internet erupted in outrage over Twitter’s decision to shift the shape of its “fav” button from a star to a heart. What started as a fanciful daydream cemented further when I found myself dreading the darkness of winter ... in June. It hardened into...
My Mom's Cool Report From The Broncos' Victory Parade
My mom works in Denver and has a window overlooking the site of the Broncos’ Super Bowl victory parade. She’s been texting me pictures and videos along with her commentary all day. Here now is her report from the scene....
What Is The Best Birthday Month?
PROGRAMMING NOTE: I’m outta here next week to go do Christmas things. You’re not getting a Funbag. You’ll have to go mud-sledding or something. Deadspin founder and artificial Georgian Will Leitch will be your Jamboroo guest host. ...
How To Survive A Long Car Trip With Your Kids
It’s that time of year. Time to visit those weird, faraway relatives in weird, faraway places, where the Target and the Costco and the Whole Foods are all switched around. It’s time to roll down hundreds of miles of dear old Ike’s eight-lane American dream, leaving one suburban hellscape for another...
The Baseball Hall Of Fame Is A Grim, Cruel, Terrible Place
In 1999, I was teaching advanced dialectical history at a small northeastern liberal arts college whose name I will not mention here. The season of that year that stands out the most in my own memory is Autumn. The Autumn of 1999. I remember, that Autumn, getting home from the last class of the day,...
ESPN Kills Kevin Johnson Propaganda Movie; Kevin Johnson Throws Himself A Party
The lines snaking out from the Crest Theatre extended halfway down K Street, past clubs and restaurants, amused bystanders, and two light-rail platforms. It was a full hour before the Sacramento premiere of Down In The Valley, a new entry in ESPN’s 30 for 30 series, and yet the street was already as...
The Beer Idiot Hits The Hard Stuff: Tales From The Nashville Whiskey Festival
The strangest person you can possibly encounter at a whiskey convention is someone who doesn’t like whiskey very much. Anecdotally speaking, it is also unusual to be a woman or black—the attendees of the Nashville Whiskey Festival, which I attended a couple weeks ago, made me worried that I’d wander...
You Can Take Yo La Tengo To A Mets Game, But You Can't Make 'Em Do The Wave
Credit where credit’s due: The New York Mets are very good this year, and they wholeheartedly earned the NL East title. But given the team’s habit of historic late-season collapses—recall, for example, when they blew a sturdy seven-game September division lead in 2007 by losing 12 of their last 17 g...
The Cool Pope In Central Park: A Totally Worthwhile Five-Hour Ordeal
When Pope Francis was still known as Jorge Bergoglio, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, he would ride the subway into the most impoverished parts of the city for home visits. If you know only one thing about the guy, that’s likely it—it’s his origin story and, if you’re a true believer, a symbol of his hu...
At The Sports Brand Awards, Brands Tell A Story About Telling Stories
When I walked into Cipriani on 42nd St.—a gorgeous Manhattan event space highlighted by stone archways, Greek columns, and ceilings higher than those of a Renaissance cathedral’s—on Wednesday night, I was greeted by a bank of MacBooks, each manned by a well-dressed young person, their faces glowing ...
How To Deal With People Tripping Balls, According To The Grateful Dead
What we have here is a flyer for the security crew on the Grateful Dead reunion show about how to deal with concert-goers who are tripping on acid, which, let’s be honest, is probably most everyone there. Their advice? Don’t feed the animals. Don’t interact with someone having a bad trip. Different ...
A Night At The NBA Draft, Which Nobody Should Ever Attend
Last night, I covered the NBA Draft from the Barclays Center for my student paper, and I’m not sure why....
How Japan Built The World's Best Horse Racing
TOKYO — I came to watch Japan's top racehorses, arguably the strongest in the world, contest last Sunday's Japan Cup, worth more than $5 million. I left believing that the reason the Japanese racing industry is so much healthier and more popular than any of its counterparts is about much more tha...