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For The Boids

Last summer, Molly Langmuir wrote a nice piece for New York magazine about pigeon racing: ...

For The Cleveland Browns Fan Who Has Nothing Left: A Hearse

A man is selling his Browns-colored hearse that he has used for six years as a tailgating car. It's a Cadillac with just a shade under 100,000 miles. It doesn't run and it's got a flat. I am wasting a lot of time trying to think of a more appropriate team/tailgate vehicle combination than a Clevelan...

Cleveland Responds To "Let's Go Tigers" With "Detroit's Bankrupt"

We had dueling-fan-base chants this evening in Cleveland. Some plucky Detroiters tried to get a "let's go Tigers" chant going. Cleveland did not appreciate it....

Wes Welker Says He "Endured" Bill Belichick

Wes Welker and a few of his new Denver teammates are on the cover of this week's Sports Illustrated. Inside, Welker talks about the standard new-guy-in-the-fold stuff, like adjusting from one system run by a legendary quarterback to another. He also discussed his time in New England with Bill Belich...

Trouble Is My Business

“Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.”...

The Butt From The Buttfumble Retires From The NFL

The buttfumble will always belong to Mark Sanchez. But Sanchez couldn't have done it without Brandon Moore's butt. Today, Brandon Moore and his butt retired after 10 NFL seasons, all with the Jets. It's the end for an end of an era....

Fred Smoot Is Back With More Disgusting Sex Lingo

Fred Smoot, who is best known for double-donging two hookers while on the Vikings sex boat, has seemingly stumbled into a new career: coming up with disgusting euphemisms for oral sex....

Doomsday Defense

Buckle Up:...

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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....

Why Your Team Sucks 2013: Cleveland Browns

Some people are fans of the Cleveland Browns. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Cleveland Browns. This 2013 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the 2013 NFL previews so far right here....

The Best And Worst Beat Reporters In Baseball: AL East

Rally 'round the flag, boys—we've got one last edition of the Beat-Off. For the last week, you've helped us identify the best and worst beat reporters for 25 teams in Major League Baseball. Now we conclude with the AL East....

Vikings Owner Zygi Wilf Likely To Pay Huge Sum In Fraud Case

Here's a quick reminder that Browns owner Jimmy Haslam isn't the only NFL owner to have had his name linked with some shady business dealings. Vikings owner and real estate mogul Zygi Wilf is now on the hook for what could end up being tens of millions of dollars after losing a civil suit to former ...

Jay Mariotti Has A Website And A Shitty Radio Show [CORRECTED]

Correction (4:04 p.m.): Turns out there are two Genesis Communications in the radio world. Jay Mariotti actually partnered with the one that owns and operates six stations in central Florida—not the one affiliated with Alex Jones and his ilk. Our bad. Fuck Mariotti anyway....

Roundup: Your Best A-Rod Out On The Town Photoshop Entries

We asked, and once again you delivered. What follows is the best of the photoshop contest submissions we got for this image of A-Rod hitting the town in Florida last week. You jerks never manage to disappoint....

There's Something About Steve

We could all use a laugh. So read Pete Dexter's 1984 column on Steve Garvey:...

Can I Have Your Autograph?

Ray Robinson? Terrific guy—great guy, in fact. ...

Mind The Gap

From the New York Magazine archives, here’s the late, great Vic Ziegel on Ali-Spinks II:...